Hello once again, this time not a Manshoon question! 🙂
What can you reveal about the city walls and wall towers of Arabal- size/dimensions/use/number of floors etc.
Many thanks as always GG 1) Arabal (Tar Arabal) is a wayside hamlet in Murghôm that lacks walls or towers. I’m thinking you mean Arabel, in northeastern Cormyr. ;}
And the answer to that is: it depends on WHEN we’re speaking of.
So here we go…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018
2) “Right now” in the Realms, in the 1490s DR, the towers are six levels above ground, and two levels below (the underground levels being “set back” so as to be under the streets that run around the inside of the wall, not under the walls themselves, and connected to upper…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018
3) …levels via interior ramps connecting with the ground floors of the towers).
The walls themselves are solid stone, and are braced with interior “flying buttresses” to civic-owned (but rented out, or used to house Crown/civic workers) buildings at regular intervals. …— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018
4) The walls have a walk along their flat tops, with drainage spouts draining outside (that can be used to pour or spray harmful liquids down on besiegers), and crenelated ramparts on both exterior and interior edges (merlons 6 feet high, crenels 2 feet high).
An onager and a …— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018
5) …ballista are located atop each tower, under sloped wooden roofs, and can be dragged along the wall-walks to be “dogged down” with ropes at any point for stability, and fire from where they’re so sited. A single trebuchet is sited “half down in” every tower-top, for maximum
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018
6/last)…stability.
Back in the 1300s, the walls were five levels/storeys/stories high, and the only trebuchets in Arabel were on the ground, by the army barracks, and operated from there, never atop walls or towers.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 7, 2018