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Notes on Kralorela

Posted on January 7, 2023

Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…

Solar / Yelm Pantheon

In the Golden Age, Yelm ruled the universe with benevolence and perfection. This time of elegance and happiness continued for eons until the time of the Rebel Gods, who murdered Yelm, destroyed…

2021-07 Mob on Facebook

Micheal O’Brien (Mob) is one of the regular posters in the RuneQuest Facebook Group. here’s some of his recent RuneQuest posts, only Mob’s replies are included where relevant. Facebook membership is required…

Hero Wars: Beyond Humanity (2000)

Originally part of ISS1102 Glorantha, Introduction to the Hero Wars – Last revision: 15 Dec 2000 Realms other than the center of the world exist. Humans teem in the center, clustered on…

Heroquesting 102

Posted on July 20, 2020

OVERVIEW The process by which an individual contacts the world of the gods and grows in it is slow and gradual. When mortals participate in a religious ceremony, they expend energy and…

Myth of the Month: Chariots and Chariot Gods (2003)

Yelm and the Imperial Chariot Yelm brought the first chariots to mankind. When Most High Yelm descended from the Sky World He paused upon the Footstool for the Enthronement Creation. Then He…

Lunar Cities I

Posted on October 5, 2020

I salute the so-far unknown Hippodamus who aided Hon-eel in developing the standardised grid plan for Lunar cities founded or rebuilt in the Fifth Wane. Each city was laid out on a…

A Fragment of the Celestial Realm

Posted on October 14, 2020

I present to you a fragment of the Celestial Realm for your amazement and edification! Thanks to the remarkable Agathe Pitié for this! Hey, who is that in the lower center? It…

Belintar’s Book: The Blue Dragon Sshorga (1999)

From Belintar’s Book. (updated 1 Dec 1999) The instinct of family is to protect. No one can blame any person who acts to protect their child, sibling, or parent. No wrong was done…

Sheng Seleris – a Pentan version

Posted on October 2, 2022

So let’s look a little bit at Sheng Seleris. He’s almost always presented as a villain, but that’s also because our sources are Lunar or Kralorelan. Let’s try to think of the…

Notes on Saird

Posted on August 8, 2021

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…

Going to hell (not to be read by my Stonesnake players)

Submitted by RoM on Thu, 13/12/2012 – 09:52I am running the Colymar campaign since the day the Sartar book was published. Finally we have reached the point that my group descended into…

12 – The Slave Revolt

Chapter 2 – The Lunar Way 13 – Beat-Pot Characters: Beat-Pot Aelwrin Oraya Satrapy: This satrapy in the eastern Lunar Empire was founded by the demigoddess Hon-eel as a buffer state between the…

Vashanti

Solar Emperor, God of Righteous Knowledge, Patron God of Mandarins See also Yelm Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia Unpublished Guide to Glorantha 153 2014 Notes only

Lunar Cities II

Posted on October 6, 2020

One thing that should be clearer from my notes on Furthest as well as the Guide to Glamour is how little most Lunar cities resemble the First Age settlements of GRoY. Most…

Notes on the Black Sun

Posted on February 11, 2023

The Black Sun is a strange one. Its origins are quite old, as I have found handwritten versions of the Basko story from around 1979. It then got infused with Sandy’s love…

ISS4001 King of Sartar 2nd Edition – Index

Page numbers refer to the King of Sartar 2nd Edition: Numbers (Dates) 375 ST 43, 97, 99, 171 575 ST  115, 155 700 ST 6, 156, 223, 227 920 ST 171, 223,…

ISS1103 Anaxial’s Roster – Index

A Above, the Creatures of Above Abzered Acos Adept Plane see also Sorcery Planes aepyornis Agarankan, Age of Creation Agira Akadrian Spirits Akadrianolisto Alar the see Masekot Aldrya see also Aldryami, Song…

ISS3002 The Glorious Reascent of Yelm – Index

Page numbers refer to the 2015 PDF Edition: A Abgammon  12, 58 Above World  32 adamant 9, 21, 54 Aether  6, 7, 73, 74 Aetherial 6 Aetheric 7, 42, 57 Akanimataka  30…

Pelorian Terms for Rulers

Posted on March 5, 2022

I’ve posted this before, but find it useful to repeat: Emperor Dara Happan/New Pelorian. Term literally means “universal ruler.” Only one legitimate emperor can exist in the world at a time, although…

Myth of the Month: Shargash the Destroyer (1998)

Shargash is the celestial God of War. He is a great god, with power in all the worlds. In the sky, he is the Red Planet of War. On the earth he…

History of Gloranthan Art, Part V – The Lunar Empire

Posted on March 18, 2022

But, in Peloria, things are different. The EWF style are gone. And we have a long dark age. The Carmanians embrace a formal brutalism style. Them and their gods triumphing atop piles…

Notes on the Origins Of Tarsh

Posted on June 10, 2022

Let’s talk a little bit about the south Pelorian Orlanthi, as I think that they are important as a background – even though the Lunar Tarshites are not merely a Lunarized variant…

The Movable Ephemeris and the Gloranthan Sky

The Moveable Ephemeris is the computer version of the famous “machine that marched with the sky” in Yuthuppa. Click here to see the Gloranthan sky… (maybe) If Java is installed on your…

The Lunar Empire is a universal empire

Posted on October 15, 2021

The Red Emperor does not acknowledge the existence of other peers – his sovereignty and lawful authority is everywhere touched by the light of the Red Moon (ie., the entire Surface World)….

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