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It depends on what you are interested in. The Glorantha Sourcebook gives you a good overview of mythic and actual history for Glorantha as a whole. Cults Mythology gives you a good rundown of the Monomyth and general mythical history. The Guide to Glorantha gives sketches of all the areas of Glorantha, which is useful if you want to know about a certain area, but it won't go into any great detail. Individual Cults books detail the cults in a pantheon, which roughly correspond to areas of Glorantha. So, if you are interested in Esrolia then read the Earth Cults book, for Sartar or other Orlanthi areas read the Lightbringers Cults books and so on. They give you background on the cults not on the actual places, but Cults are really important in Glorantha. After that, it really depends on which areas you want to focus on. There are a lot of out of print supplements that cover particular areas, and many Jonstown Compendium supplements fill in certain areas. Chaosium are bringing out areas-specific supplements in the future, I believe, but they are not available yet.

A lot of King of Sartar has been included in newer works, so it is not essential. However, it is still very useful and has everything in one place, so I would recommend it as a good read with a huge amount of Gloranthan content. Much/most of it has now been replicated, though, so you might feel cheated if you have the newer supplements.

I would just ay that the body stays in a fit state for seven days, so that the body can be resurrected. It just makes things easier. Unless you as a GM rule that embalming stops Resurrection. That might be a valid point, as you are preparing funeral rites for the body. Personally, I wouldn't, as it is a bit harsh on Adventurers. If someone kills another person, say by lopping the top of their head off, and you cast Heal Body to heal it, the body can be Resurrected. If the killer takes spoon and eats the brains immediately after killing them, does that stop a Resurrection? I'd say that Heal Body repairs that damage too. Heal Body allows for the regrowth of limbs, and presumably other organs, so it might be possible to be Resurrected after that. It all depends on the stance that the GM takes. If the GM rules that the organs, for example, the brain, need to be regrown then is it possible to do that in the seven day limit? Healing Trance multiples healing eightfold, so a week is the equivalent of a Season's regrowth. However, Heal Body says "This spell cures the total damage done to a body, regardless of hit location or source. The target heals all damage from total hit points and hit location hit points. Any severed limbs reattach if available, or regenerate if not". So, that says to me that Heal Body is enough to regenerate organs messed up by the process.

Go and kill some Chaos. Rescue a kidnapped Healer. Escort a merchant. Go to some Zorak Zorani trolls as an emissary (Storm Bull is an associated cult and might not kill him out of hand)

Why stop him? You did a good thing by playing it out. Refusing a warrior is a knee-jerk reaction that a Sage might do, but the Yelmalian showing that he had the right skills and could qualify for cult membership was a great move. The Yelmalian could show his Truth Rune, for that is a common Rune with Lhankor Mhy. Personally, I'd allow the Yelmalian to join but maker it difficult. Give him a Quest to prove his willingness and worthiness to join. It doesn't have to be a HeroQuest, maybe to find some lost knowledge or to take a book from a library in the Yelmalio Temple and to bring it to the Lhankor Mhy Temple. That way, he has to prove his loyalty to Lhankor Mhy instead of Yelmalio. Of course, he could try to persuade the Yelmalio Temple to loan a book or scroll to the Lhankor Mhy Temple. Also, as mentioned previously, Lhankor Mhy is Buserian when worshipped in Dara Happa, and Buserian might be an Associate Cult of Yelmalio. The Yelmalian could explore that aspect of Lhankor Mhy and prove something about the cults, maybe exploring a deeper relationship.

They aren't keen on Wraiths, as far as I can remember.

Griffin Mountain has Kuschile Hawk Archery, so it is already adapted to other mounts.

In my Glorantha, Delecti created the Upland Marsh to protect the people from the True Golden Horde.

Of course. I ran an RQ3 Gloranthan campaign when Channel 4 had a series of old Japanese Monster films, so they all appeared as monsters in Dorastor a few weeks after I watched them.

I had a Hero Power that enabled a Yelmalian to act as the Sun, so his Sun Spears cam from him not from the Sun.

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Weird Science covers those bits in films, books and TV Shows, where a mad scientist comes up with a load of pseudo-science babbling to justify something. If you can do that then you can make it with Weird Science.

In my Glorantha, yes, the Red Emperor is the same person. Sure, he had different bodies and some of the bodies were destroyed, but he simply reforms on the Red Moon and returns. Some people say that the Egi's bodies make up the next Red Emperor, but that doesn't happen in my Glorantha.

In my Glorantha, there are gladiatorial contests at Tourney Altar, but they are more about challenging other combatants. The Ten Tests might be a form of Gladiatorial Contests, or might have them as part of the tests. Hon Eel's Rites might involve gladiators fighting and their blood feeding the crops. The Blood Sun, I think, had gladiatorial contests. Gaining entry into Ralzakark's Broo Legion involved gladiatorial contests, with the victors joining the Legion, in my Dorastor.

Humakt: He is opposed to the misuse of Death and allows Chaos cultists as worshippers as long as they do not misuse Death and uphold his Honour. That is all he cares about. Yelm: He defeated Chaos very early in his reign and banished it. Chaos did not affect his realm until he was killed by Orlanth. So, Orlanth cause Chaos to attack his realm. Yelm is fine with the Red Goddess, as she is his daughter. He doesn't see her as Chaotic as he is not really aware of Chaos except as something that he defeated long ago. Ourania: She is so remote and so far removed from the world that she is beyond petty things such as Chaos. If it does not affect the Heavens then she is not interested in it.

No, not all air deities have powers of rain and lightning. Don't forget that Lightning was originally a power of Umath before Shargash picked lightning bolts from his skull after he killed him, so Orlanth simply regained the stolen powers of Lightning from the Sky Deities. Gloranthan deities are quite specialised. Not all Air deities are deities of Storm and not all Stom deities have weather magic. Storm Bull, for example, is a hot dry wind and doesn't get powers of Rain or Lightning.

Storm Bull is a Death deity who is OK with Zorak Zoran, in fact they are associated. So, Storm Bull cultists have no beef with Zorak Zorani undead. Zorak Zorani Zombies are not Chaotic, so don't ping on Sense Chaos, but they are undead and ping on Sense Undead. Not all Undead is Chaotic. Humakti hate all forms of Undead, including skeletons and Zorak Zorani Zombies. They are fine with Ghosts, as they bind Ghosts themselves.

Permanently killing him would mean that the Undead of the Upland Marsh would be out of control, which is far worse than they are under Delecti's control. In my last Glorantha campaign, the Adventurers gave the Upland Marsh to Harrek, making him Duke of the Upland Marsh, expecting him to fight Delecti, but instead they came to an arrangement that allowed Harrek to raid from the Upland Marsh into Sartar, the Holy Country and the Lunar Provinces, with an army of Wolf Pirates and Undead. Delecti is not a threat if he is hired by Argrath. Sue, he is a temporary threat in the wars against the Lunar Empire but he can as easily be hired by Argrath. After all, Argrath has Ducks that he can send to Delecti as Emissaries. I didn't really bother. He can cast Create Undead spells using his Magic Points instead of POW and can raise hordes of undead from the ranks of the newly-slain. Remember the scene in Game of Thrones when the King of the White Walkers raised his fallen enemies? That is what Delecti does.

Why not? If a Yelmalian High Llama Rider, who cannot ride a horse due to taboos, gained a Kuschile Archery skill, why wouldn't it apply to a High Llama? I would limit the shot to the Humakti's Ride skill and keep it simple.

He sees himself as a King to Be, someone with a destiny, someone powerful. This would affect how he treats people. Before he became powerful, when he was in Pavis, he was a friendly if not standoffish Adventurer. Now he has returned from his voyage with Harrek he is a changed man. He is probably arrogant and doesn't interact with common people. He is King of Pavis so has people to talk to other people. He is surrounded by his bodyguards and council, so he listens to them. When he talks to other people, they are summoned to his Council. So, he would be arrogant, driven, power-hungry, almost desperate, probably volatile.

Generally, if people have to ask "Is this income?" then it clearly is. So, anything you gain from loot and so on, even finding long-lost treasure, is income. You pay your dues to the cult. If you don't then you lose your standing in the cult, can't gain new magic or regain Rune Points, and so on, so people generally pay this. Do you take this into account? Does it affect PC in any way? That is just something that everyone pays when they do the harvest or take animals to the market. Some of the animals are just taken and put into the cult pens. For me, when the Lunars raise taxes, or even the Prince of Sartar, they raise taxes on the Clans and Tribes and they use their coffers or collect it in other ways. Merchants pay taxes, or tolls, to travel roads. Adventurers used to pay taxes to enter Pavis, or they did in our campaign, paying a "Leg Tax" on entry to the City at the Gates.

The whole point is that the Kings of Caldaraland were periodically sacrificed by being thrown into the Volcano. Belintar himself became such a sacrificial king and was thrown into the Volcano but came back and said "I have been sacrificed so nobody else needs to be". Now he is long dead, the practice could start up again.

Being reminded of the Curse of Kin. Listening to a song and realising that it is not the lost fertility song of Korasting. The touch of fire.

Did anyone see it? If not, you could be a big bag of wind, or a silver-tongued chaos killer.

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