The Darkness pantheon is an unusual in that most of these cults are worshiped primarily or even exclusively by non-humans. Darkness is deadly, fearsome, devouring, crushing, cold, silent, secretive, and mysterious, and…
Tag: Cults of Runequest (preview)
What Happens When You Die
Your soul separates from your body. The material body returns to its basic components, and for seven days, the soul lingers near the body, drifting farther from it and developing spirit senses….
Gods are Contradictory Archetypes
After having written some million words covering more than one hundred RQ cults, I can confidently say that I find all of them fascinating in their own way. Each represents an archetype…
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…
Publishing schedule
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
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
16 playable cults
The Lightbringers
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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 Stories Myths…
Jeff’s Canonical Corpus
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
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
A lovely sneakpeek of Mastakos in another of Katrin Dirim’s genealogy charts!
Darkness Genealogy I
I’ve always loved the divine genealogies that Kalin Kadiev did for us for the Glorantha Sourcebook, but unfortunately they were not complete enough for the Cults Book. Fortunately, Katrin Dirim has risen…
Layout of Cults of Glorantha
At the office of our layout guru Simeon Cogswell and moving forward on the Cults book!
Understanding Mythology
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
An interview with me about what RuneQuest books are coming up! Part one I talk a lot about the forthcoming Cults Book.