User blog comment:The Devil's Advocate WP/The Historical Geography of Remnant Part 2/@comment-24891101-20140821013958

Good job, once again. Once again, I agree with most of this, though I think I disagree on the timeline of the Moon Incident: while it is tempting to point at "Die and "Gold", though the first is compelling, but for a handful of things: the very name of the world, Remnant, and the opening narration. Simple inertia suggests that the name of the world would not change, so that there had to be a compelling reason to name the world such. If we dismiss the alien human version of the short timeline hypothesis, similarly reject the forgotten golden age because the CoG predate humanity, we are left with short metaphysical, long natural, and long metaphysical, and in any of these, there must be a reason to call the world Remnant; in the latter two, we could have a Toba-like event, in which case there's folklore of nearly going extinct, which may have been the back-to-the-wall prior to Dust, and in the first, I've no real idea. None of this addresses the moon, though, which is the most obvious thing that might contribute to the name. Another thing relevant to the moon issue is the still-present fragments; there are two options: Either Monty is using the rule of cool, and succumbing to the scifi trope of dense asteroid fields, or he's not, in which case there's an upper limit on the age, before it'd pulverized; I'm not an astrophysicist, dunno how long it'd take. This is all rather disorganized, sorry; hope you can make sense of it. I had never considered the notion of a recent moon destruction, and so I'm a bit resistant.

And we still have these, and how they fit together: a forgotten past, byproducts, the Creatures of Grimm, and the moon.

A few other points: If Atlas is the industrial power of the world, then most of the waste heat would be vented locally. And if that continent is Mantle, then that suggests the possibility of geothermal, side effects of which may include earthquakes and possible vulcanism, leading to melting of the glaciers. Not to mention a greenhouse effect from the world's power generation in general. Speaking of vulcanism, you suggested it for the White Dragon; perhaps it plays into the disappearence of the missing northen continent: possibly a supervolcano?