The Puzzle Canal in the Big Rubble was built for spiritual and ritualistic purposes by Labrygon, a demi-god priest from the Empire of the Wyrm’s Friends. Building it took hundreds of laborers,…
Month: August 2025
Solars, Orlanthi, and the Monomyth
So if we think about the transmission of Solar myths into the Monomyth we get something like: Dawn Age: Orlanthi and Dara Happans recognised each other’s myths and placed them in each…
Orlanth Rex is the God of Tribes
Are all tribal queens and chiefs part of the Orlanth Rex cult? So think about how Enlil, Baal, or Odin/Woden were the tribal patron gods of many different tribes/cities at the same…
Tribe and Clan Structure
I think there is a tendency to take how “fixed” the tribe and clan structure was in King of Dragon Pass and apply it where it probably shouldn’t be. Lets start here:…
Some Notes on The Dragon Religion
The Dragon Religion holds that the Elements were formed out the body of the Grand Ancestral Dragon, itself the creation of the Cosmic Egg formed from the body of Orxili and the…
Some Thoughts On Dragons And Jung
I’ve been increasingly thinking that True Dragons embody the Jungian concept of the Self in its fullest, most transcendent form. True Dragons are not just individual beings but primal forces that encompass…
Adventurers in the Hero Wars
Now the big Hero Wars stuff operates at an orthogonal (Neil’s favorite word that I now insist on using) with adventuring around in Sartar and Pavis / Big Rubble. We explore ruins,…
The Apotheosis of Mortals
We moderns have inherited monotheism’s assumption that apotheosis of mortals are cynical frauds. I see this often creep into people’s writing about Glorantha. Let’s start with apotheosis of mortals in ancient history….
Your Sartarite Adventurer and the Hero Wars
From the Sartarite perspective, the Hero Wars last some 30 years or even more. It is likely that a 21 year adventurer who survives the next thirty years has fought in a…
Argrath and The Sartarite Elite
In 1627-1628, Argrath relied strongly on the Sartarite Orlanth Adventurous, Humakt, and Storm Bull cults, and had the full support of the Old Wind Thunderous cult leaders (the Stormwalkers). He also had…