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Women in Glorantha
(phone posting draft) Initiation of Women, of the Feminine and of Glorantha and storytelling there in. So i see much of the Gloranthan materials do the whole "male role as default " which is a...
View ArticleOrlanth Saves Sog City, a Myth of the Late Golden Age
Discussion in the Women in Glorantha thread reminded me of something I wrote for my first RuneQuest campaign a few years ago. I honestly don't remember what it was in-game that prompted me to write...
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Wyrms Footnotes nuggets
My favourite detail from the recently re-released Wyrms Footnotes. It shows the Agimori living in Maslo, Laskalia, Teshnos, Teleos (mislabelled) as well as Prax in the Dawn Age. It's the Agimori...
View ArticleMoonbroth Map and Details
Since there is no canon map of Moonbroth, I thought I would create one so my players and I had a better handle on what went where. In doing so, I used the terrific write-up on Moonbroth by Nick Brook...
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February is Gloranthan #creaturefeature month at Chaosium's Redbubble merch...
Julia, our 'merc of merch, has dubbed February our #CreatureFeature month. One creature from the RQG Bestiary for every day of February on Redbubble. We have them all, from Aldryami to Wyvern. Art by...
View ArticleThe Sound of Dragonewts
Recently I saw an article on how Dinosaurs probably didn't sound like how many of us imagine. Even among the huge, impressive carnivores like the tyrannosaurus, they would've sounded much more like...
View ArticleDeaths at the Dragonrise
Who died at the Dragonrise? I know that Tatius, Scarlet Enerian, Kangharl, all died. I've heard the Seven of Vistur died. I gather Appius Luxius, Head of the Provincial government, dies. Who else?...
View ArticleRyzel in the EWF
I've just looked around, and found that apparently Ryzel is the origin of New Wyrmish - but did it play a further significant role in the EWF? Or was it ever conquered by Slontos?
View ArticleWhen you’ve got a lunar in a party of Orlanthi.
We’ve all run games where someone wants to be different and run something potentially at odds with the rest of the players. A potential dilemma I have in a game which I’m running at the moment. My...
View ArticleCan "Safelstran" be called a culture?
Preliminary: the idea of unified, distinct and internally homogenous units called "cultures" isn't really something that exists in real life, but rather in the minds of people who classify social...
View ArticleUpcoming Glorantha publications
This is a totally unofficial list that I originally put together over on the (now-defunct) Glorantha G+ group. So details may be wrong but a lot of this has been officially confirmed (e.g. that the...
View ArticleOrlanthi mean streaks
It seems to me that there is a tendency to make Orlanthi society a "perfect, gender-inclusive, land of the brave and home of the free where the paramount importance of individual freedom is tempered...
View ArticlePraxian shamanic journeys, stillborn children, and integration of souls
Okay, so, the title's kind of all over the place, so hear me out for a moment. We've been doing character creation for an upcoming RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha campaign, and, of course, I love...
View ArticleTemplar First File
Remembering reading article/book about "First File Sun Dome Templar" but I cannot remember which book contain that, anybody know ? If i not misremember its contain : First File Commander obsession...
View ArticleDraconic Orlanth
Hello, The Glorantha Wiki talks about Obduran and how he taught his followers to awaken Orlanth's Inner Dragon (Arangorf). Evidently Alakoring killed Arangorf and freed Orlanth. So I have two...
View ArticleSun Dome Temples as centres of banking and finance
The Sun Dome Temples' insistence that all exchanges are denominated in gold ("the gold standard") is an indication of their less well-known but important roles as centres of banking and finance (and...
View ArticleHuman sacrifice and other dark rituals in Orlanthi culture
Well, reading throught the last Runequest core rulebook I came across an interesting fact about the cult of Maran Gor: Every male child born to the God Talker must be sacrificed. That small line...
View ArticleThe Smoking Ruins
Has everyone noticed that the account of how the ruins got smokin' is totally different in Smoking Ruins than in the Glorantha Sourcebook? If GS was right, that would knock the whole Smokings Ruins...
View ArticleAre the Veldang silver intoxicated Doraddi?
Silver intoxication causes blueish coloring of the skin. Do we know if the slate coloured Veldang have any connection to silver? They are associated with the Blue Moon, and Moon is associated with...
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