The Guide to Glorantha contains copious background information on the most important and widespread Gloranthan cultures. These cultures are arranged by their predominant level of social organization: primitive, nomadic, chiefdom, civilized or elder races.
The eight human cultures are:
- The primitive hunter-gatherers represented by the Hsunchen and the Doraddi cultures;
- The nomadic pastoralists, represented by the Praxian culture;
- The bronze-working tribal chiefdoms, represented by the Orlanthi culture; and
- The urban civilizations, represented by the Pelorian, Fonritan, Western, and Kralorelan cultures.
The elder races of Glorantha are:
- The elves or Aldryami – walking sentient plants that have a superficial resemblance to humans;
- The dwarves or Mostali – immortal crafters that seek to repair the World Machine broken by the Gods War;
- The trolls or Uz – creatures of darkness descended from underworld demons and cursed by the gods of Light;
- The Dragonnewts – the mystic dragon-men who endlessly reincarnate with all their memories from their countless past lives.
We’ve included the original art direction for representatives of each major culture, reference pictures and links, as well as preliminary sketches by Jeff Laubenstein, so that you can have access to the best information we have concerning the look of each Gloranthan culture.


- A Timeline of the History of the Lunar Empire
- Ernaldan Initiation Rites
- Greg Sez: Esrolian Q&A (2001)
- How Many Humakti?
- Hsunchen Overview
- Malkioni Q&A
- Orlanthi Overview
- Praxian Spirit Tradition
- The Seven Steps of the Red Goddess
Related Pages
- Affairs At Dusk
- Aldrya
- Canon
- Dara Happan Sacred Alphabet
- Dragon Pass
- Enemy Gods
- Finval and the Magic Game
- Glorantha
- Glorantha Core Rune Font
- Glorantha Rune Magic
- Greg Sez – Moon Names (2008)
- Heler, the Great Rain
- Heroes & Immortals
- History of Dragon Pass in the Second Age
- History of Malkioni Thought – Brithini and First Age
- How Argan Argar Courted Esrola
- Hsunchen Peoples of Genertela
- Illusion
- Ingolf Dragonfriend
- Introduction to Gloranthan Mythology and History
- Map of Glorantha
- Mountain Stories
- Mythical Age Maps
- Rathori Creation Myth
- Runes
- Sartar clan generator
- Some Gods
- Some Myths
- Some Pamaltelan Creation Mythology
- The Drinking Giant’s Cauldron
- The Enerali circa 130 ST
- The Gloranthan Cosmos
- The Green Land
- The Making of the Storm Tribe
- The Missionaries
- The Movable Ephemeris and the Gloranthan Sky
- The Origins of Writing
- The Perfect Sky, revised
- The Plundering of Aron
- The Seven Lightbringers
- The Silver Age and the Dawn
- The Summons of Evil
- Third Age of Glorantha
- Three Documents, One Event
- Types of Heroquests
- Understanding Windstop and Esrolia
- Uz
- Vingkotling Myths
- Vithela and the East Isles
- What is the Third Age History of the Sun Dome Temple in Sartar