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Thulsa Doom was a dispossessed Atlantian lich seeking those descendants of Atlantis who have weapon making techniques passed down from their ancestors who settled in the savage word after the great fall. Having found no one that still had the knowledge he wanted, years later Thulsa comes to the rationalization that it is men who are strong, not merely the steel they use and through this, intends to use his followers to create a greater society than the one he came from. This is also why he was big on seducing princesses and talking them into his cult. Because cities like Stygia are just as ancient as Atlantis and as a worshipper of Set, he wants the divine blood of the snake for his own as well.

The Conan books are steeped in Atlantian lore and Thulsa Doom was originally a Kull the Conqueror character. The Kull series is about the rise and fall of Atlantis. It is by no accident that In the film, the blade Conan finds in the tomb is an Atlantian sword. The theme of the tomb is even called "The Atlantian Sword". It is the very type of steel Thulsa sought when he was younger and it's pottery that Thulsa is then killed by the very thing he once killed so many for in his youth. Not only that but Conan's people are also descendants of Atlantis, which is why Thulsa attacks them in the first place for the reason state above.