Dagonia (City)

Dagon / Dagonia
Name	Dagon
Aliases	Dagonia
Characteristics
Demonym	Dagonians or Dagonites
Location Details
Galaxy	Milky Way
Star System	Sol
Planet	Earth
Continent	Hyboria
Country	Dagonia (Empire)
Region	Vilayet Sea
Locale	Xapur
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas, John Buscema
First	Savage Sword of Conan #15 (August, 1976)
First	Savage Sword of Conan #15 (August, 1976)

History

The dates mentioned down there use another hypothetical chronology, placing the Great Cataclysm circa 17,000-22,000 BC, that Acheron's Fall circa G.C. 2500, and Conan's rule circa G.C. 5500, ignoring the usual setting of Conan as living circa 10,000 BC, 8000 years after the Great Cataclysm. The dates are translated to fit the Great Cataclysm by 18,000 BC.

Empire of Dagonia

Khosatral Khel, likely the offspring of the aquatic monster and possible Old One Dagon, stalked the world like a god, as no earthly weapon could harm him. Eventually, he came across the primitive inhabitants of the island of Xapur, and he gave them culture and civilization as he was pleased to so. Aided by him, the Dagonians built the city of Dagonia, and worshiped him.

At some point, the Yezmites once ruled over Dagon.

Yuetshi enslavement (16,500 BC)

After the Yuetshi reached the Vilayet by G.C. 1500, (1500 years after the Great Cataclysm), that brutish people came to Dagonia's shore. After a fierce battle, Khosatral Khel's sorcery defeated them, and and they were enslaved and sacrificed for nearly a generation.

Dagonia's destruction (16,400 BC)

It was hypothesized that it was circa 16,400 BC (within a century or so from G.C. 1500) that the Yuetshi priest eventually went into the wilderness and returned with a knife forged of a meteor which had fallen in a far valley. Upon the priest's return, the Yuetshi revolted, slaughtered the Dagonians, as the magic of Khosatral Khel was impotent before the blade. The Dagonians were protected in the fortress capital city of Dagonia by that same magic. Mercenaries were possibly used by the Dagonians during the Yuetshi unrest. Khosatral Khel and the priest fought. The priest managed to defeat and imprison Khosatral Khel, instead of slaying him, wishing to hold the threat of reviving him against his own rebellious subjects.

The Yuetshi sacked and destroyed Dagon, though another tale stated it declined as ages passed, falling into ruin.

It was hypothesized that refugees fleeing the destruction of Dagonia had mingled with the remnant of the Pre-Cataclysmic Zhemri to form the foundation of Zamora, an alternative to the theory of an hypothetical northern branch of East-folk migration bringing forth the revival of the Zhemri.

Return into the Hyborian Age of Conan (10,000 BC)

At least since hundreds of years, at the time of the Age of Conan, the island of Xapur was uninhabited.

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Residents

• Khosatral Khel
• Dagonians (or Dagonites)
• Yuetshi
  • Unnamed priest
• Yezmite cult

Notes

• The city of Dagon was created by Robert E. Howard in "The Devil in Iron". (adapted in Savage Sword of Conan #15; October, 1976).

See Also

• 1 appearance(s) of Dagonia (City)
• 2 mention(s) of Dagonia (City)
• 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Dagonia (City)
• 1 image(s) of Dagonia (City)