Ginna Jar is the ghost of something important that has been lost and is gone. The Orlanthi give it a feminine identity, but that may have as much to do with the…
Tag: Arachne Solara
The Web of Arachne Solara
Glorantha is held together by the Web of Arachne Solara, a vast net woven out of the strands of myths – each the encapsulated deed of gods or heroes in the Godtime….
26 – The Seven Steps
25 – Fear and the Void 27 – What about Chaos? 25 – Fear and the Void 27 – What about Chaos?
Harmast’s Heroquests
This excerpt is from Greg Stafford’s unpublished Harmast Saga (1991) Here are the times that Harmast went to the Hero Plane before he returned with Arkat. First, for a glimpse, at his…
Grandmother Spider
Cosmic Spirit Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 52 2023 Prosopaedia entry Cults of Glorantha Preview 165 2019 per Rune spell Spirit Cult Tales of the Reaching Moon #14 46 1996…
The Beastmen
There are no records of the Beastmen living in Dragon Pass in the First Age. During the later Second Age, there was the famous stitched zoo at Voss Varainu, where the Wyrms…
The Great Compromise
Arachne Solara is the epithet of an otherwise unnamed deity who may be the goddess of Nature in Glorantha. Her origins are mysterious and subject to speculation, but there are strong indications…
Great Temples of Sartar
I believe these are the great temples around Sartar. As an aside, Eiritha is an important cult for the Pol-Joni, but Ernalda is still more prevalent. The Pol-Joni are very atypical Praxians….
Strange bit of Art Description going in the Guide
Here’s the art description for a piece that Jeff Laubenstein is doing for the Guide – fourteen panels on the Lightbringers Quest. It is based on a cryptic diagram that Greg Stafford…
Arachne Solara
Goddess of Nature Greatest of the Greater Gods Some philosophers theorize about gods beyond the gods. Sometimes these theorizations are labeled as powerful impersonal forces, like Time. Sometimes they remain mysterious and…