Statue of the Tentyric King Nekhatâk

Found near the northwestern sandstone formations of Alk'kir, a hundred miles out from the Rastaj Estuary, this statue of the Tentyric King Nekhatâk depicts an age long gone; a time when Elves ruled the world, and their wonders were found in even the most inhospitable places. Now this sneering statue, proud and cold, is nothing but a memory of a memory of an empire to never return. This statue is sometimes the site of pilgrimages. It is visited to contemplate both its artistic beauty, and that its beauty wanes and shall soon be lost forever to the sands of Alk'kir.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed;

And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

— Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"

by jorgecarrero

Type

Monument / Statue, Large