You know I was thinking about the regions lately. (Probably not a shock if you've been keeping up with my "I'm bored let's go look at the out of bounds" series lol) Anyway We see that Liyue and Mondstadt are connected. We are pretty much guaranteed that Fontaine is to the west of Mondstadt and Sumeru to the west of Liyue.
And if you guys have seen the map from that one redditor right now Natlan should be further west of Sumeru. But what if it isn't?
Here's the thing. I'm starting to notice that even geography is being mirrored to an extent by Teyvat. For example Mondstadt does actually share a border with Fontaine in terms of real world Germany and France. And obviously Sumeru which is partially inspired by India shares a border with Liyue aka China. And similarly Japan is a detached series of islands off the coast of China which is where Inazuma is to Liyue. And on top of that Sumeru is also related to the Middle East and even Egypt. These parts are connected to Europe both physically through the Eurasian supercontinent and historically through the rivalry of Rome and Persia. (And that leads up to the modern day.) So the four nations sharing borders makes plenty of sense.
Natlan on the other hand is rumored to be related to the Americas and the manga depicts Muratans sometimes with the stereotypical Native American headdress. Obviously the New World was 100% detached from Eurasia. So what if Natlan is just like Inazuma? What if it's only connected to Sumeru by a chain of islands and they lead to a large landmass overseas with some volcanoes based on the chain of volcanoes in Alaska? As you guys can see from the picture above Sumeru has an ocean and a harborfront. That can't happen if like the redditor's map predicts Sumeru is landlocked. Also having America connected to India would be the first giant departure of this game from real world geography.
What do you guys think?
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