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A while back, I posted a post regarding two inconsistencies in Disenchantment. Most likely these inconsistencies were unintentional, but if they weren't, I have a few theories.

First, is the world in Disenchantment round or flat? Here's my theoretical answer: It's definitely round. We know this because it's visible from space as Alva leaves in Chapter L: Goodbye Bean. However, even the most learned people in countries like Dreamland or Maru assume it's flat, while the more advanced Steamlanders know it's round. The loon that Jerry says said the world was round wasn't really a loon; the people of Maru assumed he was crazy because his assumptions contradicted theirs.

But what about the Edge of the World? Well, my theory is that it's not really an edge, it's just a really tall cliff. But because no one has returned from falling since no one can survive that fall, people assumed it's the literal edge of the world.

Lastly, what about Odval's globe? What's a round globe doing in a society of flat-earthers? My assumption is that it's a lost item from Steamland or another country where people know the world is round. Odval must have found it. Presumably nobody knew what it was supposed to be, or else everyone, including Odval's boyfriend Sorcerio who said that he didn't know what the world and round had to do with one another, would be quite confused. Though there is one final caveat: In Chapter XXIII: Beanie Get Your Gun, Miss Moonpence says "Sometimes it takes a woman to pick up the man's world and run with it". So she seems to know what a globe is, but why? I don't know.

Speaking of Miss Moonpence, I also have zero clue as to how, when, or why she became a pig. It must have happened during parts 3, 4, or 5, far away from where all the action was taking place, since she's definitely a human in the last two chapters of part 2.

And that is all! What did you think? Mention your theories or expand upon mine in the comments!

Disenchantment can't seem to make up its mind about whether the world is round or flat. Chapter VIII: The Limits of Immortality and Chapter XXVII: Bad Moon Rising both feature the Edge of the World, suggesting that the world is flat. Also, in Chapter XI: The Disenchantress, Jerry points to a portrait and says, "This loon thought the world was round". And in Chapter XIX: The Electric Princess, after Sky says, "science makes the world go round", Sorcerio replies, "What the world and round have to do with one another I'll never know". Both of these point to the majority of characters knowing the world to be flat.

However, a globe seen in Odval's chamber in many episodes, is round. A globe, which is meant to depict the world, which up until here we've discussed is flat, is round. And after Alva leaves the world in a rocketship in Chapter L: Goodbye Bean, one can see that the planet he leaves is round, not flat.

Also, let's talk about Miss Moonpence. She's always seen hiding behind Odval's walls, and the thing we see most often is her eye. In Chapter L: Goodbye Bean, she finally has a face reveal, revealing her to be a pig, however, this contradicts Chapter XIX: The Electric Princess and Chapter XX: Tiabeanie Falls, which show her having a human ear and human hand. Maybe she was turned into a pig somehow in the thirty chapters that follow, but there was no way to explicitly show that as Miss Moonpence's face is always concealed.

Since in Disenchantment the world is in fact flat and has an edge, then how come the globe in Odval's chamber is round? Intentional or mistake?