Zatir

For generations, the Nabki’ze of the eastern Voko Forest have told of a mythical war against some ancient darkness, holding themselves up as the last remnants of their once widespread people. The ruins of Zatir represent tangible evidence that at least some of their claims might hold a kernel of truth. Situated in the midths of the thick jungles, the ruins of Zatir comprise a number of overgrown, brilliantly white, terraced pyramids and dozens of smaller structures carved from the same bleached stone.
These ruins stand apart from any of the other ruins of the Sabo Jungles because of the script that scrawls across nearly half of the stones, displaying in verse what other cultures would have depicted in statuary or murals. Though inscribed in a dialect that has since been forgotten, the writing presents a vast and confusing collection of epic poetry that tells of a sect of people sent into isolation by their kindred in order to protect the world from an unspeakable evil - though the ambiguous nature of the narrative makes it unclear whether the evil that sparked the quarantine was guarded by the exiles or in fact intrinsic to
them. Beyond the writing, the most obvious evidence that Zatir was a city built for guarding lies in the lintel stone of the intact western gate, which rests atop the shoulders of a pair of nearly translucent stone statues of warriors, their stern and mute gaze directed outward at the surrounding jungles.
Only sparse details exist about the city, most of these provided by a group of Turlonan explorers who successfully led two campaigns to loot the city. Both expeditions took heavy losses, reporting a staggering number of intricate mechanical traps throughout the city and bloodthirsty, nocturnal guardians. Despite the dangers, they returned from the jungles rich, laden down with vast amounts of worked gold and thaumaturgical artifacts they had scavenged from a single tomb, boasting that many others existed untouched within the city's crumbling temple necropolises. Unfortunately, before anyone could pry the secret of the city's location out of the survivors, the comrades elected to make a third foray into Zatir, from which they never returned.
Category:Locations
Category:Ruins
Category:Locations in the Sabo Jungles
Category:Locations in Voko Forest