Audira: Defenses

Once surrounded by a wooden palisade, the adobe city is rebuilding the wall farther out to allow needed living space and using imported stone and mortar to create a stronger barrier. The wall is not for preventing invasion as evidenced by the numerous cutouts and open spaces. Rather, it is to filter the desert winds and prevent a sandstorm from decimating homes built in the newly opened space that flirts so closely to the edge of the harsh desert.

If an invasion force did manage to get across the desert or (more likely) march up the coast, the Audirans could simply flee into the deep desert, as many have experience with this and almost every family in the amshat has kin in the Abt. The aqueducts offer another route to leave by and the ships in dock yet a third. So, while there are many town guards as part of the bmiiar's miiarahmt , there is no standing army. Someone attacking Audira whether from land or sea would find the goods and the peoples of the city slipped away like sands in an hourglass, much like what happened in 1373.