Nahida, The Small But Deadly Archon [Genshin Impact Character Lore and Analysis]



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45 thoughts on “Nahida, The Small But Deadly Archon [Genshin Impact Character Lore and Analysis]”

  1. Morax and Beezubul: throwing meteors and striking the land with lightning

    Venti slicing mountains and blowing them across the nation

    Nahida: I’ll make you sleep for eternity.. literally

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  2. 6:06: Hoyo writers managed to create a really well-written, autistic-coded character. They showed that even though her empathy may work differently from other people, she's still a person who is kind and actively tries to do the right thing. In Serinitea Pot, we see that she'd be happy to travel and experience the world without an algorithmic reason at all.

    And yet, of course, there will always be someone who's going to say a character displaying autistic traits is innately dangerous.

    She doesn't have monopoly on true knowledge either. She's strictly tied to Irminsul, a collection of data that can be easily manipulated. Obtaining knowledge Celestia doesn't want her to have can have dire consequences – just look at Rukkhadevata. Zhongli and Venti might know more than her, but they're not willing to talk, as you mention yourself.

    The rest of the video is fine, but it's much more of a recap than an analysis. It doesn't tell us anything a person who read the story didn't know. Your audio quality is better here, but is still in a need of a de-esser or a good EQ.

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  3. I have the idea that the gnosis doesn’t give its owner actual power… they give knowledge and recognition to an already extremely powerful being, that’s why the archons are not attached to it, the knowledge being the most important asset in this world it can and it’s perceived as power being that the reason the gnosis are so desired.

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  4. speaking of us needing nahida in the future i'd be fun if nahida just showed up at random points in the story just tell us stuff or help reason with people if we have to just something that would be cool

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  5. Ngl all the archons have abilities that can be classified as deadly venti in his prime Cut mountains in half with only the wind and zhongli created gunyun stone forest only using Spears and raider cut a Island using the motou no hutou tachi

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  6. Man… I want to love Nahida, but the fact that she possessed the Traveler that second time in the Archon Quest for no reason at all kinda soured my attitude towards her (I'm mad about the first possession as well, but that happened by accident so I don't blame her specifically, I just blame HoYo's writing for that). She's adorable, I just kinda have to block that specific event out of my mind.

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  7. i'm so glad you've made a video on her powers and potential! in my eyes Nahida has the most terrifying power amongst the archons so far. if she wasn't this kind but harbored malevolent intentions, Teyvat would be in huge trouble.

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  8. One thing that stood out to me when playing the Archon quest is that it felt like Nahida was toying with others, with us. She literally has insight into human minds yet she looks at people with this weird curiousity that is better suited for solving sudoku, not human interaction.

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  9. Nahida can delete anyone existence from iRminsul even other archon will lost most of their power because as we know the more control over their region the more powerful they can get so that make a really deadly enemy if she wasn't kind at all

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  10. I’ve been lost in your videos for the past three days after stumbling across them and I just have to say thank you for all the effort you put into these. Especially during patch downtime it’s so fun to dive into these videos and speculate alongside. Amazing job and I can’t wait for even more!

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  11. Imagine if the Greater Lord participated in the Archon War with/without protecting the Irminsul. Oh boy! Teyvat will have a monster on their own minds. Yikes. But i know Venti can still survive if they battled because Venti has a connection with the God of Time, and he will know when not to fight.

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  12. We don't know the limit Nahida's mind maanipulation so imagine if she could warp a human preception, she could creat realistic halusinattion, or warp our preception of time so hard seconds feels like hours. If she turns evil she basically could be like AM from "I have no mouth and I must scream"

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  13. Are we really sure Nahida has shared everything with the Traveler? She purposefully avoided taking about the 'false sky' afterall and you can argue that she didn't want to talk about something she isn't 100% sure about, it still shows that even she's capable of witholding information from us.

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  14. There's one more thing she's unknowingly capable of

    Even when forbidden knowledge is rid of, Nahida has the potential to kickstart her own Nahi Nahi Apocalypse

    (Source: based on a Honkai Impact 3rd fanmovie, Teri Teri Apocalypse)

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  15. I have this feeling while the fandom likes to potray Nahida as sweet child, Scaramouche's aunt/mom that showers him with love compared to his original mom (don't get me wrong, I like them), I feel like the canon Nahida strikes me as a "emotionless" child (not in a bad way). She might have some grasp in human emotion, but she still have long way to go. Well, she is a god of logic and rationality, and she's the youngest archon so understanding mortal might be a challenge to her compared to more experienced one like Zhongli, Venti, Makoto, and Rukkhadevata.

    Like, she's stated multiple times that she doesn't completely understand with human interaction and emotion, thus that's why she asked Traveler to interact with people for her plan, right? The way she keep Scaramouche is because she think Scara have something beneficial for her in the long run, it feels like she's seeing Scara as a tool rather than a lost child. Instead of adopting Scara, I see it as Nahida rehabilitates Scara to become a better person/behaves well. At least Nahida have strong morality in my eyes compared to other archons.

    Her experience with human emotion and loss is when Rukkhadevata is still exist. She have this feeling that she's overshadowed by Rukkhadevata and she's crying when Rukkhadevata is gone. But well, Rukkhadevata doesn't exist now so her experience is gone.

    Or maybe this is because I played JP dub. JP dub gives me this "algorithmic, emotionless, rational and logical small god" compared to EN dub that is more "sweet child archon that have big curiousity"

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  16. This got me thinking. What if, at some point of the story, Nahida had understood forbidden knowledge? She had somehow fully grasped it, without being currupted, and without affecting irminsul? What would Celestia do then? What would Nahida do?
    Will she pull an "Orabashi" and sacrificed herself for Sumeru to not get nailed?

    Or will she embrace her new found, other wordly power to fight off Celestia?

    Kinda like what happened with Kiana from Honkai, where she got corrupted by Sirin and then embracing that power later in the story. (yeah I know some of you don't like comparing Honkai to Genshin but that's the most similar comparison I got).

    It would be interesting to see this happen, since Nahida is dubbed the purest branch of irmunsul. She may have a strong resistance to forbidden knowledge, and control and understand it without going crazy.

    This is definitely not because I wanna see an Alter Nahida..yep yep

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  17. I have a question as a feeble scholar of genshin lore. Have you heard rumors regarding some very odd things in Zhongli lore? His constallation doesnt match his character story title, neither did Ruckedevata erasure have effect on him. He still says in his profile that only only 2 of original seven survived to this day, despite Irminsul supposedly changing this information to Nahida being part of original seven. Odd thing is that also the fact that he descended to teyvat over 6000 years ago and as we know Teyvat seems to be based on gnosticism, that why I speculate it has only 6000 years. It would mean Zhongli is older than current teyvat itself and that he belonged to old world of Teyvat. Youtube with nickname Wei noticed all those odd things and made a very interesting theory regarding this subject

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