Melcer

Melcer was a Gunderman farmer who settled in land which the Aquilonian Empire had recently conquered from Cimmeria. A native boy named Conan formed a cordial, neighborly relationship with Melcer, but insisted that the two were enemies. Nevertheless, when the Cimmerian uprising came to Melcer's farm, Conan spared Melcer's life on the condition that the farmer leave Cimmeria and never return. On his way back to territory the Empire still controlled, Melcer avoided the towns, where he would be pressed into military service and sent back to Cimmeria in spite of his promise to Conan. Eventually, he was caught by impressers, but far south enough that he was assigned duty defending Gunderland, which did not take him to Cimmeria. As it happened, Conan was in a Cimmerian raiding party which came to loot the region Melcer was guarding. The two met again on the battlefield, and refused to fight each other. Melcer never saw Conan again, but always remembered him.