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Month: July 2022

Uleria & Marriage

Posted on July 30, 2022

If a person is married can they “worship” at a temple of uleria, or is this seen as a breach of the marriage vows? Of course they can. In general, the legal/magical…

Notes on Dormal

Posted on July 29, 2022

Dormal is the Saint Anthony of sailors. He’s worshiped not just by whoever does the Opening Ritual but by the whole crew. Given that the Rightarm Islands provides the bulk of the…

Don’t Balance Your Games

Posted on July 28, 2022

James Coquillat interviews me about my thoughts regarding game balance.

Notes on Tradetalk I

Posted on July 27, 2022

Tradetalk is the Issaries cult language. It is spoken throughout Glorantha and is the closest thing to a common tongue Glorantha has. It may be learned almost anywhere, including nonhuman areas, and…

Genertela line map

Posted on July 27, 2022

The northern continent of the Surface World is called Genertela, which means “Place of Genert”, the Earth King who once ruled the land. Genertela is about 5,000 km east to west and…

Gloranthan Distances

Posted on July 27, 2022

It is approximately 4250 kilometers from the Holy Country to Pamaltela, although most sailors travel clockwise around the Homeward Ocean, taking about 3 weeks to get to Maslo, give or take a…

Peloria II

Posted on July 25, 2022

Peloria is largely a pretty dry grassland. It has several large rivers through it, and some large wetlands. That’s how it has been since Greg’s earliest writings about the Lunar Empire. It…

Argrath’s Praxian Army

Posted on July 25, 2022

Many nomads follow Argrath into Dragon Pass, and some bring their herds along with them. You end up with herds in Donalf Flats, Bush Ranges, Donalf Flats, etc. Argrath often has to…

Heler cult demographics

Posted on July 25, 2022

Heler is the rain that accompanies Orlanth Thunderous. He is the water that falls from the Air. He is a minor deity in most of Dragon Pass as his blessings can be…

Joining the Seven Mothers

Posted on July 25, 2022

It is easy to become a lay member of the Seven Mothers. Just tell the priestess of your desire to join. The new member’s name is then entered on the Paper Lists,…

Notes on Mee Vorala

Posted on July 25, 2022

Mee Vorala is a daughter of Flamal. The Black Elves are not Aldryami, as they are not children of Aldrya. They get along with other elves in friendly circumstances, but they are…

Brithini Immortality

Posted on July 24, 2022

The Brithini have immortality because they haven’t changed since Death appeared. Here’s a Brithini story I heard: Why we live forever? When Zzabur asked his father, “How do we stay immortal?”the Prophet…

Glorantha Sourcebook source maps

Posted on July 23, 2022

I was going through some folders this morning and found my hand-drawn Lunar Wane maps that were the source material used in the Glorantha Sourcebook. Unlike Greg’s originals, these extended south to…

Malkionism – a detached and abstract philosophical approach

Posted on July 21, 2022

Malkionism provides us with a detached and abstract philosophical approach to Glorantha. It is easier for us Westerners than the raw personal experiences found in most rune cults. With Malkionism we can…

Malkionism demographics

Posted on July 21, 2022

When thinking about Malkionism, keep in mind that In Genertela, there are: So it might be awhile until I get down to defining Aeolians and Trader Princes. These numbers are of course…

The Stygian heresy

Posted on July 21, 2022

This is a big tent, with some 700,000 followers. One way of thinking about the Stygian heresy is that it is tantric Malkionism. Transgressive, antinomian, esoteric, with secret initiation rites and interaction…

Notes on Rokarism

Posted on July 21, 2022

There are about a 1.5 million people or so who are initiated to the Invisible God and follow the Rokari rites. Of those maybe 3% are the “priestly caste”, called zzaburi. That…

Malkionism as a “Cult”

Posted on July 20, 2022

In thinking about Malkionism for game purposes, we should probably start by thinking about what that means in terms of Malkionism as a “cult”. So what goes on in worship of the…

Entekos in the Lunar Heartlands

Posted on July 20, 2022

The primary atmospheric deity in the Lunar Heartlands is Entekos, whose cult is largely contained to Karasal, Oronin, and the Silver Shadow). Her cult is closely associated with Dendara, and is associated…

Mercenary and Outland Dragonewts

Posted on July 19, 2022

Other lizard-like people exist near Dragon Pass, but claim a different ancestry than the dragonewts. These included one family which had been cursed, one which had grown from crocodiles, one which were…

The Taxonomy of Animals

Posted on July 18, 2022

The taxonomy of animals in Glorantha is quite unlike our own. It is based on divine genealogies and has some interesting results! It is something I particularly enjoy about the setting –…

Arkat’s Dark Empire

Posted on July 18, 2022

From about 450 ST to 740 ST area now known as Safelster was part of a political entity that called itself the Autarchy or the Empire of Peace, but was known by…

Safelster

Posted on July 17, 2022

When thinking about Safelster we often immediately jump to Renaissance Italy (lots of little city-states threatened by imperial conquest), but another potentially interesting inspiration is the city-states around Lake Texcoco in the…

Chaos Cults WiP Art Preview

Posted on July 17, 2022

Civilized Prax population numbers

Posted on July 16, 2022

As I am doing some Prax editing, I thought some numbers might be worth posting. These are population numbers in Civilized Prax, mind you. There are just under 26k humans in Pavis…

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