Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 23/04/2012 – 00:27 The Guide to Glorantha will feature in-depth treatment of the Malkioni (along with the other major cultures of Glorantha). Here’s the art direction for…
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Experimental Mapping
Just as an experiment, Colin and I overlaid the Dragon Pass board game map over our Dragon Pass region map. Wonderful success! Most board game locations were within a hex of the…
Layout on the Guide has official commenced!
Rick and I have begun the laborious (yet enjoyable) process of layout for the Guide to Glorantha. As we get further, we’ll be posting the occasional page from the laid out book….
Royal Roads I
Here’s a nice little map showing the royal road network of Dragon Pass. These are Greg’s maps and Greg’s distances (really, I have all of Greg’s master maps). It is entirely possible…
All Hail the Reaching Moon!
This was originally posted on Google+… Tapatalk archive
Reconstructing Slontos – 3rd Age
Here’s the Third Age map showing the sunken lands of old Slontos. All that work we did before was just to get the location of a few ruins and remaining islands right….
Reconstructing Slontos – 2nd Age
Just to give you all an idea how much work went in to getting these maps right, Colin and I were unhappy with the arrangement of the Wenelian Isles in Maniria. So,…
Cryptic Verses Preview (2013)
To celebrate, here’s the notorious Plate 38 from the Cryptic Verses of the Yellow Calendar. Weep my friends, and fear the coming of the War of Heroes, This was originally posted on…
Guide Status report
I’ve gone through the hundreds (thousands) of edits you all have suggested and entered most of them into the final manuscript. We are going to do a last read-through just to make…
The Gloranthan Seasons by Jennifer Lange
This commission’s complete set of pictures can also be seen in her gallery. Jennifer’s website can be found at www.jsl-art.de
Population detail maps for Pamaltela complete
Just finishing up what Colin and I hope are the last population detail maps for Pamaltela. Next stop the Islands! This was posted on Google+… see Tapatalk archive
Guide status report
Today’s Guide status report: Turned in a complete draft manuscript. There might be an appendix or two not fully complete, but the book itself is ready for the last round of crowd-edits,…
Sixth Wane Ouranekki board
For those who are interested, here’s my base sketch for a Sixth Wane Ouranekki board. Note the strong Dara Happan and Orlanthi influence on it. The game is used to predict events,…
Black Dragon Mountain pictoglyphs
Here’s a draft describing three of approximately twenty-eight Black Dragon Mountain pictoglyphs that will be included in the book. Several of the pictoglyphs will be included: 12. The Red Moon humans fight…
The making of a Hon-eel picture
Mike Perry has a wonderful blogpost about the making of his amazing Hon-eel picture for the Guide (which is one of favorite pictures in the whole book). If you want to know…
Reconstructing the Hero Wars
Just working on the Reconstructing the Hero Wars appendix for the Guide, and thought folk might be interested in what it is in it: The Hero Wars is the collective name for…
Full Map of Glorantha
Its not quite finished, and this is EXTREMELY low res, but here’s the map of the full world. Those weird dark lines are the Abysmal Trenches, formed when Zzabur nearly broke the…
Guide to Glorantha Status report
The text of the complete draft is just about 94% done and I am working on appendixes. Expect version 8 to circulate along with the maps in the next few days. This…
Getting very close with the East Isles!
This was posted on Google+
Harrek the Berserk & Gunda the Guilty Art Preview
Another lovely picture by Mike Perry. Note that these match the description from Greg (whose notes with descriptions of Harrek going back to the 70s gave a big black mustache to the guy despite…
More East Isles!
Getting closer! This was posted on Google+
Sog City
Sog City (metropolis): Called Sogolotha Mambrola in the old tongue, this ancient city controls the area called Akem around the mouth of the Janube River. This huge, decadent city is a haven…
Guide Overview – Praxian
The Praxians are a Neolithic nomadic society that ride and herd beasts for their survival. Each tribe is named after the beast ridden by members of the tribe, with the best known…
Guide Art Direction – Orlanthi (2013)
Orlanthi Culture Bronze Age/early Iron Age mixed agrarian-pastoralists. They are the most popular player culture. They are a heroic Bronze Age culture, organized by clan and tribe into (usually) short-lived kingdoms. They…
Guide Overview – Kralorela
Kralorela is a late Bronze Age/early Iron Age civilized empire that claims to have been civilized for 10,000 generations. The inhabitants are xenophobic and dismiss all other cultures as savages. The Kralorelans are…