Thuria

Thuria is the continent on which the campaign action starts. In terms of its physical geography and the names of many of its kingdoms and locations, it is based on Thurian continent imagined by Robert E. Howard for his stories of Conan and the Hyborian age. But while many of the features of Thuria will be familiar to Conan readers, the DM has elected to add a liberal helping of ideas from quite different sources. At the inception of the campaign in July 2015, the plan is to borrow heavily from sources including Tolkien's Middle Earth, Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, Michael Moorcock's Melniboné, Leiber's Newhon, various TSR D&D settings and from selected world mythologies. Whereas Howard's world was not home to significant populations of sentient humanoid races, the DM has elected to retain the major non-human races imagined by the creators of D&D, i.e. dwarves, elves, giants, gnomes, goblins, halflings, orcs, kobolds etc. These humanoids, however, are much less numerous than humans and any settlements or civilisations they maintain tend to be edges of areas covered by human kingdoms.

For the purposes of our campaign, the name "Thuria" is used an understood by the most educated de

As with Howard's imagined world, the physical geography of Thuria corresponds to the Eurasia/Africa landmass in the real world. The two other landmasses of truly continent size (corresponding to the Americas and Australia) are yet to be developed. The existence of other continents is wholly unknown to residents of Thuria save, perhaps, for a tiny number of very powerful sorcerers or magical beings.

Lands and kingdoms of Thuria include:
 * Anshan
 * Aquilonia
 * Argonia
 * Asgurd
 * Borderlands, the
 * Brythunia
 * Cimmeria
 * Darfar
 * Gamburu
 * Hrykania
 * Hyboria
 * Kambulja
 * Kassali
 * Keshan
 * Khauran
 * Khitai
 * Khoraja
 * Korunia
 * Kosala
 * Koth
 * Kusan
 * Kush
 * Meru
 * Nebthu
 * Nemedia
 * Ophir
 * Pictish Wilderness, the
 * Shem
 * Stygia
 * Tombalku
 * Turan
 * Uttara Kuru
 * Vanahem
 * Vendhya
 * Zamara
 * Zingara
 * Zuma