WoW seems to really be tweaking theirs to fit the mood, in hopes for creating a stronger push for the upcoming expansion. Which is scary to think of when it was the whole World of Warcraft history that really pulled me in and sold me that this might be a world worth exploring.
However there is a new MMORPG that I'm beginning to watch out of the corner of my eye. It also has a rich history and may prove a land worth exploring. The land is described here in the Nemedian Chronicles from "The Phoenix on the Sword" by Robert Howard.
"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and 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 of the world was Aquilonia, reigning supreme in the dreaming west. Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed,sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet."
Enter here the Age of Conan: The Hyborian Adventures
The intrest has been strong enough for me to go looking for the orginal tales of the barbarian written by Robert Howard - just to find out more about this world. At the moment I have no intrest in those stories of the Hyborian age not written by the creator - but who knows, at this point what I have been able to find have been well done story telling to say the least.
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