The comics are NOT lore friendly.

This is also directly lifted from a scene from the Robert E. Howard story “Queen of the Black Coast”, which does not have Valeria in it at all (in fact, Valeria only shows up in Red Nails, and she lives.). It is Belit who dies in that story and comes back in such a manner to save Conan, but this has absolutely nothing to do with Crom what so ever.

The headlong rush of the winged one had not wavered. It towered over the prostrate Cimmerian like a black shadow, arms thrown wide—a glimmer of white flashed between it and its victim.
In one mad instant she was there—a tense white shape, vibrant with love fierce as a she-panther’s. The dazed Cimmerian saw between him and the onrushing death, her lithe figure, shimmering like ivory beneath the moon; he saw the blaze of her dark eyes, the thick cluster of her burnished hair; her bosom heaved, her red lips were parted, she cried out sharp and ringing as the ring of steel as she thrust at the winged monster’s breast.
“Bêlit!” screamed Conan. She flashed a quick glance at him, and in her dark eyes he saw her love flaming, a naked elemental thing of raw fire and molten lava. Then she was gone, and the Cimmerian saw only the winged fiend which had staggered back in unwonted fear, arms lifted as if to fend off attack. And he knew that Bêlit in truth lay on her pyre on the Tigress’s deck. In his ears rang her passionate cry: “Were I still in death and you fighting for life I would come back from the abyss—”

But they just took it and adapted it to fit Valeria and tossed it into the movie anyway. But again, it was HER promise to him and not the will of any “god” that brought her back in the short story, and in the movie alike.

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