12 Facts About Hyborian Era

1.

Howard described the Hyborian Era Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history.

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2.

Hyborian Era had traveled past the Arctic Circle and returned with news that their old adversaries, the apes, were never annihilated.

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3.

Hyborian Era believed they were quickly evolving to human status and would pose a threat to the Hyborians in the future.

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4.

Hyborian Era attempted to recruit a significant military force to campaign against them, but most Hyborians were not convinced by his tales; only a small group of foolhardy youths followed his campaign.

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5.

The mixed-blooded Hyborian Era tribes were in turn forced to defend their new territories from pure-blooded Hyborian Era tribes which followed the same paths of migration.

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6.

Howard's Hyborian Era epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Era Age, is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists.

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7.

Hyborian Era is acknowledged as the chief god by the lead character Conan, and his proto-Celtic Cimmerian people.

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8.

Hyborian Era is the only member of the Cimmerian pantheon named with any regularity.

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9.

Hyborian Era is probably loosely based on the Vedic and Zoroastrian figure by the same name, and in the Hyborian universe, his worship generally represents Christianity.

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10.

Mitra is the chief god of most of the civilized Hyborian Era kingdoms, including Aquilonia, Ophir, Nemedia, Brythunia, Corinthia, and Zingara.

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11.

Hyborian Era's worshippers are monolatristic, since at least one tale depicts priests of Mitra recognizing the existence of Set.

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12.

Hyborian Era is symbolically represented by a phoenix in Howard's writing, by an Ankh in the Age of Conan MMORPG, and by a bronze colossus in the survival video game Conan Exiles.

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