Conan’s journey – Part 7.

Conan and Subotai travel a large distance..

 

… and eventually they arrive to a town. This Conan’s first encounter with a town.

As we can see the city is in a somewhat run-down state. Also check out the serpent tower on the left. As we find out later this is a temple of Thulsa’s cult.

 

The pair of thieves travel to another town…

…and one of most prominent buildings is, yet again, a snake-cult tower.

 

Cities in Conan’s universe are not presented as nice or clean. Instead they are shown to be a den of vice and filth. They are a place for beggars, suspicious street vendors, whores, thieves and murderous cults.

 

We also learn more about Thulsa’s cult. We already knew they were a bunch of murdering raiders, but now we find out that their influence has spread quite a bit.

 

It is in the second town that they meet Valeria. Just like them she decided to break into the snake-tower. The trio’s raid on the snake tower will be analysed in the next post.