This is some material in the new Big Rubble and Pavis books and is circa 1625-1626. Note the embryonic Magical Union! Those watching the White Bull campaign have likely gotten a preview…
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Argrath
Hero Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 9 2023 Glorantha Sourcebook 206 2018 None listed In Heroes of The Hero Wars Dragon Pass 1983 None listed Counter Wyrm’s Footnotes #3 18…
Argat / Arkat / Argrath
Here are a few more notes for Discord. Now from time to time, we get folk wanting to proclaim how much of a brutal extremist Argrath is, but to me those threads…
Understanding Argrath
At a very fundamental level, Greg’s Argrath IS Arkat and fully experiences and participates Orlanth myths as a mortal. Now that doesn’t mean that he is trying to repeat the deeds of…
Argrath’s Thanes
I believe I have already listed Argrath’s principle khans as of 1625 – Yazurkial Blue Llama, Narmeed Whirlvishbane, Roneer the Hue, Zamalanth Blue Llama, Jarang Bladesong, Krogar Wolfhelm, Mularik Ironeye, Orlaront Dragonfriend,…
Argrath History To 1627
Some fragments from a document Greg and I put together, which might interest some of you. It is part of the RQ Campaign. Born on Starfire Ridge to the Colymar Tribe Maniski…
Argrath’s Praxian Army
Many nomads follow Argrath into Dragon Pass, and some bring their herds along with them. You end up with herds in Donalf Flats, Bush Ranges, Donalf Flats, etc. Argrath often has to…
Argrath’s New Pavis
As of 1625, New Pavis has a permanent population of about 5150 people, making it the second largest Sartarite city after Boldhome. Another 1500 people live inside the Big Rubble. All of…
A Short Summary Of Argrath’s Life To 1627
So the basic story is that Argrath was exiled to Prax as a youth. He was taken as a slave by the Bison Tribe, but while a slave he found/freed the White…
Argrath-Alexander the Great analogy
This is something I find very useful in thinking about Sartar in the Hero Wars. Think of Classical Greece during the rise of Philip and Alexander. At first things aren’t too different…
Argrath’s Iconography
One thing we likely do not play around with enough is the iconography of Argrath’s adventures from 1621-1624. In Teshnos, he defeated elephants by cutting off their noses. He took the Emerald…
1631-1658 The Reign of Argrath, King of Sartar
Date Event Primary Secondary 1625-1630 Previous section – The Liberation of Sartar 1631-1632 Argrath invades Tarsh with Grazer help. Pharandros captured. He and his sister, Estal Donge, are imprisoned in the City…
Jar-eel, Harrek, and Argrath Concept Art
Jar-eel, Harrek the Berserk, and Argrath pose for some Jon Hodgson concept art for the forthcoming RQ Campaign Book. What I immediately loved about it is Jar-eel’s ethereal beauty, Harrek’s massiveness, and…
Queen Inkarne and Argrath White Bull
Here’s a preview of some really amazing art for the RuneQuest Sartar Boxed Set, currently in development. This is the Feathered Horse Queen Inkarne and Argrath White Bull, by a new artist…
6 – Argrath the Man
5 – Argrath Faces Evil 7 – Argrath faces the Lunars Characters: Argrath Death and the Lunars Argrath’s father was a professional warrior of the Colymar tribe who was killed by the Lunars…
8 – The Wrath of Argrath
7 – Argrath faces the Lunars 9 – Exile Characters: Argrath The most famous collection of Argrath stories, “The Annotated Argrath’s Saga”, says simply: This deed, performed by a young man filled with the…
5 – Argrath Faces Evil
4 – Meeting the Second Son 6 – Argrath the Man Characters: Argrath The Great Secret Heort was the first to meet the Second Son, back in the Great Darkness when the world…
7 – Argrath faces the Lunars
6 – Argrath the Man 8 – The Wrath of Argrath Characters: Argrath The Marble Phalanx The hoplites here are Dara Happans from the Marble Phalanx, one of the famed Stonewall Phalanxes. They are heavy…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 01 – transcript
Good evening everybody my name is Jeff Richard and I will be your gamemaster tonight we are continuing with the white bull campaign for the new runequest role-playing in glorantha and I’ve got a…
Sartar Money and War
The Kingdom of Sartar was the wealthiest of the Dragon Pass kingdoms prior to the Lunar Conquest. Its revenues were a combination of a head tax paid by the tribes (in silver),…
Heracles on the Argos
If you are playing in the RQ Campaign, sooner or later your player characters are going to cross paths with the likes of Harrek, Prince Argrath, Gunda, the Feathered Horse Queen, Jaldon…
New Pavis under the rule of King Argrath
A good look at the governance of New Pavis under the rule of King Argrath: Auda is the spitting image of Narmeed Whirlvishbane.
From the letters of Sorala Tor
An Esrolian scribe in Prince Argrath’s service: “Of all the many crimes committed by the the Poisonblood Witch-Queen of the Lunar Empire (a commonly used venomous title for Jar-eel the Razoress), perhaps…
New Pavis and the River of Cradles 1625-1626
If we think about what is going on big picture in New Pavis and the River of Cradles 1625-1626, we can see some of the following: And if you can’t find plenty…
Noble Patronage in Sartar & Tarsh
The ruling dynasties of Sartar and Tarsh were both reknowned for their intellectual and scholarly pursuits, or at least their patronage of such activities. So for example, Sartar established Lhankor Mhy temples…