‘‘ His own gods were simple and understandable. Crom was their chieftain, and he lived on a great mountain, whence he sent forth dooms and death. It was useless to call on Crom. He was a gloomy, savage god, and he hated weaklings. But he gave a man courage at birth, and the will and might to kill his enemies; which, in the Cimmerian's mind, was all any god should be expected to do… ’’
Robert E. Howard













