Elder Hyperborea / Age of Dragons[]

Elder Hyperborea existed in Lemuria, at time where the Dragon Kings ruled the Earth.^[2]

The Hyperborean Wall was built in what was known during the Hyborian Age as the Graaskal Mountains by "the Elders" in the time before Man.

The wild men living in Hyperborea during the Hyborian Age of Conan, circa 10,000 BC, were said to have lived there since men climbed from the trees, before the death of the Old Ones.^[7]

Eibon's era / Pre-Cataclysmic Age[]

The Pnakotic Manuscripts were found back in Hyperborea during Eibon's era.^[8]

The Book of Eibon was written by Eibon's apprentice in Pre-Cataclysic Hyperborea.^[9]

After the Great Cataclysm[]

Rise of the Hyborians[]

After the Great Cataclysm,^[10] Hyperborea was originally inhabited by the savage snow-apes, until savages led by Bori repelled them into the Icy Wastes. That area became the Hyborian homeland.^[11]

Hyperborea the Elder[]

The Hyperboreans were the first Hyborian tribe to discover stonemasonry, and abandoned their primitive nomadic way to settle. The former nomads crafted huge stone-walled dwellings for themselves.^[12] Circa 16,000 BC, they founded their barbaric kindom,^[13] which began with a crude fortress of boulders that help them repel tribal attacks.^[14]

1500 years after Bori, the Hybori achieved a fairly high culture, and started to conquer and absorb weaker tribes until eventually establishing the first Hyborian kingdom: Hyperborea the Elder.^[3]

The Hybori tribes who resisted or rebelled against Hyperborea migrated southwards in an invading horde,^[3][4] that spilled into Acheron.^[4]

Hyborian Age[]

Hyperborea[]

The first kingdom of Hyperborea was overthrown by another tribe,^[14] the Aesir.^[15][3][4] The Aesir settled in the ruins, married and bred with the survivors and created a new kingdom,^[4] which retained the old name.^[14][4]

Lanjau was the furthest southern outpost of the Hyperboreans, but later found itself into western Corinthia.^[16]

The other Aesir and the Vanir eventually drove out of the snow-countries all the remaining Hyborians except for Hyperborea. Their country was called Nordheim).^[14]

Hyperborea suffered imperialistic attacks from Turan.^[17]

In the generation before Conan, Hyperboreans tried to subdue Cimmeria, only to be hurled back in their land.^[18]

Age of Conan / Vammatar's rule (10,000 BC)[]

During the Age of Conan, Vammatar was queen of Hyperborea, ruling from her castle of Haloga.^[19] It remains unknown whether or not she was the Finnish goddess Vammatar, a human host, a recipient for her power, a poseur, or simply coincidentally shared the same name. She was also allied with Louhi, the witch-queen of Pohiola, an Hyperborean citadel.^[20]

An ambitious under-king,^[21] King Tomar entered war with King Brian's Brythunia, to the south. The two kings slew each other, and the Hyperborean god Bori left the Earth plane afterwards.^[22]

Hyperborea invaded (9,500 BC)[]

Circa 9,500 BC, the Hyrkanians hordes (Hyrkanians and Turanians united under one great chief) stormed the west, sweeping first over Zamora, then Brythunia, Hyperborea, and Corinthia,^[23] going around the Vilayet Sea by the north, and conquering the kingdom.^[4]

After a short age, they were repelled by the Nordic-Nemedians, themselves fleeing the invasion of the Cimmerians and Nordics into Nemedia.^[23]

Antiquity[]

Sometime circa 1,300 to 1,100 BC, the Hyperboreans were (to the Greeks and Anatolians) a people of blonds who dwelt "beyond the North wind".^[5]

Facts[]

Geography and Fauna[]

The realm of Hyperborea contained gloomy mountains, desolate hills, and bleak plains. Wolves, cave bears, reindeer, musk oxen, and mammoths roamed the land,^[12] as well as Polar Tigers living in the White Woods.^[24]

Hyperborean race[]

The Hyperboreans were lean, and gaunt with pale skin, and white hair. Their most striking features were their unusual height^[4][12] of 7 feet (2,13 meters) and their sparkling, cat-like,^[12] greenish eyes.^[4]

The people of Hyperborea were originally Hyborians. After having invaded, the Aesir intermarried with the survivors. Later, by the Age of Conan, through the influx of the slaves, also added genetics from Hyrkanian and Zamorian stock.^[4]

Society and politics[]

Class divisions were rather rigid in Hyperborea. Most commoners were serfs who resided in huts and hovels. They struggled to farm the land and herd cattle in this cold land. The famed stone keeps of Hyperborea were reserved for the ruling class, which mostly consisting of powerful wizards and witches. The local magical organization was the White Hand. The Hyperboreans were led by a priestess-queen, living incarnation of their Goddess of Death.

Though Hyperborean armies seldom ventured far from their borders, the reach of Hyperborea in world affairs was not be underestimated. The rulers trained and employed highly effective assassins, an elite of their age. They took pride in leaving no mark on the bodies of their victims, making their work untraceable. Hyperborean slave raiders plagued the neighboring lands in an effort to provide a cheap labor force for the homeland, resulting in hereditary enmity with various neighbors, including Cimmeria.^[12]

Religion[]

At the time of Conan, the Hyperboreans worshiped the war god Borri,^[22] and they were led by a priestess-queen, living incarnation of their Goddess of Death^[12] (This statement could be about Vammatar, who was both the queen of Haloga,^[19] and a goddess of evil, misfortune,^[25] pain and suffering).^[26]

The oldest god of the Hyperboreans was the elder god Bardisattva the Very Old, or Bardis, the god of the Coya clan, while despised by the Clan Curgill. The Land of Bardisattva was forbidden to all but the Silent Followers, priests of the Coya.^[27]

Alternate Realities[]

Earth-90976[]

The cult of Sodatha formerly occupied a city in the highest ranges of the Graaskal Mountains, which was later inhabited by wild clans of Hyperboreans, united into a legion by a Witch Queen.^[28]