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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dykstrav" data-source="post: 5708288" data-attributes="member: 40522">I've always enjoyed the pseudo-historical implications of the Hyborian Age myself. That's also one of the things that I've enjoyed about the various World of Darkness games.Maybe it's slightly off-topic, but it's fresh in my mind because of the recent release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Vampire: the Masquerade. In my version of the World of Darkness, I assume that the Hyborian Age happened.The antediluvians actually existed in ancient Hyboria, and while not the literal rulers, were mighty creatures thought to be demigods or perhaps powerful sorcerers. The Setite antediluvian was in Stygia, the Ventrue antediluvian made its haven in Aquilonia, the Tzimisce antediluvian was in Brythunia, and so forth. I was always careful to give them proper names with no ties to the clan names in order to preserve a bit of the mystery for my players... "Lobod" was the Salubri antediluvian, and "Katathardes" was the Ventrue antediluvian, for example.Caine, the First City and all of that happened during the Thurian Age. In the Hyborian Age, the antediluvians believed that Caine (known then as "Heiyinn") would eventually grow lonely and return to the world of men, and this was the first stirrings of Gehenna mythology. They were largely divided into three camps: those that wanted to present themselves as vassals to Caine in a vast, supreme empire (lead by the Ventrue antediluvian), those that wanted to strengthen themselves to defeat Caine and were fiercely independent (lead nominally by the Tzimisce antediluvian), and those that wanted to atone for their condition (officially lead by the Salubri antediluvian, although often debated as between the Cappadocian, Malkavian, and Salubri antediluvians). Through this, I wanted to showcase the first stirrings of sect conflict and the Jyhad, as well as the major vampire philosophies.In World of Darkness games that I've ran, I've occasionally hinted at things that occurred during the Hyborian Age. For example, a Tremere sees ancient artifacts from a temple of Mitra in an elder's haven, or a Malkavian finds a fragment of the Book of Nod that's traced to an unidentified ancient language (from Shem and Stygia), but he's inexplicably able to translate it while in a trance.Sorry if this was a bit off-topic, I just thought I'd share. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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