Recently I put up my video to showcase all the conches since we'll lose access to that once this patch ends.
But while that was more about the story the conches were telling which led into the World Quests about the Fatui operation going on there there was one particular conch that was really interesting.
We had a total of 6 Image Conches to find. 4 of them were found on the same islands where our characters had their mirages, there was another near the machine and then there was a final one in the middle island that served as the Fatui's base camp. Out of all of them though only 1 had some gimmick to it and that's the one on Twinning Isle.
To get it you first had to talk to all of the raven statues and then throw rocks into a well. That caused the water to rise up enough for the conch to become accessible.
It's an homage to the fable by Greek writer Aesop called the Crow and the Pitcher. The story goes that a crow was thirsty and ended up finding a bottle with some water in it. But the bottle was too tall and the crow's beak couldn't reach all the way to the water. So the crow was smart and realized it could raise the water level by dropping rocks into the bottle.
Side Note: It actually happens in real life. Crows are pretty smart for birds.
Anyway I found it interesting that this was the only homage in this event and it just so happened to be at Twinning Isle where we got the biggest lore dump of the event. (I mean granted you couldn't do this anywhere else since Night Ravens but still) What if it's a hint?
I've been going on and on about the lore we got from Fischl's Domain. What if this little homage is also a part of it? Aesop was Ancient Greek from a part of the country that is itself a myth at this point. I previously guessed that the Immernachtreich as a kingdom might have began around the same time as when Venti moved Decarabian's people to modern day Mondstadt. This was because in the Domain we learn that Fischl set up her region "600 years before the Era of Saints." I translated Era of Saints to mean the Seven which would have happened at the end of the Archon War 2000 years ago and Venti relocated Mondstadt about 2600 years ago.
But this Ancient Greece tie-in might be suggesting it's older which actually makes more sense to me since I just feel that Amy's region would have to predate the start of any of the Seven's regions. First if she had only started the Immernachtreich by the time the Archon War was wrapping up she probably would never have gotten it done because the Archon War was Phanes seeking out candidates in the Seven Sovereigns to become his Seven single element Archons and eliminating the rest. On top of that her people actually call her Soteria a Greek name. Greek and Roman names only existed during the unified human civilization period and we never hear any Greek names for the other Archons. (We do know that Istaroth's Greek counterpart would be Aphrodite though and Phanes himself is a Greek name.) It would make more sense then if Amy had her people gathered during that time so they'd give her that name.
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