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Views of Arkat

Posted on January 23, 2026

Pretty much every cult who Arkat interacted with as an initiate or associate accepts that Arkat certainly was telling the truth about what he did and experienced on the Hero Plane. Their…

Otherworld Home

Posted on February 11, 2024

So in every cult description, there’s an entry called Otherworld Home. That is where the cult members experience the god during holy day ceremonies and other important rituals. From there, there may…

CHA4043 The Lightbringers – Index

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Thoughts on The Lightbringers Quest

Posted on December 23, 2022

The Lightbringers Quest can be thought of as the monomyth of heroquests. It contains within it many quests – the Westfaring, the Descent into the Underworld, the Tests of Proof, etc. In…

Harmast’s “Lightbringers’ Quest”

Posted on December 22, 2022

I personally think it a little ironic that we still refer to Harmast’s “Lightbringers’ Quest” when after all it turned out to be a “Darknessbringer’s Quest”. Those Lightbringers were pretty shocked when…

More Harmast Notes

Posted on August 23, 2022

The opening of Harmast’s Narrative is well-known to every Orlanthi, and is at the same time strange and troubling. Here’s is how it reads: “In the thirty‑third year of my life, because…

Harmast’s Saga

Posted on August 22, 2022

Pilgrimage and Commentary: This is the most current version of the most influential text of the Orlanthi and a foundational text for Orlanthi literature (and influential far beyond). Harmast’s Narrative forms the core of the…

Harmast’s Heroquests

Posted on October 12, 2021

This excerpt is from Greg Stafford’s unpublished Harmast Saga (1991) Here are the times that Harmast went to the Hero Plane before he returned with Arkat. First, for a glimpse, at his…

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…

Harmast Barefoot

References Page Year Runes Notes Lightbringers 34 2023 None listed Hero cult of: Orlanth Prosopaedia 53 2023 Heortling Mythology 142, 179,186 2009 None listed Entity glyphOrlanth HeroAppendix D Common and uncommon runes…

Heroquesting 101

Posted on July 20, 2020

Heroquesting is a powerful and rare Gloranthan activity in which the participants leave the material world and enter the realm of legend and myth to interact with heroes and gods, gambling precious…

Harmast’s Saga (1991)

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Excerpt – Appendix D Orlanthi Pantheon List and Runes

Strange bit of Art Description going in the Guide

Posted on September 29, 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…

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