After the defeat of Gbaji in 450, Arkat place Dragon Pass under the rule of his troll friends and then returned to the West. He then settled in Fornoar, at the time…
Tag: Arkat
Stygianism
Extinct First Age Sect Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Common and uncommon runes 2004 Glyph only Glorantha:Introduction to the Hero Wars 52, 55 2000
A Short History of Arkat
By all accounts Arkat was born on the isle of Brithos in 375 ST. In 400 he accompanied a Brithini expedition to Arolanit attempting to liberate that land from Gbaji. In 410…
Thoughts on The Lightbringers Quest
The Lightbringers Quest can be thought of as the monomyth of heroquests. It contains within it many quests – the Westfaring, the Descent into the Underworld, the Tests of Proof, etc. In…
Harmast’s “Lightbringers’ Quest”
I personally think it a little ironic that we still refer to Harmast’s “Lightbringers’ Quest” when after all it turned out to be a “Darknessbringer’s Quest”. Those Lightbringers were pretty shocked when…
Broken Empires, Gods, and Ideas
Arkat was the most terrifying mortal to walk the world. He built no new empires, ruled nothing but his companions, and built little. Instead, Arkat broke empires, gods, and even ideas. Think…
The Stygian Heresy II
So what do all of these Arkat sects – what we broadly call the Stygian Heresy – have in common? First and foremost they all claim to be the inheritors of esoteric…
The Stygian Heresy I
A key to why the Stygian Heresy is so threatening to mainstream Malkioni can be found in Arkat’s apocryphal retort to the missive of King Nralar demanding that the Hero end sacrifice…
Arkat’s heirs
Many Second Age texts hold that both Gerlant Flamesword and Talor the Laughing Warrior were sons of Arkat and Seleria of Brithos. This is held as deeply heretical, even blasphemous, by both…
End of Ages
Without getting into the nature of Glorantha after the Hero Wars, it is worth remembering that twice before there have been widespread catastophes that are generally considered to have ended the Age….
Arkatism
Early Malkionism is thought to have been composed of sacrificial rituals, sorceries techniques and spells, legal proscriptions and philosophical speculations. Later Hrestolism preserved the rationalism and philosophical elements of early Malkionism and…
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This excerpt is from Greg Stafford’s unpublished Harmast Saga (1991) Here are the times that Harmast went to the Hero Plane before he returned with Arkat.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…
Arkat as Colonel Kurtz
If I sometimes imagine Argrath as a Bowie-like chameleon, I often imagine Arkat as a Colonel Kurtz figure, particularly in the last stages of the Gbaji Wars. I could imagine him giving…
A few more Arkat Cult notes
As said many times before – After the long war Arkat retired with his closest confederates to Arkhome, which became the capitol of Arkat’s Autarchy. Arkat instituted formal cult procedures, created a…
A few notes on Arkat
Perhaps all of these parts are familiar to all of you, but understanding Arkat is a key to understanding the Third Age: Arkat was a man of reason who ventured into the…
A History Of Heroquesting
There’s a lot here to unpack. Worth a very careful read! Heroquesting begins with Time, and the division of the Mundane World from the Gods World. In the God Time, there was…
Nysalor / Gbaji
Write up Page Year Runes Notes Cults of Glorantha Preview 404 2019 Associate cults: none Cult Compendium 319Five pages 2002 Associate cults: none Cults of Terror 84Four pages 1981 Associate cults: none
History Of Kethaela – The First Age
Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…
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…
Safelster in the First Age (2013)
Sun, 16 Jun 2013 The following is part one of a series of Questions and Answers about Safelster and Ralios. The Enerali Peoples at the Dawn At the Dawn the four tribes…
Notes on Illumination in the Second Age (2015)
Ralios and Seshnela In 450 “Arkat” emerged triumphant from Dorastor, and returned to Ralios (actually Fornoar). There he lived a simple, ascetic life, farming and teaching, until his apotheosis in 500. His…
Paslac
[PAZ-lak] The Dark Emperor Western pantheon Paslac was the last true emperor of Arkat‘s Dark Empire. He fought steadfastly against the God-Learner heresy and was finally made a martyr through treachery. In…
Gerlant Flamesword
Warlord, Hero of Honor and Right Action Gerlant Flamesword was a king of Seshnela during the most important war fought by the Malkioni. He was Arkat‘s liege during the Gbaji wars and…
Gbaji
The Deceiver Gbaji brought about the end of the Dawn Age and destroyed Genertelan civilization. His subtle chaos infected all cults and peoples from Peloria to Seshnela. At the peak of Gbaji’s…
Arkat
Ancient hero, The Traitor, The Troll A famous hero of the Gbaji Wars, whose passion to destroy his enemy overcame his common sense, spirituality, and finally, even his humanity. Write up Page…