WONDERDRAGON

The monuments

The Dragoliths are colossal monuments of unknown stone that once stood at the centres of the great spiral cities of the Drakil during the Drakilian Spires. Their size is hidden within deep foundations, yet the material from which they were shaped has never been found elsewhere in Therasya. Despite centuries of study, their purpose and origin remain uncertain, and many Loreseekers have devoted their lives to unlocking secrets that still resist every known form of scholarship and magic.

A towering rune-carved monolith pulsing with faint light against a dark, scarred landscape
A Dragolith, a towering monolith of the Drakil age, its undecipherable script faintly aglow with a power that has not slept so much as waited (temporary art).

Loremaster theories

Three principal theories dominate the study of the Dragoliths. Rolek of Elden believed they were fragments of distant worlds that fell from the stars before or during the Drakilian Spires. Danik of Balgar argued that the Drakils built them to honour the Dragons, using Dragon magic granted through the Grimoires. Qiran of Oemon instead claimed that the Dragons themselves created the monuments for some greater arcane purpose that has yet to be understood. The marks and insignias left by these Loreseekers can still be found at many Drakilian ruins, guiding later explorers through sites that remain perilous and only partly mapped.

Locations

Known Dragoliths survive among the ruins of Da’alfang, Assandria, Izgard Mount, Spiral Summit, Natr-Loth, and Ghoros, the last of which now lies at the heart of Kinetika. Others are believed to remain buried beneath the Sea of Bitter Salt or concealed within the Haze Rifts. The Dragolith of Ghoros is the most familiar to modern scholars, standing near the Statue of the Great Planner and the Waterfalls of Erenor, yet even this widely observed monument has revealed almost nothing of its true nature.

Asha the Chronomancer