The scaffolding came down on the fourteenth day of spring in Year 280.
The removal was phased — taking down four hundred scaffolding towers was itself a project requiring careful sequencing, because Thalveris had designed the scaffold removal to be as methodical as the wall's construction, and because the Fortress God was constitutionally incapable of allowing anything he was responsible for to be done carelessly. The removal took six days. At the start of the sixth day, the last timber came down, the last rope was coiled, and the new central section of the Ashwall stood in the morning light on its own for the first time.
