The Puzzle Canal in the Big Rubble was built for spiritual and ritualistic purposes by Labrygon, a demi-god priest from the Empire of the Wyrm’s Friends. Building it took hundreds of laborers,…
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AKA Empire of the Wyrms Friends
A few notes on the Dragon Religion of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends
This is expanded from a previous post In the Second Age, the people of Dragon Pass (especially along the Creekstream River) learned that existence as illusion, validated by dragon power. The EWF’s…
The Knowledge Temple, New Pavis
The Knowledge Temple in New Pavis is the largest collection of scrolls, books, parchments, etc. in all of Prax. The Knowledge Temple is the largest repository of information about Pavis and the…
The Dragonewt Temple in The Rubble
In 1539, the unusual event called the Dragonewts’ Dream took place. At that time all of the living dragonewts of Dragon Pass crawled into their ancient cities, sealed and booby trapped them,…
Why was Old Pavis so big?
Now I don’t mean why were the walls so big – that was Paragua‘s doing. He smashed the little settlement of Robcradle (which was probably around 3 hectares or a little bigger…
Hard-Wired Gloranthan Conflicts
There are some big conflicts hard-wired into the Glorantha setting, including (but not limited to): These conflicts are macro and microcosmic. Political conflict often echo these cosmic conflicts – for example, Sartar…
Common Knowledge – Dragonewts
Dragonewts are both familiar and extremely mysterious in Dragon Pass. They are of course familiar to most inhabitants – there are some 20,000 dragonewts in Dragon Pass. Dragonewt Roads cross much of…
Magic Road Quests
Orlanth‘s deeds in the God Tine set the path for many, maybe even most, heroquests known in the Third Age. He is the god of Heroes after all. This is especially true…
Notes on the Third Council
The Third Council of the Lands of Genertela (aka the Empire of the Wyrms Friends or the Kingdom of Dragon Pass) was formed in 826 and ruled over most of central Genertela…
History of Orlanthi Cities
If we think about the history of the Orlanthi, their original Dawn Age settlements were “hill fort villages” – this is where they survived the Greater Darkness and Grey Ages. The entire…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
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The legacy of the EWF
As we think about the legacy of the EWF in the late Third Age, we first need to remember that none of the humans of Dragon Pass are their heirs. All of…
The Decline and Fall of the EWF
899 to 910 were the height of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends‘ magical power and wealth. The Third Council were worshiped as gods, arguably they were gods in the mundane world….
Notes on the Lhankor Mhy cult
The Lhankor Mhy cult are famed as the lovers of wisdom (philosophers) and knowledge (philognosis) in Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. In the First Age, the priests of the Knowing God…
Hero Wars Story Hooks for the EWF and God Learners
Both the EWF and the God Learners are a subject of interest in the Hero Wars – especially for the Sartarites. And both can be a source of adventure ideas. For example,…
Notes on the Machine God
The God Learners made their foray into creating an artificial god with Zistor the Machine God. The Clanking City was first established in God Forgot around 740. It was a God Learner…
Notes on The Empire of the Wyrms Friends
The Empire of the Wyrms Friends was formally founded in 822, and soon after, in 826, proclaimed itself to be the High Council of the Lands of Genertela (usually called the Third…
Imagining the Yelmalio cult
One of the difficulties people have in imagining the Yelmalio cult is that the best described temple is the one in Prax, aka Sun County. Sun County, if you all recall was…
Ralios Orlanthi
The Holy Country has about 357k Orlanth initiates (and I mean initiate of Orlanth, not Orlanthi culture). Peloria has 225k and Dragon Pass has just under 100k. But Ralios has some 560k…
The Stitched Zoo
Among the stranger ruins from the Empire of the Wyrms Friends is the Stitched Ruins in Dragon Pass. You can still see the ruins of corrals and prison cells, and the whole…
The Entropy of Time
The Broken Council, God Learners, Empire of the Wyrms Friends, and the Lunar Empire all shared the same progression of endless new possibilities and optimistic enthusiasm that later becomes overtaken by ambitious…
Spread of the EWF
The EWF influence spread through the so-called Barbarian Belt in the 800s. Lakrene was EWF by 850, Anadikki by 870, and parts of Brolia were taxed around 890. The process was for…
Notes on Saird
The original “homeland” of the Yelmalio cult was Saird, a border land between Dragon Pass and Dara Happa. In the early First Age, this was a mixing ground of settlers from Dragon…
The Seshnegi
Another ancient manuscript from the early Dawn Age. Again I think this might date to the Wisconsin era. The Seshnegi were marked culturally by an inspiring burst of growth over the realms…
1042-1230 The Fall of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends
Date Event Homeland Primary Secondary Introduction & Sources 1042 Empire of the Wyrms Friends (EWF) leadership exterminated by dragonewts and trolls. LoR:DP GtGTP Dragonewts rise and crush the heart of the EWF….