# N'Longa — Short Fiction character guide

> N'Longa in Short Fiction by Robert E. Howard.

**Role:** supporting

**First appearance:** 0057-the-moon-of-skulls

## Snapshot

A shaman whose fetish stave rides in Solomon Kane's left hand, a diabolic gift the Puritan cannot bring himself to throw away.

## Who they are

N'Longa never walks onstage in this passage, yet his presence shapes every step Kane takes across the barren hills. The stave is a constant, troubling companion, proof of a bond between the English wanderer and a power his conscience distrusts. When Kane drops it to shoot a charging lion and rescue the girl Zunna, the moment quietly measures what he owes N'Longa against what his own code demands.

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