Battle Description Fire Season – Wild Day/Stasis Week King Pharandros took command of the remaining imperial troops in the provinces, and led them with the Tarsh army to conquer the disheartened Sartarites….
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History Of Kethaela – The First Age
Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…
Notes on The Holy Country III
Belintar was a human being who swam ashore from the deadly sea at the Rightarm Island of Sandpaper one bright morning in the year 1313. He had great bearing and power, and…
The Esrolian Monomyth
Some of you might find this interesting – it is a common version of the myth cycle told in the Holy Country. You might consider this the Esrolian version of the monomyth….
Notes on Merngala the Great Queen
Greatest queen of Esrolia, Queen Merngala was the daughter of Esrola. She wielded awesome Earth powers, gained when her goddess mother retired to the Land of Sleep. Her main residence was a…
Panaxles the Architect
Panaxles was descended from the Stone-souled builders and was thus related to the dwarfs. His mothers were the Tilntae so prevalent and important in the early ages of the world. Panaxles lived…
Art Preview: Deezola
From the great Loïc Muzy I present to you the goddess Deezola! She gets a full long-form writeup in the Cults Book and I suspect she will be a popular cult! I also very…
What is White Bear & Red Moon?
So you might be wondering what is with all these posts referring to White Bear & Red Moon? As I work on the RQ Campaign book, the connection between it and WBRM…
Lunar Exotics
This description from White Bear / Red Moon is still pretty much the case, 45 years later! THE RED EMPEROR was one in a long line of wizard kings, responsible only to…
Thirty Years War
The Hero Wars are traditionally said to have begun in 1625 with the Dragonrise and to have ended in 1655, and is said to have lasted thirty years. For comparison, the Grand…
The Sartar Army
I’ve posted earlier versions of this before, but I think this might be interesting to some. This is the edited and revised overview of the Sartar Army for the forthcoming reprint of…
Native Tarsh Corps
Here is a good idea what an officer of one of the city militia regiments of the Native Tarsh Corps would look like:
1650s Campaign
While running today, I flirted with the idea of running a short campaign set in the 1650s. The Hero Wars have now been raging for decades, and the world has been transformed….
Monomyth Art WiP V
The Monomyth is beginning to fill in! As always courtesy of the amazing Agathe Pitié!
Monomyth Art WiP IV
Humakt with Heler and a few other Storm Gods! A tiny closeup of part of the piece by the amazing Agathe Pitié.
Hero Wars campaign notes
There are roughly 34,000 Orlanth initiates in Sartar (including the Far Place), 5500 Yelmalio initiates, and another 8000 initiates of various war gods (Storm Bull, Humakt, Maran Gor, Babeester Gor, etc.). Let’s…
Sword dance
The telesias was a sword dance performed by the Ancient Greeks – imagine this performed in armor and you have a good take on the drogarsi dance of the sartarites.
Cults of Glorantha Art Preview – Raveena
I’ve been posting a few previews of art for the forthcoming Cults of Glorantha books, but there’s another beautiful book already in art production – the Sartar boxed set. And here’s just…
Monomyth Art WiP III
Just so folk know what I mean when Agathe Pitié is working on a HUGE depiction of the Monomyth, here is an overview of it:
Monomyth Art WiP II
The Myth continues – the Storm Gods refuse to be put in place and Yelm is struck down by their leader, Orlanth. The Gods War rampages across Glorantha. Again, part of a…
Monomyth Art WiP I
The amazing Agathe Pitié is working on a huge spread of the Monomyth for the Cults Book. I thought you all might like a few sneak peaks of the WIP! Today’s sneak…
New Battle Rules for RuneQuest
So last night I was play testing the new Battle Rules for RQ and Pendragon, and we opened up with the Battle of the Queens. And it was an interesting insight into…
Uleria art preview
Why blue skin? Her name means Blue Goddess in the Entekosiad Harmony rune – I imagine it as her pleated skirt!
Population Density II
So Sartar has a population density of about 10 people per square km, and Lunar Tarsh about 18 people per square km. Esrolia is WAY more densely settled. North Esrolia has only…
Population Density I
So to get a feel for population density, a rough eyeball for Sartar (including the Dragonewt Wilds and the Far Place) is about 7200 square miles or 18,900 square kilometres. If we…