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The Kull stories are set in the end of the Atlantean Age, after the apocalypse that destroyed Atlantis, when humans have few civilizations and are mostly ruled by warlords and warlocks, with Kull being on of the first great post-Atlantean kings. The Snake Men, who brought down Atlantis, are a major threat to humanity at this point, but are essentially extinct by the end of the Age.

After Atlantis was destroyed, it's inhabitants who escaped fell so hard into a dark age they degenerated all the way back to apes. They eventually re-evolve into men and are the ancestors of Conan. The Hyborian cultures grew from humans who "only" went all the way back to cave men and had got back into the neolithic when the proto-Cimmerians stopped monkeying about. Conan's own time had mighty empires and late medieval technology in it's civilised core but Hyboria is meant to be Earth before the Ice Age so the cycle will continue and the Ice reset things once more.

The serpent men are an entirely background element of Conan that is extremely obscure without reading The Shadow Kingdom, The God in the Bowl, or knowing how often he shared ideas with C. A. Smith and H. P. Lovecraft. The hints are always there - Stygia being founded by something distinctly not human, Set is an ancient remnant of pre-human worship adopted by former slaves - but never explicitly identified.

Howard's other works are a different story. Literally anything ancient and evil is a product of ancient reptilian humanoids, and anyone that sheds their humanity degenerates into serpent-like subhumans. Valley of the Lost, Children of the Night, People of the Dark are all about some depraved tribe forced underground that degenerated into literal serpent men, Valley of the Lost being an exception in that they were already monsters. Of course that's not getting into Howard's habit of describing anything negative with serpentine adjectives; he really did not like snakes.