Place of Skulls

Place of Skulls GEOGRAPHY, RELIGION AND BELIEF — An area of ritualistic magic. An area of ritualistic magic, often involving bleeding, sacrifice, or sex acts, a Place of Skulls is found in the heart of a → low place and features a great amount of skulls, both animal and human, as well as other bones. A stream or other source of natural water often penetrates its center. If no such water source exists, a cistern or other reservoir, whether natural or artificial, will be close at hand. A Place of Skulls will also include a large, flat stone altar, known as a → cyth and typically surrounded by water, with runes and → lynthian carvings covering its surfaces. Most such places have been abandoned and reclaimed by the land and any low forces that still exist there, since the Places of Skulls were largely used among the → dumas only. The cyth were used as a platform for sexual and sacrificial rituals, their carvings on top designed to collect the blood and fluids of the sacrifice. In the lynthian tongue, the Place of Skulls is called → Dun-twille.