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Boldhome Embassies

Posted on May 31, 2023

In general, Gloranthan kingdoms and empires send representatives to each other’s countries to negotiate on specific issues, such as war, peace, or trade relations. Sometimes, a high status member of one kingdom…

Boldhome After the Dragonrise (1625+)

Posted on May 24, 2023

After Boldhome’s liberation in 1625, Kallyr spent only a few days in the city before marching on Jonstown. The Boldhome militia participated in this campaign and fought at Dangerford. Kallyr was acclaimed…

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…

Notes on the Governance of Boldhome

Posted on May 22, 2023

The city of Boldhome is the possession of the Prince. Sartar made it and it is his city. Unlike the other cities of Sartar, which are the centers of tribal confederations, Boldhome…

Notes on City Gods

Posted on February 6, 2023

Cities have a market, a degree of self-governance, and temples to the city’s patron deity and to the city god. They also have temples to other gods of importance to the people,…

Closing Temples

Posted on December 29, 2022

Part of the reason I post demographic and economic information is it gives a sense of the resources various temples, rulers, and other groups might have. Hopefully it is clear that the…

Thoughts on city size

Posted on December 2, 2022

When we think about most cities in RuneQuest, they are pretty small. New Pavis is a little over 5000 people. Jonstown, Swenstown, and Wilmskirk are even smaller – none are more than…

The Quivin Mountains

Posted on November 29, 2022

The Quivin Mountains are a massif of the Storm Mountains, a subrange separated from the main range by the 1000 meter high Sambarri Pass. The subrange is quite small, only about 35…

Quivin Mountains

Posted on November 22, 2022

Spend a long day driving around Dragon Pass yesterday with the family. Here’s a great view of the Quivin Mountains from near Gold Lamb Hill. You can even see the valley of…

Feeding Boldhome

Posted on October 14, 2022

Normally a city gets most of its food from within about 30km. Within about 30 km of Boldhome is about 250-300 km2 of cultivated land, raising mainly wheat. Now that is enough…

Notes on Chalana Arroy, Goddess of Mercy

Posted on September 24, 2022

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…

Boldhome

Posted on June 17, 2022

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…

The Telmori

Posted on February 7, 2022

The Telmori have two basic forms – more or less ordinary human or all-but-invulnerable wolf (when the moon is full). When they are human, they can become wolf-like through magic, but to…

Notes on Dwarfs

Posted on January 19, 2022

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

Posted on January 8, 2022

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

Posted on December 22, 2021

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

Posted on October 25, 2021

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

Posted on October 25, 2021

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

Posted on October 17, 2021

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

Posted on September 27, 2021

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

Posted on September 23, 2021

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

Posted on August 19, 2021

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

Posted on August 10, 2021

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

Posted on July 26, 2021

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

Posted on July 15, 2021

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…

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