Mordec slid forward through the forest with the speed and silence that marked the true barbarian.

I had never in my entire life thought of myself as a coward-until the moment I had first been taught what a true barbarian was like.

If we let that happen, we would be the true barbarians!

What a true barbarian the man was!

For a true barbarian, perhaps, but for civilized people to play at being barbarians is decadence.

Or condemning themselves and their immediate children to true barbarian or low-tech lives?

They understood those barbarians, true.

He is left alone, wondering even more about who the true barbarians are.

She was a true "barbarian", and still at times felt more "comfortable" in buckskin than in a silken gown!

Urgum is the main character in the series, and the last of the true barbarians.