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Nochet – Sailing and Oceanic Trade

Posted on April 8, 2025

One thing I think is easy to underestimate is just how much the impact of sailing and oceanic trade is on Nochet. Probably about 40% of ALL Gloranthan maritime traffic passes through…

Outlawry and Exile

Posted on December 21, 2024

Outlawry and exile are good ways to get your adventurers out of their homeland. They might have killed someone in another community, angered their local leaders, or gotten too involved in politics…

Other Genertela Settings

Posted on December 19, 2024

Although the settings for the overwhelming majority of RuneQuest games are Sartar and New Pavis, don’t be afraid to send your adventurers further afield, especially if you are armed with the Cults…

Population Movement in Dragon Pass

Posted on March 30, 2024

Apropos of my previous post – there’s a lot of interaction between the peoples of Dragon Pass, Prax, and the Holy Country. Many leading Sartarite families have married Esrolians, many Goldentongue merchants…

Esrolian Culture

Posted on January 3, 2024

When we think about Esrolia as a culture, a few things to keep in mind: Esrolia is 90% rural villagers. Let’s focus on that before thinking about its urban centers. Rural Esrolia…

Notes on Lanbril

Posted on September 6, 2023

Lanbril comes out of the tradition of fictional thieves’ guilds such as Leiber’s Lankhmar and Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo. His cult can be thought of as an approach to organized crime throughout…

Merngala

The Great Queen-grandmother Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 84 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry

Notes on Kethaelan Architecture

Posted on June 17, 2023

By that we really mean Esrolian, since over 60% of the human population in Kethaela are Esrolian. Air-dried clay bricks, thatched roofs, with wood frames are the traditional building materials for Esrolian…

Nochet to Fonrit

Posted on February 9, 2023

Sailing across the Homeward Ocean from Nochet to Fonrit usually takes anywhere from four weeks to a season, depending on the prevailing winds. The seas have been opened for some 40 years,…

Notes on City Gods

Posted on February 6, 2023

Cities have a market, a degree of self-governance, and temples to the city’s patron deity and to the city god. They also have temples to other gods of importance to the people,…

Thoughts on city size

Posted on December 2, 2022

When we think about most cities in RuneQuest, they are pretty small. New Pavis is a little over 5000 people. Jonstown, Swenstown, and Wilmskirk are even smaller – none are more than…

The Nochet Hippodrome

Copyright © 1999 by Michael O’Brien [XXIX.loznoch.1/intr] From the “Lonely Lozenge Guide to Nochet”, by Beardless Beornie Oban (Rough Guide Scrolls, Mirin’s Cross 7/48) The Hippodrome is, to perhaps even a greater…

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…

Notes from Nochet

Introduction First published in Tales of the Reaching Moon issue #4Copyright © 1990 by Michael O’Brien & David Hall The “Jonstown Compendium” was first introduced to us in the RuneQuest Companion. A fantastic collection of…

Nochet Stuff

Well-educated Lunars

Posted on November 13, 2022

The following is what a well-educated Lunar might learn from an Irrippi Ontor sage in the 6th, 7th or 8th Wanes: SCIENCE AND REALITY Science bases itself on sense perception. Religion uses…

Esrolian fleets

Posted on October 27, 2022

I’ve been thinking a lot about the size of the Nochet trireme fleet, and clearly the number of rowers (and not finances) is the biggest limiting factor. If we assume HALF the…

53 – Grain and Pretenders

52 – Ask the Spider 54 – Sizing up 52 – Ask the Spider 54 – Sizing up Q&A

50 – The Doom of Esrolia

49 – Keva 51 – The Great Darkness is Coming 49 – Keva 51 – The Great Darkness is Coming

47 – Nochet

Chapter 4 – Visions 48 – A Moment of Weakness Chapter 4 – Visions 48 – A Moment of Weakness

Other RQG Campaign settings

Posted on September 11, 2022

As we all know, Dragon Pass-the Holy Country-Prax homelands are the default settings for RQG. These are the areas explored in the old board games White Bear & Red Moon, Nomad Gods,…

Gloranthan Distances

Posted on July 27, 2022

It is approximately 4250 kilometers from the Holy Country to Pamaltela, although most sailors travel clockwise around the Homeward Ocean, taking about 3 weeks to get to Maslo, give or take a…

The Throne Room of Nochet

Posted on April 21, 2022

Here’s a nice illustration of the throne room of Nochet. Now obviously this is an adaptation of the Gloranthan original to look more Minoan but the base elements are there. We have…

Notes About Esrolia – Part 1 – Ernaldela

Posted on March 27, 2022

When we think of Esrolia, we need to remember that unlike Sartar or even Pavis, it is an ancient land. Esrolia has a consistent history of being a settled and civilized land…

Nochet population density

Posted on December 21, 2021

When we think about cities like Nochet, keep in mind how incredibly densely populated some of them are – like Bombay or Calcutta. Nochet’s population density averages somewhere around 18,000+ per square…

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