By the time of the Dragonrise (1625), I suspect Harrek the Berserk is the best-known Hero of the age, even in Dragon Pass. His fame has been meteoric in the last couple…
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Notes on Belintar III
In the Holy Country, Belintar largely let the locals rule themselves, so long as they kept the peace, and sent their magical and financial tribute to the City of Wonders. In exchange,…
Hendrikiland or “South Sartar”
There are about 175000 humans in the lands between the Crossline and the Syphon River. These are mostly Orlanthi, often called the Heortlings or the Hendriki. This area has been part of…
The Greatway
Yesterday we were up around the Greatway, looking at the vast mines high up in the Rockwoods. Everywhere you can see tailings from the dwarf mines. There are many thousands of dwarves…
History of Orlanthi Cities
If we think about the history of the Orlanthi, their original Dawn Age settlements were “hill fort villages” – this is where they survived the Greater Darkness and Grey Ages. The entire…
Rural Sartar / Urban Sartar
Thanks to King of Dragon Pass and the old HW books, many people have an impression that Sartar is overwhelmingly rural and isolated. I think that ends up being wildly misleading. About…
Continuity with the Golden Age
Several Gloranthan cultures claim continuity with the Golden Age – Dara Happa, Kralorela, Teshnos, and East Isles. They claim that their lands were settled by gods and men during the Golden Age…
Kralorela and the Eastern Dynasty of Light
Almost a third of the humans of Genertela reside in Kralorela-Teshnos. They don’t get a leading role in the events of Dragon Pass as they are separated by 1000 kms of Pent…
New to RuneQuest and Glorantha?
If you are coming new to RuneQuest and Glorantha with RQG, it has never been easier to get the lore, the cults, and get gaming. Grab the current RQG materials, supplement it…
New Orlanthi Adults
Traditionally, new adults in Orlanthi cultures go through a period of cult training or apprenticeship, often called the “Ordeal Years”. The newly initiated young men (which include those women chosen by Vinga)…
Watch your Red Moon Phase!
A key thing to playing a Lunar character is remembering that the phase of the Red Moon matters a LOT. So three days out of the week, your Rune magic works like…
Solar Worldview
Yelm is the Giver of Life and Death, the Source of Light, and the most important of the Greater Gods. He received rule of the universe from the Cosmic Court and arranged…
Solar Purity
Light does not shine through grime and pollution – that goes a long way towards understanding most Solar cultist’s obsession with purity. The ideal is to let your (inner) Light shine, and…
Notes on Lanbril
Lanbril comes out of the tradition of fictional thieves’ guilds such as Leiber’s Lankhmar and Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo. His cult can be thought of as an approach to organized crime throughout…
Dragonewt City
Was hiking around in Dragon Pass and found a dragonewt city in a mountain vale. I love some of the alien rock formations, and immediately realised that we were near High Wyrm….
Nature of the Cult – Lightbringers
One thing I encourage EVERYONE running a RQ game do is to grab the Lightbringers Book and read the Nature of the Cult sections for Orlanth and then read the Organization section….
Mythology book coming October
I can’t wait until we release the Mythology book (October), so that you all have a lot of the big picture stuff in your hands. The cult distribution charts are incredibly helpful…
Why The Lightbringers
Orlanth is one of the great transformative forces in Glorantha. He’s why we have Night and Day, he’s why storms brings forth new growth from the Earth, and most importantly, he (and…
Views of Lightfore
Tonight I imagine what Lightfore must have looked like!
Numeric Order for the Cults books
As an aside, there is no numeric order for the Cults books. Their release schedule follows what we think will work best for the success of the line, and it does not…
The Origin of the Pentans
The origin of the Pentans are with two (and maybe three) Grey Age groups. The first are the “Starlight Ancestors” who appeared along the Upper Arcos River. They likely rode chariots and…
Read the Names section in the Introductions
In each of the Cults books is a little section in the Introduction on Names. I’m not going to repeat the text here, suffice to say that it is there to make…
Temple Children
One of the interesting customs common among the Orlanthi are the “temple children”. These are children born to Earth Priestesses (often without an identified mortal father) who are cared and raised by…
Moving Forward with Cult write-ups
One of the intentions of the Cults books is to liberate us all from consulting old HW books or old digest discussions to provide insight into the cults. What is presented in…