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The Discworld is a flat planet carried on the backs of four giant elephants - Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen - which in turn stand upon the pock-marked shell of the star turtle Great A'Tuin. It exists right on the edge of Reality, and as such 'the least little thing can break through from the other side'.

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  • The Discworld
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  • The Discworld is a flat planet carried on the backs of four giant elephants - Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen - which in turn stand upon the pock-marked shell of the star turtle Great A'Tuin. It exists right on the edge of Reality, and as such 'the least little thing can break through from the other side'.
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  • The Discworld is a flat planet carried on the backs of four giant elephants - Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen - which in turn stand upon the pock-marked shell of the star turtle Great A'Tuin. It exists right on the edge of Reality, and as such 'the least little thing can break through from the other side'. The Disc is about ten thousand miles across (as proved by Ephebian philosopher Expletius). It;s about thirty miles thick at the Rim, but increasingly thicker near the centre (the Hub), maybe to hold an internal layer of molten rock, enabling the Disc's continental plates to move. How the molten state would be maintained is one of the two great mysteries of the Disc; the other would be how come, even though all the water on the planet is constantly falling off the Rim as the Rimfall, it is always replaced. One theory is that it's all done by Magic - vast amounts of the magical metal Octiron under pressure. This would explain the heat and the Discworld's vast magical field.
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