Acheron in Conan Lore Explained (Study and Theory Crafting)

Another great Conan lore video. Well done! As a longtime Lovecraft fan I really appreciate that you are in the know with the the Lovecraftian elements. Did you know that Yog Sothoth is actually in Age of Conan? It's avatar can be summoned in House of Crom by a 24 man raid. And you actually have to do a ritual in several stages to open the portal. Also Nyarlathotep is behind a lot of crazy stuff in AOC you can actually meet him in the Dragon's spine zone in this elaborate solo quest line and there are plenty of writings on the walls of House of Crom about the Crawling Chaos, and the Shining Trapezohedron, the serpent people and Kull oh and in Dragon's spine you encounter the Trapezohedron (a stygian archeologist goes completely nuts when you bring him a fragment). There are many more Lovecraft lore pieces in AOC. though several of them are in group content. ps. In house of Crom, you can listen to some atlantean ghosts talking about Cthulhu dreaming in his house in R'yeh :D Edit: Oh and the Entity in the Jade Citadel has a special message for Herald Of Xotli players about Hastur and Nyarlathotep. Ok I will shut up now :D

Regarding the reversal of attractive / desirable features, I like to imagine that a squadron of puppies would have acheronians fleeing in terror.

You know the more I hear about the Conan universe the more I think about how Island theory seems to hold true for the hyper advanced entities in the setting that more or less stop traveling the outer dark and settle on a planet. And what I mean by Island theory is how if you take a group of people stick them on an island with very little in the way of predation and no real way for their enemies to get at them then they start forgetting their technology and just effectively turn back the clock on what they are able to maintain and produce

So, in Acheron, having a big, powerful, ugly demon to carry you around was the modern equivalent of owning a Ferari or Lamborghini? A succubus is something like a trophy wife? I kind of love that image.

Public education immediately followed by demonic sorcery, haha I love this channel. Also the talking cat the best!

The reason the player can understand all lorestones in the exiled lands, is part of their original design. The bracelets were originally designed to ease the communication between lemurian settlers and the original Giant-King inhabitants. Basically, it auto-translates - this feature only being disabled in the gallery of the priest king, above the undead dragon arena as referrenced in one of the lore-stones where the archivist explains to the slaves serving there that it is for the privacy of the high ranking giant kings there. The bracelet was a result of the combined magic of the witch-queen and the priest-king, in their efforts to co-exist while the two civilizations were still at peace. When the lemurians declared war on the serpent-men in the volcano, the giant-kings turned the bracelet against them, activating a dormant "safety" in the bracelet that would trap the lemurian slaves inside the wall, while the lemurian free city of Xel-Ha would be sealed outside the first wall (the broken ghostwall totems that borders the jungle/swamp biome). In turn, the witch queen was able to undermine the bracelet to leave lorestones across the exiled lands that only her enslaved kin could understand, the only other referance to the bracelets not translating universally. On a sidenote just because i love this lore, listening to all the lemurian lorestones in order take on a whole new heartbreaking meaning once you realise that she is not pleading to her enslaved lemurian kin, but primarily to her son (in-law, ty Joel), Tyros, the half giant-king slave champion who was concieved with the help of magic by the witch-queen and the priest-king. Indeed, Tyros did rebel, and as punishment the Giant-Kings killed (?) his children and his wife Telith, who's grave you'll find on Telith's island in the exiled lands. In addition,the priest-king cursed Tyros and his legion of slave-warriors to never grant the rest of death,trapping them to guard Xullan (the black keep) as undead for eternity.

This channel is a treasure trove for the Conan fan. Awesome work as always!

I haven't read Conan but as a massive fan of fantasy and history, especially alt history like Atlantis, Hyperboria. It sounds awesome!

Love the lore, have Read Robert E Howards Conan, and now presently reading King Kull

Every thumbnail of this channel looks like a microsoft powerpoint made by a schizophrenic dude trying to explain how politicians are lizard people. I love it. Keep up the awesome work, there needs to be more attention on this setting.

This video is fantastically composed and loaded with skillfully put together lore. It really feels like a foundation for dozens of other more in depth videos... Hyboria and Lovecraft deserve a Luetin09 quality youtuber for decades worth (recently hitting a century worth) of material. The quality of your mic setup is exceptional and and part of the appeal. Too many streamers create content with really bad mics, slimy sounding recordings with excessive lip smacking, or piercing sibilance. Props for avoiding every one of those annoying problems in your videos. Hopefully the series has a ton of success for you so you make many more. I feel like the view count for these videos will build for many years because it is head and shoulders above others on the same topic, and it is based on such a popular and well established, vast fictional universe.

Acheron Should Rise Again

I clicked on this video not knowing what to expect at all & knowing nothing of any Conan lore. Color me Impressed. This is concise, well thought out, and structured. The Imagery, examples, and ideas are clearly marked and only reinforce what you say. Impressed is an inadequate word for the stupendous work you have done. This is so fucking cool. I don't have the words. You're so fucking cool.

Just discovered this channel, as a big Conan fan i am leaving my like and comment for the old algorithmic god on every video i see

I had no idea Conan lore was so awesome!

Been waiting for indepth Acheron info ever since the dlc for exiles was cancelled. Thanks so much for covering this!

Great timing. My new campaign, which has strong links to Acheron, starts next week. I’ll digest this video and it will surely add to my storytelling ventures in the upcoming game. Thanks man!

Im going to be honest, Acheron sounds wierdly comfortable... at least for the Giant Kings and Elder Men, a comfortable life with all the technomagical comforts one could dream of from easy access to learning and literature to convinient transport, though of course extremely decadent and filled with intrigue and conspiracy. While my knowlage of Conan is very shallow im going to guess that a life of say "waking up in a silken poster bed aided by imp servants, going out on the Tavern/Café for a Devil Flower Infused Qawha (Qawha is english pronunciation of the arabic of coffee so imagine dark fantasy starbucks with slaves and extra hedonism), then heading for dark magic tuitions by serpentmen (mostly boring save for the blood magic) then going to watch gladiatorial matches (of which there are 1001 varieties) in the afternoon, followed by heading back home for some more studying and then going back to bed, again aided by imps" is not exactly... the idealized view of how someone should live their lives in Conan, almost all of these steps i said were made on the cost of the suffering of others and so on... let me know if you like my little interpretation of a day of an acheronian.

I would like to know more about Acheron's military,a in depth video detailing the different units, weapons, chain of command, military doctrine.

man your videos definitly get me through long work shifts and educate me on further fictional history cheers man