Private Glorantha Projects

As readers of the Glorantha Digest might know, I am interested in the region of the Holy Country, and especially Heortland. I have done some work on this region which I plan to present here.

The Aeolian Church of Heortland

This is a cult write-up for a religion native to coastal Heortland in my Glorantha which combines Malkionism and traditional Orlanth pantheon worship. These ideas have caused a lot of controversial discussion on the old RuneQuest Daily, and some of the input has helped me develop these ideas further. So far available are:

• Mythos and History
• The Church in the World
• Spells and Saints of the Aeolian Church

Note that David Hall has written up a somewhat different version of this church for his How the West Was One freeform. That write-up was intended to provide extra embarrassment at the Seventh Ecclesiastical Council of Malkionism, which it managed to do admirably when I participated as a (non-Aeolian) player, but which I felt wasn't different enough from ordinary Orlanthi believes to be established as a church of its own in Heortland. I am working to reconcile David's version and mine, though.

Freca Tales

Freca Tales is a fiction project about a character from the city of Karse, in Heortland. I have begun to write a story about this character a few chapters of which I have also posted to the Glorantha Digest. So far available are:

• Chapter Zero: Freca's Background
• Chapter One: A Nightly Summons
• Intermezzo One: A History of Karse
• Chapter Two (so far unfinished): Sailing

Campaign stuff

In 1994 I started a RQ4-AiG playtest campaign set in Aeolian Heortland. While this campaign has gone largely into hibernation, it has experienced a couple of productive sessions, and also a close exchange of ideas and background info with Jeff Richard in Seattle, of the Tamers of Dragon Pass campaign fame featuring the Varmandi clan around 1350. Jeff and I came up with several ideas about northern Heortland we'd like to share:

• Holy Country
• Heortland (updated 5th Feb. 97)
• Jaransbyrig, a town in northern Heortland
• The Financial Fair of Karse
• Gu-Gu's King List of the Volsaxi
• King Brian and the Kitori
• The Geography of Heortland
• Second and Early Third Age History of Heortland (uploaded 13th Oct. 96)
• The Myths and Geology of the Storm Mountains
• The Hospital of the Spring

Other stuff:

I have written a couple of more or less controversial essays or theses on Glorantha I want to make available here. Feel free to comment or flame on these.

• How Argrath Became Prince of Sartar, my part of the flyer for the King of Sartar panel at Gloranthacon V in Victoria, summer '97.
• Late one evening at German RQ-Con 1994 David Hall and I discovered the real reason why Fazzur was relieved from his command over the Lunar Provincial Army in 1621, and later we also discovered how these occurrances led to his death.
• The Tarshite kings during the early Hero Wars: An attempt to clear the puzzle of the contradicting informations in King of Sartar.
• Taxes - an essay on the development of this nuisance, both in real history and in Glorantha
• Ygg's Isles and the Wolf Pirates: additional ideas about the Vikings of Glorantha, based on the articles in Tales of the Reaching Moon #10. Parts of this have been previously published in Free INT 7 (in German language) and on the Glorantha Digest.

Other places to visit:

For a complete list of other Glorantha Web pages, check Kim Englund's collection of RQ- and Glorantha-pages.

For more information on Glorantha, check official Glorantha webpage, Loren Miller's Roleplaying page, David Dunham's Glorantha page, or these will point you to other interesting sites.

For more on my pet projects, go to my English language home page, or if you are brave, check out my home page in German language.