posted Sat, 12/11/2011 The City of the Gods (Hrelar Amali) is located on the Crimson Plains between Ralios and Seshnela. It is the sport where Flamal, beloved of Ernalda, fell at the…
Tag: Myth of the Month
Myth of the Month: Clouds (2000)
By Greg Stafford; illustrated by Juha Harju Regular Types of Clouds The Orlanthi have several stories about where clouds come from. As usual, these are different ways of interpreting the physical phenomena…
Myth of the Month: The Birth of the Minotaur (1981)
originally published in Wyrms Footnotes #12 The Birth of Minotaurus – A Theyalan Myth In ancient days a great young god, the Storm Bull*, sought new wonders to call his own. When…
Myth of the Month: Shargash the Destroyer (1998)
Shargash is the celestial God of War. He is a great god, with power in all the worlds. In the sky, he is the Red Planet of War. On the earth he…
Myth of the Month: History of the Race of Trolls (1998)
by Greg Stafford Originally published in Wyrms Footnotes #6 (1979). The Famous Dark Trolls of the Hero Wars” section was subsequently reprinted in Wyrm’s Footprints (1995). The Age of Plenty In the…
Myth of the Month: The Orogeria Moon (1998)
The Red Goddess established, though her Travel and Journey experience, that She, as the goddess Orogeria, was the first planetary body to rise into the sky after the Kazkurtum. Dayzataran priests and…
Myth of the Month: Morden Defends the Camp (1999)
This is an excerpt from Greg’s unpublished novel, commonly called Harmast’s Saga. In it the weaponthane Morden invokes a particular kind of ancestral magic to help his single-handed defense. by Greg Stafford The…
Myth of the Month: Malkioni Otherworld (2001)
The Sorcery World is the Western Otherworld Sorcery means here any magic in the material world (a.k.a. the Center World, the Shared World, etc.). whose origin is that Otherworld. Their system comes…
Myth of the Month: Chariots and Chariot Gods (2003)
Yelm and the Imperial Chariot Yelm brought the first chariots to mankind. When Most High Yelm descended from the Sky World He paused upon the Footstool for the Enthronement Creation. Then He…
Myth of the Month: The Vithelan Creation of the World (1998)
Before the High Gods Durapdur is All. All begins with Durapdur. Durapdur began when he perceived the Three Measures of space, duration, and consciousness. Durapdur then perceived a smaller version of himself…
Myth of the Month: ShangHsa (1998)
The Reign of ShangHsa, may his name be cursed The path to liberation is fraught with temptation. The true masters taught to us the safe methods, and to wander from their advice…
Myth of the Month: Orlanth makes a Ring (1998)
Everyone was fighting each other. The two rules of Umath were the only laws: Violence is always an option. No one can make you do anything. Orlanth was displeased with this. He…
Myth of the Month: How Vith Pacified the Anti-Gods
Vith, the Father of Gods and Antigods, lives in a simple cottage high in the celestial mountains. Now, in the modern Cycle, Vith has no great palace, and no vast armies of…
Myth of the Month: How Orlanth Met Ernalda (1998)
At the beginning of things that are remembered, the Emperor extended his rulership among the deities of the Earth Tribe. The ruler of that tribe was the goddess named Asrelia. When the…
Myth of the Month: How the Islands Came Apart (1998)
One day all the people of Vithela got together. They wanted to discuss their common practices and share what they could with each other. That was the way of things in those…
Myth of the Month: How Argan Argar Courted Esrola (2002)
December 2002 The wonderful palace called Akez Loradak (Ebonglass, Palace of Black Glass) has always been the most impressive of all above-ground troll sites. This was made by Argan Argar near the…
Myth of the Month: Aedin’s Wall (2000)
Aedin’s Wall is the name of the wall that surrounds Orlanth’s hamlet Aedin was a daimon who lived upon the slope of the Spike during the Golden Age. He was lazy and…
Myth of the Month: Lightnight (2010)
I ran into this guy once who lived behind this near-abandoned, but ruined temple; behind a broken statue of Zaytenera. Crazy, filthy old guy, ate every bit of my food like Kaell!…
Myth of the Month: The Missionaries
December 2005 Here’s a bit of an excerpt from an unfinished story that is an example of the First Age missionaries going about and spreading the Word of the Dawn. Myth of…
Myth of the Month: Enemy Gods of the Orlanthi (2001)
Most deities have one or more specific, notable foes. Those foes were (usually) defeated in mythic times, resulting in the creation of the current world, and may be considered to be a…