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Conan The Victorious L. Sprague de Camp & Bjorn Nyberg

Fantastic Universe – September 1957

This was the first time he had met this man whom he'd fought as war-chief of the Zuagirs and pirate admiral.

—"Know furthermore, O Prince, that Conan the barbarian thus won at last to great fame and high estate as king of Aquilonia, the starry gem of the green West with its gallant nobles, sturdy warriors, intrepid frontiersmen, and beauteous damsels. But dark and terrible forces were at work to rock his throne and wreck his fortune. For, on the night of the feast at Tarantia to celebrate the year of peace that followed the overthrow of the conspiracy of Valerius, Tarascus, and Amalric, and the destruction of the wizard Xaltotun, Conan's lately-wedded queen Z e n o b i a was snatched from the balcony of the palace by a winged shape out of nightmare and borne off eastward. Thinking it better to travel swiftly, anonymously, and alone than to take an army with him, Conan set out in search of his stolen mate. .."

The Nemedian Chronicles.