The Great Clock Monolithic Stone Circle

Holy Places: Kronos' Great Clock Monolithic Stone Circle by Stone Gargoyle

The Great Clock is a circle of monolithic standing stones assembled on an area near the coastline on the southwest side of Ophid's Grasslands. Many of the smaller stones and a few of the larger ones have been removed, looted by orcs and other creatures. It is thought to date back to the Age of Light, and many suspect it was built by dwarves living in the area at that time. No one knows why it was actually built, but over time it has been associated with Kronos due to its ability to accurately measure the seasons (midsummer, midwinter and eclipses of the sun) and hours by use of the shadows made by the structure, and suspected to once have been a temple. Some legends have it being built by Kronos himself after the Age of Chaos.
The outer circle consisted of fifty-six sarsen stones, some weighing thirty tons. Inside this was a circle of sixty blue stones which are believed to have originated in the Land of the Damned. Inside this was a horseshoe of stones, divided into pairs with lintils joining them at the top, with four station stones standing at the corners of the center square, a stone slab serving as a floor of it, with a large block of stone sitting in the very center of the square which is refered to as the Throne of Kronos. Surrounding the outer ring of stones is a ditch about five feet deep, with a path leading to the coastline, suggesting the stones were moved by water before being assembled here. It is the largest of the stone circles in Palladium, but there are known to be at least 300 smaller circles in various regions of Palladium.