Severe severing
I would like to benefit form your (god)learned opinions on the matter of Humakti kings, like the Malani tribe's ones. As far as I understand the humakti cult, the initiate undergoes the Severing rite,...
View ArticleMake Chaos in the South Great again!!!
In Pamaltela, the Chaos is far less present than in the North. No armies of Broos, scorpion men, Walktapuses, Gorps, ... (except in the far sourth) Why aren't there no priests of Chaos (Thed, Malia,...
View ArticleLarnsting(s) of the Sea?
Larnste is the Cosmic Court deity of change and motion. He is important to the Orlanthi, because he is the father of Kero Fin, and thus Orlanth's maternal grandfather. It is Orlanth's Larnsting Soul...
View ArticlePeople Related to Each Other in Dragon Pass c1620
Trying to figure out who's related by blood to whom among the important folks in Dragon Pass in the 1620s. There's a fair amount of intermarriage between the royal houses of the Grazelands, Sartar,...
View ArticleRunes of Selarn
Hi A simple question : what could be the runes of Selarn (Afadjanni / Dorradi thief god)? Darkness - Disorder? Any other idea?
View Articlequick Thinobutan nerd question
This is kind of a minor question but: What is the origin of the Thinobutans? They end up in Masko-Elamle but they start out a specific distinct ethnic group way out at sea. * They're not blue-skinned...
View ArticleInspiration for shamanism in Glorantha
So in case anyone doesn't know... shamanism is actually really popular in a lot of modern places, and not New Age stuff. Mongol peoples, Korea, Japan, and Chinese communities, especially in the...
View ArticleBattle of Heroes
What was the date of this battle? So far I can only find references to the year, 1628. Cheers
View ArticleEntekosiad and the Five Goddesses
Hello, I did google a little around and didn't find much so I figured I'd actually make a post. I'm sorting through the Entekosiad, which is of course a mess and never can be truly sorted, but I...
View ArticleComing Storm prep
Edit : I'm moving this post to the Heroquest forum, as it seems more appropriate - thanks Bill for the pointer ! Hi everybody, I'm preparing to run the cool-looking Red Cow campaign from CS/11L, and I...
View ArticleUpcoming Glorantha publications
This is a totally unofficial list that I put together myself over on the Glorantha G+ group. So details may be wrong but a lot of this has been officially confirmed (e.g. that the product is planned,...
View ArticleOrlanthi imagery, real world Bronze Age peoples
3 hours ago, Qizilbashwoman said: the tocharians were buddhist and we have no evidence of any pre-buddhist religious practices except for pre-oasis settlement steppes burials including marijuana and...
View ArticleFound doc on Argrath
Does anyone recognize the attached text called "How Argrath became Prince of Sartar"? It's from a printed doc I found in a box the other day. I must be at least ten years since I printed it....
View ArticlePlaying in Glorantha using Godbound?
Godbound is a wonderful game that combines modernised OSR mechanics with the spirit, genre and tone of Exalted (semi-divine heroes being [re]born into a diminished world and setting out to change it...
View ArticleWyter Questions
I have a decent understanding (I think) of what a Wyter is in the context of Orlanthi hill clan society, but I have questions about Wyters if someone is willing to humor me. How large of a community...
View ArticleFeedback on my Spol writeup?
Hi! So, I'm about to play in an online game of RQH, where the pitch quickly states is a bunch of Adventurers from Carmania coming down to Dragon Pass. I decided to play a Spolite... and then...
View ArticleCan Chaos be Hidden?
How likely is it that a dip in the ooze, a chaos feature, would cause an obvious mutation? Do Storm Bulls need Sense Chaos? Or can they just look at the monster and know? There seem several paths to...
View ArticleWhat are dreams?
The thought in the subject line struck me, and I realized I don't have the faintest idea what dreams are in Glorantha. Given that it's a mythical world, they probably should be important! Dreams...
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