Candar Line

The Candar Line is a defensive military line established in the seventh century by Duscador as a pre-emptive measure against offensive operations from the Empire of Sevicia in the northeast. It was established along a line of towns and defensible village networks across a distance of more than 400 kilometres. At its greatest extent, it reached as far west as the Duchy of Grace and the Middle Kingdoms and as far east as the coast, not far from the Sevician city of Janna. The Candar Line was the brainchild of Duscadorian Presidian Gorigo Marca, who saw Duscador's naturally defensible terrain as the perfect foil to future Sevician invasions.
Original plans were made for a defensive line against Sevicia in early 655, and work soon was underway on bolstering the road networks between local towns along the proposed Candar Line route. More than a hundred temporary forts and military installations were built over a four-year period between 657 and 661, with the majority concentrated along an eighty-mile strip of land south of the city of Candar proper. Though it was first put into use as a proof of concept in the Four Month War in early 660, the line was not fully completed for a further five years; work was completed by Marca's successor, Hanno III.
Though little more than a series of interconnected towns and villages linked by a number of roads and highways, the Candar Line nevertheless provides a valuable first line of defence against possible invasions. In the War of Four Houses, the westernmost point of the Candar Line was used as the site of all Duscadorian military operations in the region, and the pre-established network of interconnecting roads proved critical for the war effort. While originally devised as a defensive line in the event of a foreign invasion, it has been used on two occasions as a staging point for Duscadorian offensive campaigns, in both the second and third Duscadorian-Sevician Wars. 
The Line was breached in the third war when Sevician forces under the command of Trys Osman defeated a Duscadorian army at Brenner's Ford, resulting in the collapse of operations in the easternmost region of the line. The resulting treaties of Candar and Hobury, which annexed a significant portion of land south of Candar, pushed the Candar Line back even further, though it still plays a valuable strategic role in Duscadorian military operations.
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