One of my favorite sections to create in the Mythology book was the Cult Distribution tables. I’ve actually made big spreadsheets of each of the regions to get a feel of the…
Tag: Cult demographics
Worshiping Deities
Now being an initiate is not the only way to worship a deity. Initiates of associated deities also can worship the associated deity and sometimes even get a Rune spell for it….
The thirteen main cults in Sartar
There are thirteen main cults in Sartar, which collectively are about 95% of the population. The biggest are: Those two cults are about 68% of the population. Those 11 cults (each with…
Notes on Lanbril
Lanbril comes out of the tradition of fictional thieves’ guilds such as Leiber’s Lankhmar and Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo. His cult can be thought of as an approach to organized crime throughout…
Mythology book coming October
I can’t wait until we release the Mythology book (October), so that you all have a lot of the big picture stuff in your hands. The cult distribution charts are incredibly helpful…
Why The Lightbringers
Orlanth is one of the great transformative forces in Glorantha. He’s why we have Night and Day, he’s why storms brings forth new growth from the Earth, and most importantly, he (and…
Notes on Shargash
Shargash is the Dara Happan war god, associated with Fire/Sky, Death, and Disorder. He’s also known as Tolat, who ranged across Glorantha in the Lesser Darkness to bring war and destruction to…
Alda-Chur Sketch Maps
So a sneak peak at some of my hand drawn maps which far better artists than I have drawn up for the Guide to Dragon Pass. So let’s start with Alda-Chur. Greg…
Notes on Tarsh II
There are approximately 360,000 humans in Tarsh. About a third of the population embraces the Lunar religion, and the remaining two-thirds follow the traditional Lightbringer and Earth pantheons. Some 60,000 in Lunar…
Hon-Eel In Tarsh
There is no Red Earth subcult of Ernalda. In Tarsh, about 10% of the adult population are initiates of Hon-eel. About 25% are initiates of Ernalda. They are separate cults. Hon-eel tried…
Notes on Clans in the Grazelands.
As we know there are about 18,000 Pure Horse People in Dragon Pass. They all belong to one tribal group – with Yelm Sun Lords as the tribal leaders, aided by Yelm…
A Few Rules of Thumb
Most to all adults are initiates of a cult, regardless of culture, and around 2% of initiates are Rune levels. Many people are lay members of one or more other cults. These…
The Average Sartarite Clan
There are 157 clans in Sartar (not including the Telmori and Pol-Joni), with an average population of about 900 people per clan. About 600 are adults, and about 300 are children. The…
Riverfolk in the Lunar Heartlands
The Diros or Yestendos boats used by the Riverfolk and Weeders of the Lunar Heartlands are mainly reed or wooden in construction, with curved bows and sterns. Although we often associate that…
Notes on Small Cults
In all of Sartar, about 2500 people are initiates of Daka Fal and worship their ancestors and eschew other cults. That’s about the same size as the Chalana Arroy or Lhankor Mhy…
Culture Precedes Cults
It is fascinating how hard it is for us post-modern Westerners to disentangle themselves from the idea that culture precedes cults, even in a fantasy setting such as Glorantha. To a very…
Cult Demographics of the Lunar Empire
There are about 1.25 million Seven Mothers initiates in Glorantha. There’s probably another 330k Lunar initiates of other cults on top of that. That is one of the most successful new religious…
Dragon Pass Pantheons
Looking at the human population of Dragon Pass as a whole, these are their largest cults: Earth Religion – this is one of the two largest cult groupings in Dragon Pass with about…
Notes on the Grazelands II
The dominant cult in the Grazelands is Ernalda, with some 9250 initiates out of a total adult population of around 26,000. The Ernalda cult dominates the Grazelands like no place outside of…
Notes on Holay
Directly north of Tarsh is Holay, which includes Mirin’s Cross, the great Daughter’s Road from Jillaro to Filichet, and several Sun Dome Temples. Holay is the most populous of the Lunar Provinces,…
Tarsh (1625-1628)
Hero Wars era Tarsh (post-Dragonrise, pre-Battle of Heroes) has a population of about 360k people. The core of Tarsh is a Lunar Heartlands colony centered on Furthest. There is a smaller satellite…
Cults & Culture
In Glorantha, we can say that cult is the source of culture. When more than two-thirds of the adult population are initiated into the Orlanth and Ernalda cults as in Sartar, that…
Most Waha-centric Praxian Tribe
The most Waha-centric Praxian Tribe are High Llama tribe, the least (at least of the Major Tribes) are the Impala. Among the Bison Tribe, Humakt has a cult as big as Storm…
Zzaburi in the West
There are somewhere around 120,000 zzaburi in Seshnela and Ralios. Now of them, about 79,000 adhere to the Rokari school. That’s the approximate number of trained sorcerers in that area. This number…
Chalana Arroy in Central Genertela
If we look at Chalana Arroy in Central Genertela, we find that it is actually a surprisingly big cult – some 140,000 members in total. The cult is most densely numbered in…