Another remarkable Gloranthan deity is the Knowing God, Lhankor Mhy. Also found around the world, he’s generally given credit for creating writing so that mortals might store knowledge. Lhankor Mhy is the…
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CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
The Second Age So if we think about the Second Age, we have cultural transmission of ideas and secrets around the world. Around the coastal regions of the world, the Middle Sea…
Second Age Overview
So based on the past few posts, hopefully I conveyed the idea that the Second Age featured widespread mythic experimentation and exploration. Not only did we have God Learnerism, dragonic mysticism, and…
Heroquesting contexts
My hope with these posts over the past few weeks is to give an impression as to the context around heroquesting, and to get us away from the approach in the King…
Becoming a Hero
Greg speculated that to become a Hero, one needed to: 1. Participate in at least two “great events” – heroquests outside of those known by cult or tradition. This would include cult…
Myth of the Month: Enemy Gods of the Orlanthi (2001)
Most deities have one or more specific, notable foes. Those foes were (usually) defeated in mythic times, resulting in the creation of the current world, and may be considered to be a…
Heroquesting and the Hero Wars
Here’s a snippet from a discussion I am having elsewhere that I think is of broad general interest: I think for almost everyone heroquesting falls into one of two categories: 1. We do…
ISS1310 Storm Tribe: The Cults of Sartar (2001)
This is the companion volume to Thunder Rebels. It describes the minority cults and societies that are important to the Heortling culture and Orlanthi religion. Note that several items that were previously…
Runes & Glyphs (2004)
Note that many of these are personal not core runes. Based on the Common and uncommon runes document from 2004, with See Glyph and Notes columns added. A Deity / Name Rune Meaning…
Simon Bray Woodcuts – Gods & Goddesses
These were created for Thunder Rebels (2000) and Storm Tribe (2001)
Greg Sez: Barbarians – Heortlings, Vingkotlings, and Orlanthi (Jan 1998)
Question From Geoffrey Dalcher. Answer by Greg Stafford. Published Jan 1998. Q: What is the difference between the Heortlings, Vingkotlings, and “modern” Orlanthi? A: These three labels basically describe the same peoples…