Dragonsback Ruins – Austin Bunton Designs

There are only two “ruins” in Inisfree, and this is the one in the Military / Search & Rescue Training Area.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction
Dimensions & Layout
Special Features
Planned Location (Images Begin)
Set Location
Overall Appearance of the Mountain Range
Literally a Dragon’s Back
2021 Update

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Introduction:

Nestled atop the ridge-line of the mountain range separating Inisfree’s higher military-training plateau from some of the civilian-occupied regions of the city… is this area of buildings designed to look like ruins. It gets its name from a sandy craggy mountain ridge right behind the Marine barracks at one of the remote military bases I (Auz) trained –and trained other Marines– at… south of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert.

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Dimensions & Layout:

Covering many thousands of square feet, it is difficult to tell where these ruins begin and end; their borders are perfectly blended in with the surrounding terrain of the ridge-line. There are dozens of medium-sized structural remains here, hundreds of small ones, and thousands of tiny, stand-alone ones, such as obelisks and other markers. Overall, the series of ‘ruined’ buildings in this complex look like the weathered remains of a giant dragon’s vertebrae.

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Special Features:

If you study these “ruins” as a whole, you will eventually notice that they are fashioned into (or out of/from) what looks to be a gigantic/Titan-sized dragon skeleton. This is a reminder that many such ancient people chose to turn their physical bodies into what became our modern landforms (and some lakes or rivers). You’ll see things like this in Utah‘s badlands, among other places, so take a look… and question (…and see if any of them ‘speak’ to you; through visions meant just for you).

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Planned Location:

The mountain range in these map-sections is the one on the lower of Inisfree’s two desert plateaus. It was where the label/name “Dragonsback” first was. This has since been changed; Dragons’-back is now the name of the mountain range on the upper of these two plateaus.

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Set Location:

The Mountain Ranges webpage says the India Temple is on Dragon’s-back,
but the original city-map has the Lower Plateau ridge labeled as Dragon’s-back,
and there was no label for the upper desert-plateau’s mountain range.
Having this temple on the Lower Plateau ridge would have been too close to the explosions of our military training / shooting/impact ranges, so we chose to build this temple instead on the upper desert-plateau’s mountain-range; Dragon’s-back.

While either of those plateau’s mountain ranges could be fashioned/3D-printed to look like the spikes along the back of a long-dead dragon, the upper plateau’s, we think, is more in the shape of the whole back of a dragon, not just its spikes or spine. The lower plateau’s looks plenty like a giant dragon’s spine, but without the back. Since “back” is part of the name of one of these two mountain ranges, we chose to call the range on the upper plateau, which is wider -like a full back of an animal- by that name.

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Overall Appearance of the Mountain Range: