Hearts in Glorantha Volume 1 Issues 1-5 2008-2012 Sample file Hearts in Glorantha 1-5 COLLECTED whoserueisitanywa Legal notices Glorantha, Glorantha Trading Association, Sartar Rising, Imperial Lunar Handbook, Lords of the West, and Pavis Gateway to Glorantha are the trademarks of Issaries, Inc., and are used under license. HeroQuest, Hero Wars, RuneQuest, and Issaries are the registered trademarks of Issaries, Inc., and are used under license Glorantha is the creation of Greg Stafford. Greg Stafford and Issaries, Inc., reserve the right to use any Gloranthan names, places, and concepts, from any Original Material, in any future Gloranthan development or publications, without further credit or payment.” All material in this work is unofficial. Greg Stafford and Issaries, Inc. assume no responsibility for the work’s Original Material, nor accredit its validity or accuracy. Greg Stafford and Issaries, Inc. make no guarantee that they will use or acknowledge this material in any way, and may contradict it in future development and publications. SampleI,Paul Newport, agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Issaries, Inc., Greg Stafford,file and their employees, contractees, and licensees from any and all claims arising from the unauthorized usage on this fanzine of any copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property not owned by Issaries, Inc. Hearts in Glorantha is copyright D101 Games. Permission is prohibited to redistribute or copy in any form. All art and text copyright of original authors/artists. 2 Hearts in Glorantha 1-5 COLLECTED whoserueisitanywa Contents Lunars Ducks Singing the Songs of Rebellion 5 Rymes &Ribbolds Royall 172 Yushargos 12 Good King Thunder 183 Vastar 13 Mirrorshaft Hall 190 The Great Egg Hunt 20 Dwarves “Ten Woonar! Quacky-Quacky!” 29 We All Live in a Brass Submarine 195 Chaos Foundry 209 Saint Magrat Holy Mother of the Harpies 37 Oceans and Seas The Harpies of Iceclaw Mountain 48 A rough guide to Deeper 212 The Dragonsnail a part of the Devil 42 The Monsters of Magasta 215 From the Bestiary of Ashkoran the Tamer 50 Flotsam & Jetsam 226 Anaxial’s Annex 58 Ships and their crews 232 Humakt Chaosbringer 66 Miscellany Dorastor Elves Godfall 235 The Poisonthorn Forest 68 Improvising with an Affinity 239 Within the Poisonthorn 74 Itunkala’s Trade 241 The Hellwood 77 Location Mythlets 242 Within the Hellwood 82 Prologue Method for Character Generation 246 Moonboat Down 85 The Seduction of Tarahelera 248 The Tale Theft 250 Sartar Using a Charm 253 The Balkoth Tribe 93 Kralori 254 Lookout Hill 109 How To Do Magic 257 When the Snow Lay Round About 114 Iron 259 Dundealos 118 Wonderous Statues 264 The Humakti Hyphen 128 Thorula – the Living Ice 266 The Peace Process 131 Heroic Tales 273 Hu of the Nine Silences 151 Alran 279 Dragonewt Through the Eye of the Dragon 153 SampleHappiness is Dragonewt Shaped 157 file 3 Hearts in Glorantha 1-5 COLLECTED whoserueisitanywa Editorial Credits Welcome to the collected edition of Volume 1 , issues 1-5, of Hearts in Glorantha originally published between 2008 and Editor Newt Newport 2012. This collected version brings together in one place part of the fan output of Glorantha’s HeroWars/HeroQuest 1st Edition Proof Readers period. It was a transition period where the HeroQuest rules by Jane Williams, Sacha Radcliffe, Nick Davidson. Robin D. Laws took over from the old Chaosium RuneQuest 3. HiG covered both systems. Also Moon Design Publications took Authors (in order of appearance) over publishing Glorantha from Greg Stalfford’s Issaries, and the Mark Galeotti, Newt Newport,Stewart Stansfield, publishing model changed with it. It was a madly creative time David O.Lloyd, John Harding, Jamie “Trotsky” Revell, where information about Glorantha was quite plentiful but was Laurent Aillet, Shannon Appelcline,Stuart Mousir- spread over various different publication sources (official in print, Harrision, Jane Williams, Neil Smith, Richard Crawley, official out of print, fan publishing, the Gloranthan email lists). Nick Davidson, Greg Stafford, Jeff Richard, David For me it all suddenly came to an end with the beginning of the Dunham, Guy Hoyle, “Jamez”. Guide to Glorantha Kickstarter in Nov 2012. Here was coming the long promised ultimate source of information covering all Artists (in order of appearance) aspects of the world. Mentally I guess I put HiG on hiatus then, Jon Hodgson Cover. even though I continued to promise issue 6 was coming soon. The John Ossoway pages 11, 156,162,163,165,166,246,292 Guide would be a big deal changer. No more scrabbling about for ,294. the most basic of facts, the Guide covers them in detail. No more wondering about what the various cultures look like, the Guide is Xavier Llobet pages 13, 18, 24, 25, 37, 40, 52, 55, 58, copiously illustrated with man/woman pairings for all the major 155,222,224,226,228,230, 268, 271,272, 276, 278,279, cultures. No more filling in the neglected parts of the world, such 299, 301. as the West, since the Guide covers the entire lozenge. So when Stewart Stansfield pages 29, 32, 176-189. HiG comes back for volume 2 it will be to a better informed group of contributors working from a more solid and reliable foundation Ilkka Leskelä pages 36,69,71, 73, 75, 76, 83,85, 90, of knowledge. It might take some time; the Guide is two coffee 92,93,200,203-205,209, 211,239,240. tabled sized books of over 800 pages ! Steven Austin pages 61, 62, 64, 88. It is my intention that this collected edition preserves and puts in Peter Town pages 94, 96, 100, 102, 103, 109,110, one place, the fantastic articles that HiG’s writers put together 117,120,,287. and the evocative artwork that the artists produced during the Pre-Guide days. The Guide may show that the Orlanthi are not John Hughes pages 134,138, 142-152. tartan wearing spiky haired Celts, but within these pages you can Simon Bray pages 216, 58 (152 shield design) still enjoy that world view and the other alternatives that HiG’s authors came up with. I’ve also organised the book by subject Luigi Castellani pages 218,234,235,237,242. area, so its more useful as a reference. Finally if you have already have HiG 1-5, enjoy the previously unpublished Balkoth Tribe, 18 pages of new content with art by HiG stalwart Peter Town. Thank you’s • All the authors and artists for answering my calls for content • Xavier Lllobet for being the most prolific of all HiG’s artists. • Ilkka Leskelä for the art and more importantly the long email after HiG#1 which really focused my mind. • John Ossoway who did the covers for 2-4 and helped me come up with the house style of the ‘zine. • Sacha Radcliffe, Jane Williams and Nick Davidson for being the bedrock of proofing and feedback. Sample• Jeff Richard for supporting HiG allfile the way. • And of course Greg Stafford, the Glorantha Dad, for creating the world of Glorantha in the first place and being so encouraging to let the rest of us play and create for it. :0) Newt , Editor/Publisher April 2015. 4 Hearts in Glorantha 1-5 COLLECTED whoserueisitanywa Singing the Songs of Rebellion By Mark Galeotti Visulan Redsnake, man of the Red Moon, smiled. He was currently lost in grandiose reverie. After all, the had been away from the great rivers of his birthland fourth wagon contained the pay chests for the troops too long. Four years ago, he had finally embraced temporarily quartered in Ulifas, and their safe arrival Sedenya in all her turning mysteries, abandoning the would no doubt earn him riotous plaudits and a fine ways of his people. He had abandoned the One-Cut feast from the officers of the Dara Happan garrison Knife brotherhood and thus Kotor the Black Death regiment, the Preceptors. Visulan knew better than Snake, joining the River Road Militia. It was a small to expect an invitation himself. But the fifth was Lunar regiment, its members drawn from river folk of perhaps the most important, and the real reason for every part. His first day had been as chaotic as it had Sardesh’s extreme zeal and vainglorious daydreams. been uplifting; a confusion of all sorts of accents, from Within it, wrapped in thick rolls of vonlath velvet the quick, lilting tones of Bokisin Vanch to the slow and held safely in a cage of cleansed ivory, was the drawl of a Lower Oslir Esvuthili, the unexpected sense Purity Icon, a golden effigy of Yelm, bearing the Rod of comradeship amongst such varied folk, the secret of Limpid Integrity with which he blessed Ulifas when ceremony which brought him within the warband, it was founded. Normally kept under heavy guard in the simple yet hearty meal of fish and breadleaf. Since Raibanth, it was returned to Ulifas each year to be then, he had hunted Sartari rebels down the river paraded through the streets and set atop the Purity they called the Creek and escorted grain barges up the Bastion for a day and a night. Oslir, trapped Vargar’s Tooth on the Senvenren and The presence of the icon was a constant irritant witnessed not one but two ovreyin birthings during to Visulan. The Dara Happans knowingly chose a the Oronin floods. circuitous route precisely to impress as many Darjiini But still, there was nothing to the warm, dark richness as possible with their political predominance. Visulan of the waters of Darjiin, as day began to give way may have left his Darjiini past behind, but it was to night and the living and growing humours of the a source of no joy to be greeted with glowering swamp drifted across, borne on Asheesu’s breath.