Taormun

Ancient Wonder: the Black Walls Taormun is a series of cities built within the ten-mile base of one of the destroyed Thousand Towers, now just a ten-mile wide circle of two-hundred foot high adamantine obsidian.  The broken tops of the walls are topped by sheer surfaces and jagged, razor sharp edges, making the walls virtually unable to be climbed.  The circuit of walls is about five hundred feet high on the eastern side.  In only one place (on the southern side) is there a large break which comes close to the ground.   Modern Wonder: the Ramps of Taormun The older city of Tamarantica was originally built at the southern end of the Black Walls.  Two colossal earthen ramps provide access over the Black Walls, which are around three hundred feet high at most points.  The first ramp was built over the wall on the southern side.  The second ramp was built from a ridge on the western side of the city.  These ramps made the interior of the Black Walls accessible, and allowed the construction of the great city.   For hundreds of years it was the majestic capital of the Taorminite empire, before being recently captured and put under the control of the Eliomandrine Empire.  The Eliomandrines divided the city up into twelve sections, giving each section to a different clan (the Oshiondari).  Its population is currently less than half of that of the city in its heyday, meaning that much of the city is empty of inhabitants.     It contains expansive parks, lakes, groves and orchards among majestic buildings and upper-class dwellings. The entire city is supplied with water by seventeen huge aqueducts, which enter the city through the eastern ramp, and are drained through a great sewer which exits the city through the southern ramp (the only place where the wall contains a cleft down to about fifty feet).     The city was supplied with trade by a great canal from the River Rilin, which approaches the city from the West and ends to the South, where the older city of Tamarantica is located.