Hyborian Age
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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.
A phoenix, the symbol of Mitra, from the Aberdeen Bestiary
Kull of Atlantis
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Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by American writer Robert E. Howard. The character was more introspective than Howard's subsequent creation, Conan the Barbarian
Hyborian Age
…and it 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. Most later editors and adaptors such as L. Sprague de Camp and Roy Thomas placed the Hyborian Age…
Illustration for Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom" in Weird Tales (August 1929), Kull's first appearance