I would really love to wear Thulsa Doom’s robes or armor, since we already have his helmet. I would also think make Thulsa Doom canon, by adding a voiced NPC with his likeness.
Here’s how I feel we could add Thulsa Doom into the Conan canon using Exiles. Like Mek Komoses, who hates Thoth Amon, what if Thulsa Doom is one of Thoth’s top generals and trusted sorcerer of the Black Circle, who was sent by Thoth himself to lead a new attack on the Exiled lands, instead of Conan’s main antagonist like he was in the movie. He can be fully voiced, and he could look like he does from the movie via robe and armor. Just remove any and all references to the movie, except his look, and make it like Doom and Conan never met before until the Exiled Lands. I doubt we’ll get this in Age of Heroes 1 but Age of Heroes 2 or 3 would be a good time to add Thulsa Doom. We really need to make a non-canon character finally canon in some form.
“Basically” immortal is not immortal though. He said that he would “pass to some other sphere” when his time came, which means that his life was still limited. No, we don’t know how long that might be, but as he was an ally of the serpent-men, I find it quite unlikely he outlived the eradication and degeneration of their entire race, unless he showed up in the volcano with the final mixed-breed serpent-men refugees there.
Not that it really matters either way, the canonical Thulsa Doom had a bare skull for a head with flaming eyes while the movie Thulsa Doom looks like James Earl Jones.
It was how most franchises are treated when transitioning from books to film, lore accuracy is the first to go.
Hmm… the more I think about it, the more I feel like it would be possible to add him to the game.
Yeah, he’d have to look different to fit the canonical description (I’m not sure if Funcom would even have the rights to use JEJ’s features if they wanted to anyway), but his defeat was never written, so him finally dying long after his adversary, Kull, among the last of his allies in the Exiled Lands might be acceptable.
He could drop the movie outfit when you finally send him off to his “other sphere,” after all, it’s not like the movie outfit’s appearance is counter to the canonical Thulsa Doom.
Kull would face Thulsa Doom at least one more time, in the pages of Marvel Preview #19 (summer 1979 issue). The script for that issue was an adaptation of the prose tale “Riders beyond the Sunrise”, itself the completion by writer Lin Carter of an untitled fragment written by R. E. Howard. Thulsa Doom appears to finally perish at the climax of this story, but he would eventually return as a Conan villain in the pages of Conan and a few issues of Conan’s black-and-white magazine, Savage Sword of Conan (issues #190–193). He’s apparently immortal and is visualized as a skull-headed sorcerer, or as an albino when taking on the illusory appearance of a living man. A similar concept of an undead sorcerer can also be found in the lich from Dungeons & Dragons and other works of fantasy fiction, such as The Sword and the Sorcerer.
American company Dynamite Entertainment published a Thulsa Doom mini-series written by Arvid Nelson, with art by Lui Antonio, for a total of four issues in 2009.[10]
I put Thulsa Doom’s helmet, a weathered skull and a Set idol in an Eldarium chest and placed it in the small in game crypt next to my dad’s ( Dad was a Conan and Star Wars fan).
