Art provided by Andrew Taylor is copyright © 2019 Andrew Taylor and is used with permission. Art and map provided by Moon Design is copyright © 2019 Moon Design and is used under license. The reproduction of material from within this book for the purposes of personal or corporate profit, by photographic, optical, electronic, or other media or methods of storage and retrieval, is prohibited. For more information please visit Chaosium’s website: The Chaosium and RuneQuest Logos are used under license. RuneQuest is a Trademark of Moon Design Publications and is used with their permission via the OBS Community Content program. The very broad ‘cut-off’ date for military technology has been assumed to be around 200 BC, though some Gloranthan technologies, mostly due to dwarven influences, would seem to be of a much more recent date. Even where the Iron Age creeps in, it is the Iron Age of the Ancient World. In Glorantha, the Bronze Age mindset is key, as is the Bronze and early Iron Age of central and southeast Europe and the Near East for the look and feel, at least for central Genertela. This belief is why Glorantha is a Bronze Age world, even though some troops, tactics, and technologies find their equivalents in our Iron Age, when many of those ancient assumptions were being questioned, and in some cases, such as the shape and size of the Earth, or the distance of the Sun and Moon, being tested by observation. In many cases, it has been assumed that Gloranthan materials and manufacturing are very close analogues to their terrestrial counterparts, much as the nature of the world closely corresponds to the magical world our Bronze Age ancestors believed they inhabited. Illustrations and Cartography by: Dan Barker, Gene Day, Colin Driver, Martin Helsdon, Luise Perrene, Jan Pospíšil, and Roger Raupp (and some artists I am unable to identify) ‘Siege of Whitewall’ used courtesy of Andrew Taylor Chaosium artwork and map used courtesy of The Chaosium Special thanks to David Scott, Harald Smith, Scott Mayne, Richard Helliwell and Andrew Taylor, and those several Illuminates who wish anonymity, for their encouragement and support, and of course to Greg Stafford for creating the world of Glorantha.ĭedication: For Greg Stafford, 1948-2018, for creating the world we play in.Īuthor’s Note: Whilst every effort has been made to make this book as canonical as possible, it does not define canon.

A confrontation between hoplites wearing classic Sairdite panoply. Greg Stafford, Sandy Petersen, Steve Perrin, Ian Cooper, Michael O'Brien and Harald Smithįront piece: design taken from a Holay vase of the early Hero Wars period. Dragon Pass WARFARE IN GLORANTHA By Martin Helsdon with invaluable assistance from

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