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solinent
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Would you build a castle with a back-door?
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fatbird
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Actually, castles almost always had back doors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postern
solinent
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Almost always? Source for that? Very interesting, I guess during a siege there's a tradeoff there. If your postern is on the other side of a mountain range, then definitely it's not so bad.
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