The era when proud Lemuria was still young - and the Mayans and Atlanteans were still considered pitiful savages. The era when great, powerful gods, and terrible, bloody monsters, and stern, wise magicians still lived on earth. The era when fate, which controls not only people, but also gods, sent into the world the most powerful of the warriors of the past - the northern barbarian Thongor from the Valkyr clan - a hero with whom neither Kull the Conqueror nor Conan the Destroyer could compare...