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Presumably during the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, Grebuhl was a location on the Western Ocean, likely a city and/or a sea-port, either as an island or on the mainland of Thuria (see notes).
After a mutiny, pirate Captain Ehestes Rhan was marooned on an isle west of Grebuhl, which he rechristened Zahrahn. There, he would go mad and pray to dark gods, creating the monstrous Children of Rhan.[1]Notes
- Grebuhl 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).
- The isle of Zahrahn was stated to be set west of Grebuhl in the past. During the Hyborian Age, Zahrahn was set in the Pictish Wilderness; presumably up north, three hundred miles from Surhon, in a valley of Vanaheim (which was covered by the ocean as well at the time).[1] From this, it it possible to speculate a few nations of which Grebuhl could have part or neighboring.
- Given the Picts of the Hyborian Age were the descendants of a large colony in the southern mountains of Valusia, it could be speculated that Zahrahn was located off the coast Valusia, or Farsun, her southern neighbor, located right south of the southern mountains of Valusia, though the exact correspondences between those locations from the Pre-Cataclysmic Age to the Hyborian Age remain unrevealed so far.
- At the contrary, given both Vanaheim and the Pictish Wilderness were set in the Western Ocean (or an northern analogous) at that, Grehbul might have been closer to the northwestern or northern edge of Thuria. In this case, it would have been in or close to Valusia or Thule.
- Grebuhl could also be an island, whether independent, part of one of the nations mentioned above, or of an unknown realm.
- The Valishka was stated to be sailing from Auuroghan, and was seemingly set on the Nespian trade routes. It can be assumed as a fair guess that all locations mentioned in the context of Captain Rhan's misadventures (Auuroghan, Grebuhl, and Zahrahn) are set on the Nespian trade routes (or in its vicinity), and are set on the Western Ocean, possibly in Thuria.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Savage Sword of Conan #64 ; The Children of Rhan