Fans of the original Conan stories and the de Camp/Carter pastiches inspired by them will be familiar with the character of Sigurd of Vanaheim, a boastful, red-haired and bearded slayer and reaver wielding a deadly double-bladed battle axe. He was one of Conan’s few friends of long-standing even though their respective peoples, the Vanir and the Cimmerians, were hereditary enemies. Perhaps both men were not typical of their own folk, and yet their fast friendship extended even beyond the seas as Sigurd followed Conan, until lately King of Aquilonia, into the Unknown West. But what fate awaited this mighty warrior and ally of the world’s most savage barbarian? Read “Conan: The Feathered Serpent, Part 1” and learn what the Scrolls of Skelos have revealed!