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Cambres:---a small, semi-nomadic nation that lies north of the Vilayet Sea and east of the domains of Thungia and Tormanna. The royal hall sits atop a large mound surrounded by a huge stone wall said to have been built by giants. In Conan's time, the nation grew to encompass both the Thungia and the Tormanna nations. (Conan the Champion)

Camoonian Desert:---arid lands east of the Zalgara Hills of ancient Valusia. (Black Abyss, Riders Beyond the Sunrise)

Cantrium:---a baronial city of western Aquilonia. (Conan the King #25, "Daggers", by Alan Zelenetz)

Carnolla:---a city-state of Ophir, lying south of the Plain of Shamu. (Conan the Barbarian #53, "Brothers of the Blade", by Roy Thomas)

Cascan:---a Zingaran fishing village built on the side of a hill crest above Thunder River. (Conan the Barbarian #175, "The Scarlet Personage", by James Owsley)

Castillia:---a minor seaport of Zingara. (GURPS Conan)

Castria:---a barony, presumed to be in Aquilonia, offered as a reward by Conan to one of his henchmen. (Red Moon of Zembabwei)

Cetriss, Palace of:---an ancient, abandoned palace carved into a cliff of living rock in a canyon amid the crags of the Dragon's Spine in eastern Stygia. It was the abode of Cetriss the mage during the days of Old Stygia, 3000 years ago. It was here that he created a living flower-fungus hybrid, the green lotus. He used the sorcerous powers of the lotus to keep the world-hungering Empire of Acheron at bay. (Conan and the Emerald Lotus)

Charnina:---a Brythunian city-state, notable for being the first real city Conan encounters upon leaving Cimmeria as a youth. (Conan the Adventurer #3, "Blood Days in Brythunia", by Roy Thomas)

Chimneys of Shaitan:---a range of volcanic cinder-cones lying south of the Sea of Shartoum. It is a wasteland of fuming ash mounds, cyclopean stones, and smoking fumaroles. A place called the "Chasm of Fire", used to smelt ore, can be found here. (Conan the Outcast)

Cho Hien:---a small Khitain city-state, located on the border of Vendhya. (Conan the Victorious)

Cho-Yang:---the chief port-city of Khitai. A tall, thin building called the Tower of Heaven dominated the city and can be seen far out to sea. There is a local palace of Khitai's Emperor in this city. (Savage Sword #194-195, "Witch Queen of Yamatai", by Roy Thomas)

Chua:---a barbarian tribe of northern Khitai. (Savage Sword #194-195, "Witch Queen of Yamatai", by Roy Thomas)

Chuma:---a warrior tribe native to the nameless continent that lies across the sea east of Khitai. They live on the western coast beneath a range of tall mountains. (Savage Sword #167, "The Spirit of the Beast", by Gerry Conway)

Cimmeria:---a nation of barbarian tribes situated north of Aquilonia and separated from it by a narrow strip of the Bossonian Marches and Gunderland. The Pictish Wilderness lay to the west of Cimmeria. The high Eiglophian Mountains walled off the country from Vanaheim and Asgard on the north. Cimmeria, birthplace of Conan, was an unremittingly somber land, "all of hills, darkly wooded, under skies nearly always gray, with winds moaning drearily down the valleys". The people were the direct descendants of vanished Atlanteans. They were tall and powerful, with dark hair and blue or gray eyes. Cimmerian tribes existed contemporaneously with Atlantis, intermarrying with Atlantean colonists on the Thurian continent prior to the Cataclysm. Cimmerians of Conan's time were apparently still in a hunting and gathering culture, living in villages deep in the humid forests. The people used iron weapons and had borrowed other elements from the higher cultures to the south. The Cimmerian's chief god was Crom, who took little interest in human affairs. Conan was a maverick Cimmerian, one of the few to venture out of the sopping woodlands. The Saga mentions no other Cimmerians living among the advanced nations. Five hundred years after the Age of Conan, the Cimmerians were still ensconced in their ancient homeland. Hyrkanian invaders exploded into other Hyborian kingdoms; but their thrust fizzled out amid the ferociously defended Cimmerian hills. Only the great Nordheimr surge in advance of the glaciers finally displaced the black-haired barbarians. Many ousted Cimmerians then moved eastward, all the way to the southwestern shore of the Vilayet. (Hyborian Age I-II, Phoenix on the Sword, Conan of Venarium, Conan the Valorous, et al.)

City of Brass:---a ruined, ancient city that lies in the desert of eastern Shem. The city is the ruins of the Holy City of Nithia, destroyed by the Acheronian army three thousand years before Conan's age. Marvelous verses are writ in gold on its marble walls. It is rumored to appear only once every century, and to be the resting-place of an incredible artifact, a statue called the "Grim, Grey God". (Conan and the Grim Grey God, Conan and the Amazon)

City of Mounds:---located on Hyrkania's "Steppe of Famine" two days hard ride northwest of Sogaria. It is the secret necropolis containing the dead of the Ashkuz horde. (Conan the Marauder)

Cloud Peak:---a high peak in the mountains of Valusia. (Kull the Conqueror #4, "Night of the Red Slayers", by Roy Thomas)

Cobra Clan:--- a warrior society of the Kwanyi tribe of the Black Kingdoms. (Conan and the Gods of the Mountains)

Colchia:---a realm of forested mountains south of the Vilayet Sea. (Conan - Scourge of the Bloody Coast)

Colchian Mountains:---a minor range south of the Vilayet Sea, extending from near the Zaporoska River in the east, westward behind the Yuetshi villages, and finally running into the Ilbars Mountain range in the southwest. The Colchian's were adjacent to the Misty Mountains along the western side of the Vilayet. Brylukas, a species of vampire, lived in parts of the Colchians. (Road of Eagles, Return of Conan, Conan the Hero)

Commoria:---a kingdom of pre-Cataclysmic times which warred with Valusia. It is not mentioned in the Kull stories. (Hyborian Age I)

Conach:---a clan of north-northwest Cimmeria; they have ice-blue eyes and craggy features. This is the Cimmerian clan that Conan is from. (Conan the Valorous)

Conajohara:---an Aquilonian province of the Westermarck between the Black and Thunder Rivers, joining Conawaga and Schohira with Oriskonie and the city of Velitrium. Bounded by South Creek and North Creek, it is described as a "19 mile-wide spear thrust into the Pictish Wilderness". It was abandoned after the fall of Fort Tuscelan. (Beyond Black River, Moon of Blood, Wolves Beyond the Border)

Conall's Valley:---a wooded valley at the foot of Ben Morgh in northeast Cimmeria. The "Field of the Dead" is located at the upper end of it. (Conan the Valorous)

Conawaga:---a province of the Westermarck, the largest, richest and most thickly settled of the frontier regions. It was sponsored by the Baron of Torh. South of Conawaga lay Schohira and Thandara. Oriskonie lay north of it. Its capital was Scandaga. (Wolves Beyond the Border, Notes on Various Peoples)

Corinthia:---one of the lesser Hyborian kingdoms (or perhaps a confederacy), comprised of loosely allied city-states and presumed to be mostly mountainous. It lay south of Brythunia and Nemedia, west of Zamora, east of Ophir, and north of Koth. The western reaches contain rank after rank of forested ridges, extending to the jagged wall of the Karpash Mountains. The Road of Kings, a major trade route, passed through central Corinthia. Corinthia apparently had a separate identity as early as the florescence of Acheron. It was subject to the latter, then "gained its independence" with the fall of the ancient empire to the Hyborians. Some time during the 3000 years that followed, it came under the growing hegemony of the Hyborians. The economy of Corinthia may have been both pastoral and agricultural, with specialized small industries in the city-states. (Hyborian Age I-II, Rogues in the House, Shadows in the Moonlight, Jewels of Gwahlur, Conan the Great)

Corinthia River:---a watercourse in the eastern part of Corinthia. (Savage Sword #211, "The God of Thieves", by James Rose)

Council Rock:---an upright granite boulder used for clan gatherings by the Picts. It is found in a clearing at the confluence of South Creek and Black River. (Moon of Blood)

Couthen:---a county or small province in Aquilonia. (Return of Conan, Conan of the Isles)

Coyaga:---a village in the Westermarck, 10 miles beyond Ogaha Creek. (Wolves Beyond the Border)

Cragsfell:---a small fortified village atop a craggy tor in the eastern Border Kingdom. At its center is a long, timber hall. (Conan the Valorous)

Crater Lake:---the collapsed, water-filled caldera of a long-extinct volcano, located in the Karpash Mountains along the Zamora-Corinthian border. In the center of the lake is a crystal fortress, the abode of the sorcerer Amon-Rama. The lake lies north of several small villages. (Conan the Destroyer)

Crimson Springs:---a Turanian village that lies high in the foothills of the Ilbars Mountains, near the Valley of Demons. (Conan the Valiant)

Crimson Sun, Temple of the:---a basalt ziggurat located on the steppe east of Brythunia, nestled into the east-side of a Kezankian mountain peak. The temple lies across a small river from the fortified town of Bougankad. The temple is the abode of a sorcerer named Thotas. (Star of Doom)

Crom, House of:---a huge cave on the east side of Ben Morgh in Cimmeria. A giant statue of Crom resides in the cave. (Conan the Valorous)

Croton:---a wicked town on the borderlands between Aquilonia and Nemedia. It is claimed by both and garrisoned by neither. It is a resting-place for outlaws and criminals of all kinds. The great Acheronian city of Karutonia once stood here. The ruins appear as hills surrounding the town. (Conan the Bold)

Culario:---The city is the seat of government in the province of Poitain of Aquilonia. A royal garrison is found here. (Conan the Liberator)

"Cult of Doom", Compound of the:---located several leagues north of Aghrapur, beside the Vilayet Sea. The compound was the site of the magic rituals of the sorcerer Jhandar, until Conan destroyed it. (Conan the Unconquered)

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10/25/03

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