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3001. HeroQuest Voices

The rich cultural backdrop of the world of Glorantha has always been one of its greatest strengths, keeping gamers fascinated and entertained for over twenty-five years. One of the many ways in which this was explored in the former RuneQuest game was through short narratives detailing "What My Father Told Me" and "What the Priest Says" for major cultures and races. Pithy, often witty, and always insightful, these narratives were a popular feature of the game and were a quick and easy way to introduce new players to peoples and beliefs of this fantasy world.

Now Glorantha has come to a new generation of players with the release of HeroQuest. To accompany the launch, Issaries, Inc., is bringing out a range of game aids. The most substantial of these is HeroQuest Voices, a free PDF book containing introductory narratives for all ten homelands described in the rules, as well as for seven other peoples and races. This 64-page book uses the same format and double-page spreads as HeroQuest and other recent releases from Issaries, Inc., and contains more than two dozen illustrations.

Although some of these narratives have appeared before, they have been updated to reflect development of the world over the last fifteen years. Additionally, project coordinator Nick Brooke has assembled many new pieces written by some of today's key Gloranthan authors, including Greg Stafford, David Dunham (co-creator of the King of Dragon Pass computer game), and Mark Galeotti. The narratives are illustrated by a variety of artists, both old and new.

HeroQuest Voices is a free book in PDF format, available for download both as a complete PDF book and as individual files containing two narratives for a single homeland.

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HeroQuest Voices is also available on these mirror sites:

Jane Williams' site
Nick Brooke's Etyries.com

For readers with slower connections, we also provide the book in separate files, one per chapter.

For easy reference, we also provide a map of Genertela with the homelands from HeroQuest clearly marked (PDF format, 111 kB).