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Heortland in the Third Age II

Posted on May 15, 2023

So what happened to Heortland? Heortland has almost three times the population of Sartar, in approximately the same area. With over 100k Orlanth initiates, it is one core Orlanthi areas in the…

Notes on Holay

Posted on March 9, 2023

Directly north of Tarsh is Holay, which includes Mirin’s Cross, the great Daughter’s Road from Jillaro to Filichet, and several Sun Dome Temples. Holay is the most populous of the Lunar Provinces,…

Tarsh (1625-1628)

Posted on March 8, 2023

Hero Wars era Tarsh (post-Dragonrise, pre-Battle of Heroes) has a population of about 360k people. The core of Tarsh is a Lunar Heartlands colony centered on Furthest. There is a smaller satellite…

Notes on Fronela

Posted on February 14, 2023

Fronela is a fascinating land – not just culturally and mythologically, but in terms of geography and climate. Valind’s Glacier is on the northern edge of Fronela, a colossal ice sheet. It…

Dragon Pass Map Forest Overlay

Posted on January 16, 2023

Just because I find it interesting, here’s that composite map of Dragon Pass, Kethaela, and NW Prax with a forest overlay, showing you forest cover. The dark green is heavy forest, the…

Master Map

Posted on January 16, 2023

Something Greg taught me was to regularly overlay maps, so that you could see how things interact with stuff beyond the border of the map. This has a big effect on how…

Fronela

Posted on January 8, 2023

Fronela is one of the strangest and wildest regions in Glorantha. Normally when I try to get a handle on a region, I ponder its history, how the various peoples interact and…

Brolia and Anadiki

Posted on January 1, 2023

Some 150,000 Orlanthi live in the foothills north of the Western Rockwoods, in Brolia and Anadikki. The population density here is about 6 people per square km, a little more than half…

The Size of a Tribe

Posted on December 10, 2022

Let’s try a little to get a sense of scale of an Orlanthi tribe. Let’s start with one of the biggest – the Colymar. The tribe has about 13,000 members. Most are…

Zola Fel Valley

Posted on December 9, 2022

This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…

Navigating the Hero Plane

Posted on December 4, 2022

So when thinking about any heroquest, I start by looking at one of Greg’s old Hero Plane maps. This is a map of archetypes – and not the same thing as the…

The Quivin Mountains

Posted on November 29, 2022

The Quivin Mountains are a massif of the Storm Mountains, a subrange separated from the main range by the 1000 meter high Sambarri Pass. The subrange is quite small, only about 35…

The East Wilds

Posted on November 28, 2022

The East Wilds were settled by colonists from Dragon Pass over 1400 years ago. The East Wilds are a rugged land, and many live by herding or hunting. Until the Dragonkill War,…

Prax and the Genert Wastes

Posted on November 28, 2022

So let’s think a little bit about Prax. As we all know, Prax is the western and comparatively fertile part of the Genert Wastes. Prax gets about 46 cm of rain and…

The Port of Nochet

First published in Tradetalk issue #4Copyright © 1998 by Michael O’Brien The unique geography of the Holy Country is well suited to water transport.  A succession of wide, sedate rivers empty into…

The Size of Genertela

Posted on November 6, 2022

When we think about the size of Genertela, remember that it is roughly 5000 km long from west to east and 1700 wide from north to south. It is a little bit…

Beyond the Building Wall – Errata

Beyond the Building Wall scenario published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #13Copyright © 1995 by Michael O’BrienPermission is freely given for personal gaming use. Due to a error in production, we inadvertently left…

The Lunar Satrapy of Sylila

Posted on September 21, 2022

The Red Emperor’s daughter, Hwarin Dalthippa, conquered the lands south of Henjarl in a series of military and magical campaigns between 1309 and 1349. In 1325, the Red Emperor proclaimed her and…

Choralinthor Bay

Posted on September 18, 2022

The Choralinthor Bay is strongly affected by the tides. At times of very low tide, the blue hatched areas and the light blue areas are exposed. Only the dark blue areas are…

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…

Pamaltelan Mythical Age Maps (2003)

The Pamaltelan mythology divides history in Periods: the Creation Period, the Artmali Period, the Demon Period etc. You can read more about the Pamaltelan mythic ages in the pre-finished work Revealed Mythologies.

The Grand Ritual of the Third Council

Posted on September 8, 2022

In 826, the Third Council was established to rule over the material interests of the leaders of the draconic movement. The rulers began a long and intense Grand Ritual that was expected…

Genertela line map

Posted on July 27, 2022

The northern continent of the Surface World is called Genertela, which means “Place of Genert”, the Earth King who once ruled the land. Genertela is about 5,000 km east to west and…

Raus of Rone

Posted on June 26, 2022

Raus was not of the Imperial nobility but was closely affiliated to an imperial clan. His ancestors were a local ruling dynasty in Kostaddi. They made peace with the Lunar Empire, but…

Notes on the Origins Of Tarsh

Posted on June 10, 2022

Let’s talk a little bit about the south Pelorian Orlanthi, as I think that they are important as a background – even though the Lunar Tarshites are not merely a Lunarized variant…

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