The next patch looks like a doozy, so let’s take a minute to look back at the last couple of patches because there sure as heck won’t be time for it later!
We’ll be covering the world quests of Chenyu Vale, this year’s Lantern Rite, Xianyun & Chiori’s Story Quests as well as the flagship events from each patch.!
**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
00:34 An Ancient Sacrifice of Sacred Brocade
06:36 A Wangshan Walk to Remember
08:13 Lantern Rite
14:36 Menogias
16:10 Xianyun’s Story Quest
22:40 Chiori’s Story Quest
23:52 Cat Cafe
25:30 Alchemy Event (Dialogue of the Desert Sages)
30:35 Hilichurls
33:24 Closing Thoughts
**RELATED VIDEOS**
Eucharist & Emergency Food (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/YHCv8KFdL6M
Xianxia & Visions (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/OUpeSCk2XWQ
Perinheri (Roozevelt) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46YF14mVgDk
Timetreker (Roozevelt) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_AuBoJXxcc
**CITATIONS & ATTRIBUTIONS**
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There was a very weird line the Paimon drops when you gather the the three seelies to return the adeptal energy to the jade. The young boy asks if you are friends or play with seelies to which Paimons says a weird line. I remember wishing it was voiced as it could have several meanings but it read more like Paimon was hiding something. I was hoping you had something on that as you usually compare dialogue from each language.
I had never thought of Guizhong being the god in Chenyu Vale, I actually had a theory that It was the god who was Xiao's old master (although this is slightly based on leaked lore I saw from an unreleased bow a LONG while ago now that very well could have changed)
You must remember in asian cultures parents still want to have tight reign over their children's futures. Going against their wishes is strongly held is negative regard, perceived as rebellious and disrespectful, unbecoming of what good filial children ought to be. Gaming's story is a reflection of what real people feel and desperately wish for some "higher authority" to intervene and talk sense into their parents. Xianyun/Cloud Retainer being an adeptus is that higher authority and not some mere meddlesome aunt or neighbour, who ropes in Zhongli to carry out the persuasion job.
Lingyuam will be playable next lantern rite, I'm calling it now!!!
What is neuvillette gonna do if he met zhongli??? Slap him? Neuvillette should mind his own business 😂😂😂😂
Ty for the video. A lovely video as per usual 🙂
17:04 Which is more admirable? To be born a Shen or to cultivate and ascend to Shenhood through sheer determination?
Chenyu value🗿
Doesnt "mi muhe ye" also mean something else according to the fandom during windblume. Sounds like Hilichurlian is can have opposite meanings for a lot of phrases depending on how you translate it which is really cool and pretty impressive for entire language that most players will never interact with to have such an interesting quirk.
My favourite part was when Furina showed up and said "Its Furina Time" and Furina'd all over the Lantern Rite
i did not expect that wanderer and scarameow mentioned AT ALL XD
My first thought was remuria swimming cat not scaramouche for the fischl like.. but then i want more cats for flying and fire
Was that the 3rd lantern rite?
I still believe, should the sibling survive the Conclusion of the Story, both will remain in Teyvat.
With the Abyss Sibling leading the remaining People of Khaenriah in the Abyss for an peaceful Life and the other as new God of Celestia
14:18 Ashikai please read Xiao's birthday letter for this year its so cute
NOT the Aranara soundtrack giving me PTSD 💀💀
i like the goldfish story but ganmings story was sooooo boring.
The Cat Cafe event revealed that whopperflower nectar can cause beings that consume it to grow large, but will shrink back slowly.
Oh God, once you mentioned Fischel and Wanderer, suddenly thousands of fanarts flashed before my eyes.
I found that the names of the name of the hillichurl event's first stage "Nini movo muhe yoyo!" reminded me of one of Jean's elemental burst voice lines "Barbatos guide us". Could others perhaps also be references to voice lines of mondstadt characters, such as "la la la" begin klee's sprint start voiceline, foreshadow the hillichurlification of these character… nah thats cravy… unless…
APPRECIATE THESE RECAPS SOOOOO MUCHHHHHHH.
Gonna need the lore behind big rock turtle friend, he's my bro
The Xianyun Motorcycle thing reminds me of Route 666 from Bayonetta 1 lol
Imagine if the real fischl was the 3rd descender
Zhongli is a good father
Never thought I would see Ashikai talk about Cultivation! Do you have any favourites so far withint Xianxia/Xuanhuan? And have you given Lord of the Mysteries or Reverend Insanity a try yet?
25:06 And then there's the cat that guides us through the depths of Remuria
Zhongli, the MatPat of Genshin..
don't ask where I though of this, but when Ashikai was talking about Mr. Zhong and his retirement, the idea just popped into my mind…
What really got my archeological heart up and running during the events in the patches was the name "Upano" used for the Hilichurl event. More for the fact that the Upano River Valley is a famous site with the oldest Amazonian cities/building sites ever found in the region, fed on the rich soil of a nearby volcano (eeeee!), that may have also been the reason that the cities were abandoned (more eeeeee!), and with the hints that Natlan has Aztec/Mayan aspects given by the Talking Stick and such, makes me wonder if it's meant to hint at a link to the eventual Natlan quests, since a lot of events foreshadow future Archon Quests. With the Chenyu Vale lore already popping up giving us more hints on the older civilizations of Teyvat, I'm hoping Natlan will do the same. Also the fact that the Upano event felt oddly like the Traveler was outright being told to stop the big samachurl thing from essentially "cultivating" itself in the wish-granting domain felt like it should be important, though I'm not sure what it'd mean fully yet.
I don't think Guizhong and the God of Chenyu vale are the same person tbh. I think this god might have been Xiao master and very distant from the south Liyue stuff.
Gaming was in a me vs the world situation, the adeptus and traveler helping WAS the better solution, most of the family members shown were old people closer to his dad's age they might have sided with "the wiser one" 100%
i’m leaning towards the forgotten god of chenyu vale is orobashi theory (orobashi fled to unknown water becasue it lost to deus auri aka morax)
The murals in Chenyu Vale depicting how the humans interacted with celestial envoys are like colorful versions of the murals in Inazuma’s Tsurumi Island and Dragonspine’s murals, and I just wanna know if these places interacted at all, or if they all developed similar art styles completely independently
Although I can't complain about lantern Menogias really is like he wasnt even featured. Why they put the guy there and barely mentioned him is beyond me.
NOW: Completely unrelated to this video Ashikai, but did you see the tiny doctor vampire on Arlecchino's animation right? Righttttt? I'm just leaving the ingredients, please cook something delicious.
I loved 4.4 so much !!! 🥺 lantern rite always makes me cry ❤ also hot take but Chiori story quest was one of the best stort quests, because it was full of actual charcters that made the story feels os alive ! And its something that happens more lately and o hope ita gonna continue like this !
I think that was meant to show the distinct difference between the ways that cloud retainer and zhongli think, so when zhongli saw that cloud retainers complicated plan failed miserably he decides jump in and mend the situation
Or that's my guess I didn't finished the quest all the way
you're telling me i was able to go see XIao and sent a lantern in the sky with him AND I MISSED THAT ?!?