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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4597900" data-attributes="member: 18280">Anyone who doubts that Conan has higher than average intelligence has never read a Conan story.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />IMHO, Conan's Wisdom (perception and intuition) is higher than his Intelligence.&nbsp; I would say, 16 Int in AD&amp;D 1e, and 18 Wisdom by the time he is 30.However, I denied -- and asked for examples to demonstrate my denial was wrong -- that &quot;Conan did ritualistic Magic in a real Howard story&quot;, and I thought that you were counter-exampling me.&nbsp; Conan certainly does make use of magic performed by others in several stories.EDIT:&nbsp; In Beyond the Black River, Conan is being tracked by a supernatural panther.&nbsp; He scratches a symbol into the ground that he has seen scratched elsewhere, sacred to the power that fuels the creature tracking him.&nbsp; This makes the panther go away, and Conan indicates that he believes it will protect him and his companion from other creatures of the same type -- although it leaves a clear mark to men.I am not sure that I would call this &quot;ritual magic&quot;, though, although I can certainly see the argument that it is some form of magic use.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4597900, member: 18280"] Anyone who doubts that Conan has higher than average intelligence has never read a Conan story. ;) IMHO, Conan's Wisdom (perception and intuition) is higher than his Intelligence. I would say, 16 Int in AD&D 1e, and 18 Wisdom by the time he is 30. However, I denied -- and asked for examples to demonstrate my denial was wrong -- that "Conan did ritualistic Magic in a real Howard story", and I thought that you were counter-exampling me. Conan certainly does make use of magic performed by others in several stories. EDIT: In Beyond the Black River, Conan is being tracked by a supernatural panther. He scratches a symbol into the ground that he has seen scratched elsewhere, sacred to the power that fuels the creature tracking him. This makes the panther go away, and Conan indicates that he believes it will protect him and his companion from other creatures of the same type -- although it leaves a clear mark to men. I am not sure that I would call this "ritual magic", though, although I can certainly see the argument that it is [i][b]some form of[/b][/i][b][/b] magic use. RC [/QUOTE]

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