The Pavis cult is really quite small, likely less than 2000 initiates in the world. Maybe 300 reside in New Pavis, 500 or so reside in the Big Rubble. As many as…
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Cults of RuneQuest – Mythology
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Manside, Big Rubble
Let’s think about Manside in the Big Rubble for a few minutes. About 1,500 humans live in the Big Rubble. Of that number, about 500 live in the Real City, about 350…
Sources of Shield Rune Magic
Shield is perhaps one of the most useful combat Rune spells out there. For each 1 Rune point stacked with Shield, you get 2 points of AP AND 2 points of Countermagic….
The Strength of Lunar Magic
So is Lunar magic weaker than other pantheons? Let’s look at that for a moment. The main Lunar cult is the Seven Mothers. And by main, I mean like 2/3rds of all…
The Solar Pantheon in the Lunar Heartlands
There’s about 160k Yelm initiates in the Lunar Heartlands. There are only about 60k Yelm initiates in Pent. Dendara has about 81k initiates in Pent and 181k in the Lunar Heartlands. But…
Pantheons in the Lunar Heartlands
About 1.3 million people in the Lunar Heartlands are initiated into one of the cults of the Lunar Way. About 1.8 million people in the same area are initiated into tradition Solar…
Food for Gloranthan thought
I’ve been reading Gary Lachman’s “Secret Teachers of the Western World” for non-RQ purposes but it is filled with RQ-relevant gems like this: “Considering the difficulties involved in trying to express the…
Classic Dungeon Crawls of RQ
Now that we are nearly done with the “foundational books” of the line, we’ve been looking carefully at adventures and the structure of an RQ adventure and how that differs from say…
Digesting the Lunar Way
There’s an awful lot in the Lunar Way, and it is worth reading nice and carefully, and then digesting in order to get that chance at Illumination. To help digest it, may…
Planning Pavis
The foundations of the original city of Pavis was laid out by Lord Pavis himself around 830. The city as originally planned had two main areas, laid out in grids. The first…
The Blue Moon and the Lunar Way
So there have been some questions about why the Blue Moon is not in the Lunar Way. The answer is that it is in the Darkness Book. Here’s my reasons why: The…
Talastari Concept Art
Ossi Hiekkala has done some concept art for Chaosium about the look of the Talastari, an Orlanthi group stuck between the Lunar Empire and Dorastor. I thought many of you all might…
How Many Lunar Conversions in Dragon Pass
Now there are a lot of ways to answer that question: 1. How many people were willing to join as a lay member of the Seven Mothers? That might be a big…
Grazelanders and Horses
Part of the reason the Goldeneye is so expensive is that the Grazelanders don’t part with them easily. They are sacred to the Pure Horse People. That being said, I suspect that…
Conversions to the Lunar Way
So lets look at how the Lunar religion spread and who joined and how quickly Lowland Peloria. The Seven Mothers cult spread quickly here. Remember the Seven Mothers are Friendly to most Solar…
Why did Pavis build his City?
Big picture – We all know the basic story – in 830 after many years and preparations, Pavis and his companions snuck deep into Dagori Inkarth and animated the Faceless Statue. He…
Why was Old Pavis so big?
Now I don’t mean why were the walls so big – that was Paragua‘s doing. He smashed the little settlement of Robcradle (which was probably around 3 hectares or a little bigger…
How Big is the Big Rubble?
The Big Rubble covers about 1900 hectares of area. To put that in comparison, New Pavis covers only 28 hectares, and even Nochet covers only 600 hectares. For real world comparisons, Ancient…
So what do your adventurers know about Illumination?
So what do your adventurers know about Illumination (as opposed to players)? If you notice Illumination is pretty much unmentioned in the core rules, Lightbringers, and Earth Goddess books. There is a…
Hard-Wired Gloranthan Conflicts
There are some big conflicts hard-wired into the Glorantha setting, including (but not limited to): These conflicts are macro and microcosmic. Political conflict often echo these cosmic conflicts – for example, Sartar…
Foundations of the Lunar Empire
When you think about the Lunar Empire, remember it is built on ancient foundations. The Lunar Empire is the most recent (and most successful) dynasty ruling the broad Pelorian grasslands, but there…
The Contradiction of the Lunar Way
The events of the Godtime eternally recur within Time. Each dusk, Orlanth slays Yelm and sends him off to the Underworld. Each dawn, Yelm rises triumphant from Hell, heralded by Theya. The…
Fazzur Wideread’s Perspective
Looking at Glorantha from the perspective of Fazzur Wideread and his household. Fazzur was born during the reign of King Phargentes, to a Lunarized family that served as Phargentes right hand and…
Tensions in the Lunar Empire
Why would initiates to Lunar gods take the side of Sartar/Argrath/Orlanth in the Hero Wars (like Fazzurs sons)? There’s a strong tension between the Lunar Heartlands and the Lunar Provinces. Until the…