![]() Further west is the Pictish Islands, from which the Picts, the forerunners of the Scottish-Irish, exist. It is not a high-tech civilization, but one of the barbaric tribes fighting among themselves and with others. There are probably others, but we know little of them. Sadly, REH never created a map of this period though Marvel did, I don’t feel it is very accurate.Ĭivilization is concentrated in northwestern Thuria, in the nations of Valusia, Commoria, Grondar, Kamelia, Thule, and Verulia. ![]() In this time, there is the continent of Thuria, which combines Europe, Asia, and Africa, but in a different configuration from what we know during Conan’s time (the Hyborian Age). The Kull stories are set in a pre-cataclysmic world circa 100,000 BC, in what we know as the Thurian Age. It is also illustrated, as are all the volumes in this series. ![]() Over the years there have been several collections of Kull stories, but the best one to get is the Del Rey trade paperback Kull: Exile of Atlantis, which is part of their REH Library. REH would write a dozen Kull stories, plus a poem, but only three were published during his lifetime. Howard‘s first sword-and-sorcery hero, years before Conan the Barbarian. ![]() Whatever you call him, Kull was Robert E. ![]()
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