Fan Production on Glantri
by Francesco Defferrari from Threshold Magazine issue 35A summary by Sturm of material produced by fans, including Robin, Aoz, Micky and others
Glantri is probably, after Karameikos, the nation of the Known World for which there is the most abundance of fan materials. Even if multiple people over the years contributed to expand the information on the Principalities, it is sufficient to take a look at the dedicated page in the Vaults of Pandius https://pandius.com/glantri.html to realize that some contributors stand out for the abundance of material.
We already mentioned Robin and her work about the Great School of Magic in a dedicated article elsewhere in this issue, but there are 36 other entries by her in the Glantri page of the Vaults. Check them to find out about the Glantrian Bureaucratic Agency, spells, locations, maps of the Great Crater https://pandius.com/grtcrtr.html and Trintan https://pandius.com/trintan.html, and much more. Check especially her map of Glantri City 30 feet per hex, which details the city, expanding it much beyond the GAZ3 description. Robin also made several 1 mile per hex maps of Glantrian dominions, as she did for Karameikos and the Broken Lands.
Glantri City 30 feet per hex by Robin, full-scale map in the Vaults https://pandius.com/m_glncty.html
Another very important contributor to fan production in Glantri is certainly Michael Berry, a.k.a. Micky, who has 49 entries in the Vaults’ Glantri page. His contributions include spells, histories, almanac entries, detailed description of Glantri City quarters, and his extensive description of Glantrian Dominions https://pandius.com/glandomn.html which also includes several 1 mile per hex maps.
Map of New Averoigne, 1 mile per hex by Micky https://pandius.com/NewAveroigne.png
Aoz is another important Glantrian contributor with 63 entries in the page and an impressive range of subjects that really brings the nation of wizards to life: spells, stories, locations, magical creations, items, societies, adventure seeds, and much more. There is really a wide wealth of information and imagination on Glantri in Aoz’s articles, and as we cannot list them all here, I’ll just mention some stand-out contributions to give readers an idea of his wonderful inventions: ”New Kolland and Trapmaking”, ”Glantrian Giant Crawling Hand Mounts”, ”Canal Pirates of Glantri”, ”Shops in Glantri”, ”Etienne”s Disappearance and the Temples of Rad”, ”Radiance Becoming Sentient”, ”Glantrian Scholastic Insomniacs”, to name just a few! Aoz also has the additional hobby of searching for stock images on the web that can be adapted to Glantri, including maps as the one below.
Dark Druid’s Cave from Glantrian Crown Properties by Aoz https://pandius.com/gcrwnpty.html, made with Paths Peculiar, World building for fantasy roleplaying games, https://www.wistedt.net/
Among
other contributors who have greatly enriched the Glantrian page in
the Vaults I think I should also mention some of them:
Harri
Mäki (20 entries), especially his Timeline of Glantrian
History https://pandius.com/historia.html
and the histories of the major Noble House of Glantri.
Andrew
Theisen (16 entries), with a lot of useful entries; check for
example, “The Changing Face of Glantrian Politics”
https://pandius.com/glnpol16.html
or Members of the 7 Crafts https://pandius.com/glantri2.html
Greenbrier (15 entries), see for example, “Barhopping
in Glantri City” https://pandius.com/gcbarhop.html
or ”Fast food...Glantrian style”
https://pandius.com/glnfstfd.html
or “El Arbol, an alternative Belcadiz Tree of Life”
https://pandius.com/elarbol.html
Emanuele
Betti (11 entries), whose crown achievement is, I’d say,
the Poster Maps of Southern
https://pandius.com/Glantri_South_poster_map.png
and Northern Glantri https://pandius.com/Glantri_North_poster_map.png
in 1 mile per hex.
John Calvin a.k.a. Chimpman (10
entries), who made Crests for the Noble Houses, Views of the Tower of
Sighs and much more, such as “The Radiance Revisited”
https://pandius.com/radnce.html
Sean Meaney (10 entries), with many adventure ideas and
“The Great Crater AC 1016”
https://pandius.com/grtcrtr2.html
published in THRESHOLD Magazine issue #16.
Nathan Elling
(8 entries), who drew up the “Glantrian Noble”
https://pandius.com/gnoble.html
class, spells, and a new conception of the seven secret crafts.
Caius of Glantri (8 entries) with a D&D 5th edition
Glantrian campaign set in “Mystara (5e Glantri Campaign):
Duels” https://pandius.com/5eglndul.html
David
Knott (7 entries); see for example, “Changes to
Glantrian Titles since 1000 AC”
https://pandius.com/glantitl.html
and “More on Glantrian Succession”
https://pandius.com/glan_suc.html
Kit Navarro (6 entries) with “The Cults and the
Immortals of Glantri” https://pandius.com/glanrclt.html
and “Glantrian Foreign Service”
https://pandius.com/glan_fs.html
and was also the fan behind the Glantrian Personnel Division and
Paparazzi Glantri websites described below and an important
contributor of the later fan-produced Mystara Almanacs.
There are also many other people with at least 5 entries, but we cannot list them all as the page has about 450 entries in total, and as we have seen in the examples above, some of them contain many other subpages with lots of content. An impressive work by the fan community and more than enough for hundreds of adventures and campaigns in Glantri!
Glantrian Personnel Division and Paparazzi Glantri
Beside the Fan Production described above, I think it’s essential to add two sites listed in the links section of the Vaults of Pandius https://pandius.com/links.html, which are absolutely necessary resources to play in Glantri.
The
Glantrian Personnel Division was a Geocities webpage which has
now been saved and linked to on the Vaults at this address:
https://www.oocities.org/principalities_of_glantri/
and it’s really something that everyone who wishes to play in
Glantri should read.
It contains, in fact expanded descriptions
and histories of almost all the nobles and characters presented in
GAZ3: “The Principalities of Glantri” and several
more, such as the Masters at the Great School of Magic, Nobles from
the Minor Houses, and Members of the Seven Crafts, adding a wide
gallery of characters for playing in Glantri.
Paparazzi Glantri is another fundamental Glantrian site also saved from the old Geocities and present at this link https://www.geocities.ws/paparazzi_glantri/. It is a fantastic gossip site on Glantri, perfectly suited for a country of wizards and intrigues. Its sections speak for themselves, so go check The Latest Trends, The Glitterati, Gossip & Rumors, Anecdotes & Stories, Glantrian Etiquette, Who are the Paparazzi?, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The site is also ‘present’ in the later Mystaran Almanacs as an existing ‘in-world’ Gazetteer gossiping on Glantrian nobility. Reading it, you will certainly discover many secrets about Glantrian society, and most of them could even be true!