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<blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6520401" data-attributes="member: 92305"><p>Just FYI, Conan's Hyborian Age is officially part of H.P. Lovecraft's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu" target="_blank">Cthulhu mythos</a>. If you grab one of those RPG core books, you'll see a timeline (I've been told--I don't own any Cthulhu stuff) showing the ages of Earth past to the modern day (to about the 1920's or so). Someone more familiar with Cthulhu will know more.</p><p></p><p>And, I'm not sure how much you know about Conan's Hyborian Age, but maybe this will be helpful if you don't know it:</p><p></p><p>-- The Hyborian Age is a period of about 400 years in a time about 10,000 years or so ago, back when the world looked different. It's called the "Hyborian Age" because the ethnic group called the "Hyborians" populate the most advanced kingdoms of the time. Calling them "Hyborians" is akin to calling those in Europe "Europeans". They consist of many different populations of different countries, speaking different languages, and they will, in fact, one day grow into modern day Eurpoeans.</p><p></p><p>They are called Hyborians because the original racial stock came from the north, in the form of barbarians, that laid waste to the land and built anew the foundations for the modern day (in Conan's time) Kingdoms--this is not unlike Rome falling to the barbarians in the future. Those barbarains worshiped a god named "Bori", and thus they were called Hyborians. The Hyperboreans are one of the many Hyborian races. During Conan's time, the god Bori is all but forgotten among his people. Most Hyborians now worship Mitra, but there are several other gods worshiped throughout the many Hyborian kingdoms.</p><p></p><p>Conan is not a Hyborian. Most Hyborians are cultured and enjoy a higher technology level than most other races (though not those from Khitai....which will become Asia/China).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If interested, the link I provided above goes to an Amazon page where it is for sell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Water Bob, post: 6520401, member: 92305"] Just FYI, Conan's Hyborian Age is officially part of H.P. Lovecraft's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu"]Cthulhu mythos[/URL]. If you grab one of those RPG core books, you'll see a timeline (I've been told--I don't own any Cthulhu stuff) showing the ages of Earth past to the modern day (to about the 1920's or so). Someone more familiar with Cthulhu will know more. And, I'm not sure how much you know about Conan's Hyborian Age, but maybe this will be helpful if you don't know it: -- The Hyborian Age is a period of about 400 years in a time about 10,000 years or so ago, back when the world looked different. It's called the "Hyborian Age" because the ethnic group called the "Hyborians" populate the most advanced kingdoms of the time. Calling them "Hyborians" is akin to calling those in Europe "Europeans". They consist of many different populations of different countries, speaking different languages, and they will, in fact, one day grow into modern day Eurpoeans. They are called Hyborians because the original racial stock came from the north, in the form of barbarians, that laid waste to the land and built anew the foundations for the modern day (in Conan's time) Kingdoms--this is not unlike Rome falling to the barbarians in the future. Those barbarains worshiped a god named "Bori", and thus they were called Hyborians. The Hyperboreans are one of the many Hyborian races. During Conan's time, the god Bori is all but forgotten among his people. Most Hyborians now worship Mitra, but there are several other gods worshiped throughout the many Hyborian kingdoms. Conan is not a Hyborian. Most Hyborians are cultured and enjoy a higher technology level than most other races (though not those from Khitai....which will become Asia/China). If interested, the link I provided above goes to an Amazon page where it is for sell. [/QUOTE]
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