(circa The Devil in Iron)
Medium Human Male
14th level
7th level Aristocrat /7th level fighter
Hit Dice: 5D8 + 5d10 +14 (68 hit points)
Inititiative: +3 (Dex)
Speed: 30 ft.
Armor Class: 19 (+3 Dex, +5 masterwork chainmail, +1 dodge)
Attacks: Scimitar +13/+8/+3 Melee; Longbow +16/+11/+6 ranged
Damage: Scimitar 1d6+1; Longbow 1d6+1
Face/Reach: 5 ft x 5 ft/ 5ft
Saves: Fort +8, Ref +7, Will +9
Attributes: Str 13, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 13, Wis 12, Cha 14
Skills: Appraise +18, Balance +20, Bluff +18, Gather Information +6, Intimidate +19
Feats: Dodge, Mobility, Weapon Focus (Longbow), Combat Reflexes, Improved Critical (longbow), Ranged Disarm, Ranged Pin, Precise Shot, Pointblank shot, Aiming
Climate/Terrain: Turan, Hyrkania
Organization: Solitary
Challenge Rating: 13
Treasure: None
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Advancement: by character class
Combat
The bow is his weapon of choice, but, when armored, he is not afraid to fight with his scimitar.
One weakness of this story is the incredible coincidence upon which it hangs. Jehungir Agha was lying when he told Conan Octavia had run away to Xapur. She had been handed into the loathsome clutches of Jelal Khan. Escaping, she somehow finds her way to Xapur, a supposed tiny island with unscalable cliffs; the likelihood of her finding her way there purely by chance seems a little difficult to accept. Then again, ERB wrote dozens of Tarzan novels that depended on even more unlikely coincidences.
There isn't a lot in the way of characterization. Conan spends more time running than thinking. I suspect this may be partly because Howard wasn't sure how Conan should react to something so clearly inexplicable as a city appearing magically overnight. To REH the Conan stories were inherently realistic, he favoured gorillas and snakes, and the magic is often explained either as a sort of super-science, or as hypnosis. In this case, there can be no such realist explanation, and so Howard himself may have found it a little hard to accept.
Khosatral Khel
Magic Dagger
Octavia
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