(Thanks to Locheil for the prompt and CatDragon for running GLoGtober this year)
Through the power of feng shui, warlords and pretenders have long sought to build new capitals in areas that are mystically unassailable. Attempts to storm them fail. Attempts to beseige them are stalled out. Obviously quite desirable.
By chance, the planned city of Rewokie is mystically indefensible. Any army, regardless of the size, can take the city. No stores and no walls (and indeed the City has its deep stores and high walls) suffice against any siege. Owing it its strategic position overlooking a river, to hold Rewokie in times of war is a military necessity. Historians count over a hundred battles fought in the fields around the city, for armies now battle to be the ones assailing it. "Holding Rewokie" is an idiom among the literate class for undertaking a task which is vital but easily disrupted.
The administration of Rewokie is often given to ambitious generals, distrusted second sons, and wizards. Perversely, by commonly receiving standout governors and avoiding battles or seiges, the population of Rewokie has grown at a steady pace and it has become an ever more vital resource in the war machines of the generals of the land. Its fate is uncertain, for it is now whispered that underground monster freaks are surfacing ever more in this fallen age, and much hateful work could they do in the vulnerable city of Rewokie, only to hustle away by night with all the plunder they can carry, without a care for the military "necessity" of holding Rewokie.
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| Hubert Robert's "Fire in Rome" |
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