Here’s a few notes I think some might find useful in thinking about the size of Glorantha and Genertela. Glorantha is a big setting. The world is a big slab of Earth…
Tag: Zola Fel River
AKA The River of Cradles
River of Cradles
If you want to get a good feel for the River of Cradles, the Lower Colorado River from Page to Yuma is probably one of your best real world sources, and certainly…
New Pavis after the Liberation II
New Pavis after liberation is a thriving trade city of guilds, temples, and councils—yet also the armed camp of Argrath‘s growing army. The king’s personal warband, his mercenaries, and Praxian allies fill…
Giant Cradles
Probably a dozen or more giant cradles were recording going down the River of Cradles during the Second Age. Since Godtime, the river was used by giants to send their children to…
The Zola Fel Cult in New Pavis
The Zola Fel cult in New Pavis is fairly small, perhaps only 200 or 300 initiates. Nonetheless, their importance in providing food and river transport makes their cult very significant in the…
New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple
It’s about 45 km from New Pavis to the Sun Dome Temple. That’s a little further away than the distance between Swenstown and Boldhome. It takes about two days to get there…
Broo In The Big Rubble
Broo are the most numerous chaotic race in the Big Rubble numbering some 300. Broo are most commonly found in the Big Grazing and the Huntlands. The nastiest broo are said to…
Levels of The Big Rubble
SPOILERS AHEAD! If we think about the Big Rubble as a sprawling collection of dungeons, it has four basic levels: Above Ground – SPOILERS These are mostly the ruins of buildings built…
Planning Pavis
The foundations of the original city of Pavis was laid out by Lord Pavis himself around 830. The city as originally planned had two main areas, laid out in grids. The first…
Prax and the Wastes
Prax is the more fertile part of the Wastelands, although to outsiders even Prax is pretty inhospitable. There are stretches of scrubland in the Wastes that can support herds, and there are…
Notes on New Pavis and the Big Rubble
There are over 25,000 human inhabitants of Pavis County – that’s the broad fertile valley in the northern River of Cradles. Most of them are farmers of Sartarite origins who settled between…
Visualising Gloranthan Societies
I like to think of mortal Gloranthan societies as being made of clusters of temples, with links to their associates. Some cults – like Orlanth and Ernalda – end up with big…
CHA4044 The Earth Goddesses – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W Y Z
Cleansed One
Zola Fel Subcult References Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 23 2023 None listed Subcult of: Zola Fel Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 391 2012 Subcult of: Zola Fel Cult Compendium 130 2002 None…
Borderlands and Beyond – Index
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S S (cont.) T U V W X Y Z Maps Tables
Zola Fel Valley
This is another one of those posts about scale. Pavis County and Sun Dome County are where New Pavis, the Big Rubble, and the Sun Dome Temple of Prax are located. It…
Jeff’s Canonical Corpus (2022)
So let’s talk about the books I think constitute the “canonical corpus” for official RuneQuest publications. These are the works that get referenced in future Chaosium publications with very few changes, and…
River of Cradles Farmers
So if we think about the farming people in the River of Cradles, let’s start by remembering that those that Dorasar encountered (and made himself ruler or overlord of) were the descendants…
The Geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar
A little blurb on the geography of Dragon Pass and Sartar. Not much like Caledonia at all. General Description Sartar is a rugged and seismically active region filled with rounded hills and…
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – Z
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: Z (page 800 – 800)
CHA4025 Guide to Glorantha – Index – R
Page numbers refer to the Guide to Glorantha: R (page 787 – 788)
Sun Dome information
For those of you writing about Sun County in Prax, it is useful to remember a few details. Sun County has about 19,000 people. As a general rule, about half are initiates,…
Diros
Boat God References Page Year Runes Notes Fire & Sky 131 2025 None listed As: The Boat Planet Mythology 152 2023 None listed Cult DistributionRight Arm Islands Prosopaedia 30 2023 Cults of…
Zola Fel
Praxian River God References Page Year Runes Notes Prosopaedia 142 2023 Pavis, Gateway to Adventure 389Four pages 2012 Subcults:The Cleansed One (), Diros () Cult Compendium 127Five pages 2002 As: Pavis: Threshold…
Fate of the Grantlands
Is there anything official about what is going on at Raus Fort, post Argrath taking Pavis? Nothing Official at least not yet. However, let’s start by remembering how few people we are…