The Standing Stones of Cinnabar are an arrangement of several large red amber stones located in the Southern Desert.
These stones are well known as where Brigid (or, according to the Dragon-Blooded, Mela) the First Sorcerer took the Fourth Trial, the Station of Fear. They are made of the same material as Fern's Castestone.
Studies with the stones are a notorious "waste of time" to most scholars. A few large, mysterious rocks are all that exist, and only the words of the White Treatise imply any sort of significance to the place. They are in a rather nice, sunny place, however, and frequently gather less serious scholars who are more interested in a nice secluded vacation spot. However, the essence flows of the winds and the light through the stones do provide strange information at times, though in a language than none can comprehend well. Saychel Herek has been studying the ruins lately, and has come to the startling conclusion that Mela had ties to Anathema. The "blasphemous" truth that only Fern knows makes this particularly ironic.
Later, during Fern's Station of Sacrifice, our heroes discovered that a portal to Malfeas had appeared here and Saychel had been dragged(?) through. Oddly enough, the site was now a potent Solar demesne. It has yet to be capped.