Gloranthan Fiction
Bound I to Humakt
Serve in awe,
Yet practice double labour...
With skaldic verse, and tales of war
I also serve Donander.
- after Archilochos of Paros, c. 660 BCE.
My Gloranthan Fiction
Glorantha is primarily a role-playing world. Yet based as it is on epic and myth, its incredible richness and diversity cries out for celebration in story and poem. There's a wonderful online collection of Gloranthan fiction at Mything Links. In this section you will find a few of my own Gloranthan stories.
Ruin
NEW! Warriors went to Whitewall with the dawn. A short story featuring an Orlanthi skald's memories of the siege of Whitewall. First published in Ye Booke of Tentacles 6, Ruin is available here for download as a 2.6 Meg PDF document, with new original artwork. This is one to read aloud ...
Helden
A novella of the Hero Wars, available here for download as an Adobe Acrobat e-book. Cradledaughter the vingan summons a dying humakti to a hill of swords as the Far Place erupts in bloody rebellion. Sections of this novella have been published in Questlines 1 and Ye Book of Tentacles under the title Fires of Mist and Wind-blown Snow. Helden was awarded the best Gloranthan Fiction for 2001 by Issaries Inc.
A Rope of Cedarbark
A Cradledaughter short story set at Lagerwater stead, published, with supporting articles, in Tales of the Reaching Moon #20. Full of insights into the relationship between Vinga and Elmal.
The Finest Music
What is the finest music in all the world? A Lagerwater tale, first published in the Convulsions II Handbook.
The Sheep of Luck
A Far Place Myth of three very lucky sheep. The long form of the story that appeared in Dragon Pass: Land of Thunder.
Women Dancing Dreaming
A tale of the Left Hand Doraddi clans of Jolar, from the Tales of the Reaching Moon Pamaltela Special, #12, March 1994.
Songs And Poems
A growing Heortling Miscellany of folk and filk, song and poem, chant and cattle boast.
Do you speak French?
My friend Pierre Pradal is a talented professional games designer who maintains a weblog and games site at apokalipstick.blogs.com. On those pages you will find Pierre's French translations of several of the above stories.