Argrath lets us have a dynamic and rapidly changing setting WITHOUT requiring that the players or even the GM be responsible for the main thrust of the changes. So even if all…
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Sartarite Geography
The average Sartarite knows of course of the twenty four tribes of Sartar, of the cities of Boldhome, Alone, Alda-Chur, Jonstown, Wilmskirk, Swenstown, New Pavis, Nochet, and Furthest, and likely Dunstop and…
Is the Man Rune always male?
No, there is a Grandfather Mortal AND Grandmother Mortal in many stories. So the gods made Grandfather Mortal and Grandmother Mortal collectively. Now this tracks with Mayan mythology, as detailed in the…
The Sun Disk
The Sun Disk is the most powerful manifestation of Fire/Sky in Glorantha. Greater than all the fire gods, greater than any other celestial being. But he is also chained to the same…
Designing New Cults
As a general rule when designing new cults or new sub cults, take the great god of a Rune as a benchmark for what can be done. For example, Humakt is THE…
Common Rune Magic
So as I get very near with the new version of the rules, here’s another thing I am wrestling with – Common Rune Magic. Now my original intent of creating Common Rune…
Cult vs. D&D classes
Thanks for all the comments on my post about character creation process! As always it is good to get your input and experiences, even if I end up taking a different approach….
RQ Character Creation
So when we look at RQ character creation, it seems to me that the most important decision is choosing a cult. That’s what defines your character more than homeland, background, or even…
Caravans II
I’ve been fascinated by caravans in Glorantha since the days of Griffin Mountain. Here’s a few notes on a typical caravan you might encounter in Sartar: The roads of Sartar can be…
Cult Membership
We often conflate the two basic tiers of cult membership when we talk about various cults. Lay member. This is casual worship of a deity. You make offerings, you offer prayers, and…
Creating scenarios
Often my posts go deep into how some part of Glorantha works or how things interact. That’s a personal interest which is probably shared by a lot of folk in this group….
The Spread of the Lunar Way
When we think about the spread of the Lunar Way, we can break it into two waves. The first is in the Heartland of Peloria, where it took at least a full…
Treasure!
RQG doesn’t really have Treasure Ratings, for most sentient creatures, social status goes hand in hand with gear which goes hand in hand with skill and power. Here’s five tiers: What about…
The Puzzle Canal
The Puzzle Canal in the Big Rubble was built for spiritual and ritualistic purposes by Labrygon, a demi-god priest from the Empire of the Wyrm’s Friends. Building it took hundreds of laborers,…
Solars, Orlanthi, and the Monomyth
So if we think about the transmission of Solar myths into the Monomyth we get something like: Dawn Age: Orlanthi and Dara Happans recognised each other’s myths and placed them in each…
Orlanth Rex is the God of Tribes
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…
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…