Mapping Conan's career (part 2)

Toward the end of the thief stories, I mapped all of Conan's major movements, and I'm going to do that again to keep everything straight. This map represents his time as a Turanian mercenary, from "The Hand of Nergal," up to "The Lair of the Ice Worm."

1. Conan begins on the steppes of Turan, participating in a battle against the bat creatures controlled by Munthassem Khan. He finds a woman named Hildico along a river and goes with her to Yaralet. In Yaralet, he defeats Munthassem Khan. He stays there about a week before riding away at the end of "The Hand of Nergal."

2. Travelling with Juma, Conan goes far east to the land of Meru in "The City of Skulls." They are in the Talakma foothills when they are captured marched south.

3. In the city of Shamballah in Meru, Conan and Juma defeat the god-king ruler Jalung Thongpa to end "The City of Skulls."

4. This one is hard to plot on a map. Conan and his unit are ambushed by Khozgarians. I can't find any maps where the "Misty Mountains" are labeled, so I believe "The People of the Summit" takes place in southern Hyrkania.

5. Conan flees south with his hostage to avoid the ambush that killed his unit. He says that if he escapes the mountains it will only be a two-day ride to the Turanian city Samara, so I believe we have to be near the southern tip of the Vilayet Sea.

6. At the end of "The People of the Summit," he's headed back to Samara.

7. "The Curse of the Monolith" brings Conan back east to Kusan.

8. Conan heads back to more familiar stomping grounds, returning to Zamora in "The Curse of the Monolith." I just kind of fudged a transparent line on the map between Kusan and Zamora because this map is already crazy tight around the bottom of the Vilayet Sea. He begins the story "The Blood-Stained God" in Arenjun and then rides into the Kezankian Mountains.

9. In the Kezankian Mountains, he finds the temple of the blood-stained god. 

​So Conan spends about two years with the Turanians before turning back west. At the start of "The Lair of the Ice Worm," it's stated that he's about 23. He'll be even further west at the start of that story.