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extraordinary-heroes · 7 months

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Mike Mignola’s Drawing Monsters Documentary (Cover art by Ben Stenbeck)

#hellboy #ben stenbeck #koschel the deathless #sir edward grey #frankestein #lord baltimore #sword of hyperborea #mike mignola #mignolaverse #dark horse comics #textless cover art #artwork #illustration

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ironhawklegend · 1 year

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DruidStone by Keith Parkinson

#OSR #Hyperborea #TTRPG #sword and sorcery

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chernobog13 · 2 years

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The Sword of Hyperborea, by Mike Mignola.

#The Sword of Hyperborea #BPRD #Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense #Mike Mignola

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fantomcomics · 2 years

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What’s Out This Week? 10/12

Anything can happen on Hal-lo-ween It’s better than a vi-de-o Gremlins going to mess up every cas-sette From Lon-don to I-da-ho

Chilling Adventures Of Salem one-shot - Cullen Bunn & Dan Schoening

Salem the Cat has always been known as Sabrina's familiar, but what happens when Sabrina's not around to protect him (or, as is more the case, when he doesn't have to protect her)? This special one-shot explores a different side of Salem's life, one in which he acts as an anti-hero enacting vigilante justice on those who hurt others like him... animals, in a horror story that's equal parts Pet Sematary and Hereditary.

Black & White: Tough Love At The Office GN Vol 1 - Sal Jiang

Sparks (and fists) fly in this violent yuri love story. Shirakawa Junko is an upstanding employee of a high-level bank. Her colleagues all respectfully admire her... except for Kuroda Kayo, a colleague who's transferred to her department. Shirakawa is supposed to train Kuroda, and it does not go well. These women have a bizarre love-hate relationship that results in either violent office attacks or angry lesbian sex. When a sinister conspiracy seems to be afoot at their bank, can these two stop having bruised hate-sex on piles of documents and work together to investigate? This provocative LGBT+ drama is ready to rumble.

Approach #1 (of 5) - Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley & Jesus Hervas

When airport employees Mac and Abigail find themselves snowed in after a blizzard, they witness a terrible plane crash. After pulling a survivor from the wreckage, they realize a terrifying truth: this plane has been missing for 27 years!

The nightmare has only just begun though, as the people trapped in the airport soon find themselves confronted by what this plane actually brought back.... For those with a fear of flying... it's not the sky that deserves dread, but what lies beyond it...

DanDaDan GN Vol 1 - Yukinobu Tatsu

Momo Ayase strikes up an unusual friendship with her school's UFO fanatic, whom she nicknames "Okarun" because he has a name that is not to be said aloud. While Momo strongly believes in spirits, she thinks aliens are nothing but nonsense. Her new friend, however, thinks quite the opposite. To settle matters, the two set out to prove each other wrong-Momo to a UFO hotspot and Okarun to a haunted tunnel! What unfolds next is a beautiful story of young love...and oddly horny aliens and spirits?

Sensory: Life On The Spectrum GN - Bex Ollerton

From artist and curator Bex Ollerton comes an anthology featuring comics from thirty autistic creators about their experiences of living in a world that doesn't always understand or accept them. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum contains illustrated explorations of everything from life pre-diagnosis to tips on how to explain autism to someone who doesn't have it, to suggestions for how to soothe yourself when you're feeling overstimulated. This book depicts these varied experiences with the kind of insight that only those who have lived them can have.

She Love To Cook, & She Loves To Eat GN Vol 1 - Sakaomi Yuzaki

Cooking is how Nomoto de-stresses, but one day, she finds herself making way more than she can eat by herself. And so, she invites her neighbor Kasuga, who also lives alone. What will come out of this impromptu dinner invitation...?

Samurai 2.0 #1 (of 4) - Marcello Bondi & Mauro Gulma

The year is 21XX. World War III has devastated the planet. A foreigner arrives in the city of Neo-Tokyo. His name is Ketsuo, and he is the last remaining graffiti samurai, intent on clashing with the Emperor, who has prohibited any artform and persecutes anyone who dares to create. In the year 2022, a series from Action Lab arrives at Antarctic Press, where we dare to create!

Legacy Of Violence #1 - Cullen Bunn & Andrea Mutti

A Legacy of Violence, by masters of horror Cullen Bunn and Andrea Mutti, with letters by Rus Wooton, follows Dr. Nick Shaw; an honest doctor just trying to help people. But one day, when a patient gets out of control, Nick suddenly begins recalling past memories he had kept hidden away. That's when he decides to join Doctors Without Borders and heads straight for Central America. But his past still comes calling. With a serial killer on the loose in the small town of Disante, Honduras, Nick's flashbacks begin to intensify-and become clearer. Was Nick meant to go to Honduras? Is this all part of the killer's plan? Find out what Nick has been repressing all these years and why.

Hyperventilation GN - Bboung Bbang Kkyu

Myongi and Sunho haven't seen each other since they were 18 years old. Now 27, they run into one another at a high school reunion, and the romantic feelings they had for one another come rushing to the surface. But are they the same people now that they were back then?

Hitomi #1 (of 5) - H.S. Tak, Isabella Mazzanti & Valentina Napolitano

In Feudal Era Japan, a drifter with no prospects begins training in secret under Yasuke, a once-famous, displaced, disgraced warrior, as she struggles to find her place in a society entrenched in discrimination and violence.

Combining the historical sweep and elegance of Kurosawa with the visceral action of Tarantino, this saga follows the trials and tribulations of a young female warrior who travels the countryside unendingly as she works to gain the rank of Samurai-a title no man, monster, or myth can give to her, but one that she will have to take for herself.

Slumber TP Vol 1 - Tyler Burton Smith, Vanessa Cardinali, Simon Robins & Becky Cloonan

We all have nightmares. What if you could pay somebody to enter your dreams and shoot that nightmare in the goddamn face? That's where Stetson comes in. She's a nightmare hunter. A dream detective. She enters her clients' dreams through a door, investigates their dreamscapes, and kills their nightmares. But Stetson's past comes back to haunt her as she tracks down a nightmare serial killer responsible for the mysterious death of her daughter.

SHWD GN Vol 1 - sono.N

A slick and action-packed yuri tale about two special agent women fighting supernatural horrors! The year is 20XX. Tough but idealistic Koga has just joined the Tokyo branch of SHWD, the Special Hazardous Waste Disposal unit responsible for eradicating mysterious biological weapons that were left behind after the great war. Her mentor is Sawada, a woman with a powerful psyche who complements Koga's physical prowess. Something is sizzling between the two of them, and it's more than just a shared mission. Together, these two badass women must team up to confront horrors beyond their wildest nightmares.

The Sword Of Hyperborea HC - Mike Mignola, Rob Williams & Laurence Campbell

From the ancient warrior Gall Dennar, to Sir Edward Grey, to the B.P.R.D.'s Agent Howards, the iconic Hyperborean sword from the world of Hellboy has landed in many influential hands. And this has been no accident. Trace the sword's path through the adventures and encounters that finally brought it to Ragna Rok, at the end of the world, and witness the sword's journey through history.

Whatcha scooping up this week, Fantomites?

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legionofmyth · 1 year

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Hyperborea 3rd Edition - Combat Mechanics

🎲 At some point every character is going to need to fight to survive. Let’s take a look at the Hyperborea 3e combat mechanics. #Hyperborea3E #TabletopRPG #TTRPG #OSR #DnD

HYPERBOREA 3E – Player’s Manual – [PDF]HYPERBOREA 3E – Referee’s Manual – [PDF]At some point every character is going to need to fight to survive. Let’s take a look at the combat mechanics in Hyperborea 3E. Introducing Hyperborea 3rd Edition, a thrilling tabletop roleplaying game that will transport you to a world of sword and sorcery inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard and other pulp…

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coverpanelarchive · 2 years

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The Sword of Hyperborea #1 (2022)

#dark horse comics #the sword of hyperborea #Mike Mignola #rob williams #laurence campbell #quinton winter #clem robins #dave stewart #hellboy

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So would Conan be more of a Bronze Age setting than Medieval? I know Howard & other pastiche writers like to mix & match cultures & eras, so it's not really period accurate, but the kings Conan runs into have palaces and armies and even he seems to have more of a government as king of Aquilonia. Does it matter that Aquilonia is clearly France, Vanaheim & Asgard are Scandinavia, and Zamora is Spain etc?

It’s complicated, not just because Robert E. Howard liked to mix and match, but also because he had some very odd ideas about the cyclicality of history. If we’re going to get technical about it, Conan the Barbarian is a pre-Bronze Age setting; as the quote goes:

“Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."

This is Howard’s whole idea for the Hyborian Age: Atlantis was a real, advanced (albeit decadent) civilization, it was actually destroyed, and then mankind fell into barbarism. Gradually, new civilizations emerged and flourished and what Howard writes about as the Hyborian Age comes to pass, although it too is doomed to be destroyed in the literal biblical Flood, and then eventually what we call the Bronze Age would eventually emerge.

This is why Howard always traced his maps onto maps of the Mediterranean- in his mind, all of his stories were real history accessed through past life regression (at various times, Howard thought he was the reincarnation of Conan, and also of Celtic warriors, which he remembered in dreams) a sort of eternal palimpsest, with similar nations known by different names, various racial types existing by different names in various ages, and technologies like iron and steel rediscovered again and again.

I’m telling you, fantasy as a genre was really weird until they realized they could just make all of it up without having to tie it back to the real world.

#history #bronze age #conan the barbarian

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blood-orange-juice · 6 months

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More Narcissenkreuz lore leaks because I have zero self-control.

Mostly for myself and future reference.

The Tower of Self

"The Narzissenkreuz Ordo believes that people continuously refine themselves through samsara cycles. These include Hyperborea, Natlantean, Remuria, and the first half of the fourth samsara (Clauria), which we are presently experiencing. Please take note that these are just names given to these eras by the Ordo based on ancient texts, and this evolution refers to spiritual evolution. There is no intent here to antagonize any research results obtained by the Akademiya. The human spirit undergoes the loss of paradise, the defeat of evil dragons, the original sin and baptism, and finally, freedom from the gods."

The pocket watch, cute Alice in Wonderland references.

Sacred Chalice

"The specialized refinement material for the Sword of Narzissenkreuz. Conches were often favored materials in ancient Fontainian civilization for making ritual implements, and the sacred unguents within this conch chosen as a sanctified chalice have finally emerged. Symbolically, this chalice is the primordial word, the oils are the honed will, and the holy sword itself is reason, which breaks through all."

Holy Blade of Narcissenkreuz

A sacred blade indwelt with great enough reason and will to create and destroy a universe, or a dream.

Root Cycle

"One of the keys designed by the Narzissenkreuz Ordo for the tower. When combined, the keys form a peculiar shape of three and a half circles, for which there is a special explanation. The innermost circle is the Cycle of Hyperborea, symbolizing the age when the world was frozen and the lost paradise."

#narcissenkreuz #narcissenkreuz conspiracy #geshin lore #genshin leaks

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dwollfieldnotes · 7 months

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Gryphon

The Histories by Herodotus (430 BC)

Live near the outer edges of the world [past Scythia but not as far as Hyperborea]

Guard gold, which is abundant in their homelands, more so than any place on Earth

Have distinctive heads with hooked beaks. Common as sculptures for this reason

Life of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus (170 – 245)

They live near rocks dotted with gold, which the gryphons mine with their incredibly strong beaks

Sacred to Helios [or the Indian equivalent. The Greeks believed their gods appeared under different names and guises in foreign parts, but were universal]

Looked like lions with wings and beaks

Got the better of elephants and drakons

Not great at long flight, because they didn't have true wings, but instead the palms of their feet are webbed with red membranes, which they revolve to fly [wtf]

Cannot catch tigers, as they are too swift

On Animals by Aelian (2nd century)

An Indian animal

A quadruped like a lion with enormous claws

Winged. Some report that the wings are black in the back and red along the front. Other claim they are actually white.

Cites Ctesias, who claimed the neck feathers were dark blue

Has the head and curved beak of an eagle

Eyes are like fire

Lives in mountains

Unable to be caught, except when young

Bactrians say they build their huge nests with gold, which they dig out of the ground, and Indians collect the left-overs

The Indians deny this, saying the beasts are merely defending their nests when they come to dig for gold, as beasts have no need for it

Efficient predators, but do not throw shade at lions or elephants [contradicting Philostratus]

Live in a dreary wilderness, a year's journey away from human civilization [take into account that it took Alexander two years to get to Babylon from the Indus River]

Diurnal, as gold-hunters must work during the night to avoid their gaze

Fabulous Beasts by Peter Lum (1951)

The chariots of Jupiter, Apollo, and Nemesis were sometimes drawn by gryphons

Gryphons are especially sacred to Nemesis as birds of revenge

Hagen, a king's son of the Burgundians, was kidnapped by a gryphon. He would have been a meal for its young, but he escaped and lived in a cave where he grew up and later killed the whole brood [from the Kudrun, a Middle High German poem possibly from Austria or Bavaria composed around 1250]

12-century tale said travelers to China would hunt and skin animals. During times of danger they would hide in the skins with a sword. The skins were blown up to resemble the original animal and hermetically sealed, attracting gryphons, which constantly hovered around ships like seagulls

Gryphons would then carry the skins to their nests, whereupon the sailors burst out and slayed them

Middle Ages legends of Alexander the Great said he built a glass cage transported on the wings of 8 gryphons to travel through the air

#myth stuff #mythology #mythical creatures #mythical creature #griffin #gryphon

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felandcris · 7 months

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FELANDARIS

"I serve a queen who has never forsaken me, and who has never abandoned me; a queen who deserves me."

THE END

Elven: An elf of royal blood, he was too young to dine on ambrosia when Hyperborea fell but he studied the arcane in the clouds of Elysia. A friend of the Muses and a prodigious student of the arcane, he refused to flee from his home and fought against the incursion of the Great Old Ones across Hyperborea until the bitter end.

Drow: Awakened along with several others via Ayi'ig's dark pact with Lloth; Felandaris is one of three remaining survivors from the first age of the udadrow. Memories from his past burned an ingrained ire to propel himself into Lloth's good graces. She favoured the powerful and the cutthroat and Felandaris had no issue with either. His wings of light transformed, dark as the night and soft as velvet, the pair that sits on his back now are a shadowy reflection of what they once were.

Warp: A revenant from his childhood, made by an artisan and gifted to him by his father; the two once fought side by side for thousands of years. As Felandaris' power and mastery of sorcery grew his need for the blade lessened, undrawn since the age of conquest, Felandaris' sword has been tied to his side once more to fight beside him.

Shadowed: Those who get close enough to make out his features might make out his form, but through the shadows and mana there is little to see but violet eyes, razor sharp teeth, and the many-glinting pierces that adorn his frame. Spells are tied off seamlessly to defend him without the need to utter them, and he wears the darkness itself like a second skin and armor.

Architect: Sorcerer supreme of the udadrow, in terms of arcane knowledge Felandaris is without equal. Founder of the drow's school of magic where young drow spend three decades learning to the arcane, ambitious, powerful, and ruthless; Felandaris' pursuits will bring the legions of drow from their homes across the Underdark into the battlefield, and from there the entirety of the Otherworld.

#mirror #musing #senatus.theend #mneme

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extraordinary-heroes · 9 months

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From B.P.R.D Hell on Earth "Wasteland" (2013). Written by Mike Mignola & John Arcudi Drawn by Laurence Campbell , Colored by Dave Stewart and Lettered by Clem Robins.

#b.p.r.d.#laurence campbell #hellboy #johan kraus #sword of hyperborea #mike mignola #mignolaverse #mignolaversity #john arcudi #dave stewart #clem robins #dark horse #comics #comic panels #comic preview #ted howards

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enfenimx · 6 months

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ENFENIM

"Another day, another tragedy."

THE END

Eden: Born in the garden to the noble winter court, he fought alongside his brother in the rebellion of angels. Possessed with an immense amount of magic that's indicative of his court, it's only grown as he's matured over the years. Very accustomed to fighting seraphim no, enjoys it, and happens to be very good at it. Survived Eden's downfall and then had the immense pleasure of helping the rest of the fey rebuild for the ungrateful human race.

Cold: His mother's diadem, his father's sword, relics from Hyperborea married with new armaments of the new age. Everything that Enfenim wears screams nobility, power, and cold. The diadem amplifies the radius of his environmental manipulation while his father's blade once belonged to their house's aasimar. Snow is ceaseless in his presence, and if you're able to withstand the sudden drop in temperature there's a dozen other ways for you to die.

Abyssal: Countless fey have disappeared over the years, exiles, those who didn't adhere to Titania's laws, and those who were believed to be taken prisoner by the mortal realm. Enfenim has taken a great deal of magic for himself and left nothing but only mildly useful tranquil behind.

Underdark: Powerful as he is, only idiots play fair. He's DC's scarecrow with magical powers and will use every drug and toxin in his arsenal to pull one over on you. Airborne agents, skin absorption, things that Enfenim has practiced building a tolerance towards for years just in case someone tries to turn his own weapons against him.

Brothers: One is rarely seen without the other, Arakhor and Enfenim once killed Nalwyn and they would have killed Titania had her warder not been in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you encounter one on the battlefield, chances are you've walked into their trap.

Tranquil: He did say mildly useful, without any magic the fey that Enfenim has made tranquil live on as servants. Some serve with blood, others to lay traps, most as chemists to keep his operation alive and well. If you see someone vaguely emotionless approach, that's likely a trap.

Saber: Accompanied by a giant pussy, but I thought the old lady through it in the ocean at the end? Well Britney, I went down there and got it for you. Enfenim has the last one because they've been pals forever, it's an apex predator thing. This is Rajah from Aladdin but more blood thirsty and wearing armor, saber toothed tiger with a big old bite.

#mirror #musing #epimetheus always playing with his pussy #senatus.theend

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ironhawklegend · 1 year

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The Bridge. Art by Art of Kor.

#osr #sword and sorcery #ttrpgs #ttrpg #hyperborea

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mask131 · 1 year

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Cold winter: Conan the Barbarian

CONAN

Category: Fantasy literature

Conan the Barbarian is, as his name says, THE character that embodied and defined the fantasy archetype of the “barbarian”. The fiction surrounded Conan was one of the first examples/prototypes/”fathers” of what we know today as “heroic fantasy” or “sword and sorcery”. Not only is Conan the central character of a huge franchise spanning over numerous media, he also has been referenced and parodied in so many other works he became a pop culture symbol – everything knowing Conan without having seen anything about him ; or everybody THINKING they know Conan when in fact they just know the “barbarian” archetype.

Conan was invented by famous author Robert E. Howard through two dozen short stories and novellas published in the 1930s for various pulp magazines (mainly Weird Tales). The success was immediate, and after Howard’s death the ownership of the character and world of Conan passed through several different writers, who each continued the adventures of the barbarian in their own ways (some inventing completely new plotlines, other taking back unfinished stories and fragmented ideas from Howard). But Conan also found a second success in the world of comic books, since the character was taken back in the 70s by Marvel Comics, who created various series and graphic novel centered around Conan. It was a huge success, and after Marvel stopped publishing Conan stories it was Dark Horse Comics who launched their own Conan series in 2003 ; again, such a success Marvel even re-acquired the rights in 2018 to relaunch their own series. And should we talk about the numerous role-playing games? About the three television series of the 90s? Or about the three different movies (the two in the 80s with Arnold Schwarzenegger and the most recent one)? Conan is a huge beast. But… who is Conan, exactly?

Conan lives in a fictional era that Robert E. Howard called the “Hyborian Age” (a deformation of “Hyperborea”) – a far-away past of our world which predates all written or archeologically-discovered history, and started with the legendary fall of Atlantis (Robert E. Howard never gave any precise date, but the authors that followed him settled on around 10 000 BCE, while more recent authors choose much older dates but stay divided on whether the Hyborian Age should be placed before the Last Glacial Maximum (last big “ice age”) or right at the end of the Last Glacial. Conan is part of the people known as Cimmerians – descendants of the survivors of Atlantis, who in turn will in the future birth the historical Gaels, “ancestors of the Irish and Highland Scots”. Conan was born of a blacksmith father (and working in his forge, plus climbing cliffs in his youth gave him his iconic muscles) – but born on a battlefield, which seems to have influenced his fate into becoming a warrior. Growing in maturity and strength extremely fast, by fifteen he had participated in the siege and destruction of a fortress, and after this adventure was struck by “wanderlust”, leading him to explore the world to make his own fortune. This is what Robert E. Howard’s stories were about: Conan, mighty barbarian and fearsome warrior, wandering throughout the lands of the Hyborian Age, and spending his time saving beautiful princesses from great dangers, fighting off weird monsters and evil sorcerers, or simply getting involved in bar fights. Conan is extremely strong, to the point his physical strength stays unmatched by any man, and a great master of both the sword and the battle-axe ; he is brave and courageous, we could even say chivalrous, as he has a solid and unbreakable code of honor: never abandon your friend or allies, when you take someone under your protection you protect them to the end, always keep your promise, be courteous to woman… However Conan is far from being a “good” person, and outside of these specific situations he throws any kind of morals out of the window. He is still a wild, savage and destructive barbarian at heart – we could say he is a “noble savage” character. Throughout his various adventures, while known as a hero, he also acted as a mercenary, as a thief, as a pirate, and became an outlaw in many areas of the Hyborian lands. For you see, his main motivation, in all of his adventures, stay either a form of personal gain or his own survival.

Conan is not stupid, unlike what many people think today. The idea of Conan (and barbarians) as stupid comes from the various pastiches and parodies, that eventually became more well-known than the original. Conan is actually quite intelligent, and shows himself to be cunning in many stories – plus, throughout his adventures he ends up learning several languages and a lot of knowledge about the world. But Conan is a very practical person, never prone much to theory or hypothesis, and he has been noted to reject any kind of scholar lifestyle, as he is a man of weapons, not a man of letters. He might not be interested or know much about politics and religions, but he can become a threatening strategist on a battlefield. Conan also seems to have a lot of trouble receiving commands and orders from another man – almost every time he becomes part of a pirate crew or gang of robbers, he ends up questioning, undermining or rivaling the leader’s authority, very often replacing him or killing him (or both). This eventually leads him, with time, to commanding various groups and gangs of warriors, and as his men’s forces and number grew so does his ambitions – until, having reached his forties, he ends up overthrowing tyrannical rulers and becoming himself the king of Aquilonia, the most powerful kingdom of all of the Hyborian Age.

In terms of appearances, the Marvel comics and the later Conan movies modeled a very specific image of Conan as this tall, bodybuilder-like warrior with no trace of body hair and wearing nothing but loincloth… But Robert E. Howard’s original description was quite different. What we know from the original stories was that Conan was a massive giant of man, with smoldering/volcanic blue eyes and a black “square-cut” mane (typical traits of the Cimmerians), with a hairy chest and a skin bronzed from the constant exposure to sunlight, while in terms of clothing he actually wore whatever typical outfit of the country or civilization he was in at the type – nothing about this loincloth nonsense. While heavily muscular, Howard frequently compared his agility and body movements to those of a panther. It was only lather authors, after Howard, that decided to give more precise measurements to Conan, most notably agreeing that during Conan’s first battle at fifteen years old he was six feet tall and 180 pounds (1m83 and 82 kilos), though he was far from having finished his growth. A last element of Conan that was very present in Howard’s original stories, but got lost in both the Marvel comics and the 80s movie, was Conan’s sense of humor: Howard envisioned Conan as a laughing warrior always prone to a good joke – though his sense of humor was noted to be very ironic and very grim.

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Some more trivia for the read:

# Conan wasn’t the only famous warrior of Robert E. Howard: he also invented the lesser known hero Kull of Atlantis, who was also taken back by Marvel and popular media, and ended up forming a trio of “Hyborian warriors” alongside Conan and Red Sonja.

# People seem to have forgotten that Robert E. Howard’s Hyborian stories and Conan adventures actually are part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Indeed, Howard was a great friend with H. P. Lovecraft, and they tended to reference each other’s works in their writings. In a similar way, Howard’s Conan stories took back several elements from the Hyperborean Cycle of Clark Ashton Smith, another author part of the circle of friends Howard and Lovecraft belonged to, and a series of stories that is more firmly set in the Cthulhu Mythos, by mixing Lovecraft’s cosmic horror with Howard’s historical style (here, the stories being set in the Iron Age). However, if you want to search for the clues and proofs that Conan is a distant part of the Cthulhu Mythos, you’d have to look at Howard’s original writings, because later writers of the Conan series (or even later editors of Howard’s own stories) dislike these references and cameos, and often rejected or erased them to make the Conan world its own thing, distinct from Lovecraft’s.

# There are so many different Conan stories and adventures that eventually a system of five “chronologies” was established to differentiate the alternate Conans in the vast franchise. The first is the “Miller/Clark chronology”, the closest chronology to what Robert E. Howard intended, put together by P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark before being revised and continued by L. Sprague de Camp. The second is the “Robert Jordan chronology” established in the 80s, which takes the first chronology as a basis but departs from it in various points (notably by including additional material). The third is the “William Galen Gray chronology”, of the late 90s-beginning of the 2000s, which takes inspiration from the first two but decides to include ALL the existing material about Conan in one timeline. The fourth is the Joe Marek chronology, which departed massively from the previous three by limiting itself EXCLUSIVELY to the Conan stories written by Robert E. Howard, rejecting all additional material (though still taking cues and structures from the Miller/Clark chronology). The last of the chronologies is the Dale Rippke chronology, which like the Joe Marek chronology rejects non-Howard-written stories, but completely repositions and re-numbers the stories (this fifth chronology is most notably the one used for the Dark Horse comics).

#cold winter #conan #conan the barbarian #hyborian age

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father-of-the-void · 2 years

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Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

Robert E. Howard, The Nemedian Chronicles; Conan the Barbarian

#robert e. howard #conan the barbarian #the nemedian chronicles #conan

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legionofmyth · 1 year

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Hyperborea 3rd Edition - Adventuring

🎲 Let’s take a look at adventure preparation and considerations in Hyperborea 3E: Hirelings, Henchmen, Preparation, Time. Movement, et cetera. #Hyperborea3E #TabletopRPG #TTRPG #OSR #DnD

HYPERBOREA 3E – Player’s Manual – [PDF]HYPERBOREA 3E – Referee’s Manual – [PDF]Let’s take a look at adventure preparation and considerations in Hyperborea 3E: Hirelings, Henchmen, Preparation, Time. Movement, et cetera. Introducing Hyperborea 3rd Edition, a thrilling tabletop roleplaying game that will transport you to a world of sword and sorcery inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard and…

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