Gbaji

Arkat the Bodhisattva

Posted on December 12, 2025

This is a DEEP background post and irrelevant for most games. But I know some of you will enjoy it a lot, so I’m posting it anyway. Let’s start with I don’t…

Greg’s initial writings of Gbaji and Chaos predated RuneQuest (or White Bear and Red Moon for that matter), and although Greg drew on many sources (including likely Moorcock’s 1965 Stormbringer novel), it…

History of the Telmori

Posted on December 13, 2024

Hated and feared, the Telmori are werewolves cursed by Chaos. They are unlike other humans, for they have joined with their beast-brothers into a strange and, to some, unnatural relationship of dependence…

So what do your adventurers know about Illumination?

Posted on May 9, 2024

So what do your adventurers know about Illumination (as opposed to players)? If you notice Illumination is pretty much unmentioned in the core rules, Lightbringers, and Earth Goddess books. There is a…

Hard-Wired Gloranthan Conflicts

Posted on May 7, 2024

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…

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

Mortal Races at the Dawn

Posted on June 10, 2023

Dawn Age Seshnegi sources divide the mortal races into several categories: The Western accounts of Gbaji are pretty awful. Around the same time the Sun Stop happened and a terrible plague spread…

The Lunar Religion and Chaos

Posted on March 6, 2022

One of the clear distinctions made in the Compromise is that Chaos is not of this world. The deities and powers of the world had touched it, and were still afraid of…

26 – The Seven Steps

25 – Fear and the Void25 – Die Angst und die Leere25 – La Peur et le néant 27 – What about Chaos?27 – Was ist mit dem Chaos27 – Qu’en est-il…

Orlanth and the Red Goddess

Posted on June 27, 2021

Here’s a popular Orlanthi tale of the rise of the Red Goddess. This is similar to the story presented in King of Sartar. Orlanth is the god who began the Great Compromise,…

Nysalor / Gbaji

The Bright One / The Deceiver References Page Year Runes Notes Lunar Way 9112 pages 2024 Associate cults: none Cults of Glorantha Preview 404 2019 Associate cults: none Cult Compendium 319Five pages…

History Of Kethaela – The First Age

Posted on March 10, 2021

Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – G

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: G (pages 768-771)

Rashoran

Dead God References Page Year Notes Lunar Way 93 2024 AKA: Nysalor (in Kralorela) Mythology 44 2024 Guide to Glorantha 120 2014

Rashorana

Goddess of Illumination References Page Year Runes EntityGlyph Notes Glorantha Sourcebook 152 2024 n/a AKA: Atarks, Jernotius, Nysalor, SedenyaAssociated phase:Black Moon Phase Prosopaedia 102 2023 None listed n/a Prosopaedia entryAssociated withthe Black…

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