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Locations in Hyboria
This section lists the important, legendary, and influential locations of Hyboria. Characters in a Hyborian
campaign will surely want to visit some of these locales. As such, Narrators may wish to use these
locations in game, and they may wish to create scenarios and long-term adventures that take place in
one or more of these places.
Name Location Notes
Acheron Nemedia/Koth
region
An ancient kingdom, extinct in Conan's time, a contemporary of Old
Stygia.
Alkmeenon Keshan Jungle A forbidden city of Keshan, home to the oracle Yelaja. Its location is
unknown save to the high priests of Keshan.
Arenjun Zamora The City of Thieves, location of the fabled Tower of the Elephant.
Atlaia Southern
Jungle
City of the
Winged One
Fires of the
South
A mysterious kingdom south of Stygia, presumed to be south of the
kingdom of the Amazons.
Black Kingdoms Founded in the dim recesses of pre-history, before the Stygians
developed civilization, by a race of beautiful humanlike creatures.
Through a series of disasters, most of the population was killed. Said to
be haunted.
Land of No The volcanic mountains of the far southern Black Coast.
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Gazal Black Kingdoms An ancient city in the northern desert of the Black Kingdoms. Gazal
was built thousands of years ago, and is crumbling to dust.
Isle of Iron
Statues
Vilayet Sea The Isle has ancient ruins, chief of which is a great hall where rows of
iron statues stand. The island is reputed to be haunted, and is shunned
by the sailors of the Vilayet Sea.
Isle of Siptah Stygian Coast Location of the haunted tower of the Stygian sorcerer Siptah.
Isle of Skelos Western
Ocean
Isle of the Black
One
Western
Ocean
The location of the fabled "Well of Skelos", where the lore of the Black
Coast claim that demons guard the long-dead mage's bones.
An isolated island in the Western Ocean, set with ancient pre-
Cataclysmic ruins.
Khajar Oasis Stygia The temple-fortress of Thoth-Amon.
Kheshatta Stygia Stygian City of Magicians, Seat of the Black Ring.
Kutchemes Southern
Desert
Last city of ancient Acheron, in its center an impregnable ivory dome
said to house the evil empire's last sorcerer.
Larsha Zamora A cursed, ruined city near Shadizar. According to legend, Larsha was
built in Cataclysmic times, by the predecessors of the modern
Zamorans, and the giant kings who once ruled the city remains within,
defending their ancient treasures.
Luxur Stygia The City of Serpents, Capital of Stygia.
Maharashtra Vendhya An ancient city of Vendhya. Two thousand years ago, when the
Vendhyan king Orissa died, his tomb was sealed with ancient rites and
demon guardians, and the city was abandoned. Its location is now lost.
Misty Isles Vendhyan Sea The islands off the western coast of Vendhya where secret herbs are grown.
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