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…
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Notes on 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.
Quivin Mountains & Boldhome map
Getting closer on the Sartar Book, and have some proof of concept of some of the handouts that people might enjoy seeing. The Quivin Mountains are a spur off the Storm Mountains….
Boldhome Map Preview III
As Matt Ryan and I continue to work on the Boldhome foldout map for the Sartar boxed set, we’ve made a few tweaks based on Greg’s notes. Greg really insisted that the…
Pockets of Boldhome
Of all the unique architectural elements of Boldhome, the Pockets are to me the most fascinating. Dwarf-made and carved deep into the mountain cliffs, they are an impossible combination of the facades…
Quivin Mountains Map WiP Preview II
Boldhome is the largest settlement in Sartar, comparable in size to all of the other cities of Sartar put together. It is the religious, political, commercial, and cultural center of the kingdom…
Boldhome Map Preview II
I thought people might be interested in seeing the current WiP of Boldhome from above.
Boldhome Map Preview I
This is a work in progress for the Sartar box, but Matt Ryan and I are working on a street map of Boldhome. Combined with Olivier Sanfilippo amazing Boldhome map, this will…
Quivin Mountains Map WiP Preview I
So in order to do the street map of Boldhome we had to get a better feel for the Quivin Mountains. And we kind of went overboard on information – but here’s…
City Populations
So as we are looking at population numbers and area, it is worth looking at some of the cities: So comparing sizes, Boldhome is a MUCH bigger city in area than Furthest….
Chaos Gods WiP preview
A snippet of the Chaos gods by the amazing Agathe Pitié! BTW, are you aware that is the same name as one of the students of Wilms, and the same person who…
Seven Mothers in Sartar
Now that we know where the Yelmalio cultists are, let’s look at some ballpark numbers for the Seven Mothers in Sartar. Seven Mothers cult numbers These numbers are very approximate, and might…
Yelmalio cult in Sartar
So where is the Yelmalio cult in Sartar, one might ask. Well here is how that breaks down: And that in a nutshell, shows what happened to the Elmal cult. So most…
The Liberation of Boldhome
Another little snippet from the forthcoming Sartar book: After the Dragonrise, all of Dragon Pass was thrown into disorder. Lergius Cassius held Boldhome with a small garrison of 300 soldiers from the…
Boldhome Cultists
Here’s an approximate number of cultists inside of Boldhome, as I think people might find this one real interesting: Cult – Approximate number of cultists c. 1626 So in Boldhome, Orlanth and…
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….
Boldhome Food
So as you all know, there is a dish similar to tacos carnitas in Furthest, as well as popular dried fish on a stick, but did you know that in Boldhome you…
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…