Nations

Aquilonia

Aquilonia, known as the Flower of the West, is a land rife with intrigue, murder, horror, and the setting for untold campaigns. Aquilonia feuded with its neighbors Nemedia, Koth, Ophir, Cimmeria, and the Picts; it was eventually conquered and ruled by Conan before being destroyed by the Pictish invasion some five hundred years later.

Argos

Argos is one of the coastal nations of the Hyborian Age. The nation of Argos is in present day Greece, Crete, and western Turkey.

Border Kingdom

The Border Kingdom serves as a safeguard between the peaceful nations of Brythunia and Nemedia against their savage Northern neighbours. It is a Hyborian kingdom, home to exiled nobles, rebellious heirs, and criminals, and serves as a dumping-ground for all manners of miscreants, outlaws, and unwanteds from all across the lands.

Bossonian Marches

The Bossonian Marches, often referred to simply as Bossonia, serve as the iron buffer of the Aquilonian Empire. This frontier province is situated between the civilized Aquilonian heartland, the savage Pictish Wilderness to the west, and the brooding hills of Cimmeria to the north. While recent westward expansion has established the Westermarck as a new frontline against the Picts, the Bossonians remain Aquilonia's primary defense, a role they have fulfilled for centuries.

Brythunia

Brythunia is located north of Corinthia, East of the Border Kingdom and Nemedia, and south of Hyperborea. The nation's borders are defined by mountain ranges on all sides except for its borders with Nemedia, which is defined by the Yellow River. The land is hilly and covered with forests, and is fairly fertile.

Cimmeria

A gloomier land never existed on earth. Cimmeria is a raw, savage, and heavily wooded country of hills and shadowed valleys. Covered by near-constant layers of fog, the dark ground absorbs endless wind and water only to release it back into the misty air. Winds blow sharp and cold, driving rain, sleet, or snow, and moan drearily among the passes and down the valleys. There is little mirth in that land, and men grow moody and strange.

Corinthia

Corinthia is a triangle of land south of Brythunia, west of Zamora, east of Ophir, and north of Koth. Its landscape is mostly dominated by the Karpash Mountains, which run along its south-eastern, southern, and south-western borders. A portion of the southern point of Corinthia is desert where the city-states of Kamalla and Zahmahn are located. The northern reaches of Corinthia are agricultural plains and rolling hills.

Gunderland

Gunderland is a northern province situated between the Aquilonian heartland and Cimmeria. Gunderland was once a separate kingdom but chose to become an Aquilonian vassal to avoid capture as a subject people.

Hyperborea

Hyperborea holds a grim and dramatic place in world history as the very first Hyborian kingdom to come into being.

Hyrkania

Hyrkania is a large, wild patch of land. Desert, forests, green pastures, grasslands, mountains and frozen tundras – all of these can be found within the limits of this terrain.

Iranistan

Iranistan is a rich, fractured landscape of stark contrasts, where glittering, spired cities thrive alongside sun-scorched caravan tracks, volcanic wastes, and imposing mountain ranges.

Khitai

Isolated from the rest of the world both culturally and physically, Khitai stands as one of the most ancient, monolithic empires of the Thurian continent.

Koth

Koth is one of the oldest Hyborian kingdoms, a vast meadowland north of Shem, founded alongside Corinthia and Ophir. It is a vast land populated by 8,850,000 people in over 11,000 small villages, 107 towns and a score of cities.

Nemedia

Nemedia stands proud as the second great kingdom of the Hyborians, a towering empire of intellect, stone, and rigid feudal law. Technologically and economically, it is superior to almost every other nation on the continent, matched only by its fierce, eternal rival to the west, Aquilonia.

Ophir

Ophir is an ancient, wealthy, and hyper-civilized Hyborian kingdom situated directly south of Nemedia and Aquilonia. Geographically, it serves as a crucial buffer state and commercial crossroads between the northern and southern empires of the continent.

The Pictish Wilderness

The Pictish Wilderness is a vast, untamed expanse stretching along the western coastline of the continent.

Shem

Shem acts as a crucial cultural and geographic bridge between the northern Hyborian kingdoms and the southern empire of Stygia. It is a vast, arid land divided by nature into two distinct zones: the fertile, pastoral West and the harsh, desolate East.

Stygia

Stygia is a xenophobic, dark theocracy obsessed with death and the cult of Set. Anchored by the fertile, life-giving River Styx, this sinister land of desert ruins and megalithic cities is ruled by a ruthless elite and guarded by a disciplined army, serving as a bastion of forbidden sorcery.

Turan

Turan is a vast, militaristic empire surrounding the Vilayet Sea. It acts as the primary power in the East. Ruled from the capital of Aghrapur, its influence is enforced by a potent fleet and a standing army that dominates the surrounding kingdoms through sheer size, and ruthless ambition.