In 1539, the unusual event called the Dragonewts’ Dream took place. At that time all of the living dragonewts of Dragon Pass crawled into their ancient cities, sealed and booby trapped them,…
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Underground in the Big Rubble
The Underground City in the Big Rubble is largely networks of cellars connected to other cellars. For example, the following shows a network of six cellars connected together through a central cellar….
Levels of The Big Rubble
SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: Above Ground – SPOILERS These are mostly the ruins of buildings built…
Precipitation in Prax
Prax gets about about 47 cm of precipitation (41 cm as rain, 55 cm as snow), with most of that falling in Storm and Sea Seasons. After Sea Season, Prax usually gets…
Buserian’s integrated cult
The Lunar Way tells us Following the Dara Happan Rebellion (1270–1285), the solar Buserian cult was fully integrated into the cult of Irrippi Ontor. So what does this mean for Buserian? Most…
Beyond Prax
When a nomadic group is forced out of Prax, they retreat across the Vulture Country into the Genert Wastes. Vulture Country is about as bleak a terrain as it comes. Beyond Vulture…
Praxian Bison
There is something amazing watching a bison herd get within 2 meters of your car. Especially when the countryside was definitely Prax. Now in reality we had to stop as the herd…
Assembly Rocks, Prax
There is a very strong current of North American magic and mythology in Glorantha, something absent in fantasy derived from Middle Earth. Today I went for a trek through Prax in the…
The Block – Inspiration
Decided to take a drive to the Block today. Here the Storm Bull fought the Devil to a standstill until the cosmos could take the Devil’s perversity no more and hurled a…
Notes on The Black Fang Brotherhood
The Black Fang Brotherhood was formed around 1450 in the Big Rubble, when a human shaman met Black Fang in the Spirit World. Black Fang was a legendary bandit of approximately 100…
The Cult of Pavis I
The Pavis cult is really quite small, likely less than 2000 initiates in the world. Maybe 300 reside in New Pavis, 500 or so reside in the Big Rubble. As many as…
Cults of RuneQuest – Mythology
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Manside, Big Rubble
Let’s think about Manside in the Big Rubble for a few minutes. About 1,500 humans live in the Big Rubble. Of that number, about 500 live in the Real City, about 350…
Sources of Shield Rune Magic
Shield is perhaps one of the most useful combat Rune spells out there. For each 1 Rune point stacked with Shield, you get 2 points of AP AND 2 points of Countermagic….
The Strength of Lunar Magic
So is Lunar magic weaker than other pantheons? Let’s look at that for a moment. The main Lunar cult is the Seven Mothers. And by main, I mean like 2/3rds of all…
The Solar Pantheon in the Lunar Heartlands
There’s about 160k Yelm initiates in the Lunar Heartlands. There are only about 60k Yelm initiates in Pent. Dendara has about 81k initiates in Pent and 181k in the Lunar Heartlands. But…
Pantheons in the Lunar Heartlands
About 1.3 million people in the Lunar Heartlands are initiated into one of the cults of the Lunar Way. About 1.8 million people in the same area are initiated into tradition Solar…
Food for Gloranthan thought
I’ve been reading Gary Lachman’s “Secret Teachers of the Western World” for non-RQ purposes but it is filled with RQ-relevant gems like this: “Considering the difficulties involved in trying to express the…
Classic Dungeon Crawls of RQ
Now that we are nearly done with the “foundational books” of the line, we’ve been looking carefully at adventures and the structure of an RQ adventure and how that differs from say…
Digesting the Lunar Way
There’s an awful lot in the Lunar Way, and it is worth reading nice and carefully, and then digesting in order to get that chance at Illumination. To help digest it, may…
Planning Pavis
The foundations of the original city of Pavis was laid out by Lord Pavis himself around 830. The city as originally planned had two main areas, laid out in grids. The first…
The Blue Moon and the Lunar Way
So there have been some questions about why the Blue Moon is not in the Lunar Way. The answer is that it is in the Darkness Book. Here’s my reasons why: The…
Talastari Concept Art
Ossi Hiekkala has done some concept art for Chaosium about the look of the Talastari, an Orlanthi group stuck between the Lunar Empire and Dorastor. I thought many of you all might…
How Many Lunar Conversions in Dragon Pass
Now there are a lot of ways to answer that question: 1. How many people were willing to join as a lay member of the Seven Mothers? That might be a big…
Grazelanders and Horses
Part of the reason the Goldeneye is so expensive is that the Grazelanders don’t part with them easily. They are sacred to the Pure Horse People. That being said, I suspect that…