Eliaz ul-Turan

Vacationing on the Sea of Suola and looking for something “fun and culture-y” to do?

Excerpted from The Record’s Definitive Tourism Guide:

“Nearly five thousand years since its foundation—and just over 2,300 years after its final abandonment—the remains of the ancient city of Makan Alabar remain one of the premier archaeological attractions in the region. The city’s enormous walls are plainly visible from four of The Record’s twenty-five most opulent beach resorts in the world, and with the appropriate permission documentation from the Kasmariq government, visitors can explore dozens of miles of impeccably laid out streets, get within touching distance of the crumbling yet magnificent architecture of ageless palaces and temples, and walk down several reasonably-safe flights of stairs into what is left of the fabled Market, in its time the center of economic and cultural exchange for three different continents—and see what is currently the oldest surviving example of the written word in our planet’s fascinating history: the “Eliaz ul-Turan” graffito carved into an archway that leads to one of the famous tunnels that historians and archaeologists presume would have been completely full of vendors every Market Day for centuries during the city’s heyday…”

The Thousand Faces of Elias Thorne

(…what? He said they didn’t all have to be good!)