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Published: 2011-10-05 08:50:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 43282; Favourites: 559; Downloads: 1891
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My version of Robert E. Howard's Hyboria.REH left no world map of his Hyborian Age, so many places are based on descriptions in his books or outright speculations.
I studied several existing maps [link] [link] [link] [link] [link] for this project, some are very different from each other. But I found also a few very similar maps, so I used mainly these for place names and positions, but changed a few things so that they fit - in my opinion - now better the descriptions. So the locations are a combination of existing positions and my own interpretation.
For the artistic part, however, I used my own style and approach; in this respect I can say the map has no resemblance to other existing Hyboria maps.
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Comments: 77
Really nice job on this one Sapiento, perhaps my favorite of your pieces so far!
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
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I think it's one of your finer works, bro. Nice job.
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Tons of good memories while readin the names opn this...
Fantastic work!
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Nice, a blend of the fantastical and the familiar.
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looks great man, love the colors and mountains! cheers, DJ
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I noticed there's a place named Kush. Why is that?
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One of the kingdoms Howard invented.
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Ah ok i though it was a world for "le hippies"
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Did you look at the Del Rey series' republishing of the Conan stories? They provide some of REH's hand drawn maps of Hyboria by any chance? This seems pretty spot on to what is in the books.
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I don't know those books; I relied mainly on existing maps and descriptions in various forums for the locations.
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They have all the Conan stories compiled into 3 volumes with some illustrations to go along with. Lots of fun to read. Anyways, very good work on the map. I have to say though, do you know when Mu was mentioned in REH's Conan series? I can't recall coming across it... unless I have yet to read about it.
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It's not sure that Mu was still in existence during Conan's time. It's an assumption.
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Ah I see... It's just an overall map of the entire place. (Idiot me for not realizing that ><)
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