Ymir the Frost Giant is the ancient god of the icy realm of Vanaheim and one of the most powerful beings in Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian Age. In Marvel Comics’ Conan the Barbarian, Ymir embodies the primal fury of winter and the eternal cold that devours all life. His frozen domain is home to frost giants and creatures born of ice and shadow. Worshiped by northern tribes who fear his wrath, Ymir represents the unstoppable force of nature itself. His appearances in Conan the Barbarian and other Marvel adaptations capture the savage beauty and terror of the frozen north.
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 08” Kulan Gath has escaped his spectral prison through the blind ignorance of Red Sonja. Now the hoary sorcerer directs his wrath upon three realm-keepers attempting to sway the dark magic he so covets. With the fall of Vestfold, Kulan commands his bewitched madmen south to the white
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 04 – The Hidden World” Faith is fleeting. As one travels through life and masters the battlefield, even the most devout followers of Crom may have their beliefs tested like the steel they wield in hand. For Conan, the stories and devotionals which flowed from his ancestors’ lips so freely,
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 03 – Gods Of The North” The daughter of Ymir traipsed around the icy field as the Vanir gave battle to Conan and his Aesir allies. One by one, they all fell, each by the other’s hand. However, it would be Conan the Cimmerian, the black-haired disciple of Crom, who
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 02 – Daughter’s Gaze” In the far north of Asgar, Conan joins a group of battle-weary Aesirmen as they fight against an encroaching force of Vanir raiders. The young Cimmerian had little interest in the northmen and their blood-feuds, but when the red-haired savages attacked an undefended colony of women
My Rating “Frozen Faith Part 01 – Cold Comfort” Free from the black stone curse, Conan the Barbarian leaves Venarium to seek his fortune in the frozen northlands of Asgard. During his travels, the memories of a harsh childhood begin to resurface. Why had his father been so vague when Conan asked about their god
My Rating “The Valley of the Worm” Bragi’s clan had been slaughtered there in the place of broken stone. Niord, the warrior Gorm had called yellow-hair, stood upon the crest looking down at the carnage. This was no man who killed the Aesir clan, this tragedy was handed down by the beast feared by all
My Rating “King Conan: The Ensorcelled – Part 03 The Woods Of The Witchbreaker” Surrounded by the Brethren of the Briar on his descent down the Graaskal Mountains, Conan readies himself for battle. For those who had destroyed the witches in their own sanctuary, had laid in wait for the barbarian King of Aquilonia to
My Rating “Conan: Wolves Of The Tundra” The trap had been laid, or so the family thought. A savage, created by the very curse which flowed through their own veins, had been systematically killing those responsible for infecting him. Now the beast was at their front door looking to end the nightmare with a ferocious
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
