One Piece 174

[Assertn]

Originally posted by: Augury
When Shandra was pushed into the sky by the knock-up stream not all of it made it above the cloud's top, so Robin has been able to discover the center of the city beneath (inside? )the cloud. Robin pretty much figured out what the city's layout used to be by reading those ruins and then saw that she was only looking at the top pieces of the city structure.

Here's the inconistency, however...
Unless the city was built in a hardcore-defined valley or something, then most of the city being below the cloud surface would imply that most of the island surface would be below the cloud surface as well, however that doesn't seem to be the case.

[anphorus]

I assumed it was just that the island was broken when being shot up into the knock-up stream, with the piece which had Shandra on it sinking to a lower level.

[Augury]

Originally posted by: AssertnFailure
Here's the inconistency, however...
Unless the city was built in a hardcore-defined valley or something, then most of the city being below the cloud surface would imply that most of the island surface would be below the cloud surface as well, however that doesn't seem to be the case.

It does seem inconsistent, but there could be explanations. For example, perhaps the island isn't completely level or that it was pushed up to varying elevations like anphorus speculates. Or, since the growth of Jaya after being boosted into the sky is highly unnatural - the animals and trees are huge - the surroundings could've have "grown up" beyond where the city lay. The city, which is made of nonliving material, seems to have retained its original size.

All in all I don't think it is important to logically place the details. The episode shows Robin digging downward into cloud so that means that the city is simply there beneath the clouds at that spot. It seems to have been done it this way to present a hidden, glorified city for Robin to discover to lend more significance to the natives' struggle.

[dragonrage]

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