Where's Harrek?

From: Loren Miller <Loren.Miller_at_marketing.wharton.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:47:58 EST

Combining two threads and hearkening back to Conan's kingdom of Aquilonia, perhaps what happens is that Harrek pops up in the middle of the Kingdom of War or Loskalm or one of the Seshnegi city-states and gets embroiled in that whole mess.

I rather prefer the idea that he loses his memory and his pirates (Styx water?), pops up in one of the city-states, falls hopelessly in love with a beautiful noble woman (or boy if he goes that way) kills off the duke and takes over, then conquers a neighbor or two before being attacked by the KOW or by Loskalmi hegemonists, then spends the next years being recruited by and attacked by the two empires, until after his lover is kidnapped and accidentally killed (because of his mistake) he remembers and recovers his full powers and slaughters both the Loskalmi leadership and Lord Death on a Horse's gang.

Then, redeemed from his heedless ways by the love he had and foolishly lost he walks north to Valind's glacier and collapses a mountain of ice on himself, burying himself for all eternity.

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