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Culture Precedes Cults

Posted on March 21, 2023

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…

Cults of RuneQuest Cover Two

Posted on March 8, 2023

Cults of RuneQuest Cover One

Posted on March 2, 2023

Publishing schedule

Posted on March 2, 2023

So as you all know there are a bunch of books now scheduled for release. Now I think they are amazing for all sorts of reasons – they broaden play, given you…

The Prosopaedia

Posted on February 28, 2023

OK, so people are now digesting the Cults books, the scale of the launch, and just how beautiful these books are going to be. One of my goals on these is that…

The Earth Goddesses

Posted on February 28, 2023

16 playable cults

The Lightbringers

Posted on February 28, 2023

19 playable cults Note that terms like Storm Tribe aren’t used. This book includes the gods of the Lightbringers pantheon plus many of their friends and family. But Ernalda is the head of…

Cults of RuneQuest

Posted on February 28, 2023

And the announcement is live! The first set of the RQ Cults books are at the printer! The Cults Books are a series of books about Glorantha cults and mythology, and will…

Storm Pantheon art preview

Posted on January 3, 2023

Orlanth is the grandson of Earth and Sky, his siblings are the winds, a bull, a cat, violence, evil, the mountain snow, and Death. He married the Green Lady, and his offspring…

Gloranthan Underworld art preview

Posted on January 1, 2023

As part of a piece that Katrin Dirim is working on for us, here’s a depiction of the Gloranthan Underworld. Trolls, demons, dead gods, monsters, bats, and more. It is the doom…

Minor Gods

Posted on December 9, 2022

Among the more interesting (and culturally important) minor gods in Glorantha include: Additionally, most Chaos gods rate as minor – Bagog, Krarsht, Krjalk, Pocharngo, Tyram, Vivamort, Xamalt, etc. Now some of these…

Greater and Major Gods

Posted on December 7, 2022

So as I check over some of the material about to go to the printer soon, I was comparing things to a list Greg had written some years ago, listing all the…

Four Ways to Experience these Stories (re-post)

Posted on November 17, 2022

See also: As Cults gets closer and closer to some big and exciting announcements, here’s a little passage that I think is particularly important for this forum: Four Ways to Experience these…

Jeff’s Canonical Corpus

Posted on October 24, 2022

So let’s talk about the books I think constitute the “canonical corpus” for official RuneQuest publications. These are the works that get referenced in future Chaosium publications with very few changes, and…

The Taxonomy of Animals

Posted on July 18, 2022

The taxonomy of animals in Glorantha is quite unlike our own. It is based on divine genealogies and has some interesting results! It is something I particularly enjoy about the setting –…

Mastakos art preview

Posted on July 5, 2022

A lovely sneakpeek of Mastakos in another of Katrin Dirim’s genealogy charts!

Layout of Cults of Glorantha

Posted on June 17, 2022

At the office of our layout guru Simeon Cogswell and moving forward on the Cults book!

Understanding Mythology

Posted on March 13, 2022

Here’s a snippet from what I consider to be one of the most important essays in the Cults Book. Readers will see that many of these stories in these volumes seem to…

Cults of Glorantha YouTube Interview

Posted on January 7, 2022

An interview with me about what RuneQuest books are coming up! Part one I talk a lot about the forthcoming Cults Book.

Vinga art preview

Posted on August 15, 2021

Vinga is the feminine incarnation of Orlanth. Variously described as Orlanth’s daughter, an aspect of Orlanth, or one of Orlanth’s transformations, she is revered by the Sartarites as a war goddess, and…

Notes on The Red Emperor

Posted on July 31, 2021

A few notes on the Red Emperor from the Cults Book. The Red Emperor is the supreme high priest for the Lunar religion and for the Yelm cult. Within the Lunar Empire,…

Manifestations of Gods

Posted on July 13, 2021

The Loki television series has me thinking about the Gods of Glorantha. One way of looking at the cults is they are groups of people who gather around to worship the named…

RuneQuest Design Decisions

Posted on May 25, 2021

So I figure I’d walk folk through some of the design decisions behind the current RQ releases. 1. The Cults Book underpins everything. If you want to have Lunars, Praxians, Balazarings, Sartarites,…

RuneQuest: Gods of Glorantha previews (2018, 2019)

A small number of preview editions of Runequest: Gods of Glorantha have been sold at conventions. A UK version was also titled, Cults of Glorantha. Contents (Now Mythology) The Night Hag’s Tales…

Monomyth Art Final preview

Posted on March 21, 2021

I present to you the Monomyth, illustrated by the amazing Agathe Pitié. Look at this wonder and be astounded! And it will be a fold-out in the Cults Book. Along with all…

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