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Bran Mak Morn is a character appearing in a series of pseudo-historical Heroic Fantasy short stories by Robert E. Howard. He is a king of Howard's idealized Picts, who lived on the British isles at the time of the Roman invasion.
Some of Howard's notes date Bran to around 100 AD. Others say around 300 AD.
The Bran Mak Morn stories are a peripheral part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Notably, Worms of the Earth mentions R'lyeh, and a draft of that story mentions Cthulhu.
Some stories here.
See also: Robert E. Howard, Conan the Barbarian, Kull.
Tropes used in Bran Mak Morn include:
- An Axe to Grind
- Cosmic Horror Story
- Deal with the Devil: Bran asks for help from the eponymous Worms of the Earth.
- Divided We Fall
- Even Evil Has Standards
- Evil Is Not Well Lit
- Go Mad from the Revelation: Titus Sulla in Worms of the Earth.
- Human Sacrifice
- Identical Grandson
- It Was a Gift
- Mad Oracle
- Mineral MacGuffin
- The Promise
- Religion of Evil
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: The eponymous beings from Worms of the Earth are humans that have degenerated into reptile-like things.
- Requisite Royal Regalia
- Royal Blood
- Talking in Your Dreams