I know that people focus on Pavis, Jonstown, and Boldhome in their games – and probably in that order. But Wilmskirk is definitely worth a look. This was Wilms the Artist’s first…
Tag: Map
The Culbrea Tribe II
Another tribal map I put together for a project. Here is the Culbrea tribe and its clans. See also Bandits. = Freedom fighters, rebels, “herders”, free warriors, etc. All those clans seem…
Temple of the Reaching Moon
Each Temple of the Reaching Moon is an architectural monument, a vast complex of temples, shrines, and courts that take up about 10 hectares. They follow a standard layout, that recreates the…
An important insight into the Red Goddess
“Her Myth-Self does not properly sit with how the God Learners theorised how the God Time functions. The Red Goddess slices through our conception of the God Time at a right angle…
The Geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar
A little blurb on the geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar. Not much like Caledonia at all. General Description Sartar is a rugged and seismically active region filled with rounded hills and…
Tribes of Sartar Map, 1625-1626
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…
Pockets of Boldhome III
Almost a third of the population of Boldhome lives in the East and West Pockets of the city. These dwarf-made complexes are carved out of the stone of the valley’s wall, and…
CHA4038 The Pegasus Plateau & Other Stories – Q&A
Official Answers by Chaosium The Pegasus Plateau (pages 6-26) Maps of the Area There’s a slight map inconsistency between the RQSS map and the RQPP one, and lengthy textual description: mainly significant…
Pockets of Boldhome II
Each pocket is split into terraces, and each terrace has several galleries. Each gallery holds many families, usually organized around guild, clan, or cult activities. Galleries typically have a large communal eating…
Detailed map of Saird
Here is a far more detailed map of Saird, which gives an idea how densely populated this lowlands here are. Lots of villages! And the Daughter’s Road running from Jillaro to Filichet…
Peloria I
The Pelorian bowl is a steppe-land, about 640 km from Saird to the Thunder Delta, and about 800 km from the Sweet Sea to the Redlands frontier, where it merges into the…
Durengard
Population: 10k 90 hectares (giving 20 hectares to the governor’s palace) Temples to Orlanth, Ernalda, Belintar, Issaries, Lhankor Mhy (and other Lightbringers), Invisible God and Uleria. Massive-fortress palace in the Nochet style…
Sun County Continued part 3
July 2021 by Michael O’Brien (Mob) Sun County Continued Sea Season 1621 Sea Season 1621 – When word came that the Lunars had failed to stop the Giant Cradle at Pavis, Count…
Masters of Luck and Death I
In the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death, participants traveled the secret pathways of the Hero Plane that tied the Holy Country together. They defined and named the powers of…
The Holy Country after 1616
When Belintar died and did not return in 1616, the Holy Country quickly fell apart as a unified kingdom. As not one but two Tournaments of the Masters of Luck and Death…
The invasion of the Holy Country 1619, part 2
By the end of Sea Season, the Lunar invasion of the Holy Country had stalled outside the walls of Karse. After being nearly destroyed in a Lunar assault, Smithstone had been retaken…
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…
Hiording Clan
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….
Varmandi Clan
The Varmandi are a small clan, and herd cattle and sheep in Stael’s Hills and the Thunder Hills, areas claimed by other clans, and this often puts them into conflict with their…
The Size of the Red Moon
Lunar celestialogists claim that the top of the Sky Dome is approximately 6000 km above Magasta’s Pool and that the Red Moon is therefore about 3000 km above the Crater (“halfway between…
Boldhome Booklet
Wow there is a lot of good stuff in the Boldhome booklet going into the Sartar Boxed Set.
Quivin Mountains & Boldhome map
Getting closer on the Sartar Book, and have some proof of concept of some of the handouts that people might enjoy seeing. The Quivin Mountains are a spur off the Storm Mountains….
Glorantha-Terrestial Timeline
Going back to our Glorantha-terrestial convergence time line, it is worth thinking that about 1775 AD Sheng Seleris and his Pentan nomads invaded Peloria. For nearly a century, Pentans dominated the Pelorian…
Notes on Esrolia
Some material facts on Esrolia that I think are of importance. Esrolia is perhaps the most densely settled and intensely cultivated area in the world. It has 1.78 million people in an…
Boldhome Map Preview III
As Matt Ryan and I continue to work on the Boldhome foldout map for the Sartar boxed set, we’ve made a few tweaks based on Greg’s notes. Greg really insisted that the…