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Outlawry and Exile

Posted on December 21, 2024

Outlawry and exile are good ways to get your adventurers out of their homeland. They might have killed someone in another community, angered their local leaders, or gotten too involved in politics…

A Sense of Scale II

Posted on December 31, 2023

Genertela is nearly 9,000,000 square km in area. That’s more than twice the size of the European Union or a little smaller than continental Europe. Or for us North Americans, it is…

The Orlanthi of Fronela

Posted on December 27, 2023

There are some 2.4 MILLION Orlanthi in Fronela, far more than in Dragon Pass and Peloria. The Lightbringers came to Fronela in the First Age, reaching what is now Charg by 238…

Religion in Safelster

Posted on January 2, 2023

There are approximately 3 million people in Safelster. This politically decentralized area around Lake Felster in Ralios is one of the more densely populated areas in Glorantha. It is also one of…

Jeff’s Canonical Corpus

Posted on October 24, 2022

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 Size of the Red Moon

Posted on July 2, 2021

Lunar celestialogists claim that the top of the Sky Dome is approximately 6000 km above Magasta’s Pool and that the Red Moon is therefore about 3000 km above the Crater (“halfway between…

Glorantha is a flat world

Posted on July 1, 2021

Glorantha is a flat world surmounted by a Sky Dome. The Sky Dome itself tilts back and forth, north and south, each year. The Sun’s height in the sky also changes throughout…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – V

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: V (page 796 – 798) Vadel 210, 528, 686 Vadela 528 Vadeli 46, 48, 52, 53, 90, 112, 142, 144, 151, 210, 211, 229,…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – S

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: S (page 788 – 793) Sabadari 229, 233 Sabaki Gorge 561, 572, 573 Sabaki River 569, 572 Saber-toothed cats 311 Saber-tooth Salmon 636 Saber-tooth…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – P

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: P (pages 785-787) Pabrade 598 Pachycephalosaurs 519 Pachyderms 13 Pagoda of the Seven Dreams 280 Pah-Peh-Rheo 476, 484 Painted People 683 Painted Temple of…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – O

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: O (pages 783-785) Oabil 561, 687, 689, 692, 693 Oakfed 13, 120, 443, 446, 453 Oak Spirit 21 Oarz-upon-Joat 311 Oasis People 447, 451,…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – L

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: L (pages 778-780) Labuhan 576, 577, 582 Labuhanbajo 487 Ladaral 216, 219 Ladaral the Fire God 216 Lady of the Wild 335, 677, 710…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – H

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: H (pages 771-774) Haar Zaal 316 Hachrat Blowhard 137 Hachuan Mountains 89, 431 Hachuan Shan 260, 269, 271, 282, 427, 429, 433, 439, 696…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – E

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: E (pages 764-766) Eaglebrown Warlocks 736 Eagle People 283, 589 Eagle Phoenix Emperor 262, 682, 690, 692 Early Light 286 Early Storm Age 680,…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – D

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: D (pages 762-764) Dadarian Jungle 547, 605, 607, 609 Daga 690 Dagger of Kyral 372 Dagguneri 304 Dagius Furius 171 Dagori Inkarth 91, 94,…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – C

Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: C (pages 760-762) Cacama 482 Cacama Cay 482 Cacheh 429, 43 Cacodemon 108, 153, 458, 701, 702 Cactus Desert 447 Cafol 319, 321, 322,…

CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Contents

Volume 1 World Structure World Structure Introduction Major Cultures Elder Races Time in Glorantha Major Pantheons The Hero Planes Beyond the Middle World Regions of Glorantha Genertela Volume 2 Unique Mysteries of…

Content Comparison of the Glorantha Sourcebook with the Guide to Glorantha

A rough guide: The Glorantha Sourcebook (2018)The Glorantha Sourcebook (2024) CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha (2016) 226 pages (2.6lbs) (2018) 804 large pages (10 by 12 inches, 13lbs) Geography Genterela (2.9 pages)Pamaltela (0.1…

Cory Trego-Erdner

A View from the Paps Commissioned for the Guide to Glorantha. Gallery

Jennifer Lange

Search for Jennifer’s art on this site Seasons These were commissioned for the Guide to Glorantha

Jeff Laubenstein

Guide to Glorantha – Eight major cultures These are the eight major cultures detailed in the Guide to Glorantha. Separate from the cultures, these were commissioned for the Guide to Glorantha. We…

New Maps vs. The Guide to Glorantha

Posted on October 12, 2019

For those who wonder the difference between this map and the Guide, here’s one of the new maps with the corresponding map I did for the Guide.

Greganth Atlas (1993, 2014)

The GreGarth Atlas of Lunar Provincial Lore. This amazing collection of hand-drawn historical maps details: the history of Peloria from the Dawn to 1650 in 50 year increments; the history of Prehistoric…

Archival 8 poster map set (2014)

Do you have a image of this product?: please contact david@chaosium.com Kickstarter only This is a collection of 8 high resolution color prints of Greg Stafford’s original hand drawn maps – the…

ISS2005-6P 6 Poster Map Set of Genertela (2014)

by Greg Stafford, Jeff Richard, Sandy Petersen, and Colin Driver ISS2005-6P – 6 Poster Set of Genertela (24″x36″) $60 5 Genertela Maps. The Super-detailed Genertela map crafted by Colin Driver is epic….

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