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Gruesome animated barbarian show from 2006 (like an animated Conan the Barbarian)
That would be Korgoth of Barbaria, an animated pilot that was not picked up. It aired in the summer of 2006.
Per Wikipedia:
Korgoth is infected with a deadly parasite by Gog-Ma-Gogg and extorted ...
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Gruesome animated barbarian show from 2006 (like an animated Conan the Barbarian)
As correctly identified in this answer, the show was indeed Korgoth of Barbaria (NSFW). The 22 minute pilot episode aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on Saturday, June 3, 2006 at 11:30 PM CST, ...
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Fantasy novel where a woman (believing herself to be under threat) tells a man: "Keep back! Or I'll kill myself, and you too."
The King Beyond the Gate, one of the books in David Gemmell's Drenai saga. The character Tenaka is remembering his beloved wife Illae (now dead) whom he originally bought as a slave:
Beautiful Illae, ...
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Film with a wizard and a cyclops?
This is Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985).
Simon, son of the wizard, must flee when the empire is overthrown by the evil Shurka. Schooled in the arts of magic, he must find the Ring of Magic and the ...
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Sword and sorcery short story with a wizard carrying an infant in a backpack that actually is a parasite
Sounds like a chapter from the series Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson, specifically from book 2 of the Second Chronicles, The One Tree. From its Wikipedia page:
Covenant and ...
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"Lady, my need is upon me."
It's from that literary masterwork the Gor series. Specifically Beasts of Gor:
“Forgive me, Lady,” said I, “but my need is much upon me.”
The two slave girls, bare-armed and veiled, quickly glanced ...
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Sword-and-sorcery flick from the 80s with a magic scarf that saves the hero's life
This may be Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 1984 adaptation of the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Gawain rides out to meet the Knight. He has ...
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A Conan the Barbarian story about a city in which everyone is constantly high with some kind of lotus
The city of Xuthal is mentioned in The Slithering Shadow. Apparently its inhabitants are a bunch of lotus-addicted druggies.
"This city is called Xuthal; it is very ancient. It is built over an
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1980s or earlier fantasy novel series, female warrior main character
Sounds very much like an old sword-and-sorcery paperback I have in my collection, but I haven't looked through it in ages. It's the first volume of a series of five about the same lead character. ...
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Book with an Egyptian hunchback demi-god
After a long time looking, remembering that it was a Daw title was the clue I needed.
After posting I looked through a long list of every Daw title out there, starting with the first ones in 1971.
The ...
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Are there any examples of feminist works in the Sword and Sorcery genre?
This article lists quite a few sword-and-sorcery books that the author viewed as feminist1:
The Birthgrave by Tanith Lee (1975) along with two sequels
This world has an early medieval culture with ...
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A short story that was a "Conan the Barbarian" parody -- kill the sorcerer Reh, "rescue" the princess
I'm sure this is Andrew Offutt's "The Black Sorcerer of the Black Castle", published in the 1974 anthology Cosmic Laughter according to the ISFDB listing here. I don't have a copy on me to ...
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Arthurian legend style story with future knowledge of science and chemistry
Merlin's Mistake (1970) by Robert Newman.
It was published a few years before the time you said you read the book in question, is set during the medieval period, and according to this review, Merlin ...
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20th century fantasy story with protagonist at the court of a child empress
It's possible this is the first story from Samuel R. Delany's collection Tales of Nevèrÿon. If so the child empress' name is Ynelgo and the youth's name is Gorgik.
The story The Tale of Gorgik is ...
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Please help identify a short Sword and Sorcery story about a city of torturers
This is The Isle of the Torturers by Clark Ashton Smith. Exact plot match.
It was originally published in Weird Tales and is one of his 'Zothique' stories, which explains why you might remember it ...
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Low-budget fantasy movie scene where a sorcerer's apprentice creates a banana but has no idea what it is
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II (1989).
The aging and incompetent wizard Caedmon is tasked by Grand-Wizard Vanir with training the young farmhand Tyor in the ways of magic, as he is the Chosen One, ...
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Fantasy novel identification - greasy smoke precedes death
That's from Hugh Cook's The Wizards and the Warriors, first book of the Chronicles of An Age of Darkness. The man in question was Blackwood, a hunter. He contracted the smoke-sickness while ...
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Fantasy novel about a medieval society formed by the descendants of human colonists, on a planet that brings their nightmares to life
I believe you're referring to The Coldfire Trilogy of books by Celia S. Friedman, published from 1991-1995.
Black Sun Rising (1991)
When True Night Falls (1993)
Crown of Shadows (1995)
A synopsis ...
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Fantasy novel starring shaman-swordswoman, last of murdered clan
Lynn Abbey: Daughter of the Bright Moon and The Black Flame
The heroine's name is Rifkind, not Rivka, and the second book is called The Black Flame rather than The Black Tower, but otherwise, ...
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Help ID a book about an incomplete/truncated sword, possibly due to dimensional or time-travel
Found it! Lyrec by Gregory Frost.
Lyrec and Borregad–two interdimensional travelers on a quest to hunt down and destroy the creature named Miradomon, who bestrides whole worlds and drinks the life of ...
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80s(?) Fantasy Novel. Character is recording every moment of his life. Including stepping over a dying man
This sounds to me like the Dragonlance legends trilogy, specifically the last book of that trilogy Test of the Twins.
The man recording everything that happens would be Astinus of Palanthas, during ...
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Manhwa about a young girl who is reborn with reddish orange hair in a romance harem game as the female lead's best friend
Is this I Don't Want to Be an Ojakgyo...?
I was reincarnated as a supporting character in a novel. And on top of that, I had the role of a ‘magpie bridge’ inside the romance story <Hestia’s Boys&...
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Comic book with color coded realms
Found it, after going to national library and physically searching through front pages of around 200 issues of the magazine I read it in. As in, microfilm machine, not digital scans. I mean, bloody ...
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Looking for title or author of a fantasy novel with large, tusked goat-like creatures as mounts
Off chance that it was Doris Piserchia's "Star Rider" (1974)?
From a review by Ian Sales:
The novel breaks down more or less into three sections which, while
they may share the same cast ...
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Are there any examples of feminist works in the Sword and Sorcery genre?
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett, part of the Discworld series. The introduction says:
It may, however, help to explain why Gandalf never got married and why Merlin was a man. Because this is also a ...
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A Conan the Barbarian story about a city in which everyone is constantly high with some kind of lotus
For posterity, I wanted to note that there is another Conan story by R. E. Howard that also features a sleeping, drugged city ruled by an evil monstrosity (which Conan explores along with a woman): "...
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Fantasy book where a sword is imbued with rune magic
I'm not 100% sure, but could it be Kingmaker's Sword?
The Skai and the Tyr were one people long ago. But that day is lost in the mists of time. And now the Skai have sent a warrior to find the Rune ...
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Anime with students who can draw power from their "past lives"
Googling for "past life weapon anime" I found Seiken Tsukai no World Break. Description matches yours.
Those are the main heroes:
And this is the opening sequence:
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Fantasy book where a sword is imbued with rune magic
I've no doubt you've long since found the book you're looking for, but I'm almost certain it's the The Darkweaver Legacy quartet by Mark Robson, the first in the series being The Forging of the Sword.
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Fantasy comic where someone gets smothered by a thorny vine plant late 70s early 80s
"Voltar: Comes the Endtime" was printed in Warren Publications' The Rook #2 and The Rook #3
The rulers of the goblins show up, Nazgul style. Magog, a black knight, rallies his forces. ...
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