So as you all know there are a bunch of books now scheduled for release. Now I think they are amazing for all sorts of reasons – they broaden play, given you…
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RuneQuest Design Decisions
So I figure I’d walk folk through some of the design decisions behind the current RQ releases. 1. The Cults Book underpins everything. If you want to have Lunars, Praxians, Balazarings, Sartarites,…
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…
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…
Reinforcing the Scale
From time to time it is worth reinforcing the scale of Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. So basically, Dragon Pass is about the size of Northern California from the south shore…
How the militia trains
The militia musters together each Fire Season and learns to fight together. They aren’t drilled so much as learn how to gather together in groups, how to fight with sword and shield…
Vasana & Yanioth’s Apprenticeship
Vasana’s Apprenticeship When she was 13, Vasana daughter of Farnan was initiated according to the tribal traditions of the Colymar. She was chosen by Vinga and pressed on to I Fought We…
Notes on Small Cults
In all of Sartar, about 2500 people are initiates of Daka Fal and worship their ancestors and eschew other cults. That’s about the same size as the Chalana Arroy or Lhankor Mhy…
Belintar the Patron
Over his centuries of rule, Belintar attracted and patronised many visionary and unorthodox thinkers. Aggressive reincarnation, philosophies of Luck and Fate (“our Lady giveth and she taketh away”), God Learner apologists, monomyth…
Notes on Beast People
There are some 25,000 Beast People and another 10,000 Ducks in Dragon Pass. The Beast Men include centaurs, ducks, minotaurs, satyrs, manticores, tiger-men, bird women, fox women, bug heads, and often many…
Heortland in the Third Age II
So what happened to Heortland? Heortland has almost three times the population of Sartar, in approximately the same area. With over 100k Orlanth initiates, it is one core Orlanthi areas in the…
Princes of Sartar Art Preview
Here’s a wonderful WiP from Katrin Dirim of the Princes of Sartar, from Sartar to Argrath. Lots of information in this piece, worth carefullly looking at. These are from coins stamped in…
The View From Furthest, Late 1625
Now let’s look at things from the vantage of Furthest, again late 1625. The Lunar position in Dragon Pass is in shambles. Glamour has tasked you with recovering Dragon Pass from the…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
CHA4043 The Lightbringers – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
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…
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…
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…
CHA4041 Mythology – Index
CHA4041 Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology (2023) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X…
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…
Orlanthi Clan territory
The average Orlanthi clan in Dragon Pass or Heortland claims about 55 square km of territory. That may sound like a lot, but even my little city of Fort Collins could have…
First Year Campaign Events
Three major events happen in the first year of the default RQ campaign: 1. A new Prince of Sartar. Sartar is liberated in Earth Season 1625, with the final battle being the…
Notes on King Blackmoor
From 1615-1625, the Colymar tribe was ruled by Kangharl son of Kallai Rockbuster. Kangharl is best known by his nickname Blackmoor the Rabid, which he gained in a (failed) raid on Delecti’s…