Many old lorehounds often make a common mistake regarding the Lightbringers Quest. Anyone who thinks “I’m going to perform the LBQ so X and Y happens” is setting themselves up to fail….
Tag: Kallyr
Kallyr Starbrow and the Dragonrise
It may come to some surprise, but Kallyr Starbrow likely had no idea that her intervention at the New Lunar Temple ceremony would result in the Dragonrise. Let’s start with what was…
Dragon Pass Viewed from Glamour
Of course Glamour pays attention to what is going on in Dragon Pass. The wars there have been costing many thousands of talents a year for the past decade. True Dragon there…
Boldhome After the Dragonrise (1625-1627)
After Boldhome’s liberation in 1625, Kallyr spent only a few days in the city before marching on Jonstown. The Boldhome militia participated in this campaign and fought at Dangerford. Kallyr was acclaimed…
Notes on Boldhome under the Lunar Occupation (1602-1625)
When the city fell in 1602, the Red Emperor first appointed Euglyptus the Fat, an imperial noble, as governor. A good Yelmite and Red Goddess initiate from Raibanth, I doubt Euglyptus had…
Kallyr’s Short Lightbringers Quest 1625 – IV
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…
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…
Orlanth Victorious
Orlanth Victorious is the title of Orlanth as he heads off on the Lightbringers Quest (eg Hill of Orlanth Victorious in Sartar). It can be thought of as the “fully integrated Orlanth”…
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…
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…