Fort Glamis

Built upon a slightly elevated stand of rock, the Wavir-controlled Fort Glamis guards the Balican plains from invaders out of the west. The ten foot thick walls were constructed using large blocks of pale stone, and are thirty feet high and protect a wide courtyard containing a half dozen buildings, including a small keep and barracks. Attached are the barracks, which typically hold about a hundred soldiers, are guest quarters that usually hold fifty laborers and merchants, but can hold five times that number if needed.

Raised ballistae and a pair of catapults allow for ranged attacks. A well with a broad roof in the courtyard supplies water for the fort's inhabitants. The sturdy gates are open during daylight hours and closed at night. Ramps lead up to the gates and these ramps can be pulled inside the fort to make assaulting the gates more difficult.

The original purpose for the construction of Fort Glamis was to protect nearby a silver mine and outlying patrician estates from bandits and hostile city-states. The mines' distance from Balic was a problem, one that the fort has, for the most part, solved. The mine still is workable after hundreds of years, though its productivity has waned, and the tunnels which the miners must descend are miles in length. The raw ore is hauled to a central processing facility near the city and is often stored inside Fort Glamis before being transported to Balic.

Just to the east of Fort Glamis is a line of rocky bluffs of black rock that mark the western end of the fertile area of the Balican Peninsula. The nearly mile-high bluffs are next to impossible to scale, and only a single road passes through them, making it, along with the fort, a powerful defense against invasion from the west.