a Gorean adult community in 3-D active worlds,
based on novels two and three of John Norman's series on Gor.
Historically, Tharna is a city that rests below the great Sar-dar Mountains.
Once known as the "City of the Free Woman",
ruled by Tatrix Lara, stumbled upon by Tarl Cabot,
the two most significant characters of the first novels,
who share a history that is as deep as the Silver Mines of Tharna.
Today, Tharna is ruled by the fair and steady hand of
Tatrix Kyrtra Valkryion.
Many may wish it did not exist, but it is there.
It is not hard to find, really.
Just look for a world that lies a thousand degrees north of monothink,
a thousand degrees east of orthodoxy, a thousand degrees west of ideological conformity,
a continent far from the placid waters of predictable mediocrity,
a different world, one real, one like no other,
one beyond the familiar world’s horizon,
one emergent from far, tumultuous, untamed seas,
a world alert to deep currents,
which listens to secret whispers, which wears stars in her hair.
The maps of ideologically servile cartographers
may choose not to show the Gorean world,
but it is there, a wonderful, forbidden continent.
Some of you know her, and have been there.
---J. Norman, Dec. 2000