He is a strong king, and he holds the decaying country together. King Kull is both Valusia’s strength and its weakness. There has been no famine during Kull’s reign, and there is economic success throughout the empire. When Kull arrived, the nation had lost its international greatness, and its armies were in disarray. Although seen as a liberator at first, Kull is seen as a despot later – a charge rather well founded once he places himself above the law shortly after his taking the throne.Īlthough the people are starting to romanticize Borna, the slain king, he was far worse a despot than Kull ever was. This situation does not sit well with the old Valusian families. The Red Slayers may be Valusians, but they are mountain men who hold themselves apart from the plainsmen. The armies are filled with barbarian mercenaries. He is backed by the Picts, the Valusian empire’s most ancient and powerful allies. The Snake Men wait in the wastelands for humans to grow degenerate, to forget what has come before, and they try again to rule Valusia.ĭecaying Valusia is ruled by aliens in the time of Kull. Early settlers fought their rulers for centuries before wresting Valusia from its monstrous founders. These legends are grim, and few people dare to whisper them for the men of Valusia are quick to kill these brave taletellers as blasphemers, but they are true. It is whispered in legend that men were not always ruled by men indeed, Valusia was founded by the Serpent Men far back in the mists of time. Its historians do not have annals that go back to the founding of Valusia. The hills of Atlantis and Mu were but young islands barely out of the sea when Valusia was just beginning its history. Valusia is so old that the Valusians themselves do not know its age. Valusia, while faded and degenerate by Kull’s time, is a mighty kingdom, and regarded as the greatest of the seven kingdoms.

Kull of atlantis