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Cultural changes in Genertela 350-500 ST

Posted on July 24, 2023

The years 350-500 witnessed radical cultural changes in Genertela. First the Theyalans (and trolls, dragonewts, elves, and dwarves) entered into a short-lived union with the Dara Happans. Although this union broke apart,…

Notes on the Lhankor Mhy cult

Posted on June 12, 2023

The Lhankor Mhy cult are famed as the lovers of wisdom (philosophers) and knowledge (philognosis) in Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. In the First Age, the priests of the Knowing God…

Prince Temertain

Posted on June 6, 2023

Temertain gets a deservedly bad wrap as Prince, but let’s look at the guy a little sympathetically. Temertain was born in 1570, in the Holy Country. He was third-generation Kethaelan – his…

Zzaburi in the West

Posted on January 5, 2023

There are somewhere around 120,000 zzaburi in Seshnela and Ralios. Now of them, about 79,000 adhere to the Rokari school. That’s the approximate number of trained sorcerers in that area. This number…

Lhankor Mhy in Central Genertela

Posted on January 4, 2023

There are roughly 100,000 initiates of the Knowing God in Central Genertela. This includes those that call the god Lhankor Mhy (probably about 60%), and those that call him Buserian (maybe 40%)….

Well-educated Lunars

Posted on November 13, 2022

The following is what a well-educated Lunar might learn from an Irrippi Ontor sage in the 6th, 7th or 8th Wanes: SCIENCE AND REALITY Science bases itself on sense perception. Religion uses…

Lhankor Mhy the Knowing God

Posted on September 24, 2022

Another remarkable Gloranthan deity is the Knowing God, Lhankor Mhy. Also found around the world, he’s generally given credit for creating writing so that mortals might store knowledge. Lhankor Mhy is the…

The Shadowlands

Posted on September 17, 2022

Both the Jrusteli and the Empire of the Wyrm’s Friends sought to maintain a loyal power base in the Shadowlands. It is, after all, the crossroads of the continent, and though every…

Lhankor Mhy Sorcery

Posted on September 16, 2022

Several Dragon Pass cults routinely play around with sorcery – Lhankor Mhy in particular. But the Knowing Priests are largely self-taught amateurs when it comes to sorcery. Temples tend to know a…

The Lightbringers Belt & Old Gods

Posted on September 15, 2022

In between the Malkioni lands and the Lunar Empire are two regions the “Lightbringers Belt” and the “Old Gods”. Now the Lightbringers Belt we all know – this is the area of…

Malkionism And Sorcery

Posted on September 7, 2022

Malkionism provides a set of beliefs, practices, and traditions that support the development of magical specialists in sorcery. Whether that was its original purpose or merely something that it made possible is…

Gloranthan Literature

Posted on August 23, 2022

Of course the Harmast’s Narrative is not the only classic work of literature in circulation. In Nochet, the Draconic Secrets, a Second Age manuscript from the Shadowlands, is widely known and read….

Lightbringers Pantheon

Posted on July 15, 2022

An interesting thing about the Lightbringers Pantheon is the number of non-elemental deities are prominent. Perhaps that was a key factor in the magic of the quest? Sharp-eyed viewers might note a…

Gorangian Bronzeguts

Posted on September 20, 2021

Gorangian Bronzeguts the chief librarian of the Jonstown Knowledge Temple. One thing I love about this is that Gorangian is not a particular heroic figure, but is an example of an important…

The Tribes of Sartar, 1625-1626

Posted on August 20, 2021

So there are 157 clans in Sartar (not including the Telmori and the Pol-Joni of course), with an average population of about 900 members. 600 are adults. The average tribe in Sartar…

Sorcery

Posted on July 14, 2021

I’ve posted a few thoughts on the dilemma of how mortals interact with the God Time, and how to understand the gods so that mortals might wield a fraction of their power…

Hiording Clan

Posted on July 9, 2021

This one is pretty incomplete and fragmentary as I am not sure I want to include a finished version in the Sartar Boxed Set, but I thought the Hiording might be interesting….

Belintar the Patron

Posted on June 22, 2021

Over his centuries of rule, Belintar attracted and patronised many visionary and unorthodox thinkers. Aggressive reincarnation, philosophies of Luck and Fate (“our Lady giveth and she taketh away”), God Learner apologists, monomyth…

Mister Bondaru

Posted on June 22, 2021

Mister Bondaru was a sage of Lhankor Mhy, and a noted philosopher in the City of Wonders. As stated before, his specialty was “The Physical Body and its Etheral Attributes” and he…

Grimoires for the Lhankor Mhy? (2013)

Submitted by Nohiro on Wed, 16/01/2013 – 17:28 Hello, Do Lhankor Mhy initiates have any special rules with regard to learning fragments of The Eternal Book? From the HQ2.0 rules I assumed…

Townspeople and tribesfolk

Posted on October 29, 2020

Probably the biggest social conflict among the Sartarites is between the roughly 30k “townspeople” and the 140k “tribesfolk”. One way of seeing the distinction is with cults. So for example, among the…

Redbird

Posted on October 21, 2020

This troublesome Knowing Priest comes from the far west and is of unknown age; he has claimed to have been born long before Sartar came to this land. Redbird is notorious for…

Lhankor Mhy and Literacy

Posted on July 29, 2020

The cult of Lhankor Mhy is responsible for teaching and training scribes. The princes of Sartar have traditionally been patrons of the cult, and literacy is surprisingly widespread, with libraries in each…

Torvald

The Torvald Fragments are the source of Lhankor Mhy sorcery Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Cults of Glorantha Preview 294 2019 Torvald Fragments RuneQuest Glorantha 389 2018 Torvald Fragments HeroQuest…

Wild Sages

Wild Sages are solitary researchers who emulate their god by becoming Seekers. Write up Page Year Runes Notes Sartar, Kingdom of Heroes 165 2009 Lhankor Mhy subcult Cult Compendium 2002 Lhankor Mhy…

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