Cimmerians (Conan)

The Cimmerians are a people that feature in Conan the Barbarian.

History

The Cimmerians were a tribe of barbarians that resided in the lands of Cimmeria in the Hyborian Age. It was noted that they were in fact descendants of Atlantean colonists from the Thurian Age. Living on the main Thurian continent, these colonists survived the great Cataclysm which submerged Atlantis and destroyed most of the Thurian civilization. The survivors, at this point reduced to a stone age level of sophistication, eventually found themselves locked in multigenerational warfare with survivors of a Pictish colony. This prolonged conflict caused the Atlanteans to further devolve into little more than ape-men. With no memory of their history, or even of language and civilization itself, these primitive humans eventually redeveloped into a race known as the Cimmerians.

Cimmerians were surrounded by hostile people, from their ancient enemies, the Picts, to the hostile Vanir of the north. They also fought against the Bossonian Marches and even changed their way into Aquilonia for plundering raids.

When the glacier age came, the Cimmerians fled before the Nordic onrush. No army or city stood before them, while hordes of Nordics swarmed behind them. Moving southwards, they almost destroyed Gunderland and fought their way into Aquilonia against the Pictsh Empire. They defeated the Nordic-Nemedians in Nemedia and sacked some of their cities before moving eastwards, defeating a Hyrkanian army on the borders of Brythunia.

The Cimmerians wandered southeastward, destroyed Turan, and settled on the southwestern shores of Vilayet, which slowly dried and became the Caspian. They were joined by pastoral Nordic tribes fleeing the next cataclysm eastwards and gradually mixed with them, forming the Aryan people. Their growing population forced many of them to migrate southward, northward, and westward.

Overview

In appearance, the Cimmerians were a tall and powerfully-built race of ferocious barbarians, with black hair and blue or grey eyes. Although the Hyborian invasion never touched them, they seem to have benefitted by contact with the invaders, and advanced rapidly in culture, more than their old rivals, the Picts.

Known Cimmerians

• Corin :
• Conan :
• Mara :

Notes

• The Cimmerians were created by Robert E. Howard where they featured in the Conan the Barbarian universe.
• No apparent relation to the similarly-pronounced Sumerians.

Appearances

• Conan the Barbarian:

External Links

• Conan Wiki Entry

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