The Heart of Ahriman, the only threat to the High Priests of Set in Python, and for that reason close kept by them, was stolen from them and turned against them by a Hybori shaman. Their constant vitality, however, allowed them to finally overcome their foes after a long series of bitter wars (circa -2950).
The northern barbarians suffered greatly in the grisly hands of the necromancers of Acheron. This influx of Hyborians into the West inevitably brought them into contact with the Acheron Empire. This is neither a simple nor continuous process : it involves a series of waves, each overrunning or being assimilating by its predecessors, each wave conscious of its relationship to their forerunners, through the kinship of Bori, but also its rivalry. During the first half of the third millenium before this Era, the Hyborians continue to spread over the West.
