Four Cliffs and Five Walls of Chalcamahos (building)
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The city of Chalcamahos, or Khalkama to the Wardenites, is built atop a massive series of earthworks of unknown provenance, perched one atop the other in four concentric rings. All told the footprint of the odd looking mountain is some fifteen kilometers in diameter, with each cliff exactly five meters in height. Even stranger, the peak features three fairly bountiful springs which flow even during time of drought - the product of an ancient and powerful magic whose origin is just as mysterious as the clearly artificial cliffs. Regardless, these factors combined with the fertile ground upon which the city is located have turned it into a veritable garden, protected from hostile armies by its formidable natural defenses. The Garden City as it is becoming known has truly reached the zenith of its development, with buildings packed next to orchards and farms crowding every available space on the terraces. Extensive excavation has revealed the ground upon which the city was built is honeycombed with brick tunnels of unknown provenance which extend into the lightless depths far beneath the earth. The full extent of the chambers have yet to be mapped, but already they are being used as long-term storage - despite rumors of adventurous investigators disappearing in the immense subterranean maze of corridors.