Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Proposed Revised Social Standing Table

Advanced Fighting Fantasy 2 • Re: Proposed Revised Social Standing Table

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Perhaps before the break-up of Irritarria there were more sophisticated social structures, e.g. Atlantis and it's colonies on the mainland. As a side-note I see parallels with Robert E. Howard's Thurian Age (i.e. Pre-Hyboria) with its pre-cataclysmic Atlantis-dominated political map.

Conan Gazetteer wrote:
Atlantis:---a small continent in the Western Ocean with a high level of culture, between the Pictish Isles and the Thurian continent. Witch-kings, whose emblem was a black kraken, ruled Atlantis. There was also a daughter-colony of the Atlantean kingdom on the Thurian mainland. Atlantis reached its highest culture after the fall of Valusia. Atlantean colonists on the mainland are said to have intermarried with the barbarian people of "Elder Cimmeria". Some 8000 years before the birth of Conan, a geological event termed the Cataclysm took place. Atlantis sank beneath the ocean. Part of its population managed to flee in ships to Antilla and to Thuria, but most of the Atlanteans perished. Their stock was preserved in the daughter-colony on the Thurian mainland, which quickly descended into savagery. Robert E. Howard calls the degenerate Atlanteans "apish", which is surely an exaggeration, since only a few thousand years later they became the Cimmerians. The genetic heritage of ancient Atlantis has its culmination in Conan and his barbarian congeners. (Hyborian Age I, Castle of Terror, Tower of the Elephant, Conan of the Isles, Exile of Atlantis, Shadow Kingdom, Altar and the Scorpion, et al.)

Statistics: Posted by LordArioch — Fri Nov 04, 2016 1:15 am

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November 3, 2016 at 06:19PM