Myrkentown Wall

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The grand wall around Myrkentown stands twenty-five feet tall, five feet thick at the top and considerably thicker at its base. The wall forms an unbroken defensive ring a half-mile across, encircling the town in a girdle of pale granite, formed as if carved from a single piece without mortar or join.

Twenty watchtowers are spaced along its perimeter between the three gatehouses, allowing passage at the north and south where the North Passage Down runs through town, and at the west to the wharves and jetties on the shore of Silver Lake. Cranes and winches are used to haul goods (and occasionally people) over the wall's eastern side. The gates themselves are of oaken timbers a foot thick, bound and reinforced and studded with iron; a postern in each gatehouse permits passage of foot travellers when the main gates are closed, which notices declare to be from dusk each day to dawn the following day.

The wall, its towers and gatehouses were constructed by arcane means on October 28th 207 AR in the course of a single night; these defences pose a formidable obstacle to those who would move against Myrkentown and its people.