[quote=@Crow]
A gate/fortress? Must be really big to cover the entire country. We're kind of meant to thread through wilderness after we step into the borders.
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I wasn't thinking that it covered the whole border, just the main road we were on. I figured it would make sense to guard the border since the two nations had been at war for so long. It's more like a checkpoint/outpost to check trade caravans or something.