Mare Jivari

The Mare Jivari is a locationThere is much ambiguity as to the nature of Mare Jivari. In , Cyrus calls the Mare Jivari a domain twice in English, while in Chinese, Cyrus says instead. However, 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". in the westernmost area of Natlan. It is an empty place, described as a "sea of ashes where the wind does not blow," and it contains a sea of fire. It vanished off the face of Teyvat twenty to thirty years prior to the game's events.
==Overview==
Around a thousand years ago, the Wanderer's Troupe set foot there while "performing" for their foes, though at this time it had not yet become a desolate wasteland.
Five hundred years ago, 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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Despite the dangers of the land, many adventurers enter the Mare Jivari to prove themselves, but many fell to the dangers within. Some time the game's events, 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.
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.
==Trivia==
* Bennett makes a reference to Mare Jivari in his love poem for the Windblume Festival.
===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 , which means the overtone-rich "buzzing" sound characteristic of classical Indian string instruments.
** It may also be inspired by the , a tributary of the Amazon River that flows along the boundary of Brazil and Peru. Javari means "Jaguar's River" in the 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."YouTube: CBT Special Episode 2
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Mare Jivari 5.2 Event (2).png|Restored map in Restoring Fragmented Records
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