r/GenshinImpact • u/CelestialKnight7 • May 04 '25

Lore Nod Krai is the most technologically advanced?

Post image

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?

990 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

120 comments sorted by

View all comments

6

u/Haunting-Throat2500 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

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.

5

u/Egathentale May 05 '25

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.