Great Battlement

The Great Battlement is the name for the defences immediately outside Um'taran's Great Gate. They are a rough rectangle of iron-skirted walls standing at almost three hundred feet in height. Between each set of saw-toothed guard towers is a gate, which is meant to slow down the attacking force. They have only ever been breached twice: during the Battle of the Darkness, and in 4175 by the Host of Man.