So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…
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Hero Wars Story Hooks for the EWF and God Learners
Both the EWF and the God Learners are a subject of interest in the Hero Wars – especially for the Sartarites. And both can be a source of adventure ideas. For example,…
A little more on the God Learners and Heroquesting:
A heroquest is a direct interaction with the divine realm of myth and archetypes. In a heroquest, you interact and experience the divine realm and bring back magic, be it Rune spells,…
God Learners
Second Age Scholarly Movement Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Prosopaedia 48 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry Common and uncommon runes 2004 None listed Glyph only Glorantha:Introduction to the Hero Wars…
Kralorelan Equivalencies
The God Learners first encountered the Kralorelan religion in the Second Age. As elsewhere, the God Learners were able to make numerous correspondences between the Kralorelan pantheon and that prevalent in much…
Excerpt – Cosmology (1981)
Originally published in Cults of Terror Before Creation In analyzing the mythos of Glorantha, four streams of belief prevail. They sometimes mingle and sometimes flow in separate channels, but they all flow…
Heroquesting 101
Heroquesting is a powerful and rare Gloranthan activity in which the participants leave the material world and enter the realm of legend and myth to interact with heroes and gods, gambling precious…
A Few Malkioni Thoughts
In thinking about Malkionism, the Invisible God can be equated to Brahman in many schools of Hindu philosophy (especially Vedanta) – the Invisible God is the ultimate reality, the source from which…
Pamaltelan Equivalencies
The Pamalting or Doraddi pantheon offer us a different perspective of Glorantha’s mythology. Pamaltela was not as badly damaged by the Gods War and Greater Darkness as Genertela, and the Earth King…
Greater and Major Gods
So as I check over some of the material about to go to the printer soon, I was comparing things to a list Greg had written some years ago, listing all the…
Middle Sea Empire, Second Age
A few notes on the Middle Sea Empire of the Second Age. It was largely a naval power (with its main land power being Seshnela), and it could throw massive resources at…
Otherworld Home
So in every cult description, there’s an entry called Otherworld Home. That is where the cult members experience the god during holy day ceremonies and other important rituals. From there, there may…
The Mythical Synthesis Movement
This little snippet is in the Glorantha Sourcebook, and is an incredibly important tidbit. Even if the God Learners are now gone and cursed, the Mythical Synthesis Movement has already done its…
A few more Arkat Cult notes
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…
Notes on Illumination in the Second Age
Ralios and Seshnela In 450 “Arkat” emerged triumphant from Dorastor, and returned to Ralios (actually Fornoar). There he lived a simple, ascetic life, farming and teaching, until his apotheosis in 500. His…
History Of Kethaela – The Second Age
The Shadowlands continued their political existence through the next five centuries as the world changed all about them. The Waertagi were driven from seas by the navies of the Jrusteli priest-magicians of…
The Monomyth
And one more. This will be appearing in the Cults Book and is filled with careful information about the monomyth: Between the years 650 S.T. and 1050 S.T. the God Learners explored…
Foundation for the Monomyth
Just a follow-up to my last two posts. As should be clear, the God Learners used Theyalan and Malkioni myths as the foundation for the Monomyth, and incorporated the Dara Happan myths…
Library of Londarios: The Kings of Seshnela, Part Three (1999)
This list is a compilation which names the Kings of Seshnela. Sort of. It actually shows the names of the dominant overlords in the land of Seshnela. Except in the first century,…
Notes on the Machine God
The God Learners made their foray into creating an artificial god with Zistor the Machine God. The Clanking City was first established in God Forgot around 740. It was a God Learner…
Notes on the Lhankor Mhy cult
The Lhankor Mhy cult are famed as the lovers of wisdom (philosophers) and knowledge (philognosis) in Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. In the First Age, the priests of the Knowing God…
World-Wide Deities
Most Gloranthan religions list hundreds, even thousands of gods. Some of these gods are clearly localized phenomena, deified rulers, or tribal ancestors. Others are alternative titles for gods already worshiped under a…
Excerpt – History in Glorantha (1981)
Originally published in Cults of Terror. Chaos and Compromise History in Glorantha is the sum of events occurring since Time began. Mythical events prior to Time were non-sequential and simultaneous actions happening…
Men-of-All
So the Men-of-All have a curious place in Hrestolism. They are imagined as the safety valve in society – powerful, skilled warriors (and sometimes mages) who protect the weak, uphold the Invisible…
Jogrampur
We all know about the Machine God, that strange Saviour Machine experiment of the God Learners, but as part of an experiment with the University of Yoranday, the God Learners also created…