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* TimeAbyss: Yag-kosha remarks that the Earth will not see his reincarnation-sorcery again for "a million million of millenniums" -- that's ''one quadrillion years.''
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* ForcedTransformation: It's mentioned Yara once killed a prince by turning him into a beetle and crushing him.
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* ForcedTransformation: It's mentioned Yara once killed a prince by turning him into a beetle spider and crushing him.squashing him beneath his heel.
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* GiantSpider: A pig-sized one, hidden in the ceiling of one room, which [[spoiler:ends up killing Taurus]].
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* GiantSpider: A pig-sized one, hidden in the ceiling of one room, which [[spoiler:ends ends up killing Taurus]].Taurus.
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Being one of Creator/RobertEHoward's most popular and well known stories, it has of had dozens of adaptations. Creator/MarvelComics adapted the story multiple times, in both their ''Conan the Barbarian'' and ''Savage Sword of Conan'' books, as have Creator/DarkhorseComics in their ongoing ''Conan'' comic. The live-action Series/ConanTheAdventurer adapted the story for its opening arc, and used the villain Yara as its overarching villain. Even the [[WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer cartoon]] featured Yag-Kosha. ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' adapted parts of it as the first raid on Thulsa Doom's cult, and ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' makes a direct reference to it in that version of Conan's backstory.
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Being one of Creator/RobertEHoward's most popular and well known stories, it has of had dozens of adaptations. Creator/MarvelComics adapted the story multiple times, in both their ''Conan the Barbarian'' and ''Savage Sword of Conan'' books, as have Creator/DarkhorseComics in their ongoing ''Conan'' comic. The live-action Series/ConanTheAdventurer adapted the story for its opening arc, and used the villain Yara as its overarching villain. Even the [[WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer cartoon]] featured Yag-Kosha.Yag-kosha. ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'' adapted parts of it as the first raid on Thulsa Doom's cult, and ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' makes a direct reference to it in that version of Conan's backstory.
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Yag-Kosha or Yogah, the elephant-like creature of the title is notable for being possibly the inspiration for the "Space Jockey" (later revealed to be called Engineers) of the ''Film/{{Alien}}'' series.
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* BrokenAngel: While most would not consider Yag-Kosha an angel, he is a fantastical being who has been tragically maimed.
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* BadGuyBar: Chapter 1 sees Conan in a tavern full of unsavory types in a seedy part of a Zamoran town -- the kind of place where kidnappers and thieves come to swap stories and secrets.
* BrokenAngel:While most would Yag-kosha is not consider Yag-Kosha ''exactly'' an angel, but he is ''is'' a fantastical being who has been tragically maimed.
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* CollapsingLair: After [[spoiler: both Yara and Yag-Kosha are finally dead]] the tower starts to fall apart into dust. Lucky for Conan, Yag-Kosha put a delay on it so he would have time to get out.
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* CollapsingLair: After [[spoiler: both Yara and Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha are finally dead]] the tower starts to fall apart into dust. Lucky for Conan, Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha put a delay on it so he would have time to get out.
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* EldritchAbomination: A rare sympathetic example in Yag-kosha, who is an impossibly old, extraterrestrial, monstrous sorcerer and in any other story would probably be the main antagonist. Yag-Kosha himself says that he is "of flesh and blood, though they are of different substance than yours," and that he is "not immortal, though the life of Yag is as of the lives of stars and planets." The only explicitly eldritch thing he does is reincarnate himself whole and healthy, as "the Death of Yag is different from the Death of men."
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* EldritchAbomination: A rare sympathetic example in Yag-kosha, who is an impossibly old, extraterrestrial, monstrous sorcerer and in any other story would probably be the main antagonist. Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha himself says that he is "of flesh and blood, though they are of different substance than yours," and that he is "not immortal, though the life of Yag is as of the lives of stars and planets." The only explicitly eldritch thing he does is reincarnate himself whole and healthy, as "the Death of Yag is different from the Death of men."
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Yag-Kosha is an extremely powerful alien sorcerer, but until Conan frees his spirit, he's helpless against Yara's lust for power.
* IHaveManyNames: The elephant calls himself both Yag-Kosha and Yogah of Yag.
* IHaveManyNames: The elephant calls himself both Yag-Kosha and Yogah of Yag.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha is an extremely powerful alien sorcerer, but until Conan frees his spirit, he's helpless against Yara's lust for power.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Yag-kosha wanted to kill himself long ago to escape Yara's tortures, but the wizard kept him alive to draw his magick from him. He eventually beckons Conan to slice his heart out as part of a ThanatosGambit to finally end Yara.
* IHaveManyNames: The elephant calls himself bothYag-Kosha Yag-kosha and Yogah of Yag.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: Yag-kosha wanted to kill himself long ago to escape Yara's tortures, but the wizard kept him alive to draw his magick from him. He eventually beckons Conan to slice his heart out as part of a ThanatosGambit to finally end Yara.
* IHaveManyNames: The elephant calls himself both
* IncredibleShrinkingMan: Yag-kosha's final enchantment shrinks Yara down to a speck until he sinks into the Heart of the Elephant.
* LastOfHisKind: Yag-kosha's LongLived race lived through most of human history, but died off one by one until only he remained.
* LeanAndMean: Mention is made of Yara having "a tall, spare form".
* LightIsNotGood: The titular Tower is dazzlingly bright even by night, and for three centuries had been the base of operations for an EvilSorcerer who works strange curses that bring kings to their knees.
* LightsOffSomebodyDies: At the end of Chapter 1, Conan lunges to kill a Kothian who had cursed him as a madman for seeking to steal the Heart of the Elephant (himself eager to kill Conan, too), and knocks over the tavern's sole candle. When the candle is relit after a brief scuffle, the Kothian lies dead by a deep gash in his chest, and Conan is nowhere to be seen.
* LongLived: Yag-kosha and his alien race are not immortal, but had lived long enough to remember the days before primates evolved into humanity.
* LastOfHisKind: Yag-kosha's LongLived race lived through most of human history, but died off one by one until only he remained.
* LeanAndMean: Mention is made of Yara having "a tall, spare form".
* LightIsNotGood: The titular Tower is dazzlingly bright even by night, and for three centuries had been the base of operations for an EvilSorcerer who works strange curses that bring kings to their knees.
* LightsOffSomebodyDies: At the end of Chapter 1, Conan lunges to kill a Kothian who had cursed him as a madman for seeking to steal the Heart of the Elephant (himself eager to kill Conan, too), and knocks over the tavern's sole candle. When the candle is relit after a brief scuffle, the Kothian lies dead by a deep gash in his chest, and Conan is nowhere to be seen.
* LongLived: Yag-kosha and his alien race are not immortal, but had lived long enough to remember the days before primates evolved into humanity.
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* PocketDimension: Yag-Kosha's last gift and last enchantment for Yara involves shrinking him into palm top size, phasing him into the Heart of the Elephant by magnetizing him into it, and finally taking form within the crystal before Yara to do... [[ViolenceDiscretionShot Mitra knows what to Yara.]] The Heart of the Elephant disappears, and Yara and Yag-Kosha with it as would a bubble when stung by a needle.
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* PocketDimension: Yag-Kosha's Yag-kosha's last gift and last enchantment for Yara involves shrinking him into palm top size, phasing him into the Heart of the Elephant by magnetizing him into it, and finally taking form within the crystal before Yara to do... [[ViolenceDiscretionShot Mitra knows what to Yara.]] The Heart of the Elephant disappears, and Yara and Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha with it as would a bubble when stung by a needle.
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* TheRuinsICaused: Conan leaves the Tower of the Elephant as Yag-Kosha instructs through a path to the back exit that offers him no resistance. As Conan turns to gaze at the Tower from some distance, it begins to give way and collapses before his eyes
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* TheRuinsICaused: Conan leaves the Tower of the Elephant as Yag-Kosha Yag-kosha instructs through a path to the back exit that offers him no resistance. As Conan turns to gaze at the Tower from some distance, it begins to give way and collapses before his eyeseyes
* ThanatosGambit: Yag-kosha's final spell is to have Conan cut out his heart, soak the Heart of the Elephant with its blood, and show it to Yara, sinking him into the jewel and freeing the world from him.
* ThatsNoMoon: Conan briefly mistakes the GiantSpider on the ceiling for a pattern etched into it.
* ThanatosGambit: Yag-kosha's final spell is to have Conan cut out his heart, soak the Heart of the Elephant with its blood, and show it to Yara, sinking him into the jewel and freeing the world from him.
* ThatsNoMoon: Conan briefly mistakes the GiantSpider on the ceiling for a pattern etched into it.
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* FanficFuel: Taurus's backstory is rife with this. Just look at the preceding entry for the details.
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* FanficFuel: Taurus's backstory is rife with this. Just look at the preceding entry for the details.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: Taurus has had a number of adventures, having earned the moniker "Prince of Thieves".
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* PocketDimension: Yag-Kosha's last gift and last enchantment for Yara involves shrinking him into palm top size, phasing him into the Heart of the Elephant by magnetizing him into it, and finally taking form within the crystal before Yara to do... [[ViolenceDiscretionShot Mitra knows what to Yara. The Heart of the Elephant disappears, and Yara and Yag-Kosha with it as would a bubble when stung by a needle.]]
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* PocketDimension: Yag-Kosha's last gift and last enchantment for Yara involves shrinking him into palm top size, phasing him into the Heart of the Elephant by magnetizing him into it, and finally taking form within the crystal before Yara to do... [[ViolenceDiscretionShot Mitra knows what to Yara. ]] The Heart of the Elephant disappears, and Yara and Yag-Kosha with it as would a bubble when stung by a needle.]]
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This short story is also notable for demonstrating the falseness of the modern claim that a story can not be simultaneously [[HighFantasy High Fantasy, especially mythic fantasy]], [[LowFantasy Low]] [[SwordAndSorcery Fantasy]], and [[LovecraftianTropes Cosmic]] [[EldritchAbomination Horror]], for the story is all three and more, from a time before these subgenres had become standardized and purists tried to keep them separated.
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This short story is also notable for demonstrating the falseness of the modern claim that a story can not be simultaneously [[HighFantasy High Fantasy, especially HighFantasy (especially mythic fantasy]], fantasy), [[LowFantasy Low]] [[SwordAndSorcery Fantasy]], and [[LovecraftianTropes Cosmic]] [[EldritchAbomination Horror]], for the story is all three and more, from a time before these subgenres had become standardized and purists tried to keep them separated.
