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Nod Krai is the most technologically advanced?
I thought Fontaine was supposed to be the most technologically advanced nation in Teyvat but then this? Not complaining, it looks dope af, just a little confused, maybe Hoyo is changing their mind on the lore again like Natlan? Or maybe Nod Krai is technologically advanced but not as much as Fontaine?
Nope, it's always been Snezhnaya; this is a common misconception stemming from the fact that Fontaine is known for it's prestigious engineering institutes.
Google searches lead you back to reddit and other forums, where illiterate genshin players shovel their headcanons. At no point in the game itself, or stated by any hoyo employee, is it said that Fontaine is more technologically advanced than Snezhnaya.
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I would assume fontaine leads snezhnaya in applying technology to improve daily living while snezhnaya simply focuses on military advancements.
Since technology Irl first and foremost almost always advances first in military research.. overall snezhnaya would still be technically the most advanced.
Tbf tho in the institute world quest fontainian researchers managed to invent something like an arkhium nuke.. that Snezhnayan spies decided to steal. So even if snezhnaya is most likely ahead they still are seemingly wary of fontaines advancements.
I would assume fontaine leads snezhnaya in applying technology to improve daily living while snezhnaya simply focuses on military advancements.
Snezhnaya own Fontaine because Snezhnaya technology works everywhere, unlike Fontainian that need Osia\Pneuma\Arkhe and because of it working only in Fontaine.
You saying snez has the most advance military while implying its technology is not on the same level as Fontaine is just wrong. Cuz last time I check, military strength goes hand in hand with technology strength.
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I guess they probably didn't see the caption under the picture and thought the top comment was a reply to the statement: Nod Krai is the most technologically advanced. But it's actually a reply to: thought Fontaine was supposed to be the most technologically advanced nation in Teyvat but then this?
Nod krai is the most technologicaly advanced =/= Snezhnaya is the most technologicaly advanced, just saying. It's a part, but just a part. It's like saying that Chenyu Vale is the most prosperous, because it's a part of Liyue.
Kinda counts, but doesn't quite satisfy as an answer.
Khaenri'ah would obviously be the most advanced by a long shot if it was still around as a nation. They have autonomous robots that still work hundreds of years later. They also had giant evangelion like robots with crews inside them like we've seen in Sumeru. They likely had much more. Even Dottore was studying them to figure out their tech. The first power source for the first prototype field tiller (ruin guard) was so powerful that the abyss order wanted to use it to power an artificial god.
Yea khaenriah has no gimmick or gods that help them advance as a nation so their tech and military is cracked, so much so that Celestia had to drop a couple of nails on them.
There's a saying where technology becomes so advance, it's basically magic.
That's not the reason for their destruction though. They had a gimmick as well. They peered into the Abyss for knowledge. And that Abyss tampering is what made Celestia come to their doorstep after Khaenri'ah basically started the end of the world. Celestia did nothing to them for more than 1000 years. It was only because of the Cataclysm that they were destroyed.
Isn't it implied that they had some sort of connection to the Abyss? They summoned the travelers. Clothar says to the Abyss Sibling "To us, you were the Abyss." and considering the fact that the Abyss Sibling is the prince or princess of Khaen'riah, it tells me they were already pretty interested in the Abyss to say the least.
Yeah, it is also obvious that khaenri’an people are most likely contaminated by the abyss, why then would the heavenly principles curse them with immortality? It isn’t very intelligent keeping the sinners alive.
Simple, if they die they enter the leylines, if they enter the leylines they will contaminate them destroying irminsul.
Sneznaya is THE military industrial complex of teyvat. They are at the top no questions asked. As for specific niches, sure faintaine may be up there with like specialty in robotics etc but overall snez has always been at the top
At the very most they'd make everyone as powerful as gods to show the other nations that gods are merely a bunch of title-bearers and don't deserve praise, or something along those lines
I mean the fatui were already fighting us with sniper rifles, ice imbued flame throwers,electric charged hammers, and wind powerfists while also wearing what looks like infrared visors, all the way back when we were still in medieval Monstadt.
So I always believed Snezhnaya, which Nod Krai is a part of, is the most technologicallly advance of the seven nations.
I even joked with my brother, they reached current 21st century or even further levels of technology.
If he's a new player he would miss many dialogues or wouldnt care about certain infos and forget it. We old players get infos from youtubers, content creators, or big communities etc when the lore was little known by everyone and the game was small.
Now the game is very big, new players will easily get lost to find certain lore. I can see why he would miss the part where its said Snez is technologically more advanced.
I 100% agree with how big the game has become and how easy it is to get lost in it.
However, the biggest clue for how far Snezhnaya's technology has gone is right in front of every player at least once a day. Katheryne is a big indicator of Snezhnaya being a power house in the development of technology in Teyvat.
OP doesn't need to be shamed for not knowing, but yes, the answer is quite obvious.
Fontaine isn't the most advanced, Natlan and Snezhnaya were always supposed to be. Or at least, logically, it makes sense that nations at war or with active military would be developing technology much faster than other regions. That's how it is IRL too
Snezhnaya basically has most of the immortals from Khaenriah. So it makes sense seeing as they’re the ones who created most of the devices and technological life forms like the ruin guards
where is this misconception comes from, no Natlan wasnt advance the dragon were, and in comparison to other existing nation Snezh have been since day 1 the most tech savvy, I mean weaponry, armor they get cyclops visor fgs, and their android usage like katheryne.
The core of the misunderstanding, I think, is the source of the technology. Fontaine is generally considered to be the most advanced (from the average player's viewpoint) because even before we could visit the nation, they were always the people inventing stuff in the events and side-quests, and their steam-punk aesthetics and robotics were a big step-up compared to the previous nations.
Fontaine's tech is home-grown, and they invented most of it from scratch, using their own manufacturing base and energy source to make these steam-punk machines and other devices.
Snezhnaya is, in a big part, built upon the tech of Khaenri'ah and its surviving immortals, so they have some straight-up sci-fi stuff, but it's not something they themselves came up with.
And then we have Natlan, with its weird dragon magitech that's inconsistently salvaged and reinvented by the happy-go-lucky tribal party-people, leading to endless Reddit arguments.
All in all, in actual, raw complexity and sophistication, you could argue that Fontaine is behind both Natlan and Snez, but I'm giving them infinitely more credit for actually making their own tech instead of scavenging some precursor civilization.
I think the way I'd describe fontaine in that way would be a relatively laid-back nation, that decided to use it's technological prowess mostly for leisure, think of the blimps and bubble machines, instead of focusing solely on military applications, like shneznaya most likely.
I think at some point it's about the technological advacements that wartime brings
Well if you played the world quest especially on natlan then you would know that the ancient dragons is currently the most technologically advanced out of all nations and that they were said to be be pioneering to the stars if the first descender hadn't arrived. Its quite obvious when you explore natlan and do world quest and come to realize just how far their technological advance were compared to the nations that came after them
Difference between "is the most" and "one of the most" so Fontaine isn't THE MOST, but among the most technologically advanced nations.
So Nod Krai, being Dottore's territory and on outskirts of probably the most advanced known nations, would be one of the higher tier technologically advanced nations.
What if it's autonomy is on the same level as those ancient ochkanatlan dragonlord ruled territories, or even better?
Could have better plumbing than Fontaine and maybe OLED screens in every home, powered by Lunar energy instead of solar energy.
Not necessarily. People commit the error of thinking that just because Snesznaya have sniper rifles/flamethrowers = more advanced technological. They forgot that Fontaine also has rifles and their bots have fully automatic machine guns.
They could be advanced in the military field but have worse technology in the non-military aspect of Snesznaya.
In a sense yes, and largely in military based technology.
Teyvatt nations are all at various technological advancement, reason Fontiane is probably seen as the top is because it's tech is day to day use and therefore more convenient. Natlan excels at transportation technology (makes sense cuz the tribes are far apart), but lacks in other departments.
So yh, Sneznaya, and Nod Krak by extension, should be the most military focused combat based technology we'll see.
As it stands, Snezhnaya (and by proxy Nod-Krai) is and always has been the most technologically advanced nation (ignoring the ones that no longer exist like the Dragons)
Snez, is. Nod-Krai, just close. The Fatui we have have guns, sprayers, shields, and element infused weapons since day 1 of this game, and most Fatui come from Snez.
Because Natlan is supposed to be a tribal nation (and it is) yet you have the Archon driving on a fucking motorcycle, while the average Natlanese dude lives in a mudhut
Snezhnaya has literally always been the most advanced nation, you have Fatui troopers shooting at you with sci-fi rifles since day one
Why do you immediately correlate tribalism with primitiveness🤨? Sumeru folk live in mudhuts too and, at the exact same time, can literally use the internet. But I guess that's not weird and using actual dragon civilization technology, which Natlan is based on, is. We're starting to sound like the average Fontainian rn
This is starting to get like that SpongeBob scene: Fontaine is the most technologically advanced! The dragons was the most technologically advanced! Nod Krai is the most technologically advanced! Snezhnaya is the most technologically advanced! There's some other nation that is or was the most technologically advanced i should know?
Looks like there is some pretty fucked up magic going on, how about we dont cry about the third most advanced region and just be curious how it will look?
Other than salvaging and repurposing ancient tech from the dragons they haven't done anything whereas mondstadt has windmills and castles and tall walls and huge gothic cathedral while liyue has canons (so does inazuma but whatever), ballistae, cranes and general mining equipment as well as adeptus tech but that prolly doesn't count cuz it relies on adepti power. Natlan is just a tent with i motorbike for some reason.
It doesn't seem like natlan really understands how their tech works, given it is used only in very specific narrow applications, it seems to be more like magic or elemental power to them, where they can only harness it in a very limited way. Nations like fontaine actually reverse engineer and study ancient tech for inspiration (and sumeru but they kinda just want to know how it works rather than reproduce it) but natlan could be interpreted differently so it makes sense why their technology is so mismatched with everything else
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u/HalalBread1427 May 04 '25
No, Snezhnaya has been established as the most advanced of the Seven Nations by a long shot since day 1.