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King Kull is both Valusia's strength and its weakness. He is a strong king, and holds the decaying country together. This is also the kingdom's weakness because without Kull, Valusia would disintegrate as a power.
Valusia is a prehistoric lost land, the setting of Robert E. Howard's tales of King Kull. It first appeared in "The Shadow Kingdom," regarded by Lovecraft as one of Howard's best stories of all time. "Shadow Kingdom" also marked the first appearance of the serpent-men, later added to the Cthulhu Mythos. Here's a list of every reference to ...
Most importantly, an extra stanza in a draft version says Kull is riding in order to kill a king. The only king he is known to have killed is the previous king of Valusia, but Kull is already called "king" in the poem, which rules that out since Kull was only crowned after his successful rebellion.
[ 1] After the destruction of Valusia, the Serpent Men escaped to Yoth, a cavern beneath K'n-yan in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the Serpent Men's scientific lore.
In "The Curse of the Golden Skull" Kull, approaching his thirties, is recruited by King Borna of Valusia in a mission against the ambitious sorcerer Rotath of Lemuria. Kull proves to be an effective assassin.
Kull, king of Valusia, drew aside the filmy curtains and gazed over the golden window sill, out over the court with sparkling fountains and trim hedges and pruned trees, over the high wall and at the blank windows of houses which met his glance.
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It also shows that Kull's rebelliousness against stifling old laws and traditions long antedated his becoming King of Valusia, and that he was very much an outsider even in his earlier life in Atlantis. This story would not be published until 1967, in the Lancer book, King Kull. Plot
