Saturday 25 February 2012

Kingdom of the Flamesword

Some of you may recall that, in addition to the Book of Glorious Joy, I was also commissioned by Issaries to write a similar book on Seshnela and the Rokari. That fell through, as ideas of what Seshnela should be changed. In the none-to-distant future, Issaries/Moon Design will be publishing the Guide to Glorantha which will include the new, canonical view of Seshnela, and we both agree that it's important for any release of my material not to clash with that.

There was a hope that it might be published in some dead-tree format, but that's all stalled, and I've had no reply to e-mails. So, since I do have permission from Issaries to post the material free-of-charge to my website (so long as certain legal disclaimers are included), and in the interests of not clashing with the release of official publications, that's what I've done.

If you liked the Book of Glorious Joy, and wondered what I made of Seshnela, you can find my thoughts in Kingdom of the Flamesword. As always, the non-canonical nature of the work must be stressed, and no challenges to copyrights or trademarks are intended - this is just fan material, nothing more and nothing less. It will certainly be contradicted in official works, and, if that matters to you, this won't be of much use. It's also worth noting that at least some of it was written for HQ1, which was the current edition at the time, and may put some people off.

But otherwise - well, hopefully it will be useful to someone.

Update: Kingdom of the Flamesword, updated to the current version of what is now QuestWorlds, is now available for purchase at DriveThru RPG, along with Forged in Blood and Snow, which does the same for the Kingdom of Jonatela.

4 comments:

賈尼 said...

Always interested in reading your material, canonical or not.

AndreasDavour said...

Hell will freeze over before Official(tm) word will be out on anything canonical will be published.

It's a crying shame this stuff have been left to linger. Frankly, I don't understand that anyone bother trying to work getting the official blessing.

Many thanks for you generosity publishing this for free! Awesome stuff.

James Yasha Cunningham said...

Thank you so much for this -- I only wish it could have published as it deserved. I was really looking forward to your Malkioni supplements. The Book of Glorious Joy is great, but I would not have minded a great big book of Western cults with more on Western heroquesting.

bombasticus said...

Hello non-dead comrade!

I am anonymous fan who liked these when they came out and am thrilled to see your recent Monster Manual material. A question: the 2007 exchange where Greg decided "Loskalm is not a Malkioni nation" just rose back to the surface and got me thinking about the tremendous amount of work you did with him to pin down Western religious history. You might not want to even look at it now but as I rethink the West in all phases of its evolution (in-game and out here) I would love to see anything you guys talked about that you would care to share. Maybe some day your West and the Guide can build something even stronger and more awesome together. I think my email shows up here but if not I am following comments.

Thank you very much for all your work over the years. I haven't been here since Anaxial's Annex (when I was young and selfish) so owe you the gratitude, paid late and with compound interest.