[He's steady, but it's mostly an outward steadiness - Neuvillette has never been particularly expressive, at least not in a human way.
Internally, right now, he's... tired, if he thinks too long about the rage of the storm. As directionless as it is, there's very little he can do about it except wonder.
But if she wants to hear him talk - to anchor herself to the sound of someone's voice - he can provide that much. It's a kind of comfort that's easy enough to figure out, when it's asked for so directly.]
There are seven nations in Teyvat, corresponding to seven elements. Theoretically, they are ruled over by seven gods, but the exact situation in Fontaine is more complicated than that and is, perhaps, a story for another time.
[If you want to get started on world lore, the nation without a god is perhaps not the best place to begin explaining the gods. Besides, she asked about Hydro more specifically.]
Fontaine is a highland nation, a series of mountains and lakes on a plateau lifted above its neighbors. Beneath that plateau lies the Primordial Sea, from which life on Teyvat originated. Fontaine itself is considered to be the sourcewater of the world, from which all waters spill and to which all waters return.
[His voice is steady, perhaps even warm - Fontaine is a part of him in a way that cannot be fully expressed to most humans, though perhaps, for once, his listener understands. It is more than a birthplace or a homeland - it is the birthplace, the homeland.
At least so far as its dragon is concerned.]
Those waters carry the intense emotions of every living being in the world - usually through the medium of shed tears. Both tears and blood carry the intense Hydro energy of living beings, which left to its own devices will return to Fontaine and be purified by the motion of the sea - though 'purified' is perhaps not the correct word. 'Washed away' may be more accurate - their feelings mixed into the sea like a few drops of wine until they disappear.
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Internally, right now, he's... tired, if he thinks too long about the rage of the storm. As directionless as it is, there's very little he can do about it except wonder.
But if she wants to hear him talk - to anchor herself to the sound of someone's voice - he can provide that much. It's a kind of comfort that's easy enough to figure out, when it's asked for so directly.]
There are seven nations in Teyvat, corresponding to seven elements. Theoretically, they are ruled over by seven gods, but the exact situation in Fontaine is more complicated than that and is, perhaps, a story for another time.
[If you want to get started on world lore, the nation without a god is perhaps not the best place to begin explaining the gods. Besides, she asked about Hydro more specifically.]
Fontaine is a highland nation, a series of mountains and lakes on a plateau lifted above its neighbors. Beneath that plateau lies the Primordial Sea, from which life on Teyvat originated. Fontaine itself is considered to be the sourcewater of the world, from which all waters spill and to which all waters return.
[His voice is steady, perhaps even warm - Fontaine is a part of him in a way that cannot be fully expressed to most humans, though perhaps, for once, his listener understands. It is more than a birthplace or a homeland - it is the birthplace, the homeland.
At least so far as its dragon is concerned.]
Those waters carry the intense emotions of every living being in the world - usually through the medium of shed tears. Both tears and blood carry the intense Hydro energy of living beings, which left to its own devices will return to Fontaine and be purified by the motion of the sea - though 'purified' is perhaps not the correct word. 'Washed away' may be more accurate - their feelings mixed into the sea like a few drops of wine until they disappear.