dark places::Many such stones lie fallen and halfburied across the rolling landscape, but enough still stand to trace the outline of a massive circle fully ten leagues across dark places

dark places::Many such stones lie fallen and halfburied across the rolling landscape, but enough still stand to trace the outline of a massive circle fully ten leagues across.
That many of the stones are worn smooth by time and exposure only hints at their vast age, as no tool forged by man or dwarf can mark their surface.
Despite this many of the stones still bear carvings of grimacing figures, hunched and threatening.
They refuse to take their herds within sight of the stones, as any animal straying into the forbidden region is abandoned, or even driven off should it attempt to return.