Isle of Siptah - The Lore

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

This video explores the Lore of the Isle of Siptah concentrating on the island's three principles waves of settlement, that of the Elder Spawn, the Acheronians and the Stygians. The text references the written Lore found on the Isle of Siptah (the Acheronian Obelisks and the Siptah Journal Scrolls) but also the wider Conan canon. The video is broken down into the following chapters: Introduction 0:50 The Story of the Elder Races 2:45 Interim - The Great Cataclysm 8:27 The Coming of the Acheronians 9:11 The Grey Ones and the First Men 13:40 The Colony of the Stygians 17:42 The Archeology of Siptah 20:18 Siptah Now 26:40 Hope you enjoy it.

[@TheChazmannico]

Absolutely wonderful job. You earned my sub

[@AZodiacCancer]

I know almost nothing about Conan Lore so this video is very helpful. I thought Siptha was just something Funcom made up.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

So did I till I started reading up on it. Glad you liked it.

[@GamingGreyBeard]

I would like to say whatever you are paying your editor, is not enough! Fantastic job!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks, Peter. Videos like this are a bit complicated in iMovie, but despite some problems I think it came out okay. Glad you liked it.

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

Thank you for this I’m in the middle of writing a script for a Conan video now. I could use this!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Glad you found it useful, Grim.

[@dutchboy9273]

Fantastic job. REH created a fantastic world, on our world prior to the Great Flood.

[@lordvengeance9395]

Bravo! Great vid. Don't think I've seen anyone tackle trying to sort the Siptah lore. I think Funcom took some creative liberties with the IP when compared to the base Conan lore, and that's why some things, like the location of the Isle, don't match up.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thank you, my lord. The only other lore videos I've seen have just repeated what's in the lore globes, so I thought I'd attempt to tie that information in with the other lore we find on the island. Glad you liked it.

[@The-Black-Death]

Well the Isle of Siptah in Conan Exiles isn't lore friendly just like the Exiled Lands, since both have conflicting lore elements and inconsistency, but it is nice to see more people doing Conan lore to bring more attention and love to the franchise overall. :D

[@deavonw]

Your voice and the video quality are top notch. Everything I was curious about with Siptah is here. Fantastic video!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Much appreciated deavonw. Glad you liked it.

[@infernohellknight]

I like that in the Exile lands the Set Priest Mek - Amoses also mentions the creatures of the outer void. Perhaps Funcom was already giving a clue they were developing the Isle Of Siptah.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Possibly. They seem to plan a long way ahead. Hope you enjoyed the vid.

[@infernohellknight]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming Great video. Both history lessons were intriguing. I also am enjoying your current play through, are you going to continue to the end.

[@ericmcquisten]

What an amazing video! ... the great narration... the editing... the pace... the detail... even the voice is top notch!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

That's very kind of you to say so. Many thanks.

[@Articulate99]

Thank you for thus dive into the lore surrounding Siptah, and your own great storytelling.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Articulate, glad you enjoyed it.

[@mausolus8466]

Thank you for the summary, excelent work. With knowledge of Isle's awe-inspiring and fascinating nature, it's exploration a settling on it will be now much more rewarding.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Glad you liked it Mausolus.

[@alexutopia]

Excellent Video. I actually found your channel because one of your lore videos a while ago. I also watch your Let's Plays on occasion, but most of the time I'm not the Let's Play kind of guy I guess, so thanks for this and Merry Christmas!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Hi Alex. Many thanks. Have a Happy New Year.

[@hootponca77397]

Man i grew up on the movie with Arnold and i never knew that it had this much lore and world built-in. Great music and sounds with the monsters.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

It's a brilliant game. Glad you liked the vid.

[@hootponca77397]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming yup been playing more of exiles! 😅😂😂

[@GamingGreyBeard]

You put a lot of work into this one and it shows! Excellent job and thank you!

[@lupa9794]

Such an under rated youtuber. You did such a good job

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Lupa. That's very kind of you to say so.

[@Yunsuagi1]

You did a brilliant job with this video! Thank you for creating this. It must have taken a lot of time and effort!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks. It took a while, but it was fun. Glad you liked it.

[@PotatoBomb1362]

Thanks for the video i always wanted to know the story behind the vaults and siptah 👍

[@Lostinjp]

Great video, thanks so much for creating this!

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Lostinjp, glad you liked it.

[@D_an_D]

Maybe the First Men only provides the obsidian, because the obsidian weapon (alien) designs are in the posession of the Grey Ones. (That way, the entire subsequent explanation was perhaps less forced...)

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

It's called the Forge of the First Men which is why I assumed they're the ones making them. But perhaps you're right.

[@D_an_D]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming They are forging the obsidian bars, the weapons crafted by you.

[@jeremyhack7217]

Very well done, thank you

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Jeremy. I appreciate it.

[@xyAKMxy]

21:05 regarding the two acheronian architectural style, is it possible that the second style is actually from the past, actual stygian colonization attempt (as opposed to the current stygian invader camps)? In the first or second page of the current battlepass, the artwork features a stygian-looking city with a pyramid in the background and some palaces built like the New Luxur ruins. Perhaps the blackstone architecture is the only acheronian style, shared between the acheronians themselves, the giant kings and other allies they might have had.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Good points. The video was made before the Age of Sorcery so there might be additional clues in the artwork.

[@xyAKMxy]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming either it's an additional clue or it's just Funcom being inconsistent. Having not played Age Of Conan and thus never visited the stygian cities in that game, I cannot tell for sure which is which...

[@GamingGreyBeard]

Do you remember the name of the God that was mentioned in the volcano in the exiled lands? Yoggoth or yogoloth or something like that? He was mentioned in the book of skelos.. I believe that HE (Yoggococonut or whatever.. ;) ) Is the being that made the pact with the elder races and provided them with the knowledge to create the shining ten sided dice that powers the tower. He then handed them the knowledge to create and harness the surges through their ley shrines. You can even catch a glimpse of him as he tears open the sky with his tentacles as he opens the chosen pathway. I was horrified by it the first time I laid eyes upon it! I could be wrong on some if not all of the details mentioned but I definitely remember reading on that in- game and was hoping you could find some evidence. That's another reason I keep watching. You keep finding the good stuff! ;) I'm hoping you investigate the surges.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

I have a terrible confession to make in that I've never once stepped foot in the Volcano. I was planning to go there in the last Exiles playthrough, but then decay got me. I'm planning another Exiles playthrough next year and I'll do that in single-player mode with decay switched off. There's loads I've still not done in Exiles and I want to experiment with different building styles. I will be instigating a surge on Siptah though. That's definitely on my to-do list.

[@street1111]

Yog-saggoth I read about him but not sure

[@DerdOn0ner]

@@street1111Yog-Sothoth

[@street1111]

@@DerdOn0ner thanks

[@Runehunter7]

This was really nice, plus I always been curious about the grey ones. I wonder if the stygians would ever be able to drive them out.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Well the Stygians have numbers on their side, so they have a chance.

[@MercuryKnight5]

Where did you find that great b & w map? Looked for it online and couldn't find it. The maps I did find were interesting. Your location for the Exiled Lands puts it right over the mountains from the Desert of Yondo and the City of Ong in northern Zamora. Since they both come from a really weird story by Lovecraft's other bestie Clark Ashton Smith, that gives the Exiled Lands even more creepy vibes, at least for me.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

I'm not saying it's the right location, but I think it's a credible guess. And creepy certainly describes the place. I found the black and white map here: www.deviantart.com/maximeplasse/art/Hyboria-495558945

[@MercuryKnight5]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming Thank you. I think it's a really good location. It has to be somewhere with a sea to the east, and there's only two places where that's possible; the East coast of the Thurian continent, and the Vilayet Sea. The Vilayet makes more sense.

[@dxdrabbit6935]

Perhaps the stygian colony was sent to aid the acheron colony but were sent too late, or they were sent to investigate the disappearance of the so called greatest acheronian noble that built the city in the west side. They could have also been sent to get rid of the stygian prince. Like two eras of the acheronian empire visited which would explain the difference in architecture.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Possibly. I guess we'll never know. It's fun to think about though.

[@semi-useful5178]

Acheron fell three thousand years before the birth of Conan.The modern Stygia is very different from the Black Beast she once was.

[@wargriffin5]

@4:35 My Brain: "Xenomorph! LET'S ROOOCK!!!"

[@enkephalin07]

This appears to disregard the canonical fusion with HP Lovecraft's mythos. The 'origin of the fiends' isn't that unclear; they came from the Outer Dark, same as Set (Expy of Leviathan) and Cthon. All of the Elder Races were migrants from the Outer Dark, and all of the demons who appear from the Maelstrom are invaders from it. This isn't just some Fanon crossover, RE Howard and HP Lovecraft were good friends in life, and had an agreement to share their histories and characters. Unfortunately this informal agreement didn't translate to IP licensing rights after their deaths, so now the only Lovecraft characters a Hyborian Age licensed work can use are the ones that RE Howard mentioned in his stories, and only the names that he used.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Their origin is not clear in that they are not obviously the spawn of anything else, unlike the other races in this game. Saying that they 'came from the Outer Dark' doesn't really shed much light on it.

[@DrMetropolis]

An informal agreement between two friends doesn't mean their writings need to line up perfectly. Howard was never chained to or bothered to keep his stories in line with the Mythos. He took inspiration and made refences to them but Lovecrafts writing/rules/explanations usually don't and should be made to line up with howards.

[@enkephalin07]

@@DrMetropolis Funcom isn't shackled to either, but you can see they pay regard to both. I think you mistake my comments for dogmatic originalism when I'm just pointing out their consistency with canon. Though frankly, I can appreciate that kind of authorial discipline when writing derivative works. If you can't maintain the continuity then I can't maintain willing suspension of disbelief, and you would've done better just attempting originality.

[@evil_voidxii7317]

Αmazing narration sir i realy enjoyed it.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks, Evil. Glad you liked it.

[@AVspectre]

Thanks very much. I’ve been introduced to Conan Exiles recently by starting on a PvE server on Siptah but I’m not familiar with any of the background.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Hi AV. Glad you found it useful.

[@mattisback4more]

Thank you very much for this video. I have greatly enjoyed learning from it over the years. I noted from watching it this time around that you state it is unknown who built the structures which the Grey Ones inhabit. This is interesting. To me their style looks a bit like the lighter Acheronian style, but a more rudimentary version. I think there is a connection to be made here, evidenced by the fact that I have on rare occasion found a scarce supply of Khari Steel hidden in chests among these ruins. Perhaps these ruins were built by the Khari? They then would have likely existed before the Stygians and before the Acheronians. The history of the Khari and their relations to other groups like the Giant Kings and Lemurians, especially in the context of the Exiled Lands and Siptah, is quite unclear. Do you think there is something here?

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

You make some good points. I'd not considered the Khari. I've not found the steel myself, but that's an interesting clue.

[@Naferner_Said]

so the lore tells me siptah is more 3,0 friendly than the exiled lands

[@ThePrairiedog11]

great video

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Mark. Appreciate it.

[@m0thdm]

FUCKING AMAZING

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks Moth. Glad you liked it.

[@liamchris1597]

What music do you use?

[@joelkp1185]

Does anyone know the name of the music at 21:40?

[@JappaChow]

Nice vide

[@jackgrove4621]

i find it difficult to believe that conan and marvel take place in the same universe.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Oh. They do don't they. Wild.

[@jackgrove4621]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming i mean in terms of lore. What happend to the old gods and why are they not around. How can yog exist if the one above all exists

[@jasonsantos3037]

Fascinating about the elder races of Earth before man but they don't talk about the elder thing bit around before the other races came to exist.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Hi Jason, you're right there's lots more to talk about, but I was trying to concentrate on explaining the things you see in-game

[@GrandDukeMushroom]

good video but the audio so soft :D

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Thanks for the feedback Gran' Duque.

[@zacharyrodriguez4348]

The black coast? Black ones?

[@enkephalin07]

Wow, this is so underinformed when it isn't flat wrong. The serpentman colony in the Exiled Lands was never 'thriving', they knew it was doomed even then! Kull the Conqueror had battled them to near extinction in the Thurian Age and Set had started to favor humanity instead, so they were desperately in decline everywhere in the world.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

It was 'thriving' in comparison to the situation on Siptah. Why leave otherwise.

[@jeast7017]

Did anybody know that these are facts and not just video games Contant these are actual facts

[@aegontargaryen5266]

4:42 WTF is that sound?😂

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Some weird SFX I found on KZbin. Can't remember what it was called.

[@NyarlathotepCrawlingChaos]

Should always be stated in these lore videos than the “lore” of Conan Exiles is non-canonical.

[@youtubeistrash2347]

How so?

[@dezarla]

I want to watch, but I can't get past the poor pronunciation

[@paulchurchill5045]

Agreed,you'd think that would be the the first thing that would be researched for a so-called 'Lore' video. Shame! ps. Try out Grim Dark,he is a lot more professional & has a deeper grasp of the Conan Universe & its Lore. 👍

[@dezarla]

@@paulchurchill5045 Good shout about Grim Dark, he's been an excellent listen so far.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Was the pronunciation issue to do with specific names or just my general tongue-tied inability to speak?

[@dezarla]

@@GaudiaCertaminisGaming Names. Stygian, as an easy example, is pronounced with a soft G.

[@Silver-rx1mh]

Oh FFS.....