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Greg Sez: Who was Baroshi? (Jun 1998)
Question From LARRY LYNCH-FRESHNER. Answer 1998 Greg Stafford. Published Jun 1998. Q: Who was Baroshi? We know he’s a minor god found in Snakepipe Hollow, but how does he fit into the…
HeroWars (2000) (FR)
The French edition of Hero Wars is 320 pages and includes the text of both Hero Wars and Narrator’s Book. Instead of including the episode series “The Rising Dark,” however, they have included a brand new adventure…
Hero Wars Glossary (2000)
last updated 10 May 2000 Words in boldface indicate other entries within this Glossary. Indicates an augmentation. D+x Indicates the difficulty of an attempted action. Indicates an edge or handicap. Indicates one…
Personalities of Glorantha – Gondo Holst (1999)
created by Paul Jaquaysoriginally published in Griffin MountainLocation: Balazar and the Elder Wilds Gondo Holst appears to be a large but spry old man, a priest of Lokarnos, merchant god of the Yelm Pantheon….
White Bear & Red Moon – The Walktapus (1977)
Originally published in Wyrm’s Footnotes #2 (1977) by Greg Stafford A WALKTAPUS is a creature of Chaos, spawned in unholy and downright disgusting union between two widely divergent species. Ordinarily such a…
CHA4034 Red Book of Magic – Chapter 03 Spirit Magic Spells Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium It also contains the Q&A for Spirit Magic spells in: Befuddle References: RBM 110, RQG 256 Creatures with no INT A successfully Befuddled a creature has zero INT….
CHA4032 RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary – Spell List
For reference Rune Spells Rune Spell Name Page RBM Cult Animate War Tree 27 12 Aldrya Appease Earth 69 13 Bloody Tusk Arrow Trance 27 13 Aldrya Attack Soul 81 13 Kyger…
CHA4032 RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary – Rune Spells Q&A
All Rune Magic Q&A is collected under the relevant spell in the Red Book of Magic – Chapter 02 Rune Magic Spells Q&A. Corrections relevant only to the RuneQuest Glorantha Bestiary are…
4 – Meeting the Second Son
3 – The Underworld 5 – Argrath Faces Evil Characters: Argrath The Great Darkness Argrath released the Strange Gods from their Underworld prison and was welcomed by the old gods who resided atop…
ISS1104 Narrator’s Book – Contents
Table of Contents collected by Charles Corrigan. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1, Narrating the Game Chapter 2, Otherworld Magic Chapter 3, Relationships Chapter 4, Sample Hero Bands Chapter 5, Creatures Chapter…
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – II
In Storm Season 1625, Prince Kallyr Starbrow summoned an assembly in Boldhome. Before the assembled citizens of many tribes, she formally made the Lightbringers’ Summons. Chaos stalks my world. Broos have bruised…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
Talastar
One of the more interesting areas in Peloria is Talastar, one of the great centers of Orlanthi culture. I’m defining Talastar broadly – including Lakrene, Anadiki, Brolia, and Skanthi as parts of…
Yolanela Spurned
A companion piece to The Son of Light Awakens (by MOB)Copyright © 1994 by Nick Brooke “It is forbidden.” The messenger’s curt words echoed around the pillared hall where Yolanela, Dowager Countess of…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #10
More entries from Goliard’s Ten Thousand Gods of the East Isles… [XXIX. 21-014.e] The lonely Isle of Pines is a beautiful place, inhabited by the handsomest people of all the East Isles. They live…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #14
[xxix.445.1c] Fragments of the notebook of Lucien the Diviner, master of natural philosophy: “…it is known that certain geographical localities provide a focus for penetration to the other side for certain cult, the metaphysical…
Townspeople and tribesfolk
Probably the biggest social conflict among the Sartarites is between the roughly 30k “townspeople” and the 140k “tribesfolk”. One way of seeing the distinction is with cults. So for example, among the…
So what are dragons?
One theory is that they are manifestations of Glorantha’s unconscious – primordial beings that predate even Chaos. They are intrinsically connected with the Cosmic Egg and the birth of Glorantha. By this…
The Ages of The World
Here’s an interesting late Second Age document that I find deep in the Library of Nochet. Although it was written in Theyalan, I suspect it is of Jrusteli origin, given its materialist…
Orlanth and the Red Goddess
Here’s a popular Orlanthi tale of the rise of the Red Goddess. This is similar to the story presented in King of Sartar. Orlanth is the god who began the Great Compromise,…
The Getting of Wisdom (1997)
Copyright © 1997 by Michael O’BrienPermission is freely given for personal gaming use. Plot Outline Lhankor Mhy is the God of Knowledge, Learning, and Lore. And the Great Temple of Knowledge in…
Birth of the Red Goddess
It is worth repeating the key event of the Lunar religion, and let its significance sink in. In 1220, after years of searching the world and planes of spirit for the broken…
The Lightbringers and their pantheon
So let’s talk a moment about the Lightbringers and their pantheon. In Sartar, about 42% of the adult population are initiated into one of the core Lightbringer cults, and another 40% 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,…