They slay the beast and the Valusian responsible for waking it. He leads two contingents of soldiers into the ancient city Qar, which lies below Valusia, where they encounter a giant monster. Kull eventually triumphs when Brule kills the sorcerer behind the spell.Īfter the return to Valusia, Kull learns that seven districts of the city have befouled water supplies. But one of his own lords, Kanuub, betrays Kull and helps Demascar use Kull's fleet as a sacrifice to summon demonic forces to aid them against Rikos. Next Kull travels south with a fleet of ships to aid the island nation of Demascar in war with its neighbor Rikos. Kull triumphs when the power proves too much for Thulsa Doom to effectively wield. He eventually tricks Kull into handing it over, which leads to a final conflict between Kull and Thulsa Doom before the entire Valusian Court. However, Thulsa Doom is secretly plotting to gain supreme power by acquiring the Serpent's Eye gem from the temple, which is now in Kull's posession. Together they defeat the serpent-men and lead a war party to destroy the serpent-men's temple.Īt the sacking of the serpent-men's temple, Kull and Ka-Nu encounter Thulsa Doom another adversary of the serpent-men, and they bring him back to Valusia with them. After repelling it from the world, he returns to Valusia where a Pictish emissary named Ka-Nu informs him that his court has been infiltrated by a sinister serpent-man cult. Soon after becoming king he inadvertently frees a powerful supernatural being called The Skull of Silence. As a wandering swordsman he gained many followers and eventually became king of Valusia. HIstoryīorn in the island nation of Atlantis, Kull was exiled for defending a condemned woman.

Kull the Conqueror was created by Robert E Howard in a story called the Shadow Kingdom published in Weird Tales in August, 1929.

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