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References

BA

Barbarian Adventures, Sartar Rising volume 1, 2001, Greg Stafford and friends, Issaries, Oakland, California, USA. ISS 1401
Background material and adventures to set the scene for the Hero Wars in Sartar.

DP:LoT

Dragon Pass: Land of Thunder, 2003, Greg Stafford and friends, Issaries, Concord, California, USA. ISS 1502
A gazetteer and trove of ideas for adventures in Dragon Pass among the Orlanthi (and not-so Orlanthi) of the region.

OiD

Orlanth is Dead, Sartar Rising volume 2, 2002, Greg Stafford and friends, Issaries, Oakland, California, USA. ISS 1402
Continuing the doings of the Hero Wars in Sartar.

RQ2

Runequest, (2nd Edition), 1980, Perrin, Turney, Henderson, James, Sapienza & Stafford, Chaosium, Albany CA, USA.
The rules book that began my association with Glorantha as an impressionable teenager with an over-active imgination and under-developed social life. Even then the background was superb compared to other games of the day. Now look what's happened...

TTADP

Timeline of Third Age Dragon Pass, Stephen Martin, 1997 http://www.glorantha.com/library/history/timeline-dragonpass.html
Stephen Martin's composite work takes in all the official sources to 1997, and forms an invaluable backdrop, as well as showing some of the disgreements among the "officially published" material. Many dates in the Balkoth Timeline are derived from it, either directly or indirectly.

Wider Bibliography

Much of the published corpus of work by Chaosium, Avalon Hill and Issaries (for Runequest 2, Runequest 3 and Hero Wars/HeroQuest respectively) has relevance in any writing on Sartar and the impact of the Lunar Empire. Especially useful have been Thunder Rebels (2000), especially the collection of Orlanthi names, and Storm Tribe (2001). King of Sartar, (date), Greg's magnum opus on Dragon Pass, is curiously lacking in any serious information on the Balkoth...

The Official Website of Issaries www.glorantha.com is a mine of information, both direct and esoteric.

...and still wider

Much of the richness of Glorantha is unofficial (or non-canonical at the risk of reverting to the language of my everyday vocation), and reflected in the tiniest way by...

The Tribes and Population of Sartar, David Hall, with maps by Walter Moore, 2002, originally published in Questlines 1 and reproduced at Nick Brooke's etyries.com gives a good, (if un-official) brief glimpse of the "bigger picture."

Additonally a number postings at the Glorantha Digest, provided great food for thought, especially contributions from David Dunham, David Hall and John Hughes.

Go and find some more...However, I don't recommend a search of the web based on the word "Balkoth", which, unfortunately is a character in a popular PC game...