Chimeria

Chimeria
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Established	{{{established}}}
Motto	may come when the inhabitants learn to read
Neighbours	live a long way away
Geographical Features	mud, peat bogs, more mud, wattle and daub longhouses
Capital	{{{capital}}}
Population	robust
Size	variable depending on who won the last border skirmish
Type of government	effective anarchy
Notable Citizens	{{{notablecitizens}}}
Imports	jewels, gold, wenches, cattle
Exports	Heroes
National Anthem	We're Going To Cut Your Tonkers Off (accompanied by beating of spear-butts on shields)
Books	informally imported and used as firelighters and cigarette papers

Mentioned in The Colour of Magic and Jingo, "Chimeria", is a mist-shrouded homeland which exists only as a place for heroes such as Hrun the Barbarian to come from.

Annotations

Chimeria is a direct parody of the Roundworld author Robert E. Howard's Cimmeria, whence comes Conan the Barbarian, who is the model for Hrun. By the next book in the series, TP had Cohen the Barbarian as his parody, but Hrun was the prototype.

"Chimeria" also evokes the Greek myth of the Chimera, the mythical monster, and something "chimerical", ie existing on the very fringes of objective physical existence.