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Notes on Belintar IV
For nearly three centuries, Belintar was the God-King of the Holy Country. Belintar defeated and slew the Only Old One, cast him down, and received acknowledgement from all the major cults of…
CHA4041 Mythology – Index
CHA4041 Cults of RuneQuest: Mythology (2023) 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…
Notes on Belintar III
In the Holy Country, Belintar largely let the locals rule themselves, so long as they kept the peace, and sent their magical and financial tribute to the City of Wonders. In exchange,…
The City Of Wonders
Belintar was a sacred figure, not a political or administrative figure. That’s really really hard for us moderns to wrap our head around, but Belintar’s main function was to be a conduit…
Elder Secrets of Glorantha – Contents
Secrets Book 1 Elder Races Book 2
32 – Ludoch and Triremes
31 – Harbinger of the End 33 – Gifts and Generosity Q&A
29 – The City of Wonders
Chapter 3 – The White BearDer Weiße Bär – Kapitel 3L’Ours Blanc – Chapitre 3 30 – Sideshows30 – Die Nebenhandlung30 – Problèmes mineurs Chapter 3 – The White BearDer Weiße Bär…
Chapter 3 – The White Bear
End of Chapter 2Ende von Kapitel 2Fin du Chapitre 2 29 – The City of Wonders29 – Die Stadt der Wunder29 – La Cité des Merveilles End of Chapter 2Ende von Kapitel…
Sailing Distances from Seapolis
in km: Although Seapolis itself was built by masons out of stone or fired brick (probably brought from Esrolia), the fishing villages are probably made out of reeds and wood. Many village…
Belintar the Patron
Over his centuries of rule, Belintar attracted and patronised many visionary and unorthodox thinkers. Aggressive reincarnation, philosophies of Luck and Fate (“our Lady giveth and she taketh away”), God Learner apologists, monomyth…
Mister Bondaru
Mister Bondaru was a sage of Lhankor Mhy, and a noted philosopher in the City of Wonders. As stated before, his specialty was “The Physical Body and its Etheral Attributes” and he…
Notes on The City of Wonders
The City of Wonders circa 1550 was the greatest city in the Holy Country, and one of the greatest cities in the world. With a population of 50,000 souls it was probably…
Notes on The Holy Country III
Belintar was a human being who swam ashore from the deadly sea at the Rightarm Island of Sandpaper one bright morning in the year 1313. He had great bearing and power, and…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – C
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: C (pages 760-762)
Magical Roads
The Mountain Peaks From each Mountain Peak, a heroquester can leap from one mountain to the next or the previous. From any mountain, one can also leap to Kero Fin. From specific…
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…
Notes on the Holy Country I
For centuries, Belintar was able to coordinate magical activity to everyone’s benefit in the Holy Country. The gods were often manifest – so you didn’t need tribal rites to have that contact….