glorantha.com

The glorantha.com store has moved to Chaosium, and the informational content formerly hosted on glorantha.com is now at The Well of Daliath. The site's home page states that Glorantha "has returned home to Chaosium" and directs visitors to those two destinations for shopping and reference material respectively.

What changed on glorantha.com

The site no longer operates as the primary store or information hub it once was. Its home page now functions mainly as a redirect notice, pointing to:

• Chaosium — the new home of the Glorantha store
• The Well of Daliath — the new location for information formerly published on glorantha.com

If you arrived at glorantha.com looking to buy a product or read setting material, use those destinations instead of searching the old site.

What the site still covers

The home page retains a short overview of the setting itself, which is useful if you are new to Glorantha or want a quick orientation before moving on.

Cosmology

Glorantha is described as a mythical world on the "Other Side" of consciousness, first discovered by Greg Stafford over forty years ago. Its structure:

• A cube of earth roughly 5,000 miles wide, surrounded by the limitless Sramak's River
• A Sky Dome above, where stars and planets move each night
• The Sun emerging from the Gates of Dawn, crossing the Sky Dome, passing through the Underworld at night, and returning at the Gates of Dawn
• An Inner World of mortals shaped as a huge cube of earth floating in an endless sea

The two continents

Genertela contains the well-known settings of Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax. The page notes that Pamaltela's seasons are not simply reversed from Genertela's despite the Sun's varying distance.

Games set in Glorantha

The page names Dragon Pass, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, and King of Dragon Pass as games that have explored the world.

Practical next steps

1. To buy books or games: go to Chaosium's store rather than glorantha.com.
2. To read setting lore: use The Well of Daliath, described on the page as "a resource for exploring Greg Stafford's Glorantha."
3. For a quick primer: the cosmology and continent summaries above are enough to orient yourself before diving into either destination.

The page does not list prices, product availability, or account requirements for either destination, so check each site directly for current details.

The glorantha.com home page names "Major Human Cultures of Glorantha" as a section heading, but the page excerpt available here does not list the individual cultures or describe them. What the page does establish is the geographic frame those cultures sit in: the mortal Inner World is a huge cube of earth floating in an endless sea, with two major continents, Genertela in the north and Pamaltela in the south, plus many minor islands. If you want the actual cultural detail, the page points readers to Chaosium's store and to The Well of Daliath, described as "A resource for exploring Greg Stafford's Glorantha."

What the page actually tells you

The site is the home of Greg Stafford's mythic world, and the page opens with a relocation notice: Glorantha "has returned home to Chaosium," and "our store has moved over there." Information formerly on this site is now at The Well of Daliath. So the home page functions more as a signpost than as a reference article.

The substantive content it does carry is cosmological and geographic:

• Cosmology: Glorantha is "the mythical world that can be found on the Other Side of our consciousness." The world is a cube of earth about 5,000 miles wide, surrounded by the limitless Sramak's River. Above it is the Sky Dome, where stars and planets move at night; the Sun rises from the Gates of Dawn, crosses the dome, sets at the Gates of Dusk, and travels through the Underworld before rising again.
• Genertela: the northern continent, largely temperate, 3,125 miles long and 1,100 miles wide, with winds generally west to east and often from the north during Dark Season. Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax are all located here.
• Pamaltela: the southern continent, mostly tropical, 4,200 miles long and 2,000 miles wide, with winds generally east to west and occasionally from the hot south.

The page also notes that Glorantha has been explored across several games, including Dragon Pass, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, and King of Dragon Pass.

How to read the cultures section

Because the excerpt stops at the heading, treat "Major Human Cultures of Glorantha" as an entry point rather than a summary. The cultures it covers are human cultures tied to the two continents above, so the continent descriptions are your best orientation: a culture placed in Genertela belongs to the temperate north, while one in Pamaltela belongs to the tropical south. The named Genertelan regions—Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, Prax—are the settings most likely to anchor the cultures discussed.

Where to go for the detail

1. The Well of Daliath — the page's designated resource for exploring Glorantha, and where information formerly on this site now lives.
2. Chaosium's store — the relocated shop, for published material.
3. The games themselves — RuneQuest, HeroQuest, King of Dragon Pass, and Dragon Pass present these cultures in play.

Practical takeaway

Use glorantha.com for the cosmology and the two-continent geography, and go to The Well of Daliath or Chaosium for the cultures themselves. The page gives you the map; it does not, in the text available here, give you the peoples.

Glorantha is Greg Stafford's mythic fantasy world, a setting explored across games such as RuneQuest, HeroQuest, Dragon Pass, and King of Dragon Pass. The glorantha.com site serves as an introduction to that world, but it is no longer the active hub: the page states that Glorantha has returned home to Chaosium, the store has moved there, and the information formerly on this site is now at The Well of Daliath. Use glorantha.com if you want a concise overview of the setting's cosmology and continents; go to Chaosium for store purchases and to The Well of Daliath for reference material.

What the site tells you about the world

The homepage frames Glorantha as "the mythical world that can be found on the Other Side of our consciousness," first discovered by Stafford over forty years ago. It then outlines the setting's structure:

• Cosmology: Glorantha is a cube of earth about 5,000 miles wide, surrounded by the limitless Sramak's River. Above it is the Sky Dome, where stars and planets move at night. The Sun rises from the Gates of Dawn, crosses the Sky Dome to the Gates of Dusk, travels through the Underworld at night, and re-emerges each morning.
• Inner World: The mortal world is a huge cube of earth floating in an infinite sea. Two major continents and many minor islands rise above the water.
• Genertela: The northern continent, largely temperate, 3,125 miles long and 1,100 miles wide. Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax are all located here.
• Pamaltela: The southern continent, mostly tropical, 4,200 miles long and 2,000 miles wide.

The page also references a section on major human cultures, though the excerpt provided does not detail them.

What the site is and is not

The homepage is explicit about its current status:

The page does not list prices, product catalogs, or login requirements, so treat it as a pointer rather than a shop or archive. If you arrive looking to buy a book or look up a specific cult, region, or rules detail, follow the links the page provides rather than expecting to find them here.

Who this is for

• Newcomers who want a short, authoritative summary of what Glorantha is before choosing a game or sourcebook.
• Returning readers who remember the old site and need to know where its store and reference content went.
• Game masters and players checking the basic geography (Genertela vs. Pamaltela) or the cosmological framing before diving into Chaosium or Well of Daliath material.

If you already know the setting and need rules, scenarios, or deep lore, skip the homepage and go directly to the two destinations it names.

Genertela and Pamaltela are the two major continents of Glorantha, the mythic world created by Greg Stafford. Genertela is the northern, largely temperate continent and contains the best-known settings—Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax. Pamaltela is the southern continent and is mostly tropical. Both rise from the infinite sea that surrounds the Inner World, the mortal realm shaped as a huge cube of earth.

The Shared Frame: A Cube in an Infinite Sea

According to glorantha.com, Glorantha's Inner World is a cube of earth about 5,000 miles wide, surrounded by the limitless Sramak's River. Above it is the Sky Dome, where stars and planets move at night; the Sun emerges each morning from the Gates of Dawn, crosses the Sky Dome, and passes through the Underworld at night before returning. The two continents and many minor islands rise above the surface of the infinite sea.

This cosmology matters for reading the continents: their sizes, climates, and winds are presented as features of a mythic geography, not as a realistic planetary model.

Genertela: The Northern Continent

Genertela is the northern continent. The site describes it as largely temperate in climate, about 3,125 miles long and 1,100 miles wide. Winds generally blow west to east, and often from the north during Dark Season.

Its importance for newcomers is practical: the popular settings of Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax are all located in Genertela. If you have encountered Glorantha through RuneQuest, HeroQuest, Dragon Pass, or King of Dragon Pass, the regions you are most likely reading about sit on this continent.

Pamaltela: The Southern Continent

Pamaltela is the southern continent, about 4,200 miles long and 2,000 miles wide—longer and wider than Genertela. Most of it is tropical. Winds generally blow east to west, and occasionally from the hot south.

The site notes a seasonal subtlety: although the Sun comes closer to Pamaltela in winter and farther away in summer, that does not mean the southern continent's seasons are simply reversed from Genertela's. Treat Pamaltela's climate as its own described system rather than assuming an Earth-like north–south mirror.

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Where to Go Next

The glorantha.com homepage now functions mainly as a pointer: it announces that Glorantha has returned home to Chaosium and that the site's store has moved there, with information formerly on the site now at The Well of Daliath, described as a resource for exploring Greg Stafford's Glorantha. For deeper regional detail beyond the continent summaries, that resource and Chaosium's current Glorantha pages are the places the site itself directs readers.

Glorantha is a cube of earth about 5,000 miles wide, surrounded by the limitless Sramak's River, with a Sky Dome arching above it and an Inner World of mortals at its center. That three-part frame—encircling waters, overhead sky, and the mortal surface below—is how glorantha.com lays out the setting's cosmology. The same page also notes that the site's store and information have moved to Chaosium, with former content now hosted at The Well of Daliath, so treat glorantha.com as an overview rather than a living reference.

The cosmological frame: river, dome, and gates

The site describes the world in three layers:

• Sramak's River surrounds the cube of earth on all sides and is described as limitless.
• The Sky Dome sits above the world; stars and planets move across it each night.
• The Gates of Dawn and Dusk mark the Sun's daily path. Each morning the Sun emerges from the Gates of Dawn, crosses the Sky Dome, and reaches the Gates of Dusk. At night it travels through the Underworld before re-emerging at the Gates of Dawn to start a new day.

That cycle is the basic clock of the setting: day is the Sun's journey overhead, night is its passage below.

The Inner World and its continents

The Inner World is the world of mortals, shaped as a huge cube of earth floating in an infinite sea. Two major continents and many minor islands rise above the water's surface:

Genertela is where the well-known settings sit—Dragon Pass, the Holy Country, the Lunar Empire, and Prax. The site also notes that the Sun comes closer to Pamaltela in winter and farther in summer, without implying that the southern continent's seasons are simply reversed.

What this structure is for

The cosmology and geography are the shared stage for Glorantha's games, which the site lists as Dragon Pass, RuneQuest, HeroQuest, and King of Dragon Pass. If you are orienting yourself in the setting, the useful takeaways are the Sun's gate-to-gate cycle, the cube-and-river shape of the world, and the north–south split between Genertela and Pamaltela. For deeper material, follow the site's own pointer to The Well of Daliath and Chaosium.