" The Hyborian Age " is an essay by Robert E. Howard pertaining to the Hyborian Age , the fictional setting of his stories about Conan the Cimmerian . It was written in the 1930s but not published during Howard's lifetime. Its purpose was to maintain consistency within his fictional setting. Howard opens the essay stating "When I began writing the Conan stories a few years ago, I prepared this 'history' of his age and the peoples of that age, in order to lend him and his sagas a greater aspect of realness."
12-543: The essay sets out in detail the major events of Howard's fictional prehistory, both period before and after the time of the Conan stories. In describing the cataclysmic end of the Thurian Age, the period described in his Kull stories, Howard links both sequences of stories into one shared universe . The names he gives his various nations and peoples of the age borrow liberally from actual history and myth. The essay also sets out
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60-611: A semi-historical essay entitled "Acheron – A Revisionary Theory", emulating the style of Howard's The Hyborian Age , tracing systematically the history of Acheron and integrating it within the data provided in Howard's essay. The Hyborian Age was also the name of a fanzine published in the 1930s. The essay has been published as follows: An illustrated adaptation was made in Savage Sword of Conan running through issues #7, #8, #12, #15, #16, #17. cataclysmic From Misplaced Pages,
72-557: The Roman legions , while " The Haunter of the Ring ", set in the modern age, makes use of a Hyborian artifact. An unnamed Howard fragment published by Glenn Lord features two grave robbers , Allison and Brill, who discover in the Egyptian desert a structure older and different from anything they encountered before. Brill proposes that the structure is Stygian rather than Egyptian, and starts recounting
84-684: The 💕 (Redirected from Cataclysmic ) [REDACTED] Look up cataclysm or cataclysmic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cataclysm is derived from the Greek katá ( κατά ), 'down, against', and klyzō ( κλύζω ), 'wash over, surge'. It may refer to: Common meanings [ edit ] Generally, any large-scale disaster Deluge (mythology) Doomsday event, see hypothetical risks to civilization, humans, and planet Earth A catastrophic natural event: List of geological phenomena earthquake ,
96-579: The grave robbers frame story . Howard's story " Men of the Shadows " includes a long historical narrative, similar in style to "The Hyborian Age" but different in detail. The Hour of the Dragon , the only Conan novel authored by Howard, expands upon the history of the world presented in this essay by introducing a new ancient empire called Acheron that had ruled the Hyborian kingdoms in the past. Robert Yaple wrote
108-573: The history of Stygia in nearly identical words to those used in The Hyborian Age – but making no mention of the Hyborian kingdoms to the north of Stygia. Brill's source for the information is the Unaussprechliche Kulte (also known as Nameless Cults ), a fictional work of Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature , cited in other Howard stories. This historical exposition seems an earlier draft, which Howard later extended greatly and dropped
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132-496: The racial and geographical heritage of these fictional entities, making them progenitors of modern nations. For example, Howard makes the Gaels descendants of his own Cimmerians . In addition to its use as underpinning to his Kull and Conan stories, Howard drew on his invented prehistory in tales with later settings. For instance, "Kings of the Night" brings King Kull forward in time to fight
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