Perhaps all of these parts are familiar to all of you, but understanding Arkat is a key to understanding the Third Age: Arkat was a man of reason who ventured into the…
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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…
Arkat
Ancient hero, The Traitor, The Troll A famous hero of the Gbaji Wars, whose passion to destroy his enemy overcame his common sense, spirituality, and finally, even his humanity. Write up Page…
A Short History of Arkat
By all accounts Arkat was born on the isle of Brithos in 375 ST. In 400 he accompanied a Brithini expedition to Arolanit attempting to liberate that land from Gbaji. In 410…
Arkat’s Dark Empire
From about 450 ST to 740 ST area now known as Safelster was part of a political entity that called itself the Autarchy or the Empire of Peace, but was known by…
Arkat as Colonel Kurtz
If I sometimes imagine Argrath as a Bowie-like chameleon, I often imagine Arkat as a Colonel Kurtz figure, particularly in the last stages of the Gbaji Wars. I could imagine him giving…
The Third Age Arkat Romance
Arkat was the single most important historical hero in Glorantha. 1200 years later, he’s still the subject of legends, romances, stories. If we think of him as a military figure, he’s beyond…
Arkat’s heirs
Many Second Age texts hold that both Gerlant Flamesword and Talor the Laughing Warrior were sons of Arkat and Seleria of Brithos. This is held as deeply heretical, even blasphemous, by both…
Guide Art Direction – The Seven Faces of Arkat (2013)
Jun 24, 2013 Although we went a different direction in the final piece, this is the original art direction: StoryThe ambitious High Priestess of the Green Goddess is performing a magical ritual…
A Question About Arkati Henotheism and Arkat’s Runes (2013)
Forums | Glorantha QA Submitted by Bryan Chavez on Thu, 27/06/2013 – 23:52 So, as someone who may soon run a game set in Ralios, and Safelster in specific, I’m very interested…
Inspiration for Arkat
One of the more curious representations of Alexander the Great is this medieval illustration that has him with boar tusks. Apparently, the source for this strange feature may ultimately lie in the…
Arkat and Grachamagacan (2012)
Submitted by Pastafarian on Mon, 01/10/2012 – 14:29 I’m in the planning stages of a convention scenario and the setting I’m leaning towards is Arkat’s circa 410 storming of Tanewal (the capital…
Argat / Arkat / Argrath
Here are a few more notes for Discord. Now from time to time, we get folk wanting to proclaim how much of a brutal extremist Argrath is, but to me those threads…
Arkatism
Early Malkionism is thought to have been composed of sacrificial rituals, sorceries techniques and spells, legal proscriptions and philosophical speculations. Later Hrestolism preserved the rationalism and philosophical elements of early Malkionism and…
Broken Empires, Gods, and Ideas
Arkat was the most terrifying mortal to walk the world. He built no new empires, ruled nothing but his companions, and built little. Instead, Arkat broke empires, gods, and even ideas. Think…
Safelster in the First Age (2013)
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 The following is part one of a series of Questions and Answers about Safelster and Ralios. The Enerali Peoples at the Dawn At the Dawn the four tribes…
Before and after the Dark Empire
After the defeat of Gbaji in 450, Arkat place Dragon Pass under the rule of his troll friends and then returned to the West. He then settled in Fornoar, at the time…
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…
The Gods War
This mystic diagram is from the House of Black Arkat in the Esrolian city of Arkat’s Hold. It depicts an Illuminate who has been guided by Arkat’s teachings to transcend the struggles…
Arkat Saga (1987)
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CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – Numerals & A
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: Numerals (page 775) 1st Action 154 2nd Action 154 3rd Action 154 4th Action 154 5th Action 154 21 Tribes of Waha’s Covenant 711…
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 First Age
Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…
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…
The Stygian Heresy I
A key to why the Stygian Heresy is so threatening to mainstream Malkioni can be found in Arkat’s apocryphal retort to the missive of King Nralar demanding that the Hero end sacrifice…