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Provinces & Nations of Hyboria
The following list details each of the nations and uncivilized provinces of the Hyborian Age. After the
name of each nation or province is a description of its atmosphere and current level of technology, as
well as the deities most commonly worshiped there. The levels of technology are as follows:
Primitive:
This describes non-civilized peoples who typically live as nomadic hunter-gatherers. These societies use
stone, bone, wood, and animal products for tools, weapons, armor, and shelter, and live in nonhierarchical
communities. Some are warlike, others are not. Primitive is NOT used pejoritively in the
following pages. (The author is an anarcho-primitivist, and identifies much more with the Picts than with
dreadful Aquilonia, Nemedia, and the like.)
Copper Age/Bronze Age:
This refers to societies that have discovered metal working through copper. Some of these societies have
also developed smelting, which allows them to make bronze, an incredibly strong and durable metal.
Classical/Roman:
Societies that are similar to ancient Greece and/or Rome culturally and socially. Sometimes these societies
have iron working, but more regularly use bronze and copper.
Iron Age/Medieval:
Societies that are similar to the nations of medieval Europe, the Middle East, and/or Asia. These societies
have discovered the use of iron, and sometimes smelt iron into steel.
Afghulistan
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Asura, Kali, others
See Afghuli in the Races Section.
Aquilonia
Technology: Iron Age/Medieval
Dominant Deities: Mitra, Asura, Ibis
Symbol of might in the Hyborian Age, Aquilonia with her legendary armies of Bossonian archers,
Gunderland pikemen and Poitanian knights, wields indisputably the supreme military power of the
Western world. More than any other kingdom, however, Aquilonia lies surrounded by grim and
unrelenting enemies, especially those primitive peoples so ruthlessly oppressed by this empire. Aquilonia is
modeled after medieval France.
Argos
Technology: Classical/Roman
Dominant Deities: Mitra, Bel
The major sea power of the Hyborian Age, proud Argos sweeps the western sea from Vanaheim to the
Black Kingdoms. Wealthy beyond its size, Argos seldom lacks for funds either to war or to weave far
reaching webs of intrigue as the situation dictates. Natural enemy of Zingara. Argos is modeled after the
seafaring Mediterranean peoples of Classical times.
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