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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6251964" data-attributes="member: 92305">With regard to the Hyborian Age during the time of Conan the Barbarian....I'm wondering about the things we don't normally associate with Cimmeria actually being in Conan's homeland. It's easy to picture a vast, mountainous, grey land, unforgiving, deadly, sparsely populated by hardended warriors wearing leather studded with iron, sporting captured weapons of steel, living in wattle and daub huts and primitive villages.But, is all of Cimmeria like that?It can't be.The Rule of Life dictates variety and things we don't expect.How common is chain mail? It is easy to obtain in any Cimmerian village? Do most Cimmerian warriors wear it?What about stone-cutting? Are there giant rocks in Cimmeria--even mountain faces or cave entrances--that feature the work of master stone masons?How about forts? Do Cimmerians build them? Outposts? And, if they do, are these places made entirely of wood, like the Aquilonian outposts in the Westermarch? Or, are they stone built, like that the Cimmerians have seen across the mountains in Hyperborea and Brythunia?Is all of Cimmerian land claimed by this clan or that? Or, are there large stretches of no-man's-land wilderness?Do all Cimmerians belong in a clan? What about the clanless?I would think that there are no roads in Cimmeria beyond a dirt trail, but what about finding the occasional independent tavern, where a brewer set up shop to trade with those who venture on the road?What is trade like in Cimmeria? How wide-spread is it? Are the clans self sufficient? Or, do they have a rudimentary trade situation with their neighbors, when they are not raiding them?How often would you find a non-Cimmerian living among Cimmerians? A Khitian sorcerer, looking for a lost Atlantean artifact. A Brythunian trader exporting Cimmerian made leather goods back home?Sure, the clans raid amongst themselves and over the borders of Cimmeria, but are there Cimmerian equivalents to bandit clans, like the Zuagir or the Khozaki?And, how much difference can you expect the Cimmerian clans to be? Are they all pretty much like Conan? Or do we encounter Cimmerians that are backward, feral, almost like Picts? Or, even more advanced Cimmerians, living in near-cities at the mouth of a gold mine?What are your thoughts about Cimmeria--not the stereotype, but the place, if it were real?</blockquote>

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