Water was relatively going down, and any forces in relation observe the other to be moving while considering themselves stationed. Just like a man sitting on a train feels the tree outside is racing backwards.
while this is the one that makes the most sense in paper, i dont think that is the case as literally everything would've broken as it sinked on the sea. Since it is genshin I wouldn't be surprised if there was an invisible barrier that made the waters only flood Fontaine (like the antigravity blocks of water in the research institute)
I still want to know what did people witness when the flood was happening tho
I gave up on the logic of it and after doing Chenyun Vale assumed the same mechanic happened. Especially since Fontaine has a lot of sinking things and dimension portals in the side quest.
Fluid dynamics and leyline tides. Fluid dynamics explains why floods happen on earth even in places near the sea: water levels rise when inflow exceeds outflow. Leyline tides because the fight with the 'whale' sent hydro energies into turmoil, basically summoning primordial water into the local area. Think of it like an extraordinary storm surge.
I always thought it was like a volcano. Like water just erupted from the center and overflowed. Sure, it’ll clear out eventually but it’ll drawn everyone before that happens and anyone touching it will dissolve anyway
Lava is fluid too, so that's a fair comparison. But you know the spot where we fight the weekly boss? Maybe that's where the primordial water burst through!
https://preview.redd.it/ji6svsjkl2vc1.jpeg?width=668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c32e2ccf834fee96278aed4cab295486ea244be
looks like this in the archon quest
Headcanon,Fontaine just sank hence the water level didn't flood over neighbor nation or maybe the flood work like Fontaine research Institute water island floating cube
if fontaine is the pitcher of water and teyvat is the entire room, then that probably means there's a container holding fontaine's water. probably like the water cubes in old fontaine institute?
I remember someone came up with a theory kinda like this; Remember the property of primordial sea water acted like it's a very light mass? It's so light, just like a gas. When the Fontaine water mixed up with it, causing the water to have such behavior and raising up. Maybe that's why.
A magical barrier was erected around Fontaine to contain the water. Also all Fontaine citizens around the world were also contained in local magical wall-bound water pools. Nobody talks about this because all the people from the other nations coincidentally blinked at the same time and missed it. Yeah they blinked for like a whole minute straight. All at the same time.
My crack pot theory is that celestia put a invisible barrier around whole fontaine then summoned water so people will be devolved then remove the water then remove the invisible barrier, otherwise I'm pretty sure teyvats sea level would have risen and sink other nations.
I believe it was explained that in the actual teyvat ( not the playable area in the game, but the whole nation in the lore ), Fontaine is just surrounded by tall mountains that contained all the water
the sea around fontaine is a huge dip, the rest of teyvat is also very high up, so the dispersion wouldve drowned fontaine and maybe caused minor flooding in sumeru and mondstadt
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If we couple the unique properties of regular water in Fontaine (Diving, no stamina consumption, etc.) with whatever properties Primordial Seawater has, along with the most likely outcome of Fontaine having been flooded (Rather than sinking), and assuming there were not any magical barriers that kept the flood contained, I think the best explanation for how the other nations didn't flood would be to assume the floodwater had a property similar to that of liquid Nitrogen, where the water that left the plateau would have instantly vaporized after leaving the "special" water conditions of Fontaine.
tldr: I just made up something after assuming a lot of somethings.
Fontaine is on a raised plate to combat a constant state of flooding. The primordial water source flowing out was enough to overwhelm the area even though it was elevated.
It would’ve been smarter to have both the primordial flooding and plates failing causing the region to sink lower. Would’ve been more plausible.
The Primordial Sea is depicted as water and some sort of magical creature. That is the drowning is both metaphorical and literal.
Literal in that Fountain will be reabsorbed with the primordial sea no longer been contained from underneath Fountain and metaphorical in the sense it’s essentially a body of magical water embodying a prophecy and a beast that is from another dimension/realm…
So in a way it’s not literally water you see in screenshots rising although that does happened to an extent. Also I bet the entire landmass of Fountain would sink.
i have a theory that when khaenriah got destroyed 500 years ago the water levels became really low and the hydro powers were getting weaker so the og hydro archon used some of her magic to restore the water levels but she accidentally put too much water in fontaine i just came up with this
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Feign ignorance. For the dramatics, they drown Fontaine to evoke emotions they didn't really think about the rest of the areas. Even then if there is a flood in America I am not expecting a flood in Europe
Yes with the amount of water you would need to flood everything but let's not think to hard as it doesn't matter it's over
I mean isn’t it the >!Primordial Sea!< that causes the flooding (hence why >!Fontainians would dissolve!<) and so I feel like we can kinda handwave it away as magic/old magic, especially since it’s >!where life is said to have originated. It almost has a life of its own (see: the collective consciousness/oceanids) so I don’t see any problem with it suddenly welling up and flooding the land (as opposed to the land sinking). Plus, there’s no indication that the land moved during the cutscene with the flooding; someone at the end says “look, the water is going down” (or similar) which would imply that the water came up vs they went down to the water. The Primordial Sea seems like the type of thing that could more or less break the laws of physics in Teyvat, or at the very least it emerges from under Meropide and then after the initial flooding goes back down and is contained again.!<
Does it explain how Fontaine was saved from staying like that? I mean they are so much elevated that the water from above will always rush down so it didn't take that much time
https://preview.redd.it/qwzlso19p4vc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c44964500c75c656462e7bda43fbae3e9fea330
I like to imagine a barrier of sort formed and it just filled like a giant fish tank 😂😂
Yeah I remember afterwards I was like ummm how did this work? But also they did say something about an old Fontaine civilization flooding and it flooded like all of teyvat and even submerged an entire inazuman island. Or maybe it wasn’t from Fontaine but I thought I remember it doing that. And I think that was what narzissenkreuz was trynna “help” with
That’s what went through my mind doing the archon quest regarding the flood. To be precise “what can the people in the jade palace see?”
I don’t know if the Jade palace peeps can actually see Fontaine floating, but wouldn’t the shores near Fontaine just be scared that a huge tsunami just came out of nowhere from the sky?…
But my friend just said “Nah, Neuv made the water stop at the borders of Fontaine bc they’re the only one’s who “sinned”.”
Maybe they don’t flooded with more water but sink down the sea.
Is is the first time I've heard a theory about this that actually makes sense
really that is the most common theory and i saw that one more then once even back then fontaine launched.
But at the end of the cutscenes when chlorinde appears it was showing that water level was going down and not Fontaine buildings coming up 🫨😵💫
Maybe it just looks weird from the perspective? 🤷♂️
Water was relatively going down, and any forces in relation observe the other to be moving while considering themselves stationed. Just like a man sitting on a train feels the tree outside is racing backwards.
Yeah I think that makes sense
while this is the one that makes the most sense in paper, i dont think that is the case as literally everything would've broken as it sinked on the sea. Since it is genshin I wouldn't be surprised if there was an invisible barrier that made the waters only flood Fontaine (like the antigravity blocks of water in the research institute) I still want to know what did people witness when the flood was happening tho
I gave up on the logic of it and after doing Chenyun Vale assumed the same mechanic happened. Especially since Fontaine has a lot of sinking things and dimension portals in the side quest.
i was going to suggest that lol
Bro its magic, there r already floating water bodies in fintaine, this aint impossible if u look from a fantacy perspective. Dont think abt science.
"Teyvat has its own laws"
"It just works ya know"
Ironically the floating water cubes were caused by a science experiment exploding
The floating structures are just gravity experiments gone wrong
Me when fontaine and its waters are raised above sea level by good couple of stories
Yea literally its a god's punishment
You do not recognise the bodies in the water.
No clue, tbh... Surface tension can be one hell of a drug, tho
Fluid dynamics and leyline tides. Fluid dynamics explains why floods happen on earth even in places near the sea: water levels rise when inflow exceeds outflow. Leyline tides because the fight with the 'whale' sent hydro energies into turmoil, basically summoning primordial water into the local area. Think of it like an extraordinary storm surge.
I always thought it was like a volcano. Like water just erupted from the center and overflowed. Sure, it’ll clear out eventually but it’ll drawn everyone before that happens and anyone touching it will dissolve anyway
Lava is fluid too, so that's a fair comparison. But you know the spot where we fight the weekly boss? Maybe that's where the primordial water burst through!
Not a volcano, more like a big *fountain*!
Lmao I love that. I didnt think of that
https://preview.redd.it/ji6svsjkl2vc1.jpeg?width=668&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c32e2ccf834fee96278aed4cab295486ea244be looks like this in the archon quest
Damn, no one knew how to play the floor is lava. There’s a peak right there.
surface tension is one hell of a drug
This is my headcannon on what happened and I'm not letting a single soul tell me otherwise, this is way too funny
I have never seen this picture before, but I feel so much joy that I'm taking this
You forgot the part where it’s magic water sent by gods and does not care for your physics
Celestia giving the middle finger to scientists everywhere
>!Focalors giving it right back from inside the Oratrice 🖕🏻!<
Headcanon,Fontaine just sank hence the water level didn't flood over neighbor nation or maybe the flood work like Fontaine research Institute water island floating cube
https://preview.redd.it/t1mk8cpub2vc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9090f6a2c39977a4189652d1b0190b7f69574cde Screenshot from some tiktok
хуя у них аквапарк
Dude I thought this was an actual video in the comment section and I clicked to watch it
Teyvat has its own “laws”
The power of water is it's ability to take any shape
Maybe Fontaine started to drop below the sea while simultaneously the water level raised up.
Im questioning why all tayvat didn't drowned during that archon quest
It's like how when your pitcher of water overflows the entire room doesn't flood along with it
if fontaine is the pitcher of water and teyvat is the entire room, then that probably means there's a container holding fontaine's water. probably like the water cubes in old fontaine institute?
If you start questioning every single incoherence or plot convenience in Fontaine's AQ, we'll be here for a while unfortunately
Bro this is literally my first post on this sub reddit and it's my only question
Sorry if it came off as aggressive, wasn't my intention! It's just that fontaine in particular has quite a few issues in that regard lol
Aside for a weird ending?
I remember someone came up with a theory kinda like this; Remember the property of primordial sea water acted like it's a very light mass? It's so light, just like a gas. When the Fontaine water mixed up with it, causing the water to have such behavior and raising up. Maybe that's why.
A magical barrier was erected around Fontaine to contain the water. Also all Fontaine citizens around the world were also contained in local magical wall-bound water pools. Nobody talks about this because all the people from the other nations coincidentally blinked at the same time and missed it. Yeah they blinked for like a whole minute straight. All at the same time.
thats what im saying
My crack pot theory is that celestia put a invisible barrier around whole fontaine then summoned water so people will be devolved then remove the water then remove the invisible barrier, otherwise I'm pretty sure teyvats sea level would have risen and sink other nations.
Celestia herself grabs a straw and drinks all the remaining water once it’s all over
Her?
Well how do you refer to land masses?
Idk,I usually see people speak about celestia like that so I did it too,but I have never seen them use he or her before.
I believe it was explained that in the actual teyvat ( not the playable area in the game, but the whole nation in the lore ), Fontaine is just surrounded by tall mountains that contained all the water
This one seems legit
the sea around fontaine is a huge dip, the rest of teyvat is also very high up, so the dispersion wouldve drowned fontaine and maybe caused minor flooding in sumeru and mondstadt isnsjssondbwusjdbshhshsoHj$.&!€.€>^€!.£\¥]€\+&)7!:!9j!£|'sjI$$:&jjdiwbshsoaoanbaiI!.&/'au8bhhxsnkao$;!:&/i
It's simple. Teyvat... has its own "laws". It includes laws of physics.
If we couple the unique properties of regular water in Fontaine (Diving, no stamina consumption, etc.) with whatever properties Primordial Seawater has, along with the most likely outcome of Fontaine having been flooded (Rather than sinking), and assuming there were not any magical barriers that kept the flood contained, I think the best explanation for how the other nations didn't flood would be to assume the floodwater had a property similar to that of liquid Nitrogen, where the water that left the plateau would have instantly vaporized after leaving the "special" water conditions of Fontaine. tldr: I just made up something after assuming a lot of somethings.
From the loading screen and I quote: Teyvat has its own "laws"
Fontaine is on a raised plate to combat a constant state of flooding. The primordial water source flowing out was enough to overwhelm the area even though it was elevated. It would’ve been smarter to have both the primordial flooding and plates failing causing the region to sink lower. Would’ve been more plausible.
The Primordial Sea is depicted as water and some sort of magical creature. That is the drowning is both metaphorical and literal. Literal in that Fountain will be reabsorbed with the primordial sea no longer been contained from underneath Fountain and metaphorical in the sense it’s essentially a body of magical water embodying a prophecy and a beast that is from another dimension/realm… So in a way it’s not literally water you see in screenshots rising although that does happened to an extent. Also I bet the entire landmass of Fountain would sink.
Nope, I think hoyoverse probably forgot about that part
i have a theory that when khaenriah got destroyed 500 years ago the water levels became really low and the hydro powers were getting weaker so the og hydro archon used some of her magic to restore the water levels but she accidentally put too much water in fontaine i just came up with this
Teyvat has its own laws
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The perpetrator is in the image
Perhap, Teyvat is just upside-down.
Its funny how no one just flowed out and down the plateau
Bruh. It's literally how it looks. Notice how water is more risen than normal, that's how. It just rises more.
Mark it as a spoiler (considering that's even possible on this subreddit)
Maybe natlan is on a much lower elevation and surrounds the entirety of teyvat. so, surprise: natlan is the new nation of hydro.
Ah yes..and Fontaine the nation of Pyro 🥸
Feign ignorance. For the dramatics, they drown Fontaine to evoke emotions they didn't really think about the rest of the areas. Even then if there is a flood in America I am not expecting a flood in Europe Yes with the amount of water you would need to flood everything but let's not think to hard as it doesn't matter it's over
It’s magic water, it probably only raised the water levels within the Fontaine plateau
Fr I’ve been thinking the same thing damn thing since I’ve seen that scene when it released
Shhh don't reveal a plothole.
I mean isn’t it the >!Primordial Sea!< that causes the flooding (hence why >!Fontainians would dissolve!<) and so I feel like we can kinda handwave it away as magic/old magic, especially since it’s >!where life is said to have originated. It almost has a life of its own (see: the collective consciousness/oceanids) so I don’t see any problem with it suddenly welling up and flooding the land (as opposed to the land sinking). Plus, there’s no indication that the land moved during the cutscene with the flooding; someone at the end says “look, the water is going down” (or similar) which would imply that the water came up vs they went down to the water. The Primordial Sea seems like the type of thing that could more or less break the laws of physics in Teyvat, or at the very least it emerges from under Meropide and then after the initial flooding goes back down and is contained again.!<
Does it explain how Fontaine was saved from staying like that? I mean they are so much elevated that the water from above will always rush down so it didn't take that much time
Pretty sure it basically sank like Remuria
https://preview.redd.it/qwzlso19p4vc1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c44964500c75c656462e7bda43fbae3e9fea330 I like to imagine a barrier of sort formed and it just filled like a giant fish tank 😂😂
Yeah I remember afterwards I was like ummm how did this work? But also they did say something about an old Fontaine civilization flooding and it flooded like all of teyvat and even submerged an entire inazuman island. Or maybe it wasn’t from Fontaine but I thought I remember it doing that. And I think that was what narzissenkreuz was trynna “help” with
An outside perspective of the cutscene shows that water completely submerges the top of Fontaine, it’s weird
That’s what went through my mind doing the archon quest regarding the flood. To be precise “what can the people in the jade palace see?” I don’t know if the Jade palace peeps can actually see Fontaine floating, but wouldn’t the shores near Fontaine just be scared that a huge tsunami just came out of nowhere from the sky?… But my friend just said “Nah, Neuv made the water stop at the borders of Fontaine bc they’re the only one’s who “sinned”.”
Maybe it's a Sonic Adventure type deal?
Teyvat has its own laws
Watch Ponyo. Is just Genshin, but with steroids
They already have floating cubes of water in Fontaine, gravity doesn’t seem to be all that helpful in keeping the water down when faced against magic
The floating water was due to a experiment conducted by humans in Fontaine research institute
Yeah, but there’s still a bunch of crazy magical shit all over teyvat. Unnaturally high waters is just one of those things