Many Lunar sources suggest that the Lunar religion is new and revolutionary. That was certainly true in the Zero and First Wanes, but the Lunar Way is now over four hundred years…
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Yelm & Chaos
For most Gloranthan religions, Chaos is something outside of the realm of gods and spirits. There are a few gods or spirits that were corrupted by Chaos or who otherwise embraced it…
Entekos in the Lunar Heartlands
The primary atmospheric deity in the Lunar Heartlands is Entekos, whose cult is largely contained to Karasal, Oronin, and the Silver Shadow). Her cult is closely associated with Dendara, and is associated…
CHA4033 The Glorantha Sourcebook – 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 X Y Z
Hon-eel’s Descendants and the Imperial Nobility
In 1486, the Lunar goddess Hon-eel, daughter of the Red Emperor and Sandene, gave birth to twins, conceived with the Secret Light of the Sun. One was a boy, blond and pale-eyed,…
ISS3006 Revealed Mythologies – 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 X Y Z
The Paradox of the Lunar Empire
The Lunar Empire has brought peace to Peloria for the last century and a half. The Red Goddess religion facilitates spiritual and individual development for those able to do so, while maintaining…
Notes on Jar-eel the Razoress II
Jar-eel the Razoress can be difficult to get a handle on. Rather than think of her as a heroine, it might be easier to think of her as the Moon Goddess incarnated…
ISS1102 Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars (2000)
Glorantha, Introduction to the Hero Wars By Greg Stafford and Peter Metcalfe Glorantha, Introduction to the Hero Wars is the first book you need to learn about this fascinating mythic world. Glorantha, Introduction…
RuneQuest Campaign phases
As I work on the overall structure of the “RuneQuest Campaign” or the “Grand Argrath Campaign”, there’s some big differences between it and the Boy King campaign that I wanted to talk…
Argenteus
So the Mask called Argenteus came down from the Red Moon in 1607, seven weeks after the previous incarnation was killed by the White Bear in a Dart War. Argenteus took no…
Notes on Jar-eel the Razoress I
Arguably the mightiest hero in Glorantha at this time is Jar-eel the Razoress. She has loads of titles – Fourth Inspiration of Moonson, Incarnation of the Red Goddess in Time, daughter/lover/mother of…
Esrolian Culture
When we think about Esrolia as a culture, a few things to keep in mind: Esrolia is 90% rural villagers. Let’s focus on that before thinking about its urban centers. Rural Esrolia…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
Hero Wars Campaign Overview
The Hero Wars themselves are the wars between Sartar and the Lunar Empire. Here’s a super quick overview: The Hero Wars are thirty-year conflict that ends the Third Age of Glorantha. The…
Navigating the Hero Plane
So when thinking about any heroquest, I start by looking at one of Greg’s old Hero Plane maps. This is a map of archetypes – and not the same thing as the…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – K
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: K (pages 776-778) Kaanilland 411, 423 Kabalt 153, 483, 489, 494 Kabalt the Great Bolt 483 Kabalt the Liberating Bolt 489 Kabalt the Mystic…
Notes on Saird
The original “homeland” of the Yelmalio cult was Saird, a border land between Dragon Pass and Dara Happa. In the early First Age, this was a mixing ground of settlers from Dragon…
War Gods in the Lunar Empire
The most important war god in the Lunar Empire is Yanafal Tarnils. All soldiers in the Lunar Army are lay members and probably a quarter of the Lunar Army are initiates of…
Polytheism
In most of Glorantha, polytheism is the norm. Gods and spirits are acknowledged and worshiped at temples and shrines throughout the land. The same deity might be worshiped at different places, with…
The Red Emperor’s revenues
There was a recent question on where the Red Emperor’s revenues come from. Here’s a few thoughts: So when the Red Emperor wants something, he just decrees it. It is up to…
Thoughts on The Lightbringers Quest
The Lightbringers Quest can be thought of as the monomyth of heroquests. It contains within it many quests – the Westfaring, the Descent into the Underworld, the Tests of Proof, etc. In…
New Chaosium House Campaign
Made up characters for the new Chaosium House Campaign – set in Glamour. We have a noble dilettante, a mystic spymaster, a Yelmic judge, a Jakaleel shamaness-in-training, and a Spolite Black Mage….
Social Classes in the Lunar Empire
A few notes on social classes in the Lunar Empire (with some specific notes on slavery in Dara Happa). Dara Happa – that belt of intensive agriculture along the Oslira river –…
Lunar Imperial Finances I
So some ballpark figures on Lunar imperial finances. I’m going to use an anachronistic accounting measure – the talent (valued at 300 Lunars) to reduce zeros and make possible real world comparisons….