Bronze Bridge (Toborr)

The Bronze Bridge, also called the Long Bridge, is the longest bridge in the world, connecting the island city of Toborr with the mainland. It is 384 metres in length, consisting of 26 arches with a maximum arch height of 18 metres. The two widest spans allow even the largest ships to pass through to enter the ports of Toborr and Vailinn.

The modern bridge was completed in 821 ME. There were several previous bridges: a wooden pontoon bridge constructed in the decades after the conquest, and two more permanent bridges, one of brick and the later of stone. Both of these had wooden drawbridges in the centre, both for security and because contemporary construction technology was unable to bridge the gap.

The stone bridge was lined with bronze statues of soldiers in various martial poses, said to scare away foreign invaders by thinking the bridge is clustered with warriors. According to legend the builders of the brick bridge created statues of the Prophet and his disciples, but these were heretical and the bridge was destroyed by the Goddess in a powerful flood. This story is almost certainly apocryphal. In reality the bridge was built in the lower water levels of the Little Ice Age, its foundations being eroded and destroyed around 800 MEplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigModern Epoch (ME)

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The modern bridge is still called the Bronze Bridge, despite there being no statues.