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Originally Posted by dcarson
Walls were often not uniform all the way through. I can see a outer layers of baked brick to avoid water damage, thicker layers of sun dried bricks for stability and then fill the middle with packed earth and rubble.
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That does sound like many ancient walls.
If possible, I would like to avoid packed earth and rubble, largely because that seems like it would produce walls that were very thick at the base compared to the top. At the time the original walls were built, aesthetic considerations were very important and displaying their late TL1/early TL2 architectural mastery would have been more important than economy.
Also, for dramatic reasons, I'd like it to be possible to cause a catastrophic collapse of a section of the wall by turning some of stone at the base to mud, disintegrating another 10' by 10' part at the base and then hammering it with magical stones and explosive magical projectiles for a few hours. Packed earth and rubble is inconveniently stable, compared to a brick or stone wall that has had its base compromised.