Joyous news! The Guide is now complete with final art, final index, and final as far as we are concerned. That means it is time to send out the ULTIMATE PREVIEW tomorrow….
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Some thoughts on spirits and gods
Spirits are discorporate entities that are present individually in all parts of nature – animals, plants, rocks, winds, fire, soil, waters, and so on. The Brithini classify them as an incorporeal but…
Some thoughts on the Gloranthan gods, cults, and divine names
Most Gloranthans believe the greater gods transcend any specific culture. Ernalda, Lodril, Magasta, Orlanth, Sedenya, and Yelm are all known by many different peoples by many different names. Orlanth is the Storm…
The Kickstarter Survey is nigh!
The Ultimate Preview to the Guide of Glorantha should be going out in the next few days, which means that very soon we will be sending out the Kickstarter Survey to our…
Penultimate Guide Preview
Gloranthaphiles! We are approaching the Dawn Age! Thanks to some prodigious amount of work, Rick has finished doing the layout of Genertela, the Oceans and Islands, and Pamaltela. Our President’s Day Sneak…
Guide Update: To the South!
Layout of the Guide is proceeding at a glorious pace. We are finished with the Oceans section, and this is what I was looking at last night: There are an amazing number…
Genertela complete, Oceans ahoy!
As the Covenant of Waha decrees, it is time for an update on the Guide’s status. Genertela is complete and we are now working on the various islands before heading off to…
Volume 2 and the destruction of Imperial Seshnela
We are well into Volume 2, having finished the layout for the Maniria, Pent, and Ralios chapters. One set of pages I am particularly pleased with is pages 402-403. On the right,…
Genealogy of the Earth Gods
The genealogy of the gods is a matter of importance for poets, philosophers, and sorcerers. These genealogies help illustrate the runic devolutions and combinations from the perfect Celestial Court to the mixed…
Preview of Vol. One for Kickstarter backers
Happy Sacred Time, Glorantha-philes! Although the finished Volume One is not yet ready (we are still waiting on four pieces of art), we’ve got a 99.3% complete version available for our Kickstarter…
The House of Sartar, Feathered Horse Queens, and Werewolves
One thing the new edition of King of Sartar (in layout now) and Coming Storm makes clear is the amount of dramatic potential between the Royal House of Sartar, the Feathered Horse…
New maps for the new version of King of Sartar
While Rick is deep in layout for the Guide to Glorantha, we are working on a number of other projects, including the new version of King of Sartar. For the new version…
Update on the Guide – Delays and Headaches
We’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is that we’re wrapping up the layout for the first volume of the Guide and it looks beautiful. The bad…
Working on the Gods of Glorantha (2013)
Hey all, while Rick is feverishly doing the layout of the Guide to Glorantha and Ian is putting the art list for The Coming Storm before I hack it apart, I’m working…
Weather in Glorantha
The powerful forces of two great Gloranthan deities, the wind of Orlanth and the rays of Yelm, the Sun, determine seasonal changes in weather. Magical events also affect local weather significantly. Weather…
Busy with the Guide
You’ve probably noticed that Rick and I have been so quiet over the last two weeks. Rick has been extremely busy with layout. Getting the Heavens Corrupted plates and the Historical Atlas…
Sample cultural distribution maps
The Guide to Glorantha features cultural distribution maps for each of the eight major human cultures and three of the Elder Races. Some of these maps may prove a bit surprising. For…
The Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death
The Guide to Glorantha contains a fair amount of information on the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death. Here’s a snippet: When Belintar’s mortal body expires, the next day select…
Copper Tablets of Yuthuppa
We’re laying the Heavens Corrupted section of the Guide out today. Here’s one of the ten Copper Tablets of Yuthuppa that illustrate the text.
Strange bit of Art Description going in the Guide
Here’s the art description for a piece that Jeff Laubenstein is doing for the Guide – fourteen panels on the Lightbringers Quest. It is based on a cryptic diagram that Greg Stafford…
Lesser Tribes of Prax
For those who might be interested, here’s some comparative numbers on the Lesser Tribes of Prax that won’t be appearing in the Guide to Glorantha. All numbers are of course approximate but…
Layout from the Guide
Gloranthaphiles! Here’s a little sneak peek from the Guide – the first appearance of Harrek and Jar-eel in the book! Hopefully this gives you some idea that the wait has been worthwhile!
Old School Sword and Sorcery Art from the 1970s
Here’s another original from the Berlin Vault – a picture of a warrior by early Gloranthan artist Swenston from around 1976. Note the trippy geometric shapes he is running through, the general…
An early map of the Lunar Empire
This isn’t going into the Guide, but is presented to show how much Gloranthan geography has evolved since 1975. This is one of Greg’s original maps of the Lunar Empire and beyond….
Bronze Age Weapons
Been very busy working with Rick on the layout of the Guide. But here’s something that sounds like a cool project: This was originally posted on Google+…