The Southern Kingdoms

Overview

Many are the lands of the South, beyond the southern border of Stygia, almost unknowable: a combination of willful ignorance by the mapmakers of the West and the ever-shifting borders and ill definitions of what constitutes a nation. 

It may be a harsh term to our modern ears, but the phrase "The Black Kingdoms" is a common name for this region. 

Although many people north of Stygia call all the Black Kingdoms by the name of Kush, Kush is the specific name of one of many kingdoms in the south.

Ancestry

The people in the south are the descendants of non-Thurian tribes in the south of the Thurian continent. The Cataclysm affected this part of the world less than the north, but was still devastating.

Southerners are a deeply dark-skinned people, with lithe muscular bodies and equally dark hair.

Core Book ch.8, p.241.
Conan the Adventurer ch.2, p.36.