It was known as Ragnarok; a relic from thousands of years ago, before the age of man.
The celestial winds sent ripples across the surface of a thin layer of water that spanned the once dusty floor of this gladiatorial arena of the ancients. This magnificent building was roughly elliptical in shape, measuring by estimation a hundred and eighty metres wide and a hundred and fifty six in diameter.
One couldn't help but marvel at the architecture.The building stood on a base of two marble steps; above it there were three floors of arcades and even a fourth storey without arches but with small rectangular windows. There were eighty arches on every floor, divided by pillars with a half column of purest white.
The order of the ground floor half columns was one never seen before - divided by flat composite lesenes in place of the half-columns of the lower arcades, with a rectangular window every second panel. A series of bronze shields was affixed all around the attic on the panels between the windows.
All around the sandy arena floor there was a wall called podium, about ten feet high, whose scanty remains did not allow for a precise reconstruction. During fights, one can imagine the arena covered with yellow sand taken from the surrounding hills.
