Ron Perlman credited as playing...
Corin
- Corin: When a Cimmerian feels thirst, it is a thirst for blood. When he feels cold, it is the cold edge of steel. For the courage of a Cimmerian is tempered: he neither fears death... nor rushes foolishly to meet it. To be a Cimmerian warrior, you must have both cunning and balance as well as speed and strength.
- Corin: What is most important when making a sword, fire or ice?
- Young Conan: Fire.
- [Corin looks at Young Conan with some disbelief]
- Young Conan: [pause] ... Ice?
- Corin: Are you sure?
- [pause; then Corin strikes the anvil with a newly-forged sword which breaks]
- Corin: Fire... and ice. That is the mystery of steel.
- Corin: [Corin has just put an egg in each of the student's mouths, except Young Conan's, in preparation for a test] The first to circle the hills and return, the egg unbroken, earns the right to fight with the warriors.
- [Sends the students on the way as a Young Conan is looking disappointed]
- Corin: Oh, by Crom, boy. What are you waiting for?
- [Gives Young Conan an egg as he rushes on his way]
- [last lines]
- Corin: [Conan remembering his father's words] The sword we make will be yours one day. But before you wield it, you must first understand it.
- Corin: Come. Time to forge a blade. This sword we make will be yours one day. But before you wield it, you must understand it. The sword must bend or it will break. It must be tempered.