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Gloranthan and world
Mongoose Publishing obtained rights from Issaries to publish material concerning the world of Glorantha, focusing exclusively ( and for the first time ) on the little-explored Second Age of Gloranthan history.
* PenDragon Pass, the rules for David Dunham's system, which puts the Gloranthan world into the Pendragon Arthurian role-playing system.

Gloranthan and by
Glorantha has been, so far, the background for 2 board-games ( White Bear and Red Moon / Dragon Pass and Nomad Gods ), two role-playing games ( RuneQuest and HeroQuest ), one video game ( King of Dragon Pass ), one comic book series ( Path of the Damned ), five novels or collections of fiction ( King of Sartar by Greg Stafford, The Collected / Complete Griselda by Oliver Dickinson, Gloranthan Visions by various authors, The Widow's Tale and Eurhol's Vale & Other Tales by Penelope Love, and numerous pieces of myth and fiction created by the Glorantha community, featuring in magazines such as Tales of the Reaching Moon.
A new company, The Design Mechanism, was formed by writers who had worked on the game line, and ownership of the Gloranthan supplements produced for the " RuneQuest II " line was transferred to them ( and PDF versions continue to be sold ).
* Gloranthan Bestiary, information on the fauna of Glorantha, written as if it was a guide by a Gloranthan traveller.

Gloranthan and setting
Stafford has also explored the Gloranthan setting in the fantasy novel King of Sartar and a number of extended essays known collectively as " the Stafford Library ".

Gloranthan and for
Their new edition of Runequest debuted in August 2006, and the first Gloranthan supplement for it was released in October 2006.
The Runequest II rules were released in January 2010, but Mongoose Publishings licence for Gloranthan material was not renewed.
A new version of the RuneQuest rules, now titled " RuneQuest Sixth Edition " has been produced in August 2012, but Gloranthan material has not yet been updated specifically for this edition.
While working for Chaosium he co-authored the second edition of RuneQuest, for which he also co-wrote the critically acclaimed Trollpak and a number of other Gloranthan supplements.
In essence the game centered around the conflict between the barbarian Kingdom of Sartar and the invading Lunar Empire, which has remained a central theme for Gloranthan publications since then.
* Sartar, Kingdom of Heroes, a book of information and scenarios for games played in the Gloranthan kingdom of Sartar.
* Pavis: Gateway to Adventure, a book of information and scenarios for games played in the Gloranthan city of Pavis.

Gloranthan and .
The ' Runequest II game system was retitled " Legends ", and Gloranthan material removed from the re-released rules.
Aldryami are Gloranthan plantmen, nature and sun worshipping-mainly worshipping Aldrya, deity of plants.
The ring can make two macro-level decisions per each of the five seasons in the Gloranthan year.
* Dragon Pass: A Gazeteer of Kerofinela, describing many places of note in the Gloranthan region of Dragon Pass.

world and is
He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.
Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.
It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.
The enormous changes in world politics have, however, thrown it into confusion, so much so that it is safe to say that all international law is now in need of reexamination and clarification in light of the social conditions of the present era.
A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.
The content is not the same, however: rather than individual security, it is the security and continuing existence of an `` ideological group '' -- those in the `` free world '' -- that is basic.
Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.
Obviously, such a Northern tourist's purpose is somewhat akin to a child's experience with Disneyland: he wants to see a world of make-believe.
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
For one thing, the world that Beckett sees is already shattered.
Hamm's world is death and Clov may or may not get out of it to join the living child outside.
In addition, they have been converted to Zen Buddhism, with its glorification of all that is `` natural '' and mysteriously alive, the sense that everything in the world is flowing.
that is, on the basis of his own sinfulness and abject wretchedness, Piepsam becomes a prophet who in his ecstasy and in the name of God imprecates doom on Life -- not only the cyclist now, but the audience, the world, as well: `` all you light-headed breed ''.
as Piepsam says to the crowd in his last moments: `` His justice is not of this world ''.
The `` reality '' to which they respond is rationally empty and their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world.
All such imitations of negative quality have given rise to a compensatory response in the form of a heroic and highly individualistic humanism: if man can neither know nor love reality as it is, he can at least invent an artistic `` reality '' which is its own world and which can speak to man of purely personal and subjective qualities capable of being known and worthy of being loved.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

world and characterised
In many parts of the world, a " heath " or " heathland " is an environment characterised by an open dwarf-shrub community found on low quality acidic soils, generally dominated by plants in the Ericaceae.
Overt alliance with Germany was not possible due to the result of the First World War, but in general the period of 1918 to 1939 was characterised by economic growth and increasing integration to the Western world economy.
As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade, and the currency, Hong Kong dollar, is the ninth most traded currency in the world.
During the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Flanders was characterised by the presence of large urban centres (...) at the beginning of the nineteenth century this region ( Flanders ), with an urbanisation degree of more than 30 per cent, remained one of the most urbanised in the world.
Misogyny has been characterised as a prominent feature of the mythologies of the ancient world as well as various religions.
The Kamakura period of 13th century Japan, in which Nichiren was born-was characterised by natural disasters, internal strife and confusion within Mahayana schools about whether: "... the world had further entered a period of decline " referring to the Latter Day of the Law.
Sociologist Peter L. Berger characterised religion as the human attempt to build order out of a chaotic world.
Mbeki has used his position on the world stage to call for an end to global apartheid, a term he uses to describe the disparity between a small minority of rich nations and a great number of impoverished states in the world, arguing that a " global human society based on poverty for many and prosperity for a few, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable ".
Plovers are found throughout the world, and are characterised by relatively short bills.
His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterised the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint.
Probably we should connect with this the statement that Xenocrates called unity and duality ( monas and duas ) deities, and characterised the former as the first male existence, ruling in heaven, as father and Zeus, as uneven number and spirit ; the latter as female, as the mother of the gods, and as the soul of the universe which reigns over the mutable world under heaven, or, as others have it, that he named the Zeus who ever remains like himself, governing in the sphere of the immutable, the highest ; the one who rules over the mutable, sublunary world, the last, or outermost.
Opposition to certain developments as inappropriate anywhere in the world is characterised by the acronym NIABY ( Not In Anyone's Backyard ).
In the English-speaking world, his genre is sometimes characterised as " magic journalism " ( in counterpoint to magic realism ), a term coined for him by Adam Hochschild in 1994.
From the outset, Rome's military typified this pattern, and the majority of Rome's campaigns were characterised by one of two types: the first is the territorial expansionist campaign, normally begun as a counter-offensive, in which each victory brought subjugation of large areas of territory and allowed Rome to grow from a small town to one of the largest empires in the ancient world, including a population of 55 million in the early empire when expansion was halted ; the second is the civil war, examples of which plagued Rome right from its foundation to its eventual demise.
Good tailoring anywhere in the world is characterised by strongly tapered sides and minimal shoulder, whereas often rack suits are padded to reduce labour.
Spengler saw its world view as being characterised by appreciation for the beauty of the human body, and a preference for the local and the present moment.
The Return from Parnassus ( II ), a satirical play performed at St. John's College, Cambridge in 1601 and 1602, characterised Marston as a poet whose writings see him " pissing against the world " ( Knowles 895 ).
Bell test experiments or Bell's inequality experiments are designed to demonstrate the real world existence of certain theoretical consequences of the phenomenon of entanglement in quantum mechanics which could not possibly occur according to a classical picture of the world, characterised by the notion of local realism.
Low fantasy is characterised by being set in the real (" Primary ") world, or a rational and familiar fictional world, with the inclusion of magical elements.
As such, Christopher Hitchens characterised it as " unapologetically anchored as it is in the material world and its several discontents ".

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