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Month: July 2021

Notes on The Red Emperor

Posted on July 31, 2021

A few notes on the Red Emperor from the Cults Book. The Red Emperor is the supreme high priest for the Lunar religion and for the Yelm cult. Within the Lunar Empire,…

Durengard

Posted on July 31, 2021

Population: 10k 90 hectares (giving 20 hectares to the governor’s palace) Temples to Orlanth, Ernalda, Belintar, Issaries, Lhankor Mhy (and other Lightbringers), Invisible God and Uleria. Massive-fortress palace in the Nochet style…

Orlanth in Sartar

Posted on July 30, 2021

Orlanth is the patron god of the Kingdom of Sartar, and nowhere is his cult more fully developed. The three main subcults of Orlanth – Thunderous, Adventurous, and Rex – have temples…

Masters of Luck and Death II

Posted on July 26, 2021

A few last notes on the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death. There’s a lot in this one, so I recommend reading it carefully and digesting each piece! The Tournament…

White Bear & Red Moon and Belintar

Posted on July 26, 2021

Armed with this information you now know about Belintar, the Sartar Dynasty, and the Masters of Luck and Death, things can get really interesting.

A Brithini Story

Posted on July 24, 2021

In the Gods Age all was perfect. and nothing in the world ever died. All beings were gods. Law oversaw all. Prosperity reigned in the Kingdom of Logic. Logic demands that all…

Esrolian Mud Pot

Posted on July 23, 2021

Today’s lunch – an Esrolian Mud Pot. Alligator, black beans, apples, coriander, red pepper, chili and coconut milk from Melib.

Masters of Luck and Death I

Posted on July 23, 2021

In the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death, participants traveled the secret pathways of the Hero Plane that tied the Holy Country together. They defined and named the powers of…

The Holy Country after 1616

Posted on July 22, 2021

When Belintar died and did not return in 1616, the Holy Country quickly fell apart as a unified kingdom. As not one but two Tournaments of the Masters of Luck and Death…

The invasion of the Holy Country 1619, part 2

Posted on July 22, 2021

By the end of Sea Season, the Lunar invasion of the Holy Country had stalled outside the walls of Karse. After being nearly destroyed in a Lunar assault, Smithstone had been retaken…

The Invasion of the Holy Country 1619, part 1

Posted on July 22, 2021

The Lunar Empire had never stopped eyeing the richer lands of the Holy Country to the south. But their failure at the Building Wall Battle in 1605 had made them cautious, so…

Grilled crocodile

Posted on July 22, 2021

One of the great delicacies of the villages along the Creek-Stream River is grilled crocodile. Claudia took me to Duck Point tonight to check out Geo’s special. She’s right – the ducks…

Aeolians

Posted on July 21, 2021

One of the more beloved minor cultures among many players are the Aeolians – sorcery-using Orlanthi or Orlanth-worshiping Malkioni that live in the south of Heortland. Now it is worth keeping in…

Women’s tattoos

Posted on July 18, 2021

Here’s a nice short video on women’s tattoos in Scythian society that might be a good source of inspiration for your Gloranthan games.

Magical challenges

Posted on July 18, 2021

Magical challenges to prove a truth are well accepted in Glorantha. This goes back to the Gods Age, when contests of the arts were popular among the gods – the most famous…

Our School for Exploratory Heroquesting

Posted on July 18, 2021

During the Hero Wars, the Tournament for the Masters of Luck and Death was called “our school for exploratory heroquesting.” Rumored participants include Sartar, Tarkalor, Dormal, and Broyan, but likely many others….

A few more Arkat Cult notes

Posted on July 17, 2021

As said many times before – After the long war Arkat retired with his closest confederates to Arkhome, which became the capitol of Arkat’s Autarchy. Arkat instituted formal cult procedures, created a…

The Paradox of the Lunar Empire

Posted on July 17, 2021

The Lunar Empire has brought peace to Peloria for the last century and a half. The Red Goddess religion facilitates spiritual and individual development for those able to do so, while maintaining…

A few notes on Arkat

Posted on July 16, 2021

Perhaps all of these parts are familiar to all of you, but understanding Arkat is a key to understanding the Third Age: Arkat was a man of reason who ventured into the…

Hair and Beard Guide

Posted on July 15, 2021

One of the goals of the Sartar Book is to really show the people of Sartar, how they look, how wide the range of diversity is, down to things like hairstyles. So…

Leika Blackspear

Posted on July 15, 2021

Queen Leika Blackspear has got to be one of the toughest survivors in Sartarite tribal history. Once an adventurer, she became the Colymar tribal king after her second cousin King Kallai Rockbuster…

Changing Gods

Posted on July 14, 2021

A few more notes on Changing Gods. At the Dawn, the Thunderer and the Adventurer were often worshiped as separate gods. Pretty quickly the Theyalans recognised both as aspects of Orlanth, and…

Sorcery

Posted on July 14, 2021

I’ve posted a few thoughts on the dilemma of how mortals interact with the God Time, and how to understand the gods so that mortals might wield a fraction of their power…

Manifestations of Gods

Posted on July 13, 2021

The Loki television series has me thinking about the Gods of Glorantha. One way of looking at the cults is they are groups of people who gather around to worship the named…

Hiording Clan

Posted on July 9, 2021

This one is pretty incomplete and fragmentary as I am not sure I want to include a finished version in the Sartar Boxed Set, but I thought the Hiording might be interesting….

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