Far Point Location Type Page Affiliation Firetop Shrine 88 Tarsh Location Type Page Affiliation Furthest (large city) Minor temple 107
Tag: Lodril
Social Classes in the Lunar Empire
A few notes on social classes in the Lunar Empire (with some specific notes on slavery in Dara Happa). Dara Happa – that belt of intensive agriculture along the Oslira river –…
The Sky Gods
The Sky is orderly, regular, and far removed from mortal ephemeralism. The Sun, planets, and stars move in regular patterns through the sky. Clusters of stars form constellations, associated with gods, monsters,…
Hell
Hell has many guardians and denizens, although comparatively few have well-established cults. Of those who do, the best known are perhaps Annilla, Asrelia, Daka Fal, Gorgorma, Humakt, Jajagappa, Kyger Litor, Lodril, Shargash,…
Quivin
Mountain God References Page Year Notes Prosopaedia 101 2023
Solar Purity
Light does not shine through grime and pollution – that goes a long way towards understanding most Solar cultist’s obsession with purity. The ideal is to let your (inner) Light shine, and…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
Food Production in the Lunar Heartlands
Most of the people in the Lunar Heartlands are directly involved with food production: Now wait – you might ask – the Seven Mothers really don’t provide squat in terms of agricultural…
Firetop
A little more than 3km from Alda-Chur is the active cinder cone of Firetop, which rises some 250 meters above the surrounding plains. My mental image for this is Sunset Crater in…
The Struggle for the Middle Air
The Red Goddess never made peace with the Air Gods, for there was none among her pantheon who could approach those deities on their own ground. There began, within history, a struggle…
Illumination and the Solar Religion
Nysalorean Illumination is associated with the Solar religion of Peloria, and perhaps we should think about how the Bright God has embraced Nysalor. Yelm is one of the Greater Gods and a…
Lodik
Master of Fire References Page Year Notes Prosopaedia 77 2023 Glorantha Sourcebook 6, 106 2018, 2024 AKA: Balumbasta, Lodril, Solf, Turos, Veskarthan, Huocheng Guide to Glorantha 373 2014 In: The Nine Great…
Solf
God of Volcanoes, Gluttony, Intemperance, and Sloth References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 33, 60 2025 None listed AKA: Balumbasta (Pamaltela), Huocheng (Kralorela), Lodril, Karkal (Vithela) Prosopaedia 113 2023 Common…
ViTuros
Earth God References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 60, 68 2025 None listed AKA: Lodril (Oraya, Saird), Vi-Turos Prosopaedia 133 2023 Common and uncommon runes 2004 None listed Entity glyph…
DuTukkos
God of the Arcos River References Page Year Notes Fire & Sky 60, 68 2025 AKA: Lodril (Arcos River) Prosopaedia 32 2023 Common and uncommon runes 2004 Entity glyph only Glorantha:Introduction to…
Balumbasta
Firebearer, Earth Father References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 60, 68 2025 None listed AKA: Lodril, Bendaluza (Pamaltela), Huocheng (Kralorela), Karkal (Vithela), Solf (Teshnos) Prosopaedia 14 2023 Cults of Glorantha…
Huocheng
The Minister of Fire, War God References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 11 2025 None listed AKA: Balumbasta (Pamaltela), Karkal (Vithela), Lodril, Solf (Teshnos) Prosopaedia 59 2023 Kralorelan Equivalencies Post…
Notes on Kralorela I
Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…
The Seventh Soul
Before the Red Goddess, people had only six souls. These had been placed in them by the gods when they made the first people. The six soul-parts, and the deity which contributed…
The Sixes in the Holy Country
In the Holy Country, the magical energies of the Sixes work together to complement each other. All Six are recognized by all and yet, each maintain their own identity. The Sixes and…
Pamaltelan Equivalencies
The Pamalting or Doraddi pantheon offer us a different perspective of Glorantha’s mythology. Pamaltela was not as badly damaged by the Gods War and Greater Darkness as Genertela, and the Earth King…
Veskarthan
Volcano God References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 60, 68 2025 None listed Both spellingsAKA: Lodril (Vent) Prosopaedia 20, 91, 120, 131 2023 HeroQuest Glorantha 150 2015 None listed As:…
Lunar Provincial Population Groups
Throughout the Lunar Provinces, much of the ruling class and urban population is Lunar, while much of the rural population is “barbarian” (I am using that term from a Lunar Heartland perspective)….
Cults of Differing Power
So as we have noticed, the RuneQuest cults are deliberately not balanced. Some cults have way more magic – and effective magic – than others. Now that was part of Greg’s vision…
Notes About Esrolia – Part 3 – The Shadowlands
Shadowlands – the Only Old One was the son of Argan Argar and Esrola, born in the Lesser Darkness. Argan Argar, a powerful Darkness deity and one of the commanders of the forces…