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* SacrificialLamb: Shevatas's adventure gets a good deal of focus at the beginning, until he dies.



* SacrificialLamb: Shevatas's adventure gets a good deal of focus at the beginning, until he dies.

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* KillItWithFire: Natohk summons wall of fire, using it on the rashly charging knights.


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* PlayingWithFire: Natohk summons wall of fire, using it on the rashly charging knights.
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* DaylightHorror: Shevatas explores the abominably creepy tomb of Thugra Khotan in broad daylight. [[spoiler:Neither this nor his other preparations do him a bit of good.]]
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Yasmela. Very hard to maintain her position, especially when this barbarian attracts her.
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* YourWorstNightmare: Yasmela denies this trope, knowing that her lady in waiting will assume it's true; she really was awake when the apparition -- an EldritchAbomination StalkerWithACrush -- menaced her.
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* SheCleansUpNicely: Done with Conan, entertainingly enough. When Yasmela presents him to her generals, they balk at the idea of taking orders from this barbarian mercenary eating meat right off a bone. She has him taken aside and fitted with a proper set of new full plate armor, and when he comes back, the generals are surprised at how much he at least looks the part of a leader of men. The general in charge of coordinating the mercenaries, who knows Conan best, says that he's seen kings who didn't look as regal in full gear as Conan does.
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** At the end Conan himself--as commander he thinks that really ought to get back to finishing off the enemy, but [[RescueSex Yasmela has other things in mind]].

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** At the end Conan himself--as commander he thinks that he really ought to get back to finishing off the enemy, but [[RescueSex Yasmela has other things in mind]].

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* DistractedByTheSexy: Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.

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Shortly after meeting Conan, Princess Yasmela is surprised to find herself feeling twinges of lust and desire towards the barbarian.


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** At the end Conan himself--as commander he thinks that really ought to get back to finishing off the enemy, but [[RescueSex Yasmela has other things in mind]].
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* BadVibrations: Conan puts his ear to the ground and [[OhCrap realises that thousands of enemy cavalry are charging towards them]], concealed by the fog.


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* GeniusBruiser: Amalric claims that Conan has never commanded more than a company of cutthroats, but he handles being an army commander well enough, earning his former commander's approval with the way he forms up his men and refuses to be LuredIntoATrap.


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* PowderTrail: Natohk lays a trail of glittering powder across the path of the charging cavalry, and when their steel shod hooves strike it, the powder erupts in a wall of flame, causing a huge pile-up. Whether it's actually gunpowder or a magical version is not revealed.


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* SeenItAll: Even though Amalric admits he’d hang Conan [[BunnyEarsLawyer if he wasn’t such a good swordsman]], he takes Conan being promoted over him in stride, because he’s used to the changes of fortune inherent in a mercenary’s life.
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* SdrawkcabName: Did it come as a surprise to anyone that Natohk is actually Thugra Khotan?



* SdrawkcabName: Did it come as a surprise to anyone that Natohk is actually Thugra Khotan?

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* TreasureRoom: Khotan's tomb

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* TreasureRoom: Khotan's tomb tomb.
* VictorySex: Princess Yasmela throws herself at Conan after he's routed the invading army and killed EvilSorcerer StalkerWithACrush Natohk, who planned to make Yasmela his Queen (read: wanton SexSlave). It's equal parts this trope, RescueSex, and GladToBeAliveSex.
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* IntroOnlyPointOfView: The thief Shevatas opens the story with his heist of a long-dead wizard's tomb. It does not end well for him.


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* SacrificialLamb: Shevatas's adventure gets a good deal of focus at the beginning, until he dies.
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* SexSlave: Natohk intends this for Yasmela. Sure, he ''says'' she'll be his Queen, but immediately states he'll teach her "the ancient forgotten ways of pleasure" before going off on a description [[NothingIsScarier so horrible we only see Yasmela's reaction to it.]]


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* YourSoulIsMine: After capturing Yasmela, Natohk boasts that his lust for her weakened his sorcery, but by consuming her soul he'll be all-powerful. Whether he still intended for her to be his SexSlave afterwards is best left uncontemplated.
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* BadWithABone: Conan smites a would-be deserter with a beef-bone he'd been gnawing on. Then draws his sword and states anyone else who doesn't hold rank gets OffWithHisHead.

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* BadWithABone: BadWithTheBone: Conan smites a would-be deserter with a beef-bone he'd been gnawing on. Then draws his sword and states anyone else who doesn't hold rank gets OffWithHisHead.

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