Bronze Age Glorantha

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:34:02 +1300


K Winland:

>Discussing this point with another Digest member, I got the feeling
>that Glorantha was subtly moving away from a Bronze Age setting.

It never was a bronze age setting. The actual reference that claims Glorantha as a bronze age world is talking about basic metal and explicitly states further on:

	Glorantha is an ancient period and early Dark Ages world.
	It has far more to do with Mesopotamia, ancient China,
	Hyboria, and Lankhmar than it does with medieval europe,
	Le Mort D'Arthur, or the Carolingian Cycle.  Its heroes
	are Conans, Grey Mousers, and Rustums, not Lancelots,
	Percivals, and Rolands.
			RQ 2 p5

The early Dark Ages are at least a thousand years after the start of the Iron Age and Rustum IIRC is a hero of Sassanid Iran and consequently after Christ was born.

>I never saw the later AH RQ supplements, so I
>do not know if the setting was changing in subtle ways.

If you have a look at the Genertela boxed set, you'll find that the Western continent is quasi-medieval in character.

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