Star Captain
I have heard the words before. Thirty years ago a GM, Doug, mentioned them and I asked what they were. I was told “sky people.” Doug was big into learning Glorantha by playing Runequest, so he never elaborated further and we drifted in different directions..
These days, I hear the term occasionally. I saw that a recent Jonstown Compenium scenario features a Star Captain. Cool. I might get it. That said, I started digging for what has been established in canon about star captains. There is surprisingly not much. I checked all the references in the Guide to Glorantha. Star Captains are almost always defined by their actions alone. For example, “Star Captains descended to help the tribes and look for followers in the Great Darkness.” That’s mostly it, but it’s repeated in different contexts. Nothing in the Index of The Glorantha Sourcebook. The Prosopaedia references folks being star captains, but doesn’t define them. I checked the Well of Dalaith and there were some very vague references that didn’t amount to much.
Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes (interestingly enough, since that is off the canon path) describes them very briefly as “minor Sky deities who descended to help out..” That’s a paraphrase not a quote, but it describes them as minor gods and everything else about them is based upon their actions only. Often times in these various brief references it doesn’t mention where they descended from, but I assume the Sky Dome. I’m not trying to be obtuse just making the point there is very little detail. And I’m not name dropping these books to be cool, but to say “I made the effort to try to find out myself.”
Finally I did a search here. I didn’t go back years and years, but the most recent discussion was a footnote in a conversation about Polestar’s cult presence in Sartar and very little of that pertains to star captains-except Polestar could be one. Just want to head that tangent off at the pass.
Sorry, long post. What can anybody tell me about these mysterious entities?
And I don’t want to tag Jeff, but would star captains be worthy of a few words or paragraphs in a future Solar Cult book? Or a Facebook post that becomes archived?
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Star Captains?
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