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I’ve pitched a lot of different ideas about how Teyvat could be structured, but I’ve never really talked about how it was MADE – and the combination Simulanka and Natlan really got me interested in Teyvat’s early years, so I thought now would be a great time to turn back the clocks and see if we can’t unravel Teyvat’s GREATEST mystery: its Genesis.
…Oh, and maybe we’ll talk about Irmin and Zhongli. Maybe.
**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
04:10 Genesis
07:50 Draconic Alchemy
13:10 Order
18:35 Inkwells
29:09 Irmin
**RELATED**
Kabbalah World Structure Theory (By Sabre and Schwan, part 3/?): https://trashcanlore.tumblr.com/post/759557010746474496/kabbalah-in-the-worldbuilding-of-genshin-impact
**SPOILER WARNINGS**
– Archon Quests up through Chapter 5 Act 2
– Narzissenkreuz WQ
– Enkanomiya WQ
– Sky Island (Natlan WQ)
– Caribert
– Bedtime Story
– Golden Slumber
– Imaginarium Theater
**CITATIONS & ATTRIBUTIONS**
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*NOTES & CORRECTIONS*
– In acts 3&4 the Lord of the Night says that PO created the elements from Phlogiston so they could counter the abyss which is a bit of a paradoxical statement with the way it's phrased. This does change some aspects of the early parts of the video (although fundamentally I still think this works well) that I don't think are easy to explain in a footnote, so I'll be making a follow-up video JUST on this topic. I'll link it here when it's complete.
– Forgot to mention this: There are three hypostases that are NOT named after letters, but they are named after an incantation from the Black Pullet Grimoire that lets you summon power that kinda controls the world, so I think the comparison still works.
Zhongli being able to control achlemy with the gnosis being the god of gold. Also him saying this is order. To cleanse the land.
Paimon is fate
Cat: u brought many deaths here
Traveler, krilling hillichurls since 2020 for 1 primo: Beggars cant choose 🙁
Imaginary operates on proverbs, even if they unreadable ■ and □ to humans.
So.. yes but actually not quite.
I really wish to ramble about GI version, "vision" if you wish), main aspect of honkaiverse cosmology but… unfortunately I lost interest in GI after Sumeru.
They may turtling in swamp they made from lore going all over the place speaking one line per month for their hearts content – it just unbearable slow to me.
Even ZZZ which at first glance doesn't even tells lore has it more and mention it faster than entire year of GI.
Nice tablet pitch
Not true Sky father is Zeus Name not Odin, All Father is Odin
I don't remember the name Nibelung at all, when does Neuvillete mention it?
I am sooo lost XD
I love the idea of Paimon being the Traveler's Norn/Seelie. Very sweet and fitting that she says that she is our Teyvat travel guide (even though she also doesn't seem to know Teyvat that much…)
i love when genshin happens and the characters nose be like : dbdbdbdbdbdb
14:28 The moment you said this, my mind travels all the way back to when the traveler fight the unknown god
you said Nibelung went through ritual death to reign the power over abyss and be reborn (while everyone thinks he failed) and at the same time that power over abyss is the ability to put it in order, something that to Traveler comes incredibly natural.
So is it's giving me that Traveler is Nibelung reborn, came back with power to reign abyss and now just has to reclaim all the parts of elemental power.
well just a theory
it does not explain why Traveler has a twin
but then you mention staying in the egg sleeping and who was sleeping for a long time for unknown reasons? Traveler. and they awoke just in time before Khaenria was swallowed by the Abyss
theories theories
about the little fates everyone would have: in Slavic mythology for a change there were entities called dolas (singular is dola) and they were exactly fates of each person; let's say guardian angels without the guarding (like Paimon lol). While dola would dictate a persons life it could also be begged to change fate with offerings. In Polish there still is a saying „Taka moja dola” which means "That's just my fate" (with a negative tone, as in unfortunate fate). Then again „dola” would not be used to name general fate (that would be „przeznaczenie” meaning "what is meant"), it is singular for every person.
Lemme just add that Slavic mythology is very fragmented and was mostly wiped out so anyone with better knowledge of academic literature on the subject is welcome to correct me.
So the aggregation of mankind is a reference to the original sin of men? Eating the apple with the forbidden knowledge?
Then genshins version of adam is anyone that tried to become irmin and the traveler is going to be Jesus cleansing the world and humans of the forbidden knowledge and the manifestation of it would be by recreating the world to become real as in the sense of a replacement of where he came from withthe flower thingy. Or another option would be that he absolves all the abyss which allows the world to return to what it was originally which is maybe his world anyways. Regardless im pretty sure the aggregation of mankind is the orginal sin of men. Even if the other parts are iffy
Omg lol I think it's weird how the seen with forbidden knowledge is leaking from the the eye kinda has a major resemblance to the aeon Ena it also has proven that every Ena civilization ends up destroying itself and look what happen to King Desheret
I like how Zhongli still manages to appear in every theory because he's so mysterious that he could fit even as the primordial one in disguise
its crazy to me how genshin STILL doesnt have the old events playable for players who missed them
Not the lmao sike lol
Ashiki went to school with Megumin, or something. She has learned the Art of Rap-yap
Regarding the initial question of "how did Celestia overcome the dragons given how powerful they were?", I speculate it was by changing Teyvat's reality to nerf the dragons. I think the Primordial One created Irminsul as the first Loom of Fate and used it to siphon elemental energy out of the general environment and transform it into a form of its choosing. This form, I think, is that of the stars whose constellations bind Teyvat's inhabitants into preordained fates. This, in turn, trapped the dragons by enticing the dragons to adopt constellations of their own (since up to that point they had no constellations and defined their own fates) in order to leverage the new world rules to their own favor. Once they took on constellations, they were bound by Fate the same way mortals were. Niebelung subsequently trafficked with forbidden knowledge to break the chains of Fate, since it is a power from outside of that system, but learned too late the price of using the gifts of the Abyss. At least, that's my take.
During the sponsorship segment, you (presumably) had a really cool shirt! It had cat scara on it and I’m wondering where you got it. I don’t like wearing Genshin merch but that was really subtle.
Wait, Morax’ hand weren’t "blacked" before? I thought it was the same brown color as his pillars or his dragon form….where did you find that information?