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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 6318884" data-attributes="member: 50895">Indeed, as Jester states. There are ruins in Mexico that have been there for hundreds of years, in some cases, its not until satellite imagery can identify the shapes of pyramids under the jungle canopy. Even when standing right next to it, heavy layers of vines, roots, leafy ground cover make it look like a hill, so that locals don't even know its there - yet it is.There are sites like Skara Brae, in the Orkney islands north of Scotland, a neolithic village that was buried under bog, sand dunes and grass, not until a storm surge washed the soil away was it even known that such a neolithic site existed at all. Since your site is further inland than along a sea, a series of storms could have flooded and nearby rivers jumped the banks and deposited tons of soil and detritus completely covering an entire ruined site. No evidence remains, unless you dig down several feet of top soil to find it.Also the guy who first mapped the found ruined location may have been poorly skilled as a surveyor or cartographer, and the map is simply wrong, not known by its original creator, such that the actual location of the ruins is miles off where it's stated to be on that map.Any subsequent legends of evil or haunted woods has kept the bulk of humanity out of the area the ruins inhabit. Some may have even heard there's ruins there, but the taboo of going there keeps most sane people away.Of course, as you suggest perhaps the ruined site is within close proximity to a fey protected site, thus fey magic hides the area of the ruins through illusion magic. In the end, there are many mundane reasons why lost ruins are lost, you don't need magic to hide it, nature can do that by itself, just fine.</blockquote>

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