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…
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Glorantha is a flat world
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…
Content Comparison of the Glorantha Sourcebook with the Guide to Glorantha
A rough guide: The Guide is about 3.5 times bigger than the Sourcebook. The Guide has 639 pages on geography, the Sourcebook, 3. The Guide is 80% geography, the Sourcebook, 1.3%. CHA4033…
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…
Khordavan Font
The Khordavan font was used in The Guide to Glorantha to produce the Dara Happan Sacred Alphabet on page 349. To use this font you will need the look at the Guide page 349…
Guide Overview – Fonrit
Want to know more about Fonrit? A cruel slavocracy, slavery defines and dominates Fonritan society. The descendants of Doraddi gone horribly wrong and their rulers perverted by Chaos worship, Fonritans hold that…
Gen Con 2013 Guide to Glorantha Seminar (2013)
As promised, here’s the Gen Con 2013 Glorantha Seminar, starring Jeff Richard and Rick Meints. Lots of discussion and previews as to what is going to be the in the Guide. Check…
Copper Tablets of Yuthuppa (2013)
We’re laying the Heavens Corrupted section of the Guide out today. Here’s one of the ten Copper Tablets of Yuthuppa that illustrate the text.
Strange bit of Art Description going in the Guide (2013)
Here’s the art description for a piece that Jeff Laubenstein is doing for the Guide – fourteen panels on the Lightbringers Quest. It is based on a cryptic diagram that Greg Stafford…
All Hail the Reaching Moon! (2013)
This was posted on Google+…
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…
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…
Cryptic Verses of the Yellow Calendar Plate 36 (2013)
Plate 36: This plate depicts a radiant golden horseman, accepting the submission of Can Shu and the Blood Sun. This was posted on Google+…
Guide Overview – The West
Rational, materialist, and humanist, Western culture is derived from the atheist immortal philosophers that once dominated the far west reaches of the world. They are Bronze or Early Iron Age in material…
Guide Art Direction – Pelorian (2013)
The Pelorians are a proud and ancient civilization of riverine city-states united by a divine emperor descended from the Moon Goddess. They are Bronze Age or Early Iron Age in culture and…
Orlanthi Overview
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…
Hsunchen Overview
Hsunchen peoples are stone-age hunter-gatherers. Small families wander about a territory while the men hunt, trap, and fish, and the women gather plant foodstuffs. The clothing of most hsunchen is of whatever…
Art of the Guide to Glorantha
The Guide to Glorantha is lavishly illustrated by such artists as Jon Hodgson, Jeff Laubenstein, Mike Perry, and Jan Pospisil, as well as others. The entire Moon Design team has worked countless…
Hsunchen (Rathori and Uncoling) by Jeff Laubenstein
Morning! Today’s sneak peak is two Hsunchen (Rathori and Uncoling) by Jeff Laubenstein. The art direction is here. Archived G+ post: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/glorantha/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2476&p=19528&hilit=hsunchen#p19528
Canon and YGWV (2013)
There’s been a few questions about “what is canon,” “are these maps going to get Gregged,” and “why was Andrew using the term Greg Stafford’s Glorantha?’ I know issues of canon can…
Aldryami by Jeff Laubenstein (2013)
Here’s a selection of three elves done by Jeff Laubenstein, showing the diversity in Aldryami appearance. Archived G+ post: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/glorantha/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2444&p=19229&hilit=aldryami#p19229
The Mostali certainly aren’t generic fantasy…
Morning sneak peak – a quartet of dwarves by Jeff Laubenstein. The Mostali certainly aren’t generic fantasy dwarves any more! This was posted on Google+…
Waertagi dragon ship by Jeff Laubenstein (2013)
Sketch of a waertagi dragon ship by Jeff Laubenstein. As always this is just the rough draft. This was posted on Google+…