Who are The Four Shades explained (Genshin Impact 4.2 Lore and Theories)

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i had no idea the sustainr of heavenly principles (unknown gods) name was asmoday until i googled her lol funny how life works. anyway talking about the 4 shades in genshin impact cause i like them and at some point they gotta come into the plot. genshin impact doesnt give us a whole lot of lore regarding them and no room for theories but its ok. someone leak when kiana will be playable tysm.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:53 Lore of 4 Shades/Columbina
4:24 Istaroth
5:46 Sustainer of Heavenly Principles
7:10 Shade of Life/Death

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33 thoughts on “Who are The Four Shades explained (Genshin Impact 4.2 Lore and Theories)”

  1. what are the chances that the shade of death and life are linked together seen as Seele is the herrsher of rebirth aka life and death. just a thought because you suggest the kiana looking unknown god is the shade of void, kiana being the herrsher of void. and the herrsher of reason is Bronya so…

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  4. If Columbina is going to be in Natlan, it would make sense for her to be the Shade of Death. She might have the ability to bring the Third Descender back to life, once their body parts are in the proximity of each other

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  5. I have a theory thou it might be COPIUM,

    I think some of the Archons already tried to Rebel as part of the cataclysm 500 yrs ago, thou only Khanreah is being punished, the Archons that I have suspicious of are Venti, Tsaritsa, & Murata, pls hear me out first.

    1st my focus is towards Venti the SUS Archon, and everyone who's seems to be ANGRY at him, Do you remember the Eye of the Storm from Windrise, there Venti tell us that it's ANGRY (not sure if they were just corrupted from 500 yrs ago) at him, and this Eye of the Storms are minions of Istaroth part of Thousands Winds (base at the Omnipresent God statue, and more at the Nameless Island), 2nd the Tsaritsa cutting off her connection from Venti, (I speculated that she's ANGRY because they failed blaming it to Venti I am not sure), Khanreans (Abyss Order, and someone like Kaeya who been order to do so) who desire to Sabotage Monsdstadt, the Fatui probably already knew as well, trashing Venti, Second the idea of Venti being the Prodigal Son (meaning done something that the family didn't approved but later on he regrets, this might point only towards Venti being intimate to the Nameless Bard which is Love, it's possible because his androgynous, thou I doubt because of the regret), thus implies that he done something that can anger Celestia or may killed Istaroth, 3rd Venti's connections to the Hexenzirkel, base on how Alice portray the Wind (Venti), it tells us Venti's greatness, and how greatful she was of her FREEDOM (not that ungrateful fire witch), also being leader of the group where Rhinedotr being a part of is SUS, 4th Venti's history of being an Overthrower of Tyrants, Last is leaving Monsdstadt time to time to travel.

    My speculations is that Venti and the other Archons (being sure that it's the Tsaritsa, and Murata, still not sure about others), failed to succeed in their rebellion, resulting the death of many including the Archons, and also Istaroth, that why the members of the Thousand Winds are ANGRY towards Venti, also only Khanreah being punished, the current Tsaritsa taking matters on her own hands thus the Fatui

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  13. I'll give you a headcanon ranking of the angels.

    The highest, mid, and lowest ranking are in order.

    Highest Order: Middle Order Lower Order:

    – Seraphim = The Twin and Sibling – Dominions = The Seven Sovereigns – Principalities = The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles

    – Cherubim = The Primordial One – Virtues = The Four Shining Shades – Archangels = The Seven Archons

    – Thrones = The Second who Came – Powers = The Heavenly Principles – Angels = Allogenes

    I'll add that there could be there could be more than Four Shining Shades.
    Because if they are the Virtues that means there could be Seven of them in Total.
    Their called the Seven Heavenly Virtues consists of the Four Cardinal Virtues and Three Theological Virtues.

    Where have we seen Three menacing individuals in the game? No… In the Manga when someone asked Barbatos about Celestia.
    (There is a possibility that these Three menacing individuals are the same Three Shades who went with the Primordial One and they came back corrupted)

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  20. I know Phanes is speculated to be the Primordial One. Which depicts a male but is also androgynous. Yet the Primordial One made shinning shades of itself. Interesting that the shades are primarily women… Paimon is female. Wink wink.

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  26. Okay, something interesting about the Shade Of Death- on the TVTropes page for Tsurumi, it mentions a character known as the Boatman. The Boatman is basically a psychopomp, who's meant to guide the souls of Tsurumi Island to the afterlife, and mentions that 'The Golden Lady' is upset with his failure to do so. Honestly, I think we have our Shade Of Death here- and this statement makes them seem pretty active. (I find it a bit bizarre how nobody brings this up, though then again this is a more obscure piece of lore-)

    Also, a question that popped up regarding Istaroth (before 4.2) was- 'Who actually has supreme authority over Anemo?' After all, as a Shade, Istaroth ranks much higher than Venti and is also a God Of Wind. But then I also remembered that Anemo and Wind aren't technically the same thing- Anemo is just the energy that allows you to manipulate winds. So I guess in accordance with what we know about the Divine Thrones, the power of the Anemo Sovereign would still be with Venti, especially considering Istaroth's domain seems to mainly be time, but since Time and Wind are linked, she also gained control over the winds.

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  28. The Omnipresent god is likely Raiden Ei. The statue being Istaroth is all but supposition and headcanon.

    It is more obvious in chinese thats the statue is Ei, as shes called multiple time "the hundreds Eye thousands arms" god there is very good threads on Twitter and reddit posts pointing it out

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  30. (JUST A 3AM THOUGHT DONT TAKE IT TOO SERIOUSLY OK)

    this is a weird thought…. the primordial one won the war of teyvat against the dragon and earned the right to shape it right?… but technically as we are going along with our journey we are reshaping it kinda…. and arent we kinda being controlled by PAIMON???? literally with us every step of the way "guiding" us on the do's and dont's of our story and pointing us in a direction …. PAIMON one of the shades????? i wouldnt be surprised ngl… she was planted there right at the start on purpose to become our guide literally majority of ppl who meet her and inspects her think she's sus too … and sometimes she's just think of smth rly sussy and just goes like "oh speaking from experience" and then goes back to pretending to be rly dumb @-@

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