The is the First of many women born through fury and deceit in the Age of Conan as depicted and written by Robert E. Howard.

 

Know also, O prince, that in those self-same days that Conan the Cimmerian did stalk the Hyborian Kingdoms, one of the few swords worthy to cross with his was that of Red Sonja, warrior woman out of majestic Hyrkania. Forced to flee her homeland and because she spurned the advances of a king and slew him instead, she rode west across the Turanian Steppes and into the shadowed mists of the legendary.

 

- The Nemedian Chronicles