Stojanow Ruins
A Place of Solemn Reverence
Lost to the Wastelands, the true name of the Cathedral that once stood above the now frozen and haunted crypts below undoubtedly harkens back to the people of the Second Age who once inhabited the vast lands north of the Grey Mountains and south of the Northbreach Wilderness on the Forodwaith. A place once of deep reflection, the hollowed out windows and faded but ornate mosaics still adorn the southwest walls, a testament to the craftsmanship of the Free Peoples who crafted its sacred halls.Echoes and Shadows
by Tom Robertson
Heorrenda's Mysteries
The word means nothing to most, but scholars of the ancient ways and old lands, the before times, deciphered its weight, if not its origin: Heorrenda 'Of Heorrenda' adorns many of the gravestones, few of which still read legibly, scattered and tumbled over as they are in lead up to the cathedral's unguarded and open doors. Important enough to remember for the afterlife's eternity, the forgotten locution's meaning likely shares the same fate as the ruins' meaning itself, a tattered ancient riddle whose clues lay strewn throughout the lower level of its exposed belly; crypts and passageways only just visible through the dense fog, beckoning adventure and catastrophe alike.Purpose / Function
Prayers, unanswered or unheard, once filled the tall ceilings, a pair of massive wooden beams supporting a spire above still hold the skeletal crumbling roof aloft. But entropy rules now, championed by the rain falling through shabby holes, splashing to the once resplendent marble floor below, obscured by time's unrelenting dust and grime. Purpose forgotten, if the cathedral's ruins serve a function any longer it is to remind the forthright just what desolation ought to look like.
RUINED STRUCTURE
Sometime in the Early Third Age
Sometime in the Early Third Age
Founding Date
During the Second Age
Type
Cathedral / Great temple
Parent Location
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