"Know, O prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and in the years of the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars - Nemedia, Ophir, Brythunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with its dark-haired women and towers of spider-haunted mystery, Zingara with its chivalry, Koth that bordered on the pastoral lands of Shem, Stygia with its shadow-guarded tombs, Hyrkania whose riders wore steel and silk and gold. But the proudest kingdom was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet" -- The Nemedian Chronicles

As we all know Funcom are basing the game Age of Conan upon the works of Robert. E. Howard.

Its been mentioned that the game world in AoC area will compromise of 185 square miles (Over twice as big as pre WoW expansion) It's biggest zones will be 16 Square Kilometer, about the size of the Elder Scrolls III : Morrowind. BUT its not all off Hyboria!

Anyway, these sizes have been discussed before, but to get some scope of Hyboria itself take a look at the links below.

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/chrysagon_hyboria.jpg  < Biggest Map Ever!!

http://stage6.divx.com/Age-of-Conan/video/1354678/Age-of-Conan---Map-Mosaic < Map Mosaic Video (Awesome)

All of what you see won't be in at launch; as the races we're given in AoC do not populate the whole world. We'll get Stygia, Cimmeria, Aquilonia, at least some of the Barachan Islands and the Border Kingdoms.

Looking at this map helps:  http://www.amrathelion.com/hyborian_map/hyborian_color_map.html

More Maps here based from the Lore:

http://www.amrathelion.com/hyborian_...color_map.html

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/hyborianauctionmap.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/hyboria.gif

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/chrysagon_hyboria.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/culturemap.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/hyboria_nor.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/original.gif

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/saga_aquilonia.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/hw_bord.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/hw_kush.gif

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/saga_cimmeria.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/saga_stygia.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/saga_vendhya.jpg

http://hyboria.xoth.net/maps/arenjun.gif

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Scale of the Thurian Continent

Contributed by: Jay Hafner (jayhafner@qwest.net). It originally appeared on the d20 Conan messageboard.

Thuria is a slightly smaller version of Afro-EurAsia, and with a large polar ice cap.

It is 10,000 miles from Zingara to Khitai isles, considering geographical distortions from conversion of a flat-paper map to a globe. Midway is Turan.

It is 2,500 miles from the Western Ocean to the Nemedian mountains.

Thus Nemedia and Brythunia are about 600 miles across at the widest points, or the equivalent of the size of France. Aquilonia would be quite a bit larger 1500 miles across, depending upon what the Picts are up to that season...

I place the equator at the southern 1/3 of the Black kingdoms, just below the tip of Vendhya which wold leave that area a little bigger than is shown on the map.

The Nordheim ice cap is at 60-65 degrees which is about 2-7 degrees further south than the current Arctic circle (not current polar cap), or at about Estonia. This is actually pretty close to what we estimate real-world conditions to have been like (in regards to the ice cap anyway .

So, if you're planning on playing a game there, or need to calculate distances, just use France (about 600 miles) as your guide for Brythunia/Nemedia.

Using the D&D rules for travel, at a speed of 40, Conan could cover 32 miles per day. If the Kings' Highway extended from Zingara to the Eastern ocean, it would take conan 312.5 days to pull a Forest-Gump trip.

Vilayet Sea is 600 miles across at the widest point and about 1500 miles from north to south or about the size of the Red Sea. It is longer and narrower than the Caspian sea. Either way, the Red Brotherhood has plenty of room to sail.

It's 1200 miles from Agrapur to the Kezankian mountains, or about a 35 day walk across the steppes of the Kozaki.

To get from the Vilayet to Meru (when Conan was captured) it would take a while, considering jungles and mountains (.75 travel); about 500 miles or about 20 days.

Here are some pics of Hyboria from AoC

The quality is crap because the guys camcorder was !

Not much could do sorry.

From this video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVLFjbot3nA

4 mins and 13 secs onwards.

As you can see we are getting quite a faithfull representation from Funcom, which I say is pleasing.

To read more upon the area's in AoC > link AoC Areas <must look>

Im hoping we will get to see the full size map soon in an update, as personally in an mmo - I love to explore!

All I can say is wow look at the size of it.

I think even when its huge, DnL was bigger, isnt it?

Just asking.

Originally posted by Eridanix

I think even when its huge, DnL was bigger, isnt it?

Just asking.

 

Not much substance though! imo

Originally posted by LadyReno

All I can say is wow look at the size of it.

That sounds like a line from a movie!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the large map (chrysagon_hyboria) looks a lot like Africa and India seperated by what could possibly be the nile. Over Africa and India is what could be Europe and Asia.

Am I right in assuming this?

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Originally posted by AmazingAvery

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Originally posted by LadyReno

All I can say is wow look at the size of it.

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That sounds like a line from a movie!

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Really, what kind of movie?

Anyways, nice maps, although I don't really like the huge map, it looks weird :/ The map you showed in the post is awesome tho..

Any particular reason why you don't like big maps?  I for one like the idea of vastness of open space to get lost in.  Having the ability to go off into the wilderness then having one of your friends log on and ask you where you were and you telling him you have no idea.  Then you tell him to come and find you based on some vague directions that you faintly remember as you ran into the forest.

Just think of the posibilities for adventure, exploration... all that good stuff.

Now if you want a really cool map of Hyboria - check this out (in German)

http://www.fantasy-atlas.org/karten/howard1.html   its flash based and you can zoom in real good.

Sometimes takes a while to update, so give it long enough to update between zooms!

Originally posted by mach789

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the large map (chrysagon_hyboria) looks a lot like Africa and India seperated by what could possibly be the nile. Over Africa and India is what could be Europe and Asia.

Am I right in assuming this?

wow you realy know how to put things together Magnum P.I.

Originally posted by tkreep

Originally posted by mach789

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the large map (chrysagon_hyboria) looks a lot like Africa and India seperated by what could possibly be the nile. Over Africa and India is what could be Europe and Asia.

Am I right in assuming this?

wow you realy know how to put things together Magnum P.I.

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