Editing Glorantha (section)

==The World of Glorantha==

The Glorantha website<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.glorantha.com/|title=Glorantha}}</ref> introduces Glorantha as follows:

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Glorantha is an action-packed world of adventure. Gods and Goddesses struggle here, with nations of people nothing but their pawns. The stormy barbarians with their brutal but honest Storm God struggle against the Lunar Empire, led by the imperial Sun God and devious Moon Goddess.

Glorantha is an exciting world of heroes. Legends are being made by great individuals, many who are not even human beings. Some work with the deities, other heroes and heroines fight against them.

Glorantha is colorful and full of magic. Supernatural animals are found, ranging from unicorns to seven types of merfolk and the Goddess of Lions.

Glorantha is immense. If explored, it has different worlds and dimensions, whole realms where Gods, spirits and sorcerous powers come from.  Unlike many fantasy settings, Glorantha emphasises religion, myth and belief to a level rarely seen in role-playing or fantasy fiction elsewhere.

Glorantha shares some fantasy tropes such as [[dwarf (mythology)|dwarves]], [[elf|elves]], [[troll]]s, [[giant (mythology)|giants]], but has developed them differently to the more conventional versions based on the work of  [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]. Dwarves are literally made of stone and exist as manifest rigid inflexible laws of creation, while elves are intelligent, mobile plants. Glorantha is full of surprises.

Glorantha is as deep as you want it to be, or not. Hackers and choppers have what they want, while scholars and mythologists have a vast playground of new stories, legends and myths to enjoy.
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It has various cultures analogous to Earth spread over two major landmasses and a wide [[archipelago]]. The northern continent of [[Genertela]] has a caste society of roughly Vedic type to the west, an autocratic Oriental society to the east and a classical-style [[Bronze Age]] culture in the center. The southern continent of [[Pamaltela]] is analogous to [[Africa]].