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Notes on the Feathered Horse Queen Dynasty
The Feathered Horse Queens are the most important Earth priestesses of Dragon Pass (and often paired with the High Priestess at the Shaker Temple – they always address each other as “sister”). The following…
Kallyr Starbrow and the Dragonrise
It may come to some surprise, but Kallyr Starbrow likely had no idea that her intervention at the New Lunar Temple ceremony would result in the Dragonrise. Let’s start with what was…
Notes on the Grazelands I
Let’s keep in mind quick how the Grazeland functions in the present age (rather than how the Yelm cult likes to tell stories about the good old days). There are about 40,000…
1557-1600 Conflict with the Lunar Empire
Date Event Homeland Primary Sources 1535-1556 Previous section – The Conquest of Tarsh 1557-1561 Reign of Jarosar as Prince of Sartar SD (KOS,GS) WF#12 1558 Moirades, son of King Phargentes, born. CHoDP (KOS)…
The Lunar Dynasty in Tarsh
King Pharandros of Tarsh has been on throne for 15 years in 1625. Educated in Glamour and Syllila, Pharandros is culturally a Lunar Heartlander. The son of the famed Lunar magician and…
Notes on the Kingdom of Dragon Pass in the Hero Wars
Argrath and the Feathered Horse Queen unified Dragon Pass in 1632 and were its King and Queen for the next quarter-century, despite major counter-invasions from the Lunar Empire (which twice came close…
The View From Boldhome, circa 1627
Argrath was acclaimed Prince on Day 88 of 1627. Several assassination attempts were made on him as he entered the city, but his companions cut them down. Argrath impressively lit the Flame…
Dragon Pass Viewed from Glamour
Of course Glamour pays attention to what is going on in Dragon Pass. The wars there have been costing many thousands of talents a year for the past decade. True Dragon there…
Inkarne, the Feathered Horse Queen
A preview of some really amazing art for the Sartar Boxed Set. This is from Anna Orlova and is part of a character turn of Inkarne, the Feathered Horse Queen. Wow! So…
Queen Inkarne and Argrath White Bull
Here’s a preview of some really amazing art for the RuneQuest Sartar Boxed Set, currently in development. This is the Feathered Horse Queen Inkarne and Argrath White Bull, by a new artist…
1492-1535 The Foundation of the Kingdom of Sartar
Date Event Homeland Primary Secondary 1470-1491 Previous section – The Coming of Sartar 1492 Furthest founded by colonists from the Lunar Heartlands. LoR:DP 1492 Boldhome founded by Sartar, who isnamed Prince and…
1602-1612 The Fall of the Kingdom of Sartar
Date Event Homeland Primary Sources 1557-1600 Previous section – Conflict with the Lunar Empire 1602 Runegate Fort is destroyed by the Crimson Bat. Sartar CHoDP (KOS) RQG 107GMSP 10, 49JB (KOS), Events of My LifeWF#12,…
1535-1556 The Conquest of Tarsh
Date Event Homeland Primary Secondary 1492-1535 Previous section – The Foundation of the Kingdom of Sartar 1535 Phoronestes is poisoned. Philigos becomes King of Tarsh. CHoDP (KOS) GtGHoDP (GS)RH (GS) 1535 Jarosar, son…
1395-1470 The Kingdom of Tarsh
Date Event Homeland Primary Secondary 1330-1387 Previous section – The Carving of Tarsh 1395–1440 Ovartien’s son Yarandros is the fourth king of Tarsh. “Foundation” of the Kingdom of Tarsh. LoR:DPHoDP (GS) CHoDP (KOS)KoT (KOS)GtG…
Horses in the Grazelands
There are a lot of horses in the Grazelands – some 90,000 – and it comes out to about 18 horses per square km. Now I thought that was very high, but…
Heroquest Activities in RQG
When we think about Heroquests in RuneQuest, we really have two types of activities under that rubric. The first is the most common. Initiates and Rune masters (who are of course also…
The Entropy of Time
The Broken Council, God Learners, Empire of the Wyrms Friends, and the Lunar Empire all shared the same progression of endless new possibilities and optimistic enthusiasm that later becomes overtaken by ambitious…
Notes on the Grazelands II
The dominant cult in the Grazelands is Ernalda, with some 9250 initiates out of a total adult population of around 26,000. The Ernalda cult dominates the Grazelands like no place outside of…
Orlanthi ownership
Here’s a little snippet from a forthcoming players-oriented book I am working on: The Orlanthi divide ownership into two types of property, called earth and chattel. The Orlanthi view the Earth as…
Great Temples of Sartar
I believe these are the great temples around Sartar. As an aside, Eiritha is an important cult for the Pol-Joni, but Ernalda is still more prevalent. The Pol-Joni are very atypical Praxians….
Sartar’s Roads & Inns
So people have asked why the Sartar route over Dragon Pass is preferred to the Grazeland route. It basically comes down to that it is much cheaper and safer to travel over…
Ernalda in Sartar
Ernalda is the main goddesses of the Earth Temple complexes in Dragon Pass and her cult has been greatly enriched by the Esrolian Earth Religion and the heroquesting of the Feathered Horse…