During a battle, Conan and Falco:
"...cleared a space around themselves, red-running, piled high with mangled corpses and moaning wounded." (p. 194)
Here is another quiz question. Who does this remind us of? Someone very specific.
The narrative has been very carefully constructed so that Falco has sufficient motivation to kill Senufer/Nehekba just at the moment when she has used sympathetic magic to incapacitate Conan at the height of the battle. Falco saves the day. He reminds me of a keen young guy that we have in Lancaster right now. We worry that he will swear whenever he gets near a PA system.
The Stygians have lost:
"'...a province, an army, a king and their two foremost sorcerers...'" (p.203)
- and then, in Chapter XX, their fleet! Maybe they will learn the value of peacefulness?
Poul Anderson's rich vocabulary - some to me unfamiliar words:
"scaurs," (XIX, p. 187)
"vambraces," (XIX, p. 190)
"quagga" (XIV, p. 138)
"francolins" (ibid.)
"shadoofs," (XII, p. 118)
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Kaor, Paul!
I recall that the new king of Stygia was desperate for information about recent events. For a long time he would have his hands full simply trying to contain the damage Stygia suffered in the recent catastrophes. That said, I recall as well that he was not as warlike as his father.
Ad astra! Sean
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