Kallyrs Stationary Lightbringer Quest was much like how many people understand heroquesting. She got the tribes and temples to perform a giant ceremony filled with pageantry. People wore masks and sacred regalia…
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Silver Lunars and Costs
Silver coinage is incredibly common. The caravan trade between the Holy Country and the Lunar Empire uses silver. The Lunars also dump a huge amount of silver into circulation to pay their…
Sartar Money and War
The Kingdom of Sartar was the wealthiest of the Dragon Pass kingdoms prior to the Lunar Conquest. Its revenues were a combination of a head tax paid by the tribes (in silver),…
Loyalty (Kallyr)
In 30 years of games that tied into Starbrow’s Rebellion and Kallyr, I have not seen one where all (not just most, but all) of the women players did not end up…
Battle of the Queens (Fire Season 1626)
King Pharandros took command of the remaining imperial troops in the provinces, and led them with the Tarsh army to conquer the disheartened Sartarites. Near where the Creek enters the Upland Marsh,…
Harmast’s Saga
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…
Noble Patronage in Sartar & Tarsh
The ruling dynasties of Sartar and Tarsh were both reknowned for their intellectual and scholarly pursuits, or at least their patronage of such activities. So for example, Sartar established Lhankor Mhy temples…
The distrust of Kallyr Starbrow
One thing that is hard for some people to really grasp is how controversial and distrusted Kallyr was by many tribal leaders as Prince (and before). The distrust of Kallyr goes back…
Kallyr Starbrow 1613-1619
Are there any published sources for what Kallyr Starbrow got up to between her surrender after the failed rebellion in 1613 and her re-appearance at Whitewall in 1619/21 and the Battle the…
Join the Dance of the Hero Wars
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…
Storm Season 1625 Kallyr Starbrow’s Lightbringers’ Summons
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Lightbringers Quest
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…