10th October 2003, pencil, 19.5x29.5cm

Death strikes King Bhunda Chand of Vendhya, and sorcery is in the air...  Here Conan defends his captive the Devi Yasmina, the King's own sister and slayer...

  "... Declining the offer of Kobad Shah's successor, Arshak, to return to the service of Iranistan and defend that kingdom against the incursions of King Yezdigerd of Turan, Conan rides east into the foothills of the Himelian Mountains, on the northwest frontier of Vendhya.  Here he next appears as a war-chief of the savage Afghuli tribesmen.  He is now in his early thirties (about thirty-three, in fact), at the height of his physical powers, and known throughout the civilised and barbarian worlds, from Pictland to Khitai..."

Following the events of Conan the Wanderer by Robert E Howard and L Sprague de Camp in "The Flame Knife," here is a sketch illustration from "The People of the Black Circle" by Robert E Howard in Conan the Adventurer ...