Conan and the Grim Grey God [SEP] series
Conan and the Grim Grey God
Conan and the Grim Grey God is a fantasy novel written by Sean A. Moore featuring Robert E. Howard's seminal sword and sorcery hero Conan the Barbarian. It was first published in trade paperback by Tor Books in November 1996; a regular paperback edition followed from the same publisher in November 1997.
Plot.
In the prelude, taking place 3,000 years before Conan's time, a raiding army from the empire of Acheron descend on the city of Nithia, located near an oasis deep
not much is told of them - except for the evident fact that somebody in sinister Stygia disliked the priest (and presumably, his god) enough to spend considerable effort in the attempt to kill him. Howard never made much more of Ibis in the rest of the Canonical Conan stories, leaving him a rather obscure feature of the Hyborian age. But, some writers of future Conan stories gave Ibis a more prominent role. In particular, the plot of Sean A. Moore's "Conan and the Grim Grey God" takes