A mere day before the release of Genshin Impact, we were given an overview of Genshin Impact’s story in totality via the Teyvat Chapter Storyline Preview: Travail trailer. While the trailer itself can be accepted to contain spoilers most of it’s content without context is largely meaningless or is near impossible to really decipher unless you look at it through through the lens of what we’ve learned so far. In this video I dive into Dainleif’s cryptic words about the state of affairs in Sumeru, in order to explore the potential arc for the new region and explain why knowledge and wisdom are two very different things.
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Imagine if when kusinali sees us they mistake is for our abyss twin lol
I don't think the Dendro Archon had abandoned their people by letting them stew in the sea of blissful ignorance. It might be their way of protecting their people, just like how stagnation was Ei's idea of shielding the people of Inazuma from Celestia's inevitable wrath. Every Archon seemed to have their own idea of 'protection'. Venti lets himself remain weak, which is the price of freedom, and Rex Lapis stepped down from his post by faking his death in order to protect the people of Liyue from codependency towards their god.
As for Dainsleif's narrative for Sumeru in Travail, I don't find it to be complicated at all. Once you met someone who seemed very intelligent but their words are based on air, highly biased and limited in terms of perspective but they insisted to have been the most knowledgable out there, it's easy to discern the difference between knowledge and wisdom, as it is with truly intelligent people and charlatans. That, I think, would be a theme that Genshin would explore in Sumeru, and it would be interesting if the Lesser Lord Kusanali (if she turns out to be the real Archon unlike the dupe Archon fan-theories) turns out to be a charlatan herself, and the biggest clown in her own circus there is.
Inazuma was hype though. I really enjoyed all of the Raiden Shogun's stories and seeing her character development. But its definitely time for a new focus. Hey TH Bruh! 😆
Considering that we’re seeing a lot of desert themes mixed in with the Dendro theming, do you believe that the Mare Jivari would be considered as the later content for Sumeru?
I think Collei will be a big key character in the Sumeru storyline. Not only because right now she's most likely uncer Cyno's wing, but also the archon residue sealed inside her and how the Fatui used her and other kids for that. On god, the archon residue seems like a big topic to touch upon, which is why I think we ended up in the delusion factory in Inazuma, as a way to make a crack on that shell before opening it. Looking back, it seems that way to me.
I have once seen a video theorizing that Lesser Lord Kusanali might not be the Dendro archon at all, but just an impersonator, who basicly crowned himself after the cataclysm, in which the actual archon (most likely Baizhu), got heavily wounded and is not able to do his duties as the archon.
As evidence it lists like the fact that Kusanali is the god of flowers, but not of Dendro (Tree), the weird title, Baizhu's character design and name and some real world similarities.
Since then I can not forget this theory and am heavily believing in it.
This is almost certainly the case, if you recall all the researching Sumerian NPCs we've encountered. The ones that believe in and research BS get encouraged and supported in their research (like Kaushik), whereas those that research into dangerous topics like the Irminsul fruits are under much more pressure to discourage them from continuing (like Hosseini).
This is likely the case, given how each region’s Archon Quests subtly link and hint to each other.
Mondstadt’s Dvalin’s forgotten freedom is akin to a contract
Liyue’s Archon’s final contract signifies their eroded duty in the face of eternity
Inazuma’s chase for eternity could also be an ignorant wisdom at the cost of its own people
Whenever Sumeru is mentioned I cannot help but to think back to the theory about Baizhu being the former Dendro archon (god of the forest)
After reading Fahrenheit 451 I wonder if Sumeru will be similar. Knowledge comes at a price, but what happens when the people don't want to pay that price anymore? Knowledge loses its value.
this whole theme of being kept in the dark always reminds me of Ella Musk. She's literally trying to communicate with hilichurls about their history. My gut feeling says that is probably not a good thing to do.
For some reason i remembered a saying from a joke i saw on the internet "knowledge is knowing that tomatos are fruit wisdom is to not put it in a fruit salad" i mean i feel this saying dispite being a part of a joke shows clearly the diffrence between knowledge and wisdom just because tomatos are fruit it doese'nt make it a good idea to put it in a fruit salad and the same thing in sumeru just because something is true does'nt make it a good idea to spread it because if the people knew too much their nation will be destroyed
Im wondering if Sumeru will also be sealed off to early game players (like Inazuma) when it arrives. XD that would be such a pain for them.
Purana in this context (or The Puranas) are actually ancient hindu mythology texts and its like an enclyopedia talking about various and diverse topics like cosmology, genealogies of gods and goddesses, sagas,kings heroes medicine grammar etc
I also think the purana mentioned in the sumeru chapter title can refer to the truth of this world, or how the world was before the primordial one and maybe even revealing about the unified civilisation whose architectural ruins we see all over teyvat even 🤔
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I thought Byakuyakoku sunk into the abyss as a result of the conflict between the primordial one and the second who came? I don’t think they were sunk for knowing the truth.
Honestly I believe that we will set those kept secrets free and doom the nation just as we did with inazuma. Since now inazuma is also exposed to the threat of the cycle of destruction because of us.
And with all those hints about paimon betraying us, I feel like someone or maybe paimon her self will be taken or forced to leave in search of knowledge of something.
Just in general I think sumeru is where we will learn a little about paimons past.
So basically Sumeru nobles are like the Illuminati.
hmm i heard of a theory where Lisa knows the secrets of teyvat and also knows about the 1st and 2nd who came that's why she has limited time here in teyvat cause she was cursed or something
Man I can't wait for Sumeru
I'm calling it now: Kusanali will have a Jafar/Wormtongue type vizier talking in their ear that's manipulating the political landscape in Sumeru for their own benefit. He/she will be either aligned with the Fatui or the Abyss.
Kusanali is likely under some sort of duress or spell (like king Theoden was) to explain how they are so easily duped.
Ngl Teyvat historia and Island is my favorite theory channel
i feel like china and sumeru very similiar because of the current situation
let it be known that Kusanali is very likely to represent the one trait the Dendro Slime has: cowardice.
its almost certain, Kusanali does nothing against that push for folly because she's well aware that its better to know nothing than to stand up against Celestia, which in a sense, is the coward's way out compared to the Tsaritsa.