The City Of Fontaine - A Majestic City With Another City Beneath It

The cities, villages and towns in Genshin Impact have always been interesting as well as exciting and full of life, but among all of them perhaps the most imposing, impressive and undoubtedly the largest of all is Fontaine, the nation of justice and for now the last region of the adventure before the next arrival of the Pyro nation. The city of Fontaine is inspired in France if I am not mistaken and the most impressive thing is the magnitude of all its structures, besides being a city in a certain way vertical to have a large number of buildings and structures that rise above the skies and allow us to see the streets of the city from a very high view.

The main element in this city will be the smooth concrete finishes, all structures have this style of highlighting mostly the concrete design itself and add some small elements, but without being too flashy and that in a general view the main tone is the smooth concrete. From the top of the city you can see an incredible structure and an incredible elevated bridge where in the background we have an arch that runs through the entire view of the city, although in the shot it looks like a construction at ground level is really very high in the sky.

In the central squares you can notice the magnitude of this city and how all the buildings and its elements look of an incredible dimension, such colossal structures worthy of a castle that would be able to withstand hundreds of years of siege before being conquered, not to mention that the strange giant orb that seems to float in the center gives a great view.

Throughout the city the amount of detail and views of the buildings and walls are fantastic, plus they make you feel a bit irrelevant in the face of such impressive and large scale elements. This is much more noticeable in buildings where we see how they seem to be designated for a single NPC for some specific information or utility, and we can see how the whole structure could easily be the entire house of the character and instead is simply a small point of information, it makes me think of having a huge warehouse or shed just to place a small desk and serve people haha.

One of the aspects that captivated me the most about Fontaine in its beginnings were its aquatic canals elevated at high altitude in the city, according to the story they are useful as a means of transportation to move by boat, but it is incredible to see them at different levels as you go up the view in the city, they are also quite wide and the water gives you a sense of tranquility.

Fontaine is definitely the walled city, huge structures and despite this you can climb to the rooftops and still see how the walls rise on the horizon and cover the entire city no matter how high they are. It must certainly give a great sense of tranquility to live in this city knowing that you are so far away from the possible dangers of the outside world.

Something very peculiar in Fontaine is the high contrast of the social classes, on the surface the class that could be considered noble and under the ground, in the subsoil and in the sewerage of the city there is another city where people who do not belong to the nobility seem to live, an area completely built with blocks and structures or steel sheets, generating an incredible visual contrast with the views of the city on the surface.

A place where the light can be seen to depend directly on artificial light, where the elevated water channels end up and how the waterfalls here seem to have a very different feel. Fontaine the true city of contrasts and with two totally different worlds to see and explore in one place.

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