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An oft overlooked feature of the God-War Era is its impact on the Plane’s geography and how that geography can provide historians a glimpse into its past. Historians and geologists use a number of strategies and tools to extrapolate historical data about the Plane’s geography: stars, strata layers, weathering patterns, and more can tell historians a great deal about the history of an area.
Formation & Early Development
The earliest known information on the Plane’s geography is sourced from the First Epoch Star, published by the Gods of Life and Death as they created the Plane alongside the Gods of Matter, Energy, Time, and Space. According to various translations of the star by astronomers, the Plane was originally created as an infinitely flat expanse of solid rock. This instantaneous creation was followed by a rapid heating, since infinite matter exists below the Plane but not above gravitational forces compressed the Plane, heating and melting its insides rapidly. Many kilometers below the surface the Plane remains molten, this is referred to as the mantle.
The outwards pull of gravity would begin to break apart the crust which sat atop the mantle, this process would create separate distinctively shaped tectonic plates which ‘float’ on top of the mantle and are moved both by gravity and the movement of the liquid mantle. This is the tectonics model of the Plane. During the time of the war tectonic activity was considerably quicker than it is in the present day—possibly by millions of times—this is backed up by various translations of the Harmonic Treaty which imply the slowing of tectonic processes, but is also observed by geologists through the formative patterns of ancient phenomena like mountains and rifts.
By this time the Plane remained relatively flat, its topology deformed only at the divides and collisions of its tectonic plates. It would be during the Dying Period—from 177 BT to 160 BT—that continental crusts would form. The corpses of approximately 11 million Gods would accumulate at the central pole, forming a singular continent, Pangaea. Tectonic forces would push this supercontinent apart over the course of the war, becoming the world we are familiar with today.