From: Michael Cule (mikec@room3b.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sun 18 Jun 2000 - 01:15:12 EEST
>1. Apparently, the Red Moon is going to be destroyed? I think I saw this on
>the list. I really don't like this, as I happen to like the Lunars. I can
>understand having them pushed out of Sartar and Dragon Pass, but why totally
>screw up the world to do it? If this really happens, it can limit the
>usefulness of further products to me, at least.
Well, that's what happens in the Official Future as shown in KING OF
>2. What is the general outline of what will happen during the Hero Wars? Just
SARTAR. But it doesn't happen any time soon ("Seventeen Twenty Five-Keep
the world alive!" as the Fourth Age Children's song has it) and it
doesn't have to happen in your Glorantha. (In mine a copy of the Dread
Purple Book of Future Knowledge is now in the hands of Kallyr Starbrow
and all has become uncertain again.) I doubt very much if Issaries are
going to be publishing books about the events beyond the retaking of
Boldhome any time soon.
>basics, so I'm not completely surprised.
Buy a copy of KING OF SARTAR and you will know all this....
In 1625 the Brown Dragon swallows the nearly completed Temple of The
Reaching Moon in Sartar and Kallyr Starbrow is proclaimed Prince of
Sartar as the Lunars flee and the country rises. Sometime in the next
few years she is killed, reports differ as to how (Jane Williams and I
believe that she is betrayed by Argrath and killed by Harrek when he
raids Boldhome) and Argrath becomes Prince and leader of the Rebel
Alliance against the Evil Empire. Over the next hundred years Argrath
builds his magical and military might. He makes alliances cemented with
marriage in many cases and becomes (by marrying the Feathered Horse
Queen) King of Dragon Pass. He goes to Hell on the Lightbringers Quest
and then beyond the reach of even that ritual to rescue Sheng Seleris
from the Lunar Hell in which he was imprisoned (and which Fazzur Wide-
read so unwisely showed to the rebel leaders at the time of Starbrow's
Rebellion). Sheng returns to his people in Pent and leads them against
the Lunars. He and Argrath later have a falling out and Argrath sends
him back to Hell forever. The Lunar Empire continues to crumble and
(according to the admittedly biased account in ARGRATH'S SAGA) turns
more and more openly to chaos. Finally in 1725, Argrath calls upon the
Great Dragons to tear down the Moon. (But a White Moon seems to have
taken it's place by the Fourth Age.) Argrath becomes a god and sometime
in the early 19th Century ST a curse of illiteracy (possibly similar to
the Ban over Fronela: caused by the death of Lhankhor Mhy?) spreads
across Glorantha and the whole world forgets how to read and write for
several generations. In the early 23rd Century ST KING OF SARTAR is
written in a Glorantha that has forgotten the old Gods and the old
nature of the world and is ruled by a dynasty (?) called the Harshax.
But none of this need happen in your Glorantha! If you want a triumph of
the benevolent Lunar Empire over the disorderly and outdated Orlanthi,
it can happen. But be fair. Give your (presumably Lunar) player-
characters the chance to cock things up....
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Michael Cule
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