Ashes and Ruin

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Ashes noun - The portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed.

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Ruin and ashes are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruin" instead a noun "Ashes".

Ruin noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

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Ashes and ruin are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ashes" instead a noun "Ruin".

Nearby Words: ruined, ruination, ruinous, ruining, ruinously

What differentiates it from other nukes is that instead of simply laying everything in the blast radius to ashes and ruin, it creates a massive twisting forest in its wake.

Source: Fantastic Nuke
Dragon Age: Origins has a few, one being a stronghold built to protect the Urn of Sacred Ashes, and one being a not-fully-explained Tevinter ruin in the depths of the Brecilian Forest that changed hands a few times long before the players arrived.

Source: Temple of Doom

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