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The location has not been specified canonically. I've read that the mountains concerned are the Grey Mountains (which places them a bit far from any human food)

From my own thoughts at:

I would avoid hypotheses to the effect that the Lunar Way is a lie. In Glorantha, Illusion is temporary reality not deceit. Natha is the Balancer. She supported sacrifices in the myths because banning them disturbed the natural order. The linkage may have been created by the Lunars. He was still there when Daxadrius made himself one of the High Gods. Afterward that event: Orogeria is the Huntress. She is hunting the lost portions of herself that had been scattered by the Gods War. The better Black Moon is Black Dendara, the White Planet turned Black during the Great Darkness. Identified by the Doraddi as one of the Three Sky Witches (the other two were Lokarnos and Annilla) and by the Heortlings as the Unholy Trio.

Gerra is not the Goddess of Pyramids. The inverted pyramid was a originally hole in the ground and called so to contrast it with the Ziggurats of Yelm (Yelm's reached into Heaven, Gerra's reached into the Underworld). Later someone came along and built a real pyramid for others to see. I would say influential myself.

The Crimson Bat appears at the Battle of Dantolfol which is 1646 ST. So it returns.

The Glorious ReAscent (p47-p52) has the Dara Happan Names. Star 21: Lorion's Tongue Star 22: Lorian's Eye Star 23: Lorion's Tail Star 74: Drowns Children Star 75: Scours to Rock Star 76: Pulls Down Walls. Star 80: Lorion's Eye Star 81: Lorion's Marker (ie his outrageous part) The first three stars were visible during the Great Darkness. The remaining appeared gradually over the years. Note that eight stars are given yet the Guide says there are nine - one more star has appeared but its name is unknown.

The city states can support pirates against each other. Nobody's stopping them.

There was a Subere cult Rune Magic called Attack Soul in Troll Gods that allowed anybody to do that. Hence I think it as a Shamanic Ability is possible but far from common.

Gods of Glorantha mentioned the following peoples that fought for the Gods (in addition to the ancestors of the Praxians) The Copper Warriors The Golden People The Sky Spears The White Elves Nomad Gods 1st edition rulebook p62 mentions the Longears and the Aldryami Lords (who are probably the same as the White Elves). It also mentions the Bodies of Old but I think that's actually from the ruins of Old in Prax. The Eleven Lights p129 mentions the following Gods with Genert: Flamal, Seyotel, Ronance and the Three Bean Circus. Yamsur and Seolinthur are mentioned in the Glorantha Sourcebook p122. The White Elves can probably be ruled out as the source of the Tunnelled Hills. The Copper Warriors are probably the source of the Copper Sands and thus associated with Genert and the Krjalki Bog. The Praxian ancestors are associated with Tada and in Prax. That leaves the Golden People and the Sky Spears as being the origins of the Tunnelled Hills and the Plateau of Statues. I assume that the Plateau of Statues is associated with Yamsur and the Sky Spears (simply because it's a mile high and thus close to the Sky). The Spears were actually Cosmic Pillars called down from the Sky (this means that the Plateau civilization can be no early than the Late Golden Age) - a similar origin to the Vent in Kethaela. As the world degenerated, the cosmic pillars were carved into statues to protect the Plateau and hence none of the Sky Spears were left untouched. That leaves the Golden People as the origin of the Tunnelled Hills. At one end is Star Crystal Mountain which is associated with Pole Star. If the Golden People are Kralorelans, iIt could be the body of a Dragon that died during the Gods War and the resulting void became a source of the various forms of chaos (Bagog, Krarsht, Thanatar etc). The Weeping Valley is probably the point at which the Dragon died marking the transition between the World of Life and the World of Horror.

Just because a ship has to pay a fee doesn't mean that the Malasp are going to lift a finger if it gets attacked by another fee-payer. What the Malasp want is more fees - they are not really collecting fees as the social contract. A good way to play this might be to have Malasp clans responsible for collecting the tribute in different places with differing policies. Thus an enlightened clan might decide to protect good earners while a rival clan, seeking to humiliate it in front of the Voice of the Deep, might collaborate with humans to raid the good earners.. Hence piracy is perfectly possible within Umathela

Because the sorcery spells in RQG are the most common sorcery spells known in Dragon Pass. Truth (and fire) is because of Lhankor Mhy while water magic is from the Holy Country.

Another possibility is that the secret of the cho-ku-nu leaked in the east. There's two dwarf cities there - one was overthrown by the Kralori and the other in Teshnos embraced Octamonism.

A teshnan crossbow is shown in the Guide p437 So is a Fonritan One (p565) No idea what a Malkioni Crossbow looks like.

There is the Dagger-Axe which is up to 2 metres long and two handed as well as the Great Axe (RQG p208 and 210)

It's really unclear. I personally believe the God Forgotten use the blue moon in order to purify themselves to make them worthy of God's attention once again. This was the origin of the Purification Rune that the God Learners used to make Zistor. The communities themselves practice various different types of inventions. One community may specialize in craft golems to do all the farmwork around the place As for whether they are immortal, my personal impression is that they have been so since Steelfall which robbed them of their dreams according to King of Sartar p81.

There's no Aeolians among the God Forgotten - they were a separate neighbouring tribe. How Brithini the God Forgotten were unclear. All that the guide p248 says is that "The people of God Forgot are now ruled by ancient immortals using the Brithini forms of life and government." but the definition of ancient is unclear. Carvak Zirvan for example is only three centuries old. Did they adopt the Brithini lifestyle after the calamity of Steelfall or before?

Carvak Zirvan is blue because he is a Zzaburi. The Talar is Golden, the Horali are red etc. They had a similar colouring scheme in earlier ages but not as strong (see the Guide p415 for how they would have looked)

That may be but the skill referred to unarmed combat use, like a fist or a kick. It has occurred to me that there's one group of people in Seshnela who might use Martial Arts because they are forbidden to use weapons - the Wizards. Perhaps it's intended to enhance their sorcery?

Just came across the following passage in RQG I can imagine the Loskalmi martial arts to be a version of Pankration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pankration but anybody have any idea what the Seshnelan version is?

Generally speaking the Vadeli didn't invade. They overawed the populace by sailing on the Ocean and demanding to be worshipped as Gods. Those who continued to dispute their divinity were killed. So I would recast the first year as a choice being bowed down and worshipped the Vadeli and fled to the interior with death being a rare occurrence. It is only through subsequent years that their greed becomes too much and the chance for death should rise.

I'm seeing a problem right there in the bold and underlined section. What's to stop the local muscle from killing the farmers and taking the gold for themselves? Or at least ratcheting their payment to 90% of the hoard's value?

I think the farmers with the gold would really be worried as their new-found wealth would mark them for attention by bandits and the authorities (not because the rich farmers have done anything wrong but the authorities are always on the lookout for more wealth).

I think the Colour of Magic put it best: If everybody has gold then the price for everything in gold rises. This won't affect the Orlanthi all that much since they can pay in cows (and silver to a lesser extent).

The DP gazetteer is no longer canonical. Hence events mentioned therein may not have happened. The Throne was mentioned as being in Clearwine in Sartar: Kingdom of Heroes p300 and p314 so it's more likely that the Tarshites never retrieved the Ivory Throne.

I dunno about the destruction of the economy as it looks a little too sophisticated for the Uz, even for the Argan Argar cultists of the Shadow Plateau. As for the second, that sounds like a variation of the Swarm - an army which moved from Halikiv to Dagori Inkarth circa 1622 ST (Guide p94)