There's not actually a lot of things that you can like, vastly screw up when you're levelling up your character. Spending the ruins on certain attributes is the one thing that you can actually, like, almost permanently screw up for your character. So i'd strongly recommend, if you're playing a caster, for example, just focus on intelligence and your hit points. Most places that have a name have something to gain from it - whether that is a seed to help you increase the health that you can use over your game,. Maybe it has like a dungeon if you like sea ruins, anywhere separate from runs. A, if you see ruins, there is often a stairwell going into