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Understanding the Kingdom of Sartar

Posted on January 6, 2021

The Prince of Sartar is a priest-king of the most important Orlanth Rex cult in Dragon Pass. The Prince serves as a high priest, supreme warlord, and chief judge for the member…

Commonly used titles in Theyalan

Posted on December 30, 2020

Because people find titles and their meaning interesting, here’s a short summary of the most commonly used titles in Theyalan: Chief Theyalan. Literally means “Great One; Most Important; Big Man” and denotes…

City Rex

Posted on December 29, 2020

One of the titles I truly hated using for the leader of a Sartarite city was “mayor.” Perhaps because I used to work with US mayors, but I always felt it was…

Orlanth Rex and Sartar’s Lineage

Posted on December 25, 2020

The priesthood of the cult of Sartar – that’s the Orlanth Rex for all the tribes of Sartar, aka the Prince of Sartar – is restricted to members of Sartar’s lineage. Generally…

Orlanth Rex

Tribal leaders subcult Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Lightbringers 29, 159 2023 None listed n/a Subcult of: OrlanthAssociated cult:Ygg Prosopaedia 93 2023 None listed n/a Subcult of: Orlanth Sartar &…

Orlanthi ownership

Posted on April 28, 2020

Here’s a little snippet from a forthcoming players-oriented book I am working on: The Orlanthi divide ownership into two types of property, called earth and chattel. The Orlanthi view the Earth as…

Concept art of Great Orlanth in all three aspects

Posted on September 19, 2019

I think this dates to Boldhome circa 1628 or 1629.

Sartar & Orlanth Rex cult

Posted on April 6, 2019

Sartar is worshiped in Sartar as part of the Orlanth Rex cult. His priests are Orlanth Rex members descended from Sartar himself. As a Founder God he gets one additional spell –…

A Lunar Heartland travelogue

Posted on August 15, 2018

I recently discovered this from a unpublished Lunar Heartland travelogue. This snippet is from the discussion of Dragon Pass and Esrolia: “The Orlanthi are barely human. They rut like barnyard animals, kill…

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