Now sometimes people just want cool powers. And maybe that’s what we should focus on: Now the trick with these is you either need players that say – I want X cool…
Tag: Eurmal
The Lightbringers in New Pavis
There are some 1200 initiates of the Seven Lightbringers in New Pavis, fully a third of the adult residents in the city. Now more than half are Orlanth initiates, and Orlanth is…
Rakenveg
God of Trickery, Deceit References Page Year Notes Guide to Glorantha 678, 679, 2014 Gods Wall IV-4AKA: EurmalStar 95 The Perfect Sky, revised Post 1999 As: Rakenveg the HareStar 95 The Glorious…
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…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
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…
Genealogy of the Celestial Court
An interesting thing about the Lightbringers Pantheon is the number of non-elemental deities are prominent. Perhaps that was a key factor in the magic of the quest? Sharp-eyed viewers might note a…
Suppression of Orlanth Under the Lunar Empire
As we all know, the Lunar Empire tries to suppress certain cults when possible. The top of the list is of course Orlanth, but also cults also officially disfavored include Storm Bull,…
Notes on Eurmal in Sartar
The cult of Eurmal the Trickster is surprisingly important in Sartar. The Orlanthi hold that clowns and tricksters are essential in contact with the sacred. Laughter and humor are a part of…
Tribes of Sartar Map, 1625-1626
So there are 157 clans in Sartar (not including the Telmori and the Pol-Joni of course), with an average population of about 900 members. 600 are adults. The average tribe in Sartar…
The Other Lightbringers in Sartar
The other Lightbringers (Chalana Arroy, Eurmal, Issaries, and Lhankor Mhy) have large and well-developed cults in Sartar. These cults are primarily centered on the cities – few tribes, let alone clans, can…
Eurmal WiP preview
2020 has definitely been a year that Eurmal has been very active! Sacred clown societies really influenced how I view Eurmal.
Townspeople and tribesfolk
Probably the biggest social conflict among the Sartarites is between the roughly 30k “townspeople” and the 140k “tribesfolk”. One way of seeing the distinction is with cults. So for example, among the…
Eurmal Inspiration
When you think about Eurmal’s cultists, a good source of inspiration are the sacred clowns of the Pueblo Indians: So pretty much every clan has a half-dozen or so “clowns”. They gather…
Barbarian “Old Gods”
At the Dawn, the Hykimi Alliance of Fronela and Ralios worshiped a myriad of ancestors, beast spirits, and other spirits, but acknowledge a loose pantheon of Old Gods including: Ehilm the Sun;…
Eurmal’s Clown societies
One thing that gets a big emphasis in the forthcoming Cults of Glorantha are Eurmal’s Clown magical societies. Don’t think of modern clowns from the circus – think the sacred clowns of…
AH8577 Gods of Glorantha (Box 05 – 1985)
60 Religions for RuneQuestGods of Glorantha describes 60 major Gloranthan religions for humans and non-humans, for good guys and bad, for men and women, all from an array of different cultures. A…
Trickster
References Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 123 2023 None listed Cults of Glorantha preview 41 2019 As Eurmal Questlines #1 11 1996 None listed Subcults:Destroyer, Dismemberer, Firebringer, Fool, Fright, Glutton, Imp, Mask, Murderer,…
Eurmal
The trickster, one of the Lightbringers References Page Year Runes Notes Mythology 119 2023 Earth Goddesses 75 2023 per Rune spell Associate cult:Donandar Lightbringers 9, 50eight pages 2023 Associate cults:Chalana Arroy, Donandar,…