Ruined City

Also known as The City

city
ancient Elderling

Vast ruined ancient city built of gleaming black stone webbed with quartz-like crystal veins, wide straight streets for dragon passage, tall spired buildings, monumental architecture with white stone silhouettes of people/beasts/dragons, central pillar monument with glyphs, massive rift crevasse filled by river. Split by massive earthquake-like rift, buildings teetering on edge, river filling crevasse; long-term abandonment with roofs collapsed, walls fallen, overgrown moss.

Type: city
Style: ancient Elderling
First appears: Book 1 · Ch. 87
Books: 1

History

BOOK 1The Complete Farseer Trilogy: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
Vast ruined ancient city built of gleaming black stone webbed with quartz-like crystal veins, wide straight streets for dragon passage, tall spired buildings, monumental architecture with white stone silhouettes of people/beasts/dragons, central pillar monument with glyphs, massive rift crevasse filled by river. Split by massive earthquake-like rift, buildings teetering on edge, river filling crevasse; long-term abandonment with roofs collapsed, walls fallen, overgrown moss.