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agriocnemis · 4 months ago

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ngl guys if I see someone dumb down Natlan to being purely "oh it's based off of Africa-" once more I am going to cry ngl.

it's name literally is Nahuatl, which is the Aztec language. it DOES have portions from African cultures, but it's mostly Latin American in it's themes. It seems to be taking themes from MULTIPLE cultures across the Ring of Fire in the end. The cultures it's based off of is extremely varied and a lot of pre-colonized ones as well.

Hoyoverse has been pushing the Latin themes in our faces since day one for Natlan, and still actively do so. It is mostly a mix of Latin American and African cultures with others (like Australian) in it as well.

This is the second nation in Genshin with African cultures noticeably mixed in, previous being Sumeru... which also really made their guys so pale for no reason.

#ymir sketches #hoyoverse #genshin impact #natlan #I keep getting annoyed at folks immediately locking onto the African elements than the Latin ones ngl mostly #because how in your face it is about Latin themes. like... how.. how do you ignore that?#this also may just be my brain going 'but THE OTHER THEMES-' to literally everything ever in all genshin regions #The obvious inspirations (mostly via the names) should kinda of be a focus ngl when talking about any of them in my brain.#it just. confuses the hell out of me when people do not recognize that all these nations have MULTIPLE cultures in them.#I still can't believe it's far more easier to find starrail npcs that have more pigmentation than in genshin ngl.#and that's including the playable characters ngl as well.#dying here ngl. irl. but that's only making it annoying to type some of this but #Natlan's whole thing has already been hinted at us as it usually is at the moment slightly before the release (summer event)

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