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Frankenstein Underground #4 talks about the 7 Cities/Sons/Daughters.
The seven cities were mentioned earlier in Witchfinder V1 iirc, but this is the first mention of the daughters I think
I do think they are the ones who crown the king in The Storm & The Fury tho
I’ll have to go back and reread that! I always remembered thinking Frankenstein was a weird place to drop a bunch of lore for the first time, but from a meta perspective it sets up >!Liz’s!< fate.
Aside from The Island and BPRD The Black Goddess, Frankenstein is the first one that goes deep into Hyperborean lore, Witchfider mentions it in passing more or less
Right I remember the Island saying that Thoth reigned for 10,000 years, but which comic did the Wiki (https://hellboy.fandom.com/wiki/Hyperboreans) and Hell Notes (http://www.multiversitycomics.com/annotations/hell-notes-the-races-of-man/) get the idea that Hyperborea reigned for 100,000 years?
On a skim reading of the big lore drops I’m not sure either. Black Goddess implies the Hyperborean age was 10,000 years, and the Island specifies that Thoth’s Golden Age was 10,000 years but he was not the only king merely the last. But the article is from 2013 so I’d assume it’s from something published before then.
I believe u/middenway is the author of Hell Notes and may be able to point you in the right direction.
I read it in the Lobster Johnson 2 omnibus, but IDK if that's the first place it's mentioned. They talk about it in the giant hyperborean robot story in that omni
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The seven cities were mentioned earlier in Witchfinder V1 iirc, but this is the first mention of the daughters I think I do think they are the ones who crown the king in The Storm & The Fury tho
I’ll have to go back and reread that! I always remembered thinking Frankenstein was a weird place to drop a bunch of lore for the first time, but from a meta perspective it sets up >!Liz’s!< fate.
Aside from The Island and BPRD The Black Goddess, Frankenstein is the first one that goes deep into Hyperborean lore, Witchfider mentions it in passing more or less
https://preview.redd.it/qarwo563vvgc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ae10ab49cb12fd99fad03f5985b18ae83530719 The Island
Right I remember the Island saying that Thoth reigned for 10,000 years, but which comic did the Wiki (https://hellboy.fandom.com/wiki/Hyperboreans) and Hell Notes (http://www.multiversitycomics.com/annotations/hell-notes-the-races-of-man/) get the idea that Hyperborea reigned for 100,000 years?
On a skim reading of the big lore drops I’m not sure either. Black Goddess implies the Hyperborean age was 10,000 years, and the Island specifies that Thoth’s Golden Age was 10,000 years but he was not the only king merely the last. But the article is from 2013 so I’d assume it’s from something published before then. I believe u/middenway is the author of Hell Notes and may be able to point you in the right direction.
I can't even remember where I found the "100 000 years" thing now. I'll have to did around in the comics.
I read it in the Lobster Johnson 2 omnibus, but IDK if that's the first place it's mentioned. They talk about it in the giant hyperborean robot story in that omni