Age of Conan - Khopshef Province - Zone Music & Ambience | 1 hour

East of the coastal city of Khemi, Khopshef Province boasts no great cities—only fabled ruins recounted in ancient legends and caravan tales. Newcomers arriving in the province at the small village of Bubshur hear stories of a great and ancient pyramid, which lies along a tributary of the Styx some distance to the south. Of late, an enigmatic oracle of the Shemite goddess Derketo has braved the haunted lands around the pyramidal tomb and laid claim to a temple structure adjoining the ancient pyramid, where loyal followers serve his every whim. What the arrival of this oracle portends and why he chose to settle so close to the mysterious crypt, no one knows. Across the marshy banks, local fishermen who risk the crocodile-infested waters of the river Styx speak of a bleak island west of Pashtun and the mysterious ruins located there, said to be a temple dedicated to gods who were old when Atlantis still rode above the waves.

Meanwhile, the people of Khopshef Province pray to their gods and try to go about their lives, mining salt from the flats around the village of Hep-Kab or welcoming the caravans traveling from Medjool Oasis in the south. They keep out of the punishing sunlight at midday and ward their houses against the evils of the night.

But all is not well among the people of this region. The island town of Pashtun, an independent village claimed by neither Stygia nor Shem, has become the hunting ground for a fearsome monster, which stalks its citizens each night. Each morning, the bloodless corpses of its victims can be found lying along the village’s dusty streets, or empty boats are found drifting in the river’s sluggish current. The village leaders have turned to the oracle, seeking an explanation for the deadly rampage, but he answers their cries only in riddles.

Now, each evening, as the red sun stains the western sky, the people of Khopshef Province glance furtively downriver and await a hero who will stand between them and the horror lurking in the darkness.

Chapters:
00:00 Bubshur Dock, Boat Captain Amyr
01:05 Sunrise in Bubshur, Captain Menes, Chicken Handler, Derketo Converts
07:00 Lions and Riverbank Crocodiles
09:00 Red Ruin Soldiers
11:10 Old Man Naboth, Dying Bandit
12:38 River Raiders
16:00 Shadow of the Pyramid, The Ruins
18:00 Blessed Caves
19:13 Bubshur Night
22:33 Pashtun - Semira, Bubshur Undead Guard Chief and Sektep the Lich
25:10 Succubus, Path to Caravanserai
28:45 Sunrise in Caravanserai, Mbizi
31:46 Hyenas, Dune Mares, Halfbreeds and Stallions
34:45 Rebel Slaves at Hep-Kab, Healing Salts Mine, Trade Ship
37:45 Pashtun Island, Arax Queen
39:28 Mantis infestation, Cthhrakl
41:10 Deep Desert, Pillars of Kamula
44:05 Southern Oasis, Cursed Statue
46:10 Thrrkal - Chiefain of the Hive
49:08 Pyramid of the Ancients, Oracle of Derketo
52:08 Pyramid Entrance
55:05 Black Castle Valley, Desert Bandits
57:20 Desert Bandit Prince
59:08 Bubshur Panorama - Sunrise in Khopshef Province

Music is composed by Knut Avenstroup Haugen, who won the IFMCA award for the Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media for Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures OST in 2009.

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