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The View from Glamour Late 1625

Posted on June 19, 2023

So let’s imagine the world from the vantage of Glamour, circa late 1625. The mundane routine of administration is not for Argenteus, and so the Red Emperor prefers to interact with his…

The Moonburn

Posted on December 12, 2022

Of all the many crimes of the Third Age perhaps the worst was the Moonburn. As we all know, back in the First Wane, Dara-Ni was refuge for the River People and…

Notes on Crimson Bat ecology

Posted on September 2, 2022

Did you know that the Crimson Bat needs to be fed more than 4200 people a YEAR? Its maintenance feeding is on average 100 people per week. Now this likely has a…

The Lunar Religion and Chaos

Posted on March 6, 2022

One of the clear distinctions made in the Compromise is that Chaos is not of this world. The deities and powers of the world had touched it, and were still afraid of…

Gloranthan Terrors

Posted on December 17, 2021

The Crimson Bat, Cwim, the Mother of Monsters, the Chaos Gaggle, any of the True Dragons – stopping the appearance of any of these terrors would be the plot of a world-ending…

Notes on The Crimson Bat

Posted on December 17, 2021

The importance of the Crimson Bat for the expansion of the Lunar Empire cannot be understated. We all know it is awesomely powerful in its own right, able to devour an entire…

26 – The Seven Steps

25 – Fear and the Void 27 – What about Chaos? 25 – Fear and the Void 27 – What about Chaos?

The invasion of the Holy Country 1619, part 2

Posted on July 22, 2021

By the end of Sea Season, the Lunar invasion of the Holy Country had stalled outside the walls of Karse. After being nearly destroyed in a Lunar assault, Smithstone had been retaken…

Lunar Army laziness

Posted on July 14, 2020

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…

Crimson Bat

The Steed of the Red Goddess The Crimson Bat is a Chaos demon alive in the Middle World and bound in service to the Red Goddess. Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph…

Backbone of Lunar power

Posted on April 2, 2020

The strength of the Lunar Empire is not its soldiers: In our recent RQ game, my players got a good look at what the real backbone of Lunar power is – it…

Lunar Army List

Posted on September 8, 2013

Introduction Howdy all – here’s a preview of something I am working on for the next issue of Wyrms Footnotes: Hero Wars Army Lists! I’m a bit of a wargamer at heart,…

The Lunar Army in the Holy Country

Posted on June 9, 2013

The Lunar Army in the Holy CountryLast little Lunar army snippet from the Guide, just to give an idea how many Lunars are actually committed to the theatre in the Holy Country….

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