House Of Crom: by Funcom
http://www.ageofcona...s/house_of_crom
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Huge Atlantean caverns Temple complex.
See several pics. It looks epic and cool.
>> the 5th pic down shows huge feet of a massive statue.
This is clearly inspired by the great JOHN MADDOX ROBERTS
'Conan the Valorous' book.
http://en.wikipedia....an_the_Valorous
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Please post any bigger pics of this temple complex?
House Of Crom: By Funcom
Started by Buxom Sorceress, Jul 13 2012 02:40 PM
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 02:40 PM
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Posted 13 July 2012 - 10:17 PM
This is my favorite area of the game; I spend alot of time in there. I will try to get screenshots next time.
I thought the exact same thing about that statue when I first saw it.
It has some nice references to actual Howard stories - there is even an Am-Ra in there.
I thought the exact same thing about that statue when I first saw it.
It has some nice references to actual Howard stories - there is even an Am-Ra in there.
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 12:14 PM
Some House of Crom images, from the arena.
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:51 PM
Thanks very much for the images. 
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More screenshots please ?
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More screenshots please ?
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Posted 10 August 2012 - 10:58 PM
Thanks very much for the images.
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More screenshots please ?
My guild will be doing a raid in that same area on Saturday morning against what is supposed to be a rather Lovecraftian creature - I will try to get screenshots in between deaths
Edit: We cancelled that raid, but I have a screenshot of another favorite area, The Forgotten Temple, ruins of an ancient Lemurian temple.
Edited by Primeval, 11 August 2012 - 07:08 AM.
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 08:19 AM
Heroes Plateau
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Posted 13 August 2012 - 09:26 AM
Not HOC, but I was in Turan and thought I would share a view of the Temple of Erlik:
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Posted 15 August 2012 - 02:04 PM
Great pics.
And I love to see the various other Temples & Ruins.
Funcom do such marvelous ancient 'Hyborian-World' designs which look superbly atmospheric.
[ i think REH would have loved most of them, too. ]
Thanks very much.
More please?
And I love to see the various other Temples & Ruins.
Funcom do such marvelous ancient 'Hyborian-World' designs which look superbly atmospheric.
[ i think REH would have loved most of them, too. ]
Thanks very much.
More please?
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Posted 01 December 2012 - 06:41 PM
more images of 'the feet of Crom'...
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any more pics, or bigger versions, please?
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any more pics, or bigger versions, please?
Edited by Buxom Sorceress, 01 December 2012 - 06:46 PM.
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 12:24 AM
I am pretty sure those are early concept art pieces for HOC - the statue is there, but that is not where the raid instance with the creature you see (The Lurker) happens. The story is that HOC is a lost Atlantean temple, and the Queen at the time made a pact with some Lovecraftian creature (The Lurker) to try and save her people from being wiped out (I can't remember if they had visions of the Cataclysm or if its something else). The Atlanteans in HOC are ghosts, and the end goal is to kill The Lurker, but I don't think anybody has managed to do it yet. A few guilds have figured out how to summon him, which is a pretty cool process, but haven't yet killed him. I was just in there for the first time in awhile yesterday but didn't think to get more screenshots - I will probably be in there tonight and will try to remember!
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 10:40 AM
So if it's a lost Atlantean temple, whose feet are those?
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
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"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 12:24 PM
So if it's a lost Atlantean temple, whose feet are those?
No idea, I don't think it's ever explained. When you look up you can't see much. I know in Conan the Valorous it was supposed to be Crom and someone looked upon its face and had just looked at Conan and was startled - seeming to imply that the statue had Conan's face maybe?
Then again, I suppose Atlanteans would not have had a huge temple like this would they? Maybe I am misremembering...off to look into it.
Edit: It is stated as being an Atlantean ruin but I get the impression the name House of Crom is given to it by the Cimmerians, as it is in Cimmeria.
Edited by Primeval, 02 December 2012 - 12:29 PM.
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 08:35 AM
The feet and legs just turn into ceiling - must not be the same place as in Conan the Valorous...
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
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Posted 03 December 2012 - 08:42 AM
Atlanteans may have built huge temples and statues, but surely not Cimmerians.
"Did you deem yourself strong, because you were able to twist the heads off civilized folk, poor weaklings with muscles like rotten string? Hell! Break the neck of a wild Cimmerian bull before you call yourself strong. I did that, before I was a full-grown man...!" - Conan, in "Shadows in Zamboula", by Robert E. Howard
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
"... you speak of Venarium familiarly. Perhaps you were there?"
"I was," grunted [Conan]. "I was one of the horde that swarmed over the hills. I hadn't yet seen fifteen snows, but already my name was repeated about the council fires." - "Beyond the Black River", by Robert E. Howard
Read my Conan screenplays at The Scrolls of Ironhand (in particular my transcription of THE FROST GIANT'S DAUGHTER in Act II of "The Snow Devil") at
http://www.scrollsof...d.us/index.html or at
http://www.delicious...ic=ConanProject
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 01:44 PM
ah... but is it stone ceiling ?The feet and legs just turn into ceiling - must not be the same place as in Conan the Valorous...
or just an illusion to deter robbers from climbing up and finding the rest of the huge statue of ?? [ crom ?? ]
i like to think that the huge high head will have eyes that shine/glow blue, and a weird big beard full of mythos-tentacles...??
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 11:04 AM
This is the room where there is a Frost Giant King, we slew the rare version of him tonight, tough fight.
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Posted 07 December 2012 - 12:26 PM
In the entry area to House of Crom.
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 07:11 AM
The Queen awakes...
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 07:12 AM
Another room on the way to the final fight to slay the Queens offspring...
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 07:14 AM
Last fight before the Little Prince...
? Roll on me like a flood, now, if ye dare! Before your viper fangs drink my life I will reap your multitudes like ripened barley - of your severed heads will I build a tower and of your mangled corpses will I rear up a wall!.? - Bran Mak Morn in "Worms of the Earth"
