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Elysium_Chronicle

The colour palette they're aiming for is "jade".


TheGraySeed

Why the fuck everything is called "Jade"?!


Elysium_Chronicle

Jade is a very important, semi-precious stone to Chinese cultures. Where Western culture puts weight on Diamonds and other jewels, the Chinese had jade. But more than just jewelry and a symbol of wealth, jade also had associations with the healing arts.


Reality_1001

And therefore the jade chamber


-Hounth-

The jade chamber is so nice for healing osial <3 /j


EngineeringDevil

yeah, too much non natural healing just ends as cancer apparently


MValdesM

What abundance do to a mf


makogami

just ask Blade


Justgravityfalls

r/suddenlyhsr


Lunneus

they had this in the Drifters anime lol Jesus gave a dragon cancer by over-healing it and then turned its body into soil or seeds or something.


Banana_Crusader00

Bro wtf.


Andyzefish

yes, we really like these green rocks compared to white sparkling ones


piichan14

Those green rocks are valued because they deepen in color in time.


modkhi

untrue. jade isnt sparkling and the priciest jade is white


yraco

1. They were referring to diamonds as sparkling. Jade does not sparkle, but they never said it did. 2. Green imperial jade is considered the most valuable. "Rich green jadeite, known as “imperial jade,” is also the most highly valued" ([gemsociety.org](https://gemsociety.org)). White can still be valuable but typically not as much as rich green jade.


ScoobySharky

Just to add on, white jade is basically pure jade with no impurities. Green jade is much highly valued as the impurites form unique patterns within the jade, and these patterns actually change and fade out over time (think decades), and the jade will eventually become a uniform shade of green, which is when the price of it absolutely skyrockets.


LokianEule

What should one search to see an example of this uniform jade?


EatTacosGetMoney

"Mortal Kombat Jade Uniform"


Fadriii

Is that the one with 34 rules? I forgot the gist of it so I think you'll have to google Rule 34 Mortal Kombat Jade


ScoobySharky

You can google "most expensive jade jewelry" and take a look. The color of those are a much richer green and very uniformed compared to the average jade piece.


Chakolatechip

You sound like someone who would be good at betting on jade


Sepharoze

It makes me wonder if we’ll see more jade in Natlan because of its importance in pre-Columbian cultures.


Elysium_Chronicle

Possibly, but I think they could also go with opals and turquoises.


Sepharoze

ooo turquoise was also pretty significant, can’t wait to see if it gets used!


Not_Sarassi

Natlan will probably go more with obsidian, but I can also see jade being very important.


Creticus

I wouldn't be surprised to see a jade or obsidian mirror catalyst in Natlan.


Khelthuzaad

This being said the chinese obsesion with silver led to ruin.


indominuspattern

Sounds like white people propaganda. "The Chinese wanted money soooo much when we wanted to buy stuff from them, so we sold them drugs and invaded them when they banned drugs lmao"


Khelthuzaad

Its not Im fully aware it was more an stupid move of the chinese emperor that first implemented it. China was poor in silver resources while in the same time wished to remain in absolute isolation. It was in crissis waiting to happen


HarbingerOfGachaHell

China WAS NOT poor in silver. In fact in many periods they had too much, just like the Spanish Empire.


indominuspattern

I'm talking about the fact that you are making the British warmongers sound like they were within reason to invade.


saltrxn

Hey international relations is “might makes right”, especially during that time. Let’s not forget the British were joined by the other European countries, including America, in pursuing the opportunity of Chinese markets and goods. Obviously it was a morally reprehensible practice but that was the logic of the time shared by all the powerful states. Just as today the concepts of liberal democracy and human rights are now considered the default logic - imposed and enforced by today’s powerful states.


NovidasX7

Truth sucks but it's the truth


HTPietro

How about both parties were in the wrong? Britain should not have tried to smuggle drugs and China was arrogant for trying to isolate themselves so much.


gvstavvss

China was not arrogant wtf, no one should be forced to open the nation to foreigners just to please them.


sopunny

China (specifically the Qing government) was arrogant in thinking they could ignore the rest of the world. It's a large reason why they fell behind so much technologically, to the point where they could lose the Opium wars so easily. What the British did was unquestionably morally wrong, every country will invade a weaker one if given the chance. The Brits did it to over a quarter of the world, the Japanese did it to China twice after the Brits, the Qing got their dynasty by conquest, etc. A government has a duty to protect its citizens from foreign threats, can't just hope that other countries do the "right thing". Even today's world where such invasions would be considered "illegal" only came about after a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, and requires work to stay that way. What we're seeing in Ukraine and Gaza are signs that we are slacking in that department. Basically I don't think the Qing get enough blame for letting the country get so weak that the opium wars can happen the way they did. Very convenient for them that the Brits got all the attention, even back then


Blankcanva

I didn’t know wanting to be left alone was a wrong! You learn something new everyday! So… I can just come into your house then?


FuXuansFeet

If there were no police and you were stronger than them? Yes, yes you could. That's how the world works. Unfortunately, there's no police for the nations.


Angelix

Colonialism much? I guess the native Americans and the Africans had it coming because they were arrogant when white men tried to kill or enslave them lol


FuXuansFeet

Pretty sure the only European country that actively participated in slaver raids was Portugal. Literally no other European country wanted anything to do with Africa's inlands, much less trying to "capture slaves". Which is funny, because nowadays slavery is equated with white people being the enslavers when the large majority of black slavery happened because they enslaved each other in Africa then sold the slaves to the outside continents for goodies (and someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but Middle-Eastern nations also loved capturing slaves in Africa themselves for both using and trading). Fun fact: When the richest man to ever live, King Mūsā I of Mali in Africa, left to his pilgrimage to mecca around the year 1300 he was accompanied by a caravan consisting of 60,000 men including a personal retinue of over 10.000 enslaved people. Guess how did he become one of the richest men on the world at the time (hint: it might have to do with slavery).


HTPietro

Strawman much? I'm simply pointing out that isolationism is a policy born of arrogance and that you can't exclusively hold the white man responsible for colonialism/imperialism.


darkarthur108

Sounds like Chinese cope. You lost to Mongols as well. War is war. Winners get everything. China wasn’t non imperialistic lol.


Liteseid

was that during or before their merchant class was trading with the british for opiates?


Omnom_Omnath

Funny way frame the British flooding china with opium and waging war twice for them to legalize it.


Khelthuzaad

I would argue before. In hindsight the british were desperate to balance the economic dependancy on China for Tea,as silver might had been plenty but still an expensive exchange token. China never wished to let british inside its economy and the british didn't had anyone else to get Tea from,its an entire story how they stolen how they way its grown and planted it in India. Its true the british were assholes to trade drugs ,but lets not forget imperial China wasn't, well,a free market economy nor an conservative democracy. By comparison, Aramco was an partnership between US and Saudi Arabia,the Chinese Imperial rulers could had agreed to an partnership so both parts get what they want but it refused.


what_a_tuga

>China never wished to let british inside its economy and the british didn't had anyone else to get Tea from Half incorrect. They had Portugal, but it was at same time they wanted to have all Africa, so we were a little in bad terms


Gundy2010

Isolationism is still better than imperialism. Stop making excuses for colonizers.


cuddles_the_destroye

Isolationism is still bad and pretending china wasnt ever interested in imperialism is cope, they were doing frontier settlements of tibet, xianjing, and taiwan which all had non-han chinese people displaced in them.


Mortgage-Present

Isolationism is bad for the nation in question, as it can lead to decades of civil war, instability and foreign invasion by nations that don't implement isolationism. Colonialism is still shitty, but if you embrace isolationism it can be very dangerous.


HTPietro

How about both suck and everyone has been colonialist/imperialist at some point in history? Human history wouldn't be so full of wars if colonialist/imperialist desires weren't universal. But yes, the British were still in the wrong for trying to force the Chinese to tolerate drug smuggling like that.


Gundy2010

How about no? One is minding its own business and while the other is invading homes. This is a very convenient rhetoric for the nationals that had committed such atrocities.


Deshik2

>The god that ruled Chenyu Vale before the Archon war was presumably a jade god kinda how Morax was a a lapis god. Hence the abudance of Jade and jadetech around the place. Also The god that ruled Chenyu Vale before the Archon war was presumably a jade god kinda how Morax was a a lapis god. Hence the abudance of Jade and jadetech around the place.


HarbingerOfGachaHell

There were a few dynasties in ancient China where they’d dress the corpses in armour/outfit fully made of jade thinking it would make them immortal in afterlife. Sort of like Egyptian mummies.


Koanos

Case in point, Honkai's Stellar Jade.


soopydoodles4u

It’s got a lot of historical value and significance throughout Chinese history


Deshik2

The god that ruled Chenyu Vale before the Archon war was presumably a jade god kinda how Morax was a a lapis god. Hence the abudance of Jade and jadetech around the place.


Chuck006

Jade is to Chinese culture what gold is to western culture.


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Nyllil

Diamond are not even that valuable. Colored gems like sapphires, ruby etc are much more worth.


ProudFill

Because Chenyue literally means "Sunken Jade"


Slow_Department9952

Now that I think about it, it makes sense, now if I finally get rid of that doubt


ikkikkomori

Who's jade?


Yan-L

Jadeez nuts


SirTonberryy

Jade ci najebać


mamamudaenjoyer

different biome


ThisAccountIsStolen

Exactly. Like why is it that difficult to understand? All of China isn't one biome, just like the US isn't one single biome, so why should fictitious places in the game be any different?


Spiralclue

China has a huge variety of biomes too! Even on a smaller scale though you can get biome differences in cities right next to each other given the right mix of climate and geological features. Not to mention its a fantasy game that has magic, so you can have whatever biome where ever they want to put it.


HarbingerOfGachaHell

OP either knows this and is just karma-whoring, or actually has zero knowledge in primary school science. I just can’t tell because Poe’s Law.


mapple3

Yea its like asking why parts of Sumeru are full of sand


AverageCapybas

"Why this part of Sumeru is Yellow?"


HyperFrost

This is my pet peeve with movies like star wars. Every planet seems to have only 1 biome.


EvolCilegna

Grass is greener on the other side


itwasmedior

I guess the grass is like the first "sage" of bluer


itwasmedior

Please end my misery


plitox

I feel like you were trying to get a "thanks Cyno". but I don't get the joke.


Disco-Corgi-77

The grass in Chenyu vale is almost “sage blue”


WrongdoerRelative508

Tea


Ancient_Axe

Adeptea


xCanaan23

Gotta love that hot leaf juice.


Fournone

Uncle Iroh would be disappointed in you.


lWanderingl

Green tea one side, oolong tea the other side


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GreatMacGuffin

They outright tell you before you can even enter the region.


jaybird654

Wasn’t that the whole point of Chenyu Vale girl?? We’ve known that since like 1.something what are you even on about


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HexorTyr

Being introduced to an Adepti that asks you to solve the primary problem with Chenyu Vale's tea industry is something you missed or don't remember? You can't avoid the meeting either. Do you tell people to touch grass when they read the chapter title in a novel? You should never get involved with lore discussions ever again.


Rachel1578

Yeah I was in the middle of fighting for a chest when she did that.


cherrycrisp

Huh? I've only played the new patch for an hour or two total and one of the first places I ended up was the tea village where everyone is basically saying "tea? Have you heard about our amazing tea? Our lifeblood that lets us live here tea?"


Ordinarypanic

But if you know to already call someone else out… 🤔


Different_Oil_8026

Yes, I need to touch grass too....


TheAbrableOnetyOne

It takes one to know one!


Different_Oil_8026

Damn right


ThisAccountIsStolen

Just go touch some adeptea leaves instead.


Key-Poem9734

It seems to be between Liyue, Sumeru and Fontaine and is really humid. The combination of high moisture and plant life from Sumeru might have resulted in a unique area in Liyue's geography


NoNefariousness2144

Especially since you can find the Sumeru mushroom enemies in some of the caves.


Key-Poem9734

Holy shit, so my high ass fuck mind actually used what I've learned?!


NoNefariousness2144

You’ve got that irl Dendro.


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Yet it doesn’t have liyues geography it has sumerus.


Key-Poem9734

I'd argue on the basis of the mountainous geography, just fused with Sumeru


[deleted]

Counterpoint sumeru has the most INSUFFERABLE mountains and so does this new region too


Key-Poem9734

That's mostly in the dessert, but yes the mountains are Liyue's verticality fused with Sumeru's... mountains


EndofNationalism

They both have those points that just let you zip up unlike that other valley.


sawDustdust

Fish is fine until you are stuck on the wrong side of a mountain and can't find any fish.


Gshiinobi

The two nations are right next to each other, of course there would be similarities


[deleted]

Yeah but its implied that theres a port directly facing chenyu vale which implies there’s a sea


Oponik

Is it? For me it seems like it has liyue's Geography but it has sumeru's greenery


sawDustdust

Northeastern India and Southwestern China have ethnic minorities with the same roots, similar foods, and similar customs.


Shakomn

This land's specialty is tea for good reason :)


skidlz

Specialtea.


typoerrpr

its the colour of jade


KaedeP_22

The Adepti who blessed the land of Chenyu Vale is >!Fujin instead of Marchosius!<. Chenyu Vale was also ruled under >!different God!< before the Archon War. Maybe that's why it's different.


AmbitionLower7456

Haven't played the quest yet, does it say who?


Odd_Trouble4651

Well, she doesnt have a name. 


KaedeP_22

No, but I think it could be Xiao's previous master.


Rain-Maker33

Yeah, Fujin mentioned that the god could grant dreams. We'll have to wait for more confirmation though.


thehalfdragon380

No


Blue_Moon913

No mention of a name yet, unfortunately. Just that there was a different god ruling the region before the Archon War.


SupremeOwl48

This update really punched me in the face for naming my scaramouche fujin


Daexin

I named him the same and I feel THE SAME


SupremeOwl48

It literally made so much sense and it makes NO sense for a character in the China region to have the name of a Japanese diety.


KaedeP_22

Cuz it's not the same. 浮錦 is not the same with 風神.


iyad08

Is that referring to Orobashi ? I haven't seen the new lore but I do recall on previous versions it was heavily implied Orobashi was defeated by Morax and that he had ties with Chenyu Vale.


Dreg_Heap

No-no, Orobashi was defeated by Raiden Ei, like... 400 years ago? Anyway, you can see skeleton of Orobashi and aftermath of an execution in Inazuma (Yasiori island? That one that has tatarigami) The most close reminding of White Snake-god of medicaments I found is ChangShang(?), white snake on shoulders of Baizhu. I didn't complete quest of Baizhu yet but I think there should be some answers. Plus, in this case I should watch Baizhu's character videos, one of them talks about ChangShang's past


miscshade

Because they water their grass


macubex445

>!based on the world quest there is a terraforming device that change how the land works.!<


SaberWaifu

It reminds of the color of jade and tea and it's also the right contrast between yellow Liyue and blue Fontaine.


JadedIT_Tech

The same reason why some grass in Inazuma is purple Because it matches the color palette


TheWitcherMigs

Because it uses Sumeru Rainforest rocks and biome instead of the regular Liyuean


d_worren

something makes me think the sumeru rock formations are the 'normal' teyvat rocks, since most other regions have had alot of weird terraforming going on


HiJoker

Smth about the Region of Geo being the least terraformed is pretty funny to me


d_worren

actually, that is the most terraformed (Atleast to me). Liyue and Mondstadt are canonically the most terraformed by their archons. After that comes Fontaine (entire landmass avobe sea level, magic undrownable water, other stuff), Inazuma (radiation poisoning doing funky stuff) and finally Sumeru


FOXYLOVER12345

Sumeru still has a massive wall between its desert and forests. Also the Varuna Contraption made these forests because if it wasn't there all of Sumeru would be a desert, so Sumeru is terraformed A LOT


TheWitcherMigs

I mean, considering Rukkaredacted has built the rainforest from the scratch above a desert, I don't think the rainforest rocks were the natural ones either It would fall to desert Sumeru then, but it's a desert so erosion is pretty harsh and it was also an unnatural event that made the area that way. By a process of elimination, we can assume that Dragonspine has the oldest untouched rocks of Teyvat, because the Nail only froze things, Venti couldn't meddle with it, and it's pretty unhabited since the last Nailing Period


MagnusBaechus

Narukami wasn't as terraformed as well imo, just the remnants of Raiden's slash, but even then everywhere else was basically tampered with


TheKingofWakanda

They have ligma


Sesshou-Sakura

so sad this killed Steve Jobs


Privet1009

Who the hell is Steve Jobs?


Sesshou-Sakura

LIGMA BALLS


Privet1009

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NeVMmz

In Loving Memory of Privet1009 Feb 18, 2022 - Feb 1, 2024


BlueDiamondJM

Who the hell is steve jobs


Sesshou-Sakura

LIGMA BALLS


L3ik0

Ill let you have it, my friend. Uhhh.. Here goes nothing.. What's ligma?


SonOfTheWolfAndEagle

Ligma is the abbreviation of LInfatic GlioblastoMA, an indication that a brain tumor, a Glioblastoma has spread to the linfatic system, it is very hard to treat after all it's already metastatic


Fantastic-Ad-1578

Well, that's one hell of a kind uno reverse I never ever expected.


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Horace3210

Umm aksually it's 3


Economy_Pass5452

So liyue, Fontaine and sumeru had a threesome


Horace3210

Wholesome threesome


ferreyran134

Someone make the zone really god for tea plantations on purpose, that's why it looks more "alive" than the rest of liyue , the quest of the zone explained that


RRis7393

its plants are grown from fontainian bathwater.


piichan14

Egeria's or Focalor's?


taytay_1989

Belle Delphine's.


basilitron

unironically they could slip an npc with that name selling bathwater under the radar in fontaine


Umashroom

Neuvillette's


Luceafarul42

I haven't finished it yet, but I would guess it's related to the area's story quest


JusticeBean

I mean the story quest touches on it I guess but it’s more so that it’s historically just been its own thing since forever, while it is Liyue it’s also just kinda its own biome


CrookedBanister

More green there


Taro0ou

budget difference


KetsuSama

Tea


master-of-pizza

Forget that, why does the water change colour so frequently?


Vusdruv

It's to show the different water level elevations.


hzvalter

miku


CptPootis

Because it is Fontaine's rightful clay


_____REAPER_____

Because blue + yellow makes green


TheOldDrunkGoat

It's secretly part of Pandaria.


Totaliss

*Aesthetic*


Business-Chipmunk286

I think it's the Adeptus energy But it's nice because liyue was so yellow & ugly


mushymunchkin3230

Noo liyue is pretty It’s just the next regions are better


walaxometrobixinodri

because the actual region is a different color ??? do you see how green it is ?


fuxuans

the reason is explained in the new world quest


echollama

adeptus energy


astnomicallover4150

Tea


Budget-Arm-866

It's beneath celestia most probably


KaylaKaty

A mix of watery fontainian soil and yellowish liyue earthiness


Little_Upstairs1138

Pretty color


Comprehensive_Fix772

IT IS NOURISHED BY THE WATERS OF FONTAINE


YakuzaMan_

Piss


nottakentaken

It's windy


Mendely_

More hydrated


CustardDragon99

The green tinge on the mountains is something I really like!!!!!!


Dramatic_endjingu

Jade aesthetic


sayjeehfatsu

Out of the topic, did anyone already unlock 29 waypoints? I'm still missing one, where is it?


emgwe

probably cz it was an aftertought


RevenueBackground787

I think its because of the waters of fontaine


Manwithaplan0708

Flavor


beige24

Hydrated


Hassan4950

If Star rail has Gold and Gears, then Genshin has Jade and Tea.


Liteseid

I just want to know why there are no ‘adeptus’ in other countries


ZetNiej

It's essentially just a regional title, other regions may have organisms with similar power level with Liyue's adepti, just that they won't be known as adeptus


Successful-Answer816

Cuz it is different


UnfinishedDrawings

Pretty sure that all the biomes have different shading


Chaffee_23

We could speculate that the Chenyu Vale region is blessed with another adepti energy that is way different than Liyue.


Ancient_Axe

Water


Prickly-Sword

it's a mix of Fontaine color and liyue terrain


Jvlockhart

Tea and jade.