Spell RBM Cost Source Reference Availability Hailstones 55 4+ Orlanth Garundyer (subcult) LB 38 Initiates Hallucinate 55 1+ Eurmal Truant (subcult) LB 56 Initiates Harmonium 55 1+ Elamle (Chalana Arroy hero) LB…
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Caladra & Aurelion
Volcano twins The cult of Caladra and Aurelion is an example of a successful God Learner experiment. The God Learners took two independent cults with variant views of the universe and interlinked…
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…
Dendara
The Good Goddess, the Good Wife. The faithful and beautiful wife of Emperor Yelm is the paragon of uxorial virtue. With magnificent pride and skill she commands her heaven-full of servants, and…
Yelm
Sun god and Emperor Yelm is the god of the Middle Fire and brother of Lodril and Dayzatar. Yelm was not always bound to his path in the sky, but once traveled…
The Geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar
A little blurb on the geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar. Not much like Caledonia at all. GENERAL DESCRIPTION Sartar is a rugged and seismically active region filled with rounded hills and…
Peloria Climate
Peloria has a continental climate for the most part. Most of it is quite dry, with warm summers and cold winters. Without humans, most of Peloria would be grasslands and ripurian wetlands,…
Rune Magic by Cult and Associate Cult – F
Spell RBM Cost Source Reference Availability Face Chaos 50 1+ Storm Bull LB 132 Initiates Storm Bull LB 37 Orlanth Adventurous initiates, (associate) Storm Bull LB 140 Valind initiates (associate) Storm Bull…
Pamalt
Earth-King of Pamaltela Ruler of the Southern Continent, is the son of the primal earth. Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Mythology 121 2023 n/a Earth Goddesses 93 2023 None…
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…
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…
Rune Magic by Cult and Associate Cult – D
Spell RBM Cost Source Reference Availability Darklight 40 1 Thanatar RBM 40 Darksee 40 1 Kyger Litor RQB 80 Initiates Nightlight (Yelm subcult) FS 28 Initiates Darksword n/a 2 Black Horse DP 133…
Greg Sez: Enemy Gods (2009)
Published 15th Aug 2009 Question from Patrick Anders, answer by Greg Stafford. Zorak Zoran certainly gets around. He appears, usually as a villain, in the myth-cycles of the Orlanthi, Yelm, Praxians, and…
Excerpt – Cosmology (1981)
Originally published in Cults of Terror Before Creation In analyzing the mythos of Glorantha, four streams of belief prevail. They sometimes mingle and sometimes flow in separate channels, but they all flow…
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…
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 fragments…
CHA4034 The Red Book of Magic – Rune Spell List
RBM – Red Book of Magic RQG – RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha (Core rules) RQB – RuneQuest Bestiary SS – RuneQuest Starter Set Book 1 – Rules All spells are Temporal (15…
2 – The Uncles
1 – The Flame of Sartar 3 – The Underworld Characters: Argrath Orlanthi children become adults after a formal initiation ceremony, parts of which are the most closely held secrets of the clan….
History of Gloranthan Art, Part V – The Lunar Empire
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…
Cult Demographics for the Lunar Heartlands
The Lunar Heartlands are home to almost 5.4 million humans. This is the center of Lunar culture and the Lunar religion, a fact made omnipresent by the presence of the Red Moon…
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…
The Lunar Heartlands
As we think about the Lunar Heartlands as a place populated by people, a few dimensions are worth keeping in mind. It is about 300 miles from Jillaro to Elz Ast and…
Notes on Issaries I
Issaries is one of the most widely-spread cults in Glorantha. His markets appear in Kralorela, Fonrit, and Sog CIty. He’s worshiped as an ancestor by nobles in Seshnela and Maniria, he’s one…
Sartarite communities
One way of thinking about Gloranthan communities is as confederations of local temples. So for example, most Sartarite communities can be viewed as a tight alliance of the Orlanth and Ernalda temples,…
Dara Happa cities
The urban centers of the Lunar Heartland view themselves as the most perfect human society possible, living in accordance to divine laws and capable of great spiritual development. Governance is placed in…