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Top Five RuneQuest Cults

Posted on June 29, 2025

So it is absolutely no surprise to me that in our completely non-scientific poll with over 500 votes the most popular five RQ cults are: 5. Yelmalio: Always the most popular cult…

Player Cults in RuneQuest

Posted on January 4, 2025

Someone recently asked me what my favorite cults are to actually play. You know for player characters in actual campaigns (rather than as NPCs or to speculate about in internet discussions). Here…

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Other Prominent cults in New Pavis

Posted on June 22, 2024

After Orlanth and Ernalda, the most prominent cults in New Pavis at this time are the war gods Humakt and Storm Bull, with over 300 devoted cultists each, with nearly 700 in…

Visualising Gloranthan Societies

Posted on January 12, 2024

I like to think of mortal Gloranthan societies as being made of clusters of temples, with links to their associates. Some cults – like Orlanth and Ernalda – end up with big…

Polytheism

Posted on December 18, 2023

In most of Glorantha, polytheism is the norm. Gods and spirits are acknowledged and worshiped at temples and shrines throughout the land. The same deity might be worshiped at different places, with…

Essential Cults for Adventuring

Posted on November 3, 2023

I think the four essential cults for adventuring – and for quickly getting the setting – are probably Orlanth Adventurous, Chalana Arroy, Issaries, and Lhankor Mhy (which also introduces sorcery). Think of…

Mutually Hostile Cults

Posted on March 18, 2023

Some people seem to assume that mutually hostile cults simply end up murdering each other if they have an opportunity. That’s not really the case – between hostile cults, relations are strained,…

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…

Lay Members

Posted on November 20, 2022

Being a lay member of a secondary cult is a useful way to gain training and spirit magic, without binding yourself deeply to the god and its cult. So for example, IMG,…

How Cults Change

Posted on November 11, 2022

The archetypes and patterns of the God Time are eternal and fixed. But what we in Time experience of the God Time, what we call things, what we offer magic points to…

Cults & Mechanics

Posted on April 5, 2021

One of the odd cognitive dissonances I often see when people discuss RuneQuest cults is the interplay between these two ideas: Now personally I don’t subscribe to Case 1 even for game…

Notes on Hrestol and the Invisible God

Posted on March 15, 2021

Hrestol was the Ascended Man, son of Froalar, last of the Secret Keepers, and of Xemela, He is the great hero of the West and was born during the God Time. During…

CHA4028 RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha – Chapter 12 Rune Cults The Cults Q&A

Official Answers from Chaosium This covers the second part of Chapter 12, pages 289-311: For the Rune Cult Rules see the previous section: Rune Cults Q&A Babeester Gor (page 289) Full Cult write up in…

The Gods War

Posted on April 15, 2015

This mystic diagram is from the House of Black Arkat in the Esrolian city of Arkat’s Hold. It depicts an Illuminate who has been guided by Arkat’s teachings to transcend the struggles…

Understanding the Runes

Posted on July 3, 2014

The Runes are the building blocks of Glorantha. They are symbols, archetypes, embodiments, and the actual matter and energy of the world. Runes originated with the very creation of Glorantha. The Runes…

Some thoughts on spirits and gods

Posted on April 1, 2014

Spirits are discorporate entities that are present individually in all parts of nature – animals, plants, rocks, winds, fire, soil, waters, and so on. The Brithini classify them as an incorporeal but…

Some thoughts on the Gloranthan gods, cults, and divine names

Posted on March 31, 2014

Most Gloranthans believe the greater gods transcend any specific culture. Ernalda, Lodril, Magasta, Orlanth, Sedenya, and Yelm are all known by many different peoples by many different names. Orlanth is the Storm…

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