 Later scientific discovery of the geological forces of plate tectonics have since precluded the possibility of an island continent ever having existed where he (and Plato) put it, regardless of the rate of destruction, rendering de Camp's gradualism as obsolete as Howard's catastrophism.The Pusadian stories consist of the novel "The Tritonian Ring", set early in the course both of Pusad's foundering and the discovery of iron and its inimical effect on magic, and seven short stories that take place some generations later.The protagonist of "The Tritonian Ring" is Prince Vakar of Lorsk, the predominant nation of Pusad, who undertakes a quest to save his land from the anger of the gods that takes him through much of the then-known world.