"Everyone should know their father, and respect the head of their hearth."
Key Resources | Crops | Animals | Crafts
Other Resources | Buildings & Fixtures
Age Distribution Table
Stead Resource Lists
These lists are all working documents based on discussions in the Stormsteads list, and liable to change. If you have additions you think may be useful, please mail them to John.
Stead Produce & Resources
Some of the natural resources listed below will be odal, and belong to the clan. Resource exploitation is geared to domestic or clan consumption; relatively few steads produce large excesses for trade. Many of the items below will only be exploited by the largest steads.
Key Resources
| WHEAT | flour |
| RYE | flour, fodder |
| BARLEY | beer, ale, stews, fodder |
| OATS | fodder, oatmeal |
| HAY | fodder |
| FLAX | linen, oil, canvas, rope |
| HEMP | rope, coarse cloth |
| FRUIT | sweets, wine |
| HONEY | sweetener, mead |
| OXEN | ploughing, cart and farm work, sacrifice, meat, leather, tallow, horn, bone, dung, vellum. |
| COWS | dairy products in season, leather, sacrifice, meat, tallow, horn, bone, dung. |
| SHEEP | dairy products, wool, sacrifice, meat, parchment, tallow, horn. |
| PIGS | meat, skins, sacrifice, lard, tusks. |
| FOWL | eggs in season, meat, feathers. |
| BEES | pollination, honey, wax. |
Crops and Garden Produce
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Domestic & Wild Animal Products
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Craft Products
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Other Resources
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Stead Buildings & Fixtures - A Checklist
This list is meant to be exhaustive rather than typical. Some of the buildings and fixtures below will only occur in a minority of larger steads. Small steads will typically use a single building for several different purposes.
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Age Distribution Table
The following table is based on an original by Nick Brooke, modified after list discussion and data testing. It provides a ready guide for age distributions within a typical clan or stead.
Real world demographics can be complicated; this table is essentially a simplified model suitable for campaign use. You can examine the inner workings and derivation of our model if you download the accompanying Excel spreadsheet.
The key assumptions of the table are:
- Newborns comprise 4.70% of the population, children aged one to fourteen 31.90%, initiands aged fifteen to nineteen 8.30%, young adults aged twenty to thirty four, 22.10%, mature adults aged thirty five to fifty nine 24.20%, and elders aged sixty and above 8.80%. (Thunder Rebels p.18 indicates half of a stead comprise children. The statement should not be taken literally: it is meant to indicate that the population is self-sustaining. To achieve such a figure would require continual pregnancy by all fertile women.)
- There are 4.7 births per hundred each year, distributed among 21 women of childbearing age (15-44), giving an approximate birth rate of one child per married woman every 2.5-3 years.
- Infant mortality is relatively low when compared with ancient/medieval populations: approximately 50% of children survive the first five years of life.
- Aging in Glorantha is comparable to the real world, year for year (that is, a Gloranthan ages as much in a 42-week year as a real- world person would in a 52-week year.
- Male and female morbidity rates are similar but not identical. Slightly more males are born, but more males die young.
Age Distributions In A Typical Heortling Clan
Age Male (%) Female (%) Total (%) Grouping 0 2.4 2.3 4.7 Newborns 4.7% 1-4 5.8 5.7 11.5 Children (1-14) 31.9% 5-9 5.5 5.4 10.9 10-14 4.8 4.7 9.5 15-19 4.2 4.1 8.3 Initiands (15-19) 8.3% 20-24 4.0 4.0 8.0 Young Adults (20-34) 22.1% 25-29 3.6 3.7 7.3 30-34 3.3 3.5 6.8 35-39 3.0 3.0 6.0 Mature Adults (35-59) 24.2% 40-44 2.7 2.7 5.4 45-49 2.5 2.5 5.0 50-54 2.0 2.1 4.1 55-59 1.8 1.9 3.7 60-64 1.6 1.6 3.2 Elders (60+) 8.8% 65-69 1.2 1.2 2.4 70-74 0.9 0.9 1.8 75+ 0.7 0.7 1.4 TOTAL 50.0 50.0 100.0