This is a big tent, with some 700,000 followers. One way of thinking about the Stygian heresy is that it is tantric Malkionism. Transgressive, antinomian, esoteric, with secret initiation rites and interaction…
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ISS1104 Narrator’s Book – Contents
Table of Contents collected by Charles Corrigan. Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1, Narrating the Game Chapter 2, Otherworld Magic Chapter 3, Relationships Chapter 4, Sample Hero Bands Chapter 5, Creatures Chapter…
Third Age Malkioni Movements
So let’s talk a little about some of the Third Age Malkioni movements. The Second Age broke Malkionism. Let’s say that again – the Second Age broke Malkionism. Most of the intellectual…
Malkioni Wizardry
Here’s a little primer on Malkioni wizardry from the Guide: The Malkioni venerate the Invisible God who created the Runes, worshiped as gods by the barbarians. The Runes, in turn, created lesser…
Religion in Safelster
There are approximately 3 million people in Safelster. This politically decentralized area around Lake Felster in Ralios is one of the more densely populated areas in Glorantha. It is also one of…
Nochet, City of Queens
Nochet is the greatest and most important city in the world, and the greatest city for a thousand miles in all directions. It is the favorite resting place of Esrola, and it…
Malkioni Likes and Dislikes
A few notes about things to keep in mind when thinking about the Malkioni: Particular Likes and Dislikes The Malkioni distrust gods in general. There is a strong current of ancestor worship…
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…
Broken Empires, Gods, and Ideas
Arkat was the most terrifying mortal to walk the world. He built no new empires, ruled nothing but his companions, and built little. Instead, Arkat broke empires, gods, and even ideas. Think…
Community and Heresy within Malkionism.
Malkionism, unlike other major Gloranthan religious experiences and philosophies, is based on the teachings of a mortal about the nature of the cosmos, the origin of the universe, the place of man…
Before and after the Dark Empire
After the defeat of Gbaji in 450, Arkat place Dragon Pass under the rule of his troll friends and then returned to the West. He then settled in Fornoar, at the time…
Campaign Log – Book Four — The City
Chapter1 Escape While other sorcerers were Flying away with their belongings, the creature Flew across to us. With something of a groan, we asked it if it could fly us back across…
MGP8175 Cults of Glorantha – 2nd edition (2010)
In a world where the gods are real and shape the daily lives of their adherents, cults are an everyday necessity for every culture in Glorantha. This book provides the structures, myths…
The Manirian Road and the Trader Princes
So as part of our Third Age Malkioni discussion, lets get to the Manirian Road and the Trader Princes. Remember what this is – it is a trade route between Safelster and…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
Malkionism And Sorcery
Malkionism provides a set of beliefs, practices, and traditions that support the development of magical specialists in sorcery. Whether that was its original purpose or merely something that it made possible is…
Loskalm and New Hrestolism
In Loskalm, Malkionism developed a strong current of dualism, positing that the Invisible God’s awareness of itself created a lesser (and flawed) demiurge that in turn created lesser emanations – powers, elements…
A Sense of Size II
Genertela is nearly 9,000,000 square km in area. That’s more than twice the size of the European Union or a little smaller than continental Europe. Or for us North Americans, it is…
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
HeroQuesting Context
So often when we talk about heroquesting, it is in the context of gaining power, defeating a foe, exploring the mythic realms, learning magical secrets, and so on. Not surprising – that…
The Lightbringers Belt & Old Gods
In between the Malkioni lands and the Lunar Empire are two regions the “Lightbringers Belt” and the “Old Gods”. Now the Lightbringers Belt we all know – this is the area of…
Malkioni Q&A
Questions from David Millians, Herve Carteau and others. Answers from Moon Design. Q: After looking at the pictures in the old Genertela boxed set, I got the impression that the Malkioni broadly analogous…
AH8577 Gods of Glorantha (Box 05 – 1985)
60 Religions for RuneQuestGods of Glorantha describes 60 major Gloranthan religions for humans and non-humans, for good guys and bad, for men and women, all from an array of different cultures. A…
Durengard
Population: 10k 90 hectares (giving 20 hectares to the governor’s palace) Temples to Orlanth, Ernalda, Belintar, Issaries, Lhankor Mhy (and other Lightbringers), Invisible God and Uleria. Massive-fortress palace in the Nochet style…
The Divine Fortune of The Emperor of Land and Sea
For two hundred years the Jrusteli dynasty ruled as the Emperor of the Land and Sea. This was a new title, created in 789 with the acclamation of the Jrusteli Alliance, the Umathelan…