The Conquering Daughter, Lunar heroine Hwarin Dalthippa is the favorite goddess of the Lunar provinces. Once mortal, she founded the famous and beautiful city of Jillaro, conquered the provincial barbarians and integrated…
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The Lunar Satrapy of Sylila
The Red Emperor’s daughter, Hwarin Dalthippa, conquered the lands south of Henjarl in a series of military and magical campaigns between 1309 and 1349. In 1325, the Red Emperor proclaimed her and…
Lunar Provincial Population Groups
Throughout the Lunar Provinces, much of the ruling class and urban population is Lunar, while much of the rural population is “barbarian” (I am using that term from a Lunar Heartland perspective)….
Filichet (large city)
This city on the shores of lake Invaress has around 15,000 residents and is the capital of the Lunar Province of Holay. Filichet marks the end of the Daughter’s Road. From here,…
A Sense of Scale (2011)
Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 07/11/2011 – 14:43 Third Age Glorantha is a Bronze Age (or early Iron Age) setting, with a scale that is more comparable to the Ancient World than…
Detailed map of Saird
Here is a far more detailed map of Saird, which gives an idea how densely populated this lowlands here are. Lots of villages! And the Daughter’s Road running from Jillaro to Filichet…
Belintar
As an aside, Belintar – like the Lunars – wasn’t a practical builder. He build awesome things to magically tie the Holy Country together, but not really practical things for ordinary people….
Lunar Deities
Here is another Work in Progress by Katrin Dirim – this shows the relationship of various Lunar deities. A few surprises here to the uninitiated perhaps, and lots of secret details for…
Lunar Army List
Howdy all – here’s a preview of something I am working on for the next issue of Wyrms Footnotes: Hero Wars Army Lists! I’m a bit of a wargamer at heart, and…
CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 12 Rune Cults The Cults Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 12, pages 289-311: For the Rune Cult Rules see the previous section: Rune Cults Q&A Babeester Gor (page 289) In my game, a Babeestor…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – H
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: H (pages 771-774) Haar Zaal 316 Hachrat Blowhard 137 Hachuan Mountains 89, 431 Hachuan Shan 260, 269, 271, 282, 427, 429, 433, 439, 696…
Notes on Saird
The original “homeland” of the Yelmalio cult was Saird, a border land between Dragon Pass and Dara Happa. In the early First Age, this was a mixing ground of settlers from Dragon…
Cults of the Lunar Provinces
Vanch, Imther, Aggar, Holay, and Tarsh are a collection of Theyalan lands ruled by client kings supported by (and responsible to) the Red Emperor. For the last few generations, that was handled…
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,…
1330-1387 The Carving of Tarsh
Date Event Homeland Primary Secondary 1297-1325 Previous section – The Taming of Dragon Pass 1330 Arim the Pauper enters Dragon Pass after Holay is conquered by the Lunar Empire. HoDP (GS) CHoDP (KOS)GtG…
Finances of the Lunar Empire
Thinking a little bit more about the finances of the Lunar Empire. Most of the land in Peloria is not owned by the peasants – it is owned by the emperor, by…
Notes on Redaylda – Dendara – Ernalda
In South Peloria the cults of Dendara and Ernalda overlap, often with great confusion. As we all know, Ernalda is the great Earth Goddess of the Theyalans. Her cult is centered on…
ISS1304 Lunar Handbook Vol 2 – Under the Red Moon (2006)
Under the Red Moon Imperial Lunar Handbook – Volume 2 Under the Red Moon takes you inside the glorious Lunar Empire. Mighty and magical, decadent and dynamic, conquering and liberating, the Empire…
Imperial Nobility II
A few more numbers that may help give some context to the Imperial nobility. There are about 5.56 million people in the Lunar Heartlands. There are another 1.38 million in the Provinces….
Lunar Pantheon
The Red Goddess taught some of her followers the way to become immortal. Her pantheon is composed of mortals who have so succeeded. Lunar mythology is concerned with the apotheosis of their…
Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book
I am wrapping up the final text of the Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book, while making sure that it all ties into both the new Heroquesting chapters in the GM Sourcebook…
AH8577 Gods of Glorantha (Box 05 – 1985)
60 Religions for RuneQuestGods of Glorantha describes 60 major Gloranthan religions for humans and non-humans, for good guys and bad, for men and women, all from an array of different cultures. A…
Justice in Dara Happa and the Lunar Heartlands
In contrast to the Orlanthi, the Dara Happan (and Lunar Heartland) concept of justice has two parts: 1. Proper social order. That means everyone is in their proper place, with the strong…