Hector's Gate

At 150 meters high, made of a strange metal, the Gate is impenetrable to all forces tested against it. The dwarves gave up in frustration after years of study, the elves despise it as an unnatural blight on the beauty of the world, only the Humans embraced it as their refuge, and from it their site of rebellion.

No one knows who built it for sure, the dragons and elves both say it existed before them, however the Cult of Hector has an interesting view. They believe it was placed there by their deity as a place of refuge from the outside, a place of peace leading to the "Golden Valley"

The high priests of Hector maintain that in the beginning Hector set aside a place for his flock, wide and plentiful, beautiful and as safe as they made it. The priests claim that this gate was set so that his flock might have a place of refuge against any would be attackers, and that the valley is his gift to them.

Hector's Gate is no longer just a gate, in the First Age a large metropolis sprung up on the valley side. Having been abandoned by the dwarves and loathed by the elves, and being too much trouble to surmount for the average dragon, the humans decided to make this the first site of a unified Human civilization. Hector's Gate became a spawling cityscape with villages throughout the golden valley. For decades it was the most successful Human kingdom, but the thirst of man knows no bounds. In 2A-300 the Emperor Rizarira (rise-a-rear-a) decided to wage war on the elves to the south to claim their forests as his own. This was the first time the Human had shown military might, taking the forests from the elves who lived there. This kicked off the Human Rebellion which culminated with the Signing of the Great Treaty, ending the first age.

The city grew up with the gates as the primary defense with the mountains providing all of the other cover they could ask for. Now run by the Church of Hector, the city commands the loyalty of the villages surrounding as well as Port Freedom.