Rising from a lowly slave - Age of Conan's starting point profiled

With Age of Conan's launch ever-closer, more information continues to spill from the lips of Funcom employees. To continue the fan-priming, Gamespy has a look at Tortage Island – the first zone you'll enter in your AoC adventures. An escaped slave newly freed by a shipwreck, you'll brave steamy, treacherous jungles and dark dungeons just within your first dozen hours of life in Hyborea.

The piece focuses on one of those dungeons, describing the mad crypts of the Onyx Tomb and the foul beings that inhabit its depths. A former treasure trove turned laboratory, the place is crawling with Scaleskin Lizard snakemen and some truly stomach-turning mummies. The screenshots of these vile beasts really don't do them justice; until you've seen one of the horrid undead lurching towards you with its entrails hanging out its hard to appreciate just how far they can go with that M rating.

Glimpses of those tomb horrors, as well as other parts of the Hyborean landscape, are available in the new trailer the site is hosting. You can check it out below the cut. Make sure to stay to the end – the Lizardmen attack animations are incredibly creepy looking.

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