Hyborian Age
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Fantasy (Sword & Sorcery) Fantasy Fantasy (High Fantasy) Kid-Friendly Fantasy (Low Fantasy)
The Hyborian Age is a fictional period of Earth's history within the artificial mythology created by Robert E. Howard, serving as the setting for the sword and sorcery tales of Conan the Barbarian.
The word "Hyborian" is derived from the legendary northern land of the ancient Greeks, Hyperborea, and is rendered as such in the earliest draft of Howard's essay "The Hyborian Age." Howard described the Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history.
A low-fantasy setting, inhabited mainly by humans though a few beings, like demons, also show up. It is a very cruel, brutal, raw setting as Robert E. Howard wrote it, with Conan being an archetypal anti-hero.
