History VideoGame / ConanHyborianAge

* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdbTFeR4FWg official trailer]] and screenshots from the ''Skyrim Nexus'' feature a protagonist which is a look-alike of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's Conan, implying that the mod's player character is canonically supposed to be Conan himself. It's actually not the case, because Conan appears as a (ghost) NPC. [[note]]The mod ''Nexus'' page also provides a link to [[http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4793/ another mod by the same creator]], which allows to create your perfect Schwarzy[=/=]Conan look-alike, while adding an alternate version of Conan's outfit which can be found out of the Hyborian Mound[[/note]]

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler: Rexor's iconic three-headed axe]]. Also, the axe wielded by Conan during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTeShJndPhE the battle of the Mounds scene]] can be found lying in the dungeon.

* DismantledMacGuffin: One of the ways to end the quest is finding parts of broken swords, then reforging one of them.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Has Eorlund been killed by a dragon attack or a vampire raid? Well, unless you resurrect him with the console, you're now unable to reforge the sword and complete the quest.

* HappyEndingOverride: The mod provides one to the movie. Conan explains that he may have killed Thulsa Doom, but the dying wizard cursed him and he gradually went weaker and weaker each day until he eventually was unable to wake up.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The weapons that can be crafted after completing the quest are more powerful (and lighter) than their daedric equivalent, and can be created way earlier, though tempering them require an even much rarer resource.

* LoinCloth: The iconic Conan-like loin cloth is one of the items acquired in the dungeon. It's actually more protective than the lowest-level light armours.
* LostTechnology: The fulgurite. The Gray-Mane are researching it, with little success: aside form the quest-giving book, their house contains a letter stating that a boat carrying the fulgurite freight they ordered sank in area of the Dawnstar's coast.

** At last a ''Skyrim'' dungeon which averts HollywoodDarkness!

* ShoutOut: A character mentioned in the mod but not encountered is a smith named Mordec of Duthil, after a character from ''Conan of Venarium'', a ''Conan'' novel written by Creator/HarryTurtledove.[[note]]The original Mordec of Duthil is Conan's father in the novel; since the mod's Conan is supposed to be dead since a very long time while this version of Mordec sent letters to Eorlund Gray-Mane, they're probably not supposed to be the same person.[[/note]]

Most of the mod consists in the Hyborian Mound's exploration.

Unrelated with ''VideoGame/AgeOfConan: Hyborian Adventures'', though both are adaptations of the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' franchise.

* GuideDangIt: To complete the "Riddle of Steel" quest, you need to reforge the Cimmerian sword. While the quest marker leads to the Skyforge, the objective actually requires to talk to Eorlund Grey-Mane, who may be anywhere in the town. The only clue on the mod's page is "to reforge weapons you need skysteel forging ability and arcane smithing", which further implies that finishing the quest requires to reforge the sword yourself.

* CutAndPasteEnvironments: [[spoiler:Doom's room]] is a copy (with much more skeletons, less light, and a double-snake statue added) of [[http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Rebel%27s_Cairn the vanilla room where you encounter Red Eagle]].

->''"Conan Hyborian Age is a Massive Dungeon with a Quest. It was designed to introduce in the most possible lore friendly way the Items of Conan the Barbarian Movie 1982 by John Milius and Oliver Stone."''

* AbsoluteCleavage: The Hyborian Armor when worn by a female character (cf. {{Sideboob}}).

* CrossOver: The mod basically uses the ''Conan the Barbarian'' setting as a distant past of the Tamriel setting, with a few alterations to the former in order to fit the ''Elder Scrolls'' lore (like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_%28fictional_deity%29 Crom]] being renamed "[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Shor Shor]]", or the Atlantean Sword being renamed "[[http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Atmora Atmorean]] Sword"). The Hyborian Mound itself is a combination of the mound in which Conan finds his sword and Thulsa Doom's lair.

* DismantledMacGuffin: One of the ways to end the quest is finding the Cimmerian Sword, which is broken in two parts, then reforging it.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The weapons that can be crafted after completing the quest are more powerful (and lighter) than their daedric equivalent, and can be created way earlier.
* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing scantily-clad (she wears the Hyborian Armor, cf. {{Sideboob}}) in one of the loading screens (said loading screen being of the pictures illustrating the mod in the ''Skyrim Nexus''), Valeria doesn't appear in the game.

* WreckedWeapon: The "Cimmerian Sword Broken" is a broken weapon (technically a dagger) in the mound. It's made from the sword's handle and the lower part of its blade; the remaining part of the blade is lying elsewhere in the dungeon. The quest ends when the sword is reforged at the Skyforge, either as a one-handed sword or as a greatsword.

The house of Clan Gray-Mane contains an interesting book, talking about the "secret of steel", the fulgurite (made from a rare ore), which properties are very interesting to create powerful weapons; in Skyrim, only the Whiterun Skyforge being able to craft items from fulgurite. The book also refers to the Hyborian Mound, a mound in the moor West of Whiterun, which contains a sword crafted in this alloy and which power is said to be similar to Daedric weapons'.

Most of the mod consists in the Hyborian Mound's exploration, with the assistance of Conan's ghost.

* AbsoluteCleavage: The Pitfight Cuirass when worn by a female character (cf. {{Sideboob}}).

* DualBoss: The two trolls guarding the exit of the Hyborian Mound.
* DungeonCrawling: The premise is basically the exploration of a dungeon to find an ancient weapon, while fighting the monsters inside.

** [[spoiler: Rexor, Thorgrim, and Thulsa Doom in Doom's room]], with a dozen of skeletons. [[spoiler: Conan assists the player character during this fight.]]

** The quest is titled "Riddle of Steel".

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing scantily-clad (she wears the Pitfight Cuirass, cf. {{Sideboob}}) in one of the loading screens (said loading screen being of the pictures illustrating the mod in the ''Skyrim Nexus''), Valeria doesn't appear in the game.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdbTFeR4FWg official trailer]] and screenshots from the ''Skyrim Nexus'' feature a protagonist which is a look-alike of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's Conan, implying that the mod's player character is canonically supposed to be Conan himself. It's actually not the case, because Conan appears as a (ghost) NPC.[[note]]On the other hand, the mod ''Nexus'' page provides a link to [[www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/4793/ another mod by the same creator]], which allows to create your perfect Schwarzy[=/=]Conan look-alike, while adding an alternate version of Conan's outfit which can be found out of the Hyborian Mound.[[/note]]

* {{Sideboob}}: When worn by a male character, the Hyborian Armor looks like Conan's classical loincloth, and Pitfight Cuirass is a leather breach with leather suspenders from the belt to the shoulders. When worn by a female character, the former adds a kind of leather apron on the chest (which only covers the front of the body, not the side), and the latter replaces the suspenders by two thick strips of leather which covers the breasts while reveal the cleavage down to the stomach, and leaving the side of the breasts exposed.

* CrossOver: The mod basically uses the ''Conan the Barbarian'' setting as a distant past of the Tamriel setting, with a few alterations to the former in order to fit the ''Elder Scrolls'' lore (like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crom_%28fictional_deity%29 Crom]] being renamed "[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Shor Shor]]"). The Hyborian Mound itself is a combination of the mound in which Conan finds his sword and Thulsa Doom's lair.

* DemBones: Aside a lich ([[spoiler: Thulsa Doom]]) and two trolls, the enemies encountered are only skeletons and Draugr.
* DismantledMacGuffin: The quest is about finding the Cimmerian Sword, which is broken in two parts, then reforging it.

* DualBoss:
** [[spoiler: Rexor and Thorgrim in Doom's room]]. Once they're dead, [[spoiler: Thulsa Doom]] spawns. Conan's ghost helps the Dragonborn during the whole fight.
** The two trolls guarding the exit of the Hyborian Mound.

* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: The Pitfighter]] bossfight involves a dozen of skeleton mooks.

* Sideboob: When worn by a male character, the Hyborian Armor looks like Conan's classical loincloth, and Pitfight Cuirass is a leather breach with leather suspenders from the belt to the shoulders. When worn by a female character, the former adds a kind of leather apron on the chest (which only covers the front of the body, not the side), and the latter replaces the suspenders by two thick strips of leather which covers the breasts while reveal the cleavage down to the stomach, and leaving the side of the breasts exposed.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing in one of the loading screens (said loading screen being of the pictures illustrating the mod in the ''Skyrim Nexus'') , Valeria doesn't appear in the game.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdbTFeR4FWg official trailer]] and screenshots from the ''Skyrim Nexus'' feature a protagonist which is a look-alike of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's Conan, implying that the mod's player character is canonically supposed to be Conan himself. It's actually not the case, because Conan appears as a (ghost) NPC.[[note]]On the other hand, the mod ''Nexus'' page provides a link to another mod by the same creator, which allows to create your perfect Schwarzy[=/=]Conan look-alike.[[/note]]

* LoadingScreen: The mod adds a few custom loading screens to the native ones. They follow the ''Skyrim'' style of "lore-related quote + 3D picture of a character[=/=]object", with quotes from the movie illustrated by 3D of Conan, Valeria, or various new items.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdbTFeR4FWg official trailer]] and screenshots from the ''Skyrim Nexus'' feature a protagonist which is a look-alike of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's Conan, implying that the mod's player character is canonically supposed to be Conan himself. It's actually not the case, because Conan appears as a (ghost) NPC.

* LostTechnology: The fulgurite. The Grey-Mane are researching it, with little success: aside form the quest-giving book, their house contains a letter stating that a boat carrying the fulgurite freight they ordered sank in area of the Dawnstar's coast.

* CrossOver: The mod basically uses the ''Conan the Barbarian'' setting as a distant past of the Tamriel setting, with a few alterations to the former in order to fit the ''Elder Scrolls'' lore (like Crom being renamed "[[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Shor Shor]]"). The Hyborian Mound itself is a combination of the mound in which Conan finds his sword and Thulsa Doom's lair.

* BlackoutBasement: Contrary to ''Skyrim'' usual HollywoodDarkness in underground areas, most of the Hyborian Mound is mostly filled with complete darkness, the only exceptions being either rare rooms with lit candles or braziers, or rare instances of rooms with holes in the ceiling. The mod's description even explicitely advices to bring torches.

* NeverTrustATrailer: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdbTFeR4FWg official trailer]] and screenshots from the ''Skyrim Nexus'' feature a protagonist which is a look-alike of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan, implying that the mod's player character is canonically supposed to be Conan himself. It's actually not the case, because Conan appears as a (ghost) NPC.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing in one of the loading screens, Valeria doesn't appear in the game.

* LadyNotAppearingInThisGame: Despite appearing in one of the laoding screens, Valeria doesn't appear in the game.