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WrittenNovember 1932
Characters in this exact text
AratusAratus — pirate in Sergius’s crewOn Page8 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)ConanConan — Cimmerian adventurer who becomes king of AquiloniaOn Page79 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)CromCrom — chief god of Conan’s Cimmerian peopleMentioned8 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)IremIrem — Shah Amurath’s tall desert stallionOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)IshtarIshtar — Hyborian/Shemite goddess invoked in the Conan textsMentioned4 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)IvanosIvanos — pirate in Sergius’s crewOn Page4 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)MitraMitra — major Hyborian deity invoked throughout the Conan textsMentioned3 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)OliviaOlivia — daughter of the king of Ophir, enslaved by Shah AmurathOn Page56 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)fatherOlivia's father — unnamed king of Ophir who sold Olivia into slaveryMentioned3 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)SergiusSergius of Khrosha — pirate captain encountered on the islandOn Page9 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)Shah AmurathShah Amurath — Hyrkanian commander who enslaves OliviaOn Page13 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)parrotthe ancient parrot of the island — enormous old parrot encountered by Conan and OliviaOn Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)tall manthe ancient stranger of the island vision — unnamed tall god-like man seen in Olivia’s vision of the island’s pastOn Page2 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)youththe ancient stranger's son — unnamed youth in Olivia’s vision, explicitly described as like son to fatherOn Page6 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)gray man-apethe gray man-ape of the island — solitary giant gray man-eating ape on the islandOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)YildizYildiz — king invoked by Conan as ruler of TuranMentioned1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian — Iron Shadows in the Moon (Primary text)
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The Coming of Conan the CimmerianRestored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian; editorial source basis: Weird Tales, April 1934.