Heroes? of Lemuria Part 8
Moth Amon – Thoth Amon
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Moth-Amon
https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Thoth-amon
Moth-Amon is the final boss of Mandoria and one of Mandar’s prime antagonists.
Thoth-amon was a wizard from the lands of Stygia who held the moniker “Thoth-amon of the Ring”.
Thoth-Amon is best known for crossing paths with Conan twice, first in the story “The God in the Bowl”, and again in the tale “The Phoenix on the Sword” (the very first Conan story written). He and Conan never meet face-to-face in any of Howard’s original stories; indeed, Conan only found himself involved in Thoth-Amon’s schemes by random chance. Moreover, in The Hour of the Dragon, Conan unintentionally does Thoth-Amon a big favor by going into Stygia and neatly disposing of a rival priest of Set who had intended to challenge Thoth-Amon’s power. Still, later writers would later depict Thoth-Amon as the Cimmerian’s arch-nemesis. In “The Phoenix on the Sword”, where he has been robbed of his magical ring, Thoth-Amon does not have sufficient magical power of his own to strike down a man standing at his very side.
August 1979
L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, in their pastiche stories, made Thoth-amon the most prominent adversary of Conan. In the Marvel Comics series, Thoth-Amon was also Conan’s life-long opponent. He had a striking appearance designed by Barry Windsor-Smith, with a ram-horn ornamental headdress. In the Dark Horse Comics series, Thoth-Amon is also an important character, but with a more traditional Stygian (Egyptian-looking) appearance.
These articles on the Heroes of Lemuria are what got me started on my quest to catalog all of the pop culture references in Wizard101. This is the seventh of sixteen Lemurian articles put together to allow younger players to see the inspirations for characters and creatures within this wonderful game .
Text for this article has been excerpted from the wiki articles linked above.
Moth-Amon image is from Wizard101, and so is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
It is being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Conan the Barbarian and the names of Robert E. Howard’s other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Conan Properties International. Conan the Barbarian stories authored by Robert E. Howard have been in the public domain since 2006.
Savage Sword of Conan #43 (c)1979 Marvel Comics
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