The Ruins of Sarnath

The site of a city that annihilated an older settlement for the crime of being strange to look at, and was itself annihilated exactly one thousand years later by whatever the older settlement left behind. The idol taken as war trophy was recovered from the ruins; the city that took it was not.

Whereabouts: The shore of a still lake in the land of Mnar, where a wonder of the ancient world stood for a millennium before its inhabitants vanished in a single night.

Access: By the same routes that once led camel-trains and pilgrims to Sarnath in its prime; travelers today find marshland, broken stone, and little reason to linger.