So let’s think a little bit about the presence of the Red Goddess in Time. She is a Greater God who appeared during Time, embraces Chaos, and her very existence violates the…
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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…
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…
Genertela line map
The northern continent of the Surface World is called Genertela, which means “Place of Genert”, the Earth King who once ruled the land. Genertela is about 5,000 km east to west and…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Contents
Pantheons Entries Bold entries appeared in the 1985 Prosopaedia
Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book
I am wrapping up the final text of the Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book, while making sure that it all ties into both the new Heroquesting chapters in the GM Sourcebook…
A Year Ago
A year ago I got the terrible news from Suzanne that Greg passed away. It seems fitting that I’ve been spending this week reconstructing his old master maps of Glorantha – some…
A Civilization of River-and-Grasslands
Where Sartar is a silk road kingdom, with its riches coming from its command over the trade routes through strategic Dragon Pass, the Lunar Empire is a river-and-grasslands civilization. Because of its…
Orlanth Adventurous
One of the two primary Orlanth subcults. Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Earth Goddesses 25 2023 None listed n/a Husband protector of:Ernalda Lightbringers 25, 121, 140, 159 2023 per Rune…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #13
[XXIX. 344.88] “On the Properties of the Elements: How far can someone see on the ocean?” by Clement Longhair of the Nochet Lhankor Mhy temple As is well known Light, like Fire, is a…
Greater and Major Gods
So as I check over some of the material about to go to the printer soon, I was comparing things to a list Greg had written some years ago, listing all the…
The Monomyth
Glorantha is a unified setting – by that I mean that all of its pieces fit together to form a whole. The cosmology of Glorantha can be fit together to tell an…
Comparative Timeline
From time to time, I find this old chart of mine useful for getting perspective on the passage of Time in Glorantha: I then compare this to a Greek at the time…
Prehistoric Moons
In the God Time, Glorantha had a moon or moons, sometimes described as blue, red, or even purple. Most give a celestial origin for this Lunar Goddess, calling her the daughter of…
The Ages of The World
Here’s an interesting late Second Age document that I find deep in the Library of Nochet. Although it was written in Theyalan, I suspect it is of Jrusteli origin, given its materialist…
Brolia and Anadiki
Some 150,000 Orlanthi live in the foothills north of the Western Rockwoods, in Brolia and Anadikki. The population density here is about 6 people per square km, a little more than half…
Greg Sez Guests: Five Troll Questions (Sep 1999)
Occasionally Greg had guests answer the Q&As in Greg Sez. Answered by James Frusetta, with assistance from Stephen Martin, Jörg Baumgartner, Peter Metcalfe, Dan McCluskey, and Lorne Booker. Q: How much does a…
HeroQuest 1 – Sample Keywords (2007)
Uncolings Homeland Latest revision: 11 Feb 2007 Short homeland writeup for the Uncolings, the reindeer hsunchen of Fronela, by Greg Stafford. Occupations Available: Entertainer, Healer, Herder, Hunter, Petty Noble, Warrior Native Abilities: Reindeer Husbandry,…
ISS1301 Thunder Rebels – Player’s Book for Orlanthi Barbarians – Corrections
Thunder Rebels – Errata Updated: 9 March 2002 (new errata since 25 July 2001 marked with **) Special thanks to Jonas Schiött for his assistance with errata in this and other books in the Hero…