SPOILER Path to Darkness Ruins Speculation

(labelling this as a spoiler since it's near endgame, not a big part but eh)


So I've popped my head around the forums and I have yet to see anyone make a post about this so I thought I'd bring it up. 'It' being the ruins pictured below:



This is a ruin set into the eastern mountains nearby the Path to Darkness. Like most other curious ruins in the realm, they are inaccessible to players and I imagine will be of use later on in the game as updates come and go (or be removed).

What do people think this is? Feel free to speculate in the comments below I'm eager to get a conversation/imaginations going regarding this locked-off stonework.

Personally, what intrigues me is that (aside from Lutho) this is the only place in the SE with lit torches or some kind of fire burning in proximity to it. Which to me indicates that SOMETHING/SOMEONE has lit them recently. So the SE is not as silent as once thought? If so, who do we think could have lit them?

Other questions include:

• Why is it built into the side of the mountain from a development/narrative perspective?
• What kind of building is it meant to be? A temple? Home? Portal? Mine? Library? Gateway?
• Is something there as we all type furiously together?

 

fruma???????????

 

That would fit a potential 'Globe Wynn' theory if the west of Fruma would meet the east of the Silent Expanse. I wonder how they would get there and how this influences the history?

 

it's a joke


but maybe

 

Definitely think these shouldn’t be blocked off and could include a secret or something

 

I spent so long trying to find some way over to them, because I was sure there had to be something over there. It's a real pity there isn't.

 

I removed the barriers on these a few weeks ago. They're just decorative and serve no purpose

 

Uhh you sure about that? I just checked and they are still inaccessible. Or will the changes just come next time the map is pushed lol.

 

Next map push, goober. I said I did it only like a week or two ago

 

Makes sense