Another great Conan lore video. Well done! As a longtime Lovecraft fan I really appreciate that you are in the know with the the Lovecraftian elements. Did you know that Yog Sothoth is actually in Age of Conan? It's avatar can be summoned in House of Crom by a 24 man raid. And you actually have to do a ritual in several stages to open the portal. Also Nyarlathotep is behind a lot of crazy stuff in AOC you can actually meet him in the Dragon's spine zone in this elaborate solo quest line and there are plenty of writings on the walls of House of Crom about the Crawling Chaos, and the Shining Trapezohedron, the serpent people and Kull oh and in Dragon's spine you encounter the Trapezohedron (a stygian archeologist goes completely nuts when you bring him a fragment). There are many more Lovecraft lore pieces in AOC. though several of them are in group content. ps. In house of Crom, you can listen to some atlantean ghosts talking about Cthulhu dreaming in his house in R'yeh :D Edit: Oh and the Entity in the Jade Citadel has a special message for Herald Of Xotli players about Hastur and Nyarlathotep. Ok I will shut up now :D
As I'm sure you know, Howard and Lovecraft were very good friends, though they never met in person. They wrote each other many letters and exchanged ideas and philosophies.
@@connorperrett9559 Oh yes, as I understand it, they were penpals and both wrote for Weird Tales. I discovered Lovecraft's work in the 90's and played Call of Cthulhu a lot ever since. back then I only knew about Conan because of the Arnie movie but then I noticed some mentions of Conan in a Lovecraft Encyclopedia and much later I started playing Age of Conan. Been playing it since 2011 :)
You know the more I hear about the Conan universe the more I think about how Island theory seems to hold true for the hyper advanced entities in the setting that more or less stop traveling the outer dark and settle on a planet. And what I mean by Island theory is how if you take a group of people stick them on an island with very little in the way of predation and no real way for their enemies to get at them then they start forgetting their technology and just effectively turn back the clock on what they are able to maintain and produce
@@eazypeazy33 respectfully, we havn't reverted to copper molded smithing just yet. Now if your talking about the graying out of vocational jobs thats a whole other issue that stems from beating into kids that being an electrician is somehow less successful then white collar work
So, in Acheron, having a big, powerful, ugly demon to carry you around was the modern equivalent of owning a Ferari or Lamborghini? A succubus is something like a trophy wife? I kind of love that image.
The reason the player can understand all lorestones in the exiled lands, is part of their original design. The bracelets were originally designed to ease the communication between lemurian settlers and the original Giant-King inhabitants. Basically, it auto-translates - this feature only being disabled in the gallery of the priest king, above the undead dragon arena as referrenced in one of the lore-stones where the archivist explains to the slaves serving there that it is for the privacy of the high ranking giant kings there. The bracelet was a result of the combined magic of the witch-queen and the priest-king, in their efforts to co-exist while the two civilizations were still at peace. When the lemurians declared war on the serpent-men in the volcano, the giant-kings turned the bracelet against them, activating a dormant "safety" in the bracelet that would trap the lemurian slaves inside the wall, while the lemurian free city of Xel-Ha would be sealed outside the first wall (the broken ghostwall totems that borders the jungle/swamp biome). In turn, the witch queen was able to undermine the bracelet to leave lorestones across the exiled lands that only her enslaved kin could understand, the only other referance to the bracelets not translating universally. On a sidenote just because i love this lore, listening to all the lemurian lorestones in order take on a whole new heartbreaking meaning once you realise that she is not pleading to her enslaved lemurian kin, but primarily to her son (in-law, ty Joel), Tyros, the half giant-king slave champion who was concieved with the help of magic by the witch-queen and the priest-king. Indeed, Tyros did rebel, and as punishment the Giant-Kings killed (?) his children and his wife Telith, who's grave you'll find on Telith's island in the exiled lands. In addition,the priest-king cursed Tyros and his legion of slave-warriors to never grant the rest of death,trapping them to guard Xullan (the black keep) as undead for eternity.
Oh this reminded me, it might be wrong that Tyros has no demon blood, i guess it depends on definition. He is supposed to be the mix of the priestking of the giant-kings and the witch-queen of lemuria, who combined their sorceries to bring Tyros safely through to birth after their "union", in their efforts for their peoples to coexist peacefully. Would be interesting to hear your take. My assumption at least would be that he'd count as demonblooded, as the Archivist's lorestones references the Giant-king race to have originated in the outer dark between the stars, and their magic is also drawn from there - plenty of demonic influence to Tyros' blood, would be my thought.
Thank you very much for the lore info! We reward this behavior here! If we didn’t already have a pinned comment I’d pin this one instantly! As far as the priest king goes that explains a lot, but still fits with in my understanding of more technology focused giant kings civilization. Especially if the magic we would actually consider magic is concentrated in one figure.
@@GrimDarkHalfOff No need for a pin and happy to share ^^ I've been unhealthily obsessed with the lore of the exiled lands for years - Joel from funcom made it an amazing story of lore to be pieced together, as nothing is written in one place or explained outright. It's an amazing piece of work.
Hate to correct you, but remember, Tyros was not the son of the witch queen (well, unless you say son-in-law, but for me, he’s not a proper son of the witch queen). He was born from a relationship between the priest king and an unknown Lemurian woman, as we can read in the tear of two races’ item description in Conan exiles. Tyros fell in love with Telith, the witch queen’s daughter, making tyros effectively the witch queen’s son in law, which is what you say. Also, the giant kings didn’t kill Tyros’ wife, Telith, and his children, Xaalthar and Xaltana. If this was the case, we wouldn’t see Xaalthar become Xaltotun, high priest of set in Acheron, and we also wouldn’t see Xaltana become witch queen of Acheron. Tyros was cursed with eternal life by the priest king in their duel, which Tyros won by defeating his father. Because he had eternal life, he witnessed his loved ones fall around him and how he had to seclude himself in the black keep with his undead silent legion. His wife Telith died and was buried in Imi’s cradle on telith’s island by Xaalthar and Xaltana, and of course, Xaltana and Xaltotun would, presumably, die of things like old age or death in battle, all while Tyros remained in the black keep under his curse of eternal life. I think this makes Tyros’ story far more depressing, as watching your loved ones die around you while you still live is, in my opinion, far worse than them being downright killed.
@@joelkp1185 happy to be corrected, You're right - i was writing this off memory and some wires got crossed - Tyros' relation to the witch-queen is by marriage. I think what imprinted it wrongly in my mind after so long is the lorestones left by the witch queen, because they felt so much more impactful realising that she had a daughter and grandchildren at stake - also that the witch queen's magic were part of the birth of Tyros, since the priestking on his own failed without her help. Or "failed" - if i remember right, i think the abysmal remnant was the result of his first attempt but i'm not sure anymore ^^ Love these stories, joel bylos crafted us a masterpiece.
Queen of the Black Coast is hailed as not only one of Howard's best stories, but one of the best pulp stories and one of the best fantasy stories ever written, period.
Every thumbnail of this channel looks like a microsoft powerpoint made by a schizophrenic dude trying to explain how politicians are lizard people. I love it. Keep up the awesome work, there needs to be more attention on this setting.
This video is fantastically composed and loaded with skillfully put together lore. It really feels like a foundation for dozens of other more in depth videos... Hyboria and Lovecraft deserve a Luetin09 quality youtuber for decades worth (recently hitting a century worth) of material. The quality of your mic setup is exceptional and and part of the appeal. Too many streamers create content with really bad mics, slimy sounding recordings with excessive lip smacking, or piercing sibilance. Props for avoiding every one of those annoying problems in your videos. Hopefully the series has a ton of success for you so you make many more. I feel like the view count for these videos will build for many years because it is head and shoulders above others on the same topic, and it is based on such a popular and well established, vast fictional universe.
@@GrimDarkHalfOff I've taken the habit of watching one of your videos before bed. You truly have an outstanding voice and mic set up, not to mention the wonderful lore from great fictional universes such as the Cthulhu Mythos, Conan's Hyborian Age, and so on.
Im going to be honest, Acheron sounds wierdly comfortable... at least for the Giant Kings and Elder Men, a comfortable life with all the technomagical comforts one could dream of from easy access to learning and literature to convinient transport, though of course extremely decadent and filled with intrigue and conspiracy. While my knowlage of Conan is very shallow im going to guess that a life of say "waking up in a silken poster bed aided by imp servants, going out on the Tavern/Café for a Devil Flower Infused Qawha (Qawha is english pronunciation of the arabic of coffee so imagine dark fantasy starbucks with slaves and extra hedonism), then heading for dark magic tuitions by serpentmen (mostly boring save for the blood magic) then going to watch gladiatorial matches (of which there are 1001 varieties) in the afternoon, followed by heading back home for some more studying and then going back to bed, again aided by imps" is not exactly... the idealized view of how someone should live their lives in Conan, almost all of these steps i said were made on the cost of the suffering of others and so on... let me know if you like my little interpretation of a day of an acheronian.
Great timing. My new campaign, which has strong links to Acheron, starts next week. I’ll digest this video and it will surely add to my storytelling ventures in the upcoming game. Thanks man!
I clicked on this video not knowing what to expect at all & knowing nothing of any Conan lore. Color me Impressed. This is concise, well thought out, and structured. The Imagery, examples, and ideas are clearly marked and only reinforce what you say. Impressed is an inadequate word for the stupendous work you have done. This is so fucking cool. I don't have the words. You're so fucking cool.
I just discovered your channel, and I really like your interest, enthusiasm and takes on Conan lore. I don't want to be That Guy, but the Thurian Continent and the Hyborean Continent are the same thing, only separated by time. The Cataclysm that sank Atlantis made the changes that resulted in the newer map. Please disregard if I misinterpreted what you meant.
"Hyboria" is not a place, it's an age (and an ancestoral ethnic group), the continent is the Thurian continent for Kull and Conan; that's just me nitpicking. Thank you for the videos, keep em coming.
Hyboria is a fictional supercontinent created by Robert E. Howard which first appeared in "The Phoenix on the Sword". The "Hyborian Age" is literally named after Hyboria.
@@SquirrelGamez negative, go read "The Hyborian Age" Robert E Howard and get back to me, or just keep being a condescending asshole, and be wrong, idgaf
Lol at you both who say that hyperboria isn't a place! Learn that HYPERBOREA comes from the conjoint Hellenic word Υπέρ βόρεια , which means Upper North ,that means the northern part of the North! It refers to the lands of Scandinavia where the ancient Greeks had bases and the existence of hyperborean god Apollo ! Hyboria is the same as hyborean.
@@kafrikotroll8610 wrong again, yes "Hyperborea" is a place, I never said it wasn't, however "Hyboria" is not; but again another babbling jackass. I have the same homework for you,...read the source material "The Hyborian Age" Robert E Howard.
I believe that UFO you speak of in Conan exile is actually more of a Sky map of some solar system as Dagon says the Lemurians asked him knowledge of the star and he gave it to them in that fashion
In Greek myth, Tartarus is, unless I’m mistaken, basically the bottom most, most dangerous and inhospitable level of the underworld. The Acheronian city of Tartarus is located in Argos, which would later go on to become the civilisation of Greece. As such, my theory is that the Argosseans, later, the Greeks, saw the Acheronian empire as literal hell, with its most impregnable military capital as the worst part of the whole empire, which they’d later go on to immortalise in their mythology.
This video was recommended to me while I never had a great knowledge nor interest in Conan as I was very little exposed to it and even went out of my way to see the original conan movie for culture's sake which did began to pick my interest along the occassional Conan Exiles recommended. But that video appeared and directly appealed for my love of dark demonic ancient civilisations in fantasy and got me hooked to the lore now so I'm happy to have found that video out! I'm eager to hear more about all of the demon gods but also demons in general along with the stories of Stygia which has grabbed my interest
It annoys me to no end every time the Kull movie refers to the restoration of "ancient Acheron." That's what you get when you take a plot from a Conan story and set it in the Thurian age.
This is great! Do you have plans to tackle the Khari civilization? I know they're pretty much only mentionned in Conan Exiles but the idea of a proto-stygian people is interesting as all hell.
Well I mean between this video and the Giant Kings one we covered the Lemurians and Khari (with in a Hyborian context) fully. I wouldn’t mind devoting a a video to where they come from, but the Exiles wiki really does say it all. “They were a slave nation [under acheron] that would later birth Stygian culture”. I wouldn’t mind doing a video on lifestyle in Conan and doing a section of the video on slavery tho.
@@GrimDarkHalfOff Or perhaps as a small chapter in a bigger video on Stygia? I know you've talked about them too in different videos but the same kind of minor issue arises, the lore discussion is scattered across many vids. In any case, keep up the good work. Already looking forward to the next video. :)
Your videos are the reason i'm getting my feet into all things Conan and weired tales!!. Pluss this video just proves even more how GRRM has been inspired by Robert E howards work for for his take on Asshai by the shadow and 'the others' as otherwordley peoples ;). thanks man
Swarzennegar was contracted for 3 Conan movies by Dino De Laurentiis but filming accidents drove insurance companies off. To fulfill his contract Ahhnold made a cameo in Red Sonja.
Awesome history lesson thank you teacher. Love your content it has already become a daily ritual listening to your conan lore videos. Thank you for researching and presenting this knowledge.
I mean the black goat with a thousand young is a fertility God. Also might as well point out the greek god Aphroditie is a very late adition to the Helianic pantheon and basically a greek adoption of Istar into their pantheon due to contact via trade routes So now you can picture both Istar and Aphroditie as warped lovecraftian gods pumping out darkyoung offspring.
Her beauty is purely subjective, it makes totally sense that Shub Niggurath coikd take a beautiful form, keeping in line with her fertility goddess nature.
Your videos are great to listen to while working on a DnD session or working on models and terrain a very smooth voice and a subject that interests me greatly.
Hey love these long videos that I can play in the background well worldbuilding for my d&d/pathfinder game. What would be the best Conan TTRPG? Curious if there is a good RPG version of this out there to play, honestly hate playing humans in games but this is one of the only settings id play a human in.
I really enjoy the Conan videos but was wondering if you could cover the time when Conan had to fight shemagoreath? I know it doesn’t have really anything to do with the exiles game but it still seems like a cool event that’s not covered very well. Thank you for the videos.
This is awesome i love learning about the lore of conan i would love to see more of the khari empire the predecessors of the stygian empire and also the ones who enslaved thousands of different races and tribes along with the lemurians
Your voice reminds me of this, am I the only one? "The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides, now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by 4000 years of total war"
Always a fan of "Dark" Empire/Kingdoms/Civilizations. An entire empire based off of demon worship and human sacrifice and dark magics. Is pretty epic! Stared playing Conan Exiles a year ago and absolutely love the giant king's culture and architecture.
Hi, I really love these lore videos and tend to return to them often, they remind me of the history documentaries I used to watch as a kid and I would marvel at every bit of trivia about ancient cultures. Regarding the placement of Python, didn't "Old Stygia" encompass Shem as well? That way it's not unlikely for Python to be located there, maybe somewhere near the border with Stygian proper?
Hi, just wanted to say this is an amazing video but I needed to know something specific from the timestamp 39:30 circa...which UFO are you talking about? I haven't visited the Sunken City fully yet so I'm not sure which ruin or construct you are referring to
I don't see REH's novel the Hour of the Dragon in the source list. It is the most complete source of lore on Xaltotun and the priest kings of Acheron in the Hyborian Age. It's also a great adventure story demonstrating the heroism and sorcery in Robert Ervin Howard's literary world.
You know I really do have to wonder, how exactly do you fit the Khari, described in Conan Exiles as essentially the precursors and former inhabitants of Stygia, into this whole narrative? From what I understood, the Giant kings were the original inhabitants of Stygia, and the sailing of Lemurians from their sinking islands in the east of the continentto Stygia in its center and then back to the Exiled lands which should be in Hyperboria/Turan is a geographic nightmare.
Another great Conan lore video. Well done! As a longtime Lovecraft fan I really appreciate that you are in the know with the the Lovecraftian elements. Did you know that Yog Sothoth is actually in Age of Conan? It's avatar can be summoned in House of Crom by a 24 man raid. And you actually have to do a ritual in several stages to open the portal. Also Nyarlathotep is behind a lot of crazy stuff in AOC you can actually meet him in the Dragon's spine zone in this elaborate solo quest line and there are plenty of writings on the walls of House of Crom about the Crawling Chaos, and the Shining Trapezohedron, the serpent people and Kull oh and in Dragon's spine you encounter the Trapezohedron (a stygian archeologist goes completely nuts when you bring him a fragment).
There are many more Lovecraft lore pieces in AOC. though several of them are in group content.
ps. In house of Crom, you can listen to some atlantean ghosts talking about Cthulhu dreaming in his house in R'yeh :D
Edit: Oh and the Entity in the Jade Citadel has a special message for Herald Of Xotli players about Hastur and Nyarlathotep. Ok I will shut up now :D
Haha, please don't!
Incredibly based post. This is the behavior we award here! You get a pin!
@@GrimDarkHalfOff Right! I might be motor mouthing again later :D
As I'm sure you know, Howard and Lovecraft were very good friends, though they never met in person. They wrote each other many letters and exchanged ideas and philosophies.
@@connorperrett9559 Oh yes, as I understand it, they were penpals and both wrote for Weird Tales. I discovered Lovecraft's work in the 90's and played Call of Cthulhu a lot ever since. back then I only knew about Conan because of the Arnie movie but then I noticed some mentions of Conan in a Lovecraft Encyclopedia and much later I started playing Age of Conan. Been playing it since 2011 :)
Regarding the reversal of attractive / desirable features, I like to imagine that a squadron of puppies would have acheronians fleeing in terror.
OH MY GOD YES
Makes sense
Most likely makes sense, they would think alligators,and all reptiles to be cuddly.
@@c.antoniojohnson7114"Aww... Look at It's Sharp teeth. Who's my little killer lizard? Awww... He's doing a death roll. "
Chihuahuas. The greatest bane of fearsome Acheron
You know the more I hear about the Conan universe the more I think about how Island theory seems to hold true for the hyper advanced entities in the setting that more or less stop traveling the outer dark and settle on a planet. And what I mean by Island theory is how if you take a group of people stick them on an island with very little in the way of predation and no real way for their enemies to get at them then they start forgetting their technology and just effectively turn back the clock on what they are able to maintain and produce
It’s happening again now smh
Indeed! Reminds me of how the Guanches of the Canary Islands were descended from Iron Wielding Amazigh
@@eazypeazy33 respectfully, we havn't reverted to copper molded smithing just yet.
Now if your talking about the graying out of vocational jobs thats a whole other issue that stems from beating into kids that being an electrician is somehow less successful then white collar work
So, in Acheron, having a big, powerful, ugly demon to carry you around was the modern equivalent of owning a Ferari or Lamborghini? A succubus is something like a trophy wife?
I kind of love that image.
Imagine a hot young playboy showing up to a party riding a black dragon.
I would love Acheron,a civilization of genius level demon worshipping beings. Not all demons are evil,some are in a morally gray area.
@@rayanderson5797 I would be that Demon playboy,my kind of beings.
Public education immediately followed by demonic sorcery, haha I love this channel. Also the talking cat the best!
It's in the curriculum...
I would love that school.... that's how it should be.
The reason the player can understand all lorestones in the exiled lands, is part of their original design.
The bracelets were originally designed to ease the communication between lemurian settlers and the original Giant-King inhabitants.
Basically, it auto-translates - this feature only being disabled in the gallery of the priest king, above the undead dragon arena as referrenced in one of the lore-stones where the archivist explains to the slaves serving there that it is for the privacy of the high ranking giant kings there.
The bracelet was a result of the combined magic of the witch-queen and the priest-king, in their efforts to co-exist while the two civilizations were still at peace.
When the lemurians declared war on the serpent-men in the volcano, the giant-kings turned the bracelet against them, activating a dormant "safety" in the bracelet that would trap the lemurian slaves inside the wall, while the lemurian free city of Xel-Ha would be sealed outside the first wall (the broken ghostwall totems that borders the jungle/swamp biome).
In turn, the witch queen was able to undermine the bracelet to leave lorestones across the exiled lands that only her enslaved kin could understand, the only other referance to the bracelets not translating universally.
On a sidenote just because i love this lore, listening to all the lemurian lorestones in order take on a whole new heartbreaking meaning once you realise that she is not pleading to her enslaved lemurian kin, but primarily to her son (in-law, ty Joel), Tyros, the half giant-king slave champion who was concieved with the help of magic by the witch-queen and the priest-king.
Indeed, Tyros did rebel, and as punishment the Giant-Kings killed (?) his children and his wife Telith, who's grave you'll find on Telith's island in the exiled lands.
In addition,the priest-king cursed Tyros and his legion of slave-warriors to never grant the rest of death,trapping them to guard Xullan (the black keep) as undead for eternity.
Oh this reminded me, it might be wrong that Tyros has no demon blood, i guess it depends on definition. He is supposed to be the mix of the priestking of the giant-kings and the witch-queen of lemuria, who combined their sorceries to bring Tyros safely through to birth after their "union", in their efforts for their peoples to coexist peacefully. Would be interesting to hear your take. My assumption at least would be that he'd count as demonblooded, as the Archivist's lorestones references the Giant-king race to have originated in the outer dark between the stars, and their magic is also drawn from there - plenty of demonic influence to Tyros' blood, would be my thought.
Thank you very much for the lore info! We reward this behavior here! If we didn’t already have a pinned comment I’d pin this one instantly! As far as the priest king goes that explains a lot, but still fits with in my understanding of more technology focused giant kings civilization. Especially if the magic we would actually consider magic is concentrated in one figure.
@@GrimDarkHalfOff No need for a pin and happy to share ^^ I've been unhealthily obsessed with the lore of the exiled lands for years - Joel from funcom made it an amazing story of lore to be pieced together, as nothing is written in one place or explained outright. It's an amazing piece of work.
Hate to correct you, but remember, Tyros was not the son of the witch queen (well, unless you say son-in-law, but for me, he’s not a proper son of the witch queen). He was born from a relationship between the priest king and an unknown Lemurian woman, as we can read in the tear of two races’ item description in Conan exiles. Tyros fell in love with Telith, the witch queen’s daughter, making tyros effectively the witch queen’s son in law, which is what you say.
Also, the giant kings didn’t kill Tyros’ wife, Telith, and his children, Xaalthar and Xaltana. If this was the case, we wouldn’t see Xaalthar become Xaltotun, high priest of set in Acheron, and we also wouldn’t see Xaltana become witch queen of Acheron. Tyros was cursed with eternal life by the priest king in their duel, which Tyros won by defeating his father. Because he had eternal life, he witnessed his loved ones fall around him and how he had to seclude himself in the black keep with his undead silent legion. His wife Telith died and was buried in Imi’s cradle on telith’s island by Xaalthar and Xaltana, and of course, Xaltana and Xaltotun would, presumably, die of things like old age or death in battle, all while Tyros remained in the black keep under his curse of eternal life.
I think this makes Tyros’ story far more depressing, as watching your loved ones die around you while you still live is, in my opinion, far worse than them being downright killed.
@@joelkp1185 happy to be corrected, You're right - i was writing this off memory and some wires got crossed - Tyros' relation to the witch-queen is by marriage.
I think what imprinted it wrongly in my mind after so long is the lorestones left by the witch queen, because they felt so much more impactful realising that she had a daughter and grandchildren at stake - also that the witch queen's magic were part of the birth of Tyros, since the priestking on his own failed without her help. Or "failed" - if i remember right, i think the abysmal remnant was the result of his first attempt but i'm not sure anymore ^^
Love these stories, joel bylos crafted us a masterpiece.
I haven't read Conan but as a massive fan of fantasy and history, especially alt history like Atlantis, Hyperboria. It sounds awesome!
It’s the OG of fantasy for a reason!
Read Tower of the Elephant. It's a young Conan, one of his first adventures.
Queen of the Black Coast is hailed as not only one of Howard's best stories, but one of the best pulp stories and one of the best fantasy stories ever written, period.
Every thumbnail of this channel looks like a microsoft powerpoint made by a schizophrenic dude trying to explain how politicians are lizard people. I love it. Keep up the awesome work, there needs to be more attention on this setting.
This channel is a treasure trove for the Conan fan. Awesome work as always!
Means the world, thank you!
This video is fantastically composed and loaded with skillfully put together lore. It really feels like a foundation for dozens of other more in depth videos...
Hyboria and Lovecraft deserve a Luetin09 quality youtuber for decades worth (recently hitting a century worth) of material.
The quality of your mic setup is exceptional and and part of the appeal. Too many streamers create content with really bad mics, slimy sounding recordings with excessive lip smacking, or piercing sibilance. Props for avoiding every one of those annoying problems in your videos.
Hopefully the series has a ton of success for you so you make many more. I feel like the view count for these videos will build for many years because it is head and shoulders above others on the same topic, and it is based on such a popular and well established, vast fictional universe.
Thanks brother!
@@GrimDarkHalfOff I've taken the habit of watching one of your videos before bed. You truly have an outstanding voice and mic set up, not to mention the wonderful lore from great fictional universes such as the Cthulhu Mythos, Conan's Hyborian Age, and so on.
Love the lore, have Read Robert E Howards Conan, and now presently reading King Kull
Im going to be honest, Acheron sounds wierdly comfortable... at least for the Giant Kings and Elder Men, a comfortable life with all the technomagical comforts one could dream of from easy access to learning and literature to convinient transport, though of course extremely decadent and filled with intrigue and conspiracy.
While my knowlage of Conan is very shallow im going to guess that a life of say "waking up in a silken poster bed aided by imp servants, going out on the Tavern/Café for a Devil Flower Infused Qawha (Qawha is english pronunciation of the arabic of coffee so imagine dark fantasy starbucks with slaves and extra hedonism), then heading for dark magic tuitions by serpentmen (mostly boring save for the blood magic) then going to watch gladiatorial matches (of which there are 1001 varieties) in the afternoon, followed by heading back home for some more studying and then going back to bed, again aided by imps" is not exactly... the idealized view of how someone should live their lives in Conan, almost all of these steps i said were made on the cost of the suffering of others and so on... let me know if you like my little interpretation of a day of an acheronian.
I like your interpretation of Acheron, makes it more enticing.
Great timing. My new campaign, which has strong links to Acheron, starts next week. I’ll digest this video and it will surely add to my storytelling ventures in the upcoming game. Thanks man!
Np! I also have a huge source list bellow if that helps at all!
@@GrimDarkHalfOff in your opinion how does this empire stand against marvel kingdom like waknanda and others like from game of thrones
Just discovered this channel, as a big Conan fan i am leaving my like and comment for the old algorithmic god on every video i see
I clicked on this video not knowing what to expect at all & knowing nothing of any Conan lore. Color me Impressed. This is concise, well thought out, and structured. The Imagery, examples, and ideas are clearly marked and only reinforce what you say. Impressed is an inadequate word for the stupendous work you have done. This is so fucking cool. I don't have the words. You're so fucking cool.
Been waiting for indepth Acheron info ever since the dlc for exiles was cancelled. Thanks so much for covering this!
I had no idea Conan lore was so awesome!
Acheron Should Rise Again
I agree!
THE F you say!
8 bet their version of "Dixie" is just a random AC song
@@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 i shed what i shed
It is.
The demonic elite are trying to bring them into this world.
I just discovered your channel, and I really like your interest, enthusiasm and takes on Conan lore. I don't want to be That Guy, but the Thurian Continent and the Hyborean Continent are the same thing, only separated by time. The Cataclysm that sank Atlantis made the changes that resulted in the newer map. Please disregard if I misinterpreted what you meant.
I corrected this in my Q&A video that can be found on the channel. I also have a comment thread somewhere in here talking about that as well.
man your videos definitly get me through long work shifts and educate me on further fictional history cheers man
the 'pope hat' is pronounced like fighter but with an m at the beginning, therefore, miter/mitre= mighter
Thanks for the help! My mom is Catholic, but I’ve only ever been in a cathedral once.
Lots to think about. Thank you.
I would like to know more about Acheron's military,a in depth video detailing the different units, weapons, chain of command, military doctrine.
The way the world is going I'm convinced the Conan universe is set in the future after the reset.
Conan stories are set in the future
Brilliant. Every time you post I get excited to fire up my private server and explore/build. Thank you!
That’s why I do it!
Bro this i just discovered you and I love your channel. It's just a great video!
"Hyboria" is not a place, it's an age (and an ancestoral ethnic group), the continent is the Thurian continent for Kull and Conan; that's just me nitpicking. Thank you for the videos, keep em coming.
Do you have a Twitter handle I can tag?
Hyboria is a fictional supercontinent created by Robert E. Howard which first appeared in "The Phoenix on the Sword".
The "Hyborian Age" is literally named after Hyboria.
@@SquirrelGamez negative, go read "The Hyborian Age" Robert E Howard and get back to me, or just keep being a condescending asshole, and be wrong, idgaf
Lol at you both who say that hyperboria isn't a place! Learn that HYPERBOREA comes from the conjoint Hellenic word Υπέρ βόρεια , which means Upper North ,that means the northern part of the North! It refers to the lands of Scandinavia where the ancient Greeks had bases and the existence of hyperborean god Apollo !
Hyboria is the same as hyborean.
@@kafrikotroll8610 wrong again, yes "Hyperborea" is a place, I never said it wasn't, however "Hyboria" is not; but again another babbling jackass. I have the same homework for you,...read the source material "The Hyborian Age" Robert E Howard.
Ah I´ve eagerly awaited this one
Was much better than i expected. Worth the wait. I will watch it again with a notepad on the side.
I believe that UFO you speak of in Conan exile is actually more of a Sky map of some solar system as Dagon says the Lemurians asked him knowledge of the star and he gave it to them in that fashion
Yep
I love this lore please don't stop I learn so much from here conan is so awesome thanks for ur hard work grim
hope we get some more acheron stuff in conan exiles, a building set would be fun!
In Greek myth, Tartarus is, unless I’m mistaken, basically the bottom most, most dangerous and inhospitable level of the underworld. The Acheronian city of Tartarus is located in Argos, which would later go on to become the civilisation of Greece. As such, my theory is that the Argosseans, later, the Greeks, saw the Acheronian empire as literal hell, with its most impregnable military capital as the worst part of the whole empire, which they’d later go on to immortalise in their mythology.
This video was recommended to me while I never had a great knowledge nor interest in Conan as I was very little exposed to it and even went out of my way to see the original conan movie for culture's sake which did began to pick my interest along the occassional Conan Exiles recommended. But that video appeared and directly appealed for my love of dark demonic ancient civilisations in fantasy and got me hooked to the lore now so I'm happy to have found that video out!
I'm eager to hear more about all of the demon gods but also demons in general along with the stories of Stygia which has grabbed my interest
I just came by your channel while browsing UA-cam and I am loving it. Made me download Conan Exiles again, you've earned yourself a subscriber!
It annoys me to no end every time the Kull movie refers to the restoration of "ancient Acheron." That's what you get when you take a plot from a Conan story and set it in the Thurian age.
This is great! Do you have plans to tackle the Khari civilization? I know they're pretty much only mentionned in Conan Exiles but the idea of a proto-stygian people is interesting as all hell.
Well I mean between this video and the Giant Kings one we covered the Lemurians and Khari (with in a Hyborian context) fully. I wouldn’t mind devoting a a video to where they come from, but the Exiles wiki really does say it all. “They were a slave nation [under acheron] that would later birth Stygian culture”. I wouldn’t mind doing a video on lifestyle in Conan and doing a section of the video on slavery tho.
@@GrimDarkHalfOff Or perhaps as a small chapter in a bigger video on Stygia? I know you've talked about them too in different videos but the same kind of minor issue arises, the lore discussion is scattered across many vids. In any case, keep up the good work. Already looking forward to the next video. :)
@@MrJingui I like the Stygia idea! I’ve been meaning to do solo human culture videos for a while!
Awesome, I just found you yesterday too and your presentation style is awesome
Ah shoot, here we goooo!!!
Been waiting for this one!
You are going to be huge one day man keep up the good work you are going places
Your videos are the reason i'm getting my feet into all things Conan and weired tales!!. Pluss this video just proves even more how GRRM has been inspired by Robert E howards work for for his take on Asshai by the shadow and 'the others' as otherwordley peoples ;). thanks man
Swarzennegar was contracted for 3 Conan movies by Dino De Laurentiis but filming accidents drove insurance companies off.
To fulfill his contract Ahhnold made a cameo in Red Sonja.
It geniuenly never occured me Conan had so much lore, holy shit
grim dark's content is just so good
That is a good research you did about the another Empire What other civilization from the hyborean age you want to talk about next
idk. I'm kinda working on a homebrew Warhammer 40,000BC right now
@@GrimDarkHalfOff that sounds cool
Amazing work. I am hooked...
Awesome history lesson thank you teacher. Love your content it has already become a daily ritual listening to your conan lore videos. Thank you for researching and presenting this knowledge.
Huh... Never thought Isthar could be another avatar/name for Shub-Niggurath. Welp, there goes me envisioning her as a goddess of beauty. XD
Useless godess anyway :-)
I mean the black goat with a thousand young is a fertility God.
Also might as well point out the greek god Aphroditie is a very late adition to the Helianic pantheon and basically a greek adoption of Istar into their pantheon due to contact via trade routes
So now you can picture both Istar and Aphroditie as warped lovecraftian gods pumping out darkyoung offspring.
Her beauty is purely subjective, it makes totally sense that Shub Niggurath coikd take a beautiful form, keeping in line with her fertility goddess nature.
3:40 "...venerate their ancestors was through worship, Lamborghini, KNOWLEDGE!"
More Conan lore, hell yea!
8:03 more maps like this plz
Your videos are great to listen to while working on a DnD session or working on models and terrain a very smooth voice and a subject that interests me greatly.
Just stumbled across this awesome UA-cam channel and love all the content!!!!!
Oh hell yeah! Didn't realize it would be out this quick lol.
Hey love these long videos that I can play in the background well worldbuilding for my d&d/pathfinder game. What would be the best Conan TTRPG? Curious if there is a good RPG version of this out there to play, honestly hate playing humans in games but this is one of the only settings id play a human in.
I just subscribed thanks for making these videos I love the Conan lore
Great stuff man, keep it up.
As someone that only reads the Conan pulp comics this is a wonderful channel! I might have to check out Exiles.
Damn, I didn't know Conan the Barbarian was such a dark and fucked up setting, very interesting.
I love your videos, I listen to them on my commute back in forth from work. 🎉
Great to hear!
I really enjoyed this one. Had me captivated the whole way.
Good job King. Keep pumping that iron!
I really enjoy the Conan videos but was wondering if you could cover the time when Conan had to fight shemagoreath? I know it doesn’t have really anything to do with the exiles game but it still seems like a cool event that’s not covered very well. Thank you for the videos.
Suffice to say the prehistoric times consisted of much, much treasure.
And modern times consists of many things far beyond the conceptual capabilities of primitive humans.
As someone who knows nothing of Conan, this sounds like a fucking drug trip fueled fever dream........
Love it.
56 minutes of grim, can’t wait to hear ur voice
This is awesome i love learning about the lore of conan i would love to see more of the khari empire the predecessors of the stygian empire and also the ones who enslaved thousands of different races and tribes along with the lemurians
I’m so using this as inspiration for a Pathfinder game.
This was an awesome video, it really has inspired my own world building
Your voice reminds me of this, am I the only one?
"The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides, now crippled beyond repair, the remnants of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by 4000 years of total war"
Another amazing lore video. Love it.
Again another great narration 🙏🏻
Always a fan of "Dark" Empire/Kingdoms/Civilizations. An entire empire based off of demon worship and human sacrifice and dark magics. Is pretty epic! Stared playing Conan Exiles a year ago and absolutely love the giant king's culture and architecture.
Good we have a video on that too!
Its insulting you aren't an actual voice actor, you would be amazing
Have you read the D&D 3e books about "Conan"? They're very detailed.
No but I’ll look into it!
Who crucified Goro? How did they crucify Goro?
CHRIST - FATALITY!
@@GrimDarkHalfOff I rant hum in the next Mk game. Hell, I want Conan in an MK game
Just discover your channel today and holy shit your contents great👍
Thank you!
Make Acheron Great Again!
What's the name of the music in the opening?
Hi, I really love these lore videos and tend to return to them often, they remind me of the history documentaries I used to watch as a kid and I would marvel at every bit of trivia about ancient cultures.
Regarding the placement of Python, didn't "Old Stygia" encompass Shem as well? That way it's not unlikely for Python to be located there, maybe somewhere near the border with Stygian proper?
You won a subscriber in me for the "Make Acheron Great Again" comparison of the far right to the evilest Conan empire. Freakin' brilliant.
Hi, just wanted to say this is an amazing video but I needed to know something specific from the timestamp 39:30 circa...which UFO are you talking about? I haven't visited the Sunken City fully yet so I'm not sure which ruin or construct you are referring to
Don’t worry I was being an idiot, it’s the star charts found in the sunken city
Source for the Hyboria map you use? I also love it.
I could not help but feel a shiver a fear ripple up my spine when hearing of this foul civilization.
Congratulations you are the first person who actually had the reaction I hoped people would 👍🏼
It was the exact opposite for me,I would enjoy Acheron. Xaltoltun sent me.
Is the background ground music around the end like in 40:00 from the video game Journey?
Cool.
Make Acheron great again lol
Movie trailer voice.
Good stuff.
Just stumbled onto your channel. Fantastic content, bud!
I would have loved to play exiles with you. Loremaster
*bows in gi* thank you
I don't see REH's novel the Hour of the Dragon in the source list. It is the most complete source of lore on Xaltotun and the priest kings of Acheron in the Hyborian Age. It's also a great adventure story demonstrating the heroism and sorcery in Robert Ervin Howard's literary world.
Great book, Xaltotun was Conan's most formidable opponent.
You know I really do have to wonder, how exactly do you fit the Khari, described in Conan Exiles as essentially the precursors and former inhabitants of Stygia, into this whole narrative? From what I understood, the Giant kings were the original inhabitants of Stygia, and the sailing of Lemurians from their sinking islands in the east of the continentto Stygia in its center and then back to the Exiled lands which should be in Hyperboria/Turan is a geographic nightmare.
Can't believe I copped this shit half off! Excellent move, ya jabroni!
Please do dnd lore videos!!
Your voice is meant for it
You should work for Funcom
And here it is.
I know i'm probably not the first to say this. But we need "Make Acheron Great Again" merch.
I really need a merch store
@@GrimDarkHalfOff Will it be 50% off?
I'm sorry. I'll let myself out.
Goro finally found someone worse than himself, hence crucifixion.
Around 9:30, "the dirty deeds..."
DONE DIRT CHEAP
i need a make acheron great again hat
And I want a merch store!
"Make Acheron Great Again" lmfao