Pretty much every cult who Arkat interacted with as an initiate or associate accepts that Arkat certainly was telling the truth about what he did and experienced on the Hero Plane. Their…
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Arkat the Bodhisattva
This is a DEEP background post and irrelevant for most games. But I know some of you will enjoy it a lot, so I’m posting it anyway. Let’s start with I don’t…
Solars, Orlanthi, and the Monomyth
So if we think about the transmission of Solar myths into the Monomyth we get something like: Dawn Age: Orlanthi and Dara Happans recognised each other’s myths and placed them in each…
How The God Learners Learned About The Gods
So we know that the God Learners assembled the monomyth – that is the cohesive framework for understanding the events of the God Time. Furthermore they created several maps of the God…
CHA4030 The Coming Storm – Index
Index of CHA4030 The Coming Storm (2016) A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W…
CHA4037 Dragon Pass – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z
So what do your adventurers know about Illumination?
So what do your adventurers know about Illumination (as opposed to players)? If you notice Illumination is pretty much unmentioned in the core rules, Lightbringers, and Earth Goddess books. There is a…
Hard-Wired Gloranthan Conflicts
There are some big conflicts hard-wired into the Glorantha setting, including (but not limited to): These conflicts are macro and microcosmic. Political conflict often echo these cosmic conflicts – for example, Sartar…
Otherworld Home
So in every cult description, there’s an entry called Otherworld Home. That is where the cult members experience the god during holy day ceremonies and other important rituals. From there, there may…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
CHA4043 The Lightbringers – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
The Third Age Arkat Romance
Arkat was the single most important historical hero in Glorantha. 1200 years later, he’s still the subject of legends, romances, stories. If we think of him as a military figure, he’s beyond…
Inspiration for Arkat
One of the more curious representations of Alexander the Great is this medieval illustration that has him with boar tusks. Apparently, the source for this strange feature may ultimately lie in the…
Before and after the Dark Empire
After the defeat of Gbaji in 450, Arkat placed Dragon Pass under the rule of his troll friends and then returned to the West. He then settled in Fornoar, at the time…
Stygian Heresy
Malkioni Sect References Page Year Notes The Stygian Heresy III Post 2022 Notes The Stygian Heresy II Post 2022 Notes The Stygian Heresy I Post 2022 Notes Guide to Glorantha 379, 387…
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 III
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 II
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….
Arkat’s Dark Empire
From about 450 ST to 740 ST area now known as Safelster was part of a political entity that called itself the Autarchy or the Empire of Peace, but was known by…
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…