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Na'at, Isle of:---a, mist-shrouded island of towering cliffs and treacherous reefs that lies astride the River of Night in the Western Ocean west of Antillia. (Conan the Savage #10, "The Necromancers of Na'at", by Roy Thomas)

Nachta:---a clan of northwestern Cimmeria, located near the Conach clan. (Conan the Valorous)

Nahareh:---a village in Turan. (Conan the Barbarian #36, "Beware of Hyrkanians Bearing Gifts", by Roy Thomas)

Nairn:---a village of the southern marches of Cimmeria. It was located within a couple of day's walk of the Cimmerian village of Duthil. (Conan of Venarium)

Najapur:---a city-province of western Vendhya, covered with verdant forests. (Savage Sword #103, "The White Tiger of Vendhya", by Michael Fleisher)

Naked Desert:---an area surrounding Kuthchemes. (Black Colossus)

Nakhmet:---a small Shemitish town on the north bank of the River Styx across from the Khopshef Province. (Conan the Bold)

Nameless Continent:---is situated in the Western Hemisphere and said to have been visited by Conan. (Letter to P. Schuyler Miller from REH)

Nameless Isle:---or Siojina-Kisua, an island in the Western Ocean, a "remnant" (more likely an island possession) of vanished Valusia, lying due south of the coast of Shem. The island had a temple of alien architecture, home of the toad-god Tsathoggua, who was worshipped by serpent-men. (Conan the Buccaneer, Conan of the Isles)

Naplonia:---a city-state of western Corinthia. (Conan the Barbarian #204, "Goblin", by James Owsley)

Napolitus:---also called Napolia, this southwestern Argossean port city lies at the mouth of the Thunder River. (Marvel Graphic Novel, "Conan--The Skull of Set", by Doug Moench, Conan the King #25, "Daggers", by Alan Zelenetz)

Nebethet, Shrine of:---the round, domed temple of the Ivory Goddess is located leagues east of Kassali. The white marble shrine was designed to look like a giant silver skull. (Ivory Goddess)

Nebthu:---a city on the bank of the Bakhr River, near its confluence with the Styx. It has ruins and a large statue of a hyena-sphinx. (Black Sphinx of Nebthu, Red Moon of Zembabwei)

Nedrezzar:---a Shemitish city-state located on the Incense Road between Baalur and Asgalun in western Shem. Its northern border with Baalur is the Asgalun River. (Lord of the Black River)

Negari:---a hidden, underground city located in the lands of the Matamba, near the Black Coast south of the Zarkheba River. The city is the last outpost of lost Atlantis. (Savage Sword #219, "Death's Dark Riders", by Roy Thomas)

Neg's Temple:---the marble-walled abode of the necromancer, Neg, lay on a hillside near the junction of Corinthia, Brythunia and Zamora. It is a temple of "The Men With No Eyes". (Conan the Defiant)

Nehebku's Noose:---an ill-omened stretch of water on the Southern Ocean off the Zembabwei coast. (Conan and the Shaman's Curse)

Nemedia:---second most powerful of the Hyborian kingdoms, it lies east of Aquilonia, south of the Border Kingdom, west of Brythunia, and north of Corinthia and Ophir. The Border Range lies between Aquilonia and Nemedia. Most of the passes into Aquilonia were in the northwest; two southern passes existed, one was a well-defended gap in the range that the Road of Kings ran through, the other was the difficult Pass of Oteron, which Conan once used. At the south end of the range lies the Tybor Gap, a large river valley that connects the kingdoms of Aquilonia, Nemedia, and Ophir. The rugged, impenetrable range of the Karpash Mountains lay on the southern border with Ophir. The capital city, Belverus, lay in the western part of the kingdom on the main road to Aquilonia. This highway, the Road of Kings, continued eastward to the vicinity of the eastern Nemedian border, then dropped into Corinthia and eventually crossed Zamora and the Eastern Desert. East and west of Belverus were rich croplands and orchards. Northwestern baronies protect the borderlands between the Border Kingdoms and Nemedia proper as far as the Great Salt Marsh. The north-flowing Yellow River marked the heavily forested eastern border between Nemedia and Brythunia, emptying into the Salt Marsh. Two other rivers, the Rhyl and the Urlaub drained interior Nemedia, since without them the country would have been a virtual desert and not at all like the land described in the Saga. Most of the Nemedian rivers have basin-style drainage into the Salt Marsh. Nemedia was anciently a part of Acheron. People of the Nemedian hills boasted of their Acheronian blood. Invading Hybori destroyed Acheron, and it seems likely that Nemedia became the first of the Hyborian kingdoms. The elephant-being from Yag mentions it first among the new Hyborian nations. Nemedia waged intermittent war with Aquilonia for centuries, but its western neighbor never made much headway against it. Its emblem was a scarlet dragon. Nemedia had a long tradition of scholarship, perhaps an Acheronian heritage. The Nemedian Chronicles have told most of the history of the Hyborian Age, including the Saga of Conan. In the turbulent years following Conan's reign, Nemedia was defended by mercenary Æsir, who successfully withstood several waves of invaders. It later became a Nordic kingdom before being overrun by the Cimmerians and other tribes fleeing the advancing glaciers. (Hyborian Age I-II, Tower of the Elephant, God in the Bowl, Queen of the Black Coast, Hour of the Dragon, Conan the Great, et al.)

Neria:---a country of the Primal Continent. (When Hell Laughs)

New Python:---a ruined city located on the plateau east of the "Horns of Shushtu". The city was built by Acheronian refugees on the ruins of a prehistoric snakeman city. It was to this place, that all the magical artifacts and treasure of the original Python were brought after its destruction by the Hyborean tribes. (Conan and the Treasure of Python)

Nezvaya River:---a Hyperborean river that runs south through rich forestlands speckled with lakes and ponds gouged out by glaciers. It is fed from runoff from the Graaskal Mountains. A tributary, the Frozen, drained the eastern Eiglophian Mountains. It turns eastward at the Zamoran border and empties into the Vilayet Sea after piercing the Kezankian Range. The Turanian city of Yaralet lay on the Nezvaya's northern bank, east of the Kezankians. (Conan the Barbarian, Hand of Nergal)

Night, Mountains of:---a range in western Khitai. (Return of Conan)

Night, River of:---an ocean current that travels with great rapidity toward the western continent of Mayapan. It lies to the west of Antillia. (Conan the Savage #10, "The Necromancers of Na'at", by Roy Thomas)

Nightmare Swamp:---an unhealthy, mist-covered marshland near Fort Ghori in Turan. At the center lie the ruins of Puhru-Shatammu. (Marvel Graphic Novel, "Conan the Rogue", by John Buscema and Roy Thomas)

Nilus or Nile River:---see Styx.

Nincenno:---a pre-Cataclysmic kingdom of the Thurian world-continent. It was considered to be a silver-towered land of chivalry and wonder, decency and light. (Conan the Barbarian #124, "The Eternity War" by J.M. DeMatteis)

Ninus, Fountain of:---a spring just west of the city of Shadizar, on the Road of Kings leading to Corinthia. (Hall of the Dead)

Nippr:---a city-state of Shem, on the caravan route. (Black Colossus)

Nithia, Holy City of:---also known as the "Brass City of Nithia", it is an ancient city of Ibis worshippers. The city was contemporaneous of the Acheronian Empire. White marble walls and huge brass gates protected Nithia, nine days travel from the nearest city. The "Seven Fountains of Ibis" kept the city green and flourishing at the center of the Nithian Desert. The priest-kings of Nithia were descended from Atlantean kings. In the crystal-domed temple of Ibis was kept the statue of an incredibly ancient Atlantean god, called the "Grim, Grey God". The statue was carved from a pearl twice the size of a man's head. When the Acheronian warlord Dhurkhan Blackblade razed the city and claimed the statue, the priest-kings magic buried it in the ruins of the city, in a sandstorm lasting twenty-three days. For the next three-thousand years the city lie nearly forgotten, remembered only as the fabled "City of Brass", in what became the deserts of eastern Shem. (Conan and the Grim Grey God)

Nogara, Ford of:---a ford of the Alimane River. It is the middle of the three fords leading from Argos to Aquilonia. (Conan the Liberator)

Nordheim:---a northern region comprising the countries of Asgard and Vanaheim. Its adjective is Nordheimr. (Hyborian Age I, Queen of the Black Coast, Conan and the Treasure of Python)

North Creek:---a stream nine miles north of Fort Tuscelan, forming the northern boundary of Conajohara. Marshes lay beyond it. (Beyond Black River)

North Marches:---a barony of northern Valusia. (Kull the Conqueror #4, "Night of the Red Slayers", by Roy Thomas)

North Strait:---a passage through the northern Aetolians. (Conan and the Red Brotherhood)

Northern Capital:---one of the two capital cities of Zembabwei, presumably where the Twin Kings spend most of their time. It was the black kingdom's caravan terminus and commercial center, the only city in Zembabwei to have intercourse with the countries of the North. (Red Moon of Zembabwei)

Northlands:---the area that lies east of Hyperborea and north of Turan and the Vilayet Sea. The southern part of this area is desert and semi-arid steppe with a few large rivers. North of the steppe, the land is hilly and covered in pine forests. There are no great rivers, but there are many streams. Beyond the forests are the lands of snow-giants and great dragons. The eastern part of this area rises into the glaciated mountains of northwest Hyrkania. (Conan the Champion)

Nostume's Isle:---lies on the Western Ocean 10 days sail from Messantia, the island is the site of an ancient fortress-temple containing the "Well of Souls", a portal to a strange world of madness and power. (Conan the Barbarian #177, "Well of Souls", by James Owsley)

Nuadwyddon, Great Grove of:---a holy place of the druids in Pictland, center of a Ligurean cult. (Black Sphinx of Nebthu)

Numalia:---a great, walled Nemedian city of lofty spires. Lying east of Belverus, it marked a junction on the Road of Kings and the southern caravan route through Ophir, Koth, and Khoraja. (God in the Bowl, Conan the Great)

Numantia:---a Corinthian city-state that is the location of a great temple of Mitra. (Conan the Bold)

Nyaro, Fort:---a frontier fort of the Westermarck on the edge of the Pictish Wilderness. (Conan at the Demon's Gate)

Nywenthia:---a city-state of the sheep-raising district of southern Corinthia. (Conan the Barbarian #157, "The Wizard", by Michael Fleisher)

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10/25/03

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