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Glorantha is an exciting world of heroes. Legends are being made by great individuals, many who are not even human beings. Some work with the deities, other heroes and heroines fight against them.

Glorantha is colorful and full of magic. Supernatural animals are found, ranging from unicorns to seven types of merfolk and the Goddess of Lions.

Glorantha is immense. If explored, it has different worlds and dimensions, whole realms where Gods, spirits and sorcerous powers come from.

Glorantha is both familiar and bizarre. It has dwarfs, but they are beings of stone who manifest rigid inflexible laws of creation, while elves are beings who are intelligent, mobile plants. Glorantha is full of surprises.

Glorantha is as deep as you want it to be, or not. Hackers and choppers have what they want, while scholars and mythologists have a vast playground of new stories, legends and myths to enjoy.

Go Here for the Maps Page
Go Here for the Regions and Cultures Page
Go Here for the Mythology
Go Here for the Cosmology, how Glorantha and the otherworlds work
Go Here for the Myth of the Month
Go Here for the History
Go Here for the Q&A
Go Here for the Creatures
Go Here for the Jokes
Go Here for the Coolest Thing at the moment
Go Here for the Art Gallery
Go Here to learn what others think Glorantha looks like
Go Here for the Roleplaying Game, Hero Wars
Go Here for the incredible list of Other Gloranthan Links
Go Here for the Marketplace of Gloranthan books and games
Go Here for the background about Glorantha
Go Here for weird stuff

History

Glorantha is a fantasy world that was created by Greg Stafford. It is a place of myth and magic, where a multitude of gods carry on an eon-old conflict. Now is the time of the Hero Wars, when old gods return, great battles are fought, and the future of the world will be irrevocably changed, forever.

The world of Glorantha first saw publication as a board game, White Bear and Red Moon. A second board game, Nomad Gods, was published a short time later. Most people, however, are familiar with Glorantha through RuneQuest, a role-playing game which was first published by Chaosium, and later by Avalon Hill, between 1978 and 1995. Then, Glorantha was quiet for three years, but that changed in 2000 with the publication of Hero Wars an all-new Gloranthan roleplaying game by the Glorantha corporation, Issaries Inc. (see the Product List page for more info on Glorantha publishing.) In 2003, a completely revised version of the game was published as HeroQuest. With many new publications just over the horizon, it's a great time to be discovering Glorantha for the first time!