Conan the Barbarian, also known as Conan the Cimmerian in some stories, is the swashbuckling hero created by master of the sword-and-sorcery genre Robert E. Howard. In the story "e;Queen of the Black Coast,"e; Conan pairs up with a formidable female warrior, Belit, and attacks several villages along the Black Coast of Kush in a series of brutal raids.