(Area Overview) Ruins Town

[The Phantom God]

Ruins Town is the closest thing to an economic center in the madou world, featuring many things that would be considered more urban relative to the surrounding world such as museums, inns, stores, and restaurants. It is also home to a large stone tower known as a flying squirrel station. These are analogous to modern airports, with incredible feats of technology (for the time) in the form of hydraulic elevators taking travelers to the top where they can pay a small fee to rent a giant flying squirrel that will take them wherever they please. Unlike most places in the madou world Ruins Town also has sett roads, roads made out of stone sculpted into brick-like shapes, as opposed to the dirt roads that the overwhelming majority of the rest of the madou world uses.

Ruins Town is named as such because of a set of ancient ruins very close to the southern border of the town. These ruins are the remains of an ancient monster kingdom ruled by the supposedly evil elephant king Zoh Daimaoh. They are also a tourist attraction, with shops selling souvenirs and even the occasional relic back in town. In spite of this, the ruins themselves are actually extremely dangerous. While the ground floor is somewhat safe, if not perilously dilapidated to the point of potential collapse, the hostile undead lurk just underneath and don't take kindly to visitors. These can range from disfigured zombies to mummies--supposedly even to the elephant king himself, as it is said that the ruins now serve as his tomb. Few would dare to venture inside, for fear that they might never find their way back out. To the west, a very long river flows through the region. This gives Ruins Town immediate access to local fishing and makes boat travel between it and several other areas, such as Wolf Town, plausible.