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@albinoboo I can only applaud people who defend the use of "tea" for the tisanes of camellia sinensis. Imagine you enter a good restaurant, order a coffee and get served some hickory brew as a default... Milk and tea: I am a high consumption tea barbarian rather than going through rituals which are basically methods to celebrate inferior qualities of tea by counter-acting the deficiencies of the tea or the water used to brew it with additives (as a chemist, I make sure that the extraction process is optimized, but that's a practicality in preparing the tea and not in serving it). East Frisian ritual doesn't obsess about MIF or TIF but starts with a lump of sugar, followed by the tea and finished with some cream carefully applied from the edge of the cup. Even with the at best mediocre quality of the East Frisian blend the tea remains clear there because of the extraordinarily soft (chalk-poor) water in the region. About runners: they are clearly described as different from a mobile life stage of plants, rather some form of immune system of the communal entity of the plant species. Our lack of information about them and their reproduction/renewal simply was something that I noticed when accumulating the few mentions of tea in the Guide. The Tree of Life origin for the tea cultivates of the Jrusteli is too good to be ignored IMG. Guide p.568 Koros (small city in Laskal) This text opens the possibility that the tea plant grown in Jrustela might be cultivars of the Tree of Life, although there is no nut involved in camellia sinensis harvest. The Tree of Life nut makes it sound more like the coffee bean or cocoa bean (both being celebrated for being revigorating and animating). Guide p.405 Guide p.414 Amnelon (on the southernmost tip of the western lowlands on the Tanier estuary in Nolos): This area is a river estuary lowland and would be rather untypical for tea growing, but then the vinyards around Bordeaux don't conform to my expectation of wine being grown on south-facing hill sides either. Guide p,421 Nolos: Noyelle: While tea is listed among the export goods, I expect Seshnela an Safelster to be the main market for the local tea growers.Overseas customers might be in Nochet or Fronela. But then, tea might be associated with God Learner oppression in many lands, e.g. Loskalm. With the great isolating events like the Closing or the Syndics Ban, many a custom based on international trade would have collapsed or moved over to ersatz materials (like malt or hickory "coffee" mentioned above). Re-establishing tGlorantha, and the Ban hasn't thawed completely yet in 1625. Judging from the archaeological record, Bronze Age elites would have jumped on novelties to further their prestige as near-divine beings. This is countered by a deeply rooted conservativism, though, when it comes to beverages and similar less ostentatious ingredients (although there remains the big question mark about the tobacco leaves in Egyptian mummies). On the whole, what is the thought about entire regions given over to a high degree of growing cash crops (such as wine, tea, kafl leaf, cotton, indigo, woad, or mulberry trees for silk production)? As a rule, Gloranthan agriculture is mostly just self-sufficient, able to feed a nearby city in addition to the local population. With such dedicated agricultural production the amount of people not growing food rises. Tea harvest and processing is a fairly work-intensive process, and with three harvests a year and weeding and removal of sick or unwanted growth in between harvest times the people operating tea plantations have little time for anything but some subsistence gardening on the side, too little to feed themselves.(That goes for the munkey-trainers of Zon An, too).

I would prefer to have a little more time for the Jrusteli settlers to establish tea as their export good. (It does make a good inversion of the role of tea in the history of thirteen other provinces...) I was thinking of that side effect, yes. Having a rice and silk land there is already quite stereotypical, although rice cultivation is almost omnipresent. Theyalan culture, Old Brithos and Fronela are almost standing out not cultivating some form of rice. Errinoru's world tour is a possibility. There is also the role of milk in tea preparation left to discuss. Ahem... Voria is the goddess of aldryami sex organs, and the role of the pollen-bearers would probably better filled with the pixies. There is nothing wrong with the runners being the product of some parthenogenic process without any fatherhood involved.

I think the point of using monkeys for the harvest is to avoid contact with the man rune. I wonder whether herd men would do as tea pickers...

Third Age Glorantha has three general tea growing areas: Kralorela (mainly the easternmost islands, such as Zon An and the small one east of Fanzai) Seshnela (the western parts of Noyelle and the eastern hills of Nolos) Umathela (predominantly Cerngoth) There is also mention of a Tree of Life tea brewed in Laskal, though strangely brewed from the nuts rather than the leaves of the Tree of Life enslaved by Ompalam there. The Jrusteli are said to have imitated that Tree of Life and started to grow such tea in Jrustela. Now when did the Jrusteli first contact Laskal? It would be fun if the Tree of Life enslaved by Ompalam would have given birth to the Tea dryads and their Runners imported to Jrustela, and from there distributed to Seshnela and Umathela as well as to the False Dragon Ring's Kralorela. That would require an early expedition on Waertagi ships, though. According to the Guide, tea cultivation in Malkioni culture originated in Jrustela in the Second Age and was brought to Seshnela and Umathela from there. Interaction with Kralorela under the False Dragon Ring and transplanting an entire Kralorelan city may have played a role there, too. I would have expected the uplands around Temple to have been a major tea growing area in Old Seshnela, with the Noyelle plantations just an outskirt area of that. I wonder whether there are tea plantations in Old Seshnela and Jrustela that have gone wild and are now under the care of aldryami gardeners. While tea plants usually are cropped at hip height, they can grow several meters high. As an evergreen leafy plant growing in brown elf habitat, I wonder whether there is a dedicated type of Runner associated with these now feral tea plantations. As an aside, we don't know anything about Runner procreation. Are they following the Green Elf model of sexual reproduction between males or females, or are they more similar to yellow (or red) elves that result from mating between the male (only) species and associated dryads? Those monkeys harvesting the tea on Zon An might be used in imitation of Tea Runners doing the harvesting in elf forests.

"Chaotic" doesn't have the same absolute condemnation in Peloria as it has in the Theyalan cultures. Non-conformist (outside of well-defined roles) is a much harsher verdict in Peloria than just Chaotic. Thus Shargash, a truly bad entity and as borderline chaotic as Zorak Zoran (which may or may not be a different entity) but who has an assigned role as such is an acceptable entity, while Orlanth is not. The Dara Happans and Pelorians either don't mind or don't like the observation that their ruling deity promoted Chaos by excluding all those who defy that absolute authority. I used to regard Ganesatarus as the acknowledged worshiped version of Vogmaradan, with Idovanus or Yelm as unacknowledged version of Vogmaradan.

These guys as living fly traps would be extra delicious to trolls, you know? Also, they would leave behind lots of amber after death.

Looking at Revealed Mythologies, he definitely has a major case of PTSD. Skinning a cousin for writing material might do that to you.

True, the wooden roof construction of Constantine the Great's basilika in Trier lasted until about 50 years ago in the German climate (though in an airy and dry environment, without any other material than timber involved in the construction). Wood exposed to rain and sunlight will only last a few years in German climate - a well-impregnated scaffold around the caravan parking lot next to my house was reduced from three inch solid timber to paper thin remnants within two decades. Forgetting a gardening tool outside last autumn meant that the 1.5 inch diameter wooden handle had rotted so much that even light stress made it break. Dead wood buildings exposed to the elements (and wasps) require maintenance and constant replacement of exposed portions of timber. One way to prevent such exposure is to plaster or chalk such constructions, creating a look indistinguishable from a plastered stone or brick structure. But this very act will weaken at least the outside of the timber so covered, weakening the structure from the onset in exchange for keeping off damage.

The Brithini didn't really worship their demised ancestors - after all they knew they were lost and could no longer be contacted. The new practices were established alongside Hrestolism, after the Dawn. IMO all the information we have in Revealed Mythologies is from sources that deal with an altered Other Side. The early God Learners tinkered with Malkionism, and so did the anti-paganism Hrestoli movement after the Serpent King dynasty had died out in the late second century. It was Hrestol who had established tinkering with the Other Side for mundane world rewards among the Seshnegi (and again among the Malkioni of Fronela), after all. The Zzaburite teachings and records may be presented as the objective truth in the memory of the Great Sorcerer, but IMO a good deal of memory editing went into those insights, and possibly a mystical union between the human immortal leader of the Zzabur caste and the Erasanchula, until the human forgot his origins as the son of Malkion and a Tilnta. Since new developments in Seshnela usually were actively imposed on Arolanit and then counteracted by the Sorcerer Supreme, I have come to think of Zzabur's tales as an avatar's memories of his divinity's past, and not the personal memories of the human avatar. Depends on whether you give precedence to the Danmalastan story (which is fresher and longer than the Brithela story) where the human Sorcerer Supreme forgets his divine ancestry and claims the divinity of the runic entity he was born into as an avatar over the Brithela story which has the advantage of conforming to numerous established connections with Seshnegi deities, elves in Brithos, and those unpublished older stories which may be heavily edited memories rather than objective truths, too.

So where do I get to direct the adventurers to deal with you?

Material and technology is shaping architecture. Technology including enchantments and sorcery when it comes to Glorantha. Poured concrete is mentioned as a technology employed in Pelanda in the Entekosiad, alongside bronze-clad hoplites. Wooden mega-architecture doesn't have that many ways to go, although the wooden core can easily be hidden by a layer of plaster. Still, it is hard to avoid reminiscences of staff churches, Kiewian fortifications, Fort Laramie, etc.

Hearth Mother could be an aspect of Mahome the Hearth Fire. Is Balazar worshiped outside of the Yelmalio cult or by his descendants?

Apparently Latin for "apple woman" rather than "evil woman".

When I look at Old Norse, I think that Engr is not an acronym but a perfectly pronouncable name. Eng-ngr, the second syllable without a real vowel but the ersatz vowel written as a rotated e in phonetic transcription. Yng or Yngr is one of the alternative names of Freyr (another two--syllable name with one consonant-only syllable), Apart from Norse (which also has the aspirate Hr in names like Hrut or Hroar) and my native German, I have come across a similar accumulation of consonants only in Greek (with chr as in christos or pt as in ptolemaios). Most languages go out of their way to avoid such heaps of consonants, and languages using syllabaries rather than alphabets need to break these down into many small syllable to transcribe them. (Which makes me wonder how Linear B managed to transcribe the pt in the word for bird... but then the Greek alphabet has consonants which are really combinations of consonant sounds, like xi or psi.) Nearly impossible to pronounce Malkioni terms also includes "Srvuali". Entities with multiple names may be ones with multiple natures - demigods or similar. As the son of Aerlit (a later generation Burta of Storm, and thereby Earth and Sky) and Warera (a Sea Srvuali) Malkion Aerlitsson bears all the elements of the surface world in his ancestry. To address @scott-martin's original question, I wonder when the concept of the Invisible God entered Malkionism. The Brithini appear content to acknowledge a Creator or Prime Mover, but the concept of an Invisible God receiving gifts of surface world magic. The passage in the Daka Fal cult in Cults of Prax suggests that elevating their ancestor to an aspect of the Creator is something that happened over time, and wasn't part of their original self-understanding. Even Zzabur might have integrated the Erasanchula into his immortal humanity over the experiences of his life. Convergence of the devolution of ideals and the ascension of the human intellect.

Stronghold as in having millions of followers, yes. The New Idealist Hrestolism of Loskalm instituted by Siglat and Gaiseron is the one Hrestoli group with the most adherents by virtue of being something like the state religion of Loskalm. I cannot say whether Irensavalism is an integral part of this or a tolerated movement alongside the majority practices of idealist Hrestolism. The best known Hrestoli outside of Loskalm are the Castle Coast humans, the only survivors of Old Seshnela still inhabiting that land. In the Malkioni Culture text, the mention for Hrestolism and its belief in re-incarnation was given for the Galvosti sect of Ralios. In quite an underhanded way, I'd like to add. The wizards introduced to Jonatela by Jonat from Old Seshnela just before its doom are old-style Hrestoli wizards, too, which means that their teachings and influence will have created a form of Hrestolism there, too. One definitely different from the New Idealist ways. The Pithdarans and some of the southern provincess of the Bailifite kingdom (and presumably some Pasos or Nolos inhabitants) have people that outwardly follow Rokarism but maintain Hrestoli traditions. Ascension through the castes is a purely New Idealist concept. It is a radical deviation from orthodox Hrestolism, which maintains the four castes established by Malkion but allows individuals to study the skills and duties of the other castes in order to qualify as men-of-all. While training for that status, the individual still remains a member of his birth caste and is expected to function within the duties and (softened) limits of that caste. Only with attaining the status of Men-of-All they may (and must) act as full members of each of the castes. In limited areas, but that goes for members of those castes, too - there are few if any jacks of all trades of a single caste. A talar could be an administrator, a judge, a merchant, a bureaucrat, or a field commander. If you take the title "Sir" that was referred to in the Hedenfeld "What my Father Told Me" bit and the link referenced by Tindalos, then the concept hasn't entirely been hushed up. I think so. There is no way that a Rokari would tolerate a "Sir" of any but Talar caste birth. That "Sir" might have been struck from canon for triggering medieval parallels, though. But then I haven't seen any replacements, and we still have Sir Ethilrist and Sir Narib in Dragon Pass in the recent publications, so I think it still applies. Irensavalism is a peculiaity of some Fronelan Hrestolism. I cannot say how pervasive it is even in Loskalm - it could be a parallel society within a more conventional Hrestoli society as the master culture of Loskalm. After all, Malkionism is the poster child of the Materialist culture among humans. They may have usurped the name for their perversion of the talar caste as warriors. Brithini talars are discouraged from using objects of authority as means of self-defence, which means the Rokari concept of a warrior nobility is really alien to their thinking. (So was the warrior nobility instituted by Hrestol.) The Kustrian tournament marks a decidedly Hrestoli-leaning tradition. The Galvosti are explicitely revealed as a Hrestoli school. We don't have any data about the Hrestolism index of any other Malkioni or semi-Malkioni group in Ralios, but apart from the Chariot of Lightning cult and the Proven Appearance of Arkat movement, they seem to be older than Rokarism, which points to them being Hrestoli in origin (when not Brithini or Vadeli in origin). It is hard to say what things were started by Halwal in his preparation for the final battle against Yomili. He appears to have jumped on anything remotely within the mantle of Malkionism to find magic or allies against the Seshnegi kingdom and its wizards, including Irensavalism (in Fronela only, I suppose) and Henotheism. In order for Halwal to have tried to unify those different Arkat traditions I think he must have quested within them, possibly re-inforcing their magic by applying or (as likely) undoing God Learner (as in Return to Rightness) manipulations to the access to Arkat after his apotheosis. At a guess, Halwal approached the Arkat mysteries through at least five different avenues and may be the one to blame for the upcoming emergence of multiple Arkats. But then, one interpretation of the RQ3 Troll Gods excerpt of the Jonstown Compendium could be that Arkat already was one entity in several bodies at the time of his Ritual of Rebirth as a troll. To my knowledge, Hrestol never met his half-brother (or half-sister), even though their wives were sisters, daughters of the second-ranking talar house on Brithos (Hrestol married the oldest daughter, Ylream the youngest, and I assume that Fara(a)lz successfully absconded with the middle daughter after interrupting her impending marriage to the ruling Talar of Brithos by slaying the groom - the story breaks off abruptly just as Hrestol and Faralz re-unite). "His" Men-of-All never were commanded by Hrestol himself after attaining that rank, either. Many of the earliest Men-of-All served under him in the first successful campaign against the Pendali after the Dawn, though. Not all sorcery has to be spell-casting. Issuing direct commands to a bound spirit might be regarded as a zzabur-caste activity already. I suppose the "manual labor for the good of the community" portion of the men-of-all has been forgotten by the Rokari nobility, though.

"Everything I say is a lie, and that's the truth."

That's rather a post-apocalyptic scape-goating of Eurmal. If something turned out to be a bad idea, Eurmal was to fault. Basically, a very common use of the Lie spell is "I didn't do it", which unfortunately won't help more than in a situation. And even if the crowd accepts that as truth, they can still scape-goat the Trickster. "You may not have done it, but your god takes the blame."

Nice concept. Makes LM libraries way more overpowered... What does it take to create a book able to create such a learning experience? (Other than literacy, ink and vellum, I mean...) If we are talking poetry as the mnenonic, it probably takes some minimal score at language, some inspiration by the Harmony rune, and whichever element is associated with that kind of word play. If you are playing with staves, Storm is your element. Is there something like sheet music in Glorantha? IIRC there are a number of ancient texts inferring melody lines etc. Sequential instructions to play a specific instrument (like guitar tabulature or which holes to plug on a bone flute) would be possible, too. Architecture or murals would be a way of recording and transmitting knowledge, too, once you learn the underlying language, syntax, or cypher. Transfering the knowledge from a mural or fresco into a scroll would be a typical "adventuring sage" job, requiring the companions to provide security and possibly basic creature comforts while the sages and their apprentices go about their activity. I noticed literacy as one of Argan Argar's cult skills. Is the Son of Night the uz version of a scribe?

I still think that the Rokari anti-Hrestolism movement is an unfortunate choice to present as default Malkionism, which has grown out of Hrestolism. Other than in Tanisor and areas influenced from there, Hrestolism is the default Malkioni mode, and even in the region under the sway of the Bailifites, Hrestolism still has its adherents, while other than "Seshnegi" expats there are no Rokari elsewhere in the world. There are a few older pre-Hrestoli traditions based on Zzaburite or Waertagi doctrine, but those aren't typically recognized as Malkioni. Rokarism is the triumph of the wizards over the men-of-all and to a lesser extent the talar caste. The man-of-all has become a subset of the talar males, those that participate in martial endeavors and serve as elite warriors. The Horali beast warrior societies - reminiscent of the Aztec ones - provide them with a significant pool of men-at-arms outside of their favorite role of heavy cavalry shock forces, although part of the Horali get to serve in this capacity, too. Arkatism - at least in its Malkioni forms - is descended from Hrestolism. So are other heterodox schools in Ralios, like the Galvosti. All of the Ralian sects have longer traditions than Rokarism. Many of them have Halwal's research at their roots. The Tanisorans who make up the vast majority of the population of the Kingdom of Seshnela in the Third Age are people of mostly Enerali descent whose ancestors were force-fed the Malkioni caste structure and whose descendants have internalized that with hook, line and sinker.

This depends on how close to clockwork perfection the sky of Time is set up. If you look at the periodic synchronicity of the largge Jovian moons in our solar system, it is quite possible that there are integer relationships between all the movin celestial bodies, with Mastakos/Uleria a third of the period of Yelm and the shortest stable period there is. Yelm and Lightfore together have a stable period, but each of them alone vary quite a bit from that clockwork regularity. If the other planets are as regular as Mastakos/Uleria, it is quite possible that the rise of Tolat/Shargash falls into a well-defined hour, and if that time is outside of the sunrise time span, even a starting point just north of the Gate of Dawn will never create a conjunction between the Red Planet and the Sun. If it falls into that interval, you will probably have two weeks in the year where the conjunction may occur, provided that the Red Planet is in the sky and not in Hell when the tilt of the sunpath would coincide with Tolat crossing. Both Yelm and Tolat are fairly large in area, so that a partial conjunction might be possible in subsequent dawns. Yelm has at least two conjunctions each day - one (or possibly two) with Theya, one (or possibly two) with Rausa. Both are known to turn his color into a reddish tint.

Yes, and Seshnela is the only place in the Guide where the water buffaloes are mentioned - not for any of the other rice-growing areas, and neither in (apparently rice-free) Esrolia. I guess this means that water buffalos may have come from Danmalastan/Old Brithela. The four-horned buffalo is present in the Ylream picture. No idea how many horns the modern bovines have - some may have beem crossbred with other bovines, too. Not that water buffalos are necessarily tied to a more clement climate - on my way to work I pass a low lying field that has been allowed to flood partially, and it is home to a small herd of buffalo keeping thevegetation low. To nitpick: Old Seshnela is mediterranean at best, as the Neliomi Sea is a current running south from below the Glacier. Tanisor and Nolos are a lot more clement as they receive warmth from the Solkathi current, which inherits from Sshorg's doom current branch. The "Kingdom of Seshnela" really is the Kingdom of Tanisor, with a few surviving east-Seshnelan provinces. The Quinpolic League may have a better claim to have inherited Seshnela than the Duke of Rindland - Bailifes was basically an acculturated Ralian who claimed the ancient title of the Flamesword kings. I rather expect the nobility to have calm air spells cast on them, similar to the bare-legged sorcerer who accompanies Meriatan on his meeting with Congern in the Fronela color plate. Note that even tropical climate on our planet can usually range below 30°C if there is enough of ocean to keep things "temperate". Where do the Seshnegi grow their teas? They obviously have to do so somewhere in the land, or tea would have gone out of general use during the Closing. Modern tea growing regions besides India and China include Kenya and Anatolia. But then, rice growing and buffalo herding regions include Italy, so maybe the lower Tanier has a lot in common with the Po basin. (Topless fashion was a Venetian thing in Rimini almost up to the Age of Photography, IIRC.) I'll give the Seshnelan text the usual fine comb. Do we want a separate thread on Arolanit and the Brithini? That (and the historical bits) form something like separate units inside the general Seshnela chapter. I thought that tea was one of the results of contact with Eest and beyond. Black Tea is black due to prolonged fermentation, a Darkness process.

Err, when? At birth?

Don't be so sure about Shargash. According to Jar-eel channeling Sedenya, Tolat was one of the four rebel gods who brought down Yelm, alongside the Bat (Artia?), Sedenya/Verithurusa, and Rebellus Terminus/young Stormy. Tolat is Shargash if the Grazers worship Yelm. IMO the Southpath never even touches the Sunpath, and the Sunpath never touches the Red Moon even in Summer. "north" should be a mistake. Mythically, the only time when Shargash wasn't south of Yelm (in the sky) was when he collided with Umath. He entered the Underworld near the broken North Pillar. It isn't published where he re-emerged. And when he did, neither Yelm nor Lightfor had ever risen in the east. If the Red Moon is ever eclipsing the Sunpath inside the Lunar empire, then the height of the Red Moon in your model is way too low (or the height difference to the Sunpath is). The planets just pass through Yelm, altering a tiny amount of Yelm's light by adding theirs. It is possible that Yelm's light can pass through or around undiminished, if so such a conjunction could be brighter rather than darker. I agree that the shadow that orbits the Red Moon would darken the sun. Not sure about the glowing side, though. A total eclipse might still only blot out a minimum of half of Yelm, with the other part could be reddened. But then, the orbiting shadow might be a hemisphere with a much bigger radius than the Red Moon. To avoid that, it would have to hover directly above the Crater. I tried various geometries for the shadow problem, and basically it is impossible to avoid. Just as you have the Crown Mountains beyond which you cannot look from below, you have a circle roughly the same size below inside which the moon is visible from any direction. This means that neither Full nor Dead Moon can ever be seen anywhere if you assume that lunar glow spreads in straight lines. On the other hand, we know that the Dead Moon is the absence of Lunar glow, and not the absence of Lunar glow except for that sliver of red on the bottom. Ipso facto some bending of light must happen that prevents transpolar glow to pierce the shadow, and likewise prevents a dark sliver at the bottom of a full moon. (Transpolar in relation to the bottom pole of the moon...) Assuming that the shadow only creeps over the Lunar surface. It is possible to have an orbiting hemisphere or hemi-ovoid of shadow that blots out the bottom on the dark side and allows a glimpse under the skirt on the bright side. You can play through lots of variations for this orbiter if you assume the top-bottom axis as its rotational axis. It might be easier to tilt the ground (and the moon along with that) in your model. The south path zig-zags across the southern half of the sky dome, never even getting near the zenith (the geometrical construct, not the stellar body that bears the same name). The eastern gate has a more or less fixed azimuth (possibly varying slightly with the tilt of the sky dome), the western gate jumps or oscillates across the lower edge of the sky dome as needed.

Yes, a pity. I'll be having a short RQG weekend in about three months, with a couple of people from Northern Germany meeting in a holiday home in the outback for one evening and a full day of gaming. I am to co-GM, and I'll need to come up with a short scenario to illustrate my style of Glorantha gaming in addition to some of the already published scenarios (or possibly published by then, looking into the direction of the Grazelands to see some smoke rising from an EWF ruin). If anybody doesn't mind traveling to Kiel and join the car ride, we still have a place or two. Unlike Middle Earth, Glorantha doesn't have a day's worth of movie to get a glimpse of the possibilities without much insight into the cultures (and whatever one might think about the alterations to the story lines of both the Lord of the Ring and the Lord of the Ring appendixes with The Hobbit mixed in, Jackson and his team did a nerd's job to create the visuals of the cultures). There isn't that much to be learned about the Middle Earth cultures, really. Tolkien did a better job portraying the Beleriand cultures than he did the Ringwar cultures. And you have to be a nerd to know more than three Middle Earth deities (Elbereth, Sauron and Morgoth get occasional spotlight, but that's about all the deity names you get confronted with). Contrast this with the Orlanth pantheon plus the Lunars plus the Trolls. That deities section in RQG stretches on for pages. I hope that these get re-done in the Glorantha starter set as single-sheet each, in the style of Freeform Character info, so a player won't get distracted too much by other stuff. Likewise, the past events could benefit from being shown on a map, and possibly some illustrations of the main actors in those events. Possibly as a special chapter of the Prince of Sartar comic, and with heavy re-use of artwork from other previous publications. But basically, a number of easily accessible cheat sheets for Glorantha. (saves this to his to do list...)

I wonder - would the Crimson Bat be a Loony Toon?