Mapping Conan's career (part 5)

1. Coming west from Zamboula, Conan arrives in Ianthe, Ophir. He is hoping to return the Star of Khorala to the queen for a hefty finder's fee.

2. Fleeing Ianthe from Count Rigello, Conan, Garus, and Marala go southwest. I've placed this point here because we get just a few clues about where they go to- the Count says that the only direction she would flee would be southwest, toward her homeland, and we are told that Theringo Castle is on a river which acts as the border between Ophir and Aquilonia.

3. I know most put "The Devil in Iron" at this point, but I actually think "The Devil in Iron" belongs much earlier in the chronology, alongside "Iron Shadows in the Moon." If it's here, then Conan is moving back to the Vilayet Sea to the island of Xapur. However, I'm keeping this map in line with the chronology I'm building here. Instead, Conan moves south to Iranistan where he continues to work with kozaki fighters. He begins The Flame Knife by escaping the city of Anshan. To get there, I'm assuming Conan would avoid Stygia to go through the more hospitable land of Shem, and he doesn't seem to have ever been in the mountains of Drujistan before, so I think he's going around them, south.

4. Conan goes to the city of Yanaidar in The Flame Knife in the Illbars Mountains over the border in Drujistan.

5. After spending several months with a group of Afghuli hillmen, Conan goes to Peshkhauri to offer the ransom for seven of his soldiers, but he ends up kidnapping the new queen of Vendhya, at the beginning of "The People of the Black Circle."

​6. Conan takes her west, into the mountains. They're explictly in the Yimsha Mountains the whole time.