Skip to content
The Well of Daliath
Menu
Menu

Protecting Old Pavis

Submitted by johntrasler on Mon, 27/05/2013 – 12:40

Hello,I apologize if this has been asked before, but I couldn’t seem to find an answer …One thing that has always puzzled me about Old Pavis is … how did the defenders protect the north and south river passages? All other entry points have gates (and of course guards), but there seems no suggestion of any form of physical barrier to prevent invaders sailing or swimming past the walls. Is there some kind of magical barrier? Or something else? Clearly, there had to be a way for the cradles to get through …

Thanks, John


Submitted by metcalph on Tue, 28/05/2013 – 00:34.

It depends when you are asking.  It’s a bit difficult for nomads to mount a riverine invasion force (especially when the Riverfolk hate them so much).  The Uz relied on magic to keep everybody out and that would have applied to the river entrances.  The lunars have patrol boats that stop people from sneaking into the Rubble and they don’t really need anything bigger as they can send troops to whoever is building big raiding boats at the source.


Submitted by johntrasler on Wed, 29/05/2013 – 23:15.

You’re right, I wasn’t very clear. I meant prior to the Dragonewt’s Dream. Re-reading “Pavis Gateway to Adventure”, I think you’re fundamentally correct in that all entrances to the city were magically protected by the remnants of the Jolanti and the skills of the Mostali after 875. Those same magics protected the city before and during the Troll occupation.Prior to 875, there doesn’t seem to be any particular way to secure the river approaches; but then as their only major threat, Thog, went through the walls anyway, it probably didn’t matter.

Sections

  • Search Tips
  • Current RuneQuest Glorantha Publications
  • RuneQuest Glorantha Corrections and Q&A
  • Catalogue
  • References for Glorantha
    • Gloranthan Canon
  • Gloranthan Documents
  • RPG Systems & Versions
  • Gallery
  • About This Site
  • Get involved!

Latest Posts

  • Sartarite Geography
  • Is the Man Rune always male?
  • The Sun Disk
  • Designing New Cults
  • Common Rune Magic
  • Cult vs. D&D classes
  • RQ Character Creation
  • Caravans II
  • Cult Membership
  • Creating scenarios

Links

  • Chaosium
  • Chaosium’s RuneQuest RPG Wiki
  • Glorantha on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest on Discord
  • Prince of Sartar Webcomic
  • Glorantha G+ Archives on Tapatalk
  • Search mailing list archive

Latest from BRP Central

  • What to do with the Feldichi Device from DLoD
  • House Rules - spirit combat
  • Skills, skills, skills!
  • Table Tales: Coming back to Glorantha
  • Jelmre - Jonstown Compendium
  • Solung Question
  • Journey to Jonstown #77: Nick Brooke's Jonstown Compendium Index 2025
  • Journey to Jonstown #76: Adventure in Dragon Pass
  • Greg Stafford bibliography
  • Initiation without Cult or Temple

Popular Tags

Boldhome (large city) Chaosium Colymar (Sartar tribe) Contents Cult demographics Cults of Runequest (preview) Ernalda FRA Furthest (large city) G+ post GBR Gods Wall Greg Stafford Guide to Glorantha Guide to Glorantha (preview) index Jar-eel Lunar Empire Lunar Pantheon Magazine Malkioni pantheon Map Michael O’Brien Mongoose MRQ1 New Pavis (small city) Old Glorantha Q&A Orlanth Orlanthi pantheon Photo reference Population demographics Prax (homeland) Q&A RQ3 RQG Sandy Petersen Sartar (homeland) Spirit Cult Star Subcult Tarsh (homeland & Lunar province) Yelm Yelmalio Yelm Pantheon Youtube
©2025 The Well of Daliath | Design: Newspaperly WordPress Theme