They put aside their nomadic traditions and settled into the old Hyperborean villages, and from there they built walls around those villages, which became walled towns which became walled fortress cities. These were a race of horsemen, great tribes of tent-dwellers, living beneath roofs of horse-hide, traversing the land far and wide, following the seasons, hunting and living off the land.įor reasons now lost to time, these wanderers of old came into the land of the Hyperboreans and ousted them, claiming their name.
Long ago, though, the folk now inhabiting Hyperborea were akin to the people of Hyrkania, likely departing that land and heading seaward from the east. There, the Hyperboreans can farm and herd to the best of their abilities, with small farming-steads outside their cities. Their land is as bleak and cold as is Asgard, though the southern reaches of the land are more favorable. The folk of Hyperborea are a strange and mysterious race a surly and dangerous people despised by most in the North for their wanton slavery and habit of waging war upon those who share borders. 2.2.4 Dargava, The Fortress of The Walking Death.
