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The place where souls who have escaped the cycle of reincarnation and attained moksha go according to the cosmology of Jainism. Svarga: The abode of the devas in Hinduism. Tripura: three cities or fortresses, is described in Hindu mythology as being constructed by the great Asura architect Mayasura Thuvaraiyam Pathi
The Sunless Citadel * The Forge of Fury * The Speaker in Dreams * The Standing Stone * Heart of Nightfang Spire * Deep Horizon * Lord of the Iron Fortress * Bastion of Broken Souls The Sunless Citadel is an adventure module for the 3rd edition of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game .
Nimrod Fortress. The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod Castle (Arabic: قلعة الصبيبة Qal'at al-Subeiba, "Castle of the Large Cliff", later Qal'at Namrud, "Nimrod's Castle"; Hebrew: מבצר נמרוד, Mivtzar Nimrod, "Nimrod's Fortress") is a castle built by the Ayyubids and greatly enlarged by the Mamluks, situated on the southern slopes of Mount Hermon, on a ridge rising about 800 m (2600 ...
Anor Londo has been cited by critics as one of the best and most memorable areas in the Dark Souls games for its beautiful design, environmental storytelling, and, in the first game, its final boss battle against the duo of Ornstein and Smough; the area's high difficulty in the original Dark Souls, most notably said boss fight and a climbing ...
Khirbet Qeiyafa (Arabic: خِرْبَة قِيَافَة, romanized: Khirbat Qiyāfa), also known as Elah Fortress and in Hebrew as Horbat Qayafa (Hebrew: חוֹרְבָת קַייָאפַה), [1] is the site of an ancient fortress city overlooking the Valley of Elah and dated to the first half of the 10th century BCE.
Tel Arad (Hebrew: תל ערד) or Tell 'Arad (Arabic: تل عراد, romanized: Tall ʿArād) is an archaeological tell, or mound, located west of the Dead Sea, about 10 kilometres (6 miles) west of the modern Israeli city of Arad in an area surrounded by mountain ridges which is known as the Arad Plain.
The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed [1] [2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.
The site then known as "Contellet Garaiyeh", was identified in 1869 by Edward Henry Palmer as "Gypsaria" on the Tabula Peutingeriana: "Our own route, however, from Contellet Garaiyeh to the ruins in Lussan, was, as may be seen from the map, within a mile or so of the distance between Gypsaria and Lysa; and our discovery at the first-mentioned place of the remains of an ancient fort, renders ...