Editing Glorantha (section)

==Significant and Notable Deities and Individuals==

'''Orlanth''' - appellations include "Lightbringer", "Lawbringer", "Victorious", and "Ramping, Stamping, Petulant Troglodyte". A real irresponsible fellow who killed the sun, thus creating an entire epoch lighted purely by his [[Zeus|sparkly thunderous]] ego called the Storm Age. He does get better though, and eventually selflessly restores the world. His myths are constantly portrayed as most credible as attributed to his power, the fanaticism and global spread of his smoothbrained namesake worshipers, and by the fact that he's the franchise's [[Spiritual liege|golden boy]].

'''Yelm''' - is the literal sun and the inventor of either enlightened absolute monarchy or tyranny. Depends really on whether or not you're an Orlanthi. Portfolio is expectedly fire, light, imperialism, and photosynthesis. Life flows from this guy, do NOT kill him. 

As the setting is big on aspects, avatars, body doubles, and general stand-ins; the other sun gods are either just him or his sons. One of these sun gods is the Orlanthi horse god '''Elmal'''. Elmal is described as an ex-member of Yelm's Fire Tribe, and is described as Orlanth's right-hand, and the guardian and light of the world during Orlanth's underworld adventures. In meta terms however, Elmal was just a balancing patch introduced by [[Cegorach|Greg]] to allow the [[Spiritual liege|posterboy]] Orlanthi access to fire powers. This small move has caused literal decades worth of [[Skub]] ever since within the Glorantha community with half the elders trying to canonize him to non-existence (even blaming him being in the setting on Greg having brain fog) and half welcoming the change and featuring him in his very own video game, [[King of Dragon Pass|Six Ages]], that rationalizes him as the strongest of Yelm's heirs and knits him seamlessly into Dara Happan and latter Pentan mythos.

'''Ernalda''' - Orlanth's wife and following the aforementioned multiple aspects thing, is practically everyone's. May or may not be the many other earth godesses as well as even Glorantha herself. Every earth priestess of every culture will agree that their version of Ernalda has many husbands, but will claim that their culture's primary god is her favorite. It is actually only generally accepted that Orlanth is her greatest husbando-protector because the greatest earth-worshipping nation is located in Orlanthi homelands.

'''The Red Goddess''' - also known as "Sedenya", is the literal moon. Besides the missing Blue Moon of the Artmali, Glorantha did not have a moon before her as tides wax and wane not according to gravity but to the general mood of your local watering hole's resident spirit. Is really putting in a (murderous) spanner in Orlanth's works not just because she took up space in his sky, but has also taken over Yelm's earthly representative empire wherein her priests preach acceptance of Chaos as part of the natural order. Understandably sees Orlanth as a cantankerous fundamentalist for demonizing her idol Nysalor and his art of Illumination, but overlooks the fact that Chaos once killed 98% of the world and that the art of Illumination, described mostly as achieving [[Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind|CHIM]] in order not to not get sodomized by Chaos, takes a long-ass time to master.

'''The Devil and the Unholy Trio''' - the Unholy Trio is composed of Orlanth's brother Ragnaglar, Ragnaglar's wife Malia, and Ragnaglar's mistress Thed. Ragnaglar is the only one of Umath's sons to fail his coming-of-age ceremony simply because he got the absolute worst one: the [[/d/|Sex Pit]]. What happened in the Sex Pit can be left up to imagination but whatever it may be, this caused him to go mad and he is known as the god of madness to this day. During his crazed spree, he commits the first ever rape on his wife Malia who then [[Fail|decided that she must be the goddess of Rape]] so that the rest of the world would experience the pain she did. The rape led to child and this was delivered by Thed as midwife as she used to be a healing goddess, now taking on the mantle of Goddess of Disease.

Whilst, the Unholy Trio (or at least Ragnaglar) may be a purely Orlanthi aspect of the story of the darkening of the world, their baby the Devil is generally agreed upon by everyone as unfortunately real. The Devil was a motherfucker who've genocided most mortals and most gods, taking the world's worth of a Lightbringer's Quest to kill him. Both he and his dad Ragnaglar are very much dead, with the former used as parchment to write (I shit you not) actual Time.

'''Aldrya''' - the goddess of plants and most things greenery. The elves are her children and are named after her as the Aldryami. Is generally agreed upon by everybody, including herself, that she is Ernalda's daughter thus proving the point the earth predates the sun. Mortals who get to bone her just straight up descend into godhood as it's just that good.

'''Mostal''' - the world machine. Is the, if it can be called it that, god of dwarves. Is typically represented as the world as a machine and a cube and how dwarves actually maintain and repair this is described extremely vaguely. Other cultures tend to represent Mostal as a dwarfking as they can barely wrap their heads around it which goes to show you how dismal the average IQ could get in Glorantha.

'''Kyger Litor''' - is the big, bad, goddess of Darkness of the Trolls. Said to reside in the many palaces of obsidian she sprouted all over Glorantha as safe haven for her trolls from the burning glow of Yelm. As Darkness is now banished half of the time in both the Hurtplace and the Underworld, her power is mostly confined in the relatively small sliver of crust and bedrock between these places. 

'''Yelmalio''' - [[Skub|could be anyone]] between Yelm and Elmal, a son of either, or a reinterpretation of either or neither (I hope you're sensing a pattern here). Is unique among versions of the sun god(s) as his sun powers do not include fire nor heat and that his worship is spread throughout the world not in the manner of sprawling empires albeit in the form of fortified <s>mosques</s> "Sun Dome Temples", around which civilizations form and armies of Phalanxes are trained. A fan theory is that he is just Elmal/Yelm as a [[Fanfic|subdeity]] after losing a battle to Zorak Zoran sometime in Godtime (note: time is extremely relative in the Godtime).

'''Genert''' - an earth god and the namesake of the setting's most documented (aka has the most Orlanthi) continent, Genertela. Once bossed over his landmass from his garden until the Devil straight up turned him into sludge and made his garden into the semi-arid veldt called Prax, home of the Praxian beastlords.

'''Pamalt''' - an earth god and the namesake of the setting's not-africa, Pamaltela. Is uniquely not only a male earth god, but also head of the pantheon worshipped by the not-africans of Glorantha with his power levels reflecting this status. Unlike his brother Genert, has managed to defend himself from chaos by doing literal scorched earth tactics of him turning the entire southernmost latitude of his continent into lakes of fire.

'''Argrath''' - the namesake of one or many [[Murder hobo|heroes]] who created a notoriously Lunar-resistant community in the thrice-ruined city of Pavis, who rescued the most recent giant baby along with a literal giant cradle filled with loot and magical treasure, sailed with and fought with and alongside the most powerful warriors of the era, resurrected both Orlanth and Sheng Seleris, summoned a miniature Dragonkill, and is now on a mostly successful march of liberation towards the very center of the Lunar Empire. Note the similarity of his name to that of the man-hero of the last era, Arkat. Greg is really driving it in.

'''Arkat''' - born a slaving Brithini anti-theist who led the most serious resistance effort against Nysalor's empire at the time, as the Brithini are practically a bunch of dusty, old, egocentric wizards who would not brook "gods" to tell em what to do. Was resurrected by Harmast Barefoot in what is probably the first ever mortal Heroquest attempt to replicate the Lightbringer's Quest. Arkat is the greatest ever Heroquester since then with a 100% success rate in ever more complex and frequent Heroquests save that which was used to bring him back to life. Arkat is basically your heroes when you savescum in [[King of Dragon Pass]]. Using the resultant encyclopedic knowledge of godlore, an arsenal of divine-tier treasures and weapons, and an openness to learning from every source he could, he curbstomped Nysalor and an entire region into the void. Ironically died at a ripe old age.

''' Nysalor''' - an artificial god created by the late-stage World Council of Friends (the original Council minus the Orlanthi and trolls, and then led by the recently inducted Dara Happan Empire and "orlanthi" who were leeching at Orlanth's blessings) as a symbol of hope. Was already preaching divine diatribes the moment he left whatever womb he came from. Was the inventor of the art of Illumination which is a long-winded process towards the conclusion that boils down to basically recognizing that everything, especially Chaos, is part of the natural order. Being "Illuminated" to this conclusion usually leads to one graduating from [[Warcraft|"Hostile" to "Neutral"]] reputation for the Chaos faction. Of course, this offended the sensibilities of chaos-hating races such as Orlanthi, Praxians, and Trolls to the point of rebellion and alienated the elves, mostali, and dragonkin. This forced Nysalor to take the military option and imperialize which then led to conflict to the Malkioni nations of the west and Nysalor's proceeding downfall and demonization as Gbaji.

''' Belintar''' - imagine, if you will, being an average orlanthi stickpicker living in what used to be a great international harbor now in disrepair after centuries of no sea travel. The only traveler on the sea that you've ever seen is the occasional pile of garbage or divers bringing back what they could from the most adjacent coral reef. In the distance, within the limits of the magic of the Closing you spot a man butterfly stroking towards the coast at 40 miles/hour. This is how Belintar came to Genertela. This man was so powerful that he conquered Kethaela on his own and personally slew the previous boss of Kethaela, the thousands-year old demigod troll Ezkanekko. Now dubbed Pharaoh, he is the ruler of a golden age of Kethaela as a god-king portrayed to be the delegate of every single god of any race in the then renamed Holy Country. Much like Arkat, not even his godly powers could stop death and assassination from the Lunars. Whilst Belintar can and does resurrect regularly, the Lunars somehow managed to block this and he is now floating around somewhere as a disembodied spirit. The people of the Holy Country, now committed to Argrath's war effort, still hopefully await his resurrection and have even arranged for Argrath to recognize him as the true king of an indepdendent Kethaela once he manages to do so.