Monoliths
Monoliths are the enormous ancient structures that still generate EthrA energy after the Ancients vanished. The world was shaped by that civilization. They combined technology and magic and prospered for generations. Then, centuries ago, for reasons no one can explain, they disappeared. What they left behind are ruins, unreadable symbols, strange machines, and the Monoliths. This page is the ruins file: who the Ancients were in official copy, what the structures still do, and why their symbols match the stone Bob and Veil walk through. There is no official continent map and no Monolith coordinate list. The colonnade chest and dungeon still are ruin atmosphere, not a named loot table or a pin on a missing continent map. Japanese Steam localizes Monoliths as モノリス and the Ancients as 古代人 if you are reading that storefront.
The Ancients mixed tech and magic, then vanished
Official store copy calls them simply the Ancients. They combined technology and magic. They prospered for generations. Then they vanished centuries ago. No official text names a king, a capital, or a last war. Kickstarter story copy overlaps that outline without filling the holes. This wiki therefore treats the Ancients as a vanished civilization with a visible leftover, not as a datamined faction with a roster.
What remains is material. Ruins. Unreadable symbols. Strange machines. Enormous Monoliths that continue to generate the energy people now call EthrA. The goblin colonnade still on this page is one outdoor reading of that leftover stone. The dungeon still is an interior reading. Neither image is labeled with a place name, so they stay captions, not map pins. Chests appear in the colonnade shot; that is loot-adjacent atmosphere, not a named dungeon chest table. No official text names a king, a capital, or a last war; the leftover is stone, symbols, machines, and running engines.
Monoliths still generate the energy
The Monoliths are not statues. They continuously generate EthrA and surround themselves with dense blue fog. Empty crystals can be charged near them. The symbols and patterns covering the structures match those found throughout ancient ruins, which is the official link between the engines and the Ancients. Researchers have tried for centuries to understand how the production works. The true purpose and the mechanisms keeping them active remain unknown.
That unknown is a player fact, not a cliffhanger the wiki has to solve. If you walk a fog field, you are walking a still-running machine. If you pick up a crystal, you are carrying condensed output. The hazard sits on Permanent Crystallization Syndrome: high concentrations crystallize tissue, amputation does not stop it, and no cure is known. The Monoliths are both the battery and the reason explorers get sick. Empty crystals charged at the structures are the human workaround for an energy they cannot touch raw.
Ruins Bob and Veil actually walk
Store travel copy says the pair explores a continent filled with ruins, towns, rumors, quests, and trouble. The ruins share symbols with the Monoliths. That is as close as official text comes to a dungeon thesis. There is no named continent. There is no list of which ruin is a tutorial. Combat fundamentals and exploration fundamentals are in the first Steam playtest, so ruin-walking is in scope for the prototype even while farming is not.
Use this page to read the Ancients and the engines before you chase stone on a ridge. Use Permanent Crystallization Syndrome for the fog and crystals. Use EthrA Playtest Sign-Up if you want the live build that actually lets you walk those spaces. The Kickstarter campaign repeats the vanished-civilization pitch; it does not add coordinates. Bob and Veil's travel copy already puts ruins, towns, rumors, and quests on the same continent as the Monoliths, which is why exploration fundamentals in the prototype matter here.
Kickstarter story overlap, still no map
Kickstarter story copy overlaps the store on the vanished civilization without naming a continent. That overlap is why this page cites both without merging them into a fan map. If a backer update later names a region, it can be added as a proper noun with a first-party URL. Until then, Monoliths stay a type of structure, not a pin.
The two-person studio context in TechTimes and official channels explains a lot of the missing atlas: they have not published one. Play the ruins in the combat-and-exploration prototype instead of waiting for a poster map. Japanese Steam localizes Monoliths as モノリス and the Ancients as 古代人, which are the official Japanese terms if you are reading that storefront. English copy keeps both names in Latin letters and ties the engines to the dense blue fog documented on the energy file. Play the ruins in the combat-and-exploration prototype instead of waiting for a poster map with named pins.
Matching symbols, no coordinates
The store says the symbols and patterns covering Monoliths match those found throughout ancient ruins. That is the link between outdoor engines and the dungeon still. It is not a cipher table and it is not a map. Unreadable symbols stay unreadable until StoneLab prints a reading.
Bob and Veil travel a continent of ruins, towns, rumors, and quests. Exploration fundamentals in the first playtest are how you actually walk that leftover stone. Combat fundamentals are how you deal with goblins in the colonnade still. Farming still waits.
