I would, however, encourage any serious student of the literature to pick up the books themselves and do the reading necessary to draw informed conclusions. Nevertheless, patterns certainly do emerge. It is beyond the scope of this project to include commentary discussing how “accurate” any of the information may be. It is well to keep in mind that these things are often from the viewpoint of Conan himself and, to a lesser degree, a host of other characters, in making observations about races or cultures they themselves are not a part of and may actually know next to nothing about. I have not cataloged every instance of a word such as Cimmerian or Stygian or Turan or Aquilonia but have confined myself to only those instances that give at least some snippet of information regarding race, appearance of people, culture, religion or gods and demons. The real lore, untainted by pastiche authors, comics, movies, or the whole cloth fanciful inventions of games. And so, in frustration, I have taken my cue from the online entries of games set in Howard’s Hyboria and compiled all of the information I can find in an exhaustive re-reading of Howard’s Conan stories in order to share with other roleplayers and storytellers the actual lore or Hyboria as written by its original author. Sadly, no such wiki or archive exists that is available to the public. I had originally hoped there was somewhere a searchable wiki on just the original works of Howard so that I could put in a search for, say, Cimmeria, and find every instance of its mention that I might be able to verify various information regarding it. This collection is meant to catalog only what Howard himself wrote about his world and is focused primarily on quotes that give some information as to the physical and cultural aspects of the various races, including their religions and gods. The works of other authors and sources will not be included. Howard for his fictional world of the Hyborian Age, the setting of his Conan the Barbarian stories. Purpose and scope: To create a repository of information on the religious and cultural aspects, as well as descriptions of the people and lands themselves, of the races created by Robert E.
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