Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures Q&A, Part One

MMORPG.com has kicked off a new two-part interview with Funcom’s Terri Perkins about their upcoming single and massively multiplayer RPG, Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. A snip from the first installment:

Q: For those unfamiliar with Robert E. Howard’s universe, can you tell us a bit about the world and where Age of Conan fits into it?

A: More than 70 years of achievements take place in the Conan Universe whis has spawned numerous books, comics and movies and I’m not sure I can do it justice here to describe this property in a few words.

For Conan fans, the timeline takes us to beyond (The Hour of the Dragon). You start out your life as a slave who is picked from the masses living as a Galley Slave during the time when Conan is King of Aquillonia.

The chains binding you, the mysterious tattoo on your chest and your vague memories do nothing to calm you. Battling your way free you find yourself on the (Barachan Isles) to begin your adventure completely alone. As a former slave you realize your predicament, and lack of memory are closely connected with Conan’s kinghood. Your fate and his are intertwined and through your adventures you possibly become his ally, maybe his friend.

It’s a violent universe filled with darkness, sin and adventure. In this cruel world you have a man who stands as an integral part of the world, but who is decidedly different. It’s man versus nature, man versus man, man versus himself. Conan himself is a man that lacks learned civility, but he has character that’s raw, brutal and honest that really strikes a chord within you and you’re able to relate to him I believe. He is essentially dominant by nature and defines barbarian in his own terms. He’s a character simply like no other. A man to be admired, feared and respected all at once. There’s magic and mayhem, lust and greed, power and amazing adventures.

The (Age of Conan) portrays this world and allows players to truly experience how it feels to live in this world void of conscience, rampant with evil and on the verge of utter destruction.. It not only lets you feel this, it becomes a place you can call home and be a noble savage.

Raw and Pure keep coming into mind as terms that describe it.-its base, instinctual and just outright sexy.