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…
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Dara Happen Book of Emperors (1994)
This is an early version of what became The Fortunate Succession in 1995, and The Entekosiad (aka, Book of Emperors) in 1996. Details Editions As with all of Greg’s Work’s in Progress,…
Orlanth and the Red Goddess
Here’s a popular Orlanthi tale of the rise of the Red Goddess. This is similar to the story presented in King of Sartar. Orlanth is the god who began the Great Compromise,…
CHA4045 The Lunar Way – Index
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Myth of the Month: Enemy Gods of the Orlanthi (2001)
Most deities have one or more specific, notable foes. Those foes were (usually) defeated in mythic times, resulting in the creation of the current world, and may be considered to be a…
CHA4042 The Prosopaedia – Index
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Notes on Shargash II
Shargash aka Tolat is the celestial god of of war and destruction. He is a planetary god who conquered Hell and is served by fiery underworld demons. There are a lot of…
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…
ISS2003 Sartar Companion – Index
This is the index for the Moon Design Publication the Sartar Companion. To go to a specific section of the index, click on the letters below. A B C D E F G…
A Sense of Scale
Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 07/11/2011 – 14:43 Third Age Glorantha is a Bronze Age (or early Iron Age) setting, with a scale that is more comparable to the Ancient World than…
Heresy and the Seven Mothers
Heresy is a term that often gets thrown around, largely without thought about what that means in Gloranthan terms. So here’s a look at what might constitute “heresy” to the Seven Mothers…
Justice in Dara Happa and the Lunar Heartlands
In contrast to the Orlanthi, the Dara Happan (and Lunar Heartland) concept of justice has two parts: 1. Proper social order. That means everyone is in their proper place, with the strong…
How the Lunars Look
I know many of you are wedded to the idea of the Lunar Heartlands being Rome. But to me, this is a Lunar princess riding out of Glamour accompanied by another Lunar…
ISS1306 Champions of the Reaching Moon – Index
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The Contradiction of the Lunar Way
The events of the Godtime eternally recur within Time. Each dusk, Orlanth slays Yelm and sends him off to the Underworld. Each dawn, Yelm rises triumphant from Hell, heralded by Theya. The…
The Cycle of History
Some notes from a discussion on the Chaosium Discord channel where I discussed what I consider one of the key dynamics of the setting: The brutality of the Lunar Empire to its…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #16
[XXIX.777.49.e/2.3] “It was with some trepidation I approached the Great Temple of Peace. The austere columned facade seemed designed to over-awe by its sheer inhuman scale. Its steps, walls and pillars, of highly…
Glorantha is a flat world
Glorantha is a flat world surmounted by a Sky Dome. The Sky Dome itself tilts back and forth, north and south, each year. The Sun’s height in the sky also changes throughout…
Pelorian Earth Cults
One thing that writing the Cults Book has really hammered into me is how much fear the traditional rulers of Peloria (aka the Yelm cult) have for Lodril as Monster Man. But…
A few notes on the God Time history of mortals
Glorantha in the God Time progressed from a Green Age to a Golden Age to a Storm Age and then to its near destruction in the Great Darkness. Mortals experienced this as…
The Cults of living Heroes and Gods
Many heroes and “living gods” have cults while they live. Those cults provide the hero with magical resources – however, these cults do not directly provide the worshipers with Rune spells. Instead…
Polytheism
In most of Glorantha, polytheism is the norm. Gods and spirits are acknowledged and worshiped at temples and shrines throughout the land. The same deity might be worshiped at different places, with…
ISS3006 Revealed Mythologies – Index
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Late Golden Age
Submitted by Jeff on Wed, 13/06/2012 – 08:13 Here’s a little bit of something Eric Vanel and I are working on for the Guide. Abzered Land of Enlightenment. It is incredibly rich,…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – S
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: S (page 788 – 793) Sabadari 229, 233 Sabaki Gorge 561, 572, 573 Sabaki River 569, 572 Saber-toothed cats 311 Saber-tooth Salmon 636 Saber-tooth…