Fort Temarch

Fort Temarch, also known as the Temarch Pass Fortress is one of five large fortress structures built in the Sereskalen Mountains between the countries of Kingdom of Adraus and Drausk to help defend Adraus from invasion or attack.   Fort Temarch was part of a series of construction projects back in the early 1840s to help revitalize the defense of the country and the military. Though construction began in the 1840s, the actual foundation of the fort was not set into the ground until the 1870s. Over the 30 year timeframe, the project had met numerous issues with the soil and rocks, as well as avalanches and rockslides. Previous forts also had to be either reequiped with new equipment as standards changed and some even moved as rivers moved and formed around the forts.   By the time Fort Temarch was offically under construction, the initial designs had been changed over five times and was now going off of the newest 1877 designs. However, in 1884, the Desh Interregnum War began and materials and resources were drawn from the construction of Fort Temarch to help bolster the active military in case Adraus or Azora became involved. Two years later, Adraus entered into the conflict and the fort's construction was halted yet again.   The fort "officially" opened in 1891, though it was not considered complete as much of the underground portions were still being dug and the connections to the other forts via a stone roadway or series of defensive walls had been completely scrapped in exchange for isolated forts. As other forts were built up, the new Fort Temarch had to be revitalized again in 1895 with the newest military technologies, gas-lighting, etc. to keep it up to standards. However, its isolated location on the desolate and harsh "Temarch Pass" made the goal of getting supplies to it difficult. As such, by 1897, the fort, while mondern and technologically advanced, only has a rare skeleton crew of people manning it and enough supplies to with a siege for only a few weeks.   The Fort is still, however, being built with new underground tunnels, wiring, and other materials constantly being shipped to keep the fort going.