"What was Fontaine's prophecy about?"
That evening, after returning to their hotel room, Lumine immediately asked Shen Fei about Fontaine's prophecy. Paimon had also caught on and turned to look at Shen Fei. Since they were so familiar with him, Lumine and Paimon usually forgot that he was now the Heavenly Principles, Teyvat's highest authority.
"It's very simple. Fontainians aren't human," Shen Fei said calmly.
"What? They're not human? Then what are they? Ghosts?" Shen Fei's words frightened Paimon so badly that she immediately hid behind Lumine.
"Explain," Lumine said at once.
"Fontainians were originally Oceanids, followers of the former Hydro Archon, Egeria. But they desperately wanted to become human, so Egeria stole water from the Primordial Sea and turned them into humans. However, in the eyes of the Heavenly Principles, that violated the rules and was not permitted."
Shen Fei immediately explained the origins of the Fontainians. As for Fontaine's prophecy, even he did not yet know whether it was a punishment from the Heavenly Principles or a flaw in the Hydro Archon's creation of humans.
Egeria certainly had not possessed the ability to create humans. The Oceanids had become human through her use of the God of Life's authority. Since it had not been the God of Life personally acting, some flaws were perfectly normal. Strictly speaking, though, as long as Egeria lived, that flaw was not really a flaw.
Egeria had the ability to suppress the waters of the Primordial Sea. After all, that had been why the God of Life created her in the first place. That was also why she could later borrow the God of Life's authority. Looking at the events across Teyvat's nations, one could clearly see the traces of three among the Four Shades: the God of Life, the God of Time,