Erlik, the Hyrkanian God of Death, is a dark and feared deity worshiped across the grim steppes of the Hyborian Age. In Marvel Comics’ Conan the Barbarian, Erlik embodies death, judgment, and divine retribution. His priests serve him with blood sacrifices and grim devotion, spreading fear throughout Hyrkania and beyond. Often invoked in oaths and curses, Erlik represents the inevitable fate that awaits all mortals. Through Conan the Barbarian and other adaptations, Erlik remains a chilling symbol of death’s power in Robert E. Howard’s mythic world.
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 15” Death comes for us all, with no exception. For some, it arrives in the form of a quick trust of a dagger. Others face the end after a long fulfilling life with no remorse. None, however, have the foresight of knowing just when or how they will […]
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 14” Get it out! A soothsayer has given Red Sonja an ultimatum: travel to the underworld land of the dead or the Erlik’s soul will consume her. Is there an easier solution? Not if she wants the dead to stop interrupting her drinking binges. Melancholy, engage! Will the
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 13” As the forces of Ymir and Kulan Gath battle for supremacy at Emberfall, Red Sonja and her two souls flee to the northlands of Cimmeria. It is there that she works in the gladiatorial pit to pay for her travels. But she is not alone. A god’s
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 12” The battle between gods and man has reached the walls of Emberfall. Now the necromancer who started the entire war is about to gain an unholy ally. Red Sonja has been tricked into bringing the very soul of Erlik, the death god, before Kulan Gath himself. But
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 11” Red Sonja has tracked down the dark-eyed god who escaped from his otherworldly prison. Now the she-devil with a sword must convince the trickster to close the gates to his realm, and send back all the dead warriors used in Kulan Gath’s army. Time is running out
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 10” Red Sonja has reached the inner sanctum of Kulan Gath, but now her convictions are in turmoil. She has come to avenge the murder of her sister, who was taken in battle between Kulan’s cultists and the army of Emberfall. The only thing staying Sonja’s hand from
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 09” The Wild Hunt races unchecked through the Border Kingdoms, and the veil between worlds is as old. There is no better time to kill a god! This, the necromancer Kulan Gath knows. But the army of Emberfall stands at his fortress gates, leaving Gath with very few
My Rating “His Master’s Voice – Part 00” Note: Story continues in Red Sonja Volume 07 Issue 01 Madauros – the crown jewel of Aquilonia, a city burdened not by starvation or plague, yet its citizens toil under the tight grip of their King’s laws. Today a cloaked princess has come to this haven in
My Rating “Thrice Marked For Death! – Part 01 The Heist” Following the defeat of the lost tribe conjured by Thulsa Doom’s cult, and the fall of the Obsidian Fortress, Conan roamed the east looking for a new purpose. In the port city of Argo fate would turn against him as the local magistrate
My Rating “Mark Of The Beast” Raja, the bowman from Vezek, lay near the campfire, inhaling heavily. The pain from the toxic wound struck deeper into his chest with every breath. What dark affliction had the tiger-priest of Yota-Pong infected him with? Conan sat opposite to his ally, his steel-blue eyes scanning the Turanian over
