Editing Glorantha (section)

==Digestible History==
After the sun came back to the sky, the races of the world formed a United Nations of sorts based on their shared experience surviving Chaos. [[Historical References|As expected]], this council ends up failing as they decided to build a blasphemous artificial god to signify their newfound mastery of the world with most Orlanthi (because of course they're iconoclastic zealots), Trolls (because the new god smells of Chaos), and the Dragonnewts ([[Chaotic Stupid|just because]]) rebelling against the global government schizo/Gaddafi style. 

This god was called Nysalor, later called Gbaji, who defeated Kyger Litor and cursed her children. Gbaji was fought by experienced heroquester Arkat, who was of the anti-theistic Malkioni subsect of Brithini in the so-called Gbaji Wars. Arkat got killed and was resurrected through Lightbringers Quest by Harmast Barefoot, who is a descendant of your Riders in [[King of Dragon Pass|Six Ages]]. Arkat is now a transracial Orlanthi who worshipped Humakt, the storm god who owns death. 

Arkat made so many successful forays into HeroQuesting that he's managed to map the Godsplane quite comprehensively and has brought back allies and treasures to effectively kill Gbaji. Arkat also learned that Heroquests of all kinds are all true and can exist in mutualism, causing him to join the trolls and to not only try but also fabulously succeed in their own rituals. Arkat became the first and only male and human to be recognized as the leader of general trollkind, [[Butthurt|pissing off Harmast and the rest of the Orlanthi]] who then disowned him for being a [[Weeb|trollboo]]. The final battle between Gbaji and Arkat ended with Gbaji's permadeath and the cursing of his homebase, Dorastor, into a land of rampant chaos and broos with specks of stubborn Orlanthi and Telmori.

After Arkat died, people from Jrusteli landed on Malkioni shores with the God Learner philosophy that they then used to great effect, ruling every coastline in the world in an Empire of Land and Sea. At the same time, people from Dragon Pass decided that dragons are cool and formed the EWF. 

The God Learners added to their own knowledge by conquering Arkat's Autarchy and stealing his discoveries. The God Learners, however, faced a brick wall when they encountered the EWF and have gone on a perpetual state of war to steal and protect secrets.

Both empires did however share a mutual burden of, as ever, fanatical Orlanthi subjects with Orlanthi violently opposing both the blasphemy of the God Learners and the alien dragon-worship of EWF. The human rulers of the EWF were so desperate to quash the Orlanthi rebellions, led by the aptly named Alakoring Dragonbreaker, and have fallen off the path of dragonhood in the process, causing the dragonewts to abandon the EWF. The EWF, along with the True Golden Horde sent to vanquiish it, was then crushed and digested by a sudden swarm of dragons (the smallest being the size of an arena) appearing out of nowhere.

Meanwhile, the God Learners continued to violate the natural order, even creating yet another artificial god that Orlanth himself and the rest of the world banded together to turn it into scrapmetal. This all ends with Glorantha herself moving to expel the God Learners with an event called the Closing. The Closing was an invisible wave of force that destroyed ships and prevented sea-travel of any kind, and also caused tsunamis and storms that turned the western Malkionist subcontinent into a collection of large archipelagos

With the God Learners destroyed, sea-travel impossible, the EWF consumed, and Dragon Pass blocked off with a warding spell, a man named [[Murderhobo|Belintar]] somehow amazingly managed to emerge from who-knows-where and swam towards the shores of Kethaela, the Orlanthi heartland of the continent's south. Belintar then conquered Kethaela and formed the Holy Country with himself dubbed as Pharaoh and as a God-King figure syncretized into all the religions within his domain, forcing the most orthodox of Orlanthi to cross the northern threshold to Dragon Pass, by then blocked off to humans for centuries. 

At the same time, a woman in Dara Happa apotheosized as the Red Goddess, became the moon, took up space and squatted in Orlanth's plane in the sky, and the Lunar Empire was born. A few decades later, a Pentan warlord called Sheng Seleris conquered both the Lunar Empire and the not-China, Kralorela, into what could possibly be the [[Genghis motherfucking Khan|largest contiguous land-based empire]] in Gloranthan history. This only lasted for a century however as Sheng Seleris got killed and was personally assigned a lunar goddess whose sphere was basically to keep him in the Underworld, he simply is that awesome. 

With the opening of Dragon Pass, the people of the continent were no longer isolated from each other. [[King of Dragon Pass|Sartar conquered Dragon Pass]] and married the Grazer Feathered Horse Queen to become its king and built a powerful Orlanthi nation in control of the central trade node of the continent. Whilst the Prince of Sartar is typically the King of Dragon Pass, the ruler of Tarsh may sometimes prove a great contender.

A new period was started when the Pharaoh successfully bypassed the Closing with his son Dormal, who invented the method for doing so, basically apotheosizing as a patron god of sea trade and general bypassing of bullshit magical barriers. Some time after global sea trade was restarted, Tarsh and Sartar were conquered using treachery by the Lunar Empire leaving Tarsh as a highly obedient client-kingdom and Sartar with a sartarite cadet dynast as puppet king. The Pharaoh was assassinated by the Lunars and was magically prevented from reincarnating. Surprisingly, all the par-on-course Orlanthi revolts were successfully put down including one led by the accomplished Sartar-descended warrior-queen and heroquester Kallyr Starbrow.

This left the central Orlanthi nations weak, leaderless, subjugated, and Orlanth effectively dead. The Lunars were on the brink of victory until a man named Argrath, a wolf pirate under Harrek the Berserk, landed on the Holy Country and conquered all the way north and along the way have (may be attributed to one or many Argraths) resurrected Sheng Seleris, brought Orlanth back to life, conquered Dragon Pass, and had every Lunar loyalist in Dragon Pass accidentally eaten by dragons. The HeroWars culminate with the Red Moon crashing to Glorantha to vague and dubious results. 

The history of Glorantha is actually documented in-universe in the future Harshax age by none other than a guy with a canonically friendly name of [[Greg Stafford]]. This history is also described multiple times in-universe to be unreliable and has set the precedent for the setting and those that draw inspiration from it to be the most obtuse and opaque in all of fiction, causing frustration for players, theorycrafters, and wiki editors alike. Believe it or not, this article was actually written as a badly needed quick rundown.