The importance of the Crimson Bat for the expansion of the Lunar Empire cannot be understated. We all know it is awesomely powerful in its own right, able to devour an entire…
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Volume of Trade in Dragon Pass
Silk is something found among the elites in the Heartland, in Lunar Tarsh, in Boldhome, and is quite common in Nochet, Rhigos, and Karse. Assuming the Lunar Empire has roughly the same…
The Other Lightbringers in Sartar
The other Lightbringers (Chalana Arroy, Eurmal, Issaries, and Lhankor Mhy) have large and well-developed cults in Sartar. These cults are primarily centered on the cities – few tribes, let alone clans, can…
Sartar Money and War
The Kingdom of Sartar was the wealthiest of the Dragon Pass kingdoms prior to the Lunar Conquest. Its revenues were a combination of a head tax paid by the tribes (in silver),…
Esrolia’s Population
Esrolia is very densely populated – “too dense” say many. At somewhere around 200 people per square kilometer, it is even more densely populated than medieval France. This means that every 4…
The Size of a Tribe
Let’s try a little to get a sense of scale of an Orlanthi tribe. Let’s start with one of the biggest – the Colymar. The tribe has about 13,000 members. Most are…
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…
Sartar Geography
Did you know that Boldhome is even higher up in the mountains than Wintertop Fort? Or that thanks to the proximity of Sky Fall Lake, Alone actually gets more snow than Alda-Chur?…
City Rex
One of the titles I truly hated using for the leader of a Sartarite city was “mayor.” Perhaps because I used to work with US mayors, but I always felt it was…
A Sense of Size I
The Lunar Empire rules somewhere around 410,000 square km, including the Heartlands, West Reaches, and Provinces. That’s about the same size as Iraq or a little larger than the state of California….
Monomyth Art Final preview
I present to you the Monomyth, illustrated by the amazing Agathe Pitié. Look at this wonder and be astounded! And it will be a fold-out in the Cults Book. Along with all…
One Great Community of Gods
I was recently reading Weavers, Scribes, and Kings by Amanda Podany (she even played in the Bangles!), and was struck by this passage on page 58: “Suppose a priestess had arrived in…
Sartarite Tribal Assemblies
King of Dragon Pass and Thunder Rebels presented Sartarite tribal assemblies as pretty standardised events, like some small town city council meeting. However, in truth there’s little difference between a Sartarite tribal…
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…
Notes on Esrolia
Some material facts on Esrolia that I think are of importance. Esrolia is perhaps the most densely settled and intensely cultivated area in the world. It has 1.78 million people in an…
Temples in Sartar
In most of Sartar, your clan has a minor temple to Orlanth and Ernalda, and maybe a shrine to one other deity. Your tribe has at least a minor temple to Orlanth…
The Death of Prince Temertain
Prince Temertain was the great-great grandson of Sartar. His Telmori bodyguards were led Goram Whitefang, son of the Telmori King and a great-great grandson of Sartar through Saronil and Onelisin. In late…
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…
CHA4037 Dragon Pass – Index
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New Orlanthi Adults
Traditionally, new adults in Orlanthi cultures go through a period of cult training or apprenticeship, often called the “Ordeal Years”. The newly initiated young men (which include those women chosen by Vinga)…
Hendrikiland or “South Sartar”
There are about 175000 humans in the lands between the Crossline and the Syphon River. These are mostly Orlanthi, often called the Heortlings or the Hendriki. This area has been part of…
The Lunar Occupation of Sartar
With one brief but notable exception, the Lunar Army occupied much of Sartar for the better part of 23 years. This occupation of course impacted Sartarite society and left scars that are…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 22 – transcript
0:08okay welcome back to another episode of the white bull campaign at the chaosium0:16house runequest campaign i am jeff richard i’ll be your gm tonight and with me are0:22neil robinson linda borgen…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 24 – transcript
0:09and welcome back to another episode of the Chaosium house0:14Runequest campaign the adventures of the White Bull. I’m Jeff Richard and i’ll be your GM0:21tonight i’m joined with by uh neil robinson…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 28 – transcript
0:09welcome back to another episode of the Chaosium house Runequest campaign. I’m Jeff Richard i’ll0:16be your GM and we have Neil back on the west coast of the United States0:23so he is…