Genshin Impact Shares Official Art of Songkran Festival
Genshin Impact, the popular ARPG published by HoYoverse (formerly MiHoYo), has revealed some beautiful artwork to celebrate Thailand's famous Songkran Festival. As with previous festivals and celebrations before, Genshin Impactcommemorates and honors different cultures around the world with artwork that portrays aspects of these cultures in a light, fun, and respectful manner.
As with any massive RPG with an ensemble cast of characters, multiple regions to discover and explore, a vast array of weapons and materials to collect and trade, side quests and tasks to complete, and a plethora of other content, new players can find themselves lost and needing direction, which the game understands and offers many guides and helpful hints along the way. Even after mastering these recurring elements, players are still kept on their toes with different events, daily quests and commissions and even certain celebrations and festivals that coincide with their real-world inspirations.
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The Songkran festival marks the Thai New Year, a national holiday that is celebrated for five days in April, coinciding with the rise of the Aries constellation on the Astrological calendar. People in Thailand and also in various other places in Southeast Asia celebrate the festival with water fights through the streets to mark a year of ritual cleansing. So, it is fitting, then, that the artwork portrays a midair water fight between Venti, the player character Aether and the companion NPC Paimon. The Thai caption with the artwork on the official Facebook page says, «It's a really nice day. Wish all travelers a very happy Songkran Festival.»
The Songkran festival originates in early Hinduism
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