One sometimes wonders about the geology of Oz, considering that all the tallest mountains apparently have flat or bowl-shaped tops (not just the Yips' mountain, but also Mt. Munch and the mountain where the Flatheads and Skeezers live in Glinda. The thing is, the bowl-shaped top strongly suggests a volcano, and the flat top might be either volcanic or very, very worn down from erosion -- but either way, in any normal geological environment it's darned hard to build houses and villages smack on top of a mountain, not least because you've got to carry all the building materials up there. [Granted, magic might explain some of that, but none of the relevant populations seem to have had that much magic at their disposal....]
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Date: 2010-03-16 02:04 am (UTC)