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Nysalor

The Bright one, The Illuminator, God of Illumination

  • Lunar pantheon
  • Yelm Pantheon

Nysalor is not now worshiped by anything. Arkat killed and dismembered the god, and scattered the pieces across the worlds. The story of Nysalor is well known and often repeated as a moral tale. Most people know only parts of the whole story.

  • see also Gbaji, Red Goddess, Nysalor / Gbaji, Rashorana
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Notes
Fire & Sky14, 302025None listedn/aAssociate cult: Yelm
Prosopaedia entryUsually a few descriptive paragraphs
Lunar Way92024None listedn/aProsopaedia entryUsually a few descriptive paragraphs
Mythology1272023n/aProsopaedia entryUsually a few descriptive paragraphs
Prosopaedia902023n/aProsopaedia entryUsually a few descriptive paragraphs
Guide to Glorantha1512016n/aNotes only
HeroQuest Glorantha1852015n/aRunes only
Black Moon phase
HeroQuest Glorantha1812015n/aRunes only
Black Moon phase
Under the Red Moon
deprecated
842006None listed
Common and uncommon runes2004None listedGlyph only
Glorantha:
Introduction to the Hero Wars
1212000None listed
Dorastor1231995
Gods of Glorantha, Prosopaedia1985None listedProsopaedia entryUsually a few descriptive paragraphs
ReferencesPageYearTree
Mythology
Lunar Deities
126
Post
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Genealogy of the Lunar Deities
Glorantha Sourcebook1462018Lunar Genealogy

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