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It is prophesied that one day the so-called barbarians of the East shall meet those of the West before, once again, the world is rent by cataclysm and this Age passes like the month’s moon. Where this prophecy first originated is unclear, but the Hyrkanian clans cling to it as a kind of destiny.
Today, however, the great sweep of the steppe people halts at the borders of Turan and the lotus-haunted jungles of Khitai.
Overview
Overview
Over the great steppes east of the Vilayet thunder the peerless horsemen of Hyrkania. They perfected mounted warfare long before any other people, and as a consequence, tread their rivals under their horses’ hooves as much literally as figuratively.
Real-world equivalents: A cross between Mongolia and Scythia.
Example Names
Example Names
Men
Men
Borogul, Dashyin, Gunsem, Ketei, Khlaiun, Ong, Oqotur, Tuqu, Ulugan, Yesukai.
Altan, Bourtai, Chatagai, Galdan, Kassar, Khaidu, Magnai, Nergul, Qadan, Uliac.
Women
Women
Ajurin, Cheren, Davasuren, Ereden, Nergui, Nyam, Nyima, Oyun, Shria, Udbal.
Altani, Botokhui, Budan, Jaliqai, Khorijin, Ogtbish, Saran, Targhun, Terbish, Toragana.
Core Book ch.8, p.239.
Conan the Wanderer ch.2, p.37.
Politics
Politics
Ruins suggest that long ago the Hyrkanians had an agricultural empiure, but today there is no Hyrkanian "nation." There is just a hundred horse-clans, with wildly differeing cultures and behaviours.
Barbarians
Barbarians
Westeners call Hyrkanians "savages" but miss a very important point. Hyrkanians are not uncivilised because their culture has yet to reach that level of development; they are uncivilised because they deliberately and actively reject civilisation.
Religion
Religion
Whatever gods those Lemurians worshipped are forgotten (save for a few strange holdouts) — Hyrkanians now worship Erlik.
While the worship of that death god binds the Hyrkanians, it likewise divides them, as no consistent interpretation of Erlik’s will predominates.
Foreign Relations
Foreign Relations
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