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Getting up to Glamour
I recently made the comment that “it isn’t as if the Sartarites get up to Glamour very often” – but let’s not forget, it is only about 700 km from Glamour to…
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…
Rough Guide to Glamour 1997, 2020
Welcome to Glamour! This booklet is designed primarily to be useful background for Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Life of Moonson freeform. First run at GloranthaCon V A Rough Guide to Glamour is your indispensable…
Notes on Glamour
Glamour, not the Tripolis, is the cultural, religious, and political center of the Lunar Empire. Now over four hundred years old, it was founded by a polyglot group of devotees of the…
Jerry Cornelius in Glamour
Some might view Glamour as being inhabited by investigators like Griselda. Me, I think the proper vibe for a Glamour investigator is J. Cornelius. With adventures like “J. Cornelius and the Madness…
Map of Glamour and Raibanth Area
Here’s another neat map showing the area around Glamour and Raibanth. I believe Nick and company used this as the base of a map in the Rough Guide to Glamour. Note how…
Nochet to Glamour at 1:400,000 scale
Admittedly Glamour is not in this picture as it is just beyond the field of vision. But I see Alkoth and even Raibanth. Each sheet is an A2, so about 24 x…
The View from Glamour Late 1625
So let’s imagine the world from the vantage of Glamour, circa late 1625. The mundane routine of administration is not for Argenteus, and so the Red Emperor prefers to interact with his…
The Dara Happan Emperor
In 1247, the Red Goddess ascended into the Middle Air as the Red Moon. She appointed her son as her temporal viceroy, and charged him with the responsibilities of her affairs in…
Notes on City Gods
Cities have a market, a degree of self-governance, and temples to the city’s patron deity and to the city god. They also have temples to other gods of importance to the people,…
The Great Glamour Sit-down (2002)
By Simon Bray and Dr Mark Galeotti Freeform/LARP. First run at Convulsion 2002, July 19-22, 2002. Also run at Tentacles Convention, May 2003. Freeform master pack 103 pages, (C) 2003.
Thoughts on city size
When we think about most cities in RuneQuest, they are pretty small. New Pavis is a little over 5000 people. Jonstown, Swenstown, and Wilmskirk are even smaller – none are more than…
Notes on Pelorian Architecture
So as I contemplate the look of Tarshite cities, it is clear we need to think about general Pelorian architecture. So first building materials – Peloria is a land of bricks. Air-dried…
Central Genertela Map Overview
I often play around with putting different maps together in order to get a better feel for how Glorantha works. This is one of my favorite composite maps – it nicely shows…
Communication in the Lunar Empire
The Red Emperor has a much easier time communicating with the rest of his empire than say the Roman Emperor did. Distances To begin with the distances involved are much shorter. Just…
Oslira Rune magic
So I was recently pondering why Oslira does not provide Strongnet, unlike Engizi and Zola Fel. And I realized the answer is quite easy – the Oslira cult is not the cult…
Apotheosis of the Red Goddess
In 1247 the Red Goddess performed her final dance some 50 km to the northwest of Raibanth. A huge crimson sphere, some 40 km in diameter, rose from earth and continued to…
Nochet to Glamour map
Jeff Richard sketch map
Glamour (city) glyph
Circular Lunar glyph with internals Based on Moon Rune