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Prosopaedia Preview

Posted on March 23, 2023

One nice thing about my advance copy of the Prosopaedia is it makes it very easy to look up and cross reference various deities and heroes! And damn it looks beautiful!

Degenerative Actions of Gods

Posted on March 22, 2023

The Malkioni posit the existence of something all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good (or at least all-rational) – the Invisible God. That entity is invisible to us – we can’t go “visit it” or…

Gods are Contradictory Archetypes

Posted on March 22, 2023

After having written some million words covering more than one hundred RQ cults, I can confidently say that I find all of them fascinating in their own way. Each represents an archetype…

The Lunar Empire Spy Agency

Posted on March 21, 2023

The Empire maintains multiple internal security and spy networks, including the Emperor’s Spoken Word, the Imperial Bodyguard, the Blue Moon Assassins, and various ad hoc groups that report directly to the Emperor’s…

Interacting with the Divine

Posted on March 21, 2023

Whenever we interact with the divine – the God Time, the Hero Plane, the Spirit World, whatever – we are changed by that experience. This includes initiation into cult, birth of a…

Culture Precedes Cults

Posted on March 21, 2023

It is fascinating how hard it is for us post-modern Westerners to disentangle themselves from the idea that culture precedes cults, even in a fantasy setting such as Glorantha. To a very…

Anaxos the Horali

Posted on March 21, 2023

When Tarlyra – a Humakt initiate – goes into combat, she wields some of the power of Humakt, standing in for the god in the mundane world. That’s what Rune Magic is,…

One Great Community of Gods

Posted on March 19, 2023

I was recently reading Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by Amanda Podany (she even played in the Bangles!), and was struck by this passage on page 58: “Suppose a priestess had arrived in…

Mutually Hostile Cults

Posted on March 18, 2023

Some people seem to assume that mutually hostile cults simply end up murdering each other if they have an opportunity. That’s not really the case – between hostile cults, relations are strained,…

Human Sacrifice

Posted on March 15, 2023

How much of a thing is human sacrifice in Glorantha? Human sacrifice is pretty rare among the Orlanthi. The tusk riders perform it, which is one of the reasons they are so…

Notes on the Pure Horse People

Posted on March 11, 2023

The Pure Horse People are the most devout Solar nomads and are found in Pent, Erigia, and the Grazelands. Among them, all clan chieftains and many tribespeople are Yelm Initiates. They also…

Cult Demographics of the Lunar Empire

Posted on March 11, 2023

There are about 1.25 million Seven Mothers initiates in Glorantha. There’s probably another 330k Lunar initiates of other cults on top of that. That is one of the most successful new religious…

Dragon Pass Pantheons

Posted on March 11, 2023

Looking at the human population of Dragon Pass as a whole, these are their largest cults: Earth Religion – this is one of the two largest cult groupings in Dragon Pass with about…

Notes on the Grazelands II

Posted on March 11, 2023

The dominant cult in the Grazelands is Ernalda, with some 9250 initiates out of a total adult population of around 26,000. The Ernalda cult dominates the Grazelands like no place outside of…

The Mountain Wind

Posted on March 10, 2023

Orlanth is sometimes called the Mountain Wind, and I can assure you that when you are in the high mountains with the wind blowing, you can sense the divine. People often focus…

Notes on Holay

Posted on March 9, 2023

Directly north of Tarsh is Holay, which includes Mirin’s Cross, the great Daughter’s Road from Jillaro to Filichet, and several Sun Dome Temples. Holay is the most populous of the Lunar Provinces,…

Tarsh (1625-1628)

Posted on March 8, 2023

Hero Wars era Tarsh (post-Dragonrise, pre-Battle of Heroes) has a population of about 360k people. The core of Tarsh is a Lunar Heartlands colony centered on Furthest. There is a smaller satellite…

Cults of RuneQuest Cover Two

Posted on March 8, 2023

15 Sun Dome Temples again

Posted on March 7, 2023

There are 15 autonomous Sun Dome Temples of the Yelmalio cult. The temples are uniformly shaped, although many vary somewhat in surprise. The most important Sun Dome Temples are generally considered to…

Initiates and their experiences

Posted on March 7, 2023

A few examples of how cults are spread across space and how that is experienced by members of the cult. 1. ORLANTH. Vasana was initiated into the cult of Orlanth Adventurous (Vinga)…

Cults & Culture

Posted on March 6, 2023

In Glorantha, we can say that cult is the source of culture. When more than two-thirds of the adult population are initiated into the Orlanth and Ernalda cults as in Sartar, that…

Chaos deities in Genertela

Posted on March 5, 2023

When we think about the Chaos deities in Genertela, we have a few heavy hitters we all know: Primal Chaos, Bagog, Cacodemon, Krjalk, Krarsht, Mallia, Pocharngo, Thanatar, Thed, Vivamort, etc. We also…

Most Waha-centric Praxian Tribe

Posted on March 4, 2023

The most Waha-centric Praxian Tribe are High Llama tribe, the least (at least of the Major Tribes) are the Impala. Among the Bison Tribe, Humakt has a cult as big as Storm…

So who are the Thunder Brothers

Posted on March 4, 2023

So who are the Thunder Brothers, if we ask the Orlanthi? They are the Airy offspring and brethren of Orlanth, who can split the clouds so that rain can fall, shake mountains…

Cults of RuneQuest Cover One

Posted on March 2, 2023

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