Sacred and mystical sites

The characters, drawn from Mongolian history and mythology, are full of fascinating gods, champions, and monsters. The game’s mystical and sacred locations alone, all of them factual, are amazing: the Mogao Caves, known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas; Uureg Lake, where you should never bathe, rumored home of a prehistoric lake monster; the twin sacred mountains of Bogd Khan and Burkhun Khaldun, the ancient link between Mongolia and Heaven; the ever-moving Eight White Yurts of the nomadic Darkhads; the Burial Mounds of Noin-Ula, where two-thousand-year-old corpses have been discovered intact, along with textiles depicting the epic cycles of Xiongnu; and the Whistling Dunes of Dalad Banner, where the sands cry like a bugle or ring like a bell.