Who were the First and Oldest Gods in Teyvat? (Genshin Impact 4.5 Lore and Theory)

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you know i really want to make a video on the god kings of sumeru now, I like nabu malikata. but i also have a video I wanna make on the cryo archon the tsarista given perinheri hmm. anyway this is a rough estimation using genshin impact lore, as to who the first/oldest god in teyvat of the human realm was, yes excluding the heavenly principles. zhongli is the one left, kinda wild huh. deshret and remus time period is a bit messy. anyway did anyone see the arlecchino ult leaks changes? can someone tell me if thats a buff or nerf, I still want her weapon but her c1 kinda jacked now.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:27 Shades vs Gods
3:06 First Era Lore
4:48 Nabu Malikata
5:55 Greater Lord Rukkhadevata
7:00 Guizhong and Morax
8:23 Deshret and Remus
9:19 Oldest Gods in Teyvat by Era
10:32 Egeria

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29 thoughts on “Who were the First and Oldest Gods in Teyvat? (Genshin Impact 4.5 Lore and Theory)”

  2. Doesn’t Neuvillette’s vision story say that the Gods are fragments of the Primordial One who would eventually war with each other, or am I misremembering?

    Also, it’s interesting how each region aside from Inazuma has some kind of mythical God-King in each region. We have Decarabian in Mondstadt, Zhongli in Liyue, Deshiret in Sumeru, and Remus in Fontaine

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  4. Arent the archons just spirits given god hood, god furina used to be an undime basically and was made the next hydro archon by the previous one so its stands to reason a similar thing happened to the other archons

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  6. off topic,but i think arlecchino is a reference/inspiration from holy mother of hua/huayue sanniang,only this time the holy mother of hua nickname is 'father' not 'mother',rather than have her own kid(liu chenxiang),she have multiple kids thats not from her own blood,and rather than having a light color feminine clothing,she more darker tomboyish looking(which..is hot),though maybe i'm overthinking this(i wonder if arlecchino is a daddy's girl for pierro🤔).also, interestingly i cant find anything about what sanshengmu is a goddess of,th closest is she is a goddess of love who wants freedom and fight against imperial power and theocracy,which is funny since Arlecchino is by childe and hat guy is a control freak… though one thing for sure,is that huayue sanniang and arlecchino have a thing with kids…oh and other reason because sanshengmu use a lotus lantern aka fire, like arlecchino.

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  8. I think descension doesn't have anything to do with birth.

    Also I think the likes of Zhongli, Guizhong and Deshret weren't less older that any selie,

    Cause Zhongli has memories of Celestia when he still live there, except Deshret I don't know why he has amnesia

    Also Selies where creations of te moonsisters which is also the oldest heavenborn gods.

    Heavenborn gods are probably older than selies.

    I think to me atleast the rankings were

    1. Zhongli, Guizhong, and Deshret

    2. Nabu Malikata

    3. Egeria, and Rukhadevata

    4. Remus.

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  14. We don't believe in gods.

    WE only believe in the PRIMORDIAL ONE
    Descended from the heavens,
    Being from Nothingness Creator of Life
    Witness of the Stars Render of Death

    Many have built towers and bridges,
    Pursue divinity, revel in arrogance, challenged the high heavens in arrogation.

    in HIS eyes we are mere ants, to be crushed beneath HIS feet. Yet with HIS mercy HE merely gazes upon our world.

    Let the Pillars fall unto humanity and the cabal of the lesser gods be shattered.
    For we call on our true FATHER.

    Beings of Teyvat will kneel in HIS Majesty.
    The wheel of fate, the tree of wisdom and the usurper on the sky shall be no longer.

    For We will all embrace HIS neverending compassion forevermore.

    – Mysterious Transcript found on a camp in Mt. Montaigne, NorthEast of Fontaine City.

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  15. 6:07 Best evidence that the Irminsul is NOT older than the arrival of the Primordial One is how Apep reacts to Nahida. She treats her as part of the children of the Primordial One, says she's only been around a tiny amount of time and says she's dependent on the Primordial One for power and authority. How could she say all that if the Irminsul preceded the Primordial One?

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  19. 1:17 Not sure why everyone assumes the Shades fought against the Sovereigns. To me that's like turning up for a fight as Voltron and then deciding to split into 5 mecha lions. It's clearly a downgrade. I assume the Primordial One took them all out all by itself. Once the fighting was over the Shades are created.

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  20. Enjou says there were no demon gods before the Seelie were nerfed. Goddess of Flowers is not a demon god, but a Seelie. Seelie arrived with the Primordial One and are essentially angels. They are more powerful than demon gods by a long way. Even after being nerfed the GoF is far more powerful than Deshret for example. Sometimes the text refers to these type of beings as "divine" instead of demon-gods. The Celestials have a higher tier of energy compared to the demon gods who only have elemental energy. As Skirk says that difference is huge. Well Apep says the same thing of course – hence her searching for higher tier energy.

    We do get told an account of three demon gods being "born". namely Andrius, Egeria and Focalors. In each case the creature that becomes a demon god had already existed and they are promoted to become a demon god. We don't get told about who does it. In the case of Focalors it may be that becoming the Archon and receiving the gnosis is enough to be promoted to demon god. This would also explain Venti. In the case of Egeria and Andrius they are probably promoted by a Shade.

    Thus it is most likely that for a while one or more Shades just went around Teyvat promoting creatures or things into demon-gods until there were something like 72 of them.

    I don't know why people ever thought Zhongli was special (let alone Guizhong). The word "descended" doesn't mean coming down from the sky. Plenty of different people are said to have descended but nobody ever seriously tries to say that anyone who has had the word used in connection with them must be some kind of higher tier divine being. Just Zhongli.

    The Remurian Historian places Deshret before Remus and Remus before Zhongli. Zhongli never saw the three moons regardless of what folklore books (that themselves tell you they are ahistoric) claim. I don't know why people love to take literally books that deliberately say they are not literal. I mean that's a contradiction in terms. If you think those books are true then the part that says they aren't true must be true too. And does anyone still talk about "Moon Sisters?" They are myth.

    The Irminsul avatars do seem like they could be an odd case but they are probably the same as anything else with successive Dendro gods becoming promoted due to the gnosis.

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  23. Serious question: if Hoyo would give you the chance to use only one of your many eldritch god pics used so far innyoir videos to picture the 📢 Primordial One 📢, which would you want it to be?

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  28. Now I'm curious about where you would fit Istaroth. Even more with the implications that Istaroth was the god of time and all of that, and possibly a shade too, yet with enough presence on Teyvat both in areas like Mondstadt and somewhat Inazuma, but also in "sunken" areas like Enkanomiya.

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