History
Presumably during the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, Auuroghan was a sea-port, in the Western Ocean, either as an island or on the mainland of Thuria, and seemingly on the Nespian trade routes (see notes).
Sailing from Auuroghan, the merchant ship the Valishka (transporting large riches composted of beautiful Valishkian jewels) was plundered and sank by the pirate crew of Captain Ehestes Rhan on August 2.[1]Notes
- Auugoghan was an original pre-flood location created in the story "The Children of Rhan" (Savage Sword of Conan #64 (May, 1981), written by Bruce Jones and penciled by John Buscema.
- The era of those events are never detailed in names or dates, but it is safe to assume that they are set in the Pre-Cataclysmic Age (100,000 BC-18,000 BC), before the Great Cataclysm which would be the cause of the geological changes mentioned (the ocean's coast becoming a valley of Vanaheim, the isle of Zahrahn ending up in the ravines of Pictish Wilderness, which is attested as being fully formed after the Lesser Cataclysm, circa 17,500 BC). The other possibilities could that those geological changes occurred during the Lesser Cataclysm, or even -more unlikely- afterwards).
- No mention is made on the location of Auuroghan, apart from the fact it is seemingly on the Nespian trade routes. It can be deduced that it was either set on an isle in the Western Ocean (or a connected ocean), or on the west edge of Thuria.
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- ↑ Savage Sword of Conan #64 ; The Children of Rhan