The Feathered Horse Queens are the most important Earth priestesses of Dragon Pass (and often paired with the High Priestess at the Shaker Temple – they always address each other as “sister”). The following…
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The Guide has left the Building
Update: The Guide is back! Go to Chaosium.com This is very bittersweet news for me. I just turned off sales of the physical copies of the Guide to Glorantha. We’ve sold everything…
Gods of Fonrit
A snippet from an old Jrusteli account of Fonrit. I’d date this to about 890 ST: Gods of FonritIn Fonrit, the people worship demigods who they say restored the Cosmic Court of…
Nochet, City of Queens with map
Nochet is City of Queens, the emerald jewel of Esrolia, and the greatest and most important city in the world. It is the favorite resting place of Esrola, and home to many thousands…
Guide to Glorantha wins Silver ENnie for Best Cartography
Gen Con – The Guide to Glorantha picked up the 2015 Silver ENnie for Best Cartography at the awards ceremony tonight – congratulations to master mapmaker Colin Driver who was responsible for the…
Moon Design wins 2015 Diana Jones Award for Guide to Glorantha!
And the winner of the 2015 Diana Jones Award for gaming excellence is Moon Design Publications for The Guide to Glorantha! Greg Stafford and Jeff Richard happily accepted the award at the…
Guide to Glorantha nominated for four ENnies
The Guide to Glorantha has been nominated for four ENnies: To say we are excited about this would be as much of an understatement as saying “Harrek the Berserk is a bit…
Esrolian Queens List
1. Bruvala (ruled 1461 to 1510). Called the High Queen, the Great, or the Mother of Queens, Bruvala was the greatest queen of Esrolia since the Second Age. She was born in 1441 to…
Print the Stafford Library at Lulu.com
We at Moon Design Publishing are proud to announce that our eight current titles in the Stafford Library are available for purchase at Lulu.com. You can search for Glorantha, or go directly…
HeroQuest Glorantha Pre-orders are now OPEN!
You can now pre-order HeroQuest Glorantha and get the PDF free to read while you wait for your book! HeroQuest Glorantha is the updated version of HeroQuest 2, specifically tailored to be…
The Gods War
This mystic diagram is from the House of Black Arkat in the Esrolian city of Arkat’s Hold. It depicts an Illuminate who has been guided by Arkat’s teachings to transcend the struggles…
HeroQuest Glorantha is nearly ready for release
Layout of HeroQuest Glorantha is FINISHED! And geez is this book beautiful. We are talking Guide to Glorantha level of beauty. The printed book will be 256 pages, color, and hardcover. It…
King of Sartar now available for pre-order
King of Sartar was, for me at least, the breakthrough book into understanding Glorantha and was (and still is) the foundational source for the Hero Wars. It also was a remarkable piece of experimental fiction – a…
Sartar Free Army
The look of the Sartarites and Praxians really gets to be on display in our forthcoming books. These are their own peoples, and it is wonderful to be working with artists like Jan…
Representatives of the Sixths in 1616
Commentary on Prince of Sartar Chapter 3, The City of Wonders: Xoroho Hellspeaker, envoy from the Eldest Kin of the Shadow Plateau, presents herself to the immortal Belintar, God and King, the Master of…
Queen Hendira
The queen of Esrolia is a 35 year old noblewoman from House Norinel. She has been queen for the last 6 years and has two husbands (Jarstarkos of Delaeo and Hendrestos of…
Notes on Illumination in the Second Age
Ralios and Seshnela In 450 “Arkat” emerged triumphant from Dorastor, and returned to Ralios (actually Fornoar). There he lived a simple, ascetic life, farming and teaching, until his apotheosis in 500. His…
New Feature: Gloranthan Readings
Books are a big deal for the Moon Design team – not just RPGs and fantasy literature, but history, mythology, religion, and classics of literature. You might have noticed that the Guide…
Gloranthan Magic and Synchronicity
In Glorantha, synchronicity is the rule. Events that are meaningfully related occur without a causal relationship. Argrath sails to the Homeward Ocean and meets Harrek the Berserk; Argrath befriends Mularik, a descendant…
Some Notes on Gloranthan Languages (2014)
The languages of all Gloranthan mortals developed from a single source, which the God Learners called “Mortal Speech”. Mortal Speech There is an ur-language that is the source of all mortal languages in…
Draft Dragon Pass Map
The draft Dragon Pass map for 13th Age in Glorantha and the Gloranthan sourcebook is nearly done. Behold!
Kickstarter for 13th Age in Glorantha nearly over
We are entering the end-game of the Kickstarter for 13th Age in Glorantha and the Gloranthan Sourcebook. As of the time of this post, we have about 47 hours left and are…
On magical battalions in the Hero Wars
What defines a magical battalion as a military unit in Glorantha? It is not raw magical power or heroic status of the individuals in the unit; Prince Argrath and his companions posses more raw…
Red Moon Rising
Now that Ducks are unlocked for the 13th Age in Glorantha Kickstarter, our next stretch goals are Monster silhouettes and the Red Moon Rising. I’ll let Rob talk about the silhouettes later…
Some teases on the Glorantha Source Book
The 13th Age in Glorantha includes two books. The first is 13th Age in Glorantha itself, which is by Rob Heinsoo, Jonathan Tweet, Ash Law, and Jeff Richard. This is the hardbound full-color 196+ page…