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If I'm not wrong, Muriah the shaman knows Bladesharp-8 in the book Shadows on the Borderlands. That's one reason why she wins all duels to be leader of her band of broos. 😮

Posted by Jeff Richards on the RuneQuest group in FB: I've been posting a few previews of art for the forthcoming Cults of Glorantha books, but there's another beautiful book already in art production - the Sartar boxed set. And here's just a little preview of a piece by the outstanding Ossi Hiekkala. Our mercenary here has been a bandit/rebel for pretty much her entire life. She might have been young, gorgeous, and wholesome back when she was a young woman who flocked to Starbrow's Rebellion in 1613, but since then, she has become hard, cynical, and ruthless. She started as a Colymar woman from Apple Lane - Raveena Dronlon's Daughter of the Varmandi Clan (her father was Dronlan Swordsharp - the Thane of Apple Lane. But she flocked to Starbrow's banner in 1613, joined a mercenary company and was exiled when the rebellion failed. She fled to Balazar and joined the mercenary company of Pay Surney but was traded by Pay Surney to another Rune Lord for two horses and a broadsword. Raveena eventually returned to Dragon Pass where she became a bandit attacking caravans along Trader's Valley. In 1622 she was one of those who fought for King Broyan in the Auroch Hills and spent the next three years leading a band of bandits/rebels in South Sartar and Hendrikiland. When Starbrow became Prince, Raveena continued as a bandit. Now it is 1627, and Raveena has accepted the amnesty of the new Prince Argrath, and has entered his service as one of the mercenaries in the Thieves Band. She is in her mid-30s and has seen and experienced a lot - mostly all bad. She's a senior initiate of the Orlanth Adventurous (Vinga-subcult), but lacks the Honor to become a Wind Lord. She has plenty of spirit magic focii (tattoos, bone jewelry, piercings, etc), and wears a green stone (a spell resisting crystal) around her neck (a gift from a long-gone lover). She's got a lot of scars, and is even missing an eye. She likes to keep the socket uncovered, as she finds it intimidates plenty of people. And since this is RuneQuest, here are her stats: STR 13 CON 16 SIZ 13 INT 14 POW 17 DEX 14 CHA 14

Cults of Glorantha. It includes brief rules for heroquesting (two pages) and myths for heroquests of every major cult, briefly described. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9824353-cults-of-glorantha

Artists often work on a larger format than the one it is later printed so they can work with more ease.

Sunhead could be Lightfore and the purple woman might be Gorgorma, Dendara's sister. And do you recognize the following three (also by Agathe Pitié? 😋

Mostal, by Loïc Muzy Sky Gods (a piece of the whole), by Agathe Pithié: The Red Moon (another piece), by Agathe Pithié: Storm Gods, by Agathe Pithié:

For those who don't have Facebook accounts: Uleria by Loïc Muzy A Yelornan, by Loïc Muzy: Lodril, by Loïc Muzy: Grain Goddesses, by Loïc Muzy: Humakt, by Loïc Muzy:

Perhaps, see this other thread:

But the Resurrection spell has the Fate rune... 😵

Inspiration for Hyalorings/Pentians/Grazelanders:

Antiquated? How so? 🤔

How long till the Spanish edition? BTW I have included the news at the bottom of this post. 👈🙂

Has the GM Book that is referenced in the rulebook now dissolved into an Equiment & Weapons book and the Heroquesting Book? Or will it still be published at some point?

Standing ovation!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Maybe when they use the Infinity Rune against Harrek he becomes the Bear God and is therefore forever secluded in Godtime?

Well, if we wanted to explain why it requires a full week, perhaps you can acquire the spell in an instant, but it takes a week to fully internalise that piece of a spirit you just melded into your own spirit in order to use it as a spell. Perhaps shamans need less time because they are more used to using their spirit in this way than theists.

Would you equate him to Hyalor or would you change the text on the HeroQuest Voices so as to make him (Hyalor) who convinced Arandayla to ally with his people. And then, how would you model the cult of Hyalor? Perhaps he would be the ancestor cult, and only provide some special spirit magic related to horses and riding?

What do you think of the differences between the Grazers' great spirits in HeroQuest Voices and the ones described in RQG? The Grazers part of HeroQuest Voices (written by David Dunham) mentions Dastal the Hunter as the one who first allied with Arandayla, with no mention to Hyalor, while RQG mentions Hyalor the Rider as a Grazer deity, just as in Six Ages Ride Like the Wind. HeroQuest Voices mentions Golden Bow as a sort of group of expert archers, while RQG claims it is the Grazer's shaman subcult of Yu-Kargzant. RQG also mentions Yelmalio as an associate god of Yu-Kargzant. But do Grazers worship Yelmalio (under a different name)? Is La-Ungariant how they call Maran Gor or Ernalda, or both? Would you model the cult of Folorene on the cult of Eurmal? What cult would a Grazer woman follow if she decides against all odds to become a warrior? 🤔

Yes. In order to create an initiation ritual, you could for example figure out what is the most basic tenet of their cult and turn it into a vivid story of how the main deity learnt that, so when the individual passes the rite, she is on the same page as the rest of the adults of their community.

This is Saga or Ferenasa, initiate of Engizi: https://elruneblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/creating-duck-character-for-runequest.html You could also use it as an NPC. 🙂

When I ran it I created four other villages that had something peculiar in them, just so the PCs would have a harder time figuring out which one was the bad seed.

The same happens when the rules say "the skill is halved", as that is more negative for high-skilled characters. What I do is to apply a -50% instead. Perhaps you could apply a malus like -20% to the Characteristic x 5 instead of using an inferior multiplier.

What stats/special skills do your Warlocks have? 🤩

I like that idea a lot, although I would need to test is first. I would probably only allow it for initiates who already have all their deity's spells as described in RQG, to represent the fact that they have had some experience with their deity's magic. You could, for example, let PCs who have Rune points in excess of the available special Rune spells improvise Rune spells in a given situation, which then become fixed to one or two of those Rune points in excess of the available Rune spells, so that would mean they learnt the spell when they sacrificed for the Rune point. This ties with my assumption that every time you learn a new Rune spell, you actually undertake a mini-heroquest in which you reenact some deed of your deity.

So here's Heler by Loïc Muzy:

I like it that baboon shamans can be so powerful. 🙂