Liben just told us that there was a sanatorium on the Zauberberg. It is a reference to a great German classic Novel. I was elated by that reference. In english they changed the Zauberberg and translated it to enchanted hills.

Whao, Hoyo really add in a lot of Real world lore into the Game.

By "enchanted hills" do you mean "The Magic Mountain"? I read that work during my German studies in college.

OMG. I literally just finished reading that book a few days ago. And when Liben talked about a sanatorium, I wondered whether it was a reference to this novel and thought that it wouldn't be surprising (afaik there wasn't such a clear reference in the French localization).

Yep, you know what's coming then.


Oh Barbatos

IIRC time is distorted in the sanatorium in “Der Zauberberg,” right? I smell an Istaroth related WQ coming.

I thought I was crazy when I noticed this reference. Glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed!

It makes a lot of sense, really. It did feel pretty odd listening to Liben talking about…a sanatorium…deep in the hills of Mondstadt…

But no, fuck that lmao. This ain’t HSR and Shaoji has no say here. I’m not reading a Settembrini vs Naphtha philosophical debate in my waifu gacha game. If the average gacha player thinks Genshin is a yapfest, ohboi they haven’t seen what Naphtha/Settembrini cameos are going to be capable of.

But I would imagine including a cameo of Peeperkorn is going to be a bit too politically sensitive in the current state of the world too.