This wide plateau is like a dumping ground, as if some mortuary god shook out a box of old obelisks and headstones into the dirt.
The grass has withered mostly to packed earth. Visibility is nil. No one path goes further than three or four yards before being interrupted by a tilted Doriccolumn or a sad mausoleum of sagging bricks. Somewhere, though, you hear the distinctive pop of a fire and the low tone of people talking.
Do describe how your character is moving - briskly walking or even running north towards Lady Grief? Or looking out for the Lancea Sanctum (and making the required roll for that?)