Goddess of Night When the darkness deities invaded the surface world, Xentha led them. She is a great and commanding goddess, with mysterious powers far beyond the ken of man or troll….
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Argan Argar
God of Surface Darkness, Son of Night Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Mythology 129 2023 n/a Prosopaedia entry Earth Goddesses 23, 94 2023 per Rune spell n/a Associate cult:Grain GoddessesHusband…
Barbarian “Old Gods”
At the Dawn, the Hykimi Alliance of Fronela and Ralios worshiped a myriad of ancestors, beast spirits, and other spirits, but acknowledge a loose pantheon of Old Gods including: Ehilm the Sun;…
Darkness Genealogy I
I’ve always loved the divine genealogies that Kalin Kadiev did for us for the Glorantha Sourcebook, but unfortunately they were not complete enough for the Cults Book. Fortunately, Katrin Dirim has risen…
The Struggle for the Middle Air
The Red Goddess never made peace with the Air Gods, for there was none among her pantheon who could approach those deities on their own ground. There began, within history, a struggle…
Gods of Fonrit
A snippet from an old Jrusteli account of Fonrit. I’d date this to about 890 ST: Gods of FonritIn Fonrit, the people worship demigods who they say restored the Cosmic Court of…
Elder Races and Human Cults
The Aldryami and Mostali have a surprising amount of overlap with major human cults. Both have strong ties to the Earth pantheon (Aldrya is the daughter of Ernalda, and Asrelia is friendly…
Darkness Genealogy II
The Darkness pantheon is an unusual in that most of these cults are worshiped primarily or even exclusively by non-humans. Darkness is deadly, fearsome, devouring, crushing, cold, silent, secretive, and mysterious, and…
AH8587 Troll Gods: The Deities of Darkness (Box 10 – 1989)
The Year is 1622 S.T. THE FIRST RUMBLES OF THE HERO WARS can be heard, and a time of change is upon the world of Glorantha. The Uzko, known to humans as…
Subere
Goddess of the dark deep within, Goddess of Inner Dark She is the goddess of the Inner Dark and is also believed to be the wife of Dehore. The lords of the…
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…
Rune Magic by Cult and Associate Cult – A
Spell RBM Cost Source Reference Availability Absorption 10 1+ Aldrya EG 36, 37 Elder Sister, Gardener Annilla LW 126 Red Goddess initiates (associate) Asrelia EG 45 Initiates Crimson Bat LW 42 Initiates…
Elemental Interaction
It is easy to get a good handle on the interaction between the deities of Air, Earth, Fire, and Moon. These are of course the elemental pantheons most likely to be found…
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
Working on the Darkness Book
As the Solar Book moves on over to final production soon, I’ve been making the finishing touches on the Cults of Darkness before it goes to layout. Now interestingly this is the…
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
Greater and Major Gods
So as I check over some of the material about to go to the printer soon, I was comparing things to a list Greg had written some years ago, listing all the…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
The Bad Rain
In the Lightbringers Quest, the Bad Rain is summoned by all the participants in order to transform the ceremony into a heroquest. The Bad Rain is the Shadow of Orlanth – the…
The Lunar Heartlands
As we think about the Lunar Heartlands as a place populated by people, a few dimensions are worth keeping in mind. It is about 300 miles from Jillaro to Elz Ast and…
The Winter Deity Trinity
It is the right time of year (at least in Colorado) to talk about the trinity of winter deities – Valind, Inora, and Himile. These gods are much more important than their…
Valind within Orlanthi society
Given that we have a good foot or more of snow on the ground, now is a good time to talk about Valind within the context of Orlanthi society. Valind is the…
Hrelar Amali
Gobekli Tepe is making the rounds again and I thought this is a good opportunity to talk about Glorantha’s equivalent – Hrelar Amali, the “First Temple” of Glorantha. Hrelar Amali was built…
Rune Magic by Cult and Associate Cult
For Publications: Common Magic Common Spell RQG RBM Cost Command (cult spirit) 323 30 2 Dismiss Magic 326 44 1+ Divination 327 45 1+ Extension 328 49 1-5 Find Enemy 328 51…
Myth of the Month: Hrelar Amali (2011)
posted Sat, 12/11/2011 The City of the Gods (Hrelar Amali) is located on the Crimson Plains between Ralios and Seshnela. It is the sport where Flamal, beloved of Ernalda, fell at the…