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Lord of the Four Quarters

Posted on December 16, 2024

The Red Emperor has some wonderful titles. Moonson – means literally son of the Red Goddess. Lord of the Four Quarters – means he is the ruler of the entire terrestrial world…

Hero Wars 1621-1627

Posted on March 9, 2024

The Hero Wars are the Big Story for the RuneQuest setting. What initially drives the Hero Wars is simple – the Sartarite drive to free themselves from the Lunar Empire and the…

Werewolves in Sartar

Posted on February 1, 2024

Sartar has one of the – if not the – highest percentages of werewolves of any civilized kingdom. Some 2% of the population are werewolves! The Prince is defended by werewolves and…

Lunar generals circa 1610

Posted on January 11, 2024

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…

The Lunar Occupation of Sartar

Posted on October 5, 2023

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…

Notes on Belintar III

Posted on September 22, 2023

In the Holy Country, Belintar largely let the locals rule themselves, so long as they kept the peace, and sent their magical and financial tribute to the City of Wonders. In exchange,…

Inspiration for the Lunar Empire

Posted on July 9, 2023

Many Lunar sources suggest that the Lunar religion is new and revolutionary. That was certainly true in the Zero and First Wanes, but the Lunar Way is now over four hundred years…

Fire Top

Posted on June 20, 2023

A little more than 3km from Alda-Chur is the active cinder cone of Fire Top, which rises some 250 meters above the surrounding plains. My mental image for this is Sunset Crater…

The Founding of Bagnot, Dunstop and Alda-Chur

Posted on June 15, 2023

Bagnot, Dunstop, and Alda-Chur were all settled by South Pelorian refugees within a generation of Arim the Pauper entering Dragon Pass. Bagnot and Dunstop were settled around 1340 ST by different groups…

The Imperial Guard

Posted on June 8, 2023

The Imperial Guard are the household troops of the Red Emperor. They consist of six regiments of elite soldiers, some 4500 strong, with three cavalry and three foot regiments. They include the…

Yanioth the Red-Haired Huntress

Posted on May 29, 2023

Yanioth Two-Sight was born in 1577, the daughter of Arene Triceratops Queen, a powerful Earth priestess who commanded a herd of triceratops, and was killed after they destroyed the village of Janastan….

Notes on Boldhome under the Lunar Occupation (1602-1625)

Posted on May 23, 2023

When the city fell in 1602, the Red Emperor first appointed Euglyptus the Fat, an imperial noble, as governor. A good Yelmite and Red Goddess initiate from Raibanth, I doubt Euglyptus had…

RuneQuest Campaign phases

Posted on July 3, 2022

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…

The Lunar Dynasty in Tarsh

Posted on May 31, 2022

King Pharandros of Tarsh has been on throne for 15 years in 1625. Educated in Glamour and Syllila, Pharandros is culturally a Lunar Heartlander. The son of the famed Lunar magician and…

Sartarite coin with Prince Kallyr

Posted on May 15, 2022

Here’s another WiP from Chris Huth showing one of the silver coins made during the reign of Prince Kallyr. The ram horns are part of the Orlanth Rex iconography and give the…

6 – Argrath the Man

5 – Argrath Faces Evil 7 – Argrath faces the Lunars Characters: Argrath Death and the Lunars Argrath’s father was a professional warrior of the Colymar tribe who was killed by the Lunars…

1 – The Flame of Sartar

Chapter 1 – Initiation 2 – The Uncles Characters: Argrath, Jar-eel the Razoress A Brief History Glorantha was created by its deities from the Primal Void of Chaos. At first, there was no history,…

A Sartarite View of the Red Emperor

Posted on July 6, 2021

The Red Emperor is the latest of a long dynasty of wizard-kings who rule the Lunar Empire, answerable only to their mother, the Red Moon goddess. They are immortal, in that no…

History of Kethaela – The Third Age

Posted on March 12, 2021

After the Dragonkill War, the Only Old One proved himself to be a troll in magical contest with Kajak-ab Brain Eater and so shared rule of Dragon Pass with the leaders in…

Personalities of Glorantha – Fazzur Wideread (1998)

Fazzur Wideread, Governor-General of Dragon Pass, originally published in Wyrms Footnotes #12 (1981) This write-up as of Storm Season, 1613 S.T. Fazzur was born on Fireday, Illusion Week, Fire Season in 1564….

Understanding the Kingdom of Sartar

Posted on January 6, 2021

The Prince of Sartar is a priest-king of the most important Orlanth Rex cult in Dragon Pass. The Prince serves as a high priest, supreme warlord, and chief judge for the member…

Cosmopolitan Sartar

Posted on June 20, 2020

As I have been working on the Sartar Homeland book, I’ve been struck how much more cosmopolitan Sartar becomes if you just extend the map slightly from that of the old Dragon…

The House of Sartar, Feathered Horse Queens, and Werewolves

Posted on December 13, 2013

One thing the new edition of King of Sartar (in layout now) and Coming Storm makes clear is the amount of dramatic potential between the Royal House of Sartar, the Feathered Horse…

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