Glorantha - a mighty fine imaginary world Last updated: 1998-06-12 This page will present Gloranthan information in a rather disorganized fashion (i.e. I will fill it with whatever ideas I come up with. Glorantha is the trademark of Issaries, Inc., and is used with their permission. Issaries, Inc. is the Trademark of Issaries, Inc. Gloranthan material on this site is © copyright 1997, 1998 by Nils Weinander where nothing else is specified. The East Isles Most of my Gloranthan work details the Ten Thousand Islands of Wonder, commonly known as the East Isles. The material I have on this exciting region is the result of a joint effort by Greg Fried, Sandy Petersen and myself. We still hope to publish this material in one form or another, but I think that some tidbits here on this site won't detract from such a publication if it ever comes to be. Personally I have written most about the Korolan Islands, a small island group in the southern East Isles, since that was the focus of a now dead RuneQuest campaign. I also have a brand new, live, campaign where the player characters are crew members of a Haragalan tallship. Campaign writeups are usually quite dry and boring, so this one will stay mercifully short. What the old fisherman told me East Isles weapons Kralorela Some time ago I put some of my thoughts on Gloranthan matters, mainly about Kralorela and other parts of the east, in the mouth of the distinguished mandarin Ih Talwor, known as Red Tiger. Now I have collected them for your reading. Other Kralorelan snippets follow: A little Kralorelan folk tale about How the tiger got its stripes The Dragon Mother Company, an unusual army unit RuneQuest rules for mysticism Teshnos The only piece I have on Teshnos so far is actually on the Red Tiger page. It tells about a Kralorelan view of Teshnan afterlife. Vormain Just a map so far... YAHQS Yet Another Heroquest System (programmers will understand the joke here) is my attempt at modeling Gloranthan heroquests. I had a number of design criteria: Simple mechanics Scalable High level of abstraction No random components Possible to interface to RuneQuest Nick Effingham has helped out a lot in designing YAHQS, providing ideas and examples and playtesting. He is also the author of YfB YAHQS for Battles (gee, a hierarchical acronym), an adaptation of the YAHQS mechanics for a mass combat system. People of Pavis People of Pavis is a freeform game, played for the first time at the german RQCon in May 1997. The player reports from the game are presented for public consumption here. There should be an introduction by Daniel Fahey here, describing the background for the game, the authors and so on. It will appear when Daniel gets the time to write it. As you see, far too few participants have written up their reports. If you, dear reader, played in the game and if you are one of the lazy ones: go write now! No excuses! We start, naturally enough with the most exalted persona: Sor-Eel the short, governor of Pavis and count of Prax. Played by Lewis Jardine. Next in line is Sor-Eel's half brother Bor-Eel, Scimitar of Yanafal Tarnils. Played by David Hall. This report doesn't contain much narrative, but I include it since this list is rather short. Since it is mentioned in the previous items, this is the perfect place for Kenth Eriksson's birthday song for Sor-Eel. Better late than never, here is the narrative of Naranthan, played by Thomas Doniol-Valcroze. And a letter from Chukel, played by Xavier Spinat. Finally (at the moment) we have the diary of Plusius, Irrippi Ontor scholar and detective, a character who could be described, alliteratively, as insignificant, ineffective and incompetent. Played by yours truly. Back! Send email to nilsw@ibm.net