Simple rock formation and erosion could accomplish the same thing, though it would be rare. The Masques novel (written before the Thran and by a different author) hints that Phyrexians may have made it that way (the whole thing is hollow, after all).
Though Volrath suggests that physical laws may be different on the plane, Mercadia's Unplottability was never revealed as a physical reality. It might just be a matter of faulty perception and poor architecture.
Continuity Guy 1: This marketplace-city should be somewhere really memorable. I mean, we just left Rath, with all the flowstone and the Furnace and the Death Pits and the Stronghold and all that, so we need something neat here too.
Continuity Guy 2: Why not have it on top of a mountain?
Continuity Guy 1: I said memorable!
Continuity Guy 2: An... upside... down... mountain?
Continuity Guy 1: Genius!
Janitor (overhearing): Uh, besides being geologically improbable and structurally unsound, isn't a hard-to-access point like that the WORST place to put a major trading hub?
Continuity Guy 1: And the cats on this plane will have SIX LEGS!
if you read the thran it mentions that dyfed leaves the goblins and the senators on top of that mountain, with no way down right away, it would only make sense that a city developed there as the people left there found ways to survive, since theres not much point in finding a way down and building a city else where if everything you need is right on top of the mountain, keep in mind there wasn't always a massive city up there
as for how it can stand being an inverted mountain..well its said again and again that different planes have different properties, its mentioned in quite a few of the books, what makes sense on one plane, arguably including this one, may not make sense on another, just look at pyrulea
First, it was never even implied in the Mercadian Masques novel that the Phyrexians created the mountain..
By "made it that way" I mean Phyrexians may have carved it into that shape. In a passage from the book Volrath thinks of how he's shaped the mountain (figuratively) while he's playing with his shapeshifting powers. Indirect and highly suggestive, but it's a hint. If it was done before his time the locals wouldn't have to remember, considering how distorted their history has become.
Second, in the Thran novel a planeswalker visits Mercadia and the inverted mountain is there, though with no one living on it yet.
Which is why I mentioned that the Masques novel was written before it. Remember who The Thran's author is. The Masques writer may not have intended the mountain's shape to have been so ancient.
By "made it that way" I mean Phyrexians may have carved it into that shape. In a passage from the book Volrath thinks of how he's shaped the mountain (figuratively) while he's playing with his shapeshifting powers. Indirect and highly suggestive, but it's a hint. If it was done before his time the locals wouldn't have to remember, considering how distorted their history has become.
Which is why I mentioned that the Masques novel was written before it. Remember who The Thran's author is. The Masques writer may not have intended the mountain's shape to have been so ancient.
even if the masques novel was written before the thran it was never directly stated in the novel that it was created that way through any kind of phyrexian science, therefore what was stated in the thran has to be true, regardless of when the novel was written
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Though Volrath suggests that physical laws may be different on the plane, Mercadia's Unplottability was never revealed as a physical reality. It might just be a matter of faulty perception and poor architecture.
Continuity Guy 1: This marketplace-city should be somewhere really memorable. I mean, we just left Rath, with all the flowstone and the Furnace and the Death Pits and the Stronghold and all that, so we need something neat here too.
Continuity Guy 2: Why not have it on top of a mountain?
Continuity Guy 1: I said memorable!
Continuity Guy 2: An... upside... down... mountain?
Continuity Guy 1: Genius!
Janitor (overhearing): Uh, besides being geologically improbable and structurally unsound, isn't a hard-to-access point like that the WORST place to put a major trading hub?
Continuity Guy 1: And the cats on this plane will have SIX LEGS!
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as for how it can stand being an inverted mountain..well its said again and again that different planes have different properties, its mentioned in quite a few of the books, what makes sense on one plane, arguably including this one, may not make sense on another, just look at pyrulea
By "made it that way" I mean Phyrexians may have carved it into that shape. In a passage from the book Volrath thinks of how he's shaped the mountain (figuratively) while he's playing with his shapeshifting powers. Indirect and highly suggestive, but it's a hint. If it was done before his time the locals wouldn't have to remember, considering how distorted their history has become.
Which is why I mentioned that the Masques novel was written before it. Remember who The Thran's author is. The Masques writer may not have intended the mountain's shape to have been so ancient.
even if the masques novel was written before the thran it was never directly stated in the novel that it was created that way through any kind of phyrexian science, therefore what was stated in the thran has to be true, regardless of when the novel was written