Wrath-Amon is a character in the Conan the Adventurer animated series. He was a wizard of great power and evil, who was once a mere gila monster. The wizard of Stygia, Ram-Amon, who was a servant of the evil god, Set, created him to be a perfect servant, giving him the strength of a hundred men, ruthless intelligence and cunning. But the servant was too cunning and stole the Black Ring, and used it to imprison Ram-Amon. Set agreed to make the creature into his new servant and reformed him into a powerful Serpent Man named Wrath-Amon.
Wrath-Amon ruled the Serpent Men on Earth for at least 200 years, (while Ram-Amon was imprisoned) and his cruelty and evil became legend. Soon, he was charged by Set to collect enough Star Metal to melt into discs to place atop seven pyramids so that Set would be freed from the Abyss and return to conquer Earth. While doing this, Wrath-Amon made a grave enemy of the Cimmerian barbarian named Conan when he used the Spell of Living Stone against his family. Conan vowed to restore his parents and destroy Wrath-Amon.
Wrath-Amon enacted many schemes to destroy Conan and his friends, and complete his task to free Set. While he failed to destroy Conan, after a couple years he succeeded in completing the pyramids and bringing Set to Earth. Set rewarded Wrath-Amon by making him immortal, and as long as Wrath-Amon held the Black Ring he'd be invincible. In their campaign to stop Set from destroying the world, Conan and his friends attacked Wrath-Amon in his pyramid, and after a fierce battle and one final duel, they succeeded in getting the Black Ring away from Wrath-Amon. Conan next used the Amulet of Vathelos to return Wrath-Amon to his reptile form.
Background[]
Wrath-Amon is an amalgamation of two different villains in the Robert E. Howard canon: Thulsa Doom, who was an enemy of King Kull, and Thoth-amon, originally a minor enemy of Conan's, who was later elevated to "archenemy" status in pastiche work by authors L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter, and Björn Nyberg. Wrath-Amon's Black Ring, likewise, is the animated series' take on Thoth-Amon's Serpent Ring of Set.His name may also reflect the mythological figure Rammon.