Abandoned Temple

The Abandoned Temple is a location to the north in the Emerald Forest, which holds the relics for the Beacon Academy Initiation.

Description
The Temple seems to mostly consist of the broken ruins of a rotunda. Three of the columns are broken and lying around the area in pieces. There are five stone columns still standing that hold up a circle of stones.

The floor of the structure bears a symmetrical design. Behind the Temple there are additional ruins, consisting of a long stone pillar lined walkway leading to a steeple in a chasm.

Relics
The relics stored at the temple for the two-person teams to collect are personally chosen by Ozpin. The relics are changed every year and in the year of Team RWBY's initiation, it contains gold and black chess pieces.

The First Step
Headmaster Ozpin first mentions the temple as the goal for the new students at Beacon Academy. He instructs them to head to the northern part of the forest to find an abandoned temple and each team will pick one of the relics as part of their initiation.

The Emerald Forest, Pt.2
Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are the first shown finding the temple, however missing relics prove they are not the first ones there. Once there, they find the relics, which are chess pieces and Yang decides on a golden knight piece, which Blake agrees to.

Players and Pieces
Eventually, Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Weiss Schnee, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Ruby Rose rendezvoused at the Abandoned Temple, where they recover their relic. They then flee from a Death Stalker and Nevermore into a steeple, where they engage and defeat the Grimm beasts.

Trivia

 * Despite Blake claiming that the temple wasn't hard to find, Ruby, Weiss, Jaune, and Pyrrha got lost on their way to it.
 * The temple seems to be a mix of the Oracles of ancient Greece and the Celtic stone ring monuments like iconic Stonehenge on the British Isles.
 * Monty based the design of the larger ruins on the smaller temple.
 * The ruins are the remains of the Humans that lived before the modern age in Remnant. The Humans likely built the city against a cliff and built bridges to keep themselves safe from the monsters that surrounded them.