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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6589149" data-attributes="member: 42582">Do you know the story?Conan is locked up the evil sorcerer Xaltotun, in the dungeons of the capital of Nemedia.A woman from the king's harem drugs the wine of the guards and steels the keys and brings them to Conan. At first he expresses surprise and distrust, but she explains that some years ago she saw him ride into the city (as king of Aquilonia) and fell in love with him.Once Conan escapes from the dungeon, he leaves Zenobia behind and she does not figure again in the story until the closing paragraph, where Conan (once again victorious) has taken the king of Nemedia captive and states, as his ransom, the hand of Zenobia in marriage, to be queen of Aquilonia.Because the Conan stories are mostly solitaire adventures a direct comparison to an RPG is tricky, but the role played by Zenobia is, in RPG terms, that of an NPC. She appears briefly in an early scene, confers a single plot-related benefit (the keys) and then plays no role in the rest of the action.</blockquote>