Kull attempted to reach Thuria, but was instead captured by Lemurian Pirates. For this selfless act, Kull is exiled from Atlantis. In ' Exile of Atlantis', an adolescent Kull grants a woman a quick death so that she will not be burned to death by a mob. Kull was captured by the Sea-Mountain tribe and eventually adopted by them. Both the valley and tribe were destroyed by a flood while Kull was still a toddler, leaving the young Kull to live as a feral child for many years. Kull was born into a tribe settled in the Tiger Valley of Atlantis. Howard coined the term while tying Kull's world to Conan's in the 1936 essay ' The Hyborian Age'. Note that the word 'Thuria' never appears in any of the Kull stories. The most powerful among these was Valusia others included Commoria, Grondar, Kamelia, Thule, and Verulia. East of Atlantis lay the ancient continent of Thuria, of which the northwest portion is divided among several civilized kingdoms. 100,000 BC, depicted as inhabited at the time by barbarian tribes. Kull was born in pre-cataclysmic Atlantis c.

Kull was portrayed in the 1997 film Kull the Conqueror by actor Kevin Sorbo.įictional character biography Life in Atlantis

His first published appearance was ' The Shadow Kingdom' in Weird Tales (August, 1929). The character was more introspective than Howard's subsequent creation, Conan the Barbarian, whose first appearance was in a re-write of a rejected Kull story. Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. ' The Shadow Kingdom' in Weird Tales (August, 1929)

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