#orlanth

[skunts-own-truth]

Aw hell yeah, they’re out there publishing Runequest Yaoi!

[lyreofsheliak]

King of Dragon Pass heroquests: Orlanth and Aroka.

[petterwass]

I love how ridiculously horny Orlanth (the Storm God of Glorantha) is.

Upon meeting a priestess of any Earth Goddess, his Wind Lords must, by the rules of their religion ask her if there's any force of Darkness nearby that he can fight for her in exchange for sex.

She has no obligation to give him such a task. But he *has* to ask her.

Specifically, the ritual greeting is:

"Sweet Green Woman, look at me!

I am come, the Conquerer!

None can stand before me.

I am yours. What Dark shall I fight?"

He is so fucking horny. It's great. Peak cringe.

Less comically Wind Lords must engage priests of the sun Gods Yelmalio and Yelm in riddling contests, aid priests of the Lightbringers (Orlanth's companion Gods) and must fight creatures of Chaos.

[old-aspiring-awesomeness]

Hiya there, I moved to aspiring-awesomeness (https://aspiring-awesomeness.tumblr.com/) :D

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Silly man, you cant make people shut up about the moon. It’s a e s t h e t i c~

[vintagerpg]

Sun County is a supplement for Avalon Hill’s third edition RuneQuest from 1992.

There is a lot to dislike about the Avalon Hill version of the game – their overriding desire for RuneQuest to be campaign setting agnostic and an obsession with over-complicating everything – but I still have a fondness for it. The layout is crisp and clean, with art that is, if not fantastic, perhaps more consistent than that in the Chaosium books. I love Dave Dobyski’s maps. Perhaps most importantly, their sourcebooks like Dorastor and Sun County explored regions of Glorantha previously mentioned but mostly left undeveloped.

Sun County lies along the Zola Fel river, directly south of Pavis. A theocratic domain, it is ruled by worshippers of Yelmalio, the god of the Sun Dome, and maintains a rigorous and xenophobic character. Outsiders are not welcome in Sun County, but the region’s love of gold attracts adventurers nonetheless. The Yelmalions are a contrast to the morally permissive Lunar Empire officials that administrate Prax and the continued presence of the sun worshippers is tolerated because of prowess of the Sun Dome Templars, whose mercenary services are valued throughout the region.

The scenarios presented are some of the best available in RuneQuest 3 and, along with 1993’s Shadows on the Borderlands, form a natural extension of material contained in Chaosium’s Borderlands box set for RuneQuest 2. Yelmalio also represents a great example of the complexity of Glorantha’s religions, as a sun god who is not THE sun god, who hates Darkness, who has a polite rivalry with cultist of Orlanth (the storm god who killed the Yelm, the actual Sun and Yelmalio’s dad) and whose worshippers coexist with the chaos-worshipping Lunars (in Glorantha, chaos is a force of corruption and terror, rightly feared by non-Lunars). The system underneath may be flawed, but as a book delving into more Gloranthan history and culture, Sun County is precious.

[skunts-own-truth]

For my Glorantha fans out there. My wife has become obessed with Yelm and made this beauty.

[skunts-own-truth]

I did end up getting the Glorantha Yaoi book, and golly, I was not disappointed:

This Earth Goddess just hard clocking Orlanth like “boy, come on, it isn’t my hand you want,” that’s the good stuff right there. Ernalda, bountiful Ernalda, surly is just sitting back watching the contest between the Emperor Yelm and this handsome barbarian and just happily waiting for them to 69.

[skunts-own-truth]

My Orlanthi know that it is the Air Rune in the middle of the turbine that truly gives the airplane mastery over the Middle Air.