Just looking at all the apparatus and features of a castle gives you a
pretty good idea of its purpose: moats, turrets, ramparts, murder holes,
gun and arrow loops, etc. Every single one of these design elements
was meant to keep enemies out and down. A few that stand out: murder
holes were holes in the ceiling through which scalding liquids would be
poured on the enemy. Gun and arrow loops were slits out of which arrows
could be fired from with little detection. It seemed foolish in any
context to even approach a castle without a written invitation
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