Thanks! glad you enjoyed it. the music being abit loud shall look out for that, for me the music is fine and soothing so it didnt distract me but for sure will try to keep the levels good so it doesnt drown out the voiceover :) edit: actually listening to it now again i can see your point its abit too loud true, have to look out for that, thanks.
@@WorldOfConan yeah the music was fine, it just needed to go down a notch. Plus my phone speaker is pretty crappy, it was a lot better when I switched it to my TV.
Great video, I don't know much about the Conan universe, but I'm searching more about it because I want to know more about the setting and beyond what we see from Conan adventures. Only problem with the video is (I'm watching this at night so the sound was lowered and maybe this made me notice this) the fact that the music is louder then your voice, so sometimes we really need to pay attention to not miss what you said. But I think this kind of problem is something in the enxt videos you can just keep an eye out to edit the audio with your vvoice lounder then the music and done haha
Great work! I'm just getting into the original stories and this was very helpful in giving me the groundwork! I'll be checking out your other videos soon!
Welcome and Thank you! Enjoy The stories, Also check out Howard's other stuff aswell like Kull, Solomon Kane and his westerns, horror and boxing/comedy stories. He wrote alot stuff. There is a video series im doing that goes abit deeper into The hyborian age which starts with "The Pre-Cataclysmic Age If you want to delve abit deeper.
@@WorldOfConan I definitely will! Your content seems great so far! And gotta say as someone whose planning to major in anthropology, Howard's world based partially on the no-longer accurate science of his time is utterly fascinating!
"Know, O 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 ... Hither came Conan,... "
p.s. As FYI, I also have a video on REH's Essay. To make mine distinct, I show maps of the areas of where REH is talking about at the appropriate times.
@@WorldOfConan Your Intro Video to the World Of Conan ;-) (aka the Hyborian Age) is very good. It tells REH's Essay in 10 minutes, versus over an hour. :-D
You actually made one mistake during this video around 4:25, the Hyborian Picts like the other Picts, are inspired by Native Americans and real world Picts but the Picts in Hyboria would later become the Picts of our own history after they merge with some Cimmerian tribes, while the Cimmerians are the ones that are actually Proto-Celtic and Proto-Anglo-Saxon. Other than that, this is pretty good and nicely made. :)
I'm honestly late to becoming a Conan fan, but I really enjoy Robert E. Howard's conceptualization of the world as Hyboraea, and that Howard's races and civilizations are based on real world ones. Just bought Howard's Conan the Cimmerian which is a collection of a bunch of Conan's adventures with illustrations by Mark Schultz, it's great, and I just bought a bunch of comics off eBay, because Conan comics seem to be hard to come by. Really good condition too!! What is your opinion of Brian Woods take on Conan?
I liked the movie, then I liked the Conan Monolith edition board game, then I liked the lore. The board game base box has Belit, Conan, hyenas, pirates, Pict warriors, etc. the only problem was that the manual was incomplete and useless, so I got the complete version by asking in Internet.
I know next to mothing about this lore. I was just watching the old Schwarzenegger movie and kept wondering, "where the [****] is this supposed to be happening?" Now I have a whole new (to me anyway) fictional world to explore!
I know there's info in this vid that I really want to hear and it's good, but the music is louder than your voice so I can't hear half of what you're saying.
While never accepted as a theory to oppose and accepted theory or theology for that matter? We Hyborian fans religiously read this 💩 for the fun and escapism that it is. To the point that it becomes a way of life philosophically speaking. Much like any other franchise or genre. Wait, did I just go meta here about Conan? 😶🌫️😶😱CROM!!!😱😶😶🌫️ 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's very interesting, but quite difficult to follow you, because you are either too muted or the "music" is too loud. Well, even without the music the volume of your voice is low, I had to ramp it up quite a bit to understand you at all. Your narration ends up being a slightly monton murmuring, which is a shame because improving the quality of the audio might give you more views and more subscribers.
Are the Picts really the Celtic people though? In the Black River novel, Howard's Picts are portrayed as a stone tool-using tribal culture. Howard's Picts value stealth in warfare and revere jungle cats. That seems more Meso-American to me than Celtic. To piggy back on this idea, the word "Cimmeria" is first used by Howard as the title of a poem he wrote while on vacation in southern Texas. Howard's Picts have no more in common with the Celtic Picts of Scotland than Canon's Cimmerians have in common with the tribe that ancient Greeks called the Kimmérioi (Romanized to Cimmeria).
Yeah when i added that in i hadnt fully checked all the info but i surmised that Howard took much influence from the real picts, but actually checking up more on the picts it seems they were a proto celtic people or before the celts in that region since Howard does infer that way but he also infers aswell them to be like the native americans of europe so its like they are a mix of both because in this info im gonna share it states the picts mixed with the celts or a red haired barbarian tribe, very interesting. Check out this info: The Picts were an especial favourite race of Robert E. Howard and are mentioned frequently in his tales, having a continuity from the Thurian Age tales of King Kull of Valusia, where they are his allies, to the Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, where they are the mortal enemies of the Cimmerians (who are actually descended from the old Atlanteans, though they don't remember their ancestry or old alliance). Howard also wrote tales about the last King of the Picts Bran Mak Morn set in real historical time, and they figure commonly as enemies of Cormac Mac Art. Of all the races and civilizations in Howard's writings, the Picts are the race or civilization with the longest history. They even appear in his story "The Valley of the Worm", set long before Kull, where a tribe of Picts help the protagonist, Niord, battle a giant snake and a creature which resembles a shoggoth. Howard gave the Picts a sense of continuity between different ages by making Bran Mak Morn a descendant of Kull's ally Brule the Spear Slayer, and then describing how the king's soul had been affixed to a black stone statue worshiped by the medieval Picts. The status of the Picts and their civilization generally declined over time; the Picts of the Thurian Age were far more sophisticated than their primitive, brutish descendants. Howard's Picts are said to have originated on "islands far out on the Western ocean"[1] and gradually migrated into the Mediterranean area. At one point, they spread across large areas of the world, but gradually vanished except for several splinter groups. Although some of these groups lived in remote jungles and southern continents, the most prominent body of Picts settled in the British isles, where they displaced a supposedly mongoloid race that had been the initial residents of the isles (though their origins were elsewhere). This previous race sought refuge underground, where over a millennia they evolved into stunted and hideous creatures, who were the initial subjects of tales concerning elves or dwarves, as described in the Bran Mak Morn short story "Worms of the Earth", as well in "The Children of the Night". The Picts were in turn displaced some thousands of years later by the invading Celts, and driven northward into Scotland where they interbred with a tribe of red-haired barbarians, resulting in a genetic shift toward diminished height. Following subsequent Roman, Breton, and Saxon invasions, the Picts too sought refuge underground, just like the natives they had displaced before. An interesting point is that, in the Hyborian age stories such as "Beyond the Black River",[2] when they populated the western edge of Europe and share a border with Aquilonia, which tries to push them further west to colonize new provinces, the Picts show clear Native American influence, in their appearance, dress, armament, manner of conducting wars, and even the place names of the new Aquilonian provinces. It's hard to tell whether this is a case of inconsistency on the part of Howard, or a throwback to their earliest origins and savagery, as the Picts who Conan battled during the Hyborian Age are definitely more primitive than those Kull knew many millennia earlier. The story "Kings of the Night", in which Kull is summoned forward in time to help battle a Roman army, references a decline of the Picts after the age of Kull, specifically noting the Picts lost the skills of metalworking. The Picts described in stories such as "The Dark Man", set in the early Middle Ages, portray them as more primitive yet, with a Neolithic level of technology such as flint arrowheads. These Picts are clearly a people at the last stages of decline, and are living as a hidden tribe of savages of whom their neighboring Norse, Scottish, and Irish peoples are not aware of. Howard's descriptions of the later Picts portray them as very small in height, squat and muscular, adept at silent movement, and most of all brutish and uncivilized, quite unlike the Picts of Kull's day.[3] They painted themselves with woad, much like the historical Picts, and lived in very large caverns, some natural and some artificially expanded. They had a custom of burning enemy prisoners alive, a ceremony usually presided over by their druid-like 'wizards' or priests, whom Howard portrayed as having a twisted philosophy and mindset produced by many years of hatred, in direct opposition to the Pictish warrior-king Bran Mak Morn, who attempted to restore the Picts to their honourable place in the world and drive out the Roman invaders. Bran Mak Morn's mindset was very unusual for his time and location, because he favored an alliance of the "native" British populations, including the Picts, Bretons, and Celts, against the Romans, in a setting when each of these tribes fostered an intense hatred and mistrust for all the others. Robert E. Howard also mentions that some warriors among the Picts could assume the forms of wolves, in the manner of werewolves, on their own free will. These Picts were a "race" with whom Howard felt the most affinity, and for this reason they were one of his favourite subjects, despite being almost wholly fictitious and deviating from historical fact.
One can say he studied the Bible along with historical documents. I collect conan memorabilia thats why I find this character interesting. There's a lot of things you can do with that fictional Age as far as story telling and creating characters.
Yeah I'm currently making a game in UE 5 based in that age not involving conan but Kull and you're working for him to unify the 10 kingdoms of Atlantes and the decendants Krull, Kronos, Posiodon then Atlas then Kull then the younger drias impact the washing away of Atlantis where the eye of Richat is .
Couldn't watch this due to awful sound editing,i see this content is a year old so hopefully you have learned to edit now but unfortunately it's not a chance i'm prepared to take. 1st impressions & all that! 🤔
Terrible sound editing. Wanted to watch but I can’t take it. When you added the breathing sounds to it, I couldn’t mute it sooner. If you have the source files, maybe reedit the audio, turn down or even cancel the music. Then I’m sure lots will watch.
Awesome video. My only criticism would be that your background music is just a little too loud. It drowns out your voice every now and then.
Thanks! glad you enjoyed it. the music being abit loud shall look out for that, for me the music is fine and soothing so it didnt distract me but for sure will try to keep the levels good so it doesnt drown out the voiceover :) edit: actually listening to it now again i can see your point its abit too loud true, have to look out for that, thanks.
@@WorldOfConan yeah the music was fine, it just needed to go down a notch. Plus my phone speaker is pretty crappy, it was a lot better when I switched it to my TV.
@@WorldOfConan I do that all the time with my videos. In my editor it sounds fine but once I compress it and upload it the music is too loud lol.
Don't pick on me too harshly peeps, but was Hybria a real continent eons ago ?
Great video, I don't know much about the Conan universe, but I'm searching more about it because I want to know more about the setting and beyond what we see from Conan adventures. Only problem with the video is (I'm watching this at night so the sound was lowered and maybe this made me notice this) the fact that the music is louder then your voice, so sometimes we really need to pay attention to not miss what you said. But I think this kind of problem is something in the enxt videos you can just keep an eye out to edit the audio with your vvoice lounder then the music and done haha
I like he mixed with history and fantasy Create a setting
Nice introduction. Iwill be keepling an eye on your content.
Awesome video, don't have much to add, very happy to be binge-watching this series now.
I leave this comment as sacrifice. I have spoken....
Great work! I'm just getting into the original stories and this was very helpful in giving me the groundwork! I'll be checking out your other videos soon!
Welcome and Thank you! Enjoy The stories, Also check out Howard's other stuff aswell like Kull, Solomon Kane and his westerns, horror and boxing/comedy stories. He wrote alot stuff. There is a video series im doing that goes abit deeper into The hyborian age which starts with "The Pre-Cataclysmic Age If you want to delve abit deeper.
@@WorldOfConan I definitely will! Your content seems great so far! And gotta say as someone whose planning to major in anthropology, Howard's world based partially on the no-longer accurate science of his time is utterly fascinating!
I'd love to learn more about Acheron.
This is a really great primer, by Crom! Thanks so much!
I love the channel. Thanks for making it :)
Very informative, thank you.
That was interesting. Thanks from Russia)
Sword and sorcery and heavy metal YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Fuckin Aye right bro.
"Know, O 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 ... Hither came Conan,... "
p.s. As FYI, I also have a video on REH's Essay. To make mine distinct, I show maps of the areas of where REH is talking about at the appropriate times.
@@RPGmodsFan Thats great man! checking your video now, looks very cool, def adding the maps and all that helps it make dynamic etc.
@@WorldOfConan Thanks. :-) It is my 2nd most popular video. Wish most of my other videos could be as popular.
@@WorldOfConan Your Intro Video to the World Of Conan ;-)
(aka the Hyborian Age) is very good. It tells REH's Essay in 10 minutes, versus over an hour. :-D
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I can’t hear it😢
subbed keep it going im eager
You actually made one mistake during this video around 4:25, the Hyborian Picts like the other Picts, are inspired by Native Americans and real world Picts but the Picts in Hyboria would later become the Picts of our own history after they merge with some Cimmerian tribes, while the Cimmerians are the ones that are actually Proto-Celtic and Proto-Anglo-Saxon. Other than that, this is pretty good and nicely made. :)
Thanks ! that ws great !
Just want to mention one of the actual 13 regions of france is still call "nouvelle (new) aquitaine"
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I'm honestly late to becoming a Conan fan, but I really enjoy Robert E. Howard's conceptualization of the world as Hyboraea, and that Howard's races and civilizations are based on real world ones.
Just bought Howard's Conan the Cimmerian which is a collection of a bunch of Conan's adventures with illustrations by Mark Schultz, it's great, and I just bought a bunch of comics off eBay, because Conan comics seem to be hard to come by. Really good condition too!!
What is your opinion of Brian Woods take on Conan?
I liked the movie, then I liked the Conan Monolith edition board game, then I liked the lore.
The board game base box has Belit, Conan, hyenas, pirates, Pict warriors, etc. the only problem was that the manual was incomplete and useless, so I got the complete version by asking in Internet.
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Excellent video sir!!!!!☺
thank you! and good day to you sir! :)
@@WorldOfConan 😎👍
DOES ANYONE STILL PLAY AGE OF CONAN ? I REALLY MISS THIS GAME
Which lyre music did you use in the background?
My own song that i made.
@@WorldOfConan It's very good. It fits the subject well.
I find it relaxing. Would be a good song to have playing for sleeping.
I know next to mothing about this lore. I was just watching the old Schwarzenegger movie and kept wondering, "where the [****] is this supposed to be happening?" Now I have a whole new (to me anyway) fictional world to explore!
The music is too loud.
I know there's info in this vid that I really want to hear and it's good, but the music is louder than your voice so I can't hear half of what you're saying.
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Very informative but you migth want to redo this one and remove the music or lower it,
Please repost th8s video without the music. It is very difficult to understand you. The music is way too loud. Great video, great content.
While never accepted as a theory to oppose and accepted theory or theology for that matter?
We Hyborian fans religiously read this 💩 for the fun and escapism that it is. To the point that it becomes a way of life philosophically speaking. Much like any other franchise or genre.
Wait, did I just go meta here about Conan?
😶🌫️😶😱CROM!!!😱😶😶🌫️
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What? I can't hear you.
It's very interesting, but quite difficult to follow you, because you are either too muted or the "music" is too loud.
Well, even without the music the volume of your voice is low, I had to ramp it up quite a bit to understand you at all.
Your narration ends up being a slightly monton murmuring, which is a shame because improving the quality of the audio might give you more views and more subscribers.
Music is too loud trouble hearing voice.
I've always taught the Aquilonians were based on the Romans...
The audio needs to be increased, got this twice as loud as other videos and its still hard to hear.
Might as well not have any music at all, than have it overpower the narration. I struggle to hear what you are saying :(
Why is the volume so low in your videos?
The volume is far too low and the music too high.
Are the Picts really the Celtic people though? In the Black River novel, Howard's Picts are portrayed as a stone tool-using tribal culture. Howard's Picts value stealth in warfare and revere jungle cats. That seems more Meso-American to me than Celtic. To piggy back on this idea, the word "Cimmeria" is first used by Howard as the title of a poem he wrote while on vacation in southern Texas. Howard's Picts have no more in common with the Celtic Picts of Scotland than Canon's Cimmerians have in common with the tribe that ancient Greeks called the Kimmérioi (Romanized to Cimmeria).
Yeah when i added that in i hadnt fully checked all the info but i surmised that Howard took much influence from the real picts, but actually checking up more on the picts it seems they were a proto celtic people or before the celts in that region since Howard does infer that way but he also infers aswell them to be like the native americans of europe so its like they are a mix of both because in this info im gonna share it states the picts mixed with the celts or a red haired barbarian tribe, very interesting. Check out this info:
The Picts were an especial favourite race of Robert E. Howard and are mentioned frequently in his tales, having a continuity from the Thurian Age tales of King Kull of Valusia, where they are his allies, to the Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, where they are the mortal enemies of the Cimmerians (who are actually descended from the old Atlanteans, though they don't remember their ancestry or old alliance). Howard also wrote tales about the last King of the Picts Bran Mak Morn set in real historical time, and they figure commonly as enemies of Cormac Mac Art. Of all the races and civilizations in Howard's writings, the Picts are the race or civilization with the longest history. They even appear in his story "The Valley of the Worm", set long before Kull, where a tribe of Picts help the protagonist, Niord, battle a giant snake and a creature which resembles a shoggoth. Howard gave the Picts a sense of continuity between different ages by making Bran Mak Morn a descendant of Kull's ally Brule the Spear Slayer, and then describing how the king's soul had been affixed to a black stone statue worshiped by the medieval Picts. The status of the Picts and their civilization generally declined over time; the Picts of the Thurian Age were far more sophisticated than their primitive, brutish descendants.
Howard's Picts are said to have originated on "islands far out on the Western ocean"[1] and gradually migrated into the Mediterranean area. At one point, they spread across large areas of the world, but gradually vanished except for several splinter groups. Although some of these groups lived in remote jungles and southern continents, the most prominent body of Picts settled in the British isles, where they displaced a supposedly mongoloid race that had been the initial residents of the isles (though their origins were elsewhere). This previous race sought refuge underground, where over a millennia they evolved into stunted and hideous creatures, who were the initial subjects of tales concerning elves or dwarves, as described in the Bran Mak Morn short story "Worms of the Earth", as well in "The Children of the Night".
The Picts were in turn displaced some thousands of years later by the invading Celts, and driven northward into Scotland where they interbred with a tribe of red-haired barbarians, resulting in a genetic shift toward diminished height. Following subsequent Roman, Breton, and Saxon invasions, the Picts too sought refuge underground, just like the natives they had displaced before.
An interesting point is that, in the Hyborian age stories such as "Beyond the Black River",[2] when they populated the western edge of Europe and share a border with Aquilonia, which tries to push them further west to colonize new provinces, the Picts show clear Native American influence, in their appearance, dress, armament, manner of conducting wars, and even the place names of the new Aquilonian provinces. It's hard to tell whether this is a case of inconsistency on the part of Howard, or a throwback to their earliest origins and savagery, as the Picts who Conan battled during the Hyborian Age are definitely more primitive than those Kull knew many millennia earlier. The story "Kings of the Night", in which Kull is summoned forward in time to help battle a Roman army, references a decline of the Picts after the age of Kull, specifically noting the Picts lost the skills of metalworking. The Picts described in stories such as "The Dark Man", set in the early Middle Ages, portray them as more primitive yet, with a Neolithic level of technology such as flint arrowheads. These Picts are clearly a people at the last stages of decline, and are living as a hidden tribe of savages of whom their neighboring Norse, Scottish, and Irish peoples are not aware of.
Howard's descriptions of the later Picts portray them as very small in height, squat and muscular, adept at silent movement, and most of all brutish and uncivilized, quite unlike the Picts of Kull's day.[3] They painted themselves with woad, much like the historical Picts, and lived in very large caverns, some natural and some artificially expanded. They had a custom of burning enemy prisoners alive, a ceremony usually presided over by their druid-like 'wizards' or priests, whom Howard portrayed as having a twisted philosophy and mindset produced by many years of hatred, in direct opposition to the Pictish warrior-king Bran Mak Morn, who attempted to restore the Picts to their honourable place in the world and drive out the Roman invaders.
Bran Mak Morn's mindset was very unusual for his time and location, because he favored an alliance of the "native" British populations, including the Picts, Bretons, and Celts, against the Romans, in a setting when each of these tribes fostered an intense hatred and mistrust for all the others. Robert E. Howard also mentions that some warriors among the Picts could assume the forms of wolves, in the manner of werewolves, on their own free will. These Picts were a "race" with whom Howard felt the most affinity, and for this reason they were one of his favourite subjects, despite being almost wholly fictitious and deviating from historical fact.
audio is too soft, cant understand anything
there are subtitles to help, but yes this was an earlier video and the speech is a little low. Then again on my setup i can hear it very well.
One can say he studied the Bible along with historical documents. I collect conan memorabilia thats why I find this character interesting.
There's a lot of things you can do with that fictional Age as far as story telling and creating characters.
Yeah I'm currently making a game in UE 5 based in that age not involving conan but Kull and you're working for him to unify the 10 kingdoms of Atlantes and the decendants Krull, Kronos, Posiodon then Atlas then Kull then the younger drias impact the washing away of Atlantis where the eye of Richat is .
cant hear you
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Couldn't watch this due to awful sound editing,i see this content is a year old so hopefully you have learned to edit now but unfortunately it's not a chance i'm prepared to take. 1st impressions & all that! 🤔
I couldn't even hear the audio over the music.
Conan kimerli bı Türk tur
Terrible sound editing. Wanted to watch but I can’t take it. When you added the breathing sounds to it, I couldn’t mute it sooner.
If you have the source files, maybe reedit the audio, turn down or even cancel the music. Then I’m sure lots will watch.
Background music made this unwatchable.
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