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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8349623" data-attributes="member: 6796468">VERY Accurate.And it's all based in Howard's childhood in Boom n' Bust Texas. Town springs up when someone strikes oil, everyone starts making and spending big piles of cash, in comes drugs and prostitution and booze, and as soon as the well runs dry the town collapses in on itself. Empty houses, empty buildings, rotting in the wasteland of what was.But.While Conan's actions would be lost to history, like the entire actions of Aquilonia over it's existence, or Cimmeria, or Stygia, as each one rises and then falls to literal degeneration. (It was canonical that the different Races of Men would evolve from apes and yeti and such, build huge sprawling kingdoms, succumb to decadence, get largely wiped out, and again become ape-like things until they evolved, again!) Conan's actions -were- meaningful in the long run.Because while they would be forgotten, he still defeated Gods, like Zath. Gods whose influence spans beyond the years of men or their cultures. Had Zath not been killed it might still plague us to this day... Like Lovecraft's gods still do, many of which existed in Conan's era.Because even the existentialism of Conan winds up bowing to Sprague's desire to lionize a Hero.You can read about the de-evolution and re-evolution in Howard's Essay: The Hyborian Age here:[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42182/42182-h/42182-h.htm[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8349623, member: 6796468"] VERY Accurate. And it's all based in Howard's childhood in Boom n' Bust Texas. Town springs up when someone strikes oil, everyone starts making and spending big piles of cash, in comes drugs and prostitution and booze, and as soon as the well runs dry the town collapses in on itself. Empty houses, empty buildings, rotting in the wasteland of what was. But. While Conan's actions would be lost to history, like the entire actions of Aquilonia over it's existence, or Cimmeria, or Stygia, as each one rises and then falls to literal degeneration. (It was canonical that the different Races of Men would evolve from apes and yeti and such, build huge sprawling kingdoms, succumb to decadence, get largely wiped out, and again become ape-like things until they evolved, again!) Conan's actions -were- meaningful in the long run. Because while they would be forgotten, he still defeated Gods, like Zath. Gods whose influence spans beyond the years of men or their cultures. Had Zath not been killed it might still plague us to this day... Like Lovecraft's gods still do, many of which existed in Conan's era. Because even the existentialism of Conan winds up bowing to Sprague's desire to lionize a Hero. You can read about the de-evolution and re-evolution in Howard's Essay: [I]The Hyborian Age [/I]here: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42182/42182-h/42182-h.htm[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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