The Ancients of Alkmeenon are a heavy roleplaying-pvp guild and a sister-guild to the Crimson Immortals. Our title and background story is derived from a segment of the Robert E. Howard's tale, "The Servants of Bit-Yakin".

We are the Alkmenian people, a fair-skinned race which hail from an ancient kingdom, now lost to ruin in the lands of Stygia. A few of us, granted with the gift of immortality, endured alone for centuries after being driven from our lands by the Stygian armies of Set. The Oracle of Alkmeenon, Yelaya, guided by a her visions reunited our race after so many life ages to resurrect the great city and reclaim our rightful place in Hyboria.

"It was like looking into the interior of a vast bowl, rimmed by a circular stone wall. The floor of the bowl was covered with trees and denser vegetation, though nowhere did the growth duplicate the jungle denseness of the outer forest. The cliffs marched around it without a break and of uniform height. It was a freak of nature, not to be paralleled, perhaps, in the whole world: a vast natural amphitheater, a circular bit of forested plain, three or four miles in diameter, cut off from the rest of the world, and confined within the ring of those palisaded cliffs.... This valley had been their citadel. There the palace stood, and there only the royal family and their court dwelt. The real city stood outside the cliffs. Those waving masses of green jungle vegetation hid its ruins. But the domes that glistened in the leaves below him were the unbroken pinnacles of the royal palace of Alkmeenon which had defied the corroding ages... The rulers— princes and high priests—claimed descent from a fair-skinned race which, in a mythical age, had ruled a kingdom whose capital city was Alkmeenon. Conflicting legends sought to explain the reason for that race’s eventual downfall, and the abandonment of the city by the survivors. Equally nebulous were the tales of the Teeth of Gwahlur, the treasure of Alkmeenon. But these misty legends had been enough to bring Conan to Keshan, over vast distances of plain, river-laced jungle, and mountains..."- The Servants of Bit-Yakin

Contacts:

Dagur (Leader), Tusivjorn, Jetorix, Jehzia