Does understanding mythology help give us a richer experience in roleplaying games? We talk to Jeff Richard about his work on Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology by Chaosium. We explore closely of how…
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Cross-Cultural Awareness
There are more than 22 million sentients between the Shan Shan mountains and a line formed roughly by Winterwood, the Nidan Mountains and Lake Felster. These are the heirs of those briefly…
The Hill of Orlanth Victorious II
The Hill of Orlanth Victorious in Sartar is one of the holiest places to the Orlanth cult. From here Orlanth began his Lightbringers Quest, and it was from here that Harmast Barefoot…
Notes on Eclipses
In most of Glorantha, there are not regular solar eclipses (only if you are directly under the Red Moon), but there has been one solar eclipse in Time – the Sunstop. Here’s…
Notes on the Third Council
The Third Council of the Lands of Genertela (aka the Empire of the Wyrms Friends or the Kingdom of Dragon Pass) was formed in 826 and ruled over most of central Genertela…
The Mythology book is out
or just get the PDF: Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology – PDF
Administration in the Lunar Empire
The Lunar Empire is divided into four administrative tiers: Satrapies. The Lunar Heartlands are divided into nine satrapies, each ruled by a noble dynast who reports to the Red Emperor. The satraps are…
Mortal Approaches to the Cosmos
Core to Glorantha’s cosmology is that the world we mortals live in is the result of the gods and their deeds and conflicts. This so-called Gods War let Chaos into the world,…
The Lunar Occupation of Sartar
With one brief but notable exception, the Lunar Army occupied much of Sartar for the better part of 23 years. This occupation of course impacted Sartarite society and left scars that are…
Mythology book is out on October 9th
Now as you all know this is one of my favorites and it has the best overview of the Gloranthan monomyth we’ve ever put together, as well as loads of information on…
Notes on Maniria IV
One thing I enjoy doing is playing around with different projects of maps, to see if I find something new or interesting. This map of Maniria paints an interesting picture for me….
Notes on Maniria III
Between the Holy County and Ralios is the land of Maniria. About two-thirds of the human population are Orlanthi, similar to those of the Holy Country and the East Wilds. Most the…
Slaves amongst the Orlanthi
Orlanth, as the God of Freedom, finds slavery objectionable. His temples and Rune Masters are prohibited from owning slaves (Lightbringers p. 23). As a result, that means the Prince of Sartar, the…
Lunar Empire Seventh Wane
This map from the Glorantha sourcebook is very useful for getting an immediate feel for why the Lunar Empire largely ignores what is going on in Dragon Pass after the Dragonrise. See…
Worshiping Deities
Now being an initiate is not the only way to worship a deity. Initiates of associated deities also can worship the associated deity and sometimes even get a Rune spell for it….
Lunar Empire events 1625
With the Lunar Book getting close, it is perhaps worth thinking about what is going on in the Lunar Empire at this time. 1625 is marked by three big ongoing events: White…
The thirteen main cults in Sartar
There are thirteen main cults in Sartar, which collectively are about 95% of the population. The biggest are: Those two cults are about 68% of the population. Those 11 cults (each with…
Orlanthi clans around the Quivin Mountains
I particularly love this map of Old Sartar, showing most of the Orlanthi clans around the Quivin Mountains. One thing that I find neat is in a glance you can get a…
Dundealos and Pol-Joni
Among my favorite Sartarite tribes are the Dundealos and their Pol-Joni kin. About a third of all the Storm Bull cultists in Sartar belong to one of these groups. They also worship…
Orlanth Cult Compatibility Chart
The Orlanth cult has one of the broadest arrays of Associated and Friendly cults, but also one of the biggest collections of Enemy and Hostile cults. Comparatively few cults are Neutral towards…
New Canon
With the Lightbringers, Earth Goddesses, Prosopaedia, and Glorantha Sourcebook out – and with the Mythology book coming out next month and the Dragon Pass and Sartar books next year – it should…
Coming Soon Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology
Coming out next month is the Mythology book. This was my favorite of the whole series and probably the most personal for Greg and I. The subject of the book is its…
Battle of Heroes Campaign
So as part of several projects I am working on, I’ve been thinking about easy entry points into the Battle of Heroes campaign. First an explanation of terms. The Battle of Heroes…
Current Reading for RQ
Some of the light work reading for the projects I am currently working on for RQ. Might give an insight into some of the inspirations for the current and forthcoming books. So…