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Stygians are the native people of Stygia.

History[]

Characteristics[]

Stygians vary by class. The ruling class is tall, hawk-faced, bronze-skinned with dark hair and black eyes, the lower classes are a downtrodden, mongrel horde, a mixture of Kushite, Stygian, Shemitish, even Hyborian blood.

Society[]

Stygians are at a Bronze Age-level of civilization. They worship Set the Old Serpent, a member of the Elder Gods, along with Derketo and the Hawk-God of Harakht. Rituals of Set are carried out in temple, tomb, and pyramid, and include live human sacrifice and sorcerous obscenities.

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