Editing Glorantha (section)

===Human Cultures===
'''Orlanthi''' - known by many names such as Vingkotlings, Theyalans, and Heortlings. Can be best described in real-world terms as "greek-celtic-vikings" (basically the pre-roman Hispanians) for their olive skin, tattoos, and widely ranging hair and eye colors. You get to play them, erroneously portrayed with northern european features, as the Heortlings in [[King_of_Dragon_Pass|King of Dragon Pass]] and against them, now faithfully portrayed, as Vingkotling "rams" in [[King_of_Dragon_Pass|Six Ages]]. The posterboy culture of the franchise owing to having the most fluff and that their gods and heroes have had the most effect on Gloranthan history, for better or worse. Is currently, HeroWars era, at a [[What|state of war and/or rebellion against the moon.]] and spiritually led in this endeavor by Argrath who may be one or many. Notable Orlanthi nations are Tarsh - slavekeeping clients to the Lunars, Sartar - the kingdom you build in [[King_of_Dragon_Pass|KoDP]], and the Holy Country - the country you escape from in [[King_of_Dragon_Pass|KoDP]]. Orlanthi men are expected to be fiery, violent, and emotional (manly tears galore) whilst orlanthi women are expected to be cold, calculating, and stoic. 

[[File:Average Dara Happan.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A Dara Happan.]]
'''Dara Happans''' - sun (yelm) worshipping, slavekeeping, patriarchal, egyptian-babylonian fusion who look like WASPs stuck in the Bronze Age. So prolific, in fact, that you can tell which cultures are the quite numerous offshoots/cousins of Dara Happans if their art or fluff describes them as midwest american caucasoid. They idealize the city life and the emperor (no matter what form he takes or his claims to power) making them the gloranthan equivalent of the modern, subordinate, weak-chinned, urbanite. They look down upon their rural citizens called Lodrilli (named after Lodril the Dara Happan earth god) which is ironic as the region that they live in, Peloria, is a breadbasket of the continent. Currently ruled as the Lunar Empire by the Red Emperor, demigod son of the Red Goddess (aka the moon), and thus they have [[Fail|subsumed Yelm into a subordinate position]].

'''Hsunchen''' - just your run-of-the-mill spiritual animists who, interestingly enough, despite being of widely varying races and geographical distribution possess mutually intelligible if not identical languages. Hsunchen are divided into tribes based around their totem animal. Shamans of some of the tribes return from their heroquests as the [[/d/|opposite sex]] or permanently [[Furry|afflicted with qualities of their spirit animals]] while some tribes, such as the telmori, are literally just [[Werewolf|were-versions]] of their totem.

'''Agimori''' - living on the southern continent and widely varied. AKA the black people of glorantha. Ranges between the slavekeeping, wealthy Fonritians, to the matriarchal Kresh who roam around the plains on massive (think arena-sized) wagons kept constantly mobile by literal armies of porter slaves, to the Doraddi, the stereotypical bush hunter type, but they are [[Racial Holy War|TOTALLY COMPLEX, NUANCED, AND NOT ABSOLUTELY RACIST I SWEAR.]]

'''Kralorelans''' - [[China|Chinese]]. Just. Chinese. Led by human emperors who somehow [[Awesome|managed to convince everyone (including dragons) that they're dragons]].

'''Vormain''' - [[Japan|Japanese]]. Just. Japanese. But their economy flourishes and depends mostly on piracy. Think Somalian-Wako Pirates.

'''Malkioni''' - the fedora tippers of glorantha.  Are characterized by varying pantheistic/atheistic magocratic caste systems wherein they believe that gods are simply entities who managed to [[Magic the Gathering|"Tap"]] very strongly into the runes and orders that represent the aspects of the world, and that they themselves can rise to [[Believers of the Source|"godhood"]] by doing the same. Located mostly in the westerly parts of continents. Currently divided into many philosophies and equivalent kingdoms of varying cosmoplitanism and emancipation. Named after Malkion, who can be described as Glorantha's equivalent to a Buddha-Christopher Hitchens lovechild.

[[File:Morokanth and his human.jpg|200px|thumb|right|That mace is dangerously close to dropping on a unexpecting cloven hoof.]]
'''Praxians''' - horse-nomads but not really. Instead they are a collection of tribes of the various human races present after the desertification of Prax, assigned by draw-lot with their own respective warbeast mounts. There are the massive dark-haired and bearded Bison Tribe, the [[Pygmy|pygmies]] of the Impala  Tribe, the swarthy tibeto-burmese lookin High Llama Tribe, among others, and even the Morokanth tribe [[What|wherein the humans lost the draw to the the animals and as such are farmed as food and companions]] to giant aardvarks with no [[Fail|opposable thumbs]]. Hates Chaos with a passion as the head of their pantheon is Storm Bull the Devil-Slayer, analogous to the Orlanthi Urox. [[Furry|Married to Storm Bull]] is the Earth Goddess Eiritha, analogous to the respective cattle goddess of most cultures, and is said to have singlehandedly repopulated Prax by periodically birthing the warbeasts within a cave.

[[File:Image 2023-05-03 232713419.png|300px|thumb|right|A Pentan/Grazer]]
'''Pentans''' - Sexual egalitarian dara happan offshoots [[Mongols|on horses]]. Probably descended from the horse riders you play in Six Ages and/or charioteers you play against. Worships the sun-horse god Kargzant who may or may not be the orlanthi Elmal. Immensely more successful at being rampaging nomads with gloranthan history fraught with them having to get kicked out or subjugated for anything to move forward. There is even a period in recent gloranthan history wherein a warlord called [[Genghis motherfucking Khan|Sheng Seleris]] ravaged [[China|Kralorela]] then conquered the Lunar Empire, [[Awesome|at its golden age]], and ruled over it for A CENTURY before being sent to the underworld by the moon herself. Currently ruled again by Sheng Seleris after Argrath did a Lightbringer's Quest to resurrect him. Sheng Seleris is so feared that not only did the moon birth a goddess specifically for the purpose of putting him back and keeping him in the underworld, but he also ended up taking over from the moon as the [[BBEG]] for Argrath to beat by conquering and consuming the Lunar Empire (emperor, prison goddess, and [[Chaos|chaos]] included)

Glorantha is riddled with many other relevant minor cultures such as

'''Grazers'''- pentan exclave in Dragon Pass. Were practically the reason why the horse is anathema to Prax during their time as rampaging mercenaries/buffer states there. Now concerned with keeping Dragon Pass healthy with rulers of Sartar and Sarsh having to win their incumbent queen's hand to be declared King of Dragon Pass.

'''Votanki/Balazarings''' - Dog lovers. Just. Dog lovers. They have mastered dog lore to the point that they can even breed and foster absolutely massive dogs (think Clifford the Big Red Dog) on the regular. Worships Votank and of course, you've guessed it, his companion Brother Dog. Besides their tribal hearths, Votankiland is dotted with three citadels dedicated to Yelmalio, an ascetic understanding of Elmal/Kargzant/Yelm, and are ruled by Balazaring kings with these citadels basically representing what little civilization there is in this infertile shithole. Named after Balazar, a pentan who tried using the votanki towards his own dreams of kingship dashed by the fact that the land is, as aforementioned, an infertile shithole and that he got killed when dragons ate everyone when he joined an invasion of Dragon Pass.

'''Jrusteli''' - mainly known as the origin of the God Learner philosophy. God Learners were the [[munchkin]]s of glorantha who were cynically collating the world into useful data and minmaxing. They became so good at [[Powergaming]] that they've managed to do things such as 1.) [[Kairos Fateweaver|Predicting future events]] such as the HeroWars, 2.) [[Lulz|Swapping the earth goddesses of the Orlanthi and the Dara Happans for a while]], and 3.) Making the world [[rage]] so hard that it perceptibly moaned and groaned and shook to [[Rocks fall, everyone dies|destroy their empire, their continent in the middle of the sea, ocean travel in general, and all trade and communications in a certain area of the main continent.]]

'''Artmali''' - Blue-skinned people that came to Pamaltela from the Blue Moon. Had a big empire in there during the Storm Age that prospered due to their ability to manipulate tides, before being corrupted by chaos. Pamalt burned it down along with the many chaos creatures and gods. What remains of them are the tribal Veldang who worship their crippled gods and nature spirits, and the Blueskin slaves of Fonrit. Another group called the Zaranistangi went and ruled the lands of Teshnos for a time before getting curbstomped out of existence by the God Learners.