Are all tribal queens and chiefs part of the Orlanth Rex cult? So think about how Enlil, Baal, or Odin/Woden were the tribal patron gods of many different tribes/cities at the same…
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Tribe and Clan Structure
I think there is a tendency to take how “fixed” the tribe and clan structure was in King of Dragon Pass and apply it where it probably shouldn’t be. Lets start here:…
Some Notes on The Dragon Religion
The Dragon Religion holds that the Elements were formed out the body of the Grand Ancestral Dragon, itself the creation of the Cosmic Egg formed from the body of Orxili and the…
Some Thoughts On Dragons And Jung
I’ve been increasingly thinking that True Dragons embody the Jungian concept of the Self in its fullest, most transcendent form. True Dragons are not just individual beings but primal forces that encompass…
Adventurers in the Hero Wars
Now the big Hero Wars stuff operates at an orthogonal (Neil’s favorite word that I now insist on using) with adventuring around in Sartar and Pavis / Big Rubble. We explore ruins,…
The Apotheosis of Mortals
We moderns have inherited monotheism’s assumption that apotheosis of mortals are cynical frauds. I see this often creep into people’s writing about Glorantha. Let’s start with apotheosis of mortals in ancient history….
Your Sartarite Adventurer and the Hero Wars
From the Sartarite perspective, the Hero Wars last some 30 years or even more. It is likely that a 21 year adventurer who survives the next thirty years has fought in a…
Argrath and The Sartarite Elite
In 1627-1628, Argrath relied strongly on the Sartarite Orlanth Adventurous, Humakt, and Storm Bull cults, and had the full support of the Old Wind Thunderous cult leaders (the Stormwalkers). He also had…
Thog the Giant
In 870, Thog the giant appeared with an army of trolls and trollkin raised in Shadows Dance. They laid siege to Adari and marched south to Pavis. The Arrowsmith Dynasty raised their…
The Nine Good Giant Mountains
The Nine Good Giant Mountains are about 60 km or so northwest of Pavis. They are nine tall pillars which rise starkly from the worn ground about them. Legend is imprecise whether…
Why Most Sartarites Hate the Lunar Empire
From time to time it is worth reminding people why most Sartarites HATE the Lunar Empire, and are so willing to throw themselves behind Argrath in 1627. Let’s ignore the big cosmological…
Suntown and the Eiskolli
Suntown has always been in the hands of the Sun Dome Templars. Varthanis Brighthelm, a lord of the Yelmalio county which held lands downriver, aided Dorasar and received the right to have…
A Few Notes on the Grantlands
To the south of Sun County are the former Grantlands, a series of seven colonial settlements established by the Lunar Empire in the remote frontier region beyond the arid plains of Prax,…
Sartar Cities
Sartar can be thought of a confederation of small cities centered on the large city of Boldhome, with a score of allied tribes, most of which have a say as to the…
Catalogue of the Gods revisited
This piece from the Mythology book is among my absolute favorite conceptual pieces. It shows somewhere in the vicinity of a hundred deities, some with cults, many without. Imagine these as the…
Thunderbolts in Art
One of the things that really got me down the right path for the look of Orlanth is to look at how thunder and lightning were depicted in ancient religious art. So…
RuneQuest Art
So let’s talk RQ art for a moment. For the last fifteen years or so, I’ve worked hard to give RQ and Glorantha a very distinctive and unique look. Being in Berlin,…
Top Five RuneQuest Cults
So it is absolutely no surprise to me that in our completely non-scientific poll with over 500 votes the most popular five RQ cults are: 5. Yelmalio: Always the most popular cult…
The Greatest of the Power Rune gods
So lets think about the greatest of the Power Rune gods: So if clump them together:Lightbringers get Death, Fertility, Harmony, Movement, and Illusion as strong powers that they embrace.Solars get Fertility, Harmony,…
A Few Notes on the Air Gods
Any time you look at those big abstract Celestial Court “deities” they include potential devolutions. So Umath is generally thought to have been “succeeded” by his children – Kolat, Vadrus, Storm Bull,…
RuneQuest Campaign Heroquesting
So while I am on this whole “through a heroquest into your RuneQuest campaign” kick – here’s some ideas: Pay attention to the calendar. If the characters decide to adventure on a…
How The God Learners Learned About The Gods
So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…
Turning an Adventure into a Heroquest
Turning an adventure into a heroquest is easier than you might imagine in RuneQuest. Let’s remember what a heroquest is at its most elementary – a heroquest is a commingling of the…
Saving the Cosmos at all Cost
Many old lorehounds often make a common mistake regarding the Lightbringers Quest. Anyone who thinks “I’m going to perform the LBQ so X and Y happens” is setting themselves up to fail….
Layout of the Big Rubble
The Big Rubble is about 15 square km or 1500 hectares. That’s basically the Upper Westside of Manhattan or little bigger than Kensington plus Chelsea in London. Another way of thinking about…