Astral Ruins

Archivist's Excerpt from: Curious Landscapes & Their Quite Commonplace Explanations, Vol. III, CVI 42.4

For a structure remembered with such a mythic name (given by one Alvin Esker of Harchester), the ruins are really not much to pen home about. A continuation of the rest of the Expanse Ruins across the Southern Plains, this lot extends into the rather nasty bit of land known to the Galó as The Shift. The curious thing about the ruins themselves is that, unlike the surrounding landscape, they do not seem to move, and so might have been better named the "Shiftless Ruins," but no.

This particular section of the ruins exists mostly as a region of tunnels or buried sections of buildings, though it is unclear if these were always underground, especially considering the nature of The Shift. The other curious thing, as likewise discovered by Alvin Esker and reason for their namesake, is the arrangement of this particular set of ruins, which seem to follow exactly the pattern of the Constellation Draco, and it was this fact alone that allowed both himself and Hana Sóholdt to transverse the ruins (and unbeknownst to him, followed by Ellery Hartchild), and it was the absconding of his map of the ruins on the part of High Priestess of Jalós, Tevir, that allowed Jalóheim to likewise transverse the ruins on their way to Orphan Heights, even amid the Great Initiative, but more on that later.