Conan

You know, O prince, that between the years of the collapse of Atlantis and the shining cities beneath the oceans, and of the appearance of the sons of Aryas, there was a forgotten age in which the world was covered with brilliant kingdoms like blue robes Under the stars: Nemedia, Ofir, Brithunia, Hyperborea, Zamora with their girls with dark hair and their towers full of mysterious arachnids, Zingara and its knights, Koth, bordering with the pastoral lands of Shem, Styx with its tombs guarded by shadows, And Hirkania, whose leaders wore steel, silk and gold ...