Acheron (Hyboria)

Know ye, O Prince, that in the centuries after the Great Cataclysm, more than five thousand years before the rise of The Hyborian Age, thrived a kingdom forged by sorcery and suckled on evil known as Acheron. For twenty five centuries, purple towered Python, crown city of the Acheronian Empire, held court in a reign of terror. Three thousand years after its fall the races of the Hyborian world would only dare to speak of ancient Acheron in hushed tones of whispered fear. The legends of necromancy, and legends of treasure long buried and all but forgotten. But of all that were told, none had the power to terrify and entice as that of... The Witch Queen of Acheron. Acheron was an ancient and now fallen civilization of early mankind, a sorcerer-riddled ancient evil nation of purple towered cities. Acheron was founded by Stygians from Khemi. The empire thrived from 15,500 BC to 13,000 BC, in a period known as the Age of Acheron. over a span of twenty-five centuries. At its high point, circa 13,000 BC (before its Fall), Acheron went from the Western Ocean at south to the territory of the Gundermen and Cimmerians at north, bordered at southwest by the Zingg settlements, at west by the Bossonians and the Shirki, at west (from north to south by the Aquiloni, the Nemedi, the Corinthi, and the kingdoms of Ophir and Koth. It stretched eastwards at least to Kara-Shehr, an outpost set in the northern Iranistani Desert, at the southern edge of Hyrkania, while expeditions were led into the