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Sun County, Prax

Posted on June 16, 2025

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

Posted on June 11, 2024

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

Posted on February 29, 2024

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

Posted on December 27, 2023

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

Write up Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 100 2023 None listed Prosopaedia entry Genealogy References Page Year Tree Fire & SkyMythology 17125 20252023 Portions of Yelm / Yelm Disintegrates

Solar Purity

Posted on September 6, 2023

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…

Fire Top

Posted on June 20, 2023

A little more than 3km from Alda-Chur is the active cinder cone of Fire Top, which rises some 250 meters above the surrounding plains. My mental image for this is Sunset Crater…

Lightfore

Celestial Body Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Fire & Sky 34, 106, 116, 117, 137 2025 None listed n/a AKA: Antirius (Dara Happa), Daruda (Kralorela)Elmal, Kargzant (Pentans), Sun Daughter (Praxians),…

Imagining the Yelmalio cult

Posted on May 12, 2023

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

Posted on April 24, 2023

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 Write up Page Year Runes PersonalGlyph Notes Fire & Sky 11, 32, 34, 109, 116, 137 2025 None listed n/a AKA: Antirius (Dara…

Halamalao

Elf Sun God Search this site for Halamalao Write up Page Year Runes Personal Glyph Notes Sartar Companion 217 2010 None listed Identified with Yelmalio or Elmal Glorantha: Introduction to the Hero Wars…

Lightfore and the Sun

Posted on March 31, 2023

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

Posted on March 7, 2023

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

Posted on March 7, 2023

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

Posted on December 29, 2022

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 Book – Yelmalio description

Posted on December 10, 2022

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

Posted on December 4, 2022

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…

How Cults Change

Posted on November 11, 2022

The archetypes and patterns of the God Time are eternal and fixed. But what we in Time experience of the God Time, what we call things, what we offer magic points to…

Yelm Disintegrates WiP

Posted on July 10, 2022

Several important solar deities are generally thought of as the children or lesser parts of Yelm, said to be created when Yelm was murdered by Orlanth. The God Learners called such entities…

Notes on Filichet I

Posted on July 5, 2022

This city on the shores of lake Invaress has around 15,000 residents and is the capital of the Lunar Province of Holay. Filichet marks the end of the Daughter’s Road. From here,…

Lunar Provincial Population Groups

Posted on July 3, 2022

Throughout the Lunar Provinces, much of the ruling class and urban population is Lunar, while much of the rural population is “barbarian” (I am using that term from a Lunar Heartland perspective)….

Cults of Differing Power

Posted on April 21, 2022

So as we have noticed, the RuneQuest cults are deliberately not balanced. Some cults have way more magic – and effective magic – than others. Now that was part of Greg’s vision…

Notable People of the Impala Tribe

Posted on April 16, 2022

The impalas ridden and herded by the Impala Tribe are larger than their wild brethren, but are still far smaller than any of the other riding animals of Prax. Their Riders, therefore,…

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