Bêlit, the fierce pirate queen from Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian stories, rules the Black Coast with unmatched courage and savage beauty. Known as the “Queen of the Black Coast,” she commands the ship Tigress and her loyal crew of Black Corsairs. Driven by passion and ambition, Bêlit is both warrior and lover, forming a legendary bond with Conan during their bloody reign across the seas. Her story blends adventure, romance, and tragedy, embodying the raw spirit of the Hyborian Age. Bêlit’s legacy lives on through countless comic book adaptations, cementing her as one of sword-and-sorcery’s most iconic heroines.
My Rating “The Nomad” A stranger has come to the gates of Tarantia seeking council with the King of Aquilonia. Yet, the Black Dragons – the ordained defenders of the city, bar his entrance as they would any common vagrant. There would be no audience with Conan or his royal vassals that day. So the […]
My Rating “A Nest Of Serpents – Part One: Slaves Of The Magi” A quarter moon stood high in the night sky as a stranger to the Kushian town of Daynt stalked a group of local denisons. These men were hiding a secret which could affect those who had just entered the squallored walls proper.
My Rating “Twisting Loyalties Part 04 – Purged” The Mark of Set? An aura of the Snake God? How could such hollow hubris lay so heavy on a child born from stone? Conan questioned the sanity of the shape-changer as he traversed under the jungle canopy. The Dafarian mystic claimed salvation at the peak of
My Rating ”Twisting Loyalties Part 03 – Hunted” Death had never gripped Conan with such melancholy. His one true love, Bêlit, and her crew of pirates had been sent to their maker whilst battling a winged demon in a jungle temple near the Zarkheba river. Now Conan was left sullen in a tropical expanse he
My Rating “Twisting Loyalties Part 02 – Fangs & Foolish Thieves Part 02” In a lavish inn near the Kyros market district, Conan and Bêlit strike a pact with one of the cutthroats who invaded their room. Tarnasha, who had knowledge of two ancient artifacts coveted by Stygian priests in the Black Circle, had intrigued
My Rating “Twisting Loyalties Part 01 – Fangs & Foolish Thieves” For many months, Conan sailed under the pirate flag of Bêlit of Shem – the infamous Queen of the Black Coast. As the two lovers raided merchant ships along the coastal waters of the Western Sea, they grew rich off the vast amount of
My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery – Part 05” We gathered on a ship and sailed to the barbarian stronghold of B’org. Across the waters the host of Hestera, my beloved Bêlit, discovered Crom had taken not the skin Conan of the north men, but a lesser man who rules this untamed lot. It was Bêlit
My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery – Part 04)” And thus the time came when the gods warred amongst themselves; blood flowed as pantheons fell to history. It was my lady’s deity who plucked her from the depths of the ocean and placed her into life once again. The earth mother, scorned by the Cimmerian god
My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery – Part 03” In the current era of high magick, a daughter of the Shemites learns her fate and that of one’s past. The knowledge comes with a high price, as the woman’s second death grows near. The spell-lords came from all corners of Hyperboria, gathered to Sin upon this
My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery – Part 02” In a time when the sapphire waters of the Black Coast spew back the unwanted necro flesh of slain pirate queens, and whore-masters fall by the hand their embolden courtesan, the world’s sorcerers amass in numbers to indulge their sadism at the Festival of the Blameless. It
