Conan #43

In "Wilde Heimkehr," Kulan Gath recounts a past entanglement with Vamaatar, weaving a tale of passion and peril. Conan, rescued from a deadly fall by the reluctant Ursla, is thrust into a harrowing journey that forces him to confront the ruins of his forgotten home village.

In "Der Berg, in dem Crom haust," Conan crosses paths with remnants of his Cimmerian kin and enigmatic Aesir as he ventures into a forbidding mountain haunted by ancient dread. High atop the peak, Kulan Gath and Vammatar stand poised for a clash of wills, while deep within a hidden cavern, Hobb stumbles upon the Iron-bound books of Shuma-Gorath—sealed away, yet whispering secrets.

In "Schwere Prüfungen," an exhausted Count Trocero returns to his ancestral home in Poitain, haunted by memories that bleed into his waking hours. As King Conan grapples with grief and doubt, and Prospero puts new recruits through brutal trials, fleeting moments of connection—like a love note from Leonidas to Radegund—hint at deeper currents beneath the surface. When Trocero finally reaches home, he is met with a past he can no longer recognize: his father, lost to time, and Amanda, the woman he once loved, now a ghost of what she was.