Showing posts with label introducing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label introducing. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Introducing... Zabibi/Nafertari

CONAN finds a noble lady Nafertari being kidnapped by a band of cannibals. He rescues her, but she tells him that she is Zabibi, a dancer.
She was white, though very definitely brunette, obviously one of Zamboula's many mixed breeds. She was tall, with a slender, supple form, as he was in a good position to observe. Admiration burned in his fierce eyes as he looked down on her splendid bosom and her lithe limbs, which still quivered from fright and exertion. He passed an arm around her flexible waist and said, "Stop shaking, wench; you're safe enough."
From, "Shadows in Zamboula"
Page 486 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Introducing... Zenobia

Zenobia is a slave girl who helps a captured King CONAN escape from her masters dungeon. We first meet her as she appears at the bars of his cell.
It was a girl who stood grasping the bars with her slender fingers. The dim glow behind her outlined her supple figure through the wisp of silk twisted about her loins, and shone vaguely on jewelled breast-plates. Her dark eyes gleamed in the shadows, her white limbs glistened softly, like alabaster. Her hair was a mass of dark foam, at the burnished luster of which the dim light hinted.
From "The Hour of the Dragon"
Page 604. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Introducing... Valeria

We meet Valeria of The Red Brotherhood, lost in a forest after she has fled from an army she was fighting with after a disagreement.
The woman shivered with a twitch of her magnificent shoulders, and then cursed.
She was tall, full-bosomed and large-limbed, with compact shoulders. Her whole figure reflected an unusual strength, without detracting from the femininity of her appearance. She was all woman, in spite of her bearing and her garments. The latter were incongruous, a view of her present environs. Instead of a skirt she wore short, wide-legged silk breeches, which ceased a hand's breadth short of her knees, and were upheld by a silken sash work as a girdle. Flaring-topped boots of soft leather came almost to her knees, and a low-necked, wide-collared, wide-sleeved silk shirt completed her costume. On one shapely hip she wore a straight double-edged sword, and on the other a long dirk. Her unruly golden hair , cut square at her shoulders, was confined by a band of crimson satin.
From "Red Nails"
Page 505. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Monday, February 20, 2012

Introducing... Octavia

Octavia is to be used as a "Honey trap" to lure CONAN alone to a remote island where he can easily be killed withough his men around him. She is brough before Jehungir Agha and his counsellor Ghaznavi.
...he returned, leading by the wrist a tall handsome girl, whose yellow hair, clear eyes and fair skin identified her as a pure-blood member of her race. Her scanty silk tunic, girdled at the waist, displayed the marvelous contours of her magnificent figure. Her fine eyes flashed with resentment and her red lips were sulky, but submission had been taught her during her captivity.
From "The Devil in Iron"
Page 265-6. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Introducing... Olivia

We first meet Olivia as she flees her tormentor, Shah Amurath. Her initial introduction is quite brief,
From the dying steed there staggered up its rider, a slender girl in sandals and a girdled tunic. Her dark hair fell over her white shoulders, her eyes were those of a trapped animal.
From "Shadows in the Moonlight"
Page 209. "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

We do get a further description a few pages later when CONAN eyes her up,
...he began to gaze at his fair companion with more interest than previously, noting the lustrous clusters of her dark hair, the peach-bloom tints of her dainty skin, and the rounded contours of her lithe figure which the scanty silk tunic displayed to full advantage.
From "Shadows in the Moonlight"
Page 215. "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Introducing... Belit

When Belit the Pirate Captain is described as, "The wildest she-devil unhanged." (Page 240) by the captain of the ship CONAN is travelling on, you already know you're in for trouble. We meet her when she jumps in front of her crew to save CONAN from their spears and offer him a chance to join them.
She turned toward CONAN, her bosom heaving, her eyes flashing. Fierce fingers of wonder caught at his heart. She was slender, yet formed like a goddess: at once lithe and voluptuous. Her only garment was a broad silken girdle. Her white ivory limbs and the ivory globes of her breasts drove a beat of fierce passion through the Cimmerian's pulse, even in the panting fury of battle. Her rich black hair was as a Stygian night, fell in rippling burnished clusters down her supple back. Her dark eyes burned on the Cimmerian.
She was untamed as a desert wind, supple and dangerous as a she panther. She came close to him, heedless of his great blade, dripping with blood of her warriors. her red lips parted as she stared up into his sombre eyes.
From "Queen of the Black Coast"
Page 242. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

" She came close to him, heedless of his great blade," Calling Dr. Freud, please come to quote 48 at once...


You also know that as soon as anyone except CONAN is likened to a panther or wolf, they are going to be something special.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Introducing... Devi Yasmina

Yasmina is introduced to us as she tends to her ailing brother. The first description of her however comes a little later when she goes to see the governor of Peshkharim, Chunder Saun.
It was a woman who had entered unannounced, a woman whose gossamer robes did not conceal the rich garments beneath them any more than they concealed the suppleness and beauty of her tall, slender figure. A filmy veil fell below her breasts, supported by a flowing head-dress bound about a triple gold braid and adorned with a golden crescent. Her dark eyes regarded the astonished governor over the veil, and then with an imperious gesture of her white hand, she uncovered her face.
From, "The People of the Black Circle"
Page 293 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Introducing... Thalis

CONAN and his companion Natala are lost in the ancient city of Xuthal. During their wanderings they stumble upon Thalis,
She was tall, lithe, shaped like a goddess; clad in a narrow girdle crusted with jewels. A burnished mass of night-black hair set of the whiteness of her ivory body. Her dark eyes, shaded by long dusky lashes, were deep with sensuous mystery.
From, "The Slithering Shadow"
Page 136 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

Thalis wants to keep CONAN for herself, and tries to despatch Natala. It doesn't end well for her.

Introducing... Princess Yasmela

Princess Yasmela has become the target of the amorous advances the recently reincarnated sorcerer, Thugra Khotan, who is about to attack her kingdom in the guise of Natohk, The veiled one. We first meet Yasmela in her bed chamber where she receives a supernatural visit from Thugra,
But princess Yasmela lolled not on that silken bed. She lay naked on her supple belly upon the bare marble like the most abased suppliant, her dark hair streaming over her white shoulders, her slender fingers intertwined. She lay and writhed in pure horror that froze her blood in her lithe limbs and dilated her beautiful eyes, that pricked the roots of her dark hair and made goose-flesh rise along her supple spine.
From "Black Colossus"
Page 107. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Introducing... Sancha

Sancha is the concubine of Captain Zaporavo of the pirate ship Wastrel. She lounges on deck just as CONAN swims up to the ship and climbs onboard.
SANCHA, ONCE OF KORDAVA, yawned daintily, stretched her supple limbs luxuriously, and composed herself more comfortably on the ermine-fringed silk spread on the carack's poop-deck. That the crew watched her with burning interest from the waist and forecastle she was lazily aware, just as she also aware that her short silk kirtle veiled little of her voluptuous contours from their eager eyes.
From "The Pool of the Black One"
Page 163. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.

Introducing... Natala

I thnk one way to look at how women are used as characters in the stories, is simply to examine how they are described when they are intoduced. I will be listing all the introductions, making it easy to look at the language used when describing the various women from the CONAN tales and draw your own conclusion.
At his feet rested a girl, one white arm clasping his knee, against which her blond head dropped. Her white skin contrasted with his hard bronzed limbs; her short silken tunic, low-necked and sleaveless, girdled at the waist, emphasized rather than concealed her lithe figure.
From, "The Slithering Shadow"
Page 134 "The Complete Chronicles of CONAN"

I guess this is a classic to start with, CONAN is in the desert, clad only in a silk loin-cloth, lithe maiden hanging on  his knee in a classic Frazetta pose.