There are somewhere in the vicinity of 8 million people that follow the teachings of Malkion and derivatives thereof. That’s a lot of people. Malkionism is often hard to get a handle…
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Malkionism And Sorcery
Malkionism provides a set of beliefs, practices, and traditions that support the development of magical specialists in sorcery. Whether that was its original purpose or merely something that it made possible is…
Community and Heresy within Malkionism.
Malkionism, unlike other major Gloranthan religious experiences and philosophies, is based on the teachings of a mortal about the nature of the cosmos, the origin of the universe, the place of man…
The Evolution of Malkionism
All Malkionism begins with the teachings of Malkion, where questions pertaining to laws of nature, the origin of the universe and the place of man in it are asked. These are incredibly…
Malkionism
There are a bit more than 8 million Malkioni in Glorantha, most being in Seshnela or western Fronela. Malkionism is, if anything, even trickier than the Lunar Way to define. All Malkioni…
Malkionism as a Cult
So one thing that should be obvious about Malkionism compared to other cults – it is primarily a philosophical system, rather than a connection with a god or spirit. The Invisible God…
Roots of Malkionism
Malkionism was born in the disillusionment of the Gods War. The gods of Glorantha fought among each other, degeneration was the rule, and Death came for gods and mortals, wielded by terrible…
Malkionism as a “Cult”
In thinking about Malkionism for game purposes, we should probably start by thinking about what that means in terms of Malkionism as a “cult”. So what goes on in worship of the…
Malkionism demographics
When thinking about Malkionism, keep in mind that In Genertela, there are: Around 2.5 million Hrestoli (various schools) Around 1.5 million Rokari Around 750 k followers of the Stygian Heresy Around 250…
Malkionism – a detached and abstract philosophical approach
Malkionism provides us with a detached and abstract philosophical approach to Glorantha. It is easier for us Westerners than the raw personal experiences found in most rune cults. With Malkionism we can…
The Aeolian school of Malkionism
A few notes for today that folk might find interesting: The Aeolian Malkioni henotheist sect The Aeolian school of Malkionism worship the Invisible God as the supreme Creator, He is the Source,…
Malkioni Q&A
Questions from David Millians, Herve Carteau and others. Answers from Moon Design. Q: After looking at the pictures in the old Genertela boxed set, I got the impression that the Malkioni broadly analogous…
Notes on The Invisible God I
The Invisible God is abstract, the ultimate reality in the universe. It is Brahman, the Ein Sof, the Unmoved Mover, the One. The Invisible God does not change, but is the cause…
After the Middle Sea Empire
Malkionism in the Third Age is a pathetic shade of its Second Age glory. The Middle Sea Empire ended in 990 and about a half-century later, Seshnela was shattered by the Luathelans….
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…
The Martyrdom of Theoblanc, Holy Saint of Rokarism
First published in Proceedings in MalkionismCopyright © 1994 by Michael O’Brien [This is the account I wrote about my exploits in Reaching Moon Megacorp’s splendid LARP How the West was One, played at…
Proceedings in Malkionism (1994)
Character write ups from the first run of How the West was One from Convulsion ’94. Publisher Reaching Moon Megacorp SKU: RMM108 Contents Foreword, by the Dean of the School of Comparative…
The Divine Fortune of The Emperor of Land and Sea
For two hundred years the Jrusteli dynasty ruled as the Emperor of the Land and Sea. This was a new title, created in 789 with the acclamation of the Jrusteli Alliance, the Umathelan…
Deep Lunar Synthesis
One of Greg’s deep background notes that I refer to an awful lot when I think about Glorantha is this chart that he put together to try to think about the basic…
Revelations of the Invisible God
Great revelations have been made by the Invisible God and the full contours of RQ Malkionism has now been glimpsed by a select few. And it is revelatory. And in many ways,…
Third Age Malkioni Movements
So let’s talk a little about some of the Third Age Malkioni movements. The Second Age broke Malkionism. Let’s say that again – the Second Age broke Malkionism. Most of the intellectual…
A Few Malkioni Thoughts
In thinking about Malkionism, the Invisible God can be equated to Brahman in many schools of Hindu philosophy (especially Vedanta) – the Invisible God is the ultimate reality, the source from which…
Malkioni Heresies
Most Malkioni are far more concerned about heretical sects of Malkionism than about non-Malkioni subjects. Arkatism or “the Stygian Heresy” is considered one of the most heretical outgrowths of Malkionism. So for…
Notes on The Invisible God II
The Invisible God is the Hidden Mover, the Ultimate Reality which can be known. From the Invisible God came everything. And once the Invisible God viewed everything, we could have the One…
Myth of the Month: Malkioni Otherworld (2001)
The Sorcery World is the Western Otherworld Sorcery means here any magic in the material world (a.k.a. the Center World, the Shared World, etc.). whose origin is that Otherworld. Their system comes…