Recent content by richaje

Far easier, and far more likely to get a response from Greg or the other Moon Design Glorantha writers, is just to post the question to the World of Glorantha YahooGroup, or wait until the Moon Design forum site is activated with its Ask About Glorantha forum. Jeff

Ililbervor, aka Whitewall, is the religious center for the Hendriki (and plays a very important role in the Third Age). There isn't a lot of "governing" done by a Hendriki king: he's a warleader, high priest, and judge. Androrfin himself spends most of his time on the move. There's a good...

For Greg's and my take on them, the Zistorites are well described in both the "Middle Sea Empire" and the "History of the Heortling Peoples". Key to understanding the Zistorites is their use of "combinatory wheels" by which they attempted to purify and remake Glorantha. Such wheels were common...

That's a typo in Dragon Pass (and is corrected in the Guide to Glorantha). Jansholm in 1618 had a population of 8000. Prior to the Third Age, Jansholm was either a pretty insignificant population center or completely abandoned. Jeff

Book of Heortling Mythology has over two hundred pages of Orlanthi myths, making their mythology cycles more complete than RW Norse mythology. FWIW, the key published texts on Heroquesting are in the "Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes" chapter on heroquesting (which uses bits of Greg's unfinished...

Check out the World of Glorantha site. Jeff

You should be getting some news about that on Monday. Jeff

Actually Krjalk is probably a good example of the effects Western demonization. The Seshnegi wizards in Arkat's Crusade proclaimed that the Council armies they fought against (which included lots of aldryami) were Krjalk and that whatever god they were calling on (possibly some aldryami war...

I write a lot of background material with Greg, and for us KoS is most definitely canon. It is a Gloranthan text , which means it is also intentionally misleading or even deliberately wrong. But krjalki has always meant non-human. Just check out Cults of Terror (1st ed. 1981). Jeff

Remember, kjralki doesn't mean Chaos. It is the western word used to describe all nonhumans. An EWF city with kralki walking about in it probably refers to dragonewts and perhaps trolls, dwarfs or aldryami. Jeff

FWIW, that's not quite right. Hykim and Mhykim are the ancestors of beasts associated with the Spirit Plane and are really Great Spirits, not dragons. But they are very powerful beings that humans (especially Malkioni) often confuse with dragons. BTW, the God-Learners are notoriously wrong...

I think we concluded that Obduran was a True Dragon in human form and did fully transcend Glorantha. He was the only one who did so (other than the Kralorelan Emperors). Jeff

The only True Dragon associated with the EWF was Obduran the Flyer. Others might have convinced themselves that they were True Dragons or emanations of True Dragons, but they ultimately proved that they weren't. Jeff

This is 1624? You are probably safe. The Lunars will not send a large force to Prax until after the commission of the new Temple to the Reaching Moon in Sartar (and most of the Lunar army is already engaged in Esrolia or dealing with a very dangerous uprising in Heortland and Sartar). After...

Thank you for telling me what material will be or will not be in the books Loz and I are writing. Jeff