As I have said many times, I feel no desire to have materials I wrote for the HeroQuest line restrict what we do with RuneQuest. Since I wrote Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes…
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The Revolution of 1627-1629
What took place in Dragon Pass between those years was a revolution as great as any in Gloranthan history. At the start, the Principality of Sartar had nearly collapsed and was poised…
AH8585 Glorantha – Genertela, Crucible of the Hero Wars (Box 08 – 1988)
All across the vast continent of genertela, prophets, priests and madmen speak of imminent war, of a new and cataclysmic conflict that will inflame all the lands and threaten all established powers….
CHA4043 The Lightbringers – Q&A
Official Answers from Chaosium Chalana Arroy Healer, Requirements to Belong The first sentence appears to mean that for an Initiate the oath is less restrictive in terms of never to harm an…
MGP8101 Glorantha: The Second Age – 1st Edition (2006)
Glorantha: The Second Age In its gloríous Second Age, Glorantha is the prize of warring empires. Permeated by magic and shaped by myth, its heroes achíeve power by questing for runes, emulating…
Malkioni Heresies
Most Malkioni are far more concerned about heretical sects of Malkionism than about non-Malkioni subjects. Arkatism or “the Stygian Heresy” is considered one of the most heretical outgrowths of Malkionism. So for…
The Triceratops Queen
The Triceratops Queen is a priestess of an Earth Goddess who rules over a herd of triceratopses. From time to time, the matriarch of the herd selects a new Triceratops Queen based…
The Dragonewts’ Dream
In 1539 the famous Dragonewts’ Dream began, and ended two years later. At this time the real dragonewts seemed to go about their normal business in their cities and outside. But in…
Roots of Glorantha: Book XVII The Book of Jonat (2007)
AKA – Jonat’s Saga. A copy of Jonat’s Saga was also dated 1992. The materials of this book are not the last written, but these are the latest, chronologically in Glorantha. I…
Empty-Head’s Tale – Another God Learner text
Another God Learner text for your enjoyment! The following is a folk tale in one form or another among the peoples of the whole continent of Genertela. Its widespread distribution is indicative…
Runequest Playtest Manuscript book (2016)
The RuneQuest Playtest Manuscript book is a 250+ page hardcover book created from high resolution scans of the original playtest manuscript, which has been lovingly kept in a binder for the last 40 years. The…
CHA4028 RuneQuest – Roleplaying in Glorantha (2018)
Welcome to Glorantha It is a fantasy world unlike any other–a mythic world of mortals and gods, myths and cults, spirits and elementals, monsters and heroes. Magic permeates all of existence, and…
ISS1401 Sartar Rising Volume 1: Barbarian Adventures (2001)
Sartar Rising, Part 1 Barbarian Adventures by Greg Stafford and friends Product Number ISS1401. ISBN 1-929052-05-7. $14.95 72 pages, standard format. PDF Cover art by Stefano Gaudiano (Note: some artwork is incorrectly…
ISS1403 Sartar Rising: Gathering Thunder (2004)
The Lunar Empire has been defeated at the Battle of Iceland. Orlanth is free, and across Dragon Pass and the world the winds have been released. This is the time to strike,…
End of Chapter 4
59 – Make Your Own Family Chapter 5 – Pavis We missed having an End of Chapter image last time, but they’re back now! And this time we have a rather interesting…
Some Draconic Philosophy
The Cosmic Egg hatched and from it came the Grand Ancestral Dragon. It sat and meditated in the Silent Void, treasuring the secrets of the universe. The halves of the eggshell were…
Heortland in the Third Age I
This is a series of maps Greg and I drew some years ago to visualize the changes in Heortland from the arrival of Belintar to the present day. One thing that is…
AH8587 Troll Gods: The Deities of Darkness (Box 10 – 1989)
The Year is 1622 S.T. THE FIRST RUMBLES OF THE HERO WARS can be heard, and a time of change is upon the world of Glorantha. The Uzko, known to humans as…
Use of the old name of Elmal
Elmal is the original name of the Light god that came to Dragon Pass in the 1300s. The Light worshipers among the Sartarites began offering sacrifices to Yelm quite early – likely…
USW1002 The Thieves Arm (2002)
Dragon Pass is under Imperial occupation, and the banner of rebellion has been raised. This is a time of heroes and saviours, liberators and generals. But it is also a time of…
Western Mythic Maps (2003)
As part of the fundraising efforts for Scotscon, we are producing a very limited set of artist’s prints of the Western Mythic Maps. These illustrate the mythology of the west, as viewed…
Red Moon in Prax
Prax is said to have been under Lunar influence since the beginning of Time, for is not Time the source and strength of the Lunar Empire? So the Imperial scholars would have…
The Struggle for the Middle Air
The Red Goddess never made peace with the Air Gods, for there was none among her pantheon who could approach those deities on their own ground. There began, within history, a struggle…
Orlanthi view of society and justice
A few thoughts on the Orlanthi view of society and justice worth keeping in mind. The Orlanthi encourage independence over centralization. They do not have faith in a single leader for all…
Gloranthan Canon
Last updated 5th July 2021 See also: Glorantha has been a world of continuous revelation since its discovery by Greg Stafford in the 1960s. For over 40 years Gloranthan details have been…