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Contents HistoryThe woman who came to be known as Valeria was a pirate during the. She often worked as an ally to.
Age of Conan: Valeria expands Marvel's Conan line this August with the return of a fan-favorite Robert E. Howard character, Valeria of the story. Before Robert E. Howard's Valeria became a pirate and mercenary - before she crossed paths with Conan and the Red Brotherhood - Valeria was a young woman from Aquilonia seeking justice for a crime.
Early LifeThere are conflicting accounts of her early life. Initially, on the morning she fled from and an arranged marriage to, Val told a merchant in, that the first thing she ever stole was her mother, 's, life as she brought her into the world. Her father, was a well-respected merchant who loved her in spite of her tragic birth and named her Merina after her late mother.When she was seven years of age, Daquis was tasked with brokering a trade agreement between and the city of across the in; however, he was slain by a Turanian captain for consorting with a captain known as. Her uncle renamed her Valeria and kept her on as a member of his Red Brotherhood crew for a time, teaching her how to use a blade. He eventually had a change of heart and at the age of nine he sent her back to with a vast treasure to live with Merina's brother, Clesus.Clesus unfortunately squandered Valeria's wealth on a small fleet of merchant vessels in the port city of Kordava, which were soon sacked by pirates, so in one last desperate attempt to profit off their relationship, agreed to sell young Val to Dom Delaris, the wealthiest man in the city, in exchange for a chest full of precious stones.
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