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Tag: Orlanth
Storm Pantheon art preview
Orlanth is the grandson of Earth and Sky, his siblings are the winds, a bull, a cat, violence, evil, the mountain snow, and Death. He married the Green Lady, and his offspring…
Ralios Orlanthi
The Holy Country has about 357k Orlanth initiates (and I mean initiate of Orlanth, not Orlanthi culture). Peloria has 225k and Dragon Pass has just under 100k. But Ralios has some 560k…
The Orlanth Cult in Peloria
There are some 225,000 Orlanth initiates in Peloria, making it the fourth biggest cult in Peloria (tied with Ernalda). Only Seven Mothers, Lodril, and Oria have bigger cults. During the rise of…
Closing Temples
Part of the reason I post demographic and economic information is it gives a sense of the resources various temples, rulers, and other groups might have. Hopefully it is clear that the…
The Sixes in the Holy Country
In the Holy Country, the magical energies of the Sixes work together to complement each other. All Six are recognized by all and yet, each maintain their own identity. The Sixes and…
Sky Bear
Celestial Bear God Hsunchen pantheon – Rathor Lunar pantheon – Arakang, Karborn Orlanth pantheon – Umath, Orlanth, and Odayla Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Prosopaedia Unpublished The Lunar Empire 28…
The Second Council
Once the decision had been made to form a Second Council to meet the challenges of a New Time there was a nomination of potential members by all the worshippers within the…
The First Council
I recently ran across one of the most ancient texts describing the First Council. This was dated to the Dawn Age, when Glorantha’s mythic structure was first being defined and explored: The…
Deloradella
Dark Woman, Queen of the Darkness Tribe, goddess of the night. Mother of Orlanth’s son, Crushing Noise, the dark thunder. Goddess of Night, Queen of the Darkness Tribe, and protector of the…
Lunar Provincial Population Groups
Throughout the Lunar Provinces, much of the ruling class and urban population is Lunar, while much of the rural population is “barbarian” (I am using that term from a Lunar Heartland perspective)….
Suppression of Orlanth Under the Lunar Empire
As we all know, the Lunar Empire tries to suppress certain cults when possible. The top of the list is of course Orlanth, but also cults also officially disfavored include Storm Bull,…
Kyger Litor Cult Compatibility table
People often forget that the cult of Kyger Litor is hostile to all of these cults: ALL the Seven Lightbringers (including Chalana Arroy) ALL the Lunar cults (except the Red Goddess who…
Orlanth overview on YouTube
I did a video overview of the Orlanth cult with Chaosium’s own James Coquillat:
Here’s a story every Orlanth initiate knows
It is worth a careful read as there are some interesting details in this (and the story is more complete than in King of Sartar): One day, at the Hill of Victory,…
How to Draw Orlanth’s thunderbolt
Here’s something Rich Fleider and I put together years ago on how to draw Orlanth’s thunderbolt. I thought folk might find this interesting.
The Tribes of Sartar, 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…
Why does Orlanth have multiple arms?
So an art issue that a few grognards have raised directly or indirectly – why does Orlanth have multiple arms? The Orlanthi depict Orlanth as having four arms so that they might…
Townspeople and tribesfolk
Probably the biggest social conflict among the Sartarites is between the roughly 30k “townspeople” and the 140k “tribesfolk”. One way of seeing the distinction is with cults. So for example, among the…
Orlanth art preview
Orlanth symbolizes and forms the elemental Air; he is a foundation of the cosmic order. He is King of the Gods by right of his strength and deeds, and his virtues maintain…
Cults of Dragon Pass
One thing that should be becoming clear is how much of a mixed salad Dragon Pass is. If we include Sartar, Tarsh Exiles, Lunar Tarsh, and the Grazelands, here are the three…
Hate (Lunar Empire)
It is worth contemplating that Hate (Lunar Empire) is not one of Orlanth’s Passions. But Honor is valued over all other passions by Orlanth – even Devotion, Love, and Loyalty. Most Orlanthi…
Vogarth the Strong Man
Orlanthi Pantheon Demigod of Strength. Vogarth is famous for being the strongest (and dumbest) man in the world. Vogarth is also called the Big Man Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes…
Orlanth the Law Maker
Orlanth first stated the laws when he made the world, and later stated each law that resulted from one of his great deeds. He called himself Orlanthanandrin when he created these Cosmic…
Starkval the Weaponthane
Starkval is the leader of the fyrd. Deprecated. Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Thunder Rebels 237 2000 subcult of Orlanth Allfather