The Exiled Lands are covered in the ruins of ancient civilizations. What let to their downfall? Why did this region become the savage wasteland it is today? Video clips from: Conan Exiles gameplay Age of Conan gameplay
Just remember, creative liberties were taken in the game which often depart rather greatly from and often contradict R.E. Howard’s actual works, and thusly should be considered only semi-canonical at best, it at all. For some examples of such divergences from the source materials: The Serpentfolk in the volcano were not the last of their kind. Howard’s, Lovecraft’s, Carter’s and Smith’s works all take place in a shared world they and others loosely collaborated to create, and we know from their various stories that the Serpentfolk continue to endure and make appearances thousands of years after the time when the events of the game where supposed to take place, including into the present day (very likely even into the future as well). Not only are the Serpentfolk still around, we know they exist in both their advanced states as well as their degenerated states, and that they also exist on other worlds and in other dimension and realities as well such as the Dreamlands. Every time someone thinks they’re gone for good, such as when Conan destroyed Yanyoga, the supposed last city of the Serpentfolk, they always keep coming back and popping up to cause more troubles. Either the Serpentfolk ruler within the game didn’t know there were others of his kind still out there (highly doubtful), he was lying through is fangs to throw you off (more likely), or else the developers just blatantly ignored the lore and source material (very probable). The Giant Kings depicted in the game do not fit their descriptions in Howard’s writings, where they are also equated to the mysterious Elder Race who ruled the southern pre-human kingdom during the Thurian Age in his Kull stories, the same race Thulsa Doom is supposed to be a member of. We get a good description of one of them alive in his story titled “The Altar and the Scorpion,” an evil priest or magician named Thuron, and it is nothing at all like that shown in the game, and this race’s descendants in Acheron and Elder Stygia like Xaltotun and Akivasha are said to share greatly in their ancestor’s appearances overall. They were described as looking like rather attractive and statuesque humans standing maybe around 6-8 feet tall at most, slender in appearance yet possessing deceptively great strength and agility, and having unnaturally luminous eyes and faces. They were based loosely off of the biblical Nephilim and other similar mythological races, not these Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull looking alien things you see in the game. There are other examples for those that are familiar with the setting, some rather glaring inconsistencies with the literary works the game is supposed to be based upon. Point is, take it all with a grain of salt and don’t just accept it as word of god.
Yeah, well as soon as I realized that the Exiles Lands could not be on the original world, I accepted the non-canon part as it was suficiently close to the original in spirit, if not in details. 'Semi-canonical', as you wrote. It's generally more acceptable when such attempts takes place in what was originally a shared universe.
I just took it as the serpentfolk being so disconnected and few in number that their outposts literally each thought they were all that was left. I mean your not going to be looking around for snakes when the monkeys rule the surface.
Dope! I've seen all of the clips you used in game, but all were separated by hours of gameplay and building; it's difficult to put it all together. Well done! I hope there's more to come.
Keep up the fantastic work! Loving these lore videos. Once you're done with the Exile lands lore maybe you could branch out into general conan lore or so?
Great done again, i love these hidden stories and mysteries. Still thee is some strange lines, and we may not know all. Like this one, i think it bit different the others in a way,. “ Slaves, the War-maker is issuing this decree regarding the battle north of the city. „ “ Any rumors of a new weapon unleashed by the humans is completely false. „ “ There was a natural phenomenon - a subsidence of the earth - „ “ that decimated the army before it came into contact with the enemy. „ “ The will of Set prevails and we shall consult with the triumvirate „ “ before we decide upon our new course of action in this war. There is still a mystery, and it's fine so. We love mysteries, and if we would know all... you see. ;)
My interpretation of that lorestone, which I debated including (but the video was already pretty long), is that it's propaganda. The Giant-kings didn't want their slaves to know that the Witch Queen had destroyed their army with magic, so they spun it as a natural disaster. The Warmaker and the Lemurian lorestones both talk about the Witch Queen's ritual and its effects on the Giant-kings, and they were eyewitnesses, so I consider their account to be the truth in this case.
@@anageundreamedof1298 Yes, surely you may be true with the idea of the ancient "propaganda". And it's in a way a fun idea, i must admit. ;) Still i love also that a part of the mystery remains, it's till better. Also i really enjoy the relationship to existing "real" world legends and mysteries. An other reason i love this game and world lot.
i remember me and two randos i met in the hyena men area got together and farmed the shit out of that beast that lived by those sword statues. we had a base and walls set up and everything, cheesed the crap out of that poor bastard.
