Re: Red Moon Over Sartar?

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_...>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:48:33 +1200


Sarah Newton:

>I've been reading through lots of my Glorantha stuff recently, and
>would like to ask what's probably a really obvious question about the
>Red Moon - can you see it from Sartar?

Yes. It's actually visible from all over glorantha (see Glorantha Intro p194 for evidence of its visibility from Kralorela - the "forbidden planet called Yran" (p226) of the Fonritans was also intended by me to be the Red Moon, although the text doesn't say so it could be any forbidden planet.

>The old Cults of Prax (I was reading it this morning) states that the
>Glowline is visible as a thin red line on the horizon until you get
>to Alda Chur, when it becomes like a blood-red sunset, and then at
>Bagnot - the Glowline proper - the moon begins to peep over the
>horizon, upon which the implication is it rises further into the sky
>as you approach Glamour.

And since the Moon was always full within the Glowline, we had the odd situation where one could never see the phases of the moon. However in Cults of Terror, Paulis Longvale could see it from Bilini, which isn't within the Glowline.

>This is probably really old info, and since superceded - my instinct
>was that the moon was visible from Sartar, but that it went through
>its phases. If you're inside the Glowline, then it's always full.
>The only thing is, I can't find any written confirmation of my gut
>feeling!

Your gut reaction probably came from text like Gods of Glorantha which in the cults book (p67) says "Within the Glowline, the moon is always full,...".

Now according to HW p239 "Within [the Glowline], no visual effect occurs except that many people see a red nimbus around the black moon".

--Peter Metcalfe

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