1:40 As was pointed out in the comments, Mika's release duration should be "614 Days" instead of being the same as Eula. I forgot to change it, my bad xD 9:41ALSO got the date for version 1.4 wrong, my sleepy deprived ass was just dead at that point xD
btw mondstatds archon quest was a prologue chapter, meaning it never got a full archon quest. im betting my primogems and balls that we’re going back to mondstatd. venti is also mad suspicious
One friend started playing it after it finally released on Xbox and... Man, Venti told the traveler a lot of stuff that was way off from the actual reality of the game, and I don't think it was because devs didn't had a clear idea, we all know that they know how to foreshadow stuff when they want. So I agree here, I hope we go back to Mondstatd at some point because there's a lot to explore in there, like, there's still Fatuii in there when in the other regions their presence became marginal or non-existent after the arcon quest finished...
Probably. Mondstadt has an entrance to the abyss and dragon spine is quite important. Also, venti has 4 winds We only meet 2 of them, the dragon and the wolf. Also, the actual captain of the knights is still not home, and cause the current boss of the adventurers guild is supposed to be met in Mondstadt. Also Also, we are meant to enter Russia (can't spell this snas name) via mondstadts port.
what i only dislike about genshin is HOW MUCH they tease and mention something for SOOOOO long and when it actually releases the hype just feels so DRYYY
Honestly they do fine like 80% of the time when it comes to hype. But there's time where'd they either tease something for so long it sort of loses ground (How Dornman Port might be), or they just suddenly release something out of nowhere and people just weren't that enthusiastic about it (Emilie lmao)
In all facets as well. You have venti who might be hiding some weird shit, and then you have Klee who most would think to be harmless, but can probably level your house xD
watching new players (First Time Genshin CCs) has made me remember the joy of first playing the game, somehow Natlan does NOT give me that same joy. (the characters had more depth, like you know there's more to their backstory and you're curious to know about it, but a goofy shark-surfer and some random lisping DJ Smithy just seem so superficial) i've suddenly had the urge to play as Razor for exploring Natlan - just seems more immersive somehow.
Some other things that I find interesting that weren't mentioned or talked about enough imo in this video; • The Literal Goddess of time Istaroth, one of Phanes' (the Primordial One) 4 shining shades • Venti's second story quest • The Thousand Winds temple being originally the Thousand Winds of time temple serving to worship Istaroth (basically the whole western part of Mondstadt's map was worshipping Istaroth) • Benny's connection to Natlan and Mare Jivari specifically • Vanessa is low-key forgotten • Durin (the dead dragon in Dragonspine, created by Rhinedottir, etc.) slowly regenerating and reviving (which we know from Albedo when he told us in that one event) • The Dandelion sea • Venti's closer relation to Istaroth and Celestia • the other islands of Mondstadt (Mondstadt was originally a mountainous place like Liyue but Venti said "ehe me wanna flat world" and blew half of Mondstadt's entirety into the Dark sea, making the Haar Islands etc) • Golden Apple Archipelago/Haar Islands (sorry but I want them to be permanently on the map) • more story on Dragonspine and/or Albedo's and Alice's existence • Gold/Rhinedottir, Primordial Albedo and the Primordial Human project
Plus, now that we are in Natlan, they could link previous archon Murata with Venti somehow, and give us more story about her, since she was the archon back when Venessa was alive i think? Pretty sure she is mentioned in the manga
You don't really need Leaks to know they're releasing ANOTHER Liyue Character... cause each year, Mihoyo is gonna make sure there is a 4* Liyue Char you get for free in the yearly Lantern Rites
@@Tanayxx well we are in the nation of fire, so it makes sense to bring the forge, like how later year we where in the nation of water and Chenyun Vale was all about the tea
Gotta say it to be safe, lmao. Hoyocreators ain't much of a fan of people talkin bout leaks, plus I actually don't look at them anyway. Rather experience it fresh :P
@@GoatLiffy I mean, you don't need to look at leaks. Skins for Liyue characters and a new Liyue character happen every single year, while other nations get nothing get
"Mavuika? Ohh! You mean the one who competed with me in the Stadium of the Sacred Flame! Hahaha, you'd think an Archon could hold their liquor better than that! Uh... what? They said I got wasted first? No freaking way, not a chance! That day, I was... uh, hang on a sec, now why did I go see the Pyro Archon that day again...?" -Varka's response to Alice's question about the results of the "meeting" in Natlan, as he scratched his head in thought
What is even more odd is that Mondstadt's potential and general reputation among all players around the world is surprisingly good, even well enough to overshadow the serious design issue we are facing in Natlan. I have never seen someone say they genuinely dislike Mondstadt just because, or that there are any awful problems or bad taste left behind. The biggest problem is that Mondstadt was the very first region and, naturally, it looks so dull and lacks the new mechanics every other nation has as we speak. But from the Chinese to the American, there is a common thought that Mondstadt feels like a home. Heck, it was where an interesting number of people went back after suffering too much in Inazuma, claiming that Mondstadt's peacefulness reduces stress. And I can kind of see a pattern here, as an inexperienced storyteller myself. They know Mondstadt will be the breaking point, with so much emotional connection the player base has with Mondstadt and the chance to add a Welt Yang expo there (Joachim Nokianvirtanen aka Welt is very famous in both HI3rd and HI: Star Rail), then we have the ever-so-expected Grandmaster Varka, the witches, Diluc and his vendetta with the Fatui, Kaeya and his approaching doom, Albedo and Durin, Venti's suspicious status... There is just too much to unpack and while all of these are great hype materials and I would love to dive deeper into them, this is actually a *very* wrong move, here is why: Genshin Impact has a diverse community and it is a game that gets updated ever so often, it feeds from the players' attention and support. (And no, being f2p and still playing Genshin daily is not harmful to the company's interests. In fact, the player-base data helps Mihoyo get revenues and support from other investors. Where did the "boycotters" even get that idea?) Building up some anticipation is wonderful, using a few remarks here and there to keep the hype up is a great strategy many story-telling games use. But here's the twist, the greater the wait and hype is, the greater the expectancy is; naturally making the failure rate higher and the criticism more destructive. As a devoted Genshin Impact and Star Rail player myself, I am ashamed to admit that Mihoyo is horrible at staying loyal to the hype they build. Both the extremely long waiting time for Mondstadt and the overly crowded player base with far too many insights to add, Mihoyo is digging its own grave as we speak. They either have to come up with something extremely awesome, like a storyline and region building that can compete with Fontaine itself; or suffer the major criticism and dropping outs because of the expectancy-reality ratio. This is a major risk to take. And looking at Mihoyo's insistence on drowning Liyue with new content every single year and (naturally) having to work on newer countries, the wait for Mondstadt has to keep going. The expectancy-reality ratio will set up requirements that are far beyond their reach (not that they can't do it, they just don't do it for some reason) and too much waiting can actually ruin all this hype. Leaving something even worse behind: Very disinterested players and overly interested players, neither of them is easy to impress. Personally, I am kind of shocked that they let go of such an important nation that easily. Look at other Honkai games, the Germanic ethnicity (especially in HI3rd) is held quite dearly. I want to use the benefit of the doubt and assume Mihoyo thinks "diverting attention from Mondstadt" is a great (DEFINITELY NOT!) way to progress in the story. Until we come back and be like "OMG, what we have been looking for was here all along!" and then the plot thickens. That's a horrible idea, really. I want to be very hopeful, and I mean it. Mondstadt means the world to me, and I kid you not when I say Mondstadt saved my life once. It is such a precious place for me and so many people, it has a great story building so far but Mihoyo was and still is very awful at keeping Mondstadt updated. I want to be hopeful that they will manage to combine everything I mentioned (Grandmaster Varka, the witches, Diluc and his vendetta with the Fatui, Kaeya and his approaching doom, Albedo and Durin, Venti's suspicious status) in such perfect storytelling that everything will make sense by the end of it. I saw some comments mentioning that Mondstadt didn't even have an Archon quest but instead the "prologue" and this might indicate that the real quest will start once we are done with Snezhnaya. But looking at how much they messed up in Natlan and the rising hype for Snezhnaya and Khaenriah, I am *very* doubtful that Mihoyo will pay Mondstadt the attention it desperately needs. At least, this is what I perceive and think as an author and an inexperienced storyteller myself. Every word I say has my personal experiences in the storytelling and worldbuilding area, mixed with a lot of psychology and sociology studies too. I am open to discussing this further in the comments if I made a mistake or mistook a situation. Regardless of opinions, take care everyone!
Man, you're totally right. We have so many expectations that if HoYoverse doesn't so it right, well... I don't think it would end well. I say this as a fellow Mondstadt lover 🫂
i do recall them saying they "hv 10 years worth of potential content" once before, which if it were true, could mean they already hv a solid direction to the storyline of the entire game. and i think this is true because they put so much effort into integrating lore to every piece of item, book, character, and even npc dialogs, things that not only reveal the past, but also the future. if this is the case, we are only half way through the decade and theres only 2 regions left, we are bound to revisit some places eventually, and that is likely be mondstadt.
The funny part is how neglected Monstadt is in the main story and characters. Compared to other regions, it has the most updates with side content and endgame content because of Spiral Abyss, Imaginarium Theater, and Genius Invokation TCG. Monstandt literally updates every patch.
Grand master Varka was mentioned in official post for Mavuika today on x😍he said that he competed with Mavuika, so maybe we will see him with Dornman Port map expanson in some later 5.x updates
@@arthena2130 I would say with 6.0 they would want to switch focus onto Snezhnaya and so Mondstadt map expansion will be released at least two patches before 6.0 so 5.7 or earlier
i lowkey bet they're saving mondstadt content until like the end of genshin, mainly bc mondstadt is the og nation and hides the most mysterious lore that will uncover itself in the later patches of genshin's end
Mona and Sucrose are my favorite Genshin characters, so I feel Mondstadt's lack of proper content HARD. As much as I appreciate the concessional crumbs (and I did enjoy 3.5 Windblume), it really does feel like Mondstadt's presence in the overall plot has been forgotten in favor of just "hyping up" its plotlines. There's Venti likely being one of the most powerful Archons (based on Nahida's statement that an Archon's power is dependent on faith and he's the only Archon who is the center of an active RELIGION). There's the regions ties to the Hexenzirkle and how 3 apprentices/children of the Hexen are housed in its main city (Mona+Albedo+Klee). There's Albedo and how he may destroy Mondstadt (atleast 4.8 hinted a new Durin plot but I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.) There's Kaeya and his importance to Khaenri'ah. There's Diluc and he's vendetta against the Fatui. There's Varka, who has been hyped up for years and has had an encounter with Capitano. Anyone remember when Amber mentioned there's a Glider tournament that she's a champion off? Man wouldn't that be nice to compete in. All of these things have been mentioned or hyped up, but the pay off isn't here yet. And even though I am a Mondstaft fan, I just know that by the time they actually address one of these things, it won't live up to the hype or the fan theories. As a Mona fan, part of me wants Dornman Port because it may mean we get another Story Quest for Mona OR at least meet her family. On the other hand, a part of me wants to set my expectations very low. Likely it's going to be a location that is thrown in for a world quest or two, and then never used again (like Petrichor.)
Ngl this is one of those you need to wait kinda moments. Mondstadt has the most connection to the Abyss and Celestia, it’s our returning point before things really escalate, I’m not surprised it’s been on the back burner either in terms of character since so many characters in Mondstadt are very lore important such as Kaeya, Klee(proxy of being Alice child), Albedo, and the Great Barbatos himself who is tied to the shade of time and who claims to know the last, present, and future Mondstadt isn’t forgotten, it’s just waiting. I do wish that we could get some alt versions for Mondstadt characters now tho, I really don’t want them to try and add some random vision holder that they’ll pretend everyone knows, I’d rather get a 5 star version of Bennett or something
In terms of characters to look forward to, there's also still Nymph, the one who dueled Lisa for a captain slot in the knights. Really, it seems they've just been holding off on Mondstadt content until we get the northern portion added. Clearly when the guy was complaining that "Dornman Port is too far away" he meant it in sense of how long it'd take for them to add it rather than how far away it actually was, lol.
Every journey ends from where it stars, the reason why Monstad is consider as epilog rather than a separate act because there are high chances the ending of genshin impact would take place in Monstad after khaenriah and that is why to create an element of surprise they are ignoring monstad for now.
Mondstadt is one of those special places in Genshin. I do all my dailies, crafting and alchemy in there and it always feels like such a safe haven to return to.
small correction, the day count for Mika's release is set as "1285 days" when it was currently less than two years ago. EDIT: other than that small error, I just want to say that I feel like this is a great compilation of how ridiculous the Mondstadt neglect has gotten. Venti's lore hints that we're going to come back or at least see him be relevant again (as well as that recent anniversary event having something about journeys ending where they started) but with so much neglect for the region, I doubt any of it will live up to the hype.
About Alice being strong, she has several notes and books that you can collect where she records her experiments. IIRC in one instance, she wanted to level Stormterror's Lair because she thought it would make it more hospitable for Dvalin and/or people again. In another, she wanted to see if she could use explosions as rockets to reach Celestia and to use Hilichurls as test dummies for the trip. She definitely has her own brand of crazy destructive power. Dragonspine itself is host to some particularly important lore bits. Considering Albedo and Durin have ties to Rhinedotter, one of the Sinners of Khaenriah. And last, but not least, it's where we can meet our best friend Liben whenever he returns from his journeys as a traveling merchant. It honestly feels like they want to save Mondstadt for something big for the end of the Teyvat chapter of the story. I know realistically we'll be heading to Snezhnaya and then Khaenriah next, but there's this itch about Mondstadt that is just begging to be scratched.
I hope that they better give Bennett some relevance in Natlan. He may not be found in Mare Jivari as a baby, but I still want to believe that he was from Natlan, probably the same tribe as Iansan's.
I remember a time when I thought Mihoyo was gonna go crazy after they add multiple regions and had to run multiple regions' cultural events concurrently in order to respect the real-world cultures' calendars they were based on; but then they ignored the older regions and only pick select regions' events each year.
You forgot to mention Sea of Dandelions and several other things and yeah, I love Natlan and Mondstadt (along with Liyue) is my second favourite territory after Natlan, I really want them to add more of it with the same territory design quality, cool music and continuation of everything they have promised before there.
They release a new 4 star character in liyue every year because of lantern rite (chinese new year) and she just got her drip marketing. Hoyo didn't forget abt Liyue because it is based on China and they're a chinese company. Dormon port will be here around 5.5 i think. I think we're going to Snezhnaya from there.
Whatttttt really? Mondstadt is always my home tho. Everytime I end my gaming seasion, I always make sure to stand on top of venti statue's big ass head. 1. To assert dominance. 2. As an official way to end and get back to real life. And evrytime I want to claim guild stuff or cook or forge or craft, I will always go to Mondatadt. It will always be home ❤
Razor’s story quest is basically just a gateway to the wolf of the north boss, I feel like he should get a hangout event, Cyno and Yoimiya got two story quests, all the archons got two, but Venti? That poor drunkard
Razor appeared first to show the way to his dad, then we saw him again trying to save that dad from the Abyss order. The last time he appeared was during that wine event that showed us his real parents. I enjoyed his cameraderie with Rosaria, shame it was an event and not a character quest
I usually teleport to mondstadt before logging off. It's feels nice and cozy to leave your characters there and when you login again, get greeted with nostalgic music we all heard first
10:35 I feel like Mona was just added there to deconfirm theorists from saying Mona was fontanian so she could possibly be dissolved by the primo water
People theorized about that? Is it becuase she wrote for the Steambird? Though she barely helped in that AQ, I was just genuinely happy to see her since she's personally my comfort character xD
Mondstat is more tutorial starter town than a home town- or specifically, a Hub. Learn everything needed for exploring before heading off to the next city which becomes your main Hub for everything you need. Liyue waypoint had all the daily necessity by the waypoint compared to other towns. But man, Mondstat lore goes HARD. The harsh reality of being the first town in live-service games. It's old and forgotten, but if it gets updated stuff in future or used to serve a new purpose- the new stuff looks extremely out of place and mess with lore too.
for me, at the very least, eventually players would organically return to mondstadt because of its unreleased regions and perhaps proximity to snezhnaya (god forbid another bayda harbor/empty desert coastline situation). "Organically" as in players doing genuine exploration, overworld gameplay, npc interaction, etc. Same can't be said with inazuma where hoyo just speedran the release of all the islands. From a gameplay perspective once players 100% inazuma, there's little to no reason to return there (aside from events, but that just means players are going back to inazuma for the event and not the region itself, hence i said "organically"). And from a lore perspective, unlike dornman port, there have been no references or mentions of another inazuma region yet to be explored by the traveler. It is technically isolated both geographically and story-wise. With that said I still agree with the video, of the three oldest regions mondstadt is the one that has stalled in content but certainly still has hype, liyue as usual the dev-favorite-homecountry, then inazuma the one where they dried up the content fast and would not like to revisit anytime soon. Still annoys me how there's not a single nameless background npc in mondstadt's empty liminal streets. Also, hoyo please for the love of god where are my girls rosaria and kujou sara's hangouts?!?!?!?
I might be the only one saying this, but I'd like to see Dvalin as a playable character. Him and the pyro abyss herald. Well, everyone would say the latter.
Forreal tho, I dunno bout yall but the most crazy az thing ever in this game is a somehow a dude got a hit with Alice, like bruh I need to see this man rn
Mavuika from Natlan just got announced as the pyro archon. However, this time, Mondstadt characters were the ones describing her. Varka was one of them, and given how he's been talked about by every other character from Mondstadt, there could be a possibility that a huge Mondstadt expansion may be coming up after the main Natlan quests end. Varka could even be released as a playable character. So don't worry, there's definitely going to be a Mondstadt expansion, it's just a matter of _when_
Dornman is gonna come out shortly before Snezhnaya cos that's where we will be travelling to it from, I bet. Also, Alice is never gonna be released as a playable character for obvious reasons. But overall - yeah, given how many plotlines have been left unresolved in Mondstadt, Hoyos are bound to thoroughly return to it one day. Again, probably around the time Snezhnaya comes out.
I would imagine that hoyoverse will probably release Dorman port as the entry point for Sneznya, I’m just hoping we’ll actually get to find the location where the defiled statue came from. I also believe that there may be a new character from Mondstat introduced at that time. It’s also possible that Varka my be introduced in one of the later patches for Nathan. In addition, a world quest exploring Bennett’s origins in Nathan would be interesting.
I actually thought we were going to get to find a place where the Statue once stood, but I guess we're still gonna to wait and see where it actually came from :P
venti doesnt have his second archon quest yet, the gate to celestia is in mondstadt, Dilucs connection to the hexenzirkel, the hexenzirkel in general, bennets origin as a misfortune bringer, the fucking reality bending knight's library??? Kaeya's story is barely even scratching the surface, Albedos whole ass existence AND HIS STILL ALIVE TWIN???? Ventis breath in bottles being an actual thing the fatui are hunting for, the lyre, the open cliffside domain, why we woke up on the beach there, why does the celestial nail in Dragonspine not ooze corruption like it does in Liyue's chasm, why are there fountain quests with german names (okay that one might just be hoyo being bad at languages), the dark spots in the cider lake that are usually used to indicate underwater structures, the legend of the pitch black whale told by the fisherman in mondstadt (was this a tease for the all devouring narwhale?), how is venti the weakest archon when their power is based on worship and he has a whole ass church, DURINS HEART WAKING UP APPARENTLY??? idk i could get going but these are the unresolved story threads i could think of off the top of my head haha
I can answer one. The Dragonspine Nail was inactive. The corruption didn't come from the nail, it came from the Abyss trying to counter the active nail. We only activated the Dragonspine nail recently, while the Chasm nail had been active since the beginning but suppressed by the Abyss.
I imagine Mondstadt getting larger with or just before Snezhnaya's release, since it's apparently to the north of Mondstadt. Liben mentioned a location named "Nod-Krai" (which lies in the southernmost part of Snezhnaya) last time we met him. There's a good chance it's a location very close to Dornman Port.
I still have faith they are doing this because after snezhnaya we will have a proper mondstadt Act (the one we have is called a prologue, and liyue is Act I) In fact, in the travail trailer Khaenri’ah is Act ??? and not Act 7 after snezhnaya, meaning there’s likely going to be something in between ❤ That would explain why mondstadt is receiving no characters and no map expansions (unlike Liyue): because there will be a whole update for it :3💕 and maybe in 7.0 we get a big mondstadt update with Dornman Port That’s my theory
I feel like if they had to add a mond expansion it wouls have to be some major lore revelation and they want to squeeze as much out of genshin's mystery as possible that theyre intentionally stalling major lore revelations like the time island
Everyone thought we'd get Dornman Port with Fontaine, but for some reason they just never did that. While this may be coping, I'd like to believe that Mondstadt is going to be very important to the story again sometime soon (possibly with the Mare Jivari) and when that happens it will have a huge focus again. I mean at this point it's almost suspicious how little they involve Mondstadt in things, like they're trying to save it for something. I mean Venti STILL doesn't have a second story quest after all this time.
I genuinely believe that we are going back there. Kaeya is obviously somewhat important to the whole overarching plot. We MUST investigate Diluc's past more eventually, like his father had a delusion??? outta nowhere? Although I think they might keep that for Snezhnaya. Also, Albedo destroying Mondstadt? Varka needs to come back? The fact that Durin can wake up? The port? VENTI STORY QUEST ARC II? And I would love to explore some characters more like Rosaria. I'll stay delulu for a bit.
dude, even *I* miss mondstadt and i've only been playing since early February of 2024 .. i spent so much time in Mondstadt being scared to progress past it for months bro LOLL 'cause like i already knew it had jack shit for content in comparison to just. it's neighboring region of Liyue which had JUST been given a HUGE expansion (that i STILL haven't entirely explored despite nearly running out of quests n shit to do in the game atp)
Ok but hear me out. Luiye is bound to get more characters because it's the china. So it's gonna get more attention. As for the other regions, they're more recent, so of course they're still not done with their characters. Chiori, in fact, should be considered a Fontaine character since her whole thing is her having moved a long time ago. She appears in fontaine, is always in fontaiem, so even tho she's technically from Inazuma she should be considered a Fontaine character. That would leave us with Kirara being the last one!
I had that Liyue reasoning in the first cut of the video, but I cut it out cause it's still no excuse to leave another region for that long when other regions have been getting their updates. And no, Chiori is categorically Inazuman. She doesn't dolphin jump like Fontaine characters do, and she gets included in the Inazuma category if there are events that centers around buffs related to character regions. She grew up in Inazuma as well.
@GoatLiffy fair point but whatever. The mondstadt archon quest was actually a prologue, so we'll definely get a bunch of lore in the future, probably after the khaenri'ah chapter!
monstadt will come back since the "portal to celestia" was stated to be in monstadt at the spot of ventis statue, so, yeah, mondstadts going to be the central city in the finale, like, you started here and despite seeing the whole world, this is where its going to end or find its climactic finale ultimately
guys i always miss mondstadt so much i am always wishing for more from it, i really hope sometime this hoyo-year they give us more, heck, (most likely unpopular opinion), i wouldn't even mind if szchnezniya was postponed for much more mondstadt! oh also-- fun fact, fischl hasn't been featured in ANY of the actual story aside from the genius invocation tcg start quest, and the very ending of Anna the Adventurer.
Mondstad is my fav region with some of my fav character like Mona and Klee and Venti i'm so sad it's been left behind. btw there is a rumor that around the 5.5 patch there is gonna be like a priest character from Mondstad coming out
This is the first video I watched from you but the outro, "sayonara", would it be better to use "mata ne" because sayonara is used if you wont be seeing the other person anymore or for atleast a very very long time
Ehe, maybe cause I'm thinking that there may be some viewers who might not come back for long time :P Jk, I just like saying sayonara better, but I'll take matanee into considerations :D
Mondstadt is one of my favorites, if not favorite region, as a 1.0/prereg player. It and Liyue just give me so much nostalgia to spending hours in quarantine just losing myself in the game and exploration. Granted, after 4 years, it's not as easy to feel that "ooh shiny" sensation as easily, but a lot of the new mechanics and exploration do make the new areas feel fresh and unique. (Like Fontaine's underwater and Natlan's saurians.) I do wish they would retroactively add some things like the quick travel lights we have to zip across Sumeru for some areas, especially tall mountains with no teleporter. I've always believed in the theory that since Mond only said "prologue", and due to the words around Venti's statue, that it's plausible to think we'll go back there someday. I still remember when Dragonspine and the Chasm were finally added, and we all lost our minds over able to travel to things in the distance. The Inazuma islands and all the speculation for the free space was sm fun too, debunked as most of it was. Eula is still one of my mains and I'm really sad I couldn't get cons on her last rerun, and so happy I pulled for her when she came out, at least. The chronicled wish was in and out in a flash, and should really have been used for the Mond and cryo characters they seem to really not want to rerun these days. (Pretty surprised triple banners didn't stay a thing tbh.) All this long-winded message and nostalgiaposting to say, thank you so much for this video. It brought back so many wonderful memories, and got me a lil emotional, since Mondstadt is a big comfort for me. Great video, love the format and editing, and I wish you and your channel great success and a very happy holidays/new year ahead. Looking forward to more of your videos! 😊❤
Hmmm. I think the reason Mondstadt was barely forgotten because it has no correlation to any issues other nation has, given that Mondstadt, Liyue and Sumeru are connected in landscape terms, and since this nation is introduced as a prologue of the main story, this nation doesn't have a significance of what the main plot is actually showing to us. But given the stacking of questions and lore bombs dropped after Act 4 of Natlan arc, the theory of Celestia's existence and involvement is apparently returning back on Mondstadt and its archon, assuming that Snezhnaya and the Tsaritsa will tell something on everything unanswered things hanging on queue since Liyue arc (the contract between Zhongli and Tsarista). As of now, aside from a nation of freedom, Mondstadt is a nation of mystery that covers something dark within its walls. 🙃
They literally have one big piece of lore, which is the stolen statue of Seven, and they never once touched it xD We never even figured out what the Abyss was using that statue for, and how they were able to take it all those years ago.
@@GoatLiffy Yeah, the inverted statue that was almost forgotten but still hanging its own theory. And some entities mentioned are blurry on which side they are on, whether they are allies, enemies or neutral. The Abyss, The Fatui, Celestia, and apparently, Dainsleif. Even if they are included and involved on the lore, there are still gray areas on their entity that doesn't solidify their real side. 🙃
@@boss_one The only thing I know is that EVERYONE is against the Abyss. There's a line somewhere in the game that says that the Abyss is the one common enemy of Teyvat or something. I'd like to think that the Fatui is just another example of a noble cause, but terrible means type of thing. And you can sort of see it in their leadership, since Capitano have shown himself to have been an actual honorable warrior, but then there's someone like Dottore right under him who just looks like a complete freakshow xD
I really hope that Varka being a character will bring Monstadt back into the story, along with an area expansion and hopefully a 2nd Venti story quest. He's holding onto so much that he hasnt told us and a quest would be perfect to explain things, like maybe more about the Hexenzirkel.
Mondstat may not be as fleshy as other regions or character but every time i go back there for event or something feels like I'm home from a tiring adventure
been playing since released date in Asia server, UID around 600k. As person who's been playing this game for that long, i gotta admit that this game is the embodiment of the word *Slow* and *Stalling* it's ridiculously how much they tease about literally anything but none of that even being touch by the dev, instead they release more area to explore which majority people couldn't care less anymore of that, the content inside of genshin is also getting fatigue and repetitively boring, trying to be positive about genshin but nowadays is just feel pessimistic about it.
i think that a map expansion for mondstadt is so dificult beacause is the first nation, imagine tô put a New portion of a map with Nothing tô do with the story in a begginer location...
I love Mondtadt so much and it feels so nostalgic, though it does feel like its been forgotten. I only have to hope that they return to it since Mondtadt was only labeled as a prologue and not actually an archon quest
Venti quest 2 Diluc information organization and connections Grandmaster Varka Alice and the hexencircle Sea of dandelions Dornman Port city Kaeya kanreiah connections The gateway below Barbados statue in mondstat The basement of the church The second floor of the knights of favonius headquarters Supposedly there is an underground tunnel system below cider lake
Mondstadt definitely will be end story relevant, I dont think we need anything tied with it just now. We occasionally visit it for some events, but I don't think it's a good idea to drop some chasm-level expansion in the middle of Natlan or Snezhnaya. Same for random new charcaters. For X.7 version, maybe, with some events, but I think we all know that we're going to wait for Khaenriah/Celestia chapter for Mond to be relevant main story-wise. I dont think its bad. As if we dont have enough things to do in new regions, better they stay consistent and Mond will wait for its time.
They were newer said to be in the west.(The expedition) Varka's letter from 3.1 says they are in the northermost reaches of Teyvat. There he also says that Capitano got order to head in Natlan. Only time we hear from them being in Natlan is Mavuika's drip marketing but we don't know how long ago Varka was there but we can tell it wasn't really recent because he was gone before 3.1 and most likely 3.0 . And we don't know if Varla went there alone or if he had the whole expedition with him
I feel like I’m 5.5 paimon will get the traveler to purify the abyss barbatos statue in liyue and that will be the stature for either Dorman port of the nameless island. What do I have to back this up? Nothing but my tiny brain! 😅
I always figured that since monsdadt had so much lore and stuff and it has the gate to celestia we would circle back to it after shnezhnaya and dormman port would be released. Then maybe wed run into someone talking about the nameless island (after doing the initial quest) and then it would go from there.
Something is definitely happening with Durin. The Simulanka event heavily hinted that the real Durin would soon return, and we'd have a hand in saving him.
Well, Mondstad is my favorite City or Nation since the beginning, and I am still going to Mondstad to collect my commissions, rewards, for healing(Auto-Heal near Statue of 7) and of course to the alchemy bench or even to the Blacksmith..❤
Maybe Dornman Port will be added in as our way of getting into Snezhnaya, or possibly the other way around, maybe we'll go from Snezhnaya all the way to Dornman Port, and then it'll be unlocked. From how the map seems to be expanding, I can see Snezhnaya pretty much being on the top of the map, right above Fontaine (but not on the same level as Fontaine, closer to the actual water level), being like a similar situation to how Inazuma is, like a entire separate island surrounded by water, which could be how we leave Snezhnaya to Mondstadt again. Also, since I mentioned Inazuma, seeing from details from world quests, there is a plan for a volcano to be added on Natlan, and if you look on the map towards one of the blocked off areas of the paimon barrier you can see a concept model of it, and it is right to the side that connects with the the foggy island of Inazuma, which makes me believe that they'll probably finish up that part of the map by putting the volcano there, since, in lore, Inazuma is a secluded place surrounded by water, so there wouldn't be any other islands other than the ones of Inazuma and a small expansion from the Nathan side, which makes the only candidates being to put Snezhnaya more to the right of Natlan itself, which is not that likely knowing that Teucer and Tartaglia, on Tartaglia's story quest, confirmed that Snezhnaya is not that far away from Liyue, with Teucer being able to come to Liyue by boat and Tartaglia a few lines after confirming that Snezhnaya is not that far away, which with that information makes it more likely to be up to the top of Fontaine, as it can connect, if not that easily, but can, to some water streams that can send you to Liyue. That's my hypothesis, you're free to criticize or point out flaws if you find some and would like to share.
Sounds plausible. Since going further up North shows that it gets quite a bit colder. Fontaine's pretty cold looking. And then there's the random snowy buttfuck that is Dragonspine all the way a bit more south and Inazuma doesn't even have snow xD
@GoatLiffy that we have a explanation to, it's because of the Skyfrost Nail up above it that freezes it, but even then that is still weird to look on the map to see, based on my hypothesis, a giant island with snow on all places and then just a little dot of snow in comparison.
Mondstadt is supposed to get a region expansion before Shnezhnyah releases because if things go correctly genshin will probably end in a year or two if they don’t drag it. (Also you can see the “underground” area by the city under the water so that’s probably gonna be something too.) 😅
They need to make venti useful again. Releasing a character with a skill, for example, which is a floating object (orb, blade, anything) that the venti's ult can absorb and spin so it widens its area of effect or attack would be neat
I've been thinking about this for a couple of years, I hope your thoughts about the nameless island are something they're actually planning on, because that's what I was expecting about it, more now than ever since we got what we got in the 5.1 patch. I hope we get something during the version 5 of the game...
I just refuse to accept that THAT is all the island contributes in terms of lore and exploration. Surely they will have some sort of a plan to utilize it :P
@@GoatLiffy I have a friend that recently joined thanks to the game made available in Xbox, and I noticed that Venti told the traveler a lot of things that are not correct once the prologue was over, and I don't think it's because the devs didn't know back then, they have prove over and over that they know where the story is going and they know how to foreshadow... Like, I began to think that he let Signora get the gnosis and he just pretended to be weak. So hopefully this is not just copium and they're actually cooking something else for Mondstatd.
I think it’s pretty obvious that Mondstadt is far from completion. I’m willing to bet that after we finish Snezhnaya, we will revisit Mondstadt as if it’s a whole new nation. Starting from 7.0 get multiple new expansions and set of archon quests that finally address the mysteries we have. It’ll be chapter 7 of the story. Then afterwards we’ll head to Khaenri’ah for chapter 8. I’m also willing to bet that this has been the plan all along. In the Teyvat Chapter Trailer Travail; Khaenri’ah’s chapter number is blurred out, meaning it’s not chapter 7. It was never intended to come out directly after Snezhnaya.
Disagree on "underground area" thing. It's a sub area, or "DLC area", and Sumeru does not have one. But Fontaine has. And Dragonspine is also a sub area too.
I'm pretty sure I wrote underground SUBarea in the video? I gave my reasoning as to why we can give Sumeru a pass, but if that's not fine for you then aight :P Liyue, Inazuma, Fontaine, all have one, Natlan's probs gonna get one with the Night Kingdom stuff. I didn't bring up Fontaine cause I still consider it a newer region. I also mentioned that Dragonspine is a subarea as well but not like the other ones, soooo yeah?
I dont think its forgotten, I think they are intentionally leaving it in fog with tiny small reminders of its existence throughough so that either before or after Snezhnaya they hit us with a wave of mondstad content making us come full circle back to where it all began. After all, we still got varka and his expedition, the sea of dandelions, the port, alice, we have the whole "kaeya is from khaenria" stuff, mona keeps showing up too, we got lisa with the witches circle, venti who is CLEARLY not telling us all he knows, etc etc add to it how many call backs natlan is making to it like with capitano and mavuika basically being diluc and kaeya, the phlogiston currents being basically heated wind currents, us flying to fight a corrupted dragon which needed purification due to the abyss, etc etc. I dont think its forgotte, I think its just waiting for its perfect comeback.
Decent video, though you definitely have forgotten things in regards to Mondstat relevance like Kaeya's appearance in the Caribert quest as well as the defiled statue definitely not being forgotten since it was referenced there as well.
I mentioned Kaeya's appearance in Caribert. And the Defiled Statue is only referred to in that quest, there's still no quest where we see it come into play ever again. Though now that the Abyss has the eye of the Field Tiller, we should be seeing it sometime soon.
@@GoatLiffy Oh must've missed the Kaeya mention then; also yes I'm expecting to learn exactly what the purpose of desecrating the statues is other than being symbolic.
1:40 As was pointed out in the comments, Mika's release duration should be "614 Days" instead of being the same as Eula. I forgot to change it, my bad xD
9:41ALSO got the date for version 1.4 wrong, my sleepy deprived ass was just dead at that point xD
Rosaria's criminal life began in Dornman Port before she settled in Mondstadt. Her revisiting that place could be a good story.
Truuu. Maybe show us the vigilante life that she and Diluc does xD
btw mondstatds archon quest was a prologue chapter, meaning it never got a full archon quest. im betting my primogems and balls that we’re going back to mondstatd. venti is also mad suspicious
Ballsy, let's see how it goes xD
One friend started playing it after it finally released on Xbox and... Man, Venti told the traveler a lot of stuff that was way off from the actual reality of the game, and I don't think it was because devs didn't had a clear idea, we all know that they know how to foreshadow stuff when they want. So I agree here, I hope we go back to Mondstatd at some point because there's a lot to explore in there, like, there's still Fatuii in there when in the other regions their presence became marginal or non-existent after the arcon quest finished...
Surely will get second venti archon quest in 7.8 🙏
Probably.
Mondstadt has an entrance to the abyss and dragon spine is quite important.
Also, venti has 4 winds
We only meet 2 of them, the dragon and the wolf.
Also, the actual captain of the knights is still not home, and cause the current boss of the adventurers guild is supposed to be met in Mondstadt.
Also Also, we are meant to enter Russia (can't spell this snas name) via mondstadts port.
Venti's statue on feet says gateway to celestia
what i only dislike about genshin is HOW MUCH they tease and mention something for SOOOOO long and when it actually releases the hype just feels so DRYYY
Because they have their priorities..........
Honestly they do fine like 80% of the time when it comes to hype. But there's time where'd they either tease something for so long it sort of loses ground (How Dornman Port might be), or they just suddenly release something out of nowhere and people just weren't that enthusiastic about it (Emilie lmao)
Bayda harbor rlly got the short end of the stick :(
@@noomynarpa Let's hope Dornman Port (and maybe the Mare Jivari) doesn't get the same treatment
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despite how light hearted monstandt characters are, they're so mysterious for some reason
In all facets as well. You have venti who might be hiding some weird shit, and then you have Klee who most would think to be harmless, but can probably level your house xD
@@GoatLiffyVenti is definitely hiding something Concerning Istaroth 😂
@@silverhetch3383 Seeing as Mavuika has some Ronova stuff, then it could make sense for Venti to hiding Istaroth shit :P
watching new players (First Time Genshin CCs) has made me remember the joy of first playing the game, somehow Natlan does NOT give me that same joy.
(the characters had more depth, like you know there's more to their backstory and you're curious to know about it, but a goofy shark-surfer and some random lisping DJ Smithy just seem so superficial)
i've suddenly had the urge to play as Razor for exploring Natlan - just seems more immersive somehow.
Amber bombed UK with her bunnies in WW2
Some other things that I find interesting that weren't mentioned or talked about enough imo in this video;
• The Literal Goddess of time Istaroth, one of Phanes' (the Primordial One) 4 shining shades
• Venti's second story quest
• The Thousand Winds temple being originally the Thousand Winds of time temple serving to worship Istaroth (basically the whole western part of Mondstadt's map was worshipping Istaroth)
• Benny's connection to Natlan and Mare Jivari specifically
• Vanessa is low-key forgotten
• Durin (the dead dragon in Dragonspine, created by Rhinedottir, etc.) slowly regenerating and reviving (which we know from Albedo when he told us in that one event)
• The Dandelion sea
• Venti's closer relation to Istaroth and Celestia
• the other islands of Mondstadt (Mondstadt was originally a mountainous place like Liyue but Venti said "ehe me wanna flat world" and blew half of Mondstadt's entirety into the Dark sea, making the Haar Islands etc)
• Golden Apple Archipelago/Haar Islands (sorry but I want them to be permanently on the map)
• more story on Dragonspine and/or Albedo's and Alice's existence
• Gold/Rhinedottir, Primordial Albedo and the Primordial Human project
Plus, now that we are in Natlan, they could link previous archon Murata with Venti somehow, and give us more story about her, since she was the archon back when Venessa was alive i think? Pretty sure she is mentioned in the manga
You don't really need Leaks to know they're releasing ANOTHER Liyue Character... cause each year, Mihoyo is gonna make sure there is a 4* Liyue Char you get for free in the yearly Lantern Rites
It’s possible this year will be the Blackcliff Forge expansion
@@JoshuaA1307not this year definitely but the possibility is there for next year
@@Tanayxx well we are in the nation of fire, so it makes sense to bring the forge, like how later year we where in the nation of water and Chenyun Vale was all about the tea
Gotta say it to be safe, lmao. Hoyocreators ain't much of a fan of people talkin bout leaks, plus I actually don't look at them anyway. Rather experience it fresh :P
@@GoatLiffy I mean, you don't need to look at leaks. Skins for Liyue characters and a new Liyue character happen every single year, while other nations get nothing get
"Mavuika? Ohh! You mean the one who competed with me in the Stadium of the Sacred Flame! Hahaha, you'd think an Archon could hold their liquor better than that! Uh... what? They said I got wasted first? No freaking way, not a chance! That day, I was... uh, hang on a sec, now why did I go see the Pyro Archon that day again...?"
-Varka's response to Alice's question about the results of the "meeting" in Natlan, as he scratched his head in thought
Varka you silly old donkey xD
We love Varka
@@arrozconleche8509 We love you Varka, we dooo, we love you Varka, we dooo, we love you Varka, we dooo, OOOOH, Varka we love you!
@@GoatLiffy VARKA IS LIFE ❤️🔥🫶
The dandelion sea was also a place in MONDSTADT we heard of but was never added, I'm not sure whenever it'd be part of dornman port area tho
We see it in ventis splash art i think. I hope they add it to the game
Oh yea, that place also disappeared off the face of the story and events xD
If you've watched that teyvat story video, you probably know that we'll fight Dainselif there at the very end of the story
@@Param11930that’s the sea of inteyvats. Not the dandelion sea. Two different things bro. It’s near khaeri’ah
I want to see the dandelion sea so badly onl 😭 it would be my fav spot after the thousand winds temple
What is even more odd is that Mondstadt's potential and general reputation among all players around the world is surprisingly good, even well enough to overshadow the serious design issue we are facing in Natlan. I have never seen someone say they genuinely dislike Mondstadt just because, or that there are any awful problems or bad taste left behind. The biggest problem is that Mondstadt was the very first region and, naturally, it looks so dull and lacks the new mechanics every other nation has as we speak. But from the Chinese to the American, there is a common thought that Mondstadt feels like a home. Heck, it was where an interesting number of people went back after suffering too much in Inazuma, claiming that Mondstadt's peacefulness reduces stress.
And I can kind of see a pattern here, as an inexperienced storyteller myself. They know Mondstadt will be the breaking point, with so much emotional connection the player base has with Mondstadt and the chance to add a Welt Yang expo there (Joachim Nokianvirtanen aka Welt is very famous in both HI3rd and HI: Star Rail), then we have the ever-so-expected Grandmaster Varka, the witches, Diluc and his vendetta with the Fatui, Kaeya and his approaching doom, Albedo and Durin, Venti's suspicious status... There is just too much to unpack and while all of these are great hype materials and I would love to dive deeper into them, this is actually a *very* wrong move, here is why:
Genshin Impact has a diverse community and it is a game that gets updated ever so often, it feeds from the players' attention and support. (And no, being f2p and still playing Genshin daily is not harmful to the company's interests. In fact, the player-base data helps Mihoyo get revenues and support from other investors. Where did the "boycotters" even get that idea?) Building up some anticipation is wonderful, using a few remarks here and there to keep the hype up is a great strategy many story-telling games use. But here's the twist, the greater the wait and hype is, the greater the expectancy is; naturally making the failure rate higher and the criticism more destructive. As a devoted Genshin Impact and Star Rail player myself, I am ashamed to admit that Mihoyo is horrible at staying loyal to the hype they build.
Both the extremely long waiting time for Mondstadt and the overly crowded player base with far too many insights to add, Mihoyo is digging its own grave as we speak. They either have to come up with something extremely awesome, like a storyline and region building that can compete with Fontaine itself; or suffer the major criticism and dropping outs because of the expectancy-reality ratio. This is a major risk to take. And looking at Mihoyo's insistence on drowning Liyue with new content every single year and (naturally) having to work on newer countries, the wait for Mondstadt has to keep going. The expectancy-reality ratio will set up requirements that are far beyond their reach (not that they can't do it, they just don't do it for some reason) and too much waiting can actually ruin all this hype. Leaving something even worse behind: Very disinterested players and overly interested players, neither of them is easy to impress.
Personally, I am kind of shocked that they let go of such an important nation that easily. Look at other Honkai games, the Germanic ethnicity (especially in HI3rd) is held quite dearly. I want to use the benefit of the doubt and assume Mihoyo thinks "diverting attention from Mondstadt" is a great (DEFINITELY NOT!) way to progress in the story. Until we come back and be like "OMG, what we have been looking for was here all along!" and then the plot thickens. That's a horrible idea, really.
I want to be very hopeful, and I mean it. Mondstadt means the world to me, and I kid you not when I say Mondstadt saved my life once. It is such a precious place for me and so many people, it has a great story building so far but Mihoyo was and still is very awful at keeping Mondstadt updated. I want to be hopeful that they will manage to combine everything I mentioned (Grandmaster Varka, the witches, Diluc and his vendetta with the Fatui, Kaeya and his approaching doom, Albedo and Durin, Venti's suspicious status) in such perfect storytelling that everything will make sense by the end of it. I saw some comments mentioning that Mondstadt didn't even have an Archon quest but instead the "prologue" and this might indicate that the real quest will start once we are done with Snezhnaya. But looking at how much they messed up in Natlan and the rising hype for Snezhnaya and Khaenriah, I am *very* doubtful that Mihoyo will pay Mondstadt the attention it desperately needs.
At least, this is what I perceive and think as an author and an inexperienced storyteller myself. Every word I say has my personal experiences in the storytelling and worldbuilding area, mixed with a lot of psychology and sociology studies too. I am open to discussing this further in the comments if I made a mistake or mistook a situation. Regardless of opinions, take care everyone!
Man, you're totally right. We have so many expectations that if HoYoverse doesn't so it right, well... I don't think it would end well. I say this as a fellow Mondstadt lover 🫂
i do recall them saying they "hv 10 years worth of potential content" once before, which if it were true, could mean they already hv a solid direction to the storyline of the entire game. and i think this is true because they put so much effort into integrating lore to every piece of item, book, character, and even npc dialogs, things that not only reveal the past, but also the future. if this is the case, we are only half way through the decade and theres only 2 regions left, we are bound to revisit some places eventually, and that is likely be mondstadt.
@@shaami86227 years just from the nations and then an extra 3 with Khaenri'ah, Celestia and something else... Yeah, that sounds reasonable
The funny part is how neglected Monstadt is in the main story and characters. Compared to other regions, it has the most updates with side content and endgame content because of Spiral Abyss, Imaginarium Theater, and Genius Invokation TCG. Monstandt literally updates every patch.
Yeah storywise, it legit has had no impact since 1.4. While other older regions had something going for them since then.
Grand master Varka was mentioned in official post for Mavuika today on x😍he said that he competed with Mavuika, so maybe we will see him with Dornman Port map expanson in some later 5.x updates
I doubt it will be released before Sneznaya, since it borders it.
@@arthena2130 I would say with 6.0 they would want to switch focus onto Snezhnaya and so Mondstadt map expansion will be released at least two patches before 6.0 so 5.7 or earlier
i lowkey bet they're saving mondstadt content until like the end of genshin, mainly bc mondstadt is the og nation and hides the most mysterious lore that will uncover itself in the later patches of genshin's end
Welp, I hope it's not till the END end. Gotta get some lil bit of it soon :(
We will. In 7.0 we will return to mondstadt
@@Emmanuel_Rocha Damn, 7.0 is still quite some time xD
@@GoatLiffy 5 Liyue expansions will happen in that time
Yeah sheznaya has to be closer to mondstadt as they have so much presence there.
Mona and Sucrose are my favorite Genshin characters, so I feel Mondstadt's lack of proper content HARD. As much as I appreciate the concessional crumbs (and I did enjoy 3.5 Windblume), it really does feel like Mondstadt's presence in the overall plot has been forgotten in favor of just "hyping up" its plotlines.
There's Venti likely being one of the most powerful Archons (based on Nahida's statement that an Archon's power is dependent on faith and he's the only Archon who is the center of an active RELIGION).
There's the regions ties to the Hexenzirkle and how 3 apprentices/children of the Hexen are housed in its main city (Mona+Albedo+Klee).
There's Albedo and how he may destroy Mondstadt (atleast 4.8 hinted a new Durin plot but I doubt that's going to happen any time soon.)
There's Kaeya and his importance to Khaenri'ah.
There's Diluc and he's vendetta against the Fatui.
There's Varka, who has been hyped up for years and has had an encounter with Capitano.
Anyone remember when Amber mentioned there's a Glider tournament that she's a champion off? Man wouldn't that be nice to compete in.
All of these things have been mentioned or hyped up, but the pay off isn't here yet. And even though I am a Mondstaft fan, I just know that by the time they actually address one of these things, it won't live up to the hype or the fan theories.
As a Mona fan, part of me wants Dornman Port because it may mean we get another Story Quest for Mona OR at least meet her family. On the other hand, a part of me wants to set my expectations very low. Likely it's going to be a location that is thrown in for a world quest or two, and then never used again (like Petrichor.)
Don't think we get to meet her family, but it defo opens up for something with more Mona :D
Ngl this is one of those you need to wait kinda moments. Mondstadt has the most connection to the Abyss and Celestia, it’s our returning point before things really escalate, I’m not surprised it’s been on the back burner either in terms of character since so many characters in Mondstadt are very lore important such as Kaeya, Klee(proxy of being Alice child), Albedo, and the Great Barbatos himself who is tied to the shade of time and who claims to know the last, present, and future
Mondstadt isn’t forgotten, it’s just waiting. I do wish that we could get some alt versions for Mondstadt characters now tho, I really don’t want them to try and add some random vision holder that they’ll pretend everyone knows, I’d rather get a 5 star version of Bennett or something
but Bennet is a five star...
Good theory though
Just equip bennett with a lvl 1 dull blade to downgrade him to a 5 star character, there problem solved.
Yes exactly and I absolutely agree on the 5 star alt versions of Mondstadt characters. Just like how Star Rail and HI3 do it.
In terms of characters to look forward to, there's also still Nymph, the one who dueled Lisa for a captain slot in the knights.
Really, it seems they've just been holding off on Mondstadt content until we get the northern portion added.
Clearly when the guy was complaining that "Dornman Port is too far away" he meant it in sense of how long it'd take for them to add it rather than how far away it actually was, lol.
HAHA, good point on the Dornman Port too far away one xD
Ever since launch, I just wanna see the dandelion sea that kid at the gates mentioned...
It's been years
Yea that one is even more forgotten lmao
It's tiring how every single year we get more Liyue content, be it characters or weapons when Mondstats rotting corpse is just next to it.
Aha, well I wanted to make that a point, but it is the chinese region made by chinese people. Waht can we really do :P
How much more 'rotten corpse' Mondstadt is, compared to the Cryo element??
@@ChrisX_212 At least Cryo has Capitano to look forward to xD
@@GoatLiffy I don't think he's a guarantee.... to be in the Natlan cycle. He's probably gonna be in Snezhnaya cycle.
@@ChrisX_212 Still someone to look forward to, and we already how he's supposed to look. Dornman port is just pure imagination at this point lul
Every journey ends from where it stars, the reason why Monstad is consider as epilog rather than a separate act because there are high chances the ending of genshin impact would take place in Monstad after khaenriah and that is why to create an element of surprise they are ignoring monstad for now.
Mondstadt is one of those special places in Genshin. I do all my dailies, crafting and alchemy in there and it always feels like such a safe haven to return to.
Dragonspine is still my favorite area. It's calming choir music yet dangerous and challenging area to explore. Sometimes i just stand and chill there
5.5 is supposed to have a mondstat map expansion where szhneznaya's prologue will take place eventually. We all suppose it'll be dormann port
Also supposedly dandelion sea and varka release
Yeah, as well as 4.3 was.
Hey leak warning please. Not everyone wants to know leaks.
small correction, the day count for Mika's release is set as "1285 days" when it was currently less than two years ago.
EDIT: other than that small error, I just want to say that I feel like this is a great compilation of how ridiculous the Mondstadt neglect has gotten. Venti's lore hints that we're going to come back or at least see him be relevant again (as well as that recent anniversary event having something about journeys ending where they started) but with so much neglect for the region, I doubt any of it will live up to the hype.
OOF, must've missed that in the edit, thanks for pointing it out :D
About Alice being strong, she has several notes and books that you can collect where she records her experiments. IIRC in one instance, she wanted to level Stormterror's Lair because she thought it would make it more hospitable for Dvalin and/or people again. In another, she wanted to see if she could use explosions as rockets to reach Celestia and to use Hilichurls as test dummies for the trip. She definitely has her own brand of crazy destructive power.
Dragonspine itself is host to some particularly important lore bits. Considering Albedo and Durin have ties to Rhinedotter, one of the Sinners of Khaenriah.
And last, but not least, it's where we can meet our best friend Liben whenever he returns from his journeys as a traveling merchant.
It honestly feels like they want to save Mondstadt for something big for the end of the Teyvat chapter of the story. I know realistically we'll be heading to Snezhnaya and then Khaenriah next, but there's this itch about Mondstadt that is just begging to be scratched.
I hope that they better give Bennett some relevance in Natlan. He may not be found in Mare Jivari as a baby, but I still want to believe that he was from Natlan, probably the same tribe as Iansan's.
With how similar they look, shouldn't be that hard to make the connection :P
I remember a time when I thought Mihoyo was gonna go crazy after they add multiple regions and had to run multiple regions' cultural events concurrently in order to respect the real-world cultures' calendars they were based on; but then they ignored the older regions and only pick select regions' events each year.
You forgot to mention Sea of Dandelions and several other things and yeah, I love Natlan and Mondstadt (along with Liyue) is my second favourite territory after Natlan, I really want them to add more of it with the same territory design quality, cool music and continuation of everything they have promised before there.
They release a new 4 star character in liyue every year because of lantern rite (chinese new year) and she just got her drip marketing. Hoyo didn't forget abt Liyue because it is based on China and they're a chinese company. Dormon port will be here around 5.5 i think. I think we're going to Snezhnaya from there.
Whatttttt really? Mondstadt is always my home tho. Everytime I end my gaming seasion, I always make sure to stand on top of venti statue's big ass head. 1. To assert dominance. 2. As an official way to end and get back to real life. And evrytime I want to claim guild stuff or cook or forge or craft, I will always go to Mondatadt. It will always be home ❤
I will be 79 years old and still be waiting for Varka
Well that's something to wait for into the future xD
Razor’s story quest is basically just a gateway to the wolf of the north boss, I feel like he should get a hangout event, Cyno and Yoimiya got two story quests, all the archons got two, but Venti? That poor drunkard
Razor appeared first to show the way to his dad, then we saw him again trying to save that dad from the Abyss order. The last time he appeared was during that wine event that showed us his real parents. I enjoyed his cameraderie with Rosaria, shame it was an event and not a character quest
I usually teleport to mondstadt before logging off. It's feels nice and cozy to leave your characters there and when you login again, get greeted with nostalgic music we all heard first
That's Fontaine for me now :P
I really do wish they did more with that upside down statue of the seven and the Nameless Island. They’re both just begging to be used more!
Good idea, so long as they make a good explanation as to how they moved it from Mt. Aocang!
10:35 I feel like Mona was just added there to deconfirm theorists from saying Mona was fontanian so she could possibly be dissolved by the primo water
People theorized about that? Is it becuase she wrote for the Steambird?
Though she barely helped in that AQ, I was just genuinely happy to see her since she's personally my comfort character xD
Mondstat is more tutorial starter town than a home town- or specifically, a Hub. Learn everything needed for exploring before heading off to the next city which becomes your main Hub for everything you need. Liyue waypoint had all the daily necessity by the waypoint compared to other towns.
But man, Mondstat lore goes HARD. The harsh reality of being the first town in live-service games. It's old and forgotten, but if it gets updated stuff in future or used to serve a new purpose- the new stuff looks extremely out of place and mess with lore too.
Despite every nation we've travelled, I'd still say that monstadt is home.
It really is :)
for me, at the very least, eventually players would organically return to mondstadt because of its unreleased regions and perhaps proximity to snezhnaya (god forbid another bayda harbor/empty desert coastline situation). "Organically" as in players doing genuine exploration, overworld gameplay, npc interaction, etc. Same can't be said with inazuma where hoyo just speedran the release of all the islands. From a gameplay perspective once players 100% inazuma, there's little to no reason to return there (aside from events, but that just means players are going back to inazuma for the event and not the region itself, hence i said "organically"). And from a lore perspective, unlike dornman port, there have been no references or mentions of another inazuma region yet to be explored by the traveler. It is technically isolated both geographically and story-wise.
With that said I still agree with the video, of the three oldest regions mondstadt is the one that has stalled in content but certainly still has hype, liyue as usual the dev-favorite-homecountry, then inazuma the one where they dried up the content fast and would not like to revisit anytime soon. Still annoys me how there's not a single nameless background npc in mondstadt's empty liminal streets.
Also, hoyo please for the love of god where are my girls rosaria and kujou sara's hangouts?!?!?!?
I might be the only one saying this, but I'd like to see Dvalin as a playable character. Him and the pyro abyss herald. Well, everyone would say the latter.
Enjouuuu my boi xD
ALL HAIL ENJOUUUUUU
We are one and the same
Mondstadt is so forgotten that even Thoma doesnt want to visit his home nation
Guy got hit with the Japanizing beam. The only saving grace is he kept his name as Thoma and not Touma
Forreal tho, I dunno bout yall but the most crazy az thing ever in this game is a somehow a dude got a hit with Alice, like bruh I need to see this man rn
IKR?? The guy better be some actual character as well lmao
The funny thing is that Mondstadt holds all the end game content.
Mavuika from Natlan just got announced as the pyro archon. However, this time, Mondstadt characters were the ones describing her. Varka was one of them, and given how he's been talked about by every other character from Mondstadt, there could be a possibility that a huge Mondstadt expansion may be coming up after the main Natlan quests end. Varka could even be released as a playable character. So don't worry, there's definitely going to be a Mondstadt expansion, it's just a matter of _when_
At this point, I wanna see which comes first. HSR's Fate collab or new Mondstadt stuff xD
Dornman is gonna come out shortly before Snezhnaya cos that's where we will be travelling to it from, I bet. Also, Alice is never gonna be released as a playable character for obvious reasons. But overall - yeah, given how many plotlines have been left unresolved in Mondstadt, Hoyos are bound to thoroughly return to it one day. Again, probably around the time Snezhnaya comes out.
I would imagine that hoyoverse will probably release Dorman port as the entry point for Sneznya, I’m just hoping we’ll actually get to find the location where the defiled statue came from. I also believe that there may be a new character from Mondstat introduced at that time. It’s also possible that Varka my be introduced in one of the later patches for Nathan. In addition, a world quest exploring Bennett’s origins in Nathan would be interesting.
I actually thought we were going to get to find a place where the Statue once stood, but I guess we're still gonna to wait and see where it actually came from :P
venti doesnt have his second archon quest yet, the gate to celestia is in mondstadt, Dilucs connection to the hexenzirkel, the hexenzirkel in general, bennets origin as a misfortune bringer, the fucking reality bending knight's library??? Kaeya's story is barely even scratching the surface, Albedos whole ass existence AND HIS STILL ALIVE TWIN???? Ventis breath in bottles being an actual thing the fatui are hunting for, the lyre, the open cliffside domain, why we woke up on the beach there, why does the celestial nail in Dragonspine not ooze corruption like it does in Liyue's chasm, why are there fountain quests with german names (okay that one might just be hoyo being bad at languages), the dark spots in the cider lake that are usually used to indicate underwater structures, the legend of the pitch black whale told by the fisherman in mondstadt (was this a tease for the all devouring narwhale?), how is venti the weakest archon when their power is based on worship and he has a whole ass church, DURINS HEART WAKING UP APPARENTLY??? idk i could get going but these are the unresolved story threads i could think of off the top of my head haha
I can answer one. The Dragonspine Nail was inactive. The corruption didn't come from the nail, it came from the Abyss trying to counter the active nail. We only activated the Dragonspine nail recently, while the Chasm nail had been active since the beginning but suppressed by the Abyss.
I imagine Mondstadt getting larger with or just before Snezhnaya's release, since it's apparently to the north of Mondstadt. Liben mentioned a location named "Nod-Krai" (which lies in the southernmost part of Snezhnaya) last time we met him. There's a good chance it's a location very close to Dornman Port.
Maybe that'll be their port? We'll just have to see :D
I still have faith they are doing this because after snezhnaya we will have a proper mondstadt Act (the one we have is called a prologue, and liyue is Act I)
In fact, in the travail trailer Khaenri’ah is Act ??? and not Act 7 after snezhnaya, meaning there’s likely going to be something in between ❤
That would explain why mondstadt is receiving no characters and no map expansions (unlike Liyue): because there will be a whole update for it :3💕 and maybe in 7.0 we get a big mondstadt update with Dornman Port
That’s my theory
I feel like if they had to add a mond expansion it wouls have to be some major lore revelation and they want to squeeze as much out of genshin's mystery as possible that theyre intentionally stalling major lore revelations like the time island
Sure stall the nameless island, but let Dornman Port out of prison xD
Liyue still has the black cliff forge expansion on the way
Imagine THAT coming out before Dornman Port xD
@@GoatLiffy I have feeling that the Forge expansion is going out first than the Dornman Port lol
@@shamsielshahar120 would be more in line with how things in this game has come out lmao
3:23 5.3 does feature a liyue character ^^ lan yan’s drip marketing was just released (not really, it’s been 2 hours from posting this)
"We do not speak of Breath of the Wild demo region" - Hoyoverse probably.
lmaooo valid
I think Mondstadt will get the proverbial 'reach-around' in 6.x. The whole thing with Varka is bound to be big.
Maybe if they wanted to give Snezhnaya a bit more time, that would make sense :D
Everyone thought we'd get Dornman Port with Fontaine, but for some reason they just never did that. While this may be coping, I'd like to believe that Mondstadt is going to be very important to the story again sometime soon (possibly with the Mare Jivari) and when that happens it will have a huge focus again. I mean at this point it's almost suspicious how little they involve Mondstadt in things, like they're trying to save it for something. I mean Venti STILL doesn't have a second story quest after all this time.
I genuinely believe that we are going back there. Kaeya is obviously somewhat important to the whole overarching plot. We MUST investigate Diluc's past more eventually, like his father had a delusion??? outta nowhere? Although I think they might keep that for Snezhnaya. Also, Albedo destroying Mondstadt? Varka needs to come back? The fact that Durin can wake up? The port? VENTI STORY QUEST ARC II? And I would love to explore some characters more like Rosaria. I'll stay delulu for a bit.
dude, even *I* miss mondstadt and i've only been playing since early February of 2024 .. i spent so much time in Mondstadt being scared to progress past it for months bro LOLL 'cause like i already knew it had jack shit for content in comparison to just. it's neighboring region of Liyue which had JUST been given a HUGE expansion (that i STILL haven't entirely explored despite nearly running out of quests n shit to do in the game atp)
Ok but hear me out. Luiye is bound to get more characters because it's the china. So it's gonna get more attention. As for the other regions, they're more recent, so of course they're still not done with their characters. Chiori, in fact, should be considered a Fontaine character since her whole thing is her having moved a long time ago. She appears in fontaine, is always in fontaiem, so even tho she's technically from Inazuma she should be considered a Fontaine character. That would leave us with Kirara being the last one!
I had that Liyue reasoning in the first cut of the video, but I cut it out cause it's still no excuse to leave another region for that long when other regions have been getting their updates.
And no, Chiori is categorically Inazuman. She doesn't dolphin jump like Fontaine characters do, and she gets included in the Inazuma category if there are events that centers around buffs related to character regions. She grew up in Inazuma as well.
@GoatLiffy fair point but whatever.
The mondstadt archon quest was actually a prologue, so we'll definely get a bunch of lore in the future, probably after the khaenri'ah chapter!
monstadt will come back
since the "portal to celestia" was stated to be in monstadt at the spot of ventis statue, so, yeah, mondstadts going to be the central city in the finale, like,
you started here and despite seeing the whole world, this is where its going to end or find its climactic finale ultimately
guys i always miss mondstadt so much i am always wishing for more from it, i really hope sometime this hoyo-year they give us more, heck, (most likely unpopular opinion), i wouldn't even mind if szchnezniya was postponed for much more mondstadt! oh also-- fun fact, fischl hasn't been featured in ANY of the actual story aside from the genius invocation tcg start quest, and the very ending of Anna the Adventurer.
Mondstad is my fav region with some of my fav character like Mona and Klee and Venti i'm so sad it's been left behind. btw there is a rumor that around the 5.5 patch there is gonna be like a priest character from Mondstad coming out
This is the first video I watched from you but the outro, "sayonara", would it be better to use "mata ne" because sayonara is used if you wont be seeing the other person anymore or for atleast a very very long time
Ehe, maybe cause I'm thinking that there may be some viewers who might not come back for long time :P
Jk, I just like saying sayonara better, but I'll take matanee into considerations :D
@@GoatLiffy
Come on liffy, expect your viewers to come back even if it is not on every video you upload.
@@Kairacayra But I like sayonara betteeeerr, it rolls off the tongue for me already :P
@@GoatLiffy you have said that sooner ^_^ if you like it I have nothing against it.
Mondstadt is one of my favorites, if not favorite region, as a 1.0/prereg player. It and Liyue just give me so much nostalgia to spending hours in quarantine just losing myself in the game and exploration. Granted, after 4 years, it's not as easy to feel that "ooh shiny" sensation as easily, but a lot of the new mechanics and exploration do make the new areas feel fresh and unique. (Like Fontaine's underwater and Natlan's saurians.)
I do wish they would retroactively add some things like the quick travel lights we have to zip across Sumeru for some areas, especially tall mountains with no teleporter.
I've always believed in the theory that since Mond only said "prologue", and due to the words around Venti's statue, that it's plausible to think we'll go back there someday. I still remember when Dragonspine and the Chasm were finally added, and we all lost our minds over able to travel to things in the distance. The Inazuma islands and all the speculation for the free space was sm fun too, debunked as most of it was.
Eula is still one of my mains and I'm really sad I couldn't get cons on her last rerun, and so happy I pulled for her when she came out, at least. The chronicled wish was in and out in a flash, and should really have been used for the Mond and cryo characters they seem to really not want to rerun these days. (Pretty surprised triple banners didn't stay a thing tbh.)
All this long-winded message and nostalgiaposting to say, thank you so much for this video.
It brought back so many wonderful memories, and got me a lil emotional, since Mondstadt is a big comfort for me. Great video, love the format and editing, and I wish you and your channel great success and a very happy holidays/new year ahead. Looking forward to more of your videos! 😊❤
You're the first english channel I've seen that didn't butcher the pronunciation of Liyue too much lol. Kudos for that.
Being southeast asian sort of helps xD
of course... mondstadt has the most convenient crafting table location (teleport+a couple of jumps and you're there)... so i still go there daily
Was my go to as well until Fontaine became a thing :P
what about Liyue's being one dash away from their southern waypoint(?)
Hmmm. I think the reason Mondstadt was barely forgotten because it has no correlation to any issues other nation has, given that Mondstadt, Liyue and Sumeru are connected in landscape terms, and since this nation is introduced as a prologue of the main story, this nation doesn't have a significance of what the main plot is actually showing to us.
But given the stacking of questions and lore bombs dropped after Act 4 of Natlan arc, the theory of Celestia's existence and involvement is apparently returning back on Mondstadt and its archon, assuming that Snezhnaya and the Tsaritsa will tell something on everything unanswered things hanging on queue since Liyue arc (the contract between Zhongli and Tsarista). As of now, aside from a nation of freedom, Mondstadt is a nation of mystery that covers something dark within its walls. 🙃
They literally have one big piece of lore, which is the stolen statue of Seven, and they never once touched it xD
We never even figured out what the Abyss was using that statue for, and how they were able to take it all those years ago.
@@GoatLiffy Yeah, the inverted statue that was almost forgotten but still hanging its own theory.
And some entities mentioned are blurry on which side they are on, whether they are allies, enemies or neutral. The Abyss, The Fatui, Celestia, and apparently, Dainsleif. Even if they are included and involved on the lore, there are still gray areas on their entity that doesn't solidify their real side. 🙃
@@boss_one The only thing I know is that EVERYONE is against the Abyss. There's a line somewhere in the game that says that the Abyss is the one common enemy of Teyvat or something.
I'd like to think that the Fatui is just another example of a noble cause, but terrible means type of thing. And you can sort of see it in their leadership, since Capitano have shown himself to have been an actual honorable warrior, but then there's someone like Dottore right under him who just looks like a complete freakshow xD
mondstadt is the gateway to celestia we are 100% coming back after the khaenriah arc is over
@@dhruvacharya-wx4bj teleporting up there just to see everyone ded lul
I really hope that Varka being a character will bring Monstadt back into the story, along with an area expansion and hopefully a 2nd Venti story quest.
He's holding onto so much that he hasnt told us and a quest would be perfect to explain things, like maybe more about the Hexenzirkel.
Mondstat may not be as fleshy as other regions or character but every time i go back there for event or something feels like I'm home from a tiring adventure
Home is where the heart is :D
the dandelion sea has also been mentioned since 1.0 (the lil guy at the main bridge in mondstadt talks about it)
I'm loving this video and this channel. I could totally get behind binge watching all your videos
Ayy, thanks a buncho :D
They just released the drip marketing for lan yan today
been playing since released date in Asia server, UID around 600k. As person who's been playing this game for that long, i gotta admit that this game is the embodiment of the word *Slow* and *Stalling* it's ridiculously how much they tease about literally anything but none of that even being touch by the dev, instead they release more area to explore which majority people couldn't care less anymore of that, the content inside of genshin is also getting fatigue and repetitively boring, trying to be positive about genshin but nowadays is just feel pessimistic about it.
i think that a map expansion for mondstadt is so dificult beacause is the first nation, imagine tô put a New portion of a map with Nothing tô do with the story in a begginer location...
I love Mondtadt so much and it feels so nostalgic, though it does feel like its been forgotten. I only have to hope that they return to it since Mondtadt was only labeled as a prologue and not actually an archon quest
I subbed you because you picked my nostalgia once again for this beloved forgotten country.Wish dorman port expansion comes aound the year.❤
Aha, thank you :D
dont forget that Mondstad has the character teased on "About ..." lines with the longest time to release, that beng Varka
Venti quest 2
Diluc information organization and connections
Grandmaster Varka
Alice and the hexencircle
Sea of dandelions
Dornman Port city
Kaeya kanreiah connections
The gateway below Barbados statue in mondstat
The basement of the church
The second floor of the knights of favonius headquarters
Supposedly there is an underground tunnel system below cider lake
Also that dandelion sea region
Yupsss
Insane quality my dude, earned a sub
Thank youss :D
Mondstadt definitely will be end story relevant, I dont think we need anything tied with it just now. We occasionally visit it for some events, but I don't think it's a good idea to drop some chasm-level expansion in the middle of Natlan or Snezhnaya. Same for random new charcaters. For X.7 version, maybe, with some events, but I think we all know that we're going to wait for Khaenriah/Celestia chapter for Mond to be relevant main story-wise. I dont think its bad. As if we dont have enough things to do in new regions, better they stay consistent and Mond will wait for its time.
I as a Noelle main can really realize how SHE is forgotten. So whole Mondstadt with her is not surprising for me.
Where the f are the knights expeditions in Natlan?? They should be fighting the abyss too if they're still there when the war hits right
motherfuckers cloaking device-ing everywhere
They were newer said to be in the west.(The expedition)
Varka's letter from 3.1 says they are in the northermost reaches of Teyvat.
There he also says that Capitano got order to head in Natlan.
Only time we hear from them being in Natlan is Mavuika's drip marketing but we don't know how long ago Varka was there but we can tell it wasn't really recent because he was gone before 3.1 and most likely 3.0 . And we don't know if Varla went there alone or if he had the whole expedition with him
I feel like I’m 5.5 paimon will get the traveler to purify the abyss barbatos statue in liyue and that will be the stature for either Dorman port of the nameless island. What do I have to back this up? Nothing but my tiny brain! 😅
I always figured that since monsdadt had so much lore and stuff and it has the gate to celestia we would circle back to it after shnezhnaya and dormman port would be released. Then maybe wed run into someone talking about the nameless island (after doing the initial quest) and then it would go from there.
imainge that random npc near the sundail suddenly finding his way onto the Nameless Island and he ends up being the one to solve shit for us xD
Something is definitely happening with Durin.
The Simulanka event heavily hinted that the real Durin would soon return, and we'd have a hand in saving him.
Tbh we need a new Fontaine character, like bruh we don’t have enough as sumeru
I mostly still finish my dailies in Mondtadt, it's my Traveler's home
In before you get that one super long far Dragonspine one xD
This may be out of topic, but 1:40 really sounded like Spongebob narrator and I love it
HAHAHAHA, insert "twelve thousand years later" meme here xD
Half the time I think Hoyo introduces concepts that they want us to forget so they can bring it back later
Well, Mondstad is my favorite City or Nation since the beginning, and I am still going to Mondstad to collect my commissions, rewards, for healing(Auto-Heal near Statue of 7) and of course to the alchemy bench or even to the Blacksmith..❤
Maybe Dornman Port will be added in as our way of getting into Snezhnaya, or possibly the other way around, maybe we'll go from Snezhnaya all the way to Dornman Port, and then it'll be unlocked.
From how the map seems to be expanding, I can see Snezhnaya pretty much being on the top of the map, right above Fontaine (but not on the same level as Fontaine, closer to the actual water level), being like a similar situation to how Inazuma is, like a entire separate island surrounded by water, which could be how we leave Snezhnaya to Mondstadt again.
Also, since I mentioned Inazuma, seeing from details from world quests, there is a plan for a volcano to be added on Natlan, and if you look on the map towards one of the blocked off areas of the paimon barrier you can see a concept model of it, and it is right to the side that connects with the the foggy island of Inazuma, which makes me believe that they'll probably finish up that part of the map by putting the volcano there, since, in lore, Inazuma is a secluded place surrounded by water, so there wouldn't be any other islands other than the ones of Inazuma and a small expansion from the Nathan side, which makes the only candidates being to put Snezhnaya more to the right of Natlan itself, which is not that likely knowing that Teucer and Tartaglia, on Tartaglia's story quest, confirmed that Snezhnaya is not that far away from Liyue, with Teucer being able to come to Liyue by boat and Tartaglia a few lines after confirming that Snezhnaya is not that far away, which with that information makes it more likely to be up to the top of Fontaine, as it can connect, if not that easily, but can, to some water streams that can send you to Liyue.
That's my hypothesis, you're free to criticize or point out flaws if you find some and would like to share.
Sounds plausible. Since going further up North shows that it gets quite a bit colder. Fontaine's pretty cold looking.
And then there's the random snowy buttfuck that is Dragonspine all the way a bit more south and Inazuma doesn't even have snow xD
@GoatLiffy that we have a explanation to, it's because of the Skyfrost Nail up above it that freezes it, but even then that is still weird to look on the map to see, based on my hypothesis, a giant island with snow on all places and then just a little dot of snow in comparison.
@@Kirgo_Furuey Hehe, green, ocean, even more green and yellow, and then suddenly white out of nowhere lmao
We know lot of Monstadt's people are in Sheznaya. We'll see them again.
Mondstadt is supposed to get a region expansion before Shnezhnyah releases because if things go correctly genshin will probably end in a year or two if they don’t drag it.
(Also you can see the “underground” area by the city under the water so that’s probably gonna be something too.) 😅
mondstadt is literally the region i'd call home in genshin its sad that its underlooked by the devs :/
They need to make venti useful again. Releasing a character with a skill, for example, which is a floating object (orb, blade, anything) that the venti's ult can absorb and spin so it widens its area of effect or attack would be neat
Ooof, toughy dat gon be :P
@GoatLiffy they made Jean stronger with Furina, so it is possible, haha
I've been thinking about this for a couple of years, I hope your thoughts about the nameless island are something they're actually planning on, because that's what I was expecting about it, more now than ever since we got what we got in the 5.1 patch. I hope we get something during the version 5 of the game...
I just refuse to accept that THAT is all the island contributes in terms of lore and exploration. Surely they will have some sort of a plan to utilize it :P
@@GoatLiffy I have a friend that recently joined thanks to the game made available in Xbox, and I noticed that Venti told the traveler a lot of things that are not correct once the prologue was over, and I don't think it's because the devs didn't know back then, they have prove over and over that they know where the story is going and they know how to foreshadow... Like, I began to think that he let Signora get the gnosis and he just pretended to be weak.
So hopefully this is not just copium and they're actually cooking something else for Mondstatd.
I think it’s pretty obvious that Mondstadt is far from completion. I’m willing to bet that after we finish Snezhnaya, we will revisit Mondstadt as if it’s a whole new nation. Starting from 7.0 get multiple new expansions and set of archon quests that finally address the mysteries we have. It’ll be chapter 7 of the story. Then afterwards we’ll head to Khaenri’ah for chapter 8. I’m also willing to bet that this has been the plan all along. In the Teyvat Chapter Trailer Travail; Khaenri’ah’s chapter number is blurred out, meaning it’s not chapter 7. It was never intended to come out directly after Snezhnaya.
after snezhnaya would probably feature tying loose ends before jumping underground
Disagree on "underground area" thing. It's a sub area, or "DLC area", and Sumeru does not have one. But Fontaine has. And Dragonspine is also a sub area too.
I'm pretty sure I wrote underground SUBarea in the video? I gave my reasoning as to why we can give Sumeru a pass, but if that's not fine for you then aight :P
Liyue, Inazuma, Fontaine, all have one, Natlan's probs gonna get one with the Night Kingdom stuff. I didn't bring up Fontaine cause I still consider it a newer region. I also mentioned that Dragonspine is a subarea as well but not like the other ones, soooo yeah?
During Natlan we have a LOT of mondstad reference so maybe on 5.x patches a new expansion and new character will come
I dont think its forgotten, I think they are intentionally leaving it in fog with tiny small reminders of its existence throughough so that either before or after Snezhnaya they hit us with a wave of mondstad content making us come full circle back to where it all began.
After all, we still got varka and his expedition, the sea of dandelions, the port, alice, we have the whole "kaeya is from khaenria" stuff, mona keeps showing up too, we got lisa with the witches circle, venti who is CLEARLY not telling us all he knows, etc etc
add to it how many call backs natlan is making to it like with capitano and mavuika basically being diluc and kaeya, the phlogiston currents being basically heated wind currents, us flying to fight a corrupted dragon which needed purification due to the abyss, etc etc.
I dont think its forgotte, I think its just waiting for its perfect comeback.
Imagine if we get blackcliff area before Mondstadt new area
That's what I said in another comment lmao
Decent video, though you definitely have forgotten things in regards to Mondstat relevance like Kaeya's appearance in the Caribert quest as well as the defiled statue definitely not being forgotten since it was referenced there as well.
I mentioned Kaeya's appearance in Caribert. And the Defiled Statue is only referred to in that quest, there's still no quest where we see it come into play ever again. Though now that the Abyss has the eye of the Field Tiller, we should be seeing it sometime soon.
@@GoatLiffy Oh must've missed the Kaeya mention then; also yes I'm expecting to learn exactly what the purpose of desecrating the statues is other than being symbolic.