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The Knowledge Temple, New Pavis

Posted on June 19, 2024

The Knowledge Temple in New Pavis is the largest collection of scrolls, books, parchments, etc. in all of Prax. The Knowledge Temple is the largest repository of information about Pavis and the…

Writing

Posted on June 18, 2024

Lhankor Mhy is the source of all written languages. He took the Runes and used them as symbols for writing. The other gods took that and made use of it. A good…

The Garden, Big Rubble

Posted on June 17, 2024

The elves of the Big Rubble are among the most human-oriented elves I know of. There’s only about 200 elves in the Garden, the other 800 Aldryami consist of a few non-combatant…

New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple

Posted on June 17, 2024

It’s about 45 km from New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple. That’s a little further away than the distance between Swenstown and Boldhome. It takes about two days to get there…

Tigers

Posted on June 17, 2024

Tigers are known to have been found in Shadows Dance, near the Yolp Mountains, Maniria, and in parts of Ralios. I suspect they exist elsewhere in Dragon Pass, but are not common….

Cult Compatibility – Yelm, Orlanth, and Yelmalio

Posted on June 17, 2024

Although the cults of Yelm, Orlanth, and Yelmalio are rivals, they are perfectly capable of working together. The cults are Neutral towards each other – not Hostile or Enemies. At the same…

A Few Notes on Adari, Northern Prax

Posted on June 16, 2024

Adari is a frontier town between Shadows Dance and Prax. It was first settled in the Dawn Age and is also the birthplace of Pavis, but since has been razed and rebuilt…

Notes on The Arrowsmith Dynasty (860-940)

Posted on June 16, 2024

I’ve assembled a few notes and cut and paste them together to get a good overview of the rise and fall of the Arrowsmith Dynasty of Pavis. There’s a LOT in here,…

Pavis County and Sun County

Posted on June 16, 2024

If we look at the settled population of Pavis County and Sun County together, we see that the six largest cults are: To me this explains how Sun Dome County manages to…

The Rise of Chaos and Other Gods in the Big Rubble

Posted on June 16, 2024

During the Troll Occupation (1237-1539), many of the human inhabitants of the Big Rubble turned to some very unpleasant spirits and gods in order to survive. Black Fang The best known is,…

Broo In The Big Rubble

Posted on June 14, 2024

Broo are the most numerous chaotic race in the Big Rubble numbering some 300. Broo are most commonly found in the Big Grazing and the Huntlands. The nastiest broo are said to…

MGF in Your Game

Posted on June 14, 2024

Although this should go without saying, MGF (Maximum Game Fun) is completely subjective for your individual gaming group. You should always default to whatever is MGF for your gaming group; however, that…

The Growth of the Lunar Way

Posted on June 11, 2024

We’ve all got access to the Lunar Way now and to the Glorantha Sourcebook, so we have access to the history of the Lunar Empire. But how did the Lunar Way grow…

The Impala Nation

Posted on June 11, 2024

The largest tribe of Animal Nomads, the Impala Nation have the largest number of Orlanth AND Yelmalio cultists of any tribe in Prax. Although Eiritha Impala is the biggest cult of the…

Overwhelmed by all the Gloranthan Lore?

Posted on June 11, 2024

It’s like dealing with any deep background. Start with what the players and the GM actually need. So for example, I am currently running a Big Rubble campaign with a group of…

The Dragonewt Temple in The Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

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,…

Underground in the Big Rubble

Posted on June 9, 2024

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

Posted on June 9, 2024

SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: From a design and play perspective, the Big Rubble lets you introduce…

Precipitation in Prax

Posted on June 6, 2024

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

Posted on June 6, 2024

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

Posted on June 6, 2024

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

Posted on June 4, 2024

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

Posted on June 4, 2024

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

Posted on June 3, 2024

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

Posted on June 1, 2024

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…

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