“If you ask me, life is all about whom you know and what you can find. When you live up in the Riftshadow Ruins, just finding food can be dangerous. So you need to cut corners, you need to scrounge; you need to know your strong points. Some of the beasts up there can destroy you, so you need a way to ambush the weak and avoid the strong. On the positive aspect, the ruins have history, and history is valuable to some people. There used to be a palace there, where they had all these dark sacraments. Ghastly stuff. If you continue to exist after the ceremony, they would shatter a crystal and split your soul into pieces. They made grand art though! Sculptures and such. Let me tell you: sometimes you stumble onto some of those old carvings. Take a pack full of those to town and sell them, then get yourself food for a few weeks. If luck is really on your side, you might find a Riftshadow crystal. Get it assessed and start asking around.