Raiden Ei and Makoto – Stories of the Electro Archons (Genshin Impact Lore)

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Raiden Ei is the current Electro Archon of Inazuma, succeeding her sister Makoto in the position. Both of them have been important in Inazuma’s history, and have witnessed many of the tragedies that have befallen the nation. In this video, I talk about these stories, and how it affected the two sisters.

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Chapters
0:00 – Raiden Ei and Makoto
0:42 – Sisters of Lightning
2:44 – Battles of Inazuma
4:34 – The Cataclysm
7:10 – Rise of a New Archon
9:28 – Inazuma Today
12:49 – Ending Notes

Sources and Further Reading
Ei – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Ei
Makoto – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Makoto
Inazuma Weapon Series – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Inazuma_Series
Archon War – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Archon_War
Treasured Tales of the Chouken Shinkageuchi – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Treasured_Tales_of_the_Chouken_Shinkageuchi
The Seven – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven
Orobashi – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Orobashi
Before Sun and Moon – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Before_Sun_and_Moon
Sasayuri – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Sasayuri
Cataclysm – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Cataclysm
Mikoshi Chiyo – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Mikoshi_Chiyo
Mask of the Kijin – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Mask_of_the_Kijin
Khaenri’ah – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Khaenri%27ah
Musou Isshin – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Musou_Isshin
Kitsune Saiguu – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Kitsune_Saiguu
Sacred Sakura – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Sacred_Sakura
Scaramouche – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Scaramouche
Vision Hunt Decree – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Vision_Hunt_Decree
Sakoku Decree – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Sakoku_Decree
Plane of Euthymia – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Plane_of_Euthymia
Weekly Boss Shogun – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/End_of_the_Oneiric_Euthymia
Istaroth – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Istaroth

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17 thoughts on “Raiden Ei and Makoto – Stories of the Electro Archons (Genshin Impact Lore)”

  3. Since Venti and Zhongli are the original archons and Ei was here before he sister dies de have a clean time line. So for Nahida is hard to say it now since Rukkhavata was the only one, so is Rukkuvata memories and story became one whit Nahida or their story are for one of them? Let me explain: We saved Sumeru and Teyvat for the corruption of Urminsul, every one from this world even Paimon have no memories of Greater Lord Rukkuvata and Who she is but her expérience is now Nahida's. So is the Akasha Nahida's creation??

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  8. The fury of Ei’s slash of the Musuo no Hitotachi cut through 3 islands, all the way to Mt. Yougou on Narukami Island, whose peak was split in half (and the bigger peak rests the Grand Shrine).

    As the kids say, “That’s one big ouch.”

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  9. The whole thing about Ei having to die somehow before Makoto could become Archon is speculation based on a work of what Ei says is fiction, right? Is there any other evidence for that view?

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  10. Why did Ei sacrifice her body? Celectia only wanted one Archon for each nation, Ei didn`t want to become an Archon. For example, in Sumeru no one even tried to kill other gods, just Celectia offered Deshret a Gnosis, but he refused, so they just offered it to Buer. So, in my opinion, information about Ei sacrificing her body irrelevant or she had other reasons

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  11. Why do you think the Archons had to meet up at Tunigi hollow? According to Folio of Foliage pre-samsara version Rukkhadevata dies there while creating the Gaokerena from her body. Therefore either the whole Archon summons stuff with her going to the Irminsul while the others went to Khaenri'ah had already happened, freeing her to go to Tunigi and die afterwards, or else the irminsul was at Tunigi hollow in some sense. Either way the other Archons had no reason to be there too because Rukkhadevata says she went to a different place than they did. Also the ordering of events seems off. When Makoto leaves to go to Khaneri'ah Inazuma is already battling monsters. But if that represents an event prior to Rukkhadevata coming to Tunigi and fiddling with the Hydro Archon's corpse, then the Archons would be summoned before the citizens of Khaenri'ah fled their homeland and therefore before mass Hilichurlification took place, and before Khaenri'ah lost control of it's robots, so what exactly were the monsters they were fighting in Inazuma when Makoto left?

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  13. The timey-wimey weirdness of Inazuma is unexplored. For example in her memories Ei sees her three friends and herself having a picnic. The Kitsune Saiguu is dressed as a shrine maiden of the temple, but, according to Ei herself, at the time she is recalling in that shot, (prior to Orobashi's death and so at least 2000 years ago) the Sacred Sakura did not exist, and would not exist for another 1500 years at a minimum. Furthermore the dead Kitsune Saiguu's memories and corruption end up forming Kazari / Hanachirusato the spirit being with the mask who talks Traveler into performing a cleansing ritual on the Sacred Sakura, even though they died around the same time the Sacred Sakura was first created, 500 years ago. So are the Kitsune Saiguu's memories changed along with everyone else's 500 years ago just briefly before she dies? Or do they only change after she's dead, which would be… more weird than average I guess but not impossible?

    If they'd dropped all the timey-wimey stuff with Inazuma I guess there'd be no reason to revisit any of it, but since they doubled and tripled down on it in Sumeru maybe there'll eventually be some answers for Inazuma.

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  15. Ei was not deceived by the Fatuis, she says she knew well what they were doing but she only cared about eternity. Ei says that the decree had her tacit approval, but conscious approval after all. That is something I have to emphasise.

    And I think you should have clarified the source of where it says that Ei sacrificed her body, remember that not everyone reads the books of the game. That's all I can say, see you and take care.

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  16. I think people take Ei's comment on her getting not deceived too literally. You can disagree but here's how I always looked at that specific scenario. Firstly Ei or any other archon is not omnipotent. (Even Nahida takes help from the aranara and children to gather information, Venti might be an exception due to his connection with the thousand winds but we can't say for sure.) So it is highly likely Ei didn't know everything that was going on outside her realm. She may have had a hunch about who might try to stir up any problem but not the entirety. Her medium of information, the Shogun had tunnel vision towards eternity (Which was Ei's faulty programming to begin with tho) and she was being fed wrong information by both the fatui and the tenryou commission so it is highly likely the shogun never informed anything in depth to Ei. Ei knew the fatui existed yeah but not how far it had escalated. Does this mean Ei or the Shogun are any less at fault? Nope and it is precisely because of these flaws I enjoy Ei's character (and her growth) out of every other archon except Venti.

    P.S: If I'm not wrong that bit about Ei sacrificing her body to let Makoto be the Electro archon is from a novel? I think we should take that information with a bit of grain of salt since it kinda brings up more questions and problems for how archon selection process went during the aechon war. Since it kinda conflicts with what went down in Sumeru.

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