Conan, also labeled Old Conan

Conan is the hero the store, the fact sheet, and the official key art all put first. A Steam store screenshot goes further and labels his dialogue portrait Old Conan: long grey hair, a horned helm, layered armor, and a sword, standing in a dark organic hall. He reacts to the stonework around him. That label matches the press demo description of an older Conan who has stepped down from the throne of Aquilonia and followed whispers toward what might be a last adventure. The Aquilonia biography is from that press demo, not from a sentence on the Steam about-text. Use it as the version they showed, and expect the writing to keep moving before 2027.

What he is shown doing

The library art is the younger, bare-chested Conan in front of a burning triangle, necklace on, sword low. The screenshot portrait is the older armored man. Both are official images. The game has not published a switch between them, so do not assume two separate player characters. One reading that fits the title Old Conan is a single hero seen across the pyramid's broken timeline. That reading is an inference from the images, not a developer sentence.

In the press demo he was shown on a two-handed weapon and later with sword and shield, including a block and a shield charge. The team also mentioned two-handed maces and throwing weapons as part of the wider kit talk. Those are Warrior Memories or the press name Veils, not five different Conans. Sources disagree on the loadout name. They do not disagree that Conan is the hero in the footage.

How to play him once you can

The store's combat sentence is the one to practice in your head: dodge, time a parry to stagger, then choose the execution. The press demo added a three-hit string, a charged area attack, and a bar that fills toward the execution, plus dismemberment. None of that is a Conan-only combo list. It is the shared combat model the demo used while he was on screen. Bring dice into the plan, because the loot push is how a run gets him a better weapon before the next layer.

Whether he is the right wishlist

If you want the barbarian, yes. He is the one hero nobody is delaying in print. The fact sheet's five-hero line includes him. The press demo says he is the launch character. Solomon Kane and Dark Agnes are the ones with a timing dispute. For a co-op partner, read co-op and assume you may be pairing two Conans, or Conan plus a later hero, until the roster date is settled.

Verdict: Wishlist for Conan with confidence. Call him Old Conan when you mean the portrait the store already labeled. Do not treat the Aquilonia retirement as locked lore until it is in the game's own text.

How Conan compares with other heroes

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