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The Busyl Causeway

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An abandoned imperial military road driven into the Ihtaa Fens between 1277 and 1281 AZN, and the site of Revakgol's worst defeat of the war.

Character

The surviving stretch runs about a third of the way into the belt before it disappears. The far section, past the ambush point, was fired and sank; in dry years the stone core surfaces as a line of humps with no road between them.

Legacy

Zegtuzsos guides still use the visible stretch as a landmark and refuse to walk its length. Imperial engineering schools teach the causeway as the founding failure of the discipline - every rule about escort intervals and section-holding on military road comes from what happened here.

Overview

A raised roadbed of stone core and fascine shoulder, built to carry the Grand Army across the Ihtaa Fens in a single season. Four years of construction. Eleven days of use.

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Raw JSON
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  "aliases": [
    "The Long Fault"
  ],
  "content": {
    "character": "The surviving stretch runs about a third of the way into the belt before it disappears. The far section, past the ambush point, was fired and sank; in dry years the stone core surfaces as a line of humps with no road between them.",
    "legacy": "Zegtuzsos guides still use the visible stretch as a landmark and refuse to walk its length. Imperial engineering schools teach the causeway as the founding failure of the discipline - every rule about escort intervals and section-holding on military road comes from what happened here.",
    "overview": "A raised roadbed of stone core and fascine shoulder, built to carry the Grand Army across the Ihtaa Fens in a single season. Four years of construction. Eleven days of use."
  },
  "id": "locations.busyl_causeway",
  "meta": {
    "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. Construction start date 1277 is inferred, not derived from canon.",
    "status": "proposed"
  },
  "name": "The Busyl Causeway",
  "native": null,
  "relations": {
    "located_in": [
      "The Ihtaa Fens"
    ]
  },
  "sources": {},
  "subtype": "construction",
  "summary": "An abandoned imperial military road driven into the Ihtaa Fens between 1277 and 1281 AZN, and the site of Revakgol\u0027s worst defeat of the war.",
  "tags": [
    "great_wyrm_war"
  ],
  "timeline": {
    "year_end_AZN": 1281,
    "year_end_MV": 5881,
    "year_start_AZN": 1277,
    "year_start_MV": 5877
  },
  "type": "location"
}