Dagonia was an ancient empire, extinct[2] since before the Hyborian Age,[6] and whose capital was the city of Dagon,[1][2] or Dagonia,[7] set on the Isle of Xapur, an island off the southeastern coast of the Vilayet Sea.[3]
History
Yuetshi enslavement (16,500 BC)[]
After the Yuetshi reached the Vilayet Sea by G.C. 1500,[8] (1500 years after the Great Cataclysm),[9] 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.[3]
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)[9] that the Yuetshi eventually revolted, slew the Dagonians, but were protected in the fortress capital city of Dagonia. Mercenaries were possibly used by the Dagonians.[3]
The Yuetshi eventually sacked[1] and destroyed Dagon.[10]
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.[9]
Return into the Hyborian Age (10,000 BC)[]
At least since hundreds of years, at the time of the Age of Conan, the island of Xapur was uninhabited.[6]Points of Interest
Residents
- Khosatral Khel
- Dagonians (or Dagonites)
- Yuetshi
- Unnamed priest
- Yezmite cult[1]
Notes
- The Empire of Dagonia was created by Robert E. Howard in "The Devil in Iron".[2] (adapted in Savage Sword of Conan #15; October, 1976).
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Savage Sword of Conan #31 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part II: Dagon's entry
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Savage Sword of Conan #31 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part II: Dagonia's entry
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Savage Sword of Conan #15 ; The Devil in Iron, Part II: The Magic of Khosatral Khel
- ↑ Handbook of the Conan Universe #1 ; Turan's profile
- ↑ All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z: Update #3 ; Annunaki's profile, Dagon's second paragraph
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Savage Sword of Conan #15 ; The Devil in Iron, Prologue
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Savage Sword of Conan #42 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part IX: Xapur, Isle of's entry
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #23 ; Stygia: Serpent of the South - II. Racial Drift
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Savage Sword of Conan #23 ; Stygia: Serpent of the South - I. Before the Fall
- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #42 ; A Gazetteer of the Hyborian Age, Part IX: Yuetshi's entry