20th September 2003, pencil and coloured pencil, 13.5x21cm

"...Aged around 21 years, Conan continues his service as a soldier of Turan for a total period of about two years, travelling widely and learning the elements of organised warfare.  As usual, trouble is his bedfellow.  After one of his more unruly episodes - said to have involved the mistress of the commander of the cavalry division in which he was serving - Conan finds it expedient to desert from the Turanian army.  Rumours of treasure send him seeking for loot in the Kezankian Mountains, along the eastern borders of Zamora..."

 An illustration for the story of "Conan and the Bloodstained God" in Conan of Cimmeria by Robert E Howard and L Sprague de Camp.