The Headhunter Tien was a headless corpse worshiped by monsters during the Great Darkness. During the Gbaji Wars his cult merged with that of Atyar to recreate the dead god Thanatar. Tien…
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Thanatar
The Severed God In the Gods War, a chaos god named Tien commanded a colossal chaos swarm. He was captured by Storm Bull and broken into two pieces. Each of these two…
Notes on the Black Sun
The Black Sun is a strange one. Its origins are quite old, as I have found handwritten versions of the Basko story from around 1979. It then got infused with Sandy’s love…
CHA4046 The Glorantha Sourcebook – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z
Atyar
Chaos god, The Knowledge Thief Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 12 2023 Prosopaedia entry Cults of Glorantha Preview 466 2019 After decapitation Cult Compendium 287 2002 After decapitation Lords of…
ISS3011 The Book of Heortling Mythology – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z
ISS3007 Arcane Lore – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z
CHA4041 Mythology – Index
CHA4041 Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology (2023) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
The Three Categories of Chaos
Philosophers identify three categories of Chaos in the world: 1. Intrusions from the outside: This includes entities such as Wakboth, Kajabor, Primal Chaos, Krarsht, Pocharngo, Tien, Cacodemon, etc. 2. Entities that voluntarily…
A Few Notes on Chaos
Chaos is not “natural”. It entered the cosmos through the cracks in the universe caused by the Gods War. Chaos does not recognise or acknowledge the limits of the natural and moral…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
Cults of Differing Power
So as we have noticed, the RuneQuest cults are deliberately not balanced. Some cults have way more magic – and effective magic – than others. Now that was part of Greg’s vision…
CHA4033 The Glorantha Sourcebook – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – T
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: T (page 793 – 796) Taboo 27, 30, 62, 151, 157, 440, 494 Tada 27, 119, 455, 457, 458, 459, 659, 689, 693, 694,…
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…
Excerpt – Cosmology (1981)
Originally published in Cults of Terror Before Creation In analyzing the mythos of Glorantha, four streams of belief prevail. They sometimes mingle and sometimes flow in separate channels, but they all flow…
Chaos Pantheon
The Chaos Pantheon is from the Cults of RuneQuest series (2023) Write up Page Year Runes Notes Arcane Lore 38 2003 None listed Arrquong, Atyar, Bad Man, Bagog, Cacodemon, Gark, Gbaji, Gloomshark,…
Myth of the Month: Enemy Gods of the Orlanthi (2001)
Most deities have one or more specific, notable foes. Those foes were (usually) defeated in mythic times, resulting in the creation of the current world, and may be considered to be a…