The Cosmic Egg hatched and from it came the Grand Ancestral Dragon. It sat and meditated in the Silent Void, treasuring the secrets of the universe. The halves of the eggshell were…
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Dragons, True
Dragons Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 31 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry
Dream Dragons
I do so love Dream Dragons. They raise all sorts of dream arguments like the Butterfly Dream of the Zhuangzi. Maybe all of Glorantha is the dream of a sleeping Dragon, and…
So what are dragons?
One theory is that they are manifestations of Glorantha’s unconscious – primordial beings that predate even Chaos. They are intrinsically connected with the Cosmic Egg and the birth of Glorantha. By this…
History of Dragon Pass in the Second Age
Here are some notes that I’ve compiled about the so-called Empire of the Wyrms Friends. Of interest here is to note that there is actually no period when they called themselves by…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – T
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: T (page 793 – 796) Taboo 27, 30, 62, 151, 157, 440, 494 Tada 27, 119, 455, 457, 458, 459, 659, 689, 693, 694,…
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…
ISS2003 Sartar Companion – Index
This is the index for the Moon Design Publication the Sartar Companion. To go to a specific section of the index, click on the letters below. A B C D E F G…
Cross-Cultural Awareness
There are more than 22 million sentients between the Shan Shan mountains and a line formed roughly by Winterwood, the Nidan Mountains and Lake Felster. These are the heirs of those briefly…
ISS1103 Anaxial’s Roster – Index
PDF and text of the original index. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…
Notes on The Empire of the Wyrms Friends
The Empire of the Wyrms Friends was formally founded in 822, and soon after, in 826, proclaimed itself to be the High Council of the Lands of Genertela (usually called the Third…
Notes on Kralorela I
Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…
Kralorela and the Eastern Dynasty of Light
Almost a third of the humans of Genertela reside in Kralorela-Teshnos. They don’t get a leading role in the events of Dragon Pass as they are separated by 1000 kms of Pent…
MGP8124 Dragonewts: Guide to the Eravssarr (2007)
Author – Lawrence Whitaker Credits & Contents Introduction Essence of Dragonewts Myths Dragonewts in the World Dragonewt Characters Dragonewt Cults Dragonewt Magic Dinosaurs & Dream Dragons Dragonewt Voices Index Absolute Circuitous Fortuity…
AH8588 Elder Secrets of Glorantha – Contents
Secrets Book 1 Mysteries of Glorantha INACCESSIBLE GLORANTHA: The Northern World Dagori lnkarth Dorastor Dwarf Fortresses The Elf Woods Kralorela Ramalia Pent Prax and lhe Wastelands The Troll Wastes Vormain INACCESSIBLE GLORANTHA:…
CHA4032 RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary – Index
Aldryami (Elves) 16 Black Elves 22 Blue Elves 23 Brown Elves 19 Dryads 18 Green Elves 20 Other Elves 22 Pixies 23 Runners 24 Yellow Elves 21 Animal Spirits 167 Antlions, Giant…
Notes on Kralorela II
The Closing hit Kralorela in 954, but the New Dragon’s Ring concealed this for a generation. Nonetheless, the New Dragon’s Ring managed to hold on for more than a century and a…
CHA4033 The Glorantha Sourcebook – Index
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: A Acos 70, 71, 72, 73, 106 Aether 72, 97, 99, 104, 106, 147, 204 Alda-Chur 21, 26, 33, 41, 42, 43 Aldrya 49,…
Magic Systems
The main magic systems in RuneQuest are: Rune magic (wielding a fraction of the power of the gods), Spirit magic (communication with the spirits that reside in the natural energy currents of…
Personalities of Glorantha – Cragspider the Firewitch (1999)
portions of this write-up originally published in The Broken Council. Mistress of the Spider Mountains, Weaver of Fate Summary Cragspider is an ancient being who resides in Kerofinela with her uzfollowers. Her…
HeroQuesting & The Proximate Holy Realm
So when we think about heroquesting, the Empire of the Wyrms Friends, and Belintar’s Holy Country, one common thread is the idea of the “Proximate Holy Realm”. The mundane world and the…
The First Council
I recently ran across one of the most ancient texts describing the First Council. This was dated to the Dawn Age, when Glorantha’s mythic structure was first being defined and explored: The…
Gloranthan Terrors
The Crimson Bat, Cwim, the Mother of Monsters, the Chaos Gaggle, any of the True Dragons – stopping the appearance of any of these terrors would be the plot of a world-ending…
The Ages of The World
Here’s an interesting late Second Age document that I find deep in the Library of Nochet. Although it was written in Theyalan, I suspect it is of Jrusteli origin, given its materialist…
The Second Lunar Occupation of Dragon Pass
Jotting down a few notes for my RQ and Cthulhu games I’ll be running at Chaosium Con, and had a crazy idea of doing an RQ short campaign set around 1645, during…