Wadai:---a black nation. (Shadows in Zamboula)

Wadim:---an accursed tribe of the desert south of Zamboula. They were once a mighty people, but in the space of five generations became extinct, wiped out by the Stygians. (Conan and the Amazon)

Wakla, Fort:---a Turanian outpost in the Zuagir desert country. The chronicler speaks of it lying "in the southwestern marches of Turan", but this must be understood as referring to the early boundary of that nation. Wakla is obviously on the main east-west caravan route, and more or less between Khoraja and Aghrapur. Caravans headed south and east are presumed to have taken the cutoff via Vezek toll post. (Return of Conan)

Walkh:---a pre-Atlantean empire, it was ruled by wizard-kings. (Conan the Bold)

Wamadzi:---a hunting tribe of the remote eastern Himelians, along the route to Khitai.(Return of Conan)

Wan Tengri:---a city presumed to lie near Lake Ho in Khitai. (Conan the Barbarian #32, "Flame Winds of Lost Khitai", by Roy Thomas)

Waputan:---in an obscure Puntish dialect, this is the name of the south fork of the River Styx. It also means "water". (Lord of the Black River)

Warhorse River:---a minor watercourse in Westermarck, presumed to be a tributary of Black River. Fort Thandara stands on its banks. (Wolves Beyond the Border)

Warrior, Cave of the:---the man-made cavern containing the inanimate statue of a mighty warrior is located in Snake Pict lands in the Pictish Wilderness. The cave and statue were created by a race of ancient serpent-men and lie to the south of Lysenius's Caves. (Conan at the Demon's Gate)

Warrior-Sisters, Tribe of:---far to the northeast (of Brythunia) in steppe country dwelt a tribe of savage women warriors. Achilea was their queen before she fled into exile with the wilderness sisters. They tolerated no men or male children among them. At age fifteen, all girls are taken out into the northern hills and left to their own devices. One year later, all the survivors are gathered up and become members of the tribe. Monardos called them Amazons, though the word was unfamiliar to them. (Conan and the Amazon)

Waste, The:---a barren, desolate desert in eastern Shem, the dusty red valley appears to be the bed of an ancient dead sea. It stretches dead flat from the near vertical base of the Desperation Mountains, to the scarified jaws that sustain Zhafur's Fangs, to the crumbling Blood of Attlos peaks. Across the waste, shards and monoliths lie scattered like toy idols. At the base of the Desperation chain is an oasis called Tal'ib, the "City in the Waste". (Conan the Outcast)

Watambi:---a tribe of the Black Coast that live next to a large river south of the Zarkheba. (Conan the Barbarian #60, "Riders of the River-Dragons", by Roy Thomas)

Watambi River:---a large watercourse on the Black Coast, it is the first major river to be found south of the Zarkheba. (Conan the Barbarian #60, "Riders of the River-Dragons", by Roy Thomas)

Wazuli:---a mountain tribe of the Himelians, living near the Zhaibar Pass. There is some confusion as to their territory; but their villages, Khurum and Jugra, are east of Afghulistan. The Galzai live between the Wazuli and the Afghuli. The Zhaibari are hereditary enemies of the Wazuli. (People of the Black Circle)

Well of Peace:---a Turanian village that lies low in the foothills of the Ilbars Mountain range, southeast of Fort Zheman. (Conan the Valiant)

Westermarck:---a western region of frontier Aquilonia, beyond the Bossonian Marches, situated between the Black and Thunder Rivers adjacent to Pictish lands. The Pict tribes in the region had considerable intercourse with the Aquilonian settlers, but there nevertheless existed an almost constant state of war between the aborigines and the newcomers. The perilous Westermarck was settled because the great lords had sequestered good farmland in the interior of Aquilonia as hunting preserves. Howard describes the terrain of Westermarck more completely than any other region of Aquilonia-- in Wolves Beyond the Border and in his "Notes on Various Peoples". The largest, richest, and most thickly settled of the Westermarck provinces was Conawaga. North of it was Oriskonie and south of it was Schohira, which was devastated by the Picts. South of the Little Wilderness below Schohira was the free province of Thandara, the only region in the Westermarck not sponsored by Aquilonian barons. A fifth province of the Westermarck, Conajohara, had to be abandoned because of Pictish raids. (Wolves Beyond the Border)

Western Ocean:---the sea west of the world-continent. (Queen of the Black Coast, Gem in the Tower, Pool of the Black One, Conan the Buccaneer, Treasure of Tranicos, Conan of the Isles, et al.)

Western Pass:---a low, direct, and virtually unused pass through the Karpash Mountains, from Corinthia to Ophir. It is considered by superstitious locals to be haunted and generally unhealthy. There are the remnants of an ancient temple belonging to the demon-god Kthantos located on the south side of the pass. (Conan the Great)

Wiccana, Sacred Grove of:---eldest of the sacred oak groves of Brythunia, it is located near the Zamoran border. (Conan the Magnificent)

Wigur:---an aboriginal tribe dwelling in the deep interior of Hyrkania. They were short, bandy-legged, and dark with long black hair dressed in braids. The features of one Wigur shaman are described as "flat and monkeylike", painted with red and black stripes and circles. The Wigur dressed in furs and skins. The shaman wore a necklace of human teeth and conjured up visions with the aid of incense and a small drum. He had a pouch of poisonous pollen from the yellow lotus of Khitai. (Return of Conan)

Wildcat Picts:---a clan allied to the Turtle, Hawk, and Wolf Picts, having a somewhat higher level of culture than the forest tribes because of its contact with the settlers in Conawaga. (Wolves Beyond the Border)

Winged One, City of the:---a mysterious edifice on the poisonous Zarkheba River in Kush, where Bêlit died. The City of the Winged One was founded in the dim recesses of pre-history, before the Stygians developed civilization, by a race of beautiful human-like creatures. Through a series of disasters, most of the population was killed. The one that remained became the hairy, winged horror that haunted the city's ruins. (Queen of the Black Coast)

Winterhome:---a Turanian town that lies in the foothills of the northern Ilbars Mountain range below Crimson Springs. (Conan the Valiant)

Wolf Picts:---a large confederation of allied tribes living in the Pictish Wilderness. They live to the west of the Snakes, Hawks, Wildcats, and Turtles. They captured Conan and traded him westward, to the Eagle clan. (Treasure of Tranicos, Wolves Beyond the Border, Conan at the Demon's Gate, Conan and the Shaman's Curse)

Wolfraven:---a battleground in Asgard. (Frost Giant's Daughter)

Wuhuan Desert:---an extensive arid region lying west of Khitai and north of the Himelians and Talakmas. "Beyond" it lie bogs, marshes, jungles with dead cities, then plains. Conan traversed this region coming from Vendhya to Khitai, but the geography as reported in Return of Conan is anomalous and certainly not to be given much credence. If Conan skirted the desert after crossing the Talakmas, he was far to the north of true jungles (even presupposing a milder Hyborian climate). The woodlands he crossed may have been dense--but hardly of the tropical rainforest type usually designated by the word "jungle". (Return of Conan)

Wulfstan's Hall:---located up the coast from Starkad's hall in Vanaheim. (Conan the Valorous)

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10/23/98