![]() Expansion and encounter with the Hybori (15,000 BC)Īdvancing still their frontier, they first encountered the wandering Hyborians circa 15,000 BC. Īcheron soon broke off Stygian control, though it remained Stygian in culture. The claim of Acheron being set within the Shem-Stygia region on an ancient map was considered an error from the map-maker. The capital, Python, was likely set in southern Nemedia, possibly on the plain north of Hanumar though it could as well be located in Aquilonia. the ancient kingdom of Acheron was founded by a northern offshoot of the Lemurian survivors, Stygians from Khemi, who established an outpost at the embouchure of the Tybor and expanded up-river, while enslaving or destroying the small unclassified tribes it encountered. History Foundation and early years (15,500 BC)Ĭirca 15,500 BC, thousand years after the Great Cataclysm. 1.2 Expansion and encounter with the Hybori (15,000 BC).1.1 Foundation and early years (15,500 BC).Īt its high point, circa 13,000 BC (before its Fall), Acheron went from the Western Ocean at south to the territory of the Gundermen and Cimmerians at north, bordered at southwest by the Zingg settlements, at west by the Bossonians and the Shirki, at west (from north to south by the Aquiloni, the Nemedi, the Corinthia, and the kingdoms of Ophir and Koth. The empire thrived from 15,500 BC to 13,000 BC, a period known as the Age of Acheron. The Nemedian Chronicles Īcheron was an ancient and now fallen civilization of early mankind, a sorcerer-riddled ancient evil nation of purple towered cities. But of all that were told, none had the power to terrify and entice as that of. The legends of necromancy, and legends of treasure long buried and all but forgotten. Three thousand years after its fall the races of the Hyborian world would only dare to speak of ancient Acheron in hushed tones of whispered fear. For twenty five centuries, purple towered Python, crown city of the Acheronian Empire, held court in a reign of terror. This is all just off the cuff, but I hope you can see where I'm going with it.Know ye, O Prince, that in the centuries after the Great Cataclysm, more than five thousand years before the rise of The Hyborian Age, thrived a kingdom forged by sorcery and suckled on evil known as Acheron. The result will be a height map given significant granularity by Howard's own mostly-whitespace paper map, with select intervention to correct for obvious flaws in the method. Likewise, where rivers are, it can be manually lowered. In situations where Hyborian national borders coincide with where mountain ranges are mentioned, the "contrast" in the vicinity can be manually raised along the appropriate vectors, effectively drawing upward the height map as if plucking at a bed sheet. Second is the presence of superfluous data, such Howard's traced overlay of the real world. First is a lack of any significant sign of mountains. There will be two critical issues with the Hyborian map. Even with the lightest touch, it might provide useful numerical results, lending the Hyborian data a vague similarity with the world to come. Optionally, interpolate that map data with actual height maps of Earth. Now you have something akin to a height map, albeit not representative of anything in particular - i.e., no Hyborian landmarks, just random height data. Then play with contrast and such to bring out a meaningful level of difference. Obviously, scan Howard's maps as finely as possible. Here's my layman's conception of how it would work: I've seen some impressive results from the Middle-Earth DEM Project, using Outerra to programmatically generate realistic landscapes from height maps, which makes me wonder whether such a procedure could work here, perhaps using the fluctuations in Howard's paper and ink to numerically tease out a different landscape from an actual map of Earth. ![]() Essentially, I anticipate that every bump and fiber and smudge of Howard's original maps can now be matched to coordinates in some shape or form. Are these attempts at creating an Hyborian Age globe available somewhere? What is the status of the effort? It sounds like the parties involved understand the geometry of mapping, as well as the maps Howard traced from, and so with today's computers it should be a snap to formulate the most accurate interpretation yet.
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