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Kull never left Valusia or returned to the life of an outlaw. Instead, he joined the Royal army as a mercenary, pursuing elevation through the ranks. 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.
King Kull and his army was able to reach these mountains by nightfall, although no time is given when Kull set out. A colony of Picts are settled among the mountains of Valusia’s southern frontier to serve as a buffer against foreign invasion.
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.
King Kull reigns in Valusia. The waning of the civilization of the main, or Thurian continent... a civilization dominated by the kingdoms of Ramelia, Valusia, Verulia, Grondar, Thule and Commoria. These people spoke a similar language, suggesting a common origin .
The deities who later became known as the Elder Gods of the Hyborian Age intended to make King Kull of Valusia the vessel of their power, but chose instead to make the immortal cat, Sedrick (felinized by Thulsa Doom) the container of their 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 ...
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Valusia was a kingdom of Thuria during the Pre-Cataclysmic Era, ruled by King Kull circa 18,500 BC. It was bordered (clockwise) at west and north by the Western Ocean, at northeast by Thule, at east by Zarfhaana and Kamelia, and at south by Verulia and Farsun (Valusia ruled over the whole of the western coast, with a narrow territory in the ...
