Mapping Conan's career (part 3)

1. Conan is travelling westward on the slopes of the Eiglophian Mountains in "The Lair of the Ice Worm." I know some people put "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" up here as well, but I think that story happens much earlier in the chronology, so it's on our first map.

2. "Queen of the Black Coast" opens on the coast of Argos. Conan is mentioned to have passed through Nemedia, Ophir, and Argos working as a mercenary. Boarding the ship the Argus, he passes the coasts of Shem, Stygia, and Kush.

3. The Argus is beseeched by pirates off the coast of Kush and Conan joins Bêlit aboard the Tigress. They sail up the Zarkheba river together briefly before Bêlit dies in an unnamed ruin of an ancient city.

4. "The Vale of Lost Women" shows Conan working with the Bamula tribe to defeat the Bakalah tribe. Bamula is marked further downriver than Bakalah, so I'm assuming he joined up with the Bamula close to their home territory and moved with them to Bakalah. The end of the story says that Conan takes the captive Livia north to the border of Stygia where she will arrange for transportation home to Ophir.

5. Somewhere in the veldts of Kush, Conan encounters a castle occupied by an evil spirit in "The Castle of Terror." He is there only one night before escaping on a Stygian soldier's horse.

6. Conan arrives in the city of Meroe, also called Shumballah (as it appears on the map I'm marking). He is there for presumably at least a few months as he becomes the captain of the guard and works in close proximity to the queen. He leaves upon the uprising of the lower caste at the end of "The Snout in the Dark."

​7. Between "The Snout in the Dark" and as prologue to "Hawks Over Shem," Conan decides to work as a mercenary again, this time for the King Sumuabi of Akkharia. He is the sole survivor of an attack, leading him to Asgalun, the capital.

8. Conan spends "Hawks Over Shem" in Asgalun.

9. In "Black Colossus," Conan becomes a military commander of Khoraja in its capital city, also called Khoraja. Defending it from the evil sorcerer Natohk, he moves with the army to a mountain pass.

10. Conan follows Natohk to the ancient ruin dome of Kutchemes, where he defeats the wizard and the story ends.