Conan the Adventurer 9

=Of Wings and Warriors=

Major Characters

 * Conan (Previous appearance SSOC-180; next appearance CA-10).

Minor Characters

 * Daedikaron (First appearance; previous chronological appearance in backup story in CA-12; appears next in CA-10). A Corinthian inventor.
 * Tros (First appearance; previous chronological appearance in backup story in CA-12; appears next in CA-10). Daedikaraon's armored bodyguard.
 * Turkos (First appearance; appears next in CA-10). Captain of Sakyara's guard.
 * Queen Isadona (First appearance; appears next in CA-10). Queen of Sakyara.

Location

 * Outside the city Sakyara in Zamora.

Time Frame

 * An hour.

Synopsis
Awakening from a drunken stupor, Conan spies a man in homemade wings caught in a tree. He begins to help the man down but is attacked by a hulking armored giant. It turns out the giant, Tros, is the inventor's bodyguard and they are on the run from soldiers from Sakyara. Conan defends the two men and is nearly killed when the battle is halted by the queen of Sakyara. Conan notes she wears a fragment of an amulet he has encountered many times before, and he notices Daedikaron sees it too. She demands a battle to the death between Conan and Tros. Conan wins, but the queen decides to let Tros live and all are taken back to the city.

Major Characters

 * Ixastophanisi (First chronological appearance; next appearance in backup story of CA-11).
 * Moru (First chronological appearance; next appearance in backup story of CA-10).
 * Andamo (First chronological appearance; next appearance in backup story of CA-10).
 * Daedikaron and Tros (First chronological appearance for both; next appearance for both in backup story of CA-11).
 * Welyn (First chronological appearance; next appearance in backup story of CA-10).
 * Shimata-Kawa (First chronological appearance; next appearance in backup story of CA-11).

Location
Various.

Time Frame
Minutes.

Synopsis
A priest of Mitra, Ixastophanisi, encounters a floating amulet that speaks to him the same night a Pict, Moru, on the run from Zingaram trops, has the same vision. Nearby, Andamo and Daedikaron in Corinthia, alongside his bodyguard Tros, see the strange amulet appear to them as well. Finally, Welyn in Aghrapur and in Shimata-Kawa in Yamatai see the talisman appear and call their names.