The Helepolis, or Taker of Cities, was a massive, movable siege tower designed by Flavius Severus. The Northern Horde used it in the Second Battle of Vanna to breach the outer wall of Vanna. The siege tower was destroyed during battle by an earth elemental which Azriel al-Zarar had unleashed.
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| - The Helepolis, or Taker of Cities, was a massive, movable siege tower designed by Flavius Severus. The Northern Horde used it in the Second Battle of Vanna to breach the outer wall of Vanna. The siege tower was destroyed during battle by an earth elemental which Azriel al-Zarar had unleashed.
- Helepolis (, English: "Taker of Cities") was an ancient siege engine invented by Polyidus of Thessaly and improved by Demetrius I of Macedon and Epimachus of Athens for the unsuccessful siege of Rhodes, based on an earlier, less massive design used against Salamis (305–304 BC). The name was derived from "ελείν πόλεις", meaning taking or capturing cities, not to be confused with Heliopolis (Heliou polis). Descriptions of it were written by Diodorus Siculus, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus. If their numbers are accurate, it was the largest and most powerful siege tower ever erected.
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| - The Helepolis, or Taker of Cities, was a massive, movable siege tower designed by Flavius Severus. The Northern Horde used it in the Second Battle of Vanna to breach the outer wall of Vanna. The siege tower was destroyed during battle by an earth elemental which Azriel al-Zarar had unleashed.
- Helepolis (, English: "Taker of Cities") was an ancient siege engine invented by Polyidus of Thessaly and improved by Demetrius I of Macedon and Epimachus of Athens for the unsuccessful siege of Rhodes, based on an earlier, less massive design used against Salamis (305–304 BC). The name was derived from "ελείν πόλεις", meaning taking or capturing cities, not to be confused with Heliopolis (Heliou polis). Descriptions of it were written by Diodorus Siculus, Vitruvius, Plutarch, and in the Athenaeus Mechanicus. If their numbers are accurate, it was the largest and most powerful siege tower ever erected.
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