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Lucky you! I've just started watching the sessions, so I have 30+ hours of game play videos in front of me ...

You're absolutely right. And this is also true, if you download the PDF again from your order archive on the Chaosium web site. So thanks for the hint.

By the way: the nearly unreadable legend under the blurry text is available in a much more usable form in the Well of Deliath. As you can see the height measurements are in feet, which is a hint in the direction, that @soltakssmentioned already: sometimes maps do use the metric system and sometimes the imperial system. And sometimes there happens a conversion without really adapting the scale ...

With your question you touch a topic, which is not only confusing for new visitors to Glorantha, but also raises discussions between old-time fans and supporters of Glorantha. As Greg Stafford has told many times, we're still exploring Glorantha, so a lot of the information we have at a certain point of time may change over time, when we learn more about certain areas of Glorantha and therefore are able to understand them better. For example during (I think) the HeroQuest 1 era (around the change of the - real world - century and afterwards) Orlanthi were depicted very much as a Celtic/Germanic cultural group, but in the last years, especially with the release of the latest RuneQuest version, this view changed more to a mediterranean/minoan culture (which as far as I know did more match Greg's original vision of the Orlanthi). You also have to understand, that these real world associations are helpful, but in most cases incomplete, as the Gloranthan cultures are often a mixture of what we know as real world cultures. One of the most current and in this context most helpful documents regarding your question may be the (sadly currently in hiatus standing) web comic Prince of Sartar, as you got a lot of visual impressions directed by the imagination of @JeffRichard, the Creative Director of Chaosium. But in the end it is your decision, because the moment you start playing in Glorantha it becomes your Glorantha.

After realizing, that this would a complete misuse of the original thread, so I have move my question to its own thread. Speaking of my Alynx companion, I would like to invoke the tribe's creativity. I'm playing the character with it's Alynx companion already several months, but I still did not get a cool name for the Alynx. In the HeroQuest PbF I'm participating another player had an Alynx with the name Purrs-a-lot, which I really liked. But this name has been used already, so I'm looking for something similar and ask you for your help, because I've failed so far. (Ichty as well as Scratchy are out ... too many vibes, which go into the wrong direction ... 😉)

moved to its own thread:

WBRM is White Bear & Red Moon, the board game, which made Glorantha publicly known the first time in 1975. Later republished under the name Dragon Pass.

I've asked a similar question already in a different thread, and the answer was So it's not an offical book ...

Funny typo (red emphasis is mine) ... 😀

Yes, you're right. I've missed to check the ZIP archive provided on the page on the Well of Daliath page for the Glorantha Core Runes font, which contains a folder with the SVG files for the Sorcery Runes. Thanks!

This sounds a bit like another "I fought, We Won"-Event, i.e. several different players working on their own schemes to achieve a certain goal, but in the end all these different actions lead to a much bigger than expected event: a Dragon awakens and rises into the sky killing a lot of people while appeasing his hunger with a snack of bystanders ...

Thanks for reminding me. But as far as I can say, Phil did cover the runes from the Glorantha Core Runes font only, which does not contain the Sorcery Techniques runes I'm looking for ...

Thanks, but I'm able to do that myself. My main interest is using them in a text without being forced to add an image. Thus my question about a font.

While trying to complete a text explaining the different types of Gloranthan magic for my players, I realized, that the Glorantha Core Rune font contains all necessary runes except for the techniques used in the context of Sorcery. Does there exist a font, which contains these Sorcery Techniques runes? (So far I've found only the runes for Command and Summon in an old Hero Wars font ...) Any hint or pointer would be greatly appreciated.

That's exactly the point. The Guide to Glorantha (and The Glorantha Sourcebook, King of Sartar as well as some other books from the Stafford Library, i.e. texts, which are not game specific) describe the world Glorantha and therefore build the canon. Game systems like 13th Age Glorantha, Heroquest Glorantha or Runequest:Roleplaying in Glorantha have to tweak these descriptions to adapt them to the needs of the game, but they do not change the world, only your view on the world. (Although they may add more detailed descriptions of parts of the world, which may or may not part of the canon.) Similar to Risk, which is a game using an abstraction of some aspects of the real world to describe (a certain view on) this world. Monopoly is doing the same with a completely different view on the real world. Does that change the real world? Not at all. Also you have to keep in mind, that the exploration of Glorantha, which Greg Stafford started so many years ago, is far from complete. Certain descriptions (especially from game accessoires) may change, while we learn more about these details exploring Glorantha more and more (e.g. the maps of Clearwine ...). This could be compared to an archeologist, which discovers an artifact completely changing our view on certain historical details.

That's not quite correct (from my point of view): these runes still exist, but are not used in the game mechanics (and therefore are not explicitly mentioned in published documents like adventure books ...)

Yes, you are right, the runes are the essential Glorantha world elements, but if and how they are used (or not used) in RQG and HQG is a game mechanic. So as Jeff explained above, the Issaries worshipers claim that the Movement and Harmony runes together form the Issaries or Communication Rune, which means, that you could use the Communication Rune in RQG too, but it would not have any impact on the game mechanics, just on the stories told by your game (which is the important part with respect to exploring Glorantha - at least from my point of view.)

My approach is, that Glorantha is always the same, so far the given example the trade rune does exist. Runequest:Roleplaying in Glorantha and Heroquest Glorantha are just different approaches to explore this world using a game, i.e. they are a set of gaming rules. The fact, that the trade rune is not used in RQG, does not mean, that the rune does not exist, it's just not used in the rule set, because it does not have any relevance for this rule set. And: the trade rune is just a composition of Harmony and Movement (which is even explained in the HQG rules). So from the game world perspective, there is no difference.

GA? 🤔

... This is the custom Hospitality Greeting rite of the Orlanthi, which is based on the First Hospitality myth (see The Book of Heortling Mythology). Yes.

(emphasis mine): What's that?

@MOB, you're such a teaser! 'Coming soon'! With all these fantastic pictures, you make me want this immediately! This is even more nerve-wrecking than waiting for Father Christmas ...

I have to correct myself. Just realized, that the book targeted for summer is the Sartar Homeland box. So the Starter set may be much nearer indeed ...

Last comment, that I have seen on facebook, was (I think), that the Starter Set is targeted for summer ... but you never know (and hope dies last).

Is that the same Miskander's Tower, that plays a central part in the Grey Cane scenario from the Pegasus Plateau adventure book?