Aquilonian
Aquilonian are related to the Zingarans, but the mixed racial heritage of these coastal peoples led discount them as Hyborians. The Zingarans are darker skinned than their Hyborian cousins and exotic in their habits. But this description also fits the people of Zamora, the two kingdoms and their populations are not related.
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Culture
Culture and cultural heritage
Aquilonia would emerge as the most powerful of the Hyborian kingdoms. The Hyborian culture of the time was described as dynamic, and its civilizing influence was felt by most of their barbarian neighbors. The Hyborians of the time had a mixed heritage and no longer closely resembled their ancestors, but this mixed heritage hadn't weakened them in any way. Slavery was widespread in the Hyborian world, creating the unintended side-effect of slaves mating with their masters. This produced bloodlines of mixed heritage in most kingdoms of the time, Hyborian or not.
Aquilonia itself contains at least three provinces with distinct cultural and hereditary differences from other Aquilonians.
The province of Gunderland to the north of the country doesn't contain slaves. The people of this province have undergone less interbreeding with other races than any other Hyborians of the time. They resembled the ancient Hyborians more closely than any of the others, remaining tawny-haired and gray-eyed.
The Bossonian Marches extended from the northern border of Zingara, throughout the Pictish border, to the south of Cimmeria, and the east of the Border Kingdoms. The Bossonians descended from a formerly independent race which was among the first to fall to the Hyborians. By this time, they possessed some Hyborian blood, but were distinctly different in appearance. They were people of average height and skin pigmentation, with either gray or brown eyes, and with mesocephalic skulls.
Their position at the borders of civilization with the barbarians never allows them to advance to the cultural height of other Hyborians. The Bossonians mostly are farmers settled in fortified villages, and their main concern is the protection of their land from barbarian raids. In effect, this also protects Aquilonia and the Hyborians from facing invasions by Picts or Cimmerians. Centuries of barbarian wars led to the Bossonians being particularly stubborn combatants, and their defense techniques were impenetrable by the direct charges favored by barbarian military commanders.
To the south, the province of Poitain had borders with Zingara. The relatively peaceful relations between the two civilized Kingdoms allows for people and goods to constantly flow through the borders. Interbreeding with the Zingarans caused the citizens of Poitain to be predominantly dark-haired and brown-eyed.
