Damn this dam (double chapter again!)

"Now that I think about it, I wonder if this dam has anything to do with the starlight plain."

There was no realistic answer for how the civilization that still utilized swords to construct a massive river damn like that. 

The only explanation I initially came up with was how this damn used to be just a fraction of its size and whatever river it was supposed to stop simply dug the canyon in the mountain deeper than the foundations of the dam… 

A conjecture that I rejected a moment later, with nothing more but a simple observation. 

The location of the sluice gates simply disproved that possibility. 

On the side of the open plain, they started directly at ground level. It was on the side within the ravine where those massive tunnels within the dam would be above the ground… If not for one hell of a simple yet massive construction project that resulted in the fortifications the two forces were so desperately fighting for.