King of Sartar, How a Man became a God
Reprint edition. ISBN 1-929052-00-6. $19.95
288 pages, trade paperback size, 17 Maps and Diagrams
Maps and Diagrams by Greg Stafford.
Compilation of myths, stories and colorful background for the Hero Wars. This is useful as a source book for the Hero Wars game as well as a stand alone book.
The author calls this an “epistolary detective novel.” The mystery is, “Who was Prince Argrath?” The book consists of a series of Gloranthan documents, each with their own prejudices and biases, lies and errors, insights and secrets revealed.
Contents
- Introduction
- Annotated Argrath’s Saga
- Argrath’s epic story, as related many years after the Hero Wars.
- Annotated Argrath’s Saga
- The Zin Letters
- Correspondance from the early post-Hero Wars Era.
- Orlanthi Mythology
- Excellent collection of tales to overview the Orlanthi mythology, as it was in the Hero Wars period.
- Composite History of Dragon Pass
- Document purportedly given to Argrath as a wedding present. Wealth of local detail about the Dragon Pass area and history.
- The Argrath Book
- Documents about the Lightbringers Quest, Argrath, and the EWF.
- Jalk’s Book
- Data on the Colymar Tribe, Boldhome and the Grazers; and a most valuable anthropological overview of the Heortling culture.
- Conclusions
- Some whacko theories by the Gloranthan compiler of this book.
Related Pages
- ISS1502 Dragon Pass: A Gazetteer of Kerofinela (2003)
- ISS1603 Gloranthan Visions (2000)
- ISS3001 HeroQuest Voices – Peoples of Glorantha (2003)
- ISS4502 The Complete Griselda 2nd edition (2001)
- What the Priests Say and What my Father told Me
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