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Tag: Yelmalio
Opposing Chaos
Is there any chaotic cult, that is specifically opposed or a clear antithesis to Yelmalio? There are very few Chaotic cults that are specific opposed or a clear antithesis to anything. Few…
Sun County, Prax
There’s about 19,000 people in Sun County, with some 4350 initiates of Yelmalio centered on the Sun Dome Temple. Throw in another 1000 Yelmalio cultists and lay members in Pavis County, and…
Yelmalio Temples and Shrines
Far Point Location Type Page Affiliation Alda-Chur (small city) Major temple 84 Dinacoli, Princeros, Tovtaros and Vantaros tribes Alone (small city) Minor temple 85 Amad, Bachad,and Tres Tribes Amadhall (hillfort) Minor temple…
The Impala Nation
The largest tribe of Animal Nomads, the Impala Nation have the largest number of Orlanth AND Yelmalio cultists of any tribe in Prax. Although Eiritha Impala is the biggest cult of the…
The Syncretism of Elmal and Yelmalio
If you start from the position that these are “two divinities” you are always going to run into problems. So start with this proposition – “two names”. At the Dawn, the Orlanthi…
The Sky Gods
The Sky is orderly, regular, and far removed from mortal ephemeralism. The Sun, planets, and stars move in regular patterns through the sky. Clusters of stars form constellations, associated with gods, monsters,…
Portions of Yelm
References Page Year Notes Prosopaedia 100 2023 Genealogy References Page Year Tree Fire & SkyMythology 17125 20252023 Portions of Yelm / Yelm Disintegrates
The thirteen main cults in Sartar
There are thirteen main cults in Sartar, which collectively are about 95% of the population. The biggest are: Those two cults are about 68% of the population. Those 11 cults (each with…
Solar Purity
Light does not shine through grime and pollution – that goes a long way towards understanding most Solar cultist’s obsession with purity. The ideal is to let your (inner) Light shine, and…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
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Firetop
A little more than 3km from Alda-Chur is the active cinder cone of Firetop, which rises some 250 meters above the surrounding plains. My mental image for this is Sunset Crater in…
Lightfore
Celestial Body References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 34, 106, 116, 117, 137 2025 None listed AKA: Antirius (Dara Happa), Daruda (Kralorela)Elmal, Kargzant (Pentans), Sun Daughter (Praxians), Yelmalio (Orlanthi) Prosopaedia…
Borderlands and Beyond – Index
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Imagining the Yelmalio cult
One of the difficulties people have in imagining the Yelmalio cult is that the best described temple is the one in Prax, aka Sun County. Sun County, if you all recall was…
Theyalan Celestial Gods
Throughout much of the Theyalan Belt, people recognize several major celestial gods: First is of course Yelm, the Sun. The Sun travels across the Sky Dome each day, only to die and…
Kargzant
Sun God, Lightfore, God of the Pentan Horse Nomads References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 11, 32, 34, 97, 137, 139 2025 None listed AKA: Antirius (Dara Happa), Lightfore (planet)Metsyla…
Halamalao
Elf Sun God References Page Year Notes Sartar Companion 217 2010 Identified with Yelmalio or Elmal Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars 85 2000 Entity glyph
Lightfore and the Sun
To me, one of the more interesting celestial phenomena in Glorantha is the relationship between Lightfore and the Sun. Lightfore rises each dusk in the east, and sets each dawn in the…
15 Sun Dome Temples again
There are 15 autonomous Sun Dome Temples of the Yelmalio cult. The temples are uniformly shaped, although many vary somewhat in surprise. The most important Sun Dome Temples are generally considered to…
Initiates and their experiences
A few examples of how cults are spread across space and how that is experienced by members of the cult. 1. Orlanth. Vasana was initiated into the cult of Orlanth Adventurous (Vinga)…
Cults of the Lunar Provinces
Vanch, Imther, Aggar, Holay, and Tarsh are a collection of Theyalan lands ruled by client kings supported by (and responsible to) the Red Emperor. For the last few generations, that was handled…
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…
Solar Book – Yelmalio description
Here is a nice description of Yelmalio from the Solar religion materials: Yelmalio is the Solar deity found where Yelm’s imperial rule does not reach. Associated with the planet Lightfore, his cult…
Yelmalio Adventurers
Yelmalio is the Frontier God of Civilization. He brings Light to the quarrelling Storm tribes. He is a god of honour, a god of citizen-soldiers. He has a soldier aspect, a mystic…