(urth) Wall of Nessus

[brunians at brunians.org]

Typhon - or whoever - was trying to mitigate global cataclysm.

Remember, in his mind, Typhon is doing good.

There is an old idea of global floods, that sea level would rise all over
the World at the same time.

There doesn't seem to be enough water for this, but back in the day the
idea was seriously proposed for a while.

So if this was what was happening, building a huge wall around a large
area might work for saving a significant proportion of the World's
population.

.

> On 6/10/2010 4:05 AM, Roy C. Lackey wrote:
>> Josh Caswell wrote:
>>> I wonder if anything can be taken from what we see with Baldanders
>>> (separate and together with) and the other giants of the sea.  Perhaps
>>> it
>> is
>>> an issue of growth, both of size and power; the walls may have once
>>> been
>>> thought to have been enough or maybe it was known that they were only a
>>> minor or more correctly temporary dissuasion to those from the sea.
>>
>> I had the same thought.<g>
>>
>> And an afterthought: Those long sections of the Wall down south, where
>> there
>> are no Ascians, makes more sense if the Wall was originally intended to
>> thwart another foe, perhaps one that came from the seas to either side
>> of
>> the continent.
>
> The Wall may have been built to hold back the sea itself; the gate
> tunnels are easily sealed and presumably big, heavy slabs concealed
> inside can be driven deep into the river's bed to close the river
> ingress and egress against the deep water pressure.
>
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