The Mare Jivari is a location[Note 1] in the westernmost area of Natlan.[2] It is an empty place,[3] described as a "sea of ashes where the wind does not blow,"[4][5] and it contains a sea of fire.[6] It vanished off the face of Teyvat twenty to thirty years prior to the game's events.[2]
Overview[]
According to legend, a phoenix dwells within the Mare Jivari, which was worshipped by people as a totem, while kings saw it as a sign of nobility.[7]
At an unknown point in time, a sage known as the Lavawalker created a circlet that could withstand the sea of fire within the Mare Jivari. Envious and fearful, his teacher and peers decried this as blasphemy and ordered him to walk into the Mare Jivari while wearing it. He did so — and survived. He continued wandering in and out of the Mare Jivari for another one hundred years, until the sea of flames finally burned him to ash during his final journey.[8]
Around a thousand years ago, the Wanderer's Troupe set foot there while "performing" for their foes,[9] though at this time it had not yet become a desolate wasteland. According to Orban, what the Wanderer's Trope fought was the monster known as "Bakunawa," and they carved the Runestone from its body.[10]
Five hundred years ago,[11] Tenoch and his six allies from Natlan's major tribes went to war against a "turbid black tide." According to legend, Sanhaj, a renowned Border Master from the Masters of the Night-Wind, summoned a miniature Night Kingdom and used it to destroy the encroaching calamity.[12] The massive battle would result in the land turning into a wasteland, with the ashes of monsters and warriors alike covering the entire battlefield. It is said that bone-chilling cries could be heard from its depths, and at other times, the region would be engulfed in towering flames that drowned them out.[2]
Despite the dangers of the land, many adventurers entered the Mare Jivari to prove themselves, but many fell to the dangers within. Some time before the game's events, possibly before the disappearance, a famous Mondstadt adventurer named Stanley traversed the Mare Jivari. However, he perished while saving a greenhorn adventurer named Hans Archibald from an evil beast. Afterwards, Hans took on the name "Stanley" and went on to recount the real Stanley's tales as though they were his own, to keep the man's memory alive.[4]
Around twenty to thirty years prior to the events of the game, people who visited the Mare Jivari began to claim that an enormous, dark creature the size of a mountain began roaming the Mare Jivari. Shortly after the monster's arrival, the whole region simply "disappeared." There has been a growing settlement in the place it used to be since its disappearance.[2] An immortal creature found in the Mare Jivari lost flesh in an unknown incident, of which some of it was kept by the Hexenzirkel as an alchemic reagent.[13] This flesh was used by Albedo to give Mini Durin a human form. It is not known if these three monsters, "Bakunawa" included, are the same.
The Abyss Lector Enjou is looking into the history behind the Mare Jivari. According to Kinich, it is hard to access the Mare Jivari, and he has yet to take a commission regarding it.[14]
Trivia[]
- Bennett makes a reference to Mare Jivari in his love poem for the Windblume Festival.[15]
Etymology[]
- While the word "Mare" is Latin, meaning "sea," the etymology of "Jivari" is not clear.
- The word may be derived from the musical term Jivari, which means the overtone-rich "buzzing" sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments.
- It may also be inspired by the Rio Javari, a tributary of the Amazon River that flows along the boundary of Brazil and Peru. Javari means "Jaguar's River" in the Tupi-Guaraní language.
- The Chinese, Japanese, and Korean names for Mare Jivari translate to "Silent Sea of Ashes." This name is kept in other localizations through the Loading Screen's description of Mare Jivari.
- In CBT1, the English localization translated Mare Jivari as the "Ashen Sea."[16]
Notes[]
- ↑ There is much ambiguity as to the nature of Mare Jivari. In Adventurer's Entrance Exam in Noelle's Hangout Event: Act II - Knightly Exam Prep, Cyrus calls the Mare Jivari a domain twice in English, while in Chinese, Cyrus says 秘境 "unexplored region; mysterious realm" instead. However, 秘境 is a free-standing term in modern Chinese; while Domains are usually translated as such in this game, it does not necessarily imply that Mare Jivari is a "Domain".
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Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | Mare Jivari | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 烬寂海 Jìnjì-hǎi | Silent Sea of Ashes |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 燼寂海 Jìnjí-hǎi | |
| Japanese | 燼寂海 Jinjaku-kai[17] | Silent Sea of Ashes |
| Korean | 잿더미 바다 Jaetdeomi Bada | Sea of Ash Piles |
| Spanish | Mare Jivari | — |
| French | Mare Jivari | — |
| Russian | Пепельное море Pepel'noye more | Ashen Sea |
| Thai | Mare Jivari | — |
| Vietnamese | Vùng Biển Lặng | Silent Sea Waters |
| German | Mare Jivari | — |
| Indonesian | Mare Jivari | — |
| Portuguese | Mare Jivari | — |
| Turkish | Mare Jivari | — |
| Italian | Mare Jivari | — |
Change History[]
References[]
- ↑ Event Story Quest The Spirit of Ah K'ulbatil in Iktomi Spiritseeking Scrolls: Volume III
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Event Iktomi Spiritseeking Scrolls Quest: Volume II: Vision of Ashen Desolation
- ↑ Nahida's Voice-Over: About Nahida: Knowledge
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Story Quest, Venti, Carmen Dei Chapter: Act I - Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land, Part 2: The South Wind Brings Adventure
- ↑ Loading Screen Tip: Mare Jivari
- ↑ Artifact, Lavawalker: Lavawalker's Resolution
- ↑ Artifact, Lavawalker: Lavawalker's Salvation
- ↑ Artifact Set: Lavawalker
- ↑ Artifact, Wanderer's Troupe: Wanderer's String-Kettle
- ↑ World Quest: The Festering Fang
- ↑ Archon Quest, Chapter V, Act II - Black Stone Under a White Stone, Part 3: Echoes of Life
Mavuika: "Ah, that weapon belonged to Tenoch, a hero from five hundred years ago. Strictly speaking, he didn't belong to any single tribe." - ↑ Event Iktomi Spiritseeking Scrolls Quest: Volume I: Night-Wind Letter
- ↑ Archon Quest, Interlude Chapter, Act IV - Paralogism, Part 3: The Gardener
- ↑ Tribal Chronicles, Yupanqui's Turnfire, Act III - Kinich's Deal, Part 3: The Last Turnfire Night
- ↑ Event Invitation of Windblume Quest: Part III: Realm of Fog and Wind
Venti: "You and the Mare Jivari / So close and yet so far / One at the edge of the world / The other in the center of my heart / Wolfhook and dandelion / My Windblume offering to you." - ↑ YouTube: CBT Special Episode 2
- ↑ Story Quest, Venti, Carmen Dei Chapter: Act I - Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land, Part 2: The South Wind Brings Adventure (Japanese Voice-Overs)
