On the Brink of Conflict?

[Nyarlathotep]

Are there any Hyborian kingdoms that are on the brink of conflict with their neighbors?

Excluding the Picts, Cimmerians, Aesir, Vanir, and other associated "pillage and looting" groups - I'm thinking more along the lines of larger armies pressing their might against other kingdoms or cities.

One example that comes to mind is the rebel Kothic prince Conan served prior to the events of the Slithering Shadow. His employer laid waste to the Lands of Shem and the outlying regions of Stygia in a massive campaign that eventually ended in failure.

 

[kintire]

At what point? Argos, Zingara and Stygia are always squabbling over seaborne trade, Stygia and Koth are at daggers drawn over influence in Shem, Aquilonia and Nemedia of course. After Scarlet Citadel an Aquilonian invasion of Ophir and Koth is definitly likely, and Turan is pressing both west against the Hyborian kingdoms and Stygia and southeast against Ghulistan, Iranistan and Vendhya.

 

[The King]

I think all countries are more or less against each others. They're waiting to find allies or to be powerful enough to attack their neighbors.

- Northern countries are constantly raiding each other and the Northern borders of other kingdoms
- Nemedia is regularly at war with Aquilonia.
- Turan is constantly raiding in Zamora
- Zingara and Argos are in a perpetual state of war but never battles on the ground (only at sea it seems).
- Khauran and Khoraja seceded from Koth. The latter can't attack them because they are in mountainous and difficult ground and the kingdom would have to withdraw troops from its borders.
- Many city-states of Shem are at war but they would immediatly unite should Stygia try and cross the Styx ("historically" this is how Stygia lost this country which it owned (with Koth) when Archeron was still an empire (and when both were competing for hegemony).

 

[argo]

Are there any Hyborian kingdoms that are on the brink of conflict with their neighbors?

Short answer: yes... all of them, all the time. :wink:

 

[tarkhan bey]

Of all the nations which I would generally percieve to be the villains of the Hyborian age,I reckon that the major military agressor has to be Turan. They seem to be constantly on the offensive against potential conquests on all fronts.
The Stygians and the Hyperboreans seem to be less agressive militarily and more inclined to nefarious plotting and dark magic to promote their agenda.
Turan is my personal favourite.My own take on it being that it is a cross between the Seljuks of Rum and the Ottoman Empire.
I like to think that every time the ambassadors of Turan appear at the gates of Shadizar demanding tribute that they are regarded in much the same way as the Turks were viewed by the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople.
I am currently envisaging a campaign where King Yezdigerd has tired of the yearly tribute from King Tiridates and has decided to march an army against Shadizar. His envoys have preceded the host and are spreading dissention among those who's loyalty is most in question. They have also travelled into the lands of the petty princelings of Brythunia and Corinthia to broker alliances which will sever any alliances between those countries and the Zamorians.
Historically, the fall of Constantinople was due in no small part to the fact that the Sultan brokered separate deals with Janos Hunyadi and Vlad Dracul to keep them out of the conflict.