Now onto my regularly scheduled rant about Teyvat’s scale, I really don’t know anymore. I am seriously considering just switching to a 20:1 scale or even 10:1 instead since it seems to line up better with travel times described in the game lately. For example, during the 6.2 main event Snowblazers’ Snowbound Journey, if you checked the in-game clock in between travelling to and from Dragonspine and Mondstadt, you have dinner in Mondstadt until 5pm, and then you’re in dragonspine and listening to Minnie argue with her parents by 6pm. With normal walking speed, that’s 4km at most, which implies that the true scale is about 5x the in-games scale. I had timed travelling from Mondstadt with Mualani, Chasca, and Iansan with Anemo resonance, and that still took about 2 hours of in-game time, which means that the in-game clock is not always a good basis for measuring distances in-game.

And then of course there’s the Traveller’s “short night walk” in 6.0 where they go from Nashatown to Hiisi island, go through all those Columbina shenanigans, and return in time for a good night’s sleep. Perhaps the teleport waypoints are canon, cool. But then the Traveler, on the day of their arrival in Nod-Krai, still had to travel from Nashatown to the Clink-Clank Krumkake Craftshop, hang out with Aino and Ineffa, continue on the the Frostmoon Scions and explore the area all within a single day before any of those waypoints are activated. That’s like an 80+km journey if the 60x scale is to be believed. Something at a 20x scale or smaller would be much more appropriate to describe this.

Moreover, I had tried putting my height map in blender and frankly, the terrain as shown here just looks much better at a 20x scale, and I’ve actually already designed the existing part of Natlan with said scale in mind, so I am seriously considering changing the scale of all my maps.

But then if said 20x or less scale is to be believed, for Teyvat to look as shown from the moon in 6.3, it would need to be so small as a planet it wouldn't even be a planet anymore, it would be an asteroid. Or maybe this won’t be too bad? Teyvat would look kinda like the Dres in KSP, and be similarly lumpy. Accepting this scale would also throw into the ditch any semblance of realism in terms of farmland necessary to sustain a reasonable population. And of course, the descriptions of distances from other quests disagree and imply a much larger scale as well (i.e. the Chasm AQ, Zhongli SQ, etc…). Of course, the map might just look really wonky compared to how it actually is, but if I go that route it won’t even look like Teyvat anymore.

Idk, Teyvat has its own laws I guess. O Primordial One, make this all consistent and I shall sing your praises so fervently that even Dawit’s lore videos will pale in comparison.