The Archon Quest: Bedtime Story has finally given us an almost complete picture of what historical event is described in The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies.
However, it doesn’t take a that much effort to realize that the Six Pygmies are Dainsleif and the Five Sinners… Hence why in this video I am less interested in that, and far more interested in uncovering the identity of the one whom the Pygmies swore an oath to, and betrayed.
Also, a lot of Egypt in this one.
Keep in mind that I will discuss potentially major spoilers regarding the characters of Dainsleif, Vedrfolnir, Rhinedottir, and the Khaenri’ah chapter in general.
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Timestamps:-
Of Six, Five must pay a price (0:00)
What does Khaenri’ah mean? (1:07)
The God of the Thousand Winds (8:51)
The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (10:11)
Why did the Five Sinners betray Istaroth? (19:07)
Dainsleif’s identity (22:35)
The Quest for the Philosopher’s Stone (27:57)
Cecilia & Inteyvat (30:16)
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Dainsleif’s ‘Element’ Decryption: https://www.hoyolab.com/article/5252016
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Spoiler Warning:-
Important: This video contains potentially major spoilers pertaining to unreleased volumes of the book series “The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies”.
Archon Quest: Bedtime Story
Archon Quest: Masquerade of the Guilty
Trailblaze Mission Series: Then Wake To Weep
Anything before version 3.0 is fair game
Anything from Honkai Impact 3rd is fair game
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#genshinimpact #dainsleif #khaenriah
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I used to think that Khaenri'ah was an anagram. I tried googling what names could be formed with these letters, and it gave me Hare Krishna, a mantra dedicated to Krishna, one of the eight avatars of Vishnu… It may have nothing to do with anything, but I find this coincidence interesting ^-^
If he yeet the prince into a tree then it also makes sense that he would be the tree keeper. Right?
Bro a berserk and dark souls comparison to the pygmies would go insane 🔥🔥
We definitely need more dark souls and berserk lore tie ins. The dark souls lore specifically goes super hard and I would love to hear more about where it relates to Genshin
where do i get that image of the boy and the serpent? i NEED it as my wallpaper!!!
🎉Wow 😱🤯 copium or not I do not care! This is tooo good : finally linking up the gnostic chorus and the pale princess and the 6 pigmies… 2 important works in genshin. I haven't read yet the princess fischl book and I started playing too recently to have experienced her event so I don't know much about istaroth being the mother of the pale princess. 🤔
The inteyvat though… Until recently I couldn't stop confusing Cecilias and inteyvat until I took a serious look at them. Always wondered why the evil twin was shown stomping on those flowers… 🤔 Either this is copium or my subconscious was already seeing a connection I can't explain.
Aaaaaah…. So happy!
By the way: what's your take on the reason the evil twin gave about the reason they can't leave yet? (as a reminder, he/she says that they finally found the sea of flowers…)
Did the twins found a new land where to stay? Why were they traveling in the first place?
This and also i wonder why Gold is called by Aliice, a flower not if this world… 🤔 Could Gold be coming from the same land/planet as the twins? Or did she managed to lure the evil twin by showing her that sea of inteyvat flowers?…
And what does it mean in terms of morale or closure of this game? Are Alice & Cie "evil"? What the freak is going on?!! 😭😭😂 Please creator of those lore videos enlighten us 🙃 am so confused…
(I would also very much appreciate to know how can I find the unpublished volumes of the pale princess and the 6 pigmies 👀 🫣.)
This genuinely might be one of the best genshin theory videos ever made
Crazy thing, might the twins be creations of gold?
I live foe this type of copium. also your Arabic pronunciation is good
Oh I forgot about something that has been bothering me for some time now: the number of chess pieces on the board played in the la signora funeral video (the intro to the Fatui harbingers… of dawn):
If chess has 8 pieces (counting the pawn), but we have 11 harbingers so much more pieces than are necessary on the classic chess board: could it be that we only have 5 different /special "powerful" pieces ( 5 harbingers or/and sinners) and the rest are pawns? Plus la signora is shown to be a pawn vanquished by a knight.
Sooo… Could it be that the Fatui got their comédia dellarte monika from the 5 sinners/ sages?
(They couldn't be the same as Pierrot/the fool, because he supposedly wasn't considered wise enough to be part of king irmin's sages. Thus after the calamity he went to the tsarita to propose "his services"…
This raises so many questions with regards to the curse you theorized the pale princess put upon kaenrians : like how shneznaya a northern land with boreal auroras, has limited sunlight. (maybe that's how pierrot as a kaenrian can live above ground.)
The blind/visionary = columbina? The " timid" may be the Fatui counterpart of Il capitano (just because this silly hollow knight is too shy to show his face😂).
This comparison of the sinners' nicknames to the Fatui ones lies on the fact that the Fatui also are collecting fragments of the 3rd descender, possibly to resurect him or gain more power?
But what does it mean then when dainslead says in the bed time story interlude chapter that the 5 sinners, his brothers, could have saved kaenriah?… If I follow your train of thought about the sinners being tempted by more power and consuming fragments of the prince of light /3rd descender, got access to the forbidden knowledge of khemia transmutation, either acquiring immortality, or… Heh what else does the philosopher stone gives you? Wisdom?
I also see how in the Persian and Egyptian ancestor of chess, we can find figures of the 5 sages under animal form. It's always 5 or 4+1 in all those ancient civilizations: mondstadt and the 4 winds, deshret and his desert sages, Remuria and it's harmosts. Coincidence that all these civilisations that have fought fate ended up with the same. Number of sages : what a loop of réincarnations 🤔
And you are not one of them!
That separation of the word Khaenri'ah it's in–game too!
The paper that the Narzissenkreuz Ordo wrote about samsara cycles, separates Khaenri'ah in 2 words, Khraun-Arya, which might be as if we separate Khaen Ri'ah.
So I don't think this is copium.
My guy needs to be paid more than he gets
I am a Dark Souls player, so i would love to see the comparison with berserk and Dark Souls!
Actually Sumeru is based on India, Middle East and North eastern Africa, while The rainforest part is based on India, the desert part is on Middle East and Egypt and it's neighboring countries.
Love this connection! Excited to see what happens with the story and how close this explanation really matches – your stuff is always great and high quality!
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Also, just to point out that the word 'hymn' is pronounced like [h-eh-m], rhyming with 'them', 'stem', 'rim', 'him', etc..
Even though it looks similar to the word 'hymen', they are different sounds.. cause English ^^;
I think they do intersect in origins at one point in Middle English or Old English but their roots are a little different and they are pronounced differently by the end.
There is the Greek god of Marriage, Hymen, but I don't know to much about that line of connection. He's not popular.
'Hymn' from Greek 'humnos' meaning 'ode or song in praise of a god or hero'. IPA pronunciation [ ˈhim ]
'Hymen' from Greek 'humēn' meaning 'membrane'. IPA pronunciation [ ˈhī-mən ]
I just wanted to point it out, cause I know you're very detail oriented in these videos and I've noticed it said in a few others~ I mean no disrespect <3
The thin foil hat had me on the ground
Maybe that's why one of the sins of the akademiya was "investigating the origin of words"… like the key of the main plotline lies in the meaning of the khaenriah word.
Sorry, another long ass comment incoming
Technically unrelated, and,
I kept this to the side for quite awhile but, I somewhat think that:
>Fischl =/= Pale Princess
>Istaroth/sustainer? =/= Night Mother
Depend on my interpretation though, because, if it has to be Paimon, and if I put her into one of their shoe, she can't be the rest of them(?) (or, if she's pale princess ~ sustainer, she's not fischl ~ night mother?)
Okay, look, Paimon is not* Fischl only because I feel like the game implied Fischl onto other character instead, and by other character I have multiple guesses (yes, multiple, with 'proof')
*Your video about Fischl was interesting especially when comparing Paimon getting eaten by the traveler = the prostitute getting eaten by the beast. Which, actually, I haven't connected the two but the first time I interact to Canotila when she talked about traveler will 'swallow the whole world', it reminded me of Fischl's enemy, the dragon who ate human's dreams. So at that moment, that's make me think that the traveler somehow was the evil dragon. If Paimon/traveler scenario really based on that, then it's fitting that the beast = dragon traveler 🤔
Something2 Wanderer wanted to swallow the moon and become the new one (moon=pearl=dream?), something2 uniting with the world's will (Unifiied Civilisation? PO? Cocoon of Finality?), the black sun even?
And the world, and the moon, and the dreams, I have some opinions on those too. (A Lot of them)
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I feel like the game lowkey playing with 'false' foreshadowings to us. And it's not necessarily false foreshadowing too, it's more about the characters' effort to overfit to the roles of fate itself (?) And, there's always two sides of thing. (I could explain more with examples next time)
The fact that the writers in this game keep getting away with these. Genshin should go a bit meta again by calling out Mr. Nine/Andesdotter or something.
(Like, it would be funny if Pale Princess somehow was written by one of the Hexenzirkel, and Rhinedottir aware of that. I guess we'll have to wait for something at least after the Imaginarium Theatre update)
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We saw that Dainsleif practically can NOT be trusted with his information. And this would not be just Dainsleif, every single person in the game too, especially the one that seemingly oblivious (ehm, Paimon/traveler). Yes, blame it to the leylines but, obviously these information are the only thing we had to understand the story. Honestly, just keep an eye if there's any contradiction, and doesn't need to side to which one is the truer one on the spot.
The thing about Paimon not being Fischl for me actually could be salvaged by your explanation in another video. She would reclaim the other Fischl to be one herself alone. Like Azdaha's yin yang and Cyno/Sethos' Hermanubis. It's just that, I think, all the things written by Mr. Nine doesn't fit to Paimon's character development in many ways? (so far?)
Paimon could be Fischl again only if the other Fischl (that I think get suggested by the game) being the evil dragon instead (?). Just like Diluc said, heroes and villains are two sides of the same coin.
And, you know, the reason why I included Paimon as Fischl is when the traveler joking about her at the end of Drama Phantasmagoria:
In a very brief moment at the end, the princess would wield the sword,
"And like how we also call the best travel buddy "emergency food""
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Paimon, at this point, really has to be the god of time. Because the game constantly calls her as a broken clock (even she call herself that) and that "Seed brought by the wind, cultivated by time." thing. But this is what bugging me for some time, I tolerated that Istaroth is also the 'Night (Mother)' but, Night itself in the game, often associated with 'stillness'. (Also Night Mother was irritated by the moonlight, idk how to fit her with the Sustainer for that, even though, yes, it's an allegory)
Fischl (Nott = Night) needed 'time and wind' to revive her homeland (and she's not talking about herself*). And 'time' irl often associated with movement, 'transience'. If we reached equilibrium, there would be nothing more, and if there's nothing more there would be no arrow of time. If everything stay still, it's as if the time itself stopped. Something to be called 'time' become useless because nothing indicates movement/differences.
So I think, the way Istaroth went to Enka is simply kinda like her job to make Enka ancestors to experience 'time' (?)
*Yes, the last forbidden riddle in Enkanomiya. Yes, she's PO/Phanes' shade. This is why I try to logic everything by saying 'anyone' could be the god of time. (Believe me, there's a reason why I'm being hesitant not just about Fischl, I also kinda doubt Paimon is the same entity that helped Enkanomiya's ancestor. Yes she forgot/being the next samsara of certain entity, but I also might have an answer for that).
There's A LOT of room of vagueness the game trying to convey. If Istaroth unironically just a figure of speech (and any other thing for that matter), I wouldn't be surprised. And about 'anyone can be the god of time' to me is like, when the hilichurl not worshipping Barbatos for the elements (not worshipping a specific figurehead), they instead worship the elements itself. So maybe, Istaroth and Paimon could be the same case? Time already it's own thing but the mascot/personification would be them? (Or, Istaroth is the official collective name for Teyvat's time, idk)
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So Paimon, the toddler, apparently has strings connected to the traveler and the sky. Therefore, she's chained by those thing. I'd say her position in the game is very equal to Venti in terms of lore. If she's somehow merged to be something bigger, and become more important, then it's another thing. (I might want to compare her to Ena's puppet or clockie but I will get a slap bc I don't have enough context about HSR lore) Also interestingly, Princess Lyris' treasure was a broken pocket watch. (Wait, mid way brainrotting and now Paimon is the genesis pearl?–)
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"Time that was once frozen will flow again, and we will rescue her."
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11:44 "In the new world, they bade farewell to the shrouded sun"
Btw, this also gives sense to the line "save her", as many thinks Dain refers to Lumine, but from all what we have seen she definitely is not the one who need to be saved and Dain does not act like he is trying to do that, more to stop her, not to save her, also it's quite strange to tell a brother that prove that are worthy to save your sister…, but if this theory is right, then he was talking about saving Astaroth, who loved those flowers. So he says to Traveller, that prove that you are the one who will save Astaroth and revive Prince….