Genshin Impact 4.6: New Scene Leaks About Remuria City Setting

According to the news from the Genshin Impact insider group on October 30, the setting map of the new scene Remuria Royal City that may appear in version 4.6 of the game has been exposed.

The Remuria Royal City is mentioned in the game's books and storylines. The story starts with the Decline of Remuria which can be purchased at the newsstand in Mondstadt.

The title of this book is clearly a reference to Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Its content is about the history of the ancient civilization of Remuria, the Golden Kingdom, in the region before the Archon War. The mention of this ancient civilization in the game is first mentioned in the story of the special weapon Nocturne of Revelry for the character Fischl.

The Reman Republic mentioned here is the Roman Republic in the parallel timeline, and the establishment of the Roman Republic can be traced back to the legendary twins Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a wolf, just as described in the game. In the real world, Romulus killed Remus and named the city they established after his own name, which later became Rome.

In Teyvat, the branch on the tree of time where the Roman (Reman) Republic was located was cut off and the territory of the other of the wolf twins was given a way out, which means that the land established by Remus, the other person who died in the twins, replaced Romulus' Rome, thus named Remuria after Remus. However, the prototype of Remuria also includes Lemuria, a hypothetical continent in the Indian Ocean similar to Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean. This concept originated from the era when the land bridge hypothesis was prevalent, and biologists speculated that there was a submerged continent in the past on the Indian Ocean to explain why Madagascar in southern India and Africa have the same species of lemurs. After the rise of the plate tectonics theory, this hypothesis was quickly thrown into the garbage bin of history but was absorbed by many esoteric works and became synonymous with lost ancient civilizations along with Atlantis and the Lemurian continent in the Pacific.

In reality, most of the Indian Ocean where Lemuria was located was once under French influence. The French colonial empire established colonies such as Mauritius, Comoros, and Seychelles here. Even now, France still retains three overseas territories in Reunion, Mayotte, and the French Indian Ocean. This is also why Lemuria is used as an ancient civilization in Mondstadt.

The description of Remuria in the Decline of Remuria should be based on the anecdotes recorded by the ancient Greek writer Theopompus of Chios in his work History of Philip II: Europe, Asia, and Libya are all islands surrounded by the Ocean, and only outside the world surrounded by the Ocean is the continent. The continent is infinitely vast, inhabited by many giant creatures, and the people who live there are twice as big as those in this world and live twice as long. ... On the opposite continent, there is a tribe called Meropis that has built many wide cities to live in... There are two largest cities, one is called War Nation (Machimos) and the other is called Pious Nation (Eusebes).

Legend has it that the god-king Remus came to Meropis (Meropis) in a golden ship named Fortuna, which is an ancient Greek place name.

After experiencing the adventure of the Abyssal Domain, we know that the Teyvat world was originally under a unified culture, which was the Eternal Civilization of the First Throne Era. The language used in this civilization was Ancient Greek.

Therefore, the name Meropis implies that it should be the oldest civilization in Mondstadt, a part of the unified civilization of the First Throne Era, and its prototype is the continent Meropis mentioned in the History of Philip II. The initial unified civilization of Teyvat was indeed created by the foreign First Throne.

The warrior city of Remuria, Machimos, is one of the two largest cities in Meropis mentioned in the History of Philip II. Its capital, Golden Imperial City Capitolium, originally referred to the Roman temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad, Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva. The Capitoline Hill where it is located was an important religious and political center at the beginning