Beyond the eastern highlands of the River of Cradles is Vulture Country, a desolate badlands. Some 50 km wide, the area is an arid desert getting no more than 0 to 20…
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The building of Pavis 830 ST
Old Pavis was built of stone, not adobe or brick. Let’s start with this passage about the building of Pavis: After the Too Tall Battle, the Faceless Statue collapsed, all magical energies…
Trolltown in The Big Rubble I
Some 2000 trolls now reside in Trolltown. Powerful troll kinship groups have taken over the intact villas, which may be the home of 50-120 dark trolls, trollkin, and great trolls. The largest…
Lanbril rings in New Pavis and the Big Rubble
A few notes on the various Lanbril rings in New Pavis and the Big Rubble: Yes, that means there are some 800 or so people associated with the Lanbril cult, even if…
Notes on The Red Goddess and Chaos II
Most non-Illuminated Lunars rationalize the Red Goddess’ association with Chaos connection by reasoning that she makes use of Chaos so that she might confound and defeat her foes. We’ve heard countless variations…
The Plans of King Pharandros, Fire Season 1626
In Fire Season of 1626, King Pharandros of Tarsh makes his play to reconquer Dragon Pass. Pharandros has spent his treasure and the last two seasons rebuilding the Provincial Lunar Army. By…
RuneQuest Combat is Not Balanced
RuneQuest combat is extremely dangerous and yet RuneQuest adventurers often find themselves in situations where combat is going to be necessary to go deeper into a situation. Given that RuneQuest is deliberately…
The Pavis Temple in 1625
For those of you who are interested in the makeup of the Pavis Temple in 1625, here’s some notes: Current Members Former Members /s Notes on Ranks
Notes on Waha
Waha has the second biggest cult in Prax (after Eiritha). Now he’s an unusual god, in that he doesn’t appear until after the defeat of the Devil by Storm Bull. Waha was…
Shamans
Shamans are an alternative path towards magic power, quite different from Rune Priests and Rune Lords. To begin with, many shamans are outside of the structures – they are initiates of the…
Lunar Governors of Prax
As an aside, it is worth comparing Sor-eel, the first Lunar Governor of Prax, to Halcyon var Enkorth, the second Lunar Governor. Sor-eel the Short was a member of one of the…
Ruling Pavis after the Lunar Occupation
For most of the last fifty years, the city government was run by the city council, whose members are appointed by tradition from the guilds and the ruling families. This means the…
The Lunar Religion in post-Liberation Prax
Following the liberation of Pavis by the White Bull, the Lunar Army was forced out of Prax, and all arrangements those dependent on the presence of the Lunar Army collapsed. The governor…
Badside – Outside Pavis & the Big Rubble
About 1490 there was a new settlement started outside of the walls of Pavis. It was called the City of Thieves (now called Badside), and it was permitted both as a favour…
The Cult of Pavis III
Pavis has a total of about 1700 initiates and another 2500 or so lay members in all of Glorantha. About 500 of those initiates live in the Big Rubble, where they form…
The Lightbringers in New Pavis
There are some 1200 initiates of the Seven Lightbringers in New Pavis, fully a third of the adult residents in the city. Now more than half are Orlanth initiates, and Orlanth is…
Kinship Groups in New Pavis
Outside of the Big Rubble, there are some 24,000 humans in Pavis County. About 2/3rds of them are Sartarite settlers or their descendants. The first settlers came with Dorasar in 1550. They…
The Sun Dome Network in Dragon Pass and Prax
If we think about the Sun Dome Temples as a network of autonomous temples and their affiliated satellites, here’s one way of thinking about the network in Dragon Pass and Prax: See…
Good Gods and Bad
When I was writing the RQ cults book, I kept going back to Jung. Here’s a nice little quote from “Modern Man in search of a soul” that is worth pondering: “Every…
The Zola Fel Cult in New Pavis
The Zola Fel cult in New Pavis is fairly small, perhaps only 200 or 300 initiates. Nonetheless, their importance in providing food and river transport makes their cult very significant in the…
The Second Battle Of Moonbroth by Rurik Runespear
Rurik Runespear’s Account of The Second Battle Of Moonbroth (Storm 1624). “Caltrops had defeated the nomads in the first battle at Moonbroth fourteen years earlier, and the Lunars were supremely self-confident about…
The Cult of Pavis II
The Pavis cult actually has fewer initiates in New Pavis than Storm Bull or Humakt, but far more lay members than both together. Almost every permanent resident of New Pavis is a…
Yelmalio in New Pavis
The Yelmalio cult of New Pavis is about the same size as the Storm Bull or Humakt cult, with somewhere around 300 initiates. The cult is centered on the Yelmalio temple in…
Other Prominent cults in New Pavis
After Orlanth and Ernalda, the most prominent cults in New Pavis at this time are the war gods Humakt and Storm Bull, with over 300 devoted cultists each, with nearly 700 in…
The Biggest Cults in New Pavis
By far, the biggest two cults in New Pavis are Orlanth and Ernalda. Let’s start with Orlanth. Since the city’s liberation, the Air Temple has been restored and is at the center…