Version 4.7 had a LOT of great quests including the Bedtime Story Archon Quest and the Story Quests of Clorinde and Sigewinne! Allow me to refresh your memory on all the events in question~
**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Bedtime Story
17:20 Sigewinne
24:20 Clorinde
**SPOILER WARNINGS**
– Bedtime Story Archon Quest
– Clorinde SQ 1
– Sigewinne SQ 1
– Remuria WQ
– Pari WQ
– Aranyaka WQ
**RELATED VIDEOS**
There’s More Than One Loom Of Fate: https://youtu.be/ePjY4c0Rj0k
Khaenri’ah’s Sinners: https://youtu.be/i_iURa8ATi0
How Celestia Stole Teyvat: https://youtu.be/yKq6E3o5jsA
Why Do Adepti Have Visions?: https://youtu.be/OUpeSCk2XWQ
**CITATIONS & ATTRIBUTIONS**
The Wuxia stuff I can’t even find a good glossary for, I had to ask some friends and pull from what I knew from reading/watching stories of the genre to figure out what “soul beast corrosion” was referring to because it gets translated a lot of different ways.
If you happen upon a good glossary of Wuxia terms, please let me know!
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Thank you for mentioning the stone slates, I was so confused about that conclusion, like, did I miss something??
24:40 – 24:45 Boo why?
3:56
YES! Someone mentioned it! It seemed so weird to me, like, I was asking to the game: "Source?" at this point. And obviously it didn't reply with anything better than it made it the fuck up by not saying anything.
12:35
Inb4 Bran will pop off, saying he said it will still happen.
Idk why, but when they said "devorator" i instantly thought of a mind flayer
16:34 isn’t that the plot to blazblue???????
The idea that the traveler is a native to Teyvat and everyone else are "aliens" is something I had in mind for quite a long time. To me, the major clue is how we're able to resonate with the elements of this world while it's inhabitants require some sort of external help, the exceptions being the monsters like slimes and vishaps, to me that's the major
I know it's only a small part of the video, but literally 3:54 I was waiting for someone to mention this!! I was trying to figure out how the Traveler connected Vedrfolnir to the Fontainian slates… like literally how? There is no connection (apart from the plot needs it)
I don't actually think the Narwhal WAS the cause of the flood. We've been told in Nymph's Dream that it would drain the sea, which should lower the water level, not raise it. It's possible the Narwhal was actually slowing the flood down! The Abyss Order apparently didn't know if the Principles were actually asleep, and they used Focalors' success to verify, so it would have been in their interest to help her (it's worth noting the slates don't depict The Narhwal; it's mentioned only in the extra info, almost like maybe at one point they didn't mention the narwhal at all. And had Rhinedottir not summoned Elynas, there would've still been Oceanids in Fontaine, who could have picked up on Furina's humanity, so maybe ALL of the Sinners were in on this [which makes Nicole even more suspicious]).
Bro who is miss hina ????? Please ashikai I need to know. Every time she's being up everyone makes it seem like the person who brought it up is crazy or is talking about a non existing person???
xianxia is the one aspect of genshin's inspirations that i hesitate to learn more about. theres just something about chinese mythologies/storytelling forms that confuse me to no end— despite plenty of attempts to figure it out.
and i know realistically, i would absolutely love xianxia bc its a culmination of my favorite fantasy tropes, but the thought of actually trying to learn about it is tiring… BC THERES SO MUCH TO IT
on another note, ive been theorizing about teyvat being a sort of coded computer-like world FOREVER, and i feel like the lore keeps gettijg closer to my theories.
Honestly seems sigewinnes SQ was written by andersdotter 😂
"but in doing sho she broke the law"
that was so cute and funny jfladad
I believe the Heavenly Principles is asleep because that's how they sustain the world; through their memories of it in their dreams. Their loom of fate is literally the Principles's memories. They remember what happened in the previous loop, so now they create the world and its characters and their constellations via dreaming with the Irminsul, as a perfect copy of the previous loop, a.k.a. fate is set-in-stone until a Descender (someone who can defy this fate) takes their place. That would explain why Lumine is no longer a descender.
It happens that she WAS a descender in the first loop she lived, but after it ended, the Principles collected her information to "recreate her" from their memories and ever since then, since the Principles can remember her, they can also give her a constellation and a set-in-stone fate + they proved she cannot change the fate of the world since they didn't do it in the first loop, and there is only 1 chance to do it before you're absorbed into the memory bank, TL;DR meaning: she is no longer a descender because God has already seen her life and remembers her.
When the Principles wakes up the loop or samsara will be over, and it will either begin again (this time with Aether being absorbed into the memory bank too), or they "lose" and Aether takes over the throne, given the power of fate and the ability to "re-weave" reality to his liking through his memories of the world and what he experienced as a WITNESS.
We can assume by this that the Principles was probably like Aether before they got to the throne. Just a Witness who later used the history he witnessed to weave the next reality, and ever since then it has been a loop between them getting the power and them waking up (no longer dreaming the world) and starting a new loop or getting replaced.
@ashikai
14:20
I have been posting this comment in various channels for YEARS now.
The twins COMPLETED AN ENTIRE TOUR across this world together.
The abyss sibling completed, and we are on, a SECOND LAP.
it's stated in the first opening scene.
As they were LEAVING they were stopped by susty.
Considering we didn't recognize rex lapis we either predate him, or lost memories.
I suspect he recognized us though, and not from siblings descriptions.
to clarify, paimon recaps immediately, "So you saying you fell here from another world, and WHEN YOU WERE TRYING TO LEAVE, you were stopped by some unknown god?"
The thing that bothers me about the abyss sibling is that we only see them in places where the ley lines have been tampered with, this tell either one of two things, the abyss sibling is just a memory projection and is no longer here or the easy way out, it's just because coincidence in the sense that it's just because their work with the ley lines have them always busy, so we are only going to find them in this places, but the fact that no one in teyvat have seen the abyss twin makes me think that the abyss twin is trapped inside the abyss and leak projections through the ley lines once the monsters, abyss mages and heralds disorder them 🤔
Also, about the HEAVENLY PRINCIPLES being asleep, with what we know now thanks to Anya Andersdotter, I think the heavenly principles act and wake up just when Fate isn't met, taking the Focalor example if she would've save Fontaine without being punished then the heavenly principles would've acted to correct the course of her fate, because fate dictated that she needed to be punished and I think visions are related to this too, I think they are bestowed by fate itself when the will of that allogene is at is peak and fate needs to ensure that they follow the steps towards their inevitable fate and not something different, because if that happens then a chain of events related to that fate will begin to unbound, and fate is completely intertwined in a big tapestry with every allogene in it, if one starts to follow a different fate then the whole tapestry will start to rip apart and form big holes, puckered and twisted threads and the loom will need to stop and with that time itself, and just like you do with a scarf made of wool, you unwind the threads and fix the mess from the point in time were it was following the correct course ✨✨✨
i love ashikais vids
cant wait for simulanka vid! its soo full of lore
17:28
Heavenly Principles wakes up from their nap
"I just cleaned up this mess. Can we keep it clean for–for ten minutes!?"
To your point, about fate being a mechanism, we have the Gnosis. We know that the Gnosis establishes one of the divine seats within the kingdom of the Heavens, a spot for each of the Archons. That the Gnosis is made from the Sovereign of each element and the body of a Descender fused together. A Descender is able to freely move through Teyvat, they are not a part of Iriminsul and thus are not subject to its rules and can change things. By fusing them together it would be possible to enforce laws upon Teyvat by circumventing Iriminsul.
So here me out, going back to 1.1. Stars, Visions, and Gnosis. We know that Visions are not handed out from an Archon but the people who gain them are in a way, close to the ideals or some version of the Archon. Now why does that matter, because each person is essentially slaves to fate, that their lives, fates, everything is already recorded within the stars. Stars are physical objects that form constellations within Teyvat's false sky, essentially everything is written out for all living beings from the moment they're born. And this is enforced through the Archons and the Visions, Celestia is using the Gnosis to essentially force those with visions to play to the script. That those capable of ascending to Celestia may be viewed as a threat, so their Visions are Celestia's collars almost, linking them directly to the Gnosis and their Constellations. Using the power of a Descender to modify their individual fates, to act against Iriminsul and further forcing Vision holders to act according to their Constellations, to the false sky that Celestia has created. That Fate is basically a prison, like the one we saw when Venessa ascended to Celestia. The Archons are important because it whittled down the amount of people who could ascend or defy Celestia while acting as part of the mechanism. Seemingly a living being is needed to use the Gnosis, which would in turn connect it back. Archons are just the trigger mechanism that Celestia created in order to keep this in place. It would explain why Celestia started the Archon war by announcing the divine thrones and play into the original trailer where it was said that the "Gods goad us on with their seven treasures".
I had already loved your content, and then you pull out wuxia/xianxia references and I'm now a forever-follower of this channel.
Yay another ashikai lore video
I was so excited to see Lumine and Dain fight. But this bugs me, Dain being powerful than her why he can’t raise his sword against her. Then I thought what if Dain killed the traveler and feel remorseful. I am sure about it now as why Lumine can’t leave Teyvat, joined the abyss and obsessed with reviving a god.
Two things; one, even if the HP wouldn't have done nothing about Focalors plan because they are asleep, that doesn't make her plan and sacrifice meaningless if she herself didn't know that the HP are unable to do anything. And two, to constantly yap about translations being wrong feels like a fool's errand to me. I'm sure the translation teams don't just come up with those translations and put them in the game willy nilly. I bet they have to get approval from up top. Or at least some sort of supervisor. Unless anyone has a source saying that what I just said is not the case.
Yayyyy🎉🎉🎉
Regarding the twins forgetting, shouldn’t they, or at least the Traveler remember everything since he’s a Descender?
I felt they didn't show us the fight because of how easy or hard abyss twin won the fight because dain has to be crazy strong to be named the twilight sword
You found bedtime story anti-climatic?