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So far not an official one. But there were some crowd source compilations available in the glorantha.com forum, which I've tried to compile in these two threads: Crowd Source Editing: HeroQuest Glorantha HeroQuest Glorantha typo/spelling/editing error list As far as I know, @David Scott is working on an official errata, but I may be wrong here ...

The Wooing of Sorana Tor. This leaves a quite different impression of Sorana Tor than the one, that I've got from reading her short description in Sartar:Kingdom of Heroes, p. 86, where she is mentioned in the context of human sacrifices. The only hint in that direction is the mentioned, but not visible bloody sacrifice knife made of copper and obsidian, that she usually wears. So it seems, that Arim the Pauper courted the priestess of a very brutal goddess ...

I've received my Khan of Khan box today, but sadly the 10 Khan cards were missing. @MOB, what can I do to resolve this issue?

Hhm, from my perspective the available text fragments leave still room for interpretation. (But that's part of the fun even with canonical Glorantha. ) And I may overlook something here. Anyway I have no issue with following your interpretation ...

Are you sure? Guide to Glorantha, p.732, left column, third last and second last paragraph: My interpretation here is, that Broyan was not in Nochet during the siege (which started in 1623), but his appearance with his allies led to the lifting of the siege.

As far as I know King Broyan was not in Nochet during the siege. Looking for a reference ...

Guide to Glorantha, p.177, boxed text 'The Hero Wars begin', fifth paragraph: ... Sartar throws off the Lunar yoke and Kallyr relights the Flame of Sartar to be named Prince of Sartar. ...

True, but what about this one: What happens if a worshipper of the Trickster god Hermes tries to recover a spell from his god further west in a temple of the Trickster god Merkur?

What happens if a worshipper of the Trickster god Hermes tries to recover a spell from his god further north in a temple of the Trickster god Loki? (I confess, that this example is not truly matching, as Hermes and Loki differ in more than just one aspect, but anyway:) I think this is something, which is up to the game master. In most role playing games this kind of scenario will never happen, because most role playing games provide simply just one single pantheon. This is quite different with RuneQuest, and obviously there is no easy way to solve that. In fact if RuneQuest would provide a general solution here, it would limit the creativity of the players, which is not desirable - at least not from my point of view.

I do understand the need for this kind of clarification absolutely. In fact I guess most of the players in my group are not interested in the metaphysics of Glorantha nearly as much as I am. Therefore my current hope is that the announced cult books will bring clarification at least on a regional level - as already mentioned in a previous post I don't think this is possible on a universal level. So introducing the required kind of information on a regional level may be the best compromise between holding up the complexity of this game world and making it accessible for players preferring a less confusing and more playable approach.

From the RuneQuest rules at Gen Con thread: This seems to indicate, that there are plans to publish several (localized?) cult books instead of a universal Gods of Glorantha volume. This should give the guidance asked for earlier: Or it may lead to more confusion, because I can imagine, that these cult books may describe cults for the same gods with different rune associations depending on the region/culture the cult is associated with.

Even more so as Glorantha is a world based on living myths, which may even contradict each other and still will be true. This is (one of) the core idea(s) of Glorantha, and any game system based on this setting may try to set up definitions, which are consistent in the context of this game, but will never be able to define a single true and only, always applicable set of definitions for this world. So regarding everything related to the God Time (runes, myths, gods) the Guide to Glorantha may provide the most consistent view of 'pre-history', but surely not the only one possible. (And even that may be true only from a Godlearner's point of view.) That's at least my understanding.

I see. But this becomes not clear from the text in the Guide, which makes the topic a bit confusing, if you relay just on this information.

p. 157, middle column, third paragraph Except for the last 2 sentences this is a copy of the paragraph connecting the first and the second column on p. 137. Is this intentional?

What I did not get from this chapter: Is there just one Hero Plane or are there several Hero Planes? If the latter, how are they distinguished?

I missed this bit of information so far. The fight between Wakboth and the Storm Bull is mentioned and described in several places. But the dead of Ragnaglar seems to be mentioned in the cult description of Mallia (in Cults of Terror) as a simple statement only. Are there any further descriptions available of this fight between Ragnaglar and the Storm Bull?

p. 153 Chaos Pantheon The description talks about the Unholy Trio, but the list of more important Chaos gods contains only Mallia and Thed, but Ragnaglar, the mad god, is missing ...

Solar Pantheon So Yelmalio is Lightfore? (At least from a God Learner's point of view ... ) That's new for me ...

To phrase at a bit differently: the list in the Guide reflects the God Learner view, but other cult(ure)s may have a different view.

Regarding changes and differences in the way runes are assigned to gods, see an older thread, where I had a similar issue with Flamal and his runes: One of Jeff's answers was: and So it seems, that the view a cult has regarding a respective god may have an influence on the assigned runes ...

Maybe the first one, but definitely not the only one. Same here. (That's a good example, why I hate acronyms ).

Third Age Timeline - I Never realized that until now: the Red Moon was already in the sky long before chief Colymar led his clan into the Dragon Pass region ...

map on p. 143: the last part of the line/arrow marking Dormal's voyage is marked with the year 1582, but the text on p. 142 states: So this seems to be an error in the map ...

p. 133, middle column, last paragraph, last sentence: Mediate? Really? My guess is, that this is a typo, which changed the meaning of the sentence completely. If I'm not wrong, this should read meditate.

moved to error thread.