There are some big conflicts hard-wired into the Glorantha setting, including (but not limited to): These conflicts are macro and microcosmic. Political conflict often echo these cosmic conflicts – for example, Sartar…
Tag: Storm Bull
Portions of Umath
When Umath was broken, his sons (each bearing a portion of the Primal Air) emerged and began their struggle to claim their part of the world). At least six sons are known to have…
Harjoon Karsh
Storm Bull Hero Write up Page Year Runes Notes Lightbringers 128 2023 None listed Hero of: Storm Bull
Valatash Walker
Storm Bull Hero Write up Page Year Runes Notes Lightbringers 128 2023 None listed Hero of: Storm Bull
South Rage Wind
The Desert Wind One of the Four Winds: Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 114 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry
Block, The
Remnant of the Spike Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 17 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry
The Struggle for the Middle Air
The Red Goddess never made peace with the Air Gods, for there was none among her pantheon who could approach those deities on their own ground. There began, within history, a struggle…
Air Gods in the Lunar Heartland
In the Lunar Heartlands, several Air gods are recognized. First of course is Orlanth, the Thunder God who slew Yelm and plunged the world into the Lesser Darkness. He is acknowledged as…
Bisos
Bull God Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Prosopaedia 16 2023 n/a Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 15 2012 n/a Runes only Common and uncommon runes 2004 None listed Glyph only…
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…
A Cluster of Storm Gods
Up to cause trouble no doubt! Eurmal? Eurmal is a deeper old thing. Surpassed Ratslaff as the deity of Disorder, and surpassed Tylenea as the deity of Illusion. The Trickster appears early,…
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,…
Notable people of the High Llama Tribe
NOTE: there are a lot of secrets hidden in this post so read it carefully! Yazurkial Blue Llama, Tribal Khan Born 1595, Yazurkial is the high priest of Waha for the High…
Tribes of Sartar Map, 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…
A Few Sketches
Here are few sketches that people might find of interest:
What constitutes “Chaos”?
A last comment on the various Chaos discussions. A lot of people seem to assume that people in Glorantha are clear about what constitutes “Chaos” – and of course, outside of the…
Honor and War
This section helps explain some of the peculiarities of Orlanth warfare: Some of the most important Orlanthi war gods demand that Death be wielded with honor and the Humakt cult upholds the…
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…
Great Temples of Sartar
I believe these are the great temples around Sartar. As an aside, Eiritha is an important cult for the Pol-Joni, but Ernalda is still more prevalent. The Pol-Joni are very atypical Praxians….
Storm Bull art preview
Some more awesome previews of the art in the Cults Book from Loic Muzy. I present you THE STORM BULL!!!!! In RQG Storm Bull has Air, Death, and Beast.
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…
Binstarnif Awe
Storm Bull Hero Pol-Joni hero Write up Page Year Runes Notes Lightbringers 128 2023 None listed Hero of: Storm Bull Storm Tribedeprecated 165 2001 None listed Hero of: Storm Bull
Urox
The Storm Bull Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Prosopaedia 126 2023 HeroQuest Glorantha 142 2015 Runes only Sartar, Kingdom of Heroes 173 2009 HeroQuest 122 2009 Runes only Storm Tribedeprecated…
Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book
I am wrapping up the final text of the Gods and Goddesses of Glorantha book, while making sure that it all ties into both the new Heroquesting chapters in the GM Sourcebook…
Wyrm’s Footnotes #12 (1981)
32 pages. Table of Contents Art Credits Rick Becker, William Church, David Dudley, Charlie Krank, Mel Laybourn, Greg Stafford