u/ConanConn1968

The Hour of the Dragon with some of that interior art that I’m always a sucker for

I’ve been very busy these last couple weeks, so please forgive me if anybody else has already pointed this out.

Almost 7 hours of facts facts and facts. Think I’ve listened to it three or four times by now, but I have to admit never straight through.

I found this one in a used book store in the literary criticisms. And very glad that i stopped there to tie my shoe
So now i look at all bookstores back to front.

I’ve ordered volume two so I can read the Sailor Steve Costigan stories ( I have older collections featuring them, but might as well go for the latest updates and corrections). But in the meanwhile, starting in on volume one.

You’re a chunky little barbarian

I still remember cigarette ads in books and scratch and snuff cologne in magazines

And I’m great at having no brains

I have lived a varied life but never gave
Quarter to any man, nor been a slave
Made many journeys from my homeland
Now, across the border of death I stand

Lightning strikes!
Biting through mist and shadow, Raven's wings!
Beat darkly in the gloom, Grim corpses!
Surround him on his iron throne
A heavy hand! Hammers down my doom!

On Crom's Mountain!

I was a mere boy, when as a man I stood
To repel invaders from our land of woods
I cleaved many a skull, before my sixteenth year
A long and bloody path has brought me here

YE SHALL BE JUDGED MORTALS!

I grant thee a boon now warrior stand,
To rejoin the world of men,
To venture forth in the realm beyond,
To reap more souls for Mount Crom.

Your passion be fire, and your will be ice
I give you your strength and that will suffice
Trust not women, nor wizards, nor gods
Never give up, whatever the odds

CROM HAS SPOKEN

And so, I was born again, born on the battlefield, son of a blacksmith!

So Crom did grant my fate to the Steadfast Ones
Eternal Lord of Mist
To have my name bound in their iron book
Was yet to be my heritage
I'm Alive!