Lunar Heroquests
I am slowly gearing up to run a Glorantha LARP and one of the things I need to wrestle with is Lunar heroquests. So what do we actually know about Lunar heroquests, apart from the fact that the Lunars...
View ArticleGark vs Vivamort
Is tee a difference between Gark and Vivamort? Except maybe the geographical regions of worship.
View ArticleAurora in Glorantha
Mostly the northern lights, but implicitly inquiring about the southern ones as well. Basically: does it occur? Do we know of any mentions? What significance does it have, if any, and is it tied to...
View ArticleThe Best Heroquest I've seen
So Hellblade was on sale, and I picked it up, and not only is it a great game, it is a great story wonderfully written but everything about it just oozes what I have read about Heroquesting.
View ArticleElementals
Where are elementals found? I know for example Undines are found in rivers and oceans, but are there elementals in Spirit Plane? Is is possible for a shaman to bind elemental from Spirit World?
View ArticleOrlanth's look (and other significances of visual representation)
This kinda feels like a stupidly simple question, but I wonder: why is Orlanth blue and four (sometimes six) armed? Having gotten my feet wet in Glorantha back in the day, this certainly wasn't how...
View ArticleArgan Argar Sources
Hello. I am playing a dark troll Argan Argar warrior from the Shadow Plateau in a game of The Smoking Ruin. Without getting into the details of that game, I have really enjoyed researching trolls in...
View ArticlePuzzle Canal to Second Age Pavis
I have an idea to warp the adventurers to Second Age Pavis with some strange magic from Puzzle Canal... And make them play good scenarios of Pavis Rises. Has anyone else done something similar? And...
View ArticleEleven Lights Question
My campaign is getting close to 1621 (Spoilers ahead!) so I need to figure out something about the campaign that absolutely baffles me every time I read through it--the stuff around Minaryth's Belts....
View ArticleArtifact Values in Glorantha
SPOILERS BE HERE FOR THE SMOKING RUINS! So, something that's been sort of grinding my goat lately is the estimated value placed on Ernalda's Mirror in TSR: 300,000L (page 86, sidebar). It feels so...
View ArticleChronoportation in the Godtime
Godtime is cyclical, and yet Godtime entities are usually associated with a certain cycle to be their "home Age". There are a number of glaring anachronisms, though. Vingkot suffers an uncurable Chaos...
View ArticleSwords of Central Genertela
These designs are illustrative but not definitive examples. Differences in size, weight and detailed design vary according to the requirements of the customer and the skills and patterns of individual...
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Please explain the Ignorant/Blood Sun religion to me.
This is something I'm quite ignorant of (heh). I'm getting the general vibes that it's about an alternate perception of the God Time many suns stuff, and I think there's something parallel to the...
View ArticleSartar politics in 1626
I'll be starting up my campaign again soon after a short hiatus. We are entering Fire Season of 1626, which means the Battle of Queens is coming up. My players took part in the last big battle at...
View ArticleTemples of Wilmskirk
I found this statement in a convention scenario: Quote Wilmskirk is a small city (~2,000 pop.) famous for its temples and artisans. There are temples to all the Orlanthi gods and also many foreign...
View ArticleBackford 1626
Does anyone know any details about the city of Backford being conquered by the Queendom of Jab? I found a reference to this on p. 43 of the Sourcebook, but I can’t find any other details. My campaign...
View ArticleThree Kinda Random Questions
These all grew out of a gaming session, so they're not actually totally random, but they look like it. 1) Can the Aldryami be brought back as the Undead? 2) How do dryads reproduce? Will the seeds of...
View ArticleDraconic Magic
Draconic magic has been something as bit of mystery to me when researching it. I only found some base spells but never on how to cast them. I understand it is Taboo for those that aren't of Dragon Kin...
View Article[IRL] The Eclipse Dragon in Manichaeism?
https://www.academia.edu/34877649/Is_There_an_Eclipse_Dragon_in_Manichaeism_Some_Problems_Concerning_the_Origin_and_Function_of_%C4%81%E1%B9%AF%C4%81ly%C4%81_in_Manichaean_Sources?auto=download So...
View ArticleIs it possible to worship Orlanth the Murderer?
Is it possible to heroquest, to contact and receive power from gods in forms which have not experienced some godtime events? So could a heroquester bring the cult of Orlanth the murderer into time,...
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