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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
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It's intentional. Makes attackers that breach the wall run further and not in a straight line going from door to door for breaching. It's unknown how effective it really was but it was fairly common in is time.
Probably some bullshit excuse to cover up a fuck up which then turned into a trend because of a lie
I mean possibly. I'm also reciting information i watched on the history channel back when it actually had cool history stuff on it. So, a couple years ago.