One of the most remarkable magical events in Glorantha occured a little over a century ago – the Syndics Ban. Here’s the Lunar account: Fronela was visited by disaster in 5/37 when…
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God-King Belintar
A Stranger came ashore in 1313. He quickly proved himself greater than any mortal, and knew secrets known only to the gods. In a great magical war, he overthrew the Lord of…
A Sartarite View of the Red Emperor
The Red Emperor is the latest of a long dynasty of wizard-kings who rule the Lunar Empire, answerable only to their mother, the Red Moon goddess. They are immortal, in that no…
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…
A few notes on Arkat
Perhaps all of these parts are familiar to all of you, but understanding Arkat is a key to understanding the Third Age: Arkat was a man of reason who ventured into the…
The Conquest Of Teshnos And Kralori
This is a Second Age Jrusteli document, among the earliest records recovered in the Third Age. It chronicles the conquest of Teshnos and Kralorela. Like many texts of this time, secret knowledge…
Uleria & Marriage
If a person is married can they “worship” at a temple of uleria, or is this seen as a breach of the marriage vows? Of course they can. In general, the legal/magical…
A few personal thoughts on Greg’s passing.
As I sit in my office cluttered with notes, sketches, and fragments of stories that I am trying to arrange, edit, and complete so that they can be published, I happily acknowledge…
Sheng Seleris I
Sheng Seleris was an incredibly powerful celestial magician/hero/demigod. He taught his followers his magical techniques, ranked into hierarchies. Greg emphasized many times that SS did NOT use what we would call Mongol…
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…
The Shadowlands
Both the Jrusteli and the Empire of the Wyrm’s Friends sought to maintain a loyal power base in the Shadowlands. It is, after all, the crossroads of the continent, and though every…
History of the Provincial Overseer
Prior to 1555, there was no Provincial Overseer. During the 4th Wane, the various provincial client kings were managed from Jillaro. After the Red Emperor returned to Glamour at the end of…
Restrictions on Satraps
Within their domains, the rulers of the satrapies or sultanates of the Lunar Empire rule with inherent authority. They are not mere governors or administrators – they are rulers in their own…
The Lunar Satrapy of Sylila
The Red Emperor’s daughter, Hwarin Dalthippa, conquered the lands south of Henjarl in a series of military and magical campaigns between 1309 and 1349. In 1325, the Red Emperor proclaimed her and…
Notes on Belintar I
As an aside, Belintar – like the Lunars – wasn’t a practical builder. He build awesome things to magically tie the Holy Country together, but not really practical things for ordinary people….
Starry Wisdom #1 – View from Zenith
by Rob Heinsoo Putting Glorantha Back on Target [8/19/97 Note: This editorial was produced in Winter of 1997 when our view of the Glorantha landscape was somewhat different. Since that time, the…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #10
More entries from Goliard’s Ten Thousand Gods of the East Isles… [XXIX. 21-014.e] The lonely Isle of Pines is a beautiful place, inhabited by the handsomest people of all the East Isles. They live…
The Sixes in the Holy Country
In the Holy Country, the magical energies of the Sixes work together to complement each other. All Six are recognized by all and yet, each maintain their own identity. The Sixes and…
Inkarne, the Feathered Horse Queen
A preview of some really amazing art for the Sartar Boxed Set. This is from Anna Orlova and is part of a character turn of Inkarne, the Feathered Horse Queen. Wow! So…
Lunar Occupation of Sartar 1622-1625
I posted elsewhere a few thoughts on the Lunar Occupation, and I thought they might be of interest here. Remember that the Lunar Empire is not all powerful or all knowing. So…
Solar Pentans
There are 600,000 Solar Pentans. A crude breakdown of the cult numbers would suggest that they have about: The remaining 200k are children so they are not in a cult? Yes Those…
Yelmalio cult in Sartar
So where is the Yelmalio cult in Sartar, one might ask. Well here is how that breaks down: And that in a nutshell, shows what happened to the Elmal cult. So most…
Eurmal’s Clown societies
One thing that gets a big emphasis in the forthcoming Cults of Glorantha are Eurmal’s Clown magical societies. Don’t think of modern clowns from the circus – think the sacred clowns of…
Townspeople and tribesfolk
Probably the biggest social conflict among the Sartarites is between the roughly 30k “townspeople” and the 140k “tribesfolk”. One way of seeing the distinction is with cults. So for example, among the…
The Sartarite Army
At the time of the Lunar Occupation, the Sartarite army was primarily foot. Since the return of Argrath, not yet Prince, to the hills of Sartar, the core of his army has…