| Category | Ruins |
| Continent | Brucrumus |
| Region | High Wood Country |
| Founded | 27 Temporal 551 |
| Map | Taurelin |
Amanwen was a breathtaking metropolis composed of emerald-hued crystals, verdant and amber-toned marbles, interspersed with a network of canals and a dozen diminutive islets. The Angrod meticulously ensured that the city's architectural design seamlessly integrated with the encompassing valley.
The city once bustled with over 20,000 wood elves and other fey beings. In 1515, the Gorum Horde swept into the valley, driven by a thirst for blood. Many elves attempted to flee into the highlands, but were assailed by wings of hundars, native to the Khultamir mires, led by four hellfire wyrms. Only a handful survived the exodus from the Quendirion valley. The Gorum Horde slaughtered the majority of the city's population. The hellfire wyrms despoiled the city with desecrate and unhallow spells. The Jara left the place in ruins, returning to the Tribe Steppes. The hellfire wyrms made the ruins their lair, but were exterminated a few years later when the wood elves returned in force.
A cloud of dust rose over the horizon, darkening with each passing hour, as thunder rolled from the plains, the thunderous beat of ten thousand hooves galloping. The horde of jara swept through the frontier outposts, trampling livestock, women, children, and the aged as if they were nothing more than grass. The elves blanketed the skies with arrows, their song in flight like a swarm of bees. Hundreds of the marauders fell under the barrage of missiles. The massive half-horse, half-humanoid invaders were an ugly, bestial race. Their hairy, heavily muscled legs were scarred from riding through briars, thickets, and the wounds of many battles. The jara's breasts, arms, and faces were tattooed with spiders, hawks, dragons, snakes, and other predatory beasts. The thick, misshapen heads were set with piercing black eyes and bushy eyebrows. Some had their scraggy hair in topknots or braids, while the chiefs were bald with a tattoo of a web and spiders. The horde wielded the cruelest of weapons: serrated, saw-tooth swords; spiked bucklers; chains; Jara Bows; and lances with pennons representing their tribes - Blood Bringer, Hawk Screech, Vulture Marrow, Bone Grinder, Entrail Eaters, and an untold number of other evil names. The slaughter they brought spared no living creature in their path. A few of us, lucky enough to hide in the reeds of a river, were spared the grisly fate of the fallen.
Leekal the Bowyer, of Amanwen - "The Final Day of Amanwen"