Please excuse me if this question bother Jeff and other Moon Design members who are currently busy for GtG.
There might not be enough canonical answer for detail of the off-topic areas (Lunar Imperial Heartland, Sea and Vithela)
which Moon Design team recently didn't publish (Kerofinela, Sartar and Prax were the main areas in SKoH, SC and PGtA)
and probably doesn't appear in Guide to Glorantha which doesn't include regional detail.
Below is Jeff's statement in 2010, I currently takes the MD principle below more rigidly.
- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com, "Jeff" wrote in Wed Oct 6, 2010 11:49 pm:
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> > I hope that the Issaries and Mongoose sources aren't going to be too divergent.
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> I hope nobody at Mongoose takes this too badly, but their Ralios pdf falls into the YGWV for Moon Design writers. To begin with it has some pretty big canonical problems - frex it missed Alakoring entirely (and given that by 880 Alakoring was already the most famous Orlanthi hero in Ralios since Harmast that is a pretty huge oversight).
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> For what it is worth, IMO canon is relevant only for our development team's efforts to bring you Greg Stafford's Glorantha. Questions of canon should not impact your campaign and you should feel free to use whatever you want (including time traveling space ninjas if you want). After all, YGWV.
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> However, because people have asked before, here's Moon Design's guide to what is canonical for publication purposes:
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> 1. Moon Design created publications (Sartar, Sartar Companion, Pavis, Guide to Glorantha, etc) are canonical for Moon Design. If we decide to change or contradict a detail in them, we need a good reason; and
> 2. Stafford Library background material (including King of Sartar, GRoY, FS, Entekosiad, MSE, HHP, and HM - but NOT including Arcane Lore) are also canonical for Moon Design. If we decide to change or contradict a detail in them, we chat with Greg about it before it gets in print. Of all these, King of Sartar is the most important. That's not to say that the information presented in those books are objectively correct or even entirely accurate, but the errors within them are almost always deliberate.
> 3. Plus a few other documents we might direct a writer to rely upon.
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> Most of what is left is persuasive but not binding. But if you submit a text for publication contradicting Sartar or the History of the Heortling Peoples, or some other core document, odds are that contradiction will get changed in the editorial process.
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> Jeff
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Jeff doesn't include "Missing Lands" and "Revealed Mythologies" in the list above.
(I think "Esrolia: the Land of Ten Thousand Goddesses" should be listed because it still appears in MD site....)
I suppose it is possible that Triolini mythology in ML and Vithelan mythology in RM are not canonical anymore,
and several settings of HeroWars and HeroQuest 1st edition print materials
(including "Imperial Lunar Handbook","Under the Red Moon") might not be canon.
I can't find several Lunar terms of ILH ("Radiance", "Lunar Calendar", "Association", "Daran"....) in GtG draft, so it might not be canon.
Please let me know what you think.
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