The point of convergence for PCs should be at the ruins, but you don't have to get there immediately.
@Psyker Landshark@Zombehs@Asuras@Renny Your quest, essentially, began a day ago, in which you've spent in an airship. The airship dropped you off at the base of the mountains bordering Illiserev and Astopol, and from there, your characters would have essentially climbed over the mountains and gotten down in the forest below. Enough time has passed for you all to have introduced yourselves to each other, and thus far, there haven't been any combat encounters yet.
@SilverDawn@Skyswimsky@TheFake Perhaps sheltering in the ruins or something like that. Criminals gotta have a hideout to wait until shit cools down, after all.
The thought occurs to me that other than finding herself essentially idle, Lillet's interest in antiquity is probably spurred in part by her adopted sibling rivalry. Gotta find that ancient secret to give gods of war a new edge, and all that.
@Polaris North@Click This@Vega7285 They would definitely hear it, and would even feel the arcane prelude to its appearance, but being nine meters tall isn't enough to clear the trees, so they wouldn't see it unless a certain God of War was dropped.