"It's not exactly easy. Imagine trying to learn a new language when all the examples you have are half a children's book, a religious text, and a pamphlet about cheese."
-Researcher Orin, expert in Precursor history
The Precursors are a mysterious race that vanished thousands of years ago. Nothing is yet known about how they disappeared, or why.
No one knows what exactly the Precursors looked like, as all depictions of them have them encased in some sort of form-fitting suit of armor. All of these suits seem to be nearly identical, with minor differences in height and build. It is believed that they either have some way of telling each other apart, or the armor is somehow ceremonial or formal.
The architecture left behind by this strange race appears to be uniform, all Precursor sites showing the same white marble-esque stone building material. The design philosophy appears to favor high, sweeping arches and elegant construction.
Nothing is yet known about government, food, religion, or most aspects of daily life.
One common trinket has been dubbed a "Prayer Token," a small and intricately carved coin-sized piece of metal. The metal used seems to vary, and no two tokens are exactly the same. There have been instances of them containing small amounts of magic, but those that found and picked up "active" tokens found them to have lost their magic an indeterminate amount of time later. Some report feeling an odd sense of luck shortly after finding one.
There are a few intact sites scattered across Feredas that are well-known. There is Odin's Gate in the Far North, a gigantic immovable door covering a mountainside. There is a small temple atop Folly's Reach in Harithma, so named because of the combination of inhospitable conditions and absence of intact artifacts. There is Hellfire Arena in the Harithman Valley, which is designed to allow the arena conditions to be changed quite easily. The University in Istio has perhaps the strangest ruins, a long line of nearly intact statues all along the southern coast of the island, each one depicting what seems to be a warrior at attention. Lastly, there is a large ruin on the small island in the south of the Dune Kingdom accessible via Rae-Felu, though little is known since the Pharaoh has expressly forbidden entry without his permission.