Skip to content
The Well of Daliath
Menu
Menu

The Making of the Coming Storm cover

The Coming Storm is the next Glorantha book coming out – the first volume of a two volume epic campaign for HeroQuest set during the opening stages of the Hero Wars and leading up to the Liberation of Sartar. Jon Hodgson did the cover for the book, and I thought it might be interesting to see how the art direction was transformed into this beautiful cover.

Art Direction

So here is the art direction I sent Jon:

Scene: A woman Orlanthi warrior wearing a wolfskin fights off a pack of werewolves (dire wolves) in a snow-covered dead forest.

Orlanthi warrior woman: This woman is devoted to Vinga, the female incarnation of Orlanth the storm god. She has red hair, likely tied so that it doesn’t obstruct her eyes. She has brownish skin (as did your Orlanthi on the last cover). Her eyes are green or brown. She is tattooed with the runes of Air, Movement, and Death.She wears a bronze cuirass, vambraces, and greaves. The cuirass is decorated with Air Runes, like this

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1217/548412598_b03fcd3172_b.jpg

She wears a wolf-skin cloak.If she has a helmet, it is like an ancient Italian helmet, with four red feathers

http://media.moddb.com/images/mods/1/22/21841/samnite_attic_prev.png.

She wields a bronze, leaf-shaped sword. The sword glows slightly – maybe she is about to use it to summon lighting or something.She should be strong and confident – reminiscent of the RQ2 cover

http://s634.photobucket.com/user/rstites_2009/media/runequest2cover.jpg.html.

Werewolves:These wolves are much larger than modern wolves, more like the prehistoric Dire Wolves

http://www.frederik-spindler.de/typo3temp/pics/c8349f6435.jpg

compared to a grey wolf). They are much bigger than regular wolves, at least 50% bigger than the good old Northwestern Wolf that I remember. They have black-grey fur, and red eyes.They should look ferocious and fearsome, with fangs bared, and generally as aggressive and predator as possible. Like this:

http://images.hdwpics.com/0E1BF2794311/Drawing-of-Two-Fighting-Wolves.jpg

The Background. This takes place during the Great Winter, so there is snow on the ground and the trees are all dead. The full Red Moon is somewhere in the night sky.

And here is Jon’s preliminary sketch and then the final:

Related Pages

  • The Big Push
  • The Big Push Continues
  • The Big Push Redux

Art direction, Coming Storm, Jon Hodgson (artist)

Page Last updated: 2022-12-27 13:39:11

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

  • Sartar Cities

    Sartar can be thought of a confederation of small cities …
  • Catalogue of the Gods revisited

    This piece from the Mythology book is among my absolute …
  • Thunderbolts in Art

    One of the things that really got me down the …
  • RuneQuest Art

    So let’s talk RQ art for a moment. For the …
  • Top Five RuneQuest Cults

    So it is absolutely no surprise to me that in …
  • The Greatest of the Power Rune gods

    So lets think about the greatest of the Power Rune …
  • A Few Notes on the Air Gods

    Any time you look at those big abstract Celestial Court …
  • RuneQuest Campaign Heroquesting

    So while I am on this whole “through a heroquest …
  • How The God Learners Learned About The Gods

    So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth …

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

  • Sun County pdf is drivethrurpg’s Deal of the Day for July 1st
  • Permission to use exerpt from map in Starter Set in a Jonstown Compendium release?
  • Speculations on warlock rules in RQG
  • Turning adventures into heroquests
  • Humakti Initiation Heroquest
  • Runelords and Retirement
  • Hospitality Hearth spirits - what are they ?
  • Clearwine Burned & Argrath's Orphan Childhood
  • Arene Thunderqueen
  • Human worshippers of Xiola Umbar and where to find them

Popular Tags

Boldhome (large city) Chaosium Colymar (Sartar tribe) Contents Cult demographics Cults of Runequest (preview) Ernalda Esrolia (homeland) FRA Furthest (large city) G+ post Gods Wall Greg Stafford Guide to Glorantha (preview) Humakt 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) RQ3 RQG Rune Magic Sandy Petersen Sartar (homeland) Spirit Cult Star Subcult Tarsh (homeland & Lunar province) Troll Pantheon Yelm Yelmalio Yelm Pantheon Youtube

Recently added or updated

  • Hesezjagu

  • Festatu

  • Rausa

  • Karkal

  • East Isles Pantheon

  • Antigods

  • Fenquorr

  • Broken Ring

  • Farsanrana

  • Araganthosas

  • Larn Hasmador

  • Library of Londarios: What the Mystic Taught Me (1998)

  • Late Golden Age

  • Togaro

  • Ezran

  • Vinga art preview

  • Heroquesting 102

  • Telmor

  • Sartar Telmori

  • Sartar Cities

©2025 The Well of Daliath | Design: Newspaperly WordPress Theme