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Greg Sez: The Red Emperor (Sep 1998)

Question From MARTIN LAURIE. Answer by Greg Stafford. Published 1st Sep 1998 Q: You’ve said that Emperor Yelmgatha “was recognized as an avatar of Yelm” and “He was called the Five/Sixths because…

Cults of Differing Power

Posted on April 21, 2022

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…

Notes on The Red Emperor

Posted on July 31, 2021

A few notes on the Red Emperor from the Cults Book. The Red Emperor is the supreme high priest for the Lunar religion and for the Yelm cult. Within the Lunar Empire,…

Yelm & Chaos

Posted on February 8, 2022

For most Gloranthan religions, Chaos is something outside of the realm of gods and spirits. There are a few gods or spirits that were corrupted by Chaos or who otherwise embraced it…

Yelm

[YEHLM] Sun god and emperor Yelm is the god of the Middle Fire and brother of Lodril and Dayzatar. Yelm was not always bound to his path in the sky, but once…

2021-06 Jeff on Facebook

Jeff Richard is one of the regular posters in the RuneQuest Facebook Group. here’s some of his recent RuneQuest posts, only Jeff’s replies are included where relevant. Facebook membership is required to…

Apotheosis of the Red Goddess

Posted on January 1, 2023

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…

Hon-eel’s Descendants and the Imperial Nobility

Posted on June 24, 2022

In 1486, the Lunar goddess Hon-eel, daughter of the Red Emperor and Sandene, gave birth to twins, conceived with the Secret Light of the Sun. One was a boy, blond and pale-eyed,…

Light in the Sky

Posted on August 26, 2020

Pretty much every Gloranthan spiritual tradition says that the bright and hot Sun was killed by the Storm God, ending the Golden Age. The Orlanthi particularly emphasise this myth, as it was…

Lunar Deities

Posted on July 14, 2022

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…

Myth – Ernalda and the Golden Age

This is an Orlanthi myth of Ernalda, the Great Goddess and Earth Queen. Once the seas covered all. But the world grew and Ga, Earth, emerged from the depths. Mountain peaks, plains,…

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…

Das deutsche HeroQuest Regelwerk kommt ! (2012)

Das deutsche HeroQuest Regelwerk kommt ! Submitted by RoM on Thu, 31/05/2012 – 11:10 Hallo liebe Leute! Herzlich Willkommen im deutschsprachigen Forum zu Glorantha und HeroQuest. Hier könnt Ihr Fragen stellen, Empfehlungen…

Restrictions on Satraps

Posted on September 20, 2022

Within their domains, the rulers of the satrapies or sultanates of the Lunar Empire rule with inherent authority. They are not mere governors or administrators – they are rulers in their own…

ISS3003 The Fortunate Succession – Index

Page numbers refer to the 2013 PDF Edition: Numbers 10 Sons and Servants 17 17, Families,  17,  24 70 Families,  9,  10  700, Families  8 A accoutrements 6, 10 Adayen 86 Aegrastus…

Excerpt – Some Myths (1999)

By Robin D. Laws Copyright ©1999 A Sharp, LLC. This month we present some myths all Heortlings know about a variety of deities. These are drawn from A Sharp’s computer game King…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – E

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: E (pages 764-766) Eaglebrown Warlocks 736 Eagle People 283, 589 Eagle Phoenix Emperor 262, 682, 690, 692 Early Light 286 Early Storm Age 680,…

Greg Sez Guest: Does the Emperor party or not? (Jan 1999)

Occasionally Greg had guests answer the Q&As in Greg Sez. Published January 1999. Question From JULIE WATSON. Q: “Does the Emperor party or not? If so, how does he rule? Is there really…

Red Emperor

Son of the Red Goddess and ruler of the Lunar Empire Masks Search for the Red Emperor Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Prosopaedia Unpublished Guide to Glorantha 151 2014 Notes…

Sheng Seleris, the Shadow of the Lunar Empire

Posted on January 21, 2022

So let’s contemplate Sheng Seleris, the Shadow of the Lunar Empire. Sheng Seleris and his nomad army entered Peloria for the first time in 1375. Sheng Seleris was a celestial hero, whose…

Yelm in HQ2 (2013)

Submitted by DSPaul on Sun, 21/07/2013 – 22:17 So, I’m thinking about starting a intrigue-heavy Dara Happan campaign in HeroQuest 2nd ed., but I’ve run into a few problems with regards to…

Lunar Occupation of Sartar 1622-1625

Posted on December 9, 2022

I posted elsewhere a few thoughts on the Lunar Occupation, and I thought they might be of interest here. Remember that the Lunar Empire is not all powerful or all knowing. So…

Lives of Sedenya (2006)

Also published in parts in Rule One The Testimonial “When you speak of me, tell of yourself first,” said the Goddess. She was instructing her followers how to teach others about Her. “How…

Born in the Red

Posted on November 30, 2021

Around the Red Emperor are numerous powerful families (or clans) most of whom are related to the Red Emperor, descended from him, married to him, etc. Those “born in the red” are…

Notes on Kralorela

Posted on January 7, 2023

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…

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