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the jeff on facebook/editorial line was at least at one point that no ships were ever built at Corflu, but the governor hired some wolf pirates to ferry troops into the mirrorsea and then stiffed them on everything but the down payment (https://wellofdaliath.chaosium.com/the-failure-of-corflu/)

I was just looking at this map for a while in the book, puzzling over that arrow off into the wastes in 35 ST. As near as I can figure out, those are the Huck Sheng hills (known for being the place where the Praxian nomads submitted to Sheng), along with the local mountain peak of White Cap (the peak is not actually mentioned in the text of the Guide, only on the maps.) According to the timeline chapter, 35ST was also the year that the Praxians joined the World Council, which may mean that those specific hills have some sort of diplomatic or "diplomatic" value when dealing with the Praxians, or they may have at least at the time been a particularly fertile bit of waste that the darkness survivors rallied around.

I think there was also some material that had Rain Man as a praxian spirit cult name for Orlanth

Fortunate Succession claims that Ignifer survives that fatal wound (and that claims of his death in battle are false) only to have him murdered by Harrek a few years later. Possibly just usual Emperor/Hero stuff where they don't stay down unless you destroy the body, possibly something else. (Ignifer was the emperor that purged his predecessors' proxies to take more direct control of the imperial administration and rituals, but did he get all of them? Did one or two of them pop back up after he got killed and begin ruling the empire as if there was no break in his continuity of being?)

In the RQ2 rules, it was theoretically possible to be a priest, lord or lord-priest of any cult, while later rules have limited lords to more martially inclined cults. Given though, the above mention that Pavis' cult has an interest in axe and hammer fighting skills, I would assume that you would be able to have Pavic runelords under the RQG system, and that this would probably not be a unique feature of Pavis specifically, just limited to places where the city god/wyter are similarly martial. Orlanth is the city god of Whitewall, afterall.

I imagine there would still be a path to hell in the deep foundation basements of whatevers left of the palace of black glass, but getting to that would be a hell of an adventure itself

The size of these villages gives me a lot to think about though, even a smaller and depleted village could have numbers close to a healthy Sartarite counterpart. It will be a fine line to walk making something that can be a threat to a Lodrilli village, but could still be something a group of ~5 players can solve.

One of the examples I saw Jeff suggest in another thread was that some Lodrilli villages might be somewhat of a cousin of Taos Pueblo, at least in appearances. In some cases then at the upper range of normal we could see multiple of these compounds and dozens of rooms, some with only ladder and stair access. Part of my wondering about these rural villages was thinking about a prospective game in the Redlands, and thinking that maybe I could just take what I could find about the heartlands (particularly Oraya) and scale it down, make it less dense, and run some western style adventures out there. Run a Magnificent Seven when you haven't set up any other plots, etc, but now I'm thinking about how easy it might be to do A Fistful of Dollars as well with two feuding families on their adjacent compound structures.

Let's continue the trend. I've been wanting to run a game set in the empire eventually, with lunar aligned players doing lunar things, so lets talk about the rural parts of the empire, away from the glitz of Glamour. Specifically more interested in social things for bringing an adventure into Lodrilli territory than esoterics and name games, but if conversation drifts towards that then whatever. The Guide says that a Lodrilli farming village tends to be 2-5 extended families and that social success is measured by the amount of dependents you can maintain, but how extended are we talking here? What's a normal population for a village in the heartlands and how much land are they able to maintain? Are the vast majority of village folk farmers/herders as their primary trade, or is there a separation of duties such that some people are always responsible for certain other labors such as maintenance of irrigation channels or other tasks instead of direct farm work? Are taxes in kind collected at the village, or are they delivered? Urban Dara Happa walls their cities, do the villages nearby also have that concern, or do the interconnected nature of their houses turn the entire village into a defensible point/holdfast? Do they prefer to build on hills for relative defensibility, or are their social/political concerns that lead them to build just anywhere? (I.E. "secure peasants are troublesome, tell them to tear it down and move down by the river."

You're not crazy, I've seen the Loïc Muzy Shargash somewhere, but I didn't save it and I'm not sure where it went up as a preview

according to the listings and timeline on Soltakss' website, it was an adventure in the P&BR Companion vol. 3, and is listed as a "chaos-bashing" scenario, one of the common categories in his created schema of a collected praxian campaign drawing from materials both official and not

If you meet the Arkat on the road, kill him.

In short, in a world where gods exist and you can make identifications of certain gods as being identical with other gods, how can you have multiple sun gods while only having one sun? (Or two, if you count Lightfore as a sun.) Its an in-universe and out of universe problem.

Is the W used in these economics sections a mastery rune as used in HQ (as a 20 multiplier) or something else?

"why do they call him Arroin when he's the one that takes Arro-out?"

The worshipers of his grandson Ygg (the founding core of the Wolf Pirates) have certainly caused problems for Esrolia, but earth has gotten pretty good at taming the storm, or at least redirecting it to a preferred target.

I'm not 100% sure what OP is trying to ask for examples of in this thread, but something that's way more common in glorantha than brothers killing brothers seems to be frequently bloody conflicts that arise between uncles and nephews, which are sometimes morally justified by the involved cultures, if they're not ignoring the possible family relation. Umath and Shargash, Yelm and Orlanth, Orlanth and Daga, Vadrus and Barntar, Storm Bull and Wakboth to name a few off the top of my head, plus the whole initiation of Orlanth myth of the potentially homicidal (deicidal?) uncles and their pits.

I guess I could speak up too. A few months ago I discovered a site with a companion app still in development for PbP roleplaying called Rolegate. Its a pretty small community, compared to something like RPGGeek but I was intrigued by it because it has obviously had some programming work go into it, to integrate character sheets with rolls and things like that (for example, just being able to type out something like [[1d100<Homeland Lore]] to determine pass or fail on skill use), and on closer inspection I noticed that someone had made an RQG character sheet, but as near as I could tell it had never been run using the site. So I tried and it fizzled out before it started, as PbP does sometimes. People got impatient with waiting and it went from having three players who were up for trying to one in a single weekend and I closed it and gave up for a few months. But I still wanted to try it, I was thinking of it as a stealth advertisement for RuneQuest and Glorantha and when the fresh faces showed up in my chat I was eager to talk up the more accessible and individual ways to read about things without a large investment of a new system and needing to find groups, King of Dragon Pass, Prince of Sartar and so on. I also wanted to test how feasible it actually was for me to run a game by post. I've only ever done it face to face and video/audio chats don't work for me for social anxiety reasons. I hadn't seen this thread when I decided that I was going to try it again but I'm also not particularly having much luck at getting any attention over there though yet. So I guess I'm throwing my hat in the ring, but I would prefer people who aren't long term veterans of runequest, especially folks who have read every book backwards and forwards, since I would like to be able to be the one sharing new experiences and stories with someone (hint hint to the lurkers and new gloranthaphiles). My current plan was to do Broken Tower as a one-shot and then possibly expand into some of the other stuff in the Gamemaster's Screen Pack if things went well enough that people wanted to keep going, but I was planning on capping the entire thing and not turning it into a real campaign, because I want to do a real actually original campaign sometime after Gods and Goddesses and the Campaign Guide (not that I know what that will be, or when, yet.)

Conceptual question, does "The Westfaring" essentially forcibly create a Magic Road, usually but not always to the Underworld?

I remember that face dancing comes up during the Eleven Lights quest in the book of the same title, connecting The Bad Dogs to Telmori that the players have had personal dealings with

the aldryami babeester/shargash? link is an interesting complexity. "Bebester destroyed all of that was left of the world, so that it could begin anew"

I don't want to question a business decision like that because I don't really have any place to, but why? If you're going after the twitch demographic, lets be honest here, "spend $5 a month to watch our content on this platform if you can't make the first run" isn't exactly a winning advertisement. On a site where so many people work purely off of donations, its going to come off as a little money-grubbing. Obviously if expanding the...brand awareness to twitch's main demographics (majority teens and 20s) isn't the goal then disregard. Maybe some people are big enough supporters to throw a five your way for content that they'll be able to get for free in a couple days but they won't do it sight-unseen and I think you'd get more engagement by having it be as widely available as possible. Just a few thoughts from someone that would like to see RQ grow into its own among the younger crowd the same way CoC has.

Black Dragon Mountain Pictoglyphs - Glyph 28: "...Only the Red Moon remains in the sky, fed by sacrifices to the Blood Sun." seems to suggest they're one and the same too. I have the idea that it truly becomes the Blood Sun because of a total solar eclipse, what makes it a sun god that trolls are willing to accept and worship is that the full brightness of the sun is blocked

p49 "See The Return of the Grey Crane sidebar (below)." - The sidebar is actually titled The Grey Crane Returns and is directly above that sentence. p 92 "He marked out the walls of the city using the old magic and called forth Sartar to watch over the new." It feels like a word was dropped there, maybe city? "The Prince’s masons build the fine stone walls that surround Alone" should be built

That would be Spawn according to a few sources, though it's in a slightly different location on different maps