Forum:Possible Trope: Dangerous Circular Geography

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I've been watching Fullmetal Alchemist, and got to the point where they finally showed the national map. The setting's country, Amestris, is very nearly circular. After reading the Valdemar Series, this set off alarm bells in my mind immediately. The FMA example is an example of a disaster yet to happen, and the Valdemar version is a pair of magical craters from the distant past. But both have the makings of disaster. Circles don't appear in natural geography, except, well, meteor impact craters, or volcanoes, or volcanic lakes.

But... I can only think of the two examples. Is this tropable? Vorticity (talk) 02:21, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Well, there is Big MT from Fallout: New Vegas, which is set in a mountain range (that was hollowed out into a circular crater like area), and practically every foot of that place is dangerous. GethN7 (talk) 04:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Heh. There's the map of the Jadiwan Continent from my early- to mid-1990s "Narth 2000" steampunk fantasy campaign. And yeah, not "natural" -- it's the aftermath of some event called "Devastor" that was so traumatic that the specifics of what it actually was got systematically wiped from mortal memory and records. Looney Toons (talk) 13:25, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
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