Glorantha - The Second Age 2e.pdf

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Credits

Author (s)

Robin Laws, Bryan Steele and Lawrence

Whitaker

Interior Illustrations

German Ponce, Jason Banditt Adams, Marco

Morte, Leonardo Borazio, Lorena Soreno,

Javier Charro Martinez, Jorge Monparler and

Andrew Dobell

Additional Text

Simon Bray

Maps

Keith Curtis and Leonel Domingos de Castro

Torres

Editor

Nick Robinson

Proofreading

Charlotte Law

Cover

Pascal Quidault

Special Thanks

Pete Nash, John Hutchinson, Simon Bray, Jeff

Richard and Greg Stafford

Layout and Graphic Design

Will Chapman and Scott Clark

Copyright Information

Glorantha: The Second Age ©2010 Mongoose Publishing. All rights reserved. Reproduction of this work by any means without the written permission of the

publisher is expressly forbidden. All signiﬁ cant characters, names, places, items, art and text herein are copyrighted by Mongoose Publishing subject to its licence

from Issaries, Inc. This game product contains no Open Game Content. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without written permission.

To learn more about the Open Game License, please go to www.mongoosepublishing.com. This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United

Kingdom. This product is a work of ﬁ ction. Any similarity to actual people, organisations, places or events is purely coincidental.

RuneQuest is a trademark (TM) of Issaries, Inc. Produced under license from Issaries. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA.

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Contents

Welcome to Glorantha

4

The Two Empires

16

Major Cultures

32

Major Races

57

World Gazeteer

71

Ralios Campaign Setting

109

Gloranthan Adventurers

187

Gloranthan Magic

245

Index

260

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Welcome to Glo rantha

Welcome to the second edition of Glorantha: The Second Age .

world asunder. Through this pact to remain aloof, Glorantha’s

physical surface is the province of many races who are able to

interact daily with their gods, but, separated from them, forge

their own destinies.

This book has several purposes:

X To introduce Glorantha to new RuneQuest players and to

reintroduce it to old hands…

X To articulate the magical world of Glorantha as completely

as possible…

X To provide the essential rules necessary for creating

Gloranthan characters and hosting adventures within the

Second Age of the world.

And the world has many races. Humans proliferate but they

co-exist with the Elder Races; those that came before: the

dragonewts, the dwarfs, the elfs and the trolls, principally,

but others exist. Humans are not alone and whilst they might

proliferate they do not necessarily rule unequivocally. Each

race has its dominion. The dwarfs reside beneath the surface,

working hard to repair and maintain the World Machine. The

elfs are cloistered in their forests, keeping a deliberate distance

from artiﬁ ce, tied to the things that grow and ﬂ ower. The trolls

live underground also, because, tied to the Darkness rune, the

light of the surface is painful to them. The dragonewts, most

enigmatic of all Glorantha’s many races, are scattered across

the world, engaged in matters incomprehensible to most and

tracing their own agenda, seemingly oblivious to the schemes

of mortal kind.

Before any of these purposes can be realised, one needs

to understand what Glorantha is, why it is and how it is.

Glorantha’s history is important – as important as its destiny.

Of more importance is an understanding of how Glorantha

differs to traditional fantasy worlds, because these differences

are core to its history, its present and the destiny that, through

play, Adventurers will help shape.

A Mythic World

Glorantha is not a sphere, hanging in space, orbiting a sun. It is

a lozenge of earth ﬂ oating along the river of time, surrounded

by additional planes of existence that accompany it on its

journey. Above the world is the Sky Dome, separating the sky

from the land, and, in this bowl, hang the stars, the planets

and Glorantha’s rarely seen Blue Moon (which is a goddess,

not a satellite).

In most respects Glorantha resembles a conventional planet

with continents, seas, rivers, mountains, valleys, plains and

deserts. Yet none of these features are a result of geological

activity. Each is a result of the actions of the gods, shaped

before time began. Each feature is a deliberate act of creation

or recreation; each has its own, separate reasons for being.

Some features, such as the great rivers, are gods, manifesting

in physical form but bound by the Great Compromise from

interfering with the mundane world around them. The peoples

of Glorantha know this and revere it. It is a way of life. If a

river decides to reverse its course and ﬂ ow uphill, it is because

the god that is that river has a reason for doing so.

Below the surface of Glorantha is soil and rock but beneath

this, wrapping it, is the immensity of the Underworld, province

of gods where once the sun was held prisoner in death.

Seas lap the lands of Glorantha but they are not governed

by conventional tides. All waters ﬂ ow to the vast maelstrom

at the centre of the lozenge known as Magasta’s Pool. Here

the waters plunge through Glorantha, leaving the mundane

realm far behind, before eventually circulating once again: if

one were to travel through Magasta’s Pool and be able to sail

it, one would eventually emerge upon the surface again but

changed.

Everything in Glorantha has a reason for being, yet that

reason for being is mythical not physical. Humans and

others might shape the world as they go about their affairs

but the changes wrought are temporary at best: only the

creation and manipulation of myth can exert and make

permanent changes – and the creation and manipulation of

myth involves altering the actions, history and nature of the

gods, and therefore the runes.

Glorantha’s gods are real and living: they reside on the God

Plane which co-exists with the physical world, separated

from it by the Great Compromise, a pact between the gods

preventing them from engaging in the kinds of wars that,

before the dawn of time, saw chaos arise and almost tear the

Myth and Adventure

Glorantha is a world permeated by magic and shaped by myth.

With the right magic, Adventurers can travel to the realms of

the gods, become participants in their ancestral myths and

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Welcome to Glorantha

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