Table of Contents collected by Nick Brooke.
Last revision: 15 Dec 2000
| Preface | 4 |
| Map: The Oceans | 5 |
| 1. Introduction | 6 |
| What is Glorantha | 6 |
| The People of Glorantha | 6 |
| The Magic of Glorantha | 7 |
| The Gods of Glorantha | 7 |
| 2. Before Time Began | 9 |
| The Age of Creation | 9 |
| The Golden Age | 11 |
| Picture: The Tower of Yelm | 12 |
| The Storm Age | 13 |
| The Birth of Chaos | 14 |
| The Devils: Wakboth and Kajabor | 15 |
| The Triumph of Chaos | 16 |
| The Age of Terror | 17 |
| Mortals Strike Back | 18 |
| The Gods Strike Back | 19 |
| Picture: The Green Age | 20 |
| 3. History | 23 |
| Chaos and Compromise | 23 |
| The Dawn Age | 24 |
| Box: Waertagi, the Sea People | 25 |
| The Sunstop | 26 |
| Arkat and the Gbaji Wars | 28 |
| Box: What Came Before the Beginning? | 31 |
| The Imperial Age | 32 |
| The EWF | 32 |
| The God Learners | 32 |
| Box: What is Chaos? | 33 |
| Picture: The Battle of Brond’s Serpent | 34 |
| The Modern Age | 36 |
| Map: Genertela | 38 |
| 4. Seshnela | 39 |
| The Kingdom of Seshnela | 39 |
| Picture: Great King and the Ecclesiarch | 40 |
| The Wasted Lands, Failed Histories | 41 |
| Arolanit | 41 |
| Old Seshnela | 41 |
| The Quinpolic League | 42 |
| Map: Seshnela | 43 |
| 5. Malkioni Culture and History | 44 |
| What Types of People Inhabit this Cosmos? | 44 |
| Box: Brithos | 45 |
| What Does God Expect from Me? | 46 |
| What is Our History? | 46 |
| Malkionism | 49 |
| Major Malkioni Religions | 50 |
| Picture: The Gate of Banir | 51 |
| Saints of the Invisible God | 52 |
| Heresies and Minor Religions | 53 |
| False Gods | 53 |
| 6. Ralios | 54 |
| Safelster | 54 |
| Vesmonstran | 55 |
| Box: Politics of Safelster | 56 |
| Map: Ralios | 59 |
| Pic: Five Famous Arkats | 60 |
| Eastern Wilds | 60 |
| 7. Mostali, the Dwarves | 62 |
| Mostali History of the World | 62 |
| Box: The Elder Races | 63 |
| Box: Mostal, the World Machine | 64 |
| Who are the Workers in the Machine? | 67 |
| Pic: Mostali | 68 |
| 8. Fronela | 70 |
| Loskalm | 70 |
| Box: Lords Temporal | 71 |
| The Janube River Valley | 72 |
| Pic: The Cathedral of Saint Hrestol | 73 |
| Map: Fronela | 74 |
| Box: Corpses Rot in the Streets of Perfe | 75 |
| Pic: The War Against War | 76 |
| The Kingdom of War | 77 |
| Doctrines of the Hrestoli Church | 78 |
| Wild Fronela | 78 |
| Pic: The End of the World | 80 |
| Box: Companies | 81 |
| Box: The Perfecti | 82 |
| Box: Church Organization | 82 |
| 9. Aldryami | 83 |
| Box: Aldrya, Goddess of the Woods | 84 |
| History of the Elves | 86 |
| Pic: Elves | 88 |
| 10. Peloria | 90 |
| Lunars: People of the Moon | 90 |
| Box: Dart Competitions | 91 |
| Map: Peloria | 92 |
| Box: The Celestial Religion | 94 |
| The Lunar Empire | 96 |
| Box: Goddesses of the Moon | 97 |
| Box: Other Great Gods | 98 |
| Pic: Takenegi, the Red Emperor | 100 |
| Box: Gods Who Were People | 102 |
| Pic: JarEel the Razoress | 104 |
| Dara Happa | 104 |
| Pic: Glamour from Above | 108 |
| Darjiin | 110 |
| Pelanda | 112 |
| Box: Lunar Culture | 114 |
| Carmania | 114 |
| Box: Nysalor Riddlers | 121 |
| Rinliddi | 121 |
| Box: The White Moon | 122 |
| Pic: Son of Death | 124 |
| Kostaddi | 125 |
| Oraya | 125 |
| Sylila | 127 |
| Darsen | 127 |
| The Provinces | 128 |
| Box: Yara Aranis | 130 |
| Lunar Allies | 132 |
| 11. Maniria | 134 |
| Kethaela | 134 |
| Box: Tarsh Exiles | 135 |
| Pic: City of Wonders | 136 |
| Map: Maniria | 138 |
| Box: Not Monsters, But Not Human | 141 |
| Pic: Boldhome | 143 |
| Box: Orlanthi Culture | 144 |
| Wenelia | 150 |
| Dragon Pass | 151 |
| Box: The Storm Pantheon | 152 |
| Pic: Kallyr and Minaryth | 157 |
| 12. Dragonewts | 159 |
| Pic: Planner of Mayhem | 161 |
| 13. Wastelands | 162 |
| Pent | 162 |
| Box: Waha, the Great Khan | 164 |
| Prax | 165 |
| Box: Animal Nomads | 166 |
| Map: The Wastelands | 170 |
| Box: Pentan Nomads | 173 |
| 14. Uz | 176 |
| History of Hurtplace | 177 |
| Box: Kyger Litor, Dark Mother of Uz | 178 |
| Pic: Uz | 181 |
| 15. Kralorela | 183 |
| Pic: Kui Hui, the Giant Hero | 184 |
| Box: Can Shu, the Lord of Ignorance | 185 |
| Map: Kralorela | 187 |
| Box: Religion of Kralorela | 188 |
| Pic: The Bridge of Light and No Light | 192 |
| Box: Kralori Culture | 194 |
| Chern Durel | 195 |
| Hsunchen Mountain People | 199 |
| 16. Verenela | 201 |
| Teshnos | 201 |
| Pic: The Serpent and Elephant | 202 |
| Trowjang | 204 |
| Map: Verenela | 205 |
| Box: Chal | 206 |
| Melib | 206 |
| Pic: The Juggernaut | 209 |
| 17. Oceans | 210 |
| The Cosmic Whirlpool | 210 |
| The Oceans and Seas | 210 |
| Pic: The Iron City | 211 |
| Box: Triolini | 212 |
| The Western Waters | 212 |
| Pic: Zabdamar | 215 |
| The Eastern Waters | 216 |
| Box: Magasta, King of the Sea Gods | 217 |
| 18. Vithela | 219 |
| Pic: Mystic Archer | 220 |
| Vithelan Religion | 222 |
| Mystics | 224 |
| Antigods | 224 |
| Pic: The Monastery of Immortality | 225 |
| 19. Pamaltela | 226 |
| Fonrit | 226 |
| Box: Ompalam | 227 |
| Map: Pamaltela | 228 |
| The Northern Mountain Chains | 229 |
| Box: Pamaltelan Shamanism | 230 |
| Interior Pamaltela | 231 |
| Pic: Pic: Jeren Darow, the Pirate Admiral | 232 |
| Elf Coasts | 233 |
| Umathela | 235 |
| Pic: The Cult of Immanent Mastery | 236 |
| 20. The Outer Limits | 237 |
| Altinela | 237 |
| Theyela | 238 |
| Sakum | 238 |
| Luathela | 239 |
| Otherworld Hero Planes | 239 |
| The Visible Sky | 240 |
| Pic: Enstresa, Star Lady | 242 |
| The Sky World | 245 |
| Below the World | 246 |
| The Higher Realms | 247 |
| Chaos | 248 |
| 21. The Future of Glorantha | 251 |
