In Glorantha, synchronicity is the rule. Events that are meaningfully related occur without a causal relationship. Argrath sails to the Homeward Ocean and meets Harrek the Berserk; Argrath befriends Mularik, a descendant…
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Neil’s Year in Review (2015)
Neil here. It seems that I’m often so busy with the day-to-day projects that I forget to stop and reflect about what we have accomplished over the year. My annual pilgrimage to…
Notes on the Feathered Horse Queen Dynasty
The Feathered Horse Queens are the most important Earth priestesses of Dragon Pass (and often paired with the High Priestess at the Shaker Temple – they always address each other as “sister”). The following…
Rough Guide to Glamour 1997, 2020
Welcome to Glamour! This booklet is designed primarily to be useful background for Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Life of Moonson freeform. First run at GloranthaCon V A Rough Guide to Glamour is your indispensable…
CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 10 Magic Q&A
Official Answers by Chaosium This covers Chapter 1, pages 4-11: Resisting Spells (page 244) If a character is a target of a spell that requires a POW vs POW resistance roll, can…
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HeroQuest Glorantha and associated books The Making of the Coming Storm cover The Guide to Glorantha Art Direction for the Cover of the Guide Jar-Eel, Harrek and Argrath concept art
1625-1630 The Liberation of Sartar
Date Event Homeland Primary Sources 1616-1625 Previous section – The Conquest of the Holy Country 1625 The DragonriseTrue Dragon devours Temple of the Reaching Moon (Sartar), plus most of the powerful Lunars…
14 – Preparations for Death
13 – Beat-Pot 15 – Jar-Eel the Razoress Characters: Beat-Pot Aelwrin West King Wind: The Storm King of the Pentan nomads, this god is often identified with the the god Orlanth the Final…
Experience Glorantha
Glorantha Greg Stafford’s Glorantha is the most elegant, original, and imaginative fantasy setting since Middle Earth. It is a world of exotic myth and awesome magic, self-contained and unique in its creation….
Lance and Laser Miniatures (2002)
Lance and Laser produced a two sets of Gloranthan miniatures. Lance and Laser web site at Archive.org
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – III
From the Glorantha Sourcebook: In Sacred Time, Kallyr Starbrow rallied her kingdom behind her to perform the Lightbringers’ Quest, a complicated heroquest that usually provided new life and health to everyone participating….
Notes on Alkoth II
Let’s look a little at Alkoth. The city is the center of the Shargash cult, with roughly some 4000 cultists. It is a Lunar city and has 5000 Seven Mothers cultists –…
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…
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – II
In Storm Season 1625, Prince Kallyr Starbrow summoned an assembly in Boldhome. Before the assembled citizens of many tribes, she formally made the Lightbringers’ Summons. Chaos stalks my world. Broos have bruised…
HeroQuesting & The Proximate Holy Realm
So when we think about heroquesting, the Empire of the Wyrms Friends, and Belintar’s Holy Country, one common thread is the idea of the “Proximate Holy Realm”. The mundane world and the…
Notes on Harrek the Berserk I
We’ve talked a lot about Argrath, Jar-eel, the Red Goddess and the Red Emperor, the God Learners, and the Empire of the Wyrms Friends. Let’s move on to the most iconic and…
Second Age Overview
So based on the past few posts, hopefully I conveyed the idea that the Second Age featured widespread mythic experimentation and exploration. Not only did we have God Learnerism, dragonic mysticism, and…
RuneQuest Campaign phases
As I work on the overall structure of the “RuneQuest Campaign” or the “Grand Argrath Campaign”, there’s some big differences between it and the Boy King campaign that I wanted to talk…
Gloranthan Terrors
The Crimson Bat, Cwim, the Mother of Monsters, the Chaos Gaggle, any of the True Dragons – stopping the appearance of any of these terrors would be the plot of a world-ending…
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…
The Moonburn
Of all the many crimes of the Third Age perhaps the worst was the Moonburn. As we all know, back in the First Wane, Dara-Ni was refuge for the River People and…
The Lunar Army in Sartar
Prior to the Dragonrise in 1625, there were approximately 15,000 Lunar soldiers in Dragon Pass, with the largest camps of some 10,000 soldiers being outside of the New Temple of the Reaching…
Kings and Kingship
An interesting snippet from Grainger’s “Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World, 350-30 BC”: “For the ordinary population, the king was akin to a natural force, a power of nature. He was…
Fronela
Fronela is one of the strangest and wildest regions in Glorantha. Normally when I try to get a handle on a region, I ponder its history, how the various peoples interact and…