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Month: August 2023

Why The Lightbringers

Posted on August 31, 2023

Orlanth is one of the great transformative forces in Glorantha. He’s why we have Night and Day, he’s why storms brings forth new growth from the Earth, and most importantly, he (and…

Views of Lightfore

Posted on August 31, 2023

Tonight I imagine what Lightfore must have looked like!

Numeric Order for the Cults books

Posted on August 30, 2023

As an aside, there is no numeric order for the Cults books. Their release schedule follows what we think will work best for the success of the line, and it does not…

The Origin of the Pentans

Posted on August 30, 2023

The origin of the Pentans are with two (and maybe three) Grey Age groups. The first are the “Starlight Ancestors” who appeared along the Upper Arcos River. They likely rode chariots and…

Chaosium Unveiled – The Earth Goddesses Video

Posted on August 29, 2023

Read the Names section in the Introductions

Posted on August 28, 2023

In each of the Cults books is a little section in the Introduction on Names. I’m not going to repeat the text here, suffice to say that it is there to make…

Temple Children

Posted on August 28, 2023

One of the interesting customs common among the Orlanthi are the “temple children”. These are children born to Earth Priestesses (often without an identified mortal father) who are cared and raised by…

Moving Forward with Cult write-ups

Posted on August 27, 2023

One of the intentions of the Cults books is to liberate us all from consulting old HW books or old digest discussions to provide insight into the cults. What is presented in…

Notes on Orlanth Lightbringer

Posted on August 27, 2023

Orlanth Lightbringer is the mystical and heroquesting aspect of Orlanth. He is a universally acknowledged aspect of Orlanth, worshiped in conjunction with the other Lightbringers. Orlanth Lightbringer is not a subcult –…

Cult Mythos and History

Posted on August 26, 2023

In the Mythos and History of the cults, you can assume that those stories are associated with the cults wherever they are found. That also means that there are countless local stories…

Connecting the Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses

Posted on August 24, 2023

So by now I am sure people are mapping out connections between the cults in the Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses books. To me the most interesting is the interplay between Orlanth and…

Quivin Mountains and Guardian Hills

Posted on August 20, 2023

Every week I go hiking around the Quivin Mountains and Guardian Hills. Today we checked out Stael’s Ridge and the Ernaldori Peaks. Check out the Boulder Ruins!

Joining Uleria

Posted on August 18, 2023

Uleria is perhaps the single easiest cult to join. The cult holds that EVERYONE is already a lay member. Anyone can freely worship Uleria. And to become an initiate anyone can join…

Earth Goddesses coming this week

Posted on August 14, 2023

I am particularly pleased with the Earth Goddesses cults book, which is available later this week. This book is dedicated to the powers of Earth – the source of Life for most…

Discussing Cults of RuneQuest with Jeff Richard on Youtube

Posted on August 12, 2023

Really Dicey talks to Jeff Richard about his work on two great Cults of RuneQuest books coming out officially on August 17 from Chaosium, The Lightbringers and The Earth Goddesses. We talk…

The Lightbringers and their pantheon

Posted on August 11, 2023

So let’s talk a moment about the Lightbringers and their pantheon. In Sartar, about 42% of the adult population are initiated into one of the core Lightbringer cults, and another 40% are…

Creating the Cults Books, Part 1

Posted on August 10, 2023

Greg and I started discussing doing this after the Guide to Glorantha came out, so around 2014 or so. But work really started on it in 2017. Originally it started as Cults…

Entry points into the main RQ setting

Posted on August 8, 2023

So IMO there are several really easy entry points into the main RQ setting and storyline: So the advantages all of these have is that they reduce the requirement of up-front knowledge…

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