Greg’s Introduction from 1998 Here’s an excerpt from Belintar’s Book, most or all of whose content will be included in the first Issaries, Inc. release, tentatively title The Hero Wars, Introduction to…
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Sea 1605: Raid on Brightwater
Introduction: This episode kicked the feud between the Split Waters and the Red Cow into high gear with a raid on Brightwater stead. For those with enemies among the Split Water it was…
Breakfast and Games: A new blog (2010)
Submitted by Claudia on Fri, 16/07/2010 – 22:41 This morning, Orlanth called thunder and lightning down on us – I decided it’s a good day to start this blog! Introduction: My name is…
The Second Battle Of Moonbroth by Rurik Runespear
Rurik Runespear’s Account of The Second Battle Of Moonbroth (Storm 1624). “Caltrops had defeated the nomads in the first battle at Moonbroth fourteen years earlier, and the Lunars were supremely self-confident about…
Excerpt – Ernalda Feeds the Tribe (1999)
By Robin D. Laws Copyright ©1999 A Sharp, LLC. This myth is drawn from A Sharp’s computer game King of Dragon Pass. An enemy once took everything that the bountiful mother Ernalda…
Myth of the Month: How Orlanth Met Ernalda (1998)
At the beginning of things that are remembered, the Emperor extended his rulership among the deities of the Earth Tribe. The ruler of that tribe was the goddess named Asrelia. When the…
Lunar generals circa 1610
So why did someone like Sor-eel get the command to conquer Prax? Well lets start by looking at the main Lunar generals circa 1610: Fazzur Wideread. He’s a provincial warleader, successfully invaded Hendrikiland…
Path of the Red Goddess
The Red Goddess was born out of the parts of ancient Moon deities, shattered and broken in the Gods War, but reunited and reborn in Time. For her the Gods Time is…
Part 8 – Mundane Amphibians and Fish
EOGYRIN (Eogyrinus palophilus) Bite 8W+2, Leathery Hide +2, Ambush 5W, Large 5W, Spot Prey 5W, Strong 10W Distribution: Slon Habitat: Swamp In southern Porlaso the swamp-dwelling dinosaurs mingle with a variety of…
Chaos and The Great Compromise
The Spike held Glorantha together in the Gods Time. The Celestial Court were torn into pieces and the Spike was destroyed, leaving instead a gaping, howling Void. Things fall apart; the centre…
Cult’s book Holy Country Preview
Here’s a snippet from the forthcoming Cults Book that ties into some recent posts of mine: About a century after the Dragonkill War, an incredible event occurred which changed Kethaela forever—the arrival…
Till Death Do Us Part Or Eternal Love?
Submitted by RoM on Thu, 20/06/2013 – 10:56 After more than three years and exactly 81 game sessions my gaming group accomplished the Colymar series from the Sartar book. We began with…
Tricksters as Characters
Submitted by Mr Smith on Tue, 12/02/2013 – 18:47 Friends, Who out there has a Trickster as a character? How’s that working out for everyone else? ;-)I have a Eurmali as a character…
What Happens When You Die
Your soul separates from your body. The material body returns to its basic components, and for seven days, the soul lingers near the body, drifting farther from it and developing spirit senses….
Into the 4th Dimension – Magic
I’ve been thinking of Glorantha as a four-dimensional setting. So three dimensions is pretty easy to get – we have geography, culture, and time, right? I’ve done a lot of posts about…
Glorantha Digest Volume 1 #1
From loren@hops.wharton.upenn.edu Thu Mar 20 10:04:57 1997 From: Loren Miller <loren@hops.wharton.upenn.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 17:33:56 -0500 (EST)Subject: More missing Dailies… + Announcement (fwd) Hail Gloranthaphiles, Ladies, Gentlemen, and Hermaphroditic Tapeworms!…
Glorantha Digest Volume 1 #2
From: David Dunham (via RadioMail) <ddunham@radiomail.net>Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 00:11:16 -0800Subject: Etymology; Bloodlines [I don’t recall seeing this on the RQ Daily, so…] Nick Brooke conjectures Urox = Aurochs, surely. Not…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #14
[xxix.445.1c] Fragments of the notebook of Lucien the Diviner, master of natural philosophy: “…it is known that certain geographical localities provide a focus for penetration to the other side for certain cult, the metaphysical…
Argrath’s Army
This is some material in the new Big Rubble and Pavis books and is circa 1625-1626. Note the embryonic Magical Union! Those watching the White Bull campaign have likely gotten a preview…
Tales of Mythic Adventure Episode 11 – Learning More of Moon Design
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOther sources: iTunes | Android Guest: Neil Robinson Tetrarchies are better than Triumvirates, and so say all of us…. 0:00-4:55 MOB and Jeff celebrate the fact that for the…
Jaxarte and the Emperor
First published in Reaching Moon Megacorp’s Rough Guide to Glamour Copyright © 1997 by Michael O’Brien The Coders Cometh In 1620 the Lunar government dispatched the Coders, their finest and most trusted…
Jaxarte on the Borderlands
First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #5Copyright © 1991 by Michael O’Brien Weis DomainJaxarte’s first journey in his capacity as Commissioner of the Imperial Census was to Sun County, where his political…
Top Seven Drugs of Glorantha
Copyright © 1993 by Michael O’Brien (additional input: Mark Holsworth) Rainbow Grass – Pent Stigummay – Prax & the Wastes Xcori – Kralorela Cataplasis – Sog City, Fronela Lunar Tea – The Lunar Empire Malhauti Venom – Teshnos…
Heroquesting 101
Heroquesting is a powerful and rare Gloranthan activity in which the participants leave the material world and enter the realm of legend and myth to interact with heroes and gods, gambling precious…
Current Tarsh Politics
To understand Tarsh in the current time, one needs to understand how important the last three generations of the Blacktooth family (the Orindori) have been. Vostor Blacktooth, Fazzur’s father, was a loyal…