Over the past two years I’ve spent a lot of time exploring Genshin Impact’s ruins. In this video I reveal some of my discoveries that have lead to mini theories, and other observations.
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I never drew a comparison between the unknown god's attack and the strange formations of the Chasm. Other than noting that the formations were indeed strange.
the 4 pointed symbol appears on all domains, and there are floating adepti language symbols(I looked into them some time ago and that's what they are it seems – do we have any way to translate their language? ) floating on all domain gates. it's possible the adepti could've existed in the ancient time, because why otherwise would there be adepti symbols on gates that should belong to the old civilization(look on the symbols on zhongli statue and compare to the floating ones on gates, to me they looked similar).
also , with the chasm, it gave me a faint vibe kaenri'ah was around liyue, because I just can't understand why Celestia would drop a nail there. and the erratic cube like rock formations do seem similar to unknown god, and it only led me to believe kaenri'ah had to be around there.
Will part of 2 of the enkannomiya video be released?
Most of the ruins found in the game belong to the ancient pre-archon war global civilization that worshiped the primordial one and it's shades. They were wiped out by "the second who came" and the survivors ended up in mostly underground like in Enkanomiya, the Chasm depths, and some of whom ended up founding Khaenri'ah.
The chasm is twisted like it is because of the forces between the nail and the miasma. Read the description of the glaze crystal quest item.
i feel like inteyvat will be part of dains ascension material
I've been watching this channel for a while now but i must say the effort put in has seemingly skyrocketed recently. love it! <3
WOW this is good. I would just dismiss the same designs as "game developers being lazy" but this theory is mind blowing! Love it. hope you reach your sub goal <3
if I'm not wrong, sal terrae was sealed of by zhongli? from his first story quest, I think he told us this.
on the golden apple archipelago one of the seelie we follow ended up in mond, near dadaupa gorge if I wasn't mistaken.
Uh. Upside down Triquetra on the ruins. Upside Triquetra on the Thousand Winds Temple. Upside down Triquetra on Paimon's chest. Interesting. And the fact that the Traveller has memories of Kanri'ah supports the theory that indeed what is now Abyss sibling could have been indeed the one that built that nation to begin with and pheraps, the initial scene of the game, is nothing but the siblings escaping from making a gigantic, epic "oopsie" ( creating a nation without a god in a world ruled by a very stroppy god).
The ruins of ENkanomiya and the Chasm are probably remnants of the primaordial civilization under Phanes.
Since Enkanomiya was an actual part of the land of Phanes that got lost to the surface in the war against the 2nd.
And that assumption that the surface of the MoonspireDoes support my theory that the humans were brought to Teyvat from another world by Phanes; in the Ark as the story tells.
Okay I'm ngl I need to rewatch a bit to fully grasp everything you said and connect it to my own thoughts and see what all clicks
Thanks for the videos and hope you've been well!
Pretty sure it ain’t khaenriah all over but rather the ancient human civilization that the primordial one created? The one Ekanomiya used to be part of.
The ruins you call Khaenrian ruins are actually "enkanomian" ruins. Ruins from the time of enkanomiya, when the world had one single culture. it was confirmed in the Sun and Moon book
Further more, you are wrong about the people who escaped the archipelago, they did not found the Salvindagnyr civilization. They escaped with the help of pirates from the fleet of an Inazuman pirate that lived 500 years ago. So the escape was very recent. Man you hae done very poor research on this.
When at 12:35 you say that the structure of the Abyss is more akin to the hull of a spacecraft I cannot stop thinking that Teyvat, as a whole, is in reality an IMMENSE spaceship with an internal, fake earthly biome which includes a 'control bridge' (Celestia) in the sky and, of course, a fake 'sky' to foil the creatures that live inside. After all, the world Teyvat means 'ark' in hebrew (as in Noah's Ark).
The Twins could simply have broken through the hull inside their meteor-pods when they came 'on' (inside) Teyvat…
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Genshin Lore Masters: Reading every piece of information in the ruins and create theories about Celestia, Phanes and the Heavenly Principles
Me: casually waiting for Celestia Archon Quest that's probably gonna happen in 4 years from now cuz I wanna see Traveler fighting Gods alongside the big reveal of everything
Re: the Golden Apple Archipelago- my understanding is that they’re the remnants of Pilos Peak (from the early Fischl event). The summit, as described from the event, is now the entrance to the Spiral Abyss (Musk Reef). The rest got blown away by Barbatos. This would explain why some of the ruins are upside-down in the Archipelago.
The original location of the Pilos Peak is explained in the Hilichurl Language Guide that Ella Musk gave during the Hilichurl event- “Dadaupa” means “big mountain”. Pilos peak once stood where Dadaupa Gorge is now. (Are the 3 Hilichurl tribes remnants of the people that lived on the mountain?)
Time frame is a little vague; the mountain was there when Leonard climbed it (2,600 years ago) and was inspired to make the Glider. The mountain was virtually unclimbable and there was no mention of civilization then.
How did the entrance of the Spiral Abyss appear at the summit? Is that connected to the False Sky that Scaramouche/Mona reveal to us?
When/why did Barbatos destroy Pilos Peak? It seems before the Khaenri’ah War/Cataclysm, because the mountain was long-forgotten by the people of Mondstadt…
The four point insignias above the doorways are called Solomon's Knots, it's a symbol that's commonly associated with eternity and often appears over Jewish mausoleums. Mihoyo also uses the Solomon's Knot as a symbol for Dr. Mobius from Honkai Impact 3rd, whose battlesuit is known as Infinite Ouroboros, so from that along with the Chasm's story, we can conclude that the intended use for the symbol on Domains is likely to represent something continuous, like a never ending curse or cycle.
As for lost civilizations, all of the previous games made by Mihoyo took place in the same world, separated by cataclysms and resets, where the populace of the planet was reincarnated into an existence similar to that of the previous world, but having no memory of the life they lived before. This is why characters like Kiana Kaslana, Raiden Mei and Bronya Zaychik, all appear again in the different games, yet some changes take place between the games, that's because they're the reincarnations of the characters who died during the previous game's cataclysm. The old worlds mentioned in these games are actually the previous games themselves, and believe it or not, a Super AI causes the resets after every cataclysm, this is not a theory, it's entirely canon. That's why the last scene in Houkai Gakuen 2 has all of the characters dying, the world getting destroyed, reset, and ends on the final note of: "See you in the next world"; the next world being Honkai Impact 3rd.
It's not directly mentioned in Honkai Impact 3rd though, so a lot of players aren't aware of it, I actually had trouble believing it myself until researching Houkai Gakuen 2, and confirmed it to be the case. Unfortunately, the numerous Wiki's for the Honkai series are not well maintained, so they weren't very helpful.
It's also important to note the existences of Bubble Universes, in the Hoyoverse there are two key factors that must be understood regarding universes and the lore.
First is the Imaginary Tree, which is where universes are born into existence, time flows down each branch, and every branch leads to a different variant of universes, the farther the branches are away from the source, the more unique they become, likewise every leaf and petal represents what is called a Bubble Universe.
Bubble Universes are where the action takes place, and every decision made can lead to a new Bubble Universe forming on the Tree. Like with Cocolia, whose an antagonist in the main story, but appears as an ally while Bronya was visiting a Dead Bubble Universe in the Sea of Quanta.
The second critical place to understand is the Sea of Quanta, which is basically Honkai's abyss, it's where the Bubble Universe go when they die, the process of which is described as being like a leaf or a petal falling from the Tree into the pool of water at the base of the Tree. This should ring a bell with Genshin players, because it's represented on a smaller scale whenever we collect from the Tree at the end of a Domain challenge, and the circle at the base lights up with a symbol known as the Triskele, which has multiple meanings: Earth, Water and Sky; Spiritual, Physical and Celestial; Past, Present and Future; Life, Death and Rebirth; Heaven, Earth and Hell; Maiden, Woman and Crone; in Genshin lore, one might interpret the Triskele as: Light Realm, Human Realm and Abyss Realm, or in Honkai: Imaginary Tree, Earth and Sea of Quanta.
Now, the Sea of Quanta is fighting a constant battle of dominance with the Imaginary Tree, the Sea tries to drown the roots of the Tree, while the Tree consumes the Sea into itself; the outcome of this conflict is where Honkai energy comes into things.
Simply put, Honkai energy powers civilization, from electric stoves to weapons, but it also corrupts life forms, turning some into Zombies, Monsters, or even Herrschers.
As for Teyvat, it's actually shown on a monitor in chapter 17 of Honkai Impact 3rd, the official writer had this to say about it's appearance in the scene in Fallen Rosemary's trailer:
"In the final part of main story Chapter 17, Overseer Otto observed other worlds via the Imaginary Tree. One of his observations is Dvalin, the wind Dragon from Teyvat."
So from this we have an official source directly stating that Teyvat takes place within the same multiverse as Honkai, not necessarily the same universe though.
In the Elysian Realm, Su has a conversation with Raiden Mei where he tells her about his psychic ability, and how it allows him to see into different worlds, he describes the following experience:
"In that world I am a woman, but one harboring great malice. She weaved an illusion that ensnared the entire Earth with spirituality far superior to mine."
From this it explains how different a parallel world in the Hoyoverse can be, so you can imagine just how different it might be farther down the Tree.
At this point, Genshin might be a prerequisite game for Archeology students 🤣.
The idea that the ruins in Mondstadt and everywhere else are Khaenrian don't make any sense though? All we know about Khaenria, is that it existed somewhere in the Dark sea region, don't you think there would have been much more info about it in the world if it was actively going on conquests to get the land and to actively build stuff on it? It was destroyed only 500 years ago at this point, and all the other countries existed for far longer then that, they didn't get established on Khaenrian lands after it's destruction.
Absolutely everything points to all these ruins being from a FAR older civilization, the Sal Vindagnyr and probably even older ones, which in turn, when destroyed formed Khaenria, or went there when it was only getting started, hence the somewhat of a similarity Dain noticed, but even he stated the ruins are not Khaenrian… similarly when he was speaking of ruin guards peviously, he didn't say "they now reside in every Khaenrian ruins all over the world" he specifically said they took any ancient ruins for Khaenria and rested there, which in turn tells us those are definitely not Khaenrian ruins.
I have an hypothesis, the ancient civilization that is older than Khanrei'ah is the true Celestia, the real one, before the second thrones came and that's why the fountain seems to relieve the pain of the heavenly principles curse 🤔
Unrelated but I have a strong hatred for sustainer for some reason and I hope we get to kick her ass in the end for the bullshit she did in the beginning
you got it reverse, these are not khaenriah ruin, khaenriah was build in their image but is merely an attempt at copy. as dainleif stated, the ruin look familar, but he never regarded them as khaenriah. khaenriah is a relatively young nation, in the quest to find the ruin guard, dainleif stated the ruin guard are not protecting the ruin, rather they merely find them familar. in the chasm dainleif again said they are familar to him but are not khaenriah ruin. this is intentional, MHY want to make it clear that they are not khaenriah, khaenriah is an actual place and according to the chapter preview, we will be visiting, so it is clearly not the ruins we see around the world. rather the abyss and ruin guard are surveying the ruin because they are trying to collect information and learn the technology. they are copying, not part of these civilisation.
why does this guy kinda sound like kaeya
The damage to Decarabian’s tower (especially the bending of the trees) look like a massive force came OUTWARDS from the tower. If you consider Zhongli’s first character quest, where we see the aftermath of the death of an incredibly weak god causing massive death in proximity, my guess would be that the death of Decarabian caused an explosion of energy which devastated Old Mond. Also I believe the ruins in the archipelago are from Venti cutting down and blowing away the mountains in Mondstadt where they one existed.
since you do alot of research and shinanigans do you do this alone?
I look at the ruins and see four incidents of Celestia destroying civilizations. We have the ruins of Khaenri'ah, the desolation of the civilization in the Chasm, The destruction of the civilization on Tsurumi Island and at Sal Vindagnyr. I can agree that it is likely that any overlap we see in the ruins is possible due to immigration of survivors who then integrated their aesthetics into the designs of the civilizations they settle with. We also have to consider that Liyue, Inuzuma and Monstadt existed when the "cataclysm" and its fallout took place as it has been noted that the destruction of Khaenri'ah thus making it possible that survivors of the event could also have fled there. We have proof of this being possible in the form of Albedo. If he escaped to Monstadt it is possible others who were not infected fled further.