Boldhome is a big city, at some 10,000 people it is the second biggest city in Dragon Pass. The other cities founded by Sartar and his family are smaller – between 2100…
Tag: Population demographics
Notes on the Governance of Boldhome
The city of Boldhome is the possession of the Prince. Sartar made it and it is his city. Unlike the other cities of Sartar, which are the centers of tribal confederations, Boldhome…
Notes on the Grazelands III
As we know there are about 18,000 Pure Horse People in Dragon Pass. They all belong to one tribal group – with Yelm Sun Lords as the tribal leaders, aided by Yelm…
Cult Distribution Charts
As you no doubt know, spreadsheets exist and are part of the unpublished canon: Is there is a canon answer to where the Elmal, Heler and Engizi cultists are in Sartar, even…
A Few Rules of Thumb
Most to all adults are initiates of a cult, regardless of culture, and around 2% of initiates are Rune levels. Many people are lay members of one or more other cults. These…
The Average Sartarite Clan
There are 157 clans in Sartar (not including the Telmori and Pol-Joni), with an average population of about 900 people per clan. About 600 are adults, and about 300 are children. The…
Notes on Beast People
There are some 25,000 Beast People and another 10,000 Ducks in Dragon Pass. The Beast Men include centaurs, ducks, minotaurs, satyrs, manticores, tiger-men, bird women, fox women, bug heads, and often many…
Notes on the Grazelands II
The dominant cult in the Grazelands is Ernalda, with some 9250 initiates out of a total adult population of around 26,000. The Ernalda cult dominates the Grazelands like no place outside of…
Tarsh (1625-1628)
Hero Wars era Tarsh (post-Dragonrise, pre-Battle of Heroes) has a population of about 360k people. The core of Tarsh is a Lunar Heartlands colony centered on Furthest. There is a smaller satellite…
The Arstola Forest
There are some 230,000 elves in the Arstola, one of the six Great Forests. They are mostly brown elves, with a smattering of green elves in the higher elevations. That’s a LOT…
Notes on Maniria I
Maniria is a belt about 160-200km wide between the Mislari Mountains and the Solkathi Sea. It has a humid temperate to subtropical climate. Think Virginia or North Carolina. The Arstola forest hugs…
Understanding Malkionism
There are somewhere in the vicinity of 8 million people that follow the teachings of Malkion and derivatives thereof. That’s a lot of people. Malkionism is often hard to get a handle…
Chalana Arroy in Central Genertela
If we look at Chalana Arroy in Central Genertela, we find that it is actually a surprisingly big cult – some 140,000 members in total. The cult is most densely numbered in…
Lhankor Mhy in Central Genertela
There are roughly 100,000 initiates of the Knowing God in Central Genertela. This includes those that call the god Lhankor Mhy (probably about 60%), and those that call him Buserian (maybe 40%)….
Solar Pentans
There are 600,000 Solar Pentans. A crude breakdown of the cult numbers would suggest that they have about: The remaining 200k are children so they are not in a cult? Yes Those…
Zola Fel Valley
This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…
Thoughts on city size
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…
Esrolia’s Population
Esrolia is very densely populated – “too dense” say many. At somewhere around 200 people per square kilometer, it is even more densely populated than medieval France. This means that every 4…
Notes on the Vadeli
There are about 150,000-200,000 Vadeli in Glorantha, most in the Vadeli Islands or Pamaltela. That’s roughly the same number as Brithini in Arolanit and Sog City. Although they are descended from Malkion,…
Loskalm and New Hrestolism
In Loskalm, Malkionism developed a strong current of dualism, positing that the Invisible God’s awareness of itself created a lesser (and flawed) demiurge that in turn created lesser emanations – powers, elements…
Talastar
One of the more interesting areas in Peloria is Talastar, one of the great centers of Orlanthi culture. I’m defining Talastar broadly – including Lakrene, Anadiki, Brolia, and Skanthi as parts of…
Notes on Rokarism
There are about a 1.5 million people or so who are initiated to the Invisible God and follow the Rokari rites. Of those maybe 3% are the “priestly caste”, called zzaburi. That…
Civilized Prax population numbers
As I am doing some Prax editing, I thought some numbers might be worth posting. These are population numbers in Civilized Prax, mind you. There are just under 26k humans in Pavis…
Notes on Fronela I
Fronela is a strange place. Literally. It is a land that only recently emerged from the mists of the Syndic’s Ban, revealing strange cities, principalities, and barbarian nations. Everything is ancient and…
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,…