As a boy, Conan left his native Cimmeria - a distant mountainous region of noble, courageous warriors. He did not know whether he was ever destined to return to the graves of his ancestors. But the ruthless gods play their endless, incomprehensible game, where people are just pawns. The cunning of ambitious sorcerers draws a simple-minded Cimmerian into a fierce battle of sorcerous forces. But the mighty barbarian does not like to serve as a pathetic pawn in an ominous game! With a faithful blade in hand, Conan follows a path of difficult trials and bloody battles and eventually ends up... in the palace of Crom, the abode of the stern god of Cimmeria.

ABC, Terra, 1996 The saga of the great warrior “The Hand of Crom” "John Maddox Roberts. In the palace of Krom (novel, translation by T. Trubitsyna), pp. 5-260