you're still pure and innocent then.Neeklus said:Ah, I've only ever read REH Conan...
The King said:Skull Gate: the skull of a mammoth, which marks the main pass into Hyperborea from the Border Kingdom. The skull is set into the side of a hill and bears the inscription:
THE GATE OF HYPERBOREA IS THE GATE OF DEATH
TO THOSE WHO COME HITHER WITHOUT LEAVE
Beyond the pass lies a plain.
(Witch of the Mists)
Hyperborea is an autarkical kingdom and don't like to be disturbed. Hence this warning.
IMO this is just a geographic feature.
I didn't even notice! This is what we call a goof, isn't it? De Camp wrote that short stories in Conan of Aquilonia (these 4 stories which are of the worst sort IMO) and it is funny to see some contradictions in someone who corrected Howard's texts because he said there were contradictions.Strom said:Apparently the Border Kingdoms shared the same alphabet and or studied Hyperborean laguage otherwise why have the warning!
Brass Jester
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Strom
Round Halloween time you can find plastic skulls for sale, of varying sizes. Take the bottom jaw off and model the skull into a craggy hillside (various books on modelling will advise techniques.) Give it a good paint job and..... find your players have decided to head for Shem. Oh well.
I'd post a photo but I haven't made the model yet!
The King said:I didn't even notice! This is what we call a goof, isn't it? De Camp wrote that short stories in Conan of Aquilonia (these 4 stories which are of the worst sort IMO) and it is funny to see some contradictions in someone who corrected Howard's texts because he said there were contradictions.Strom said:Apparently the Border Kingdoms shared the same alphabet and or studied Hyperborean laguage otherwise why have the warning!