"Imagine, I proposed, if our favorite sword-and-sorcery
characters shared the same settings and time-frames. What if...
What if Fafhrd and Mouser had just finished a successful heist. With an angry crowd
at their heels, they pull one of their notorious double-back escapes and elude the pursuing throng. Now suppose this angry,
torch-waving pack runs head-long into Conan, hot and tired from the trail, his dead horse a day's walk behind him. All he
wants is a jug of wine and a wench. Instead, he's confronted by a lynch mob. What if his saddlebags are full of loot from
one of his own ventures, yet undiscovered?
Or what if Kane and Elric took jobs marshalling opposite armies in the same war?
Why, I proclaimed, the possibilities are endless."
Robert Lynn Aspirin
THE MAKING OF THIEVES' WORLD
In honor of Robert Lynn Aspirin's 's bold vision and what
subsequently resulted from it we're incorporating the Thieves' World anthologies and related literature into our Hyborian
Campaigns.
In our schema Sanctuary is Tarantia's Khorotas Ward,
a small town outside of the capitol's defensive walls. The published tales, with minor Hyborian adjustments, will unfold as
originally written. Below is the progression of stories and how they have been woven into the Age of Conan:
