Orlanth Lightbringer is the mystical and heroquesting aspect of Orlanth. He is a universally acknowledged aspect of Orlanth, worshiped in conjunction with the other Lightbringers. Orlanth Lightbringer is not a subcult –…
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Cult Mythos and History
In the Mythos and History of the cults, you can assume that those stories are associated with the cults wherever they are found. That also means that there are countless local stories…
Connecting the Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses
So by now I am sure people are mapping out connections between the cults in the Lightbringers and Earth Goddesses books. To me the most interesting is the interplay between Orlanth and…
Quivin Mountains and Guardian Hills
Every week I go hiking around the Quivin Mountains and Guardian Hills. Today we checked out Stael’s Ridge and the Ernaldori Peaks. Check out the Boulder Ruins!
Joining Uleria
Uleria is perhaps the single easiest cult to join. The cult holds that EVERYONE is already a lay member. Anyone can freely worship Uleria. And to become an initiate anyone can join…
Earth Goddesses coming this week
I am particularly pleased with the Earth Goddesses cults book, which is available later this week. This book is dedicated to the powers of Earth – the source of Life for most…
Discussing Cults of RuneQuest with Jeff Richard on Youtube
Really Dicey talks to Jeff Richard about his work on two great Cults of RuneQuest books coming out officially on August 17 from Chaosium, The Lightbringers and The Earth Goddesses. We talk…
The Lightbringers and their pantheon
So let’s talk a moment about the Lightbringers and their pantheon. In Sartar, about 42% of the adult population are initiated into one of the core Lightbringer cults, and another 40% are…
Creating the Cults Books, Part 1
Greg and I started discussing doing this after the Guide to Glorantha came out, so around 2014 or so. But work really started on it in 2017. Originally it started as Cults…
Entry points into the main RQ setting
So IMO there are several really easy entry points into the main RQ setting and storyline: So the advantages all of these have is that they reduce the requirement of up-front knowledge…
Glorantha is Easy
The setting of Glorantha is broad and deep and the amount written about it can be intimidating. Don’t be intimidated by it! Most of the setting is completely unnecessary in order to…
Cultural changes in Genertela 350-500 ST
The years 350-500 witnessed radical cultural changes in Genertela. First the Theyalans (and trolls, dragonewts, elves, and dwarves) entered into a short-lived union with the Dara Happans. Although this union broke apart,…
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…
The Third Age Arkat Romance
Arkat was the single most important historical hero in Glorantha. 1200 years later, he’s still the subject of legends, romances, stories. If we think of him as a military figure, he’s beyond…
About the New Prosopaedia
So now that many of you all have the Prosopaedia, let me talk a little bit about the book. The Prosopaedia was obviously inspired by the short pamphlet of the same name…
Inspiration for Arkat
One of the more curious representations of Alexander the Great is this medieval illustration that has him with boar tusks. Apparently, the source for this strange feature may ultimately lie in the…
Inspiration for the Red Emperor
The Red Emperor in his ruddy glory and some of his household and bodyguards.
Masks of the Red Emperor
There have been at least 13 incarnations of the Red Emperor. The first – who was from roughly 1250 to 1390, was truly Moonson. During the Sheng Seleris era there were two…
Partial Runes
Some cults use partial Runes the God Learners believed were not ‘true’ Runes but merely expressed limited subsets of Elemental Runes. As such, they described a limitation on a god’s power, rather…
Coins of the Sartar Dynasty Preview
Katrin Dirim has done some amazing art depicting coins dedicated to various members of the Sartar Dynasty. I thought some of my notes on each might be interesting. So when we think about…
The legacy of the EWF
As we think about the legacy of the EWF in the late Third Age, we first need to remember that none of the humans of Dragon Pass are their heirs. All of…
The Decline and Fall of the EWF
899 to 910 were the height of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends‘ magical power and wealth. The Third Council were worshiped as gods, arguably they were gods in the mundane world….
Inspiration for the Lunar Empire
Many Lunar sources suggest that the Lunar religion is new and revolutionary. That was certainly true in the Zero and First Wanes, but the Lunar Way is now over four hundred years…
Roots of Malkionism
Malkionism was born in the disillusionment of the Gods War. The gods of Glorantha fought among each other, degeneration was the rule, and Death came for gods and mortals, wielded by terrible…
The Roots of Eight Wane Spiritual Exploration
The Eighth Wane (1626-) is destined to be one of spiritual exploration through action for both the Lunars and the Orlanthi. If anything, this is the wane where the Orlanthi catch up…