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Declining the offer of Kobad Shah's successor, Arshak, to return to the
service of Iranistan and defend that kingdom against the incursions of King
Yezdigerd of Turan, Conan rides east into the foothills of the Himelian
Mountains, on the northwest frontier of Vendhya. Here he next appears as a
war-cheif of the savage Afghuli tribesmen. He is now in his early thirties
(about thirty-three, in fact), at the height of his physical powers, and known
throughout the civilized and barbarian worlds, from Pictland to Khitai.
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