Hyborian Age
The Hyborian Age was a specific epoch of Earth's pre-history. Conan the Barbarian (created by Robert E. Howard) lived in this period. It antedates the Thurian Age of the Kull stories.
Most of the Hyborian Age is dominated by civilizations in the west of what remains of the continent of Thuria.
Dominant kingdoms
After several thousand years the leftover savage tribes of the Thurian Age slowly reformed into a host of new kingdoms. Around these lie the farther and more exotic kingdoms of the Northern Barbarians, the Eastern tribes, and the far Southern kingdom of Sygia.
The main Western kingdoms are:
Combinations of these and the outer Kingdoms formed the basis for the historical human races after the glacial ages forced changes in the society and geography of the world.
Outer Kingdoms
Around these Western Kingdoms sit several outer Kingdoms nearby or separated from them by inhospitable lands.
To the East:
To the South East
Far to the South:
Barbarian Kingdoms
To the North are several barbarian societies, loosely forming kingdoms and tribes.
The Nordheim descended from Artic savages form the Vanir of Vamaheim, and the Aesir of Asgard
In a more collected fashion the ancestors of the Atlanteans form a kingdom to the south of Vanaheim and Asgard as the Cimmerians, of whom Conan was the most famous.
To the West of Cimmeria and Aquilonia lies the Pictish Wilderness. The loose tribes of the Picts are barely held back by the Bossanian peoples who are a minor part of the Aquilonians.
History
The Hyborian Age has a long history of conquests and wars between its multitude of kingdoms. As it was forming the Hyborian and Aquilonian kingdoms formed the most powerful regions. Later Pictish unity overthrew Aquilonia while an invasion from the far Eastern kingdom of Hyrkania split the western kingdoms from the south.
The Picts and Hyrkanians formed two massive empires facing each other leading to a period of relative peaceful development if not actual peace. This was changed when an invasion came from the less civilized Aesir.
Around this time the migration of the glaciers began forcing drastic changes and the Hyborian Age began its slide into myth.
Appearances
- Robert E. Howard - The Hyborian Age (1936)
