Throughout Glorantha, people worship the ever-compassionate Goddess of Mercy. She’s known by many names – Erissa, Serelaloon, etc., – but she’s known best as Chalana Arroy. Her worshipers practice TOTAL non-violence and…
Tag: Boldhome
Boldhome
Boldhome is a diverse and cosmopolitan city, far more than most Gloranthan settlements. There are young, unmarried warriors from the Adventurous cult, caravanners and merchants from all over, veteran Humakti warriors, Earth…
Notes on Dwarfs
The dwarfs are an often underestimated and underrepresented Elder Race. In Sartar, they arguably played a bigger role than any other major Elder Race. They built the walls of Sartar’s cities, the…
Tribal members living outside Tribal Lands
One thing to keep in mind is that every tribe also has members living outside of the tribal lands. Most of those people permanently reside in the cities – Boldhome, Jonstown, Swenstown,…
Lunar Treasury at Boldhome during the Occupation
Although the new Temple of the Reaching Moon was to be the magical and religious center of the province, Boldhome remained the administrative center for the Lunars. The Provincial Governor of Dragon…
The Pockets of Boldhome
The dwarf-made Pockets of Boldhome are particularly remarkable. They are usually labeled as the East Pocket, West Pocket, and Top Pocket. Each Pocket extends deep into the cliff, and is split into…
The Breather Sisters
A random passage from the Boldhome booklet that I find interesting: The most important cult within the city is that of Orlanth. The Prince is the highest priest of the Orlanth Rex…
Clan Map of Central Sartar
So as part of a Work in Project that Matt Ryan and I are working on, here is every clan in central Sartar and its approximate borders. The map is a composite…
Lunar Treasury at Boldhome during the Occupation
Although the new Temple of the Reaching Moon was to be the magical and religious center of the province, Boldhome remained the administrative center for the Lunars. The Provincial Governor of Dragon…
Glamour
Glamour, not the Tripolis, is the cultural, religious, and political center of the Lunar Empire. Now over four hundred years old, it was founded by a polyglot group of devotees of the…
The East and West Pockets of Boldhome
Almost a third of the population of Boldhome lives in the East and West Pockets of the city. These dwarf-made complexes are carved out of the stone of the valley’s wall, and…
Notes on the Boldhome Pockets
Each pocket is split into terraces, and each terrace has several galleries. Each gallery holds many families, usually organized around guild, clan, or cult activities. Galleries typically have a large communal eating…
White Bear & Red Moon and Belintar
Armed with this information you now know about Belintar, the Sartar Dynasty, and the Masters of Luck and Death, things can get really interesting.
Leika Blackspear
Queen Leika Blackspear has got to be one of the toughest survivors in Sartarite tribal history. Once an adventurer, she became the Colymar tribal king after her second cousin King Kallai Rockbuster…
Boldhome Bronze Workers Guild
Here’s another example of a RuneQuest community from the Sartar Book: The Bronze Workers Guild of Boldhome smelts bronze out of copper by alloying it with tin (both of which are mainly…
Getting up to Glamour
I recently made the comment that “it isn’t as if the Sartarites get up to Glamour very often” – but let’s not forget, it is only about 700 km from Glamour to…
Boldhome Booklet
Wow there is a lot of good stuff in the Boldhome booklet going into the Sartar Boxed Set.
Lunar Army laziness
As shocking as this might sound to some folk, the Lunar Army is actually tactically quite lazy. Their ace in hole is the Lunar College of Magic which is how they get…
Kallyr’s Lightbringers Quest
Getting support for an attempted Lightbringers Quest is pretty much everything Kallyr does from being acclaimed Prince until Sacred Time. She pushes hard to have the entire Orlanth cult and its associates…
Elevations in Dragon Pass and Prax
Apropos the recent discussion of what Dragon Pass and Prax look like, here’s the elevation of various points on the map: Dragon Pass & Prax Real World Durengard 50 meters Queen Anne…
Eastern Sartar and Prax
A few interesting features here – you can see that Pimper’s Block is in Balkoth tribal lands. Moonbroth is only about 40 km from Swenstown, and the Dead Place itself is only…
Greg’s First writings about Sartar
Among the first things Greg ever wrote about the Kingdom of Sartar was the following: “<Sartar’s> magic turned smart men into chieftains, good men into loyal followers, and enemies into pack beasts. It…
Sartar on a rare sunny day in Storm season
If you ever want a good feel for Sartar on a rare sunny day in Storm season, check out the Vinschgau in Sudtirol.