The survivors on the Atlantian continent are forced back into the stone age by lack of resources but become skilled in this medium and develop an artistic culture. They have colonies on Thuria itself.Ītlantis is an old enemy of the 'Seven Empires' (see Dominant Kingdoms) of Thuria, and has an even more ingrained enmity for the Picts.įollowing the cataclysm that ends the Thurian Age, Atlantis sinks beneath the sea but many escape the destruction on ships, and join their continental colonies. These usually supplied the generals, statesmen and kings of other barbarian tribes, and often served the civilized Thurians as mercenaries.Ī small continent to the west of Thuria and east of the Pictish Islands. There were three main barbarian societies in the Thurian Age. The kingdom is already ancient by his standards: 'The hills of Atlantis and Mu were isles of the sea when Valusia was young.'

Kull notes, in The Shadow Kingdom that the Valusia of his time is a 'fading, degenerate' country, 'living mostly in dreams of bygone glory, but still a mighty land and the greatest of the Seven Empires'. Their power was, however, eventually destroyed by Kull, an Atlantean barbarian who had gained the crown of Valusia by force. Finally they created a religion, the Snake Cult, to do the same thing again and almost succeeded. They attempted to control new human kingdom of Valusia from behind the scenes, using illusionary magic, when mankind's memories of the past wars faded but they were again defeated in a secret war. It was created and initially ruled by Serpent Men until they were overthrown by their human slaves. The kingdom furthest to the west of the Thurian continent. First described by Greek explorer Pytheas, it is a mysterious land to the north. It has been associated with Scandinavia and Iceland. The name Thule comes from Classical mythology (or pseudo-geography). In an untitled draft in Kull- Exile of Atlantis, Grondar is 1) described as being east of Zarfhaana and having a wasteland, 2) occasionally sending out raiders into the grass savannah that separates it from its western neighbors, 3) Thurania is a named target of these raids, 4) the ancestors of the Grondarans came from somewhere unknown and defeated an older people who inhabited the land now known as Grondar (the remains of the original inhabitants' cities lie in the grass savanah between Grondar and the western kingdoms), and 5) hinted that Grondar didn't have cities similar to those of the west. Its people are less cultured than those of the other kingdoms. The kingdom furthest to the east of the Thurian continent, bordering the eastern desert. They are described as having wars with Valusia but it does not appear in the Kull stories. The seventh member is never named.įollowing the Cataclysm, one of the kingdoms (not Valusia), become the Zhemri people who eventually form the land of Zamora (the people of which in turn eventually become the Romani people). At least six of them share a common language and possibly a common origin. Seven Empires dominate the main continent of Thuria. Civilization is destroyed and the survivors attempt to build a new culture but warfare and a Lesser Cataclysm strike, creating the Hyborian Vilayet Sea and destroying any last remnants of Thurian society. Several countries sink into the sea, others rise from it, and the rest is devastated by earthquakes and volcanoes. Most of the planet is unexplored wilderness inhabited by 'scattered clans and tribes of primitive savages.'Ī great cataclysm ends the Thurian Age some time after the Kull stories. The main continent is called Thuria, although smaller continents such as Atlantis and an unnamed Eastern continent exist, as do several island chains. It predates the Hyborian Age of the Conan the Barbarian series and is known to them as the Pre-Cataclysmic Age.

The Thurian Age is the specific epoch for the fictional timeline used by Robert E. The boundary between the two ages is marked by the 'Great Cataclysm,' which took place ca. It is within the same shared universe as the Hyborian Age of Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories, but at an earlier period. Howard, in which the sword and sorcery tales of Kull of Atlantis are set. The Thurian Age is a fictional period within the artificial mythology created by Robert E.

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