Deepgate

Deepgate is the first landmark to have been built entirely by the orcs upon emerging onto the surface. It is built on top of an entrance to the Darklands from which they emerged. The orcs urgently raised rudimentary defences against the progressing dwarves behind them. As time went on, Deepgate became one of the largest structures to house and protect orcs on the Surface of Golarion.

Purpose / Function

Deepgate was built to provide safe harbour to the orcs from both the unfamiliar environment of the surface and threats from behind them in the Darklands. As the orcs became more used to the environment on the surface, they focused on guarding the Darkland's entrance behind them. The fort's location in the Kodakar Sky Islands shields it already fairly well from surface attacks.
Though the dwarves found other tunnels to access the surface from, threats that were dragged upwards behind the dwarves in the Quest For Sky remain in the Nar-Voth tunnels.

Architecture

The fort is built out of wood from the surrounding forest of rosewood trees. The trees produced a hard and sturdy wood which the orcs found ideal for building with. The fort is built in two concentric octogonal palisades. One closely surrounding the entrance to the tunnels, oriented towards it with spikes and watchposts to keep constant guard. The second is much larger and is oriented towards the outside but without spikes. Combined, the walls offer a safe space in between them where the first orcs to emerge could be safe.

Alterations

The fort was originally built as ramshackle defences, an assemblages of thorny bushes and wooden barricades. After each consecutives victories in fighting the dwarves, the defences were upgraded until Deepgate as it stands now, in its two concentric octogonal walls took shape.
As more orcs arrived upon the surface however, Deepgate was unable to house and provide for too large a population, leading to the formation of the first seed clans which left in search of resources.
Deepgate's outer wall was then extended in order to accomodate permanent inhabitants, with the line of the former wall in the soil being turned into a drainage system to as the accumulation of rainwater made the ground sometimes too unstable to support further structures added on top of it.
In modern day, Deepgate is only a fort, inhabited by orcish guards who watch the cave entrance at all times of the day or night, with the main population living in a camp further up in the mountains.

Type

Fort