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ofbardsandmen · 3 months ago

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nothing ever excites me more than a spontaneous genshin, or more particularly, mondstadt discovery. i sat diluc upon the barbatos statue as a nice spot to go afk on without being interrupted by repetitive idle animations and voicelines (sorry diluc, this is nothing personal). my volume was turned up more than regularly by accident, and my in-game music was off despite how much i like the original game soundtrack. aNYHOW- i was about to go afk when i heard some strange noises that i didn't recall hearing in mondt before. it made me pause and turn my volume up even more. in the video above, it's kind of hard to discern the brief sounds over the noise of the wind up on the statue and in mondstadt in general, but when the wind dies down a little, you can distinctly hear voices of people, and what shocked me the most – neighs of horses. i have no clue whether it is just me discovering this only now, after 4 years of playing this godforsaken game and clearly not having paid enough attention to mondstadt's sfx before, but i still felt the need to share this terribly interesting tidbit in case there's other clueless mondstadt enthusiasts like me.

#what makes me so curious about these sfx is my inability to discern the meaning behind them #the sounds in the clip can only be heard during the night‚ which inserts various questions into my head #first and foremost‚ the sounds obviously confirm the existence of horses in mondstadt. the horses that AREN'T THERE in the current timeline #the horses that PHYSICALLY have no space for them within the city‚ but that's a problem of a different kind that i want to touch upon later #what makes their situation even more curious is that they're only heard during the night‚ with no trace of them during the day #so‚ my question is – surely they wouldn't add this specific sound if they didn't plan on introducing the horses in-game at some point?#even if there was no mentions of horses in genshin whatsoever‚ except in the manga which is set prior to the game's events #aka the timeline before the beginning or during the early stages of varka's expedition considering seamus's presence in mondstadt #and if that is so‚ is the peculiar activity of horses only at night a result of them being out of the city alongside the kof during the day #next curious thing to me are the voices and shouts‚ most likely in chinese‚ that i cannot discern and that i found nothing about online yet #however‚ in my opinion‚ the shouts seem too loud for the peaceful‚ post-stormterror crisis atmosphere of mondstadt #most of the words sound as if they're spoken through a megaphone‚ repeatedly‚ like call-outs to something or somebody #and not at all like shouts of people‚ regular citizens‚ from within their homes‚ or those of random drunkards on the streets at night #during daytime‚ the chatter is more coherent and distinctly chinese‚ words they clearly didn't bother translating to other voice-overs #another random and interesting sound is of something akin to a bell chiming‚ and i don't mean the big church bell tolling like in the clip #i am eager for feedback on this‚ for any sort of help or translation to sate my curiosity #and i'm also very much open to ideas or even random interpretations as i am overflowing with them‚ too #mondstadt #old mondstadt #genshin impact #genshin brainrot #genshin headcanon #genshin ost #genshin help #wilhelminaesque

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