The party spent a bit of time examining the first few pillars, for clues, but swiftly gave up when none of them could decipher the runes. It would take a couple of hours, moving slowly through the forest of stone pillars, before they spotted when looked like a massive staircase, leading up into the side of the valley, about where the directions had told them to look.<br/><br/>Despite the low fog hanging over the valley, Devaguea made out a figure near the base of these stairs; a hulking behemoth, though he couldn't get a clear look at it.