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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7381028" data-attributes="member: 92305">CTB Novelization - 3--  The Sword:  the crossguard is fashioned to resemble a stag's antlers; the two-handed grip is wrapped with string made from the gut of forest tigers;  the steel pommel is fashioned into the likeness of the hooves of elk.--  The scene on the mountain ties into the creation of the sword.  The chanting and mystic rite serves to render the sword invincible.--  The attack comes at dawn.  It is graphic and bloody, in the book.  Even children are described in the massacre.  One little girl has her throat pulled out by a war dog that chased her down.  Conan wasn't fishing, as shown in the film.--  Nial is a hell of a fighter.  He takes out several of the attackers.--  Young Conan fights with a knife, hamstringing an enemy.  He fights along side his father.--  The invaders wear bronze and iron breastplates, and leather armor.  Their weapons were iron.  Which is interesting.  This means that steel came into more wide-spread use during Conan's lifetime.--  Conan's mother fights with a broadsword, and she is a vixen.  Her name is Maeve.--  The enemy is a Vanir raiding party and not a mixed force (including Picts) as shown in the film.--  Unlike in the film, the Cimmerians actually beat back the Vanir.  There is a lull in the fighting.  Little Conan utters a prayer to Crom, but his mother tells him that Crom does not hear his prayers.--  The Vanir withdraw outside the village, and the archers start to pellet the Cimmerians with blankets of brass tipped arrows.  The Cimmerians had created a shield-wall, and it crumbled with men dying and shafts sticking from their vitals.  Then, the Vanir loosed the hounds!  It's a hell of a fight!  As the Cimmerians dealt with the war dogs, the Vanir archers were ordered to let fly another flight.--  I thought the Vanir would shun the bow, as do the Cimmerians, seeing the weapon as that used by women and children, or only for hunting.--  Nial goes down when his leg is hit by an arrow.  He becomes a pin-cushion.  His hand is stapled to the ground by one of the arrows.  Then, the dogs get to him to finish him off.  What a way to go!</blockquote>

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