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…
Tag: Raibanth (metropolis)
Communication in the Lunar Empire
The Red Emperor has a much easier time communicating with the rest of his empire than say the Roman Emperor did. Distances To begin with the distances involved are much shorter. Just…
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…
Original Horse People
In the Grey Age, there were two main groups of horse people in Peloria. One was west of the Hungry Plateau/Jord Mountains in what is now Saird (Vanch, Terarir, and Holay). These…
Raiba
City God of Raibanth Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 101 2023 None listed AKA: Raibamus
Lunar Empire Seventh Wane
This map from the Glorantha sourcebook is very useful for getting an immediate feel for why the Lunar Empire largely ignores what is going on in Dragon Pass after the Dragonrise. See…
Notes on Pelorian Architecture
So as I contemplate the look of Tarshite cities, it is clear we need to think about general Pelorian architecture. So first building materials – Peloria is a land of bricks. Air-dried…
Notes on City Gods
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,…
Apotheosis of the Red Goddess
In 1247 the Red Goddess performed her final dance some 50 km to the northwest of Raibanth. A huge crimson sphere, some 40 km in diameter, rose from earth and continued to…
Oslira Rune magic
So I was recently pondering why Oslira does not provide Strongnet, unlike Engizi and Zola Fel. And I realized the answer is quite easy – the Oslira cult is not the cult…
Dranz Goloi and the Voor-ash
Dranz Goloi, the King of the Wings, is the leader of the Voor-ash confederation in the Redlands. They claim to know nothing of the Nights of Horror or any agreements with the…
More on drinking
In the Lunar Heartlands, it is the Lodrilli peasantry and workers that drink heavily. And often. The Yelmites put too much importance on self-control and purity, and drunkenness is seen as a…
Getting up to Glamour
I recently made the comment that “it isn’t as if the Sartarites get up to Glamour very often” – but let’s not forget, it is only about 700 km from Glamour to…
Map of Raibanth
I do have a map of Raibanth lying around. I even have a final by Gillian Pearce, but that is going to be saved for a future publication. This was posted on…