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<blockquote data-quote="argo" data-source="post: 1969785" data-attributes="member: 5752"><p>Except it is not all one continent, or rather it is one really big continent. Go to that website linked above and look for the "maps" section. One of REH's conciets when writing the conan stories is that the Hyborian age actually existed on our earth in a time before recorded history and that the shape of the continents was changed in a cataclysm event that brought an end to the Hyborian age. Aquilonia is located where France will one day be, Khitai is located on the other side of the world where China will one day be, Vhendya is on the other side of high mountains where India will one day be and Stygia is in proto-africa where Egypt will one day be. Its all rather transparent actually.</p><p></p><p>Of course that is not to say that it all makes sense. Quite the opposite actually. REH was a pulp swords 'n sorcery writer. Aquilonia resembles late-medvil france with 14th century tech because Howard wanted to do some knights-in-armor stories. Then one day he felt like writing some cowboys and indians stories except his editor wouldn't buy anything that didn't feature Conan so REH droped Pictland next door to france and had his moody barbarian put on some buckskin breeches and go kill some redskins. For most of us the "whatever you feel like today" flavor of the Hyborian age is part of the charm.</p><p></p><p>Personally I love Conan and can't say enough good things about it. If you are woried about the cost then maybe waiting for the bargin-basement pocket edition is a wise move but I can say that the core Conan book is a very nice book with full-color art and good print quality that justifies the price tag. Try reading some more of the origional stories and check out the info on the Hyborian age in the website above but I hope that you will soon be another faithful Conan convert. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>Later.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="argo, post: 1969785, member: 5752"] Except it is not all one continent, or rather it is one really big continent. Go to that website linked above and look for the "maps" section. One of REH's conciets when writing the conan stories is that the Hyborian age actually existed on our earth in a time before recorded history and that the shape of the continents was changed in a cataclysm event that brought an end to the Hyborian age. Aquilonia is located where France will one day be, Khitai is located on the other side of the world where China will one day be, Vhendya is on the other side of high mountains where India will one day be and Stygia is in proto-africa where Egypt will one day be. Its all rather transparent actually. Of course that is not to say that it all makes sense. Quite the opposite actually. REH was a pulp swords 'n sorcery writer. Aquilonia resembles late-medvil france with 14th century tech because Howard wanted to do some knights-in-armor stories. Then one day he felt like writing some cowboys and indians stories except his editor wouldn't buy anything that didn't feature Conan so REH droped Pictland next door to france and had his moody barbarian put on some buckskin breeches and go kill some redskins. For most of us the "whatever you feel like today" flavor of the Hyborian age is part of the charm. Personally I love Conan and can't say enough good things about it. If you are woried about the cost then maybe waiting for the bargin-basement pocket edition is a wise move but I can say that the core Conan book is a very nice book with full-color art and good print quality that justifies the price tag. Try reading some more of the origional stories and check out the info on the Hyborian age in the website above but I hope that you will soon be another faithful Conan convert. ;) Later. [/QUOTE]
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