Bran Mak Morn, last king of a dying race, is a hero that Howard spent fewer words on than Conan, Solomon Kane, and Kull, or even many of the somewhat lesser known characters from his historical and boxing stories, such as El Borak, Steve Costigan, or Brekenridge Elkins. Kull is perhaps the most well known ancestor of Conan for, after all, it was a Kull story that served as the basis for the first Conan tale, “The Phoenix on the Sword.” But all of Howard’s creations are different, as he was too good a writer to spin the same yarn twice – even when he directly rewrote one character’s tale into another – and all of his characters are informed by the age and circumstances in which they find themselves. As is only natural, they tend to look at Howard’s other heroes in terms of their relation to the Cimmerian, and look for those elements that later make their way into the much more famous stories of the Hyborian age. Howard from the perspective of his most famous creation, Conan. Most new readers approach the work of Robert E.

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