Heroes of Lemuria Part 9
Chief Krull – Kull the Conqueror
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Chief_Krull#axzz7WlMHetxT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kull_of_Atlantis
Chief Krull’s Monsterology Tome entry reads thusly; They say he once discovered an underwater kingdom. Well, he says that. But he never says where it is.
Kull of Atlantis or Kull the Conqueror is a fictional character created by writer Robert E. Howard. 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. As such he can viewed as a prototype for Conan the Barbarian.
His first published appearance was “The Shadow Kingdom” in Weird Tales (August, 1929). Kull was portrayed in the 1997 film Kull the Conqueror by actor Kevin Sorbo.
The first Kull the Conqueror story.
Kull was born in pre-cataclysmic Atlantis c. 100,000 BC, depicted as inhabited at the time by barbarian tribes. East of Atlantis lay the ancient continent of Thuria, of which the northwest portion is divided among several civilized kingdoms. The most powerful among these was Valusia; others included Commoria, Grondar, Kamelia, Thule, and Verulia. Note that the word “Thuria” never appears in any of the Kull stories. Howard coined the term while tying Kull’s world to Conan’s in the 1936 essay “The Hyborian Age”.
These articles on the Heroes of Lemuria are what got me started on my quest to catalog all of the pop culture references in Wizard101. This is the ninth of sixteen Lemurian articles put together to allow younger players to see the inspirations for characters and creatures within this wonderful game .
Text for this article has been excerpted from the wiki articles linked above.
Mandar image is from Wizard101, and so is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
It is being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.
Conan the Barbarian and the names of Robert E. Howard’s other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Conan Properties International. Kull the Conqueror stories authored by Robert E. Howard have been in the public domain since 2006.
Image from The Shadow Kingdom, Weird Tales August 1929 by Hugh Rankin is in the public domain and borrowed from the Wikipedia article
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