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…
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A Fragment of the Celestial Realm
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…
Glorantha-Terrestial Timeline
Going back to our Glorantha-terrestial convergence time line, it is worth thinking that about 1775 AD Sheng Seleris and his Pentan nomads invaded Peloria. For nearly a century, Pentans dominated the Pelorian…
Murharzarm
The Emperor Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Prosopaedia 87 2023 None listed n/a Prosopaedia entry The Fortunate Succession 6, 81 1995 None listed n/a Prosopaedia entry The Glorious Reascent…
ISS1103 Anaxial’s Roster – Index
PDF and corrected text of the original index. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…
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…
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…
Vashanti
Solar Emperor, God of Righteous Knowledge, Patron God of Mandarins Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 129 2023 Prosopaedia entry Guide to Glorantha 153 2014 Notes only
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…
Lunar Cities II
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
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…
Manimat
Solar Emperor of Darjiin Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Prosopaedia 83 2023 None listed n/a Prosopaedia entry Common and uncommon runes 2004 None listed Glyph only Glorantha:Introduction to the Hero…
HeenMaroun
Ruler of the World, Second Emperor of Kralorela Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 54 2023 Prosopaedia entry Guide to Glorantha 153 2014 Runes only
Sheng Seleris
Demigod Ruler of Pent, New Star, Celestial Emperor Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 111 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry
Pelorian Terms for Rulers
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…
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…
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…
Dragon Pass Viewed from Glamour
Of course Glamour pays attention to what is going on in Dragon Pass. The wars there have been costing many thousands of talents a year for the past decade. True Dragon there…
Original Horse People
In the Grey Age, there were two main groups of horse people in Peloria. One was west of the Hungry Plateau/Jord Mountains in what is now Saird (Vanch, Terarir, and Holay). These…
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…
Notes on the Origins Of Tarsh
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 Lunar Empire is a universal empire
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)….
The Movable Ephemeris and the Gloranthan Sky (1997)
25 October 2009 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…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – Y
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: Y (page 799 – 800) Yaan 431, 439 Yaanek Mountain 285 Yaan River 431, 439 Yak House 459 Yak People 274, 280, 283, 284…
Use of the old name of Elmal
Elmal is the original name of the Light god that came to Dragon Pass in the 1300s. The Light worshipers among the Sartarites began offering sacrifices to Yelm quite early – likely…