Hyborian Age
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Sep 14, 2026
Hieronymus J. DoomHOST
It's a series of sword and sorcery novels written by a black author very much in response to the othering of people of African descent in pulp fiction.
Hieronymus J. DoomHOST
It's set in an imaginary version of Africa, which feels a lot like Howard's Hyborian Age, a mythic past of gods and monsters.
Hieronymus J. DoomHOST
The stories are really good and show that there's nothing about good pulpy fantasy that actually has to be racist.
Hieronymus J. DoomHOST
Overall, I found a surprising amount to like about Tarzan and the Tower of the Diamonds.
JasonHOST
And another one to read, you should read some of Howard's stories first.
JasonHOST
But what's really interesting, if you're interested in that kind of idea, is read the Hyborian Age essay by Howard.
JasonHOST
Because Hibernian Age Essay is where he lays out his world building.
JasonHOST
And he explains from the dawn of time in his world.
JasonHOST
So,
DanielGUEST
Yeah, that's what I meant when I said Dominion Chronicles.
DanielGUEST
The Hyborian Age.
DanielGUEST
That's what...
Thomas RoseNARRATOR
Recording by Thomas Rose.
KlaatuNARRATOR
The Hyborian Age by Robert E. Howard.
KlaatuNARRATOR
This is a LibriVox recording.
KlaatuNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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KlaatuNARRATOR
There were no cities anywhere except in Stygia and the lands of Shem.
KlaatuNARRATOR
The invading tides of Picts, Hyrkanians, Cimmerians, and Nordics had leveled them in ruins, and the once dominant Hyborians had vanished from the earth, leaving scarcely a trace of their blood in the veins of their conquerors.
KlaatuNARRATOR
Only a few names of lands, tribes, and cities remained in the languages of the barbarians, to come down through the centuries connected with distorted legend and fable, until the whole history of the Hyborian age was lost sight of in a cloud of myths and fantasies.
KlaatuNARRATOR
Thus in the speech of the Gypsies lingered the terms Zingara and Zamora.
JoeyHOST
Real quick, he said, "Now we're here in the Thurian Age," but that's not true to you guys.
JoeyHOST
You guys are of the Hyborian Age.
JoeyHOST
Would we know-
JasonHOST
Do we know...
JasonHOST
Well, King Cole, Atlantis fell thousands of years ago.
JasonHOST
You are mistaken, or you are a ghost.
JasonHOST
This is the Hyborian Age.
JoeyHOST
He'll look at you puzzled, 'cause he would have no idea what that is.
Troy SauerHOST
When I see the subhumans, I'm like, oh, those are the Picts.
Troy SauerHOST
The Picts in a Robert E. Howard Conan world, they live beyond the western frontier of the Aquilonia and are this really primitive group compared to the Hyborian kingdoms.
Troy SauerHOST
And so when Robert E. Howard describes those in his books and then you see these subhumans in Fire and Ice, you're like, wow, they captured that 100%.
Troy SauerHOST
It's so cool to see just that literature kind of pop up within this.
James HollowayHOST
But if I'm Conan and it turns out that the bad guy survived when I burned his pirate ship to the waterline, well, okay.
James HollowayHOST
Outrageous things happen in the Hyborian Age, don't they? But they better not happen twice.
James HollowayHOST
I mentioned bringing him back as a cyborg.
James HollowayHOST
That's really an example of recycling strategy three.
BJ BoydSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There are two games I think of.
BJ BoydSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
If you want to go more pulp, weird fiction, science fantasy, Hyperborea, because that... creates a world vaguely reminiscent of Robert Howard's Hyborian Age, but you've got buried in there some very some some other weird fiction, sci fi stuff, some Lovecraftian stuff and some stuff from that kind of inspired by Clark Ashton Smith in particular.
BJ BoydSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So for Hyperborea, if you want A more futuristic type of science fan, a game that a lot of people don't...
BJ BoydSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I've played a lot that is really fun that maybe a lot of people look past is Coyote and Crow, which I've talked about a couple times on my show.
JasonHOST
no offense monolith i haven't read them either so i can't really come
JoeyHOST
their adventures are okay it's just they're like uh when i was reading them i was like this is too it's good for beginners right but we're not beginner players and we're not uh beginners well most of us aren't beginners to like Conan's type of fantasy and stuff so it's like I want to do like real Conan shit right from the get go but that being said the game itself is called Conan Hyborian Age Age of Hyboria The Hyborian Age.
JoeyHOST
The Hyborian Age.
JoeyHOST
And I believe the game is meant to be set like the rules and the stuff you're picking from.
JoeyHOST
It's the time between... sometime before Conan becomes King.
JoeyHOST
here to do with our session zero.
JoeyHOST
Each player is going to create a PC player character.
JoeyHOST
The hero, and I like how it says in parentheses, or scoundrel, that they will embody during the adventures through the Hyborian Age.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
It was uninhabited, all but forgotten, merely one among the myriad isles which dotted the great inland sea.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
Men called it Zapor the Fortified because of its ruins, remnants of some prehistoric kingdom, lost and forgotten before the conquering Hyborians had ridden southward.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
No one knew who reared these stones, though dim legends lingered among the Yuechi which half intelligibly suggested a connection of immeasurable antiquity between the fishers and the unknown island kingdom.
Gregg MargariteNARRATOR
But it had been a thousand years since any Yuechi had understood the import of these tales.
Josh AddisonHOST
This was sort of one of these occult traditions.
Josh AddisonHOST
Hyperborea, I always got that confused with the Conan the Barbarian stuff, but that was the Hyborian Age, although, of course, he, he was basing that on these stories of Hyperborea and Hyperboreans.
M. R. X. DentithHOST
And a fun fact, the reason why Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, did them was that he wanted to set things in the past, but he didn't really want to have to do any historical research.
M. R. X. DentithHOST
So he went, "I'm just gonna deal with a prehistoric age-
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