They were dressed in a mix between leather and plate armor, each had tower shield, a musket and a sword. They stood at attention like unbreakable spears.
The encampments at each level of the wall had canons, trebuchets, catapults and ballistas. In total the gate was manned by at least a few hundred men.
When they passed under the shadow of the gate, he noticed many portcullises lined into the roof of the wall. The gate itself was huge and allowed for hundreds of people to enter and exit easily without trouble.
If Ayemon didn't tell him that there are fifty such gates in Voryhrm then he would have assumed that this was the primary gate of the city.
The guards didn't stop the carriage from passing, in fact the gate was wide open. The carriage passed by the many, many buildings that littered the streets. The streets were all so wide twenty carriages could take the street without a problem.
