The Hyborian Age

Between the time the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of...

  Welcome to the Hyborian Age, a time of mighty barbarians, evil sorcerers, corrupt priests, tyrannical kings and unnatural monsters. This is the first and most famous of all sword-and-sorcery worlds, the time of Conan the Cimmerian, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, yet destined one day to rule the most powerful nation of the age.   The Hyborian Age is named for the Hyborian kingdoms, the pre-eminent powers of the age, which are the most culturally and technologically advanced lands on Earth; their kings’ thrones are maintained through longbows, mail armor and feudalism. These kingdoms are more apt to make war against one another than against the real threats all around them, such as the wild Picts, the raiding Northmen, the avaricious Hyrkanian nomads and the dread sorceries of Stygia to the south.   Beyond Stygia and the plains of Shem lies the continent of Kush, a black and unknown land of jungles and deserts. Far to the east are more kingdoms, perhaps even more advanced than the Hyborian lands but little more than legend, with Vendhya and Khitai being the most prominent.