The City at the Gates

The City at the Gates © Neil Gower

The City at the Gates is so named because it lies at the gates of Osrakum. It is built on land reclaimed from the Gatemarsh - a shallow bowl holding a lake from which the city and its causeways rise. At the heart of the city is the great market of the Wheel - that is the meeting place of the great raised roads that come here from the rim of the Guarded Land. It is from the Wheel the Canyon of the Three Gates leads into the crater of Osrakum...