Ruins of the Ten Spire Circle - The Great Beyond, What is this?

[jakolol]

Reading through The Great Beyond, on page 33 there is a map of the Boneyard, it lists as number 8 on the map "Ruins of the Ten Spire Circle" but there is no other reference in the book, or that i can find on the Net, that explains what the Ten Spire Circle or what their ruins might be. can anyone shed any light on this
Edit: also just realized a number of the landmarks noted on this map have nothing written about them, did the author just lose interest?

[Gorbacz]

No, Paizo frequently drops a location on the map without elaborating upon it, so that:

a) the GM can use it for whatever purpose she or he chooses
b) the writers can come back to the location at a later time

[Duiker]

What Gorbacz said. You can also try asking on the Ask James Jacobs thread, because James will often give a couple sentences of additional insight into a place or thing even if they haven't expanded it. Or he'll say "dunno, didn't write that one".

[Todd Stewart]

jakolol wrote:

Reading through The Great Beyond, on page 33 there is a map of the Boneyard, it lists as number 8 on the map "Ruins of the Ten Spire Circle" but there is no other reference in the book, or that i can find on the Net, that explains what the Ten Spire Circle or what their ruins might be. can anyone shed any light on this

Edit: also just realized a number of the landmarks noted on this map have nothing written about them, did the author just lose interest?

As the author of 'The Great Beyond', let me provide an answer. The author never loses interest, but the author has a word limit.

If I only included items on the maps of each plane that I had space to elaborate upon, those maps would have maybe two or three names of places included. I like to include additional locations to both allow GMs to elaborate on their own if a particular name sparks their interest, and also to provide either myself or other authors things to elaborate upon in future books.

A number of locations on those maps in the Great Beyond I went out of my way to talk about in subsequent books that covered the planes (such as Book of the Damned 3, the protean ecology AP article, and even just additional name drops and bits of detail here or there for places like Gamisemni in the Maelstrom in four other books, and the demiplane the Prison of the Laughing Fiend showed up in detail in 'Classic Treasures Revisited' for instance.

For some of those places I did write material on them which was cut for space, while others I may have additional ideas in mind should I ever be blessed to revisit the planes in the future, and some are simply random names dropped in to fill out a map. More of the first two than the last for that book.

Now of course even if I did have material cut for space on a given location or I have ideas in my mind, it's best if I don't elaborate further since I want to avoid the creation of any sort of pseudo-canon where I as the author of a subject create non-print lore that might conflict with subsequent work by other freelancers or Paizo staff who go a different direction on a topic. You can't really have any special snowflake topics in shared world writing. :)