Assault On Yimsha
Started by Aza9, Jun 14 2012 07:09 AM
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 07:09 AM
"The People of the Black Circle" has become one of my favorite Conan stories. I made this based on Howard's evocative descriptions.
I woulda kept Thothmekri for awhile. He could come in handy.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 09:00 AM
Hey, that is a very good, clear diagram."The People of the Black Circle" has become one of my favorite Conan stories. I made this based on Howard's evocative descriptions.
Well done.
It brings the tale vividly back into my mind.
Thanks very much.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 04:47 PM
Aza9, that is a great diagram.
Thank you for creating it. I'm going to re-read the story and be using your work to help picture the sequence of events.
Thank you for creating it. I'm going to re-read the story and be using your work to help picture the sequence of events.
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Posted 14 June 2012 - 06:45 PM
Glad you like it 
It depicts events at the beginning of Chapter 9 - The Castle of the Wizards
It depicts events at the beginning of Chapter 9 - The Castle of the Wizards
I woulda kept Thothmekri for awhile. He could come in handy.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 01:28 AM
Thumbs up on the diagram. I like it a lot.
Have you read the LSdC's reworking of a non-Hyborian-Age Howard tale in The Flame Knife. It's a similiar "assault-like" tale that I quite enjoyed. The Road of the Eagles is a good read, too.
Have you read the LSdC's reworking of a non-Hyborian-Age Howard tale in The Flame Knife. It's a similiar "assault-like" tale that I quite enjoyed. The Road of the Eagles is a good read, too.
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Posted 15 June 2012 - 05:41 AM
Good stuff! There's a diagram in Collected Drawings which has been speculated to be a rough outline of the Mount Yimsha, and this is fairly close. (Love the little annotation about scale, too)
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 07:46 AM
This photo has been Officially stolen for an RPG adventure I'm running.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Howard's ability to convey so much with so few words is amazing. His battles and movement scenes are often as fully fleshed out as Karl E. Wagner's, even though the latter writes his battle scenes like a historian. Howard writes them like a war reporter - gives you the facts in intertwined bundles that fit together, rather than explaining every bit out when it's already entailed by another statement.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Howard's ability to convey so much with so few words is amazing. His battles and movement scenes are often as fully fleshed out as Karl E. Wagner's, even though the latter writes his battle scenes like a historian. Howard writes them like a war reporter - gives you the facts in intertwined bundles that fit together, rather than explaining every bit out when it's already entailed by another statement.
Edited by RJMooreII, 24 June 2012 - 07:48 AM.
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