As said many times before – After the long war Arkat retired with his closest confederates to Arkhome, which became the capitol of Arkat’s Autarchy. Arkat instituted formal cult procedures, created a…
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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…
What is Magic?
From time to time, it is worth bringing some material you likely already have to your attention – here’s an explanation of what Gloranthan magic is from the RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha…
The Monomyth
And one more. This will be appearing in the Cults Book and is filled with careful information about the monomyth: Between the years 650 S.T. and 1050 S.T. the God Learners explored…
New to Glorantha
Submitted by Dreamstreamer on Thu, 24/05/2012 – 15:11 Hey all, I’m a rather recent partaker of the goodness that is Glorantha. After enjoying HeroQuest 2nd Edition (and having some OneBookShelf gift certificates…
Heroquesting Lexicon II
Many terms get thrown around when talking about heroquesting. Here’s a short list of terms used in the heroquesting rules – be aware that Gloranthans are definitely not going to be this…
A History Of Heroquesting
There’s a lot here to unpack. Worth a very careful read! Heroquesting begins with Time, and the division of the Mundane World from the Gods World. In the God Time, there was…
A few personal thoughts on Greg’s passing.
As I sit in my office cluttered with notes, sketches, and fragments of stories that I am trying to arrange, edit, and complete so that they can be published, I happily acknowledge…
Heroquesting Lexicon I
God Time: In the God Time, there was no division between the worlds of men and gods, between Life and Death, or body and spirit. The events and deeds of the God Time…
Light in the Sky
Pretty much every Gloranthan spiritual tradition says that the bright and hot Sun was killed by the Storm God, ending the Golden Age. The Orlanthi particularly emphasise this myth, as it was…
Cult’s book Holy Country Preview
Here’s a snippet from the forthcoming Cults Book that ties into some recent posts of mine: About a century after the Dragonkill War, an incredible event occurred which changed Kethaela forever—the arrival…
Gods of Fonrit
A snippet from an old Jrusteli account of Fonrit. I’d date this to about 890 ST: Gods of FonritIn Fonrit, the people worship demigods who they say restored the Cosmic Court of…
On Broken Gods and Dead Gods
The Gods War pitted the cosmos against itself. Air fought with Sky, Water tried to drown Earth, and Darkness contended with Light. At first the consequences of defeat was being broken into…
Malkionism as a “Cult”
In thinking about Malkionism for game purposes, we should probably start by thinking about what that means in terms of Malkionism as a “cult”. So what goes on in worship of the…
Heroquest Activities in RQG
When we think about Heroquests in RuneQuest, we really have two types of activities under that rubric. The first is the most common. Initiates and Rune masters (who are of course also…
Harmast’s Heroquests
This excerpt is from Greg Stafford’s unpublished Harmast Saga (1991) Here are the times that Harmast went to the Hero Plane before he returned with Arkat. First, for a glimpse, at his…
Conflict in the Middle Air
So what underlies the conflict between the Red Goddess and Orlanth? It is a weird one, as the Red Goddess’ only real fight with Orlanth during her lifetime was at Castle Blue….
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How Cults Change
The archetypes and patterns of the God Time are eternal and fixed. But what we in Time experience of the God Time, what we call things, what we offer magic points to…
A Brief History of Dragon Pass (2014)
Mythology Glorantha was created by its deities from the Primal Void of Chaos. At first, there was no history, for the initial creation formed the period of magic and timeless simultaneity called…
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…
Sorcery serves only mortal will
I’ve posted a few thoughts on the dilemma of how mortals interact with the God Time, and how to understand the gods so that mortals might wield a fraction of their power…
What Happens When You Die
Your soul separates from your body. The material body returns to its basic components, and for seven days, the soul lingers near the body, drifting farther from it and developing spirit senses….
Play around with Gloranthan myths
Dan Zappone asked a very good question about how to get your players to play around with Gloranthan myths, especially in hero quests. Here are some thoughts of mine that I thought…
Malkionism as a Cult
So one thing that should be obvious about Malkionism compared to other cults – it is primarily a philosophical system, rather than a connection with a god or spirit. The Invisible God…