Copyright © 1996, 1999 by Michael O’Brien Who Are the Lunar Coders? The Lunar Coders were first presented in Avalon Hill’s RQ3 release Strangers in Prax (1994). The Coders are special agents of the…
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Notes on The Invisible God I
The Invisible God is abstract, the ultimate reality in the universe. It is Brahman, the Ein Sof, the Unmoved Mover, the One. The Invisible God does not change, but is the cause…
The Son of Light Awakens
A companion piece to Yolanela Spurned (by Nick Brooke)Copyright © 1996 by Michael O’Brien Picture if you can, my dear reader, Moonson, standing before one of the vast windows of his Sacred Bed Chamber,…
Esprit de Corps
Gifts and Geases for Humakt Allied Spirits by Michael O’Brien Originally published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #5, the ‘Humakti Special’ (Spring 1991) An allied spirit, according to Gods of Glorantha,…
Notes from Nochet from Tales of the Reaching Moon #17
[XXIX.14-16.title] Mercenary Contract of Leonidas the Short, Wind Voice of Orlanth Adventurous. [XXIX.14-16.a] Each hired person will give his complete and utter loyalty in all matters, whether they lead unto life or death to…
Kallyr Starbrow
Here are some of my notes on Kallyr Starbrow for the Homeland Book: Dark Season 1625, Kallyr is acclaimed Prince. In some areas she has a lot of support, in others, not…
The Malkioni And The Red Moon
In 1247 the whole world saw the Red Moon rise into the Middle Air. At first it could only be seen at night, but after 1275 or so, it could be seen…
Ralios Orlanthi
The Holy Country has about 357k Orlanth initiates (and I mean initiate of Orlanth, not Orlanthi culture). Peloria has 225k and Dragon Pass has just under 100k. But Ralios has some 560k…
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…
Notes on Ralios
Ralios is a syncretic mash-up of “Barbarian Old Gods”, Lightbringer cults, and Hrestolism, along with the some troll and elf cults. Arkat’s Dark Empire unified this land for several centuries, but has…
Degenerative Actions of Gods
The Malkioni posit the existence of something all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good (or at least all-rational) – the Invisible God. That entity is invisible to us – we can’t go “visit it” or…
A Brithini Cosmology
This is a Brithini cosmology, recited by Horali from Brithos in the Gbaji Wars and transcribed in the late First Age. Note the importance of Wisdom (“Right Use of Knowledge”) and of…
The Monomyth
And one more. This will be appearing in the Cults Book and is filled with careful information about the monomyth: Between the years 650 S.T. and 1050 S.T. the God Learners explored…
Notes on the Machine God
The God Learners made their foray into creating an artificial god with Zistor the Machine God. The Clanking City was first established in God Forgot around 740. It was a God Learner…
Roots of Malkionism
Malkionism was born in the disillusionment of the Gods War. The gods of Glorantha fought among each other, degeneration was the rule, and Death came for gods and mortals, wielded by terrible…
Secrets of the Chaos Gods (1998)
What the Sword Broo Says This covers Chapter 2, pages 12-21: Where did the world come from? The world was ripped from the Void of Chaos to torment each of us forever….
Watch your Red Moon Phase!
A key thing to playing a Lunar character is remembering that the phase of the Red Moon matters a LOT. So three days out of the week, your Rune magic works like…
Part 13 – Elder Races of Jrustela & the East Isles
ANDIN Innate Abilities: [Negative emotion] 2W, Know Human Culture 17, Large 15, Strong 18, Tough 18, Ugly 18 Magic: Initiate of [Adpara deity] Typical weapons & armour: Axe +3, naginata +4, dart…
Notes on the Hero Wars
As we think about the RuneQuest setting for 1621-1655, there’s going to be a LOT of change. Some of this may be player character driven, but much – in my experience, most…
CHA4045 Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way (2024)
I believe in the Red Goddess, Mistress of Life and Death Cults of RuneQuest: The Lunar Way is the player’s guide to the deities of the Red Moon. Each cult dives deep into…
Vanarthurd
Blue Overseer of the West Write up Page Year Runes Notes Revealed Mythologies 29 2001 None listed In: The Four Directionals, Zzabur (West, sorcery), Malkioni Glossary, The Glorious Reascent of Yelm 57…
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RuneQuest has Dragons
As we know, RuneQuest has dragons. And True Dragons are huge entities so powerful their thoughts and emotions can manifest and develop lives of their own. But at the same time, they…
White Bull Season 1 Episode 02 – transcript
0:09welcome back to another episode of the chaosium house runequest campaign i’m jeff richard and0:16i’ll be your game master tonight i i first want to thank my players claudia loroth0:21linda borgen richard…
White Bull Season 2 Episode 03 – transcript
0:00this is by the way many maxers should always pay to have little votive images of them0:06placed in every uh in every temple that they ever have a chance to go to0:12hmm…