Quote Originally Posted by Taranaich
Cheers Chris!
I plan on giving the Picts some Mastodons: since both Picts and Mastodons originally came from the Sunset Isles (which nowadays would be the peaks of the Rockies), as well as the presumably American sabretooth from Beyond the Black River, it seems reasonable that a couple of American creatures will make an appearance. To top it all off, Conan even mentions a Mastodon in Red Nails, so it would only be reasonable for Mastodons to make some sort of appearance.
Thanx for the answer. I didn't know that a Mastodon was mentioned in Red Nails. Shows that I haven't read or reread anything in a long time.

At the time of Conan, there could be a land bridge existing between the Alaskan area of the New World and the Eurasian/Hyborian land mass, as the seas could have been a bit lower at that time as the last glacial age was starting or more probably had started and was in its early stage, but maybe not, Howard is a little vague and so are glacial ages.

You do know Hyboria and Conan!!! There are enough gaps in Howard's descriptions of the lands and people to have some fun with the imagination.

One thing I don't believe is that there would be any full plate armor with very many High to Late Medieval style helms with movable visors. I believe the equipment would have more Dark Ages to Early and perhaps some Middle Medieval influences. Argos perhaps would be even anything from a mixture of Ancient Rome/Greece and Byzantium type armors, but that is just my envisionment. Some types of various plate I can definitely see.

Seems the Black Dragons and Black Legion (and some other units) are at least partially described by Howard concerning their armor and arms etc.

I am an Ancient/Dark Ages/Early Medieval/Tolkien type myself.

You have taken on a huge amount of work!!!

Chris