Peter Michaels' Glorantha Page

    "I would ask you to remember only this one thing," said Badger. "The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memory. This is how people care for themselves. One day you will be good storytellers. Never forget these obligations." (Lopez, 1990, p. 48).

    - Lopez B., (1990). Crow and Weasel. San Francisco : North Point Press.

    As I mentioned at my home page, one of my hobbies is exploring the fantasy universe of Glorantha.

    Glorantha is primarily a role playing game (RPG) setting. As an RPG, the game system of RuneQuest (in it's various versions, by it's various owners) has been used to longest to explore it. The most recent game system to describe Glorantha is HeroQuest.

    I am presently hosting the following areas of exploration in Glorantha:

    • Jester's Bauble, dedicated to exploring the mythic figure of Trickster in RPGs. I have a bunch of stuff about the Gloranthan Trickster here. 28 March 2000

        I also maintain Fool's Paradise, a webpage dedicated to exploring the various tricksters of the "Real World."


    • my expansion of the Parts of the Bull for the Storm Bull cult.

    • my Hearts of Humakt idea. 16 November 1996

    • Michael Raaterova shares some of his ideas about the Cults of Lhankor Mhy. 06 March 1997

    • my Sun Hawk cult.

    • an excerpt from Greg Stafford's Heroquesting Seminar at RQ Con 1.

    • my commentary on Greg Stafford's RQCon2 Address (as originally printed in the RQCon2 Compendium).

    I also have a few of my Gloranthan stories, such as:

    • The Death of Basmol
    • Weasel and Hueymakt Make a Trade
    • The Planting of the Panmali
    • Raven Teaches About Lies
    • Raven Frees Zola Fel
    • Raven Frees Mahome
    • Raven and the Young Warrior

    Below is my very short list of links to a few of the other pages with more stuff about Glorantha (just so you can get started exploring on your own).

    • The official Issaries Inc. Glorantha Homepage
    • Issaries Inc.'s Gloranthan Links Page
    • David Dunham's Glorantha Page

    Michaele Maurer's critique of Joseph Campbell's book is Talking back to The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

    Laura Bryannan has An Exploration of God and Goddess Archetypes.

    J. Patrick McDonald has an interesting essay about Mythic Structure in Role-Playing Games.

    Mitakuye oyasin,
    Peter Michaels

    From here you can go back to my home page.

    URL: http://members.aol.com/pmichaels/glorantha/glorantha.html

    This particular webpage incarnation came into existance: 01 July 2002

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