Valeria of the Red Brotherhood is one of Robert E. Howard’s most iconic female warriors, a fearless pirate who sails the Black Coast under the banner of the Red Brotherhood. Trained in sword and strategy, Valeria defies the expectations of her time with her bold temper and unrivaled skill in battle. Her story in “The Red Nails” reveals a woman driven by honor, freedom, and a reluctant respect for Conan the Barbarian. Valeria is as deadly as she is intelligent, a pirate queen whose courage and independence made her a standout heroine of the Hyborean Age and a lasting figure in Howard’s legendary universe.
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
My Rating “Sword Vs. Sorcery” Following the rise of the kingdoms of Hyboria, and before the throne of Aquilonia fell by the Cimmerian with a troubled brow, there was an age of Stygian necromancy. An unto this, Bêlit, pirate queen of the black coast, was raised up from beyond the grave to copulate her way
My Rating “Conan & Valeria: The Sunless Isle” Conan and Valeria had pillaged the Western Sea in a time preceding the fall of Bêlit, Queen of the Black Coast. The Cimmerian had found an uneasy companionship with the golden-haired beauty. Valeria was a corsair, pirate, and member of the Red Brotherhood; yet she became a
My Rating “Curse Of The Undead-Man” The cut-purse thugs had swarmed Conan in a darkened alleyway by chance, but what the Cimmerian had found on the cobblestone moments ago was worth killing for. The Maul district of Zamora had never been safe to traverse at any hour of the day, but at night, only seasoned
