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[Chiramu]

Thedas isn't even the whole world. It's more like the "known-world" like when people thought England was the centre of the universe.

[Medhia_Nox]

I wonder when that tired old myth of people thinking the world was flat in the middle ages will die?

It is integral to modern progressivist thought... you cannot be superior to your ancestors and thereby promote careless advancement - without developing a dogma that promotes the lies of the primitive ancient.  

[Qis]

Maybe Thedas is like this...? lol

 

[Beerfish]

Thedas is flat, burn all the heretics!

[Giantdeathrobot]

I wonder when that tired old myth of people thinking the world was flat in the middle ages will die?

 

About at the same time as the myths that the Spartans were invincible warrior gods (they lost almost half of their battles), that during the Rennaissance everyone was an Italian genius (witch burnings? those started during this era), and that Nazi Germany, for all its harshness, was a highly efficient state (it was a corrupt mess kept together by slave labor, fanatism and pillaging of ressources).

[Medhia_Nox]

Maybe Thedas is like this...? lol

 

I think a fantasy world built on that premise could be amazing.

[JosieRevisited]

A concave earth is an "inside-out" cosmological rapresentation of the Earth.

This picture may help to understand:

 

 

 

The fade/black city are "inside" the "egg", the nations of thedas are in the inner side of the "shell", sorrounded by the stone/deep roads, and after that, the wellspring... which seems to be a sort of endless sky.

 

This might explain

- the absence of a proper, endless sky on the surface (see the rift)

- the eluvian system, the elven roads/library/crossroads

- the "real" sky of the wellspring (the descent)

- the legend of the buried sun

 

what do you think?

 

Reminds me of the Death Gate Cycle. As I recall, there was something similar that happened as a result of the Sartans sundering the world. 

[Beerfish]

No matter what it is probably in a snow globe.

[Dancing_Dolphin]

No matter what it is probably in a snow globe.

So the Maker is just a person with a really awesome snow globe collection.

[Qis]

I think a fantasy world built on that premise could be amazing.

 

Actually, there is....and it is based on Hindu mythology and some European fantasy stuff

 

https://en.wikipedia...#Great_A.27Tuin

https://en.wikipedia...ki/World_Turtle

[DuskWanderer]

I doubt it. The planet rotates on an axis and has gravity the same way the real world does. So I doubt it can't be anything but spherical. 

[Aulis Vaara]

Yes like in middle ages earth was flat.

Common misconception. People have known since at least the ancient Greeks that the earth was round AND they knew it's circumference to surprising accuracy.

[Almostfaceman]

No. It's a virtual reality construct created by the reapers. They sent souls there as a social experiment.

 

[Qis]

What is Thedas? Control. Thedas is a dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change all beings into this.

 

[Aren]

Maybe Thedas is like this...? lol

 

Oh a titan! The pillar of the earth!

[Secret Rare]

It is integral to modern progressivist thought... you cannot be superior to your ancestors and thereby promote careless advancement - without developing a dogma that promotes the lies of the primitive ancient.  

Oh god!,it's seem how Dragon age seem to work

 the embodiment of Solas thought

[ModernAcademic]

For all the smart people out there making fun of his theory, do tell us then: why are there clouds deep underground, in the Titan's wellspring, as well as an intense light? 

 

I want to read your marvellous theories.

[Aulis Vaara]

For all the smart people out there making fun of his theory, do tell us then: why are there clouds deep underground, in the Titan's wellspring, as well as an intense light?

I want to read your marvellous theories.

Fog illuminated by lyrium.

[ModernAcademic]

Fog illuminated by lyrium.

 

It could be, I guess. But lyrium has a very faint, blueish light, no? It's like neon light, while the light we see in the wellspring is bright, natural light.

 

The wellspring looked anything but an underground location. If anything, if you look at the ceiling and then at the clouds below, you'll see it resembles an upturned land, with the ground above and the sky below.

[Aulis Vaara]

It could be, I guess. But lyrium has a very faint, blueish light, no? It's like neon light, while the light we see in the wellspring is bright, natural light.

The wellspring looked anything but an underground location. If anything, if you look at the ceiling and then at the clouds below, you'll see it resembles an upturned land, with the ground above and the sky below.

Look, on a concave earth there is no day-night cycle, no colder North and south poles. Every region is illuminated equally, all the time. There would be no horizon, and you would be able to see a significant chunk of the world. You would also fall into the sky, because gravity does not magically invert because you want it to.

Simplest explanation makes sense, concave earth does not.

[Rampy]

 gravity does not magically invert because you want it to.

 

Why not? Thedas is a magical land, after all.

[ModernAcademic]

Here we are, debating what is the shape of Thedas when we don't even know what lies beyond the Amaranthine Ocean...

[Ashagar]

Well there's land that mysterious the people from across sea who are spying everywhere are likely from, also likely the lands of the Kossith who drove the Qunari into exile and the ancient human homelands likely also lie in the lands beyond the oceans around Thadas.

[vertigomez]

Really all we know of Thedas is that it's Fantasy Europe with a side of desert, jungle, and Mesoamerican pyramids. If the Fex haven't been retconned, there's at least one sapient race that we haven't even been introduced to yet, nevermind the Scaled Ones and whatever the Kossith are/were/used to be.

I hope Josephine sails beyond the Amaranthine ocean like she says she wants to do. I wanna know what the rest of the map looks like, even if it's some ipsy-dipsy upside down turtle planet.

[Aulis Vaara]

Why not? Thedas is a magical land, after all.

Because stars would become impossible constructs in such a situation. In fact, gravity would push the planet apart, assuming there is no infinite earth in all directions. Then there's the problem of what is generating the anti-gravitational field.

Not to mention you can't imprison something "within the earth" when that is really "outside of the earth", for one, that entity would be more free than you are.