The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan the Cimmerian, #1)

by Robert E. Howard

It was useless to call on Crom, because 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.