Shortly after the Rite of Return at the fall equinox, around the time when I would have been enjoying the Feast of the Harvest in Richbanks with my new husband, I found some strange mushrooms growing around the base of a set of precursor ruins in the wilderness south of the Lochside Wood. I now know these as the Harpmore Wood. I also encountered a long-abandoned camp near the ruins, and there scavenged the supplies and clothes I carry today. I recalled from my studies with Mica that one of the big mysteries of the continent is that there are many ruins, but no humanoids living here before our current civilization arrived. The Precursors seem to have disappeared sometime around 2,000 years ago, and left evidence of multiple cultures behind. The ruins in the upper valley are quite different from those of the lower valley to the south. Specifically, there are many ruins in the Great Dune Sea, but they are notoriously difficult to excavate and find due to the shifting nature of the Great Dune Sea itself. The ruins I stumbled upon in the north were fairly simple hand-carved stone structures, a somewhat broken archway reminiscent of the rings above. The mushrooms growing around and under the archway grew in an unusual pattern - connecting and surrounding the two bases of the arch. The mushrooms were fairly large, pale green and covered in twisting grooves. I was fascinated by them.