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 |