Centered

Centered was the name given to the crown city of the Marcon Alliance(not the capitol, that was located on Lake Bentika.

Construction

Construction of Centered began in around 1000 B.G.A. and took over 500 years. The goal was to create a single, massive, impenetrable, self-sustaining city, in which four million Marconians and eight million slaves could carry on the marconian way of life forever. Access in and out of the city was common, and tourists were welcome and treated with great hospitality. It was the Marconian's idea of a perfect city.

Layout

Centered was built in a round, teared, wheel-within-a-wheel-within-a-wheel-over a ton of slaves design, a design considered under Marconian ideology to be "perfect". The city included an extensive subterrance for the slaves; extensive tunnels, store rooms, workshiops, etc, that allowed them to serve the city above without being seen.

The outermost "wheel" was filled irrigated cropland, able to grow enough food for the city. This region also held rendezvous and water reclamation-system, allowing the population to be sustained by just what rainwater fell within it's falls.

The second wheel held the lower-class marcons. They lived in spacious houses and had some support from the slaves, and of course each family could own one slave. The lower-class more mostly artisans and craftsmen, tradesmen who worked with their hands, or as servants for the upper-class.

The third ring housed the uper-class. Lavish estates, beautiful temples, high-society shops and other trappings. A playground for the well-to-do.

The inner-most wheel contained a large palace and a mage-tower for visiting royalty. When the court came to Centered, they could enjoy all the pleasures of the captiol.

Defenses

The outermost wall was three hundred feet high, sloping, and four-hundred-feet thick at the base(200 at the top). Structures along the top housed over a hundred thousand soldiers and mages, and small mage towers were placed every few miles. The inner-wall defenses mirrored the outer, but was 350 feet high and only 200 thick. The additional height accounted for the greater elevation of each successive loop.

The walls, built of expertly-crafted stonework and fused together with fire magic, were designed to stop any conventional or magical attack. Indeed, there was no gate to the outer-wall; visitors arrived by air.