In 870, Thog the giant appeared with an army of trolls and trollkin raised in Shadows Dance. They laid siege to Adari and marched south to Pavis. The Arrowsmith Dynasty raised their…
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The Nine Good Giant Mountains
The Nine Good Giant Mountains are about 60 km or so northwest of Pavis. They are nine tall pillars which rise starkly from the worn ground about them. Legend is imprecise whether…
Why Most Sartarites Hate the Lunar Empire
From time to time it is worth reminding people why most Sartarites HATE the Lunar Empire, and are so willing to throw themselves behind Argrath in 1627. Let’s ignore the big cosmological…
Suntown and the Eiskolli
Suntown has always been in the hands of the Sun Dome Templars. Varthanis Brighthelm, a lord of the Yelmalio county which held lands downriver, aided Dorasar and received the right to have…
A Few Notes on the Grantlands
To the south of Sun County are the former Grantlands, a series of seven colonial settlements established by the Lunar Empire in the remote frontier region beyond the arid plains of Prax,…
Sartar Cities
Sartar can be thought of a confederation of small cities centered on the large city of Boldhome, with a score of allied tribes, most of which have a say as to the…
Catalogue of the Gods revisited
This piece from the Mythology book is among my absolute favorite conceptual pieces. It shows somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred deities, some with cults, many without. Imagine these as the…
Thunderbolts in Art
One of the things that really got me down the right path for the look of Orlanth is to look at how thunder and lightning were depicted in ancient religious art. So…
RuneQuest Art
So let’s talk RQ art for a moment. For the last fifteen years or so, I’ve worked hard to give RQ and Glorantha a very distinctive and unique look. Being in Berlin,…
Top Five RuneQuest Cults
So it is absolutely no surprise to me that in our completely non-scientific poll with over 500 votes the most popular five RQ cults are: 5. Yelmalio: Always the most popular cult…
The Greatest of the Power Rune gods
So lets think about the greatest of the Power Rune gods: So if clump them together:Lightbringers get Death, Fertility, Harmony, Movement, and Illusion as strong powers that they embrace.Solars get Fertility, Harmony,…
A Few Notes on the Air Gods
Any time you look at those big abstract Celestial Court “deities” they include potential devolutions. So Umath is generally thought to have been “succeeded” by his children – Kolat, Vadrus, Storm Bull,…
RuneQuest Campaign Heroquesting
So while I am on this whole “through a heroquest into your RuneQuest campaign” kick – here’s some ideas: Pay attention to the calendar. If the characters decide to adventure on a…
How The God Learners Learned About The Gods
So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…
Turning an Adventure into a Heroquest
Turning an adventure into a heroquest is easier than you might imagine in RuneQuest. Let’s remember what a heroquest is at its most elementary – a heroquest is a commingling of the…
Saving the Cosmos at all Cost
Many old lorehounds often make a common mistake regarding the Lightbringers Quest. Anyone who thinks “I’m going to perform the LBQ so X and Y happens” is setting themselves up to fail….
Layout of the Big Rubble
The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…
The Fall of Lunar New Pavis
This is something I put together for Andrew Cowie (and also Tiffany Rose Nickel, Dan Zappone, and Andy Cowley), but realized it might be interesting for the rest of you all. In…
Old Seshnela
Old Seshnela in the far west of Genertela is about 240 km wide from north to south and about 320 km long from east to west. It is about twice the size…
Great Gods and Elemental Runes
In Glorantha, many of the great gods embody one of the elemental Runes (and usually include a Power Rune or two or even a condition rune). All of the elements have both…
Humakt and Orlanthi society
The relationship between the cults of Orlanth and Humakt also help show the relationship between the initiates of Humakt and the rest of Orlanthi society. Most adults in Orlanthi society participate in…
So what are the Thunder Brothers?
Now I rather thought the description in the Lightbringers book is enough, and if you don’t have a copy your should order it right away! But let’s assume you have that book….
The Size of Sartar
At the time Argrath is acclaimed Prince in 1627, Sartar covers some 16,000 to 20,000 km2 (kind of depends on what you want to measure). Pavis is an allied/associated city-state, and is…
Sun County, Prax
There’s about 19,000 people in Sun County, with some 4350 initiates of Yelmalio centered on the Sun Dome Temple. Throw in another 1000 Yelmalio cultists and lay members in Pavis County, and…
Hey that’s cool Jeff, but what the heck am I supposed to do with that in my Runequest game?
I posted two “deep” background articles on the nature of the Lunar Empire and Argrath’s role as a driver of change in Glorantha. Now a sensible question would be something like, “hey…