 It was also slowly degenerating as the power of magic dwindled in the face of an early flowering of iron-working, with meteoric iron being the bane of magic.Simultaneously, over the course of centuries, Pusad was slowly sinking into the sea.De Camp wrote his first Pusadian tales under the influence of the scientific theory of geological gradualism which then held sway, which led him to reject the possibility of the island continent disappearing in a sudden cataclysm, as related by Plato.