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The Busyl Causeway
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.
Relations
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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"
}