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Karse

Posted on January 30, 2022

Karse (large city): This ancient port city is an important trade center with Dragon Pass. Goods are transferred from ship to caravan here. Karse is located on the coast, a few kilometers…

Notes on Belintar IV

Posted on January 12, 2024

For nearly three centuries, Belintar was the God-King of the Holy Country. Belintar defeated and slew the Only Old One, cast him down, and received acknowledgement from all the major cults of…

Notes on The Empire of the Wyrms Friends

Posted on June 12, 2023

The Empire of the Wyrms Friends was formally founded in 822, and soon after, in 826, proclaimed itself to be the High Council of the Lands of Genertela (usually called the Third…

ISS3007 Arcane Lore – 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

CHA4046 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

Caladraland

Posted on October 10, 2021

Of course the Orlanthi know Lodril – he is the great god of Caladraland, a nation of nearly a half million people at the edge of Esrolia. Lodril lives here in a…

North Esrolia and the Shadow Plateau

Posted on November 4, 2019

You can only imagine how awesome this area must have been when the Only Old One ruled from his palace. A truly golden age for the Holy Country before the Pharaoh swam…

Other Names of Lodril

Posted on August 7, 2021

Lodril is known by many names throughout Glorantha. Here are a few of the best known: Balumbasta Balumbasta is worshiped by the Agimori of Pamaltela. He is the Strong God, Lord of…

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…

Masters of Luck and Death II

Posted on July 26, 2021

A few last notes on the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death. There’s a lot in this one, so I recommend reading it carefully and digesting each piece! The Tournament…

Rune Magic by Cult and Associate Cult – C

Spell RBM Cost Source Reference Availability Call Founder 21 6 Waha (1-use) LB 147 Tribal Khan Call Monster 21 1 Magasta PR 87 Initiates Call on Stars 22 1-4 Polaris FS 85…

Myth of the Month: How Argan Argar Courted Esrola (2002)

December 2002 The wonderful palace called Akez Loradak (Ebonglass, Palace of Black Glass) has always been the most impressive of all above-ground troll sites. This was made by Argan Argar near the…

CHA4047 The Gods of Fire and Sky – Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z

Notes on the Holy Country II

Posted on June 12, 2020

By 1350, the Hendriki kingdom is gone. Heortland – named after the great cultural hero who was often invoked by Belintar – was a Sixth of the Holy Country. The God-King kept…

The Silver Age and the Dawn

The Silver Age Heort’s great successes inaugurated a period of twilight that preceded the actual first sunrise. This is called the Gray Age, or often the Silver to mark its increasing splendor….

ISS3010 Esrolia – 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

Trolls in Dragon Pass

Posted on January 16, 2024

After humans, trolls are the most numerous sentient species in Dragon Pass, although they live primarily on the edges of the area. There are some 70,000 trolls in Dragon Pass – mostly…

The Origin of Belintar

Posted on December 20, 2022

Greg and I both agreed never to publish a definitive answer as to the origin of Belintar. If the Only Old One couldn’t learn his origins, your player characters sure as heck…

Bright Eater And Traitor Son (2011)

Submitted by Dan on 26/05/2011 – 11:04 OK, I decided I’d better get this off my chest before I return to my multi-tome magnum opus on Gloranthan Criniculture. So if you were…

TP002 Forgotten Secrets of Glorantha (2019)

From THE KRAKEN 2014 Program booklet: FORGOTTEN SECRETS OF GLORANTHAHost: Sandy Petersen Let the Geekfest begin! We’ll make Uncle Sandy tell us stories on how he helped Greg Stafford create Glorantha in the…

Broken Empires, Gods, and Ideas

Posted on December 22, 2022

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…

Second Age Overview

Posted on December 30, 2021

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…

Belintar’s Book: Aldrya’s Own Story (1998)

Greg’s Introduction from 1998 Here’s an excerpt from Belintar’s Book, most or all of whose content will be included in the first Issaries, Inc. release, tentatively title The Hero Wars, Introduction to…

The Book of Drastic Resolutions Index

Version 1.30: Volumes Chaos, Prax, Darkness by Shannon Appelcline This index is © Copyright 1996-2020 Shannon Appelcline. It is released under a cc-by-4.0 license, allowing reuse with attribution. HISTORY, 1996-1998 The Book of Drastic Resolutions,…

Panaxles the Architect

Posted on March 9, 2021

Panaxles was descended from the Stone-souled builders and was thus related to the dwarfs. His mothers were the Tilntae so prevalent and important in the early ages of the world. Panaxles lived…

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