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Sheng Seleris and Godunya the Dragon Emperor

Posted on June 14, 2023

Sheng Seleris challenged Godunya the Dragon Emperor for a second time in 1363. His Great Horde wreaked terrible havok on Puchai Province, greatly depopulating it, but all assaults upon the Bridges failed….

The Cosmic Buildup to the Hero Wars

Posted on June 7, 2023

Let’s talk a little about this: It really all starts with the Seven Mothers, a desperate conspiracy that gathered to perform the most incredible ritual ever attempted by mortals. They searched the…

Notes on Kralorela I

Posted on January 7, 2023

Kralorela has some 8.9 million people and covers around 625,000 square km. Kralorela is a relatively narrow arable band of land, islands, and shallows seas no more than 500 km wide, between…

Thoughts on The Lightbringers Quest

Posted on December 23, 2022

The Lightbringers Quest can be thought of as the monomyth of heroquests. It contains within it many quests – the Westfaring, the Descent into the Underworld, the Tests of Proof, etc. In…

Deep Lunar Synthesis

Posted on October 27, 2022

One of Greg’s deep background notes that I refer to an awful lot when I think about Glorantha is this chart that he put together to try to think about the basic…

Sheng Seleris – a Pentan version

Posted on October 2, 2022

So let’s look a little bit at Sheng Seleris. He’s almost always presented as a villain, but that’s also because our sources are Lunar or Kralorelan. Let’s try to think of the…

The Lunar Satrapy of Sylila

Posted on September 21, 2022

The Red Emperor’s daughter, Hwarin Dalthippa, conquered the lands south of Henjarl in a series of military and magical campaigns between 1309 and 1349. In 1325, the Red Emperor proclaimed her and…

Sheng Seleris

Posted on September 10, 2022

Sheng Seleris was an incredibly powerful celestial magician/hero/demigod. He taught his followers his magical techniques, ranked into hierarchies. Greg emphasized many times that SS did NOT use what we would call Mongol…

Sheng Seleris, the Shadow of the Lunar Empire

Posted on January 21, 2022

So let’s contemplate Sheng Seleris, the Shadow of the Lunar Empire. Sheng Seleris and his nomad army entered Peloria for the first time in 1375. Sheng Seleris was a celestial hero, whose…

The Size of the Red Moon

Posted on July 2, 2021

Lunar celestialogists claim that the top of the Sky Dome is approximately 6000 km above Magasta’s Pool and that the Red Moon is therefore about 3000 km above the Crater (“halfway between…

Glorantha-Terrestial Timeline

Posted on June 29, 2021

Going back to our Glorantha-terrestial convergence time line, it is worth thinking that about 1775 AD Sheng Seleris and his Pentan nomads invaded Peloria. For nearly a century, Pentans dominated the Pelorian…

Greg Sez: Sheng Seleris in Hell (May 1998)

Question From Fabian Kuechler. Answered 1998 by Greg Stafford. Published May 1998. Q: What is so special about the Lunar Hell(s)? Why is there no escape for imprisoned souls (for example Sheng…

Sheng Seleris

Posted on December 20, 2018

Sheng Seleris is the nightmare of the Lunar subconscious. He is trapped in a Lunar Hell, but every Lunar has nightmares of his escape. These nightmares grew in frequency and terror after…

Historical Atlas Glorantha, Part IV (2011)

Sheng Seleris 1450 ST Submitted by Jeff on Sun, 26/06/2011 – 13:44 The last map showed the rise of the Lunar Empire circa 1250 ST as it quickly became the dominant power…

A Sense of Scale

Posted on November 7, 2011

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 07/11/2011 – 14:43 Third Age Glorantha is a Bronze Age (or early Iron Age) setting, with a scale that is more comparable to the Ancient World than…

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