Went horse riding to Little Starfire Ridge today. Our Grazer ponies did magnificently! BTW, I post this sort of stuff to give an idea of the things that I that remind me…
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A vision of Sartar
For me my vision of Sartar is a cross between the Rockies near Taos or Humphrey Peak near Flagstaff with Tirol and Sudtirol. A few fleeting visions: What about the Highlands of…
Glimpses of Glorantha
Some fabulous glimpses of Glorantha at the Altes Museum in Berlin today!
Inspiration for Humakti
I’ve always had a soft spot for Humakti. Sacred killers, they live outside of normal Orlanthi society but nonetheless have an important role within it. With their code of honor, strange taboos…
Biggest Sartarite Cities
The biggest Sartarite city – as described in the Dragon Pass book – is Boldhome, with over 10,000 residents. It is twice the population of the other cities around the Quivin Mountains…
The Garden (Big Rubble)
Around 750 years ago, bands of aldryami came from the Redwood Forest in Shadows Dance to the new city of Pavis and created the Garden. They planted pines, cedar, black oak, manzanitas,…
Vulture Country
Beyond the eastern highlands of the River of Cradles is Vulture Country, a desolate badlands. Some 50 km wide, the area is an arid desert getting no more than 0 to 20…
The building of Pavis 830 ST
Old Pavis was built of stone, not adobe or brick. Let’s start with this passage about the building of Pavis: After the Too Tall Battle, the Faceless Statue collapsed, all magical energies…
Shamans
Shamans are an alternative path towards magic power, quite different from Rune Priests and Rune Lords. To begin with, many shamans are outside of the structures – they are initiates of the…
Zebra Fort
Zebra Fort is Argrath’s main stronghold in the Big Rubble. It’s only about 2 kilometers away from the People’s Gate, and you can probably run there in about 15 minutes or so….
The Knowledge Temple, New Pavis
The Knowledge Temple in New Pavis is the largest collection of scrolls, books, parchments, etc. in all of Prax. The Knowledge Temple is the largest repository of information about Pavis and the…
The Garden, Big Rubble
The elves of the Big Rubble are among the most human-oriented elves I know of. There’s only about 200 elves in the Garden, the other 800 Aldryami consist of a few non-combatant…
New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple
It’s about 45 km from New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple. That’s a little further away than the distance between Swenstown and Boldhome. It takes about two days to get there…
Precipitation in Prax
Prax gets about about 47 cm of precipitation (41 cm as rain, 55 cm as snow), with most of that falling in Storm and Sea Seasons. After Sea Season, Prax usually gets…
Beyond Prax
When a nomadic group is forced out of Prax, they retreat across the Vulture Country into the Genert Wastes. Vulture Country is about as bleak a terrain as it comes. Beyond Vulture…
Praxian Bison
There is something amazing watching a bison herd get within 2 meters of your car. Especially when the countryside was definitely Prax. Now in reality we had to stop as the herd…
Assembly Rocks, Prax
There is a very strong current of North American magic and mythology in Glorantha, something absent in fantasy derived from Middle Earth. Today I went for a trek through Prax in the…
The Block – Inspiration
Decided to take a drive to the Block today. Here the Storm Bull fought the Devil to a standstill until the cosmos could take the Devil’s perversity no more and hurled a…
Social Classes in the Lunar Empire
A few notes on social classes in the Lunar Empire (with some specific notes on slavery in Dara Happa). Dara Happa – that belt of intensive agriculture along the Oslira river –…
The Dara Happan Emperor
In 1247, the Red Goddess ascended into the Middle Air as the Red Moon. She appointed her son as her temporal viceroy, and charged him with the responsibilities of her affairs in…
Map of Glamour and Raibanth Area
Here’s another neat map showing the area around Glamour and Raibanth. I believe Nick and company used this as the base of a map in the Rough Guide to Glamour. Note how…
Notes on Armor and Helmets
We know from RQG that closed or open helmets are most common for nobles and warriors (Light Infantry is associated with composite helmets). So let’s think about styles, starting with Kethaela. Remember…
Ancient Bird Mother
As we all know, Vrimak (one of the Parts of Yelm) is the father of all avian life. His daughter-wife Avarnia is the Bird Mother, goddess of small birds, including quails, chickens,…
Notes on Balastor’s Barracks
I personally hate the graphic design of Balastor’s Barracks – that old school dungeon intended to fill up a single page – but I do think there is something LIKE it at…
Before the Upland Marsh
Here’s something else to think about – the Upland Marsh is located in what was a broad and fertile river valley, some 130 km long by 45 km wide. The waters that…