Ruins of Erinion

Let our Stories fade from your minds.
Let our songs echo through the world and collapse into nothing.
Let our people survive this Age of Malignant Motifs.
And let our home be destroyed.



It is said that the echos of the Old Elves ring through the Isles still, desperate to impart their knowledge. It is said that here those echos turn into a melody, or perhaps a cacophonous roar.
The ruins of the ancient Elven capital of the Empire of Erinion are enforced with a sort of protection, be it physical, spiritual, magical, or mental, is a matter of great debate. Those that attempt to pilfer or steal or obtain knowledge or otherwise go to the ruins for any sort of purpose, all vanish, and many turn up dead later, or worse, as insane spirits. However much the modern sages study Erinion, its secrets are forever lost to time, as the capital has this dark malevolence protecting it.
Nonetheless, one group in history has managed to traverse these ruins, the Ember Spears. They returned with an Er'larian painting, and the Second Darkwater Chest, though they had to do battle with and convince an Heirut, an Inevitable enforcer of the laws of the Stories, from the power of the Lyrian, the Tranquil Order.


There was a study done on the civilization of this ancient Empire, and due to the breaching of the ancient fortresses around the Bay, these could become a concrete theories.
This High Elven Archaeologist, named Olio von Starsen, discovered a list of things that helped him draw conclusions, in his expeditions to these perimeter ruins;

Bloodstains and signs of battle throughout the ruins, and occasional bodies.

Piles of clothes near unfinished work, such as half-eaten dinner or artwork or a book left open and unmarked.

Buildings centered around libraries devoted to the Divine and the Arcane, with no distinction in the organization.

Roads quite uncommon through their lands.

Stairs sometimes nonexistant up the frequent towers, and many buildings contain large vaulted areas.

Large humanoids made of stone/iron/steel/ironwood or the like, named Golems lie destroyed throughout the area.

Through a lengthy study, this Archaeologist concluded;

Levitation was a common magick in Erinion, so much so that stairs were usually added as an afterthought.

Communication was done through magic, and physical travel between Erinion settlements was rare. This has now been replaced with the Teleportation theory, now that the Rune of Rapture is known to the Arcane Conservatory.

Erinion ended in terrible bloody battles, with conflicting signs. In some areas, it appears that there were no enemy remains. In others, that the people of Erinion were fighting eachother, while in still others, it appears they were fighting the Golems. However, in some, they were allied with the Golems. This has created much debate, but the prevailing theory is that this battle went slow through the lands, before a mass vanishing of the survivors, the rather shaky explanation for the cloth piles.

Magic and Worship was one and the same, a practice that remains in the Menevali Elves to this day.

So that this empire shall remain in ruin, at the demand of The Typhen.

RUINED STRUCTURE
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Parent Location

The Isles of Erinion