The dance of the main characters of the Hero Wars – Argrath, Harrek, Feathered Horse, Jar-eel, and the Red Emperor – is the engine that drives the setting during this period. Your…
Tag: Kallyr Starbrow (-1626)
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – III
From the Glorantha Sourcebook: In Sacred Time, Kallyr Starbrow rallied her kingdom behind her to perform the Lightbringers’ Quest, a complicated heroquest that usually provided new life and health to everyone participating….
Sacred Time 1625
Because of the magical energies released as part of the preparations for the Lightbringers Quest (and perhaps because of the awakening of a True Dragon with the Dragonrise), much of Sartar could…
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – II
In Storm Season 1625, Prince Kallyr Starbrow summoned an assembly in Boldhome. Before the assembled citizens of many tribes, she formally made the Lightbringers’ Summons. Chaos stalks my world. Broos have bruised…
Javern Spithorn and the Sunset Leap (2001)
Javern Spithorn was a household thane of Kallyr Starbrow and noted for his recklessness, experimentation and great luck at surviving accidents and foolishness. He was beloved by Orlanth, who had sent winds…
The Bad Rain
In the Lightbringers Quest, the Bad Rain is summoned by all the participants in order to transform the ceremony into a heroquest. The Bad Rain is the Shadow of Orlanth – the…
Lunar Treasury at Boldhome during the Occupation
Although the new Temple of the Reaching Moon was to be the magical and religious center of the province, Boldhome remained the administrative center for the Lunars. The Provincial Governor of Dragon…
Kheldon Tribe
Some notes on the Kheldon Tribe that might be of interest: The Kheldon or “Red-Haired” tribe came into Dragon Pass circa 1400, as part of the Second Wave of settlement. They were…
The Invasion of the Holy Country 1619, part 1
The Lunar Empire had never stopped eyeing the richer lands of the Holy Country to the south. But their failure at the Building Wall Battle in 1605 had made them cautious, so…
Leika Blackspear
Queen Leika Blackspear has got to be one of the toughest survivors in Sartarite tribal history. Once an adventurer, she became the Colymar tribal king after her second cousin King Kallai Rockbuster…
Spell Economics
As an aside, the economics of spell cost in RuneQuest is player and significant NPC oriented. 3 point spells are really rarely cast outside of those groups (and one-use spells are almost…
Phase Three: Prince Of Sartar (1625-1629)
A little snipped from the Campaign Guide that folk might find interesting. I’m going to talk more about this on Saturday during Impromptu Con! This phase begins with the Dragonrise and is…
Kallyr Starbrow Art Preview
Here is an official character turn of Kallyr Starbrow as Prince of Sartar by the amazing Anna Orlova. This is a good take on how a noble leader of the Sartarites might…
Battle of the Queens – Order of Battle
Battle Description Fire Season – Wild Day/Stasis Week King Pharandros took command of the remaining imperial troops in the provinces, and led them with the Tarsh army to conquer the disheartened Sartarites….
The Duck Hunt Lawsuits
In early 1626, the Ducks brought a claim to Prince Kallyr demanding compensation for the Duck Hunt. Claims were made against the Balmyr, Cinsina, Colymar, Dinacoli, Locaem, and Malani for their participation…
Understanding the Kingdom of Sartar
The Prince of Sartar is a priest-king of the most important Orlanth Rex cult in Dragon Pass. The Prince serves as a high priest, supreme warlord, and chief judge for the member…
Orlanth Rex and Sartar’s Lineage
The priesthood of the cult of Sartar – that’s the Orlanth Rex for all the tribes of Sartar, aka the Prince of Sartar – is restricted to members of Sartar’s lineage. Generally…
The Liberation of Boldhome
Another little snippet from the forthcoming Sartar book: After the Dragonrise, all of Dragon Pass was thrown into disorder. Lergius Cassius held Boldhome with a small garrison of 300 soldiers from the…
Kallyr Starbrow
Here are some of my notes on Kallyr Starbrow for the Homeland Book: Dark Season 1625, Kallyr is acclaimed Prince. In some areas she has a lot of support, in others, not…
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – I
Getting support for an attempted Lightbringers Quest is pretty much everything Kallyr does from being acclaimed Prince until Sacred Time. She pushes hard to have the entire Orlanth cult and its associates…
Wyrm’s Footnotes #07 (1979)
Details Artists: Tom Clark, Steve Oliff, William Church, Steve Swenston, Steve Lortz 36 pages. Table of Contents