About 1490 there was a new settlement started outside of the walls of Pavis. It was called the City of Thieves (now called Badside), and it was permitted both as a favour…
Tag: Maps
Levels of The Big Rubble
SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: From a design and play perspective, the Big Rubble lets you introduce…
Central Genertela Map Overview
I often play around with putting different maps together in order to get a better feel for how Glorantha works. This is one of my favorite composite maps – it nicely shows…
Notes on the Big Rubble
The Big Rubble covers about 25 square km. With 6100 inhabitants, that’s almost 250 inhabitants per square km or 2.5 per hectare. In comparison, New Pavis with 28 hectares has 5150 inhabitants…
Alda-Chur Sketch Maps
So a sneak peak at some of my hand drawn maps which far better artists than I have drawn up for the Guide to Dragon Pass. So let’s start with Alda-Chur. Greg…
Western Mythical Age Maps (2003)
The western mythology divides history in Actions, after the Actions of Malkion. You can read more about the western mythic ages in the pre-finished work Revealed Mythologies.
Dunstop II
A few notes on the Tarshite city of Dunstop: Dunstop has a population of about 5k people and covers about 50 hectares. It is built on a low (30 meter high) hill…
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…
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…
Reinforcing the Scale
From time to time it is worth reinforcing the scale of Dragon Pass and the Holy Country. So basically, Dragon Pass is about the size of Northern California from the south shore…
History of Kethaela – The Third Age
After the Dragonkill War, the Only Old One proved himself to be a troll in magical contest with Kajak-ab Brain Eater and so shared rule of Dragon Pass with the leaders in…
History Of Kethaela – The First Age
Kethaela is an ancient name for the region now called the Holy Country. The land was named for the goddess Ketha, the wife of Entru and mother of Entruli, who came from…
What is White Bear & Red Moon?
So you might be wondering what is with all these posts referring to White Bear & Red Moon? As I work on the RQ Campaign book, the connection between it and WBRM…
Maps & Legends
I was sorting through some things when I came across these original maps from 1979. Drawn by William Church, they debuted in the 2nd edition RQ Rulebook. For years they were tacked…
Notes on the Holy Country II
By 1350, the Hendriki kingdom is gone. Heortland – named after the great cultural hero who was often invoked by Belintar – was a Sixth of the Holy Country. The God-King kept…
Dunstop I
A few notes on the Tarshite city of Dunstop: Dunstop has a population of about 5k people and covers about 50 hectares. It is built on a low (30 meter high) hill…
Nochet to Glamour at 1:400,000 scale
Admittedly Glamour is not in this picture as it is just beyond the field of vision. But I see Alkoth and even Raibanth. Each sheet is an A2, so about 24 x…
Core homelands Maps
I present to you the full map of the core homelands in four pictures. Next is tweak a few details and then scan and print. To give you an idea of the…
Eastern Sartar and Prax
A few interesting features here – you can see that Pimper’s Block is in Balkoth tribal lands. Moonbroth is only about 40 km from Swenstown, and the Dead Place itself is only…
Esrolia Sketch Maps
All maps at 2cm = 8 km scale.
A Year Ago
A year ago I got the terrible news from Suzanne that Greg passed away. It seems fitting that I’ve been spending this week reconstructing his old master maps of Glorantha – some…
Dragon Pass and Kethaela Map
About 66% done on phase one! The whole of Dragon Pass and Kethaela at 2 cm = 5 miles scale. Altogether it is an A0 map. To get all of Prax in…
Guide to Glorantha wins Silver ENnie for Best Cartography
Gen Con – The Guide to Glorantha picked up the 2015 Silver ENnie for Best Cartography at the awards ceremony tonight – congratulations to master mapmaker Colin Driver who was responsible for the…
Pamaltela
Pamaltela is the southern continent of Glorantha. The continent is 4200 miles long and 2000 miles wide. Winds generally blow east to west, and occasionally from the hot south. Most of Pamaltela…