Skip to content
The Well of Daliath
Menu
Menu

Mallia

[MAL-ee-uh]

Mother of disease, one of the Unholy Trio

  • Chaos pantheon
  • Orlanthi pantheon
  • Uz pantheon

Mallia was a fertile goddess who was either captured and enslaved by Ragnaglar, or freely joined his plot (depending on the storyteller). She was part of the spell made by Ragnaglar and Thed which allowed chaos into the world. Though she eventually broke from the alliance, she was transformed into a death goddess and has never freed herself of the taint. Her type of death seems unclean and vile. She is worshiped by the filthy broos and also receives propitiatory worship from the rest of the world.

Mallia is pervasive and leads mortals to the halls of Hell even if they avoid every other fate. Not even her greatest worshiper is safe from her embrace if he outlasts the span of years allotted to his species.

She is usually shown as a woman pocked and dripping with diseases, or as a headless body with a single huge maw in its belly, two stout legs, and many arms sprouting from about her torso, with which to snatch victims.

Write upPageYearRunesPersonal Glyph Notes
ProsopaediaUnpublished
Cults of Glorantha Preview4572019
Associate
Rune:
RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary932018
Guide to Glorantha1532014Notes only
Book of Heortling Mythology1862009Appendix D.
Common and uncommon runes2004Personal glyph only
Cult Compendium2552002
Storm Tribe, other deities912001
Lords of Terror271994
Gods of Glorantha, The Cults1985As Malia
Short form write up
Cults of Terror261981Associate
Rune:
Nomad Gods481977Counter
Darkness spirit

Related Pages

  • Madman of Sky Crater
  • Magasta
  • Magra, Harpy Ancestor
  • Mahome
  • Makabaeus
  • Maker
  • Malakinus
  • Malkion
  • Mani
  • Manthi
  • Maran Gor
  • Mastakos
  • Mee Vorala
  • Merasedenya
  • Mercario
  • Metsyla
  • Mikaday
  • Mikyh
  • Minlister the Brewer
  • Mirintha
  • Miyo
  • Molakka
  • Molamin
  • Molanni
  • Moorgarki
  • Morning Star
  • Mostal
  • Mother Mammal
  • Mother of Space
  • Murthdrya
  • Mwara
Chaos pantheon, Mallia, Nomad Gods, Orlanthi pantheon, Troll / Uz pantheon

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
  • Role-playing in Glorantha
  • About This Site
  • Get involved!

Latest Posts

  • Trying to Get your Mind Around Glorantha?

    A suggestion in trying to get one’s mind around Gloranthan …
  • Notes on Spirit Cults

    Spirit cults are an easy way to give players access …
  • Spirit Cults

    Shamans are specialists in dealing with spirits and the spirit …
  • Soap Opera themes

    Feuds, royal intrigue, temple politics, angry spirits and the grasping …
  • Defunct Sartar Tribes

    The Dundealos tribe was “destroyed” by the Lunar Provincial Government …

Links

  • Chaosium
  • Glorantha on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest on BRP Central
  • RuneQuest Glorantha on MeWe
  • Glorantha Wiki on Fandom
  • Prince of Sartar Webcomic
  • Glorantha G+ Archives on Tapatalk
  • Search mailing list archive

Latest from BRP Central

  • Spirit Combat gang fight?
  • Journey to Jonstown #51: celebrate alumni of Fall's 'Write Your First Adventure' Workshop with this RuneQuest bundle on DTRPG
  • Write Your First Adventure bundle: four adventures for just $5.99
  • Glorantha using Pendragon rules..
  • The Mastery Rune
  • Reading the map - my eyes just aren't good enough !
  • Antirius runes?
  • Jonstown Library hierarchy 1625
  • The Legacy of Greg Stafford - An Interview with Rick Meints
  • Daily life expenses in Sartarite cities

Popular Tags

2007 Avalon Hill Boldhome Chaosium Chaos pantheon Cult demographics Cults of Glorantha (preview) Deprecated cult Doraddi pantheon Ernalda Esrolia (homeland) FR G+ post Greg Stafford Guide to Glorantha Guide to Glorantha (preview) Humakt HW Issaries Jar-eel Lhankor Mhy Lunar Empire Lunar Pantheon Magazine Map Maps Michael O’Brien Mongoose Nomad Gods Oriflam Orlanth Orlanthi pantheon Prax (homeland) RQ3 RQG Sandy Petersen Sartar (homeland) Solar pantheon Spirit Cult Subcult Tales of the Reaching Moon Tatou Troll / Uz pantheon Yelm Yelmalio

Recently added or updated

  • Harantara / Thrunhin Da

  • Ω Daylanus the Conquering Wind

  • Ω Desemborth the Thief

  • Ω Destor the Adventurous

  • Ω Durev the Householder

  • Finovan the Raider

  • Helamakt the Warrior

  • Ω Jarani the Lawstaff

  • Niskis

  • Ω Ohorlanth the Great Storm

  • Ω Orlanthcarl, Orlanth the Farmer

  • Ω Ormalaya the Hunter

  • Ω Orolmarn, Orlanth the Herder

  • Ω Orlanthdovar

  • Ω Dar the Leader

  • Ω Orlanth Allfather

  • Ganemirus

  • Grower

  • Great Sister

  • Grandmother Earth

©2023 The Well of Daliath | Design: Newspaperly WordPress Theme