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when I played Caribert, I was pretty disappointed about the lack of impact Dain seemed to have on Kaeya, honestly. during Kaeya's hangout, he didn't mention the weird cryptic blond dude who just dropped family lore once, which I thought would have been pretty important?

but in truth, I think Dain actually had a HUGE impact on Kaeya.

we can all know that from Kaeya's personal lore and former events that Kaeya had very conflicted feelings over his duty to Khaenri'ah and his love for Mondstadt, even with his estranged relationship with Diluc (which now seems partly fixed?), but in the performance route of Kaeya's hangout, Kaeya makes his choice.

The story of Prince Qubad is a very, very thinly veiled metaphor for Khaenri'ah all throughout, and then we finally get to the end scene of the play:

Kaeya: When I departed my beloved home to fight in a foreign land, I did so to honor his (my father's) wishes and for my duty to our people. Kaeya: alas, is this fate's grand design… that I should spend the rest of my days in a foreign land, till I am laid to rest in a grave far from home? K: Must it be so…? K: my dear audience, I ask you this: do you believe in fate? if fate decreed that your life was to end in tragedy, what would you do? Traveler: I would challenge my fate, and rise above it. / I would bravely face my fate. K: then so must it be! I shall discard this intaglio, and rid myself of the shackles of fate. G: my dear prince, do you intend to betray your father, and abandon your heritage? K: fate means to send the machinations of war to every corner of the land, to fan the flames of conflict til they engulf the entire world…

K: fate would see my sword tainted with the blood of innocents, that the bright banner of my homeland might fly in every nation known to mankind. K: but I shall not bow to the will of fate. I am no pawn in heaven's plan. K: I, Kaeya Qubad, will spend the rest of my days in a foreign land, til I breathe my last in a place far from home. K: but I must walk this path, or freedom dies by my hand. goodbye, my tribe and kin. farewell, sweet land of my birth.

after a lifetime of questioning his role, Kaeya makes his choice for Mondstadt. and I think this happening after meeting Dain isn't a coincidence. (and no, not in a soulmate way or shipping way- this is Kaeya's moment of choice, not infatuation.)

after not only learning the history of his origins, Kaeya meets a Khaenri'ahn who... doesn't want to return Khaenri'ah to its glory days? who is more focused on helping others and minimizing damage than causing more for his own gain? who chose his path and has not budged since, even through loss?

Kaeya gets to see someone who is so Khaenri'ahn, so human at his core, someone who cares not for the fate and tragedy of their nation. Kaeya gets to meet someone from his homeland who tells him to leave it all behind, who tells him he should take the chance he has been given at his own life; who actively discourages the idea of Kaeya being a fated "prince" or being indebted to Khaenri'ah.

even though he never said it, I think meeting Dainsleif helped Kaeya choose his own path, which is all Dain ever truly asked of him, anyway.

good for Kaeya.

(i understand that i used "ship" tags but those are more for visibility and duo name than anything else. idm if you ship them, i just request that your tags do not turn my analysis post into a ship post, pls! :)

i might be crazy but listen, what if venti is at least slightly aware of rukkhadevatas existence? like yea she was erased but venti, a wind sprite who had taken human form, literal embodiment of anemo (this connection has seemingly given him some sort of close relationships with that of time (from the bunch of lore surrounding him and a forgotten god of time), memories (his character quest), and music (not to mention his music as a bard is to detail epics and stories of adventurers and their accomplishments)) could v likely at least acknowledge that something is missing.

in conclusion, im sure venti is aware that smth happened because of his affinity to anemo/wind. he prob doesnt know her exact name but can tell that there has been some kind of altercation.

or hey au where venti ACTUALLY remembers and gets sad because once he sees no one remembers her, he is now forced to remember another lost forgotten friend.

What is genshin lore even about 😭

(CW: unhelpful tongue in cheek. My best attempt at "accurate" but it depends which in game lore you trust.)

Firstly, Teyvat has its own "laws", so write that down.

Among the greatest of these laws is Fate, which the god of wisdom calls "the ultimate knowledge" because we... we don't know the future? Fate cannot be changed; also, Fate can be changed, and subverted, and superceded, if you try hard enough. Fate is inscribed wrITTEN in the sTaRS of the (false?) sky, which seems to be where the Shades live.

Fate is also the Ley Lines, which are memory, which is artifacts; memory is also Ararakalari, which is good for defeating Big Iron Chunks. If you don't have Ley Lines, use a dying angel and a cursed immortal soldier to make your own. If you don't have these, an Alberich will do, too.

Another law of Teyvat is stop trying to make gestalt consciousnesses. It didn't work for King Remus, it didn't work for Rene de Petrichor and his Narzissekreuz Ordo, it didn't work for King Deshret— or did it? Historians disagree on the exact manner of his demise—so no, you may not hire postdocs for your rebranded sentience slurry. For all we know Gosoythoth is a gestalt consciousness. Gosoythoth is of the Abyss. Haborym tells us the Abyss has no innate intelligence, though perhaps it's more accurate to call it a non-sentient animalistic intelligence. There's also the Abyss Order, which doesn't appear to be affiliated with the Five Sinners, but is affiliated with the former royalty of Khaenri'ah, a nation which I am not going to mention again due to commitment to the bit.

Teyvat, everyone agrees, is a continent of seven nations. (Well, seven nations plus an autonomous Snezhnayan protectorate(?) that's really well known for using moon magic or something. But that's a retconned protectorate so despite it probably being the grave of one or more moon sisters, good luck finding any mention of Nod-Krai outside of limited-time events. As Haborym once said: "Oh, them?, yeah, they seem cool. I guess go check them out in version six? There's plot stuff there, and yeah it's a detour that the pre-1.0 roadmap never mentioned but the journey is what matters.") The seven nations are were administered by seven Archons, who each sit on one of the Seven Thrones and each have their own Gnosis an average of one Gnosis. The Gnoses are the bones of the Third Descender. Who was that, you ask? Anyway, the Thrones and Gnoses correspond to the Seven Elements. The fact that there are seven Elements appears to be a historical contingency, based on the political division of the powers of Light back in Nibelung's reign, when he and his seven Dragon Sovereigns once ruled the world.

This was long before the days when the divine envoys walked among humanity.

If the phrase "divine envoys" made you jump in your seat, you have issues. You know who else had issues, eventually? The unified civilisation that once spanned Teyvat: a seeming federation of city states that predated the Seven Archons, containing a mix of humans and divine envoys (angels?). They were created by the Primordial One, who #descended upon Nibelung's dragon civilisation declaring terra nullius and won the ensuing war. TL;DR, they got colonised. (...though "colony" implies an imperial core, whereas the Primordial One was seemingly acting alone. Sometimes eldritch entities just show up in Teyvat from the implied void between worlds, like a cosmic whale seeking magic water. Actual example btw.)

The Primordial One may have been Phanes. (Who? Great question.) Phanes(?) had four shades, including Ronova, who controls death (not to be confused with the Big Dipper star "Beidou"), and Istaroth, who was the moment, who was every moment. (Tellingly, she was Kairos — details on subtleties here.) Phanes(?) and its shades also created the so-called Human Realm, with the subjugated Dragon Vishaps mostly confined to their native Light Realm. There was also the Void Realm, likely the aforementioned void between worlds, some of which is likely the so-called Abyss. Anyway Phanes(?) had a plan for the humanity it had created. It loved them dearly. Luckily the path to temptation had already been sealed, whatever that means.

Everything changed when the Second Who Came arrived. This Second Descender may have been the [artifact leaks] who intended to [artifact leaks] [artifact leaks] but instead [artifact leaks]. Either way, this Descender brought forbidden knowledge: likely just the kind censored by the Shades, but maaaybe the Abyssal kind that killed two gods millennia later.

War was rekindled. Phanes's(?) faction, the eventual victors, quashed heresy with a rain of Divine Nails: a mix between kinetic bombardment and AoE terraforming!curses. Humanity's world got flip-turned upside down. In the case of one Liyue city, literally upside down...... or was it everyone else who got flipped? #specialrelativity Tsurumi got shrouded in a fog of menace., seemingly unrelated to the time loop some millennia later. Sal Vindagnyr got a permawinter, and the princess could not complete her mural even as the priest made his pilgrimage. Byakuyakoku fell beneath the sea, where they invented Greece and child scapegoats. Sumeru's original forests turned to desert. (Speculative: Fontaine got FRIKEE'd, a technical term for getting displaced several nautical miles into the air and not coming back down.) Mondstadt doesn't appear to have been directly nailed but it's also developmentally centuries behind all its peers, as if someone took an industrial revolution setting and then added the blandest medieval fantasy elements to it because BotW comparisons sell.

The ruins of the unified civilisation litter Teyvat and their architecture can be found everywhere — they loved their Celtic knots. For the low cost of some petrified Moon resin that apparently only Descenders secrete, you can poke at their old Irminsul shrines (their Leylines now infested with monsters) for access to the memories within the Leylines.

According to Wolfy, who is a fictional character and also real, the Envoys were cursed in various ways, largely being turned into Seelies: shadows of themselves forever guiding lost travellers home. (According to Fischl, who is also a fictional character and also also real, the kingdom of eternal darkness that is shrouded from the heavens shall eventually re-emerge and punish the wicked usurpers: this is foretold by Fate.) There are various exceptions: Nabu Malikata; Yohualtechutin. The one mentioned by Wolfy is Nicole Reeyn, who is the second-most Seelie coded character in the game because she likes being a good guide.

Seemingly later there was the Gnoses and the Archon War (at least in Liyue and Inazuma) and then there was nobody left who shared the memories of osmanthus wine so dear to Morax, besides the several dozen illuminated beast vassals, in his employ, and also Marchosias, who got Rukkhadevata'd, a term that is the opposite of getting Arama'd. (Arama was an Aranara but then they had to be a worldtree. Rukkhadevata was

More recently, there was the Siege of Poisson. Parsifal was there [citation needed][disputed]. Possibly because of this, Tenoch and Bosacius died soon after, and a whole lot of Hilichurls got made. Stars fell from the skies, and according to the promotional Xbox wings one of them was once the scion of a glorious kingdom.

Just started Fontaine, looking around, and "Intentionally Messy Handwriting" on the Fontaine bulletin board outside of the elevator building in the court of Fontaine is definitely a future (if not already in the story) character. Reminds me of the itto bulletin boards in Inazuma, so excited to see this character! (Also wondering if the perfume person, emelie who's "graceful handwriting" might be the same person)

⚠️SUMERU ARCHON QUEST ACT 5 SPOILERS!!!⚠️

Idk ab yall LISTEN! I know, scara has been eating my braincells cuz he's literally so anoying and I hated how he was provoking us BUT I GOT TEARED UP DURING THAT CUTSCENE ISTG. Like it was so so emotional ;-; Knowing his backstory, it's so sad that he wasn't enough and he just wanted to fulfill his role that he could have been and now idk what will happen to him..I still don't like him tho but my empathy just went 📈📈

Genshin and the greek gods

The siblings

I don't really know if this theory exists yet cuz I haven't really seen anywhere so I won't say that it's mine, but HEAR ME OUT-

This is probably going to be part 1 of the theory cuz it has a lot of information which I couldn't summarize in one blog.

Also my first language isn't english, so feel free to correct me if I'm not saying smth correctry.

So the whole theory is about connecting the genshin characters (and maybe even the lore) to the greek mythology.

LUMINE AS HEMERA

AETHER AS AETHER

According to Wikipedia, Aether and Hemera are brother and sister. They are the child of Nyx (night) and Erebus (darkness).

"Aether is the personification of the bright upper sky."

"Hemera is the personification of day."

Each of them represents something related to brightness and daylight. Kinda makes sense, right? If we pay attention to the lore, we can clearly connect Aether and Lumine to these. I mean even Lumines name means "light".

As conclusion, we can clearly tell, that the traveler siblings were inspired by Aether and Hemera.

This wasn't the end. In the next part, I'm going to write about Paimon and who I think she represents.

Thank u for reading<3

So I just saw the trailer for 3.0 and I'm so exited for the lore that Sumeru is hiding. Can't wait to play for weeks and making theories till I pass out ;v;

I just realized that in the Valley of Dahri where there is that big robot from Khaenri'ah, the dead Hilichurls that lie there probably just sought shelter in the technology that was supposed to protect them

Is there any lore behind Furina’s ousia and pneuma outfits? I genuinely can’t find anything and am wondering if I’m missing something obvious

This is probably like 3 years late, but why do y’all think we fight Dain? I personally think he succumbs to the curse of immortality and he goes insane from it.

hear me out—

Did you guys enjoy that meme? Good, good…

How about some nice angst to balance it out, it’s been to joyful on this blog lately.

Doomed brothers from Genshin combined with doomed brothers from supernatural….

(If you guys look really closely at Xiuhcoatl’s dialogue, you can see his inscriptions have a bit of purple to them 😁)

SPOILER FOR 5.6 ARCHON QUEST "Paralogism"

Nothing groundbreaking or long-ass post this time. But I have an observation and a correction for myself. One of the ingredients of life isn't dragon flesh, but dragon blood.

Remembering this, I instantly remembered someone else. Someone who made humans with drawing his own blood. Someone who is a serpent, or could we say, dragon-like?

Quetzalcoatl. The Plumed Serpent. God of life, light, and wisdom. Also the god of the wind through his aspect as Ehecatl.

In the legend of the cycle of the five suns, different gods ruled the world as the sun with its version of humanity, but their rules were destroyed for various reasons alongside their version of humanity. In the last cycle, the fifth sun, also the cycle we currently live in, Quetzalcoatl went to Mictlan, the underworld, to recover the bones of humanity and ressurect/create them. He used his own blood, from a wound he inflicted on his earlobes, calves, tongue, and penis, to imbue the bones with new life.

And if you guys follow me for a long time... you guys know who are the mfs who are inspired from Quetzalcoatl...

"Okay Radaedan no need to act so mysterious we know you will connect everything to Xiuhcoatl" sjjdjdjdjdjd how did you know🤨

Seeing that Neuvillette also transformed Fontainians' primordial water into real blood, I think it's confirmed that life owed their existence from the Dragon Sovereigns. But honestly, the fact that life requires dragon blood... makes you wonder if the Primordial One truly the creator of humans through their own power... or did they also stole dragon blood? If so... FUCKING COLONIZER STOP STEALING DRAGONBORN CREATIONS YOU PIECE OF SHI-

Spoilers for 5.6 Archon quest!!!!

Spoilers for 5.6 Archon quest!!!!

This is my son now, expect me to be a Durin main in the future.

Hoyo dont play with my emotions like this… THE WINGS, THE HORNS, AHHHHHH!!! I need more screen time, I need his playstyle—HE BETTER BE ABLE TO FLY.

How can I tie this to Natlan and possibly Xiuhcoatl rebirth.

Well one of the ingredients was flesh from the “immortal monster” of Mare Jivari, which is in natlan. I also found it interesting how to create life you need three ingredients. Sighhhhhh Hoyo I see what you’re doing, stop with the number three. Also could this possibly tie to how och-kan was created (maybe the other Dragonlords too??)

I mean dragon blood (check), flesh from the monster (check possibly), and an embryo. We don’t know if it’s exactly one of Rhine’s embryo or if it could truly be ANY embryo.

ALSO NAME DROP OF THE SHADE OF LIFE??AKA NABERIUS???

Guys I’m losing my mind (when am I not?)

Anyone looking for a way to catch up on Dragon lore? I found this lore/theory video (its still pretty interesting for those who are caught up like me) and I think you guys should give it a try https://youtu.be/eHFOwghEayU?si=iXjbC5PiqQAM99iz

My thoughts on the live stream:

Shit y’all, we are in the end game. It seems like they are using Nod-Krai to tie up any loose ends of the story and honestly I’m so scared.

They also seem to be taking inspiration from Norse and Celtic mythologies for this region. (Lowkey hyped and I can use this as my excuse to finally research both myths)

As for the npcs… THEY LOOK AMAZING?!!

This fire looking dude is definitely from the “Wild Hunt” and I can’t begin to tell y’all how hyped I am for it. Out of every group so far, the Wild Hunt is my favorite. As for the other npc, she’s definitely from the frost moons.

Anyway I don’t have too much more to say as I don’t want to spoil the entire stream so you guys go watch it. OH WAIT BEFORE YOU DO!! Don’t forget to redeem the mini codes (those teasers leading up to the stream) and this new one before 5/3

Anyway Ink out!

Back at it again with random lore drops for “Song of the Welkin Moon”

genshin.hoyoverse.com

The night deepens as stars gather around the moon

The prophecy has been unveiled, and the new moon approaches. I'm browsing Genshin Impact 'Song of the Welkin Moon.' Click to participate and

I think before I start talking about some of my main thoughts, I should show the Nod-Krai teaser

Guys.. it’s so pretty. Seems like Hiisi Islands are gonna be one of the subregions in Nod-Krai and it’s so gorgeous. Someone tell the environment designers that they deserve a pat on the back (they deserve more)

Now, this insanity that I have no theories on currently. (There are more so please check out the official website, I couldn’t fit them in this post cause I use the app which won’t let you post more then ten images)

I’m genuinely lost on what they mean and the only two I could actually form some thoughts on are these two below:

The right one is definitely the fatui, no doubt about it but as for the left one; I think that can either be the Tsaritsa or someone related to her.

Genuinely I can not come up with much right now cause Im busy crying over natlan dragons but let me know any thoughts.

Okay. Thanks a lot for @antea21 🫡 because man, I found out something really interesting.

MILD SPOILER FOR 5.5 SAURIAN WORLD QUEST AND OTHER SAURIAN WORLD QUESTS CHAIN, ESPECIALLY: "Shadows of the Mountains", "For the Night, What is the Night", and "Moment of Awakening"!!!

After we finished the 5.5 World Quest, Titu (the guy from the Khaenri'ahn soldiers quest, "Shadows of the Mountains),

and also one of the humans Kukulkan used as disguise, said this:

To be honest, to me, it sounds like what Chiyo said in the 5.4 Mikawa Flower Festival after she was freed by Raiden Ei... waking up from a long dream...

But what's gobsmacked me though, was not Titu, but another human we suspect to be a disguise of Kukulkan.

Legba. The guy from the Wayob in the Scion of the Canopy's old temple quest, "For the Night, What is the Night". His dialogues haven't changed.

His dialogues:

This is so disturbing for me. Why Titu was changed but not him? Shouldn't also be freed from Kukulkan's grip, right?

But this got me thinking... perhaps Legba isn't Kukulkan's puppet.

He's Xiuhcoatl.

"Radaedan what the fuck are you saying bro😭 get a grip. Stop overdosing on copium-" HEAR ME OUT FIRST BRO😭

• In his quest, Legba said this:

"Brilliant children"? If he was Kukulkan, this doesn't make sense. Och-Kan was his only son, and as far as I know, the new lore doesn't contradict this.

Also, I take a liberty to see of the name which Legba was inspired of:

Papa Legba is a lwa [Voodo Spirit], or loa, in West African Vodun and its diasporic deritatives... Legba is a favorite lwa of children due to his jolly, grandpa-like image. He is often tasked with babysitting and distracting children (a typical male role in the matrilineal religion) while more serious rituals are being performed by the adults.

"Papa Legba" - Wikipedia

Beside Hoyo's interesting decision to use the name of an African spirit for a white NPC😀, I just couldn't wrap my head of Kukulkan being described like this. Compare this to Titu and Manqu's historical counterparts:

Don Diego de Castro Titu Kusi Yupanki was an Inca ruler of Vilcabamba and the penultimate leader of the Neo-Inca State. He was a son of Manco[Manqu] Inca Yupanqui, He was crowned in 1563, after the death of his half brother, Sayri Tupac.

...Cusi is the "narrator" and source of An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru, a firsthand account of the Spanish invasion, narrated by him in 1570 to Spanish missionary Fray Marcos García and transcribed by Martín de Pando, his mestizo assistant.

"Titu Cusi" - Wikipedia

Titu Cusi became the ruler after his half-brother's death. Kind of like Kukulkan acting as the regent during Xiuhcoatl's absence. Cusi being a "narrator" and source of a historical account also fits the in-game Titu's role as storyteller.

Manco Cápac (before c. 1200 – c. 1230; Quechua: Manqu Qhapaq, "the royal founder"), also known as Manco Inca and Ayar Manco, was, according to some historians, the first governor and founder of the Inca civilization in Cusco, possibly in the early 13th century. He is also a main figure of Inca mythology, being the protagonist of the two best known legends about the origin of the Inca, both of them connecting him to the foundation of Cusco. His main wife was his older sister, Mama Uqllu, also the mother of his son and successor Sinchi Ruq'a. Even though his figure is mentioned in several chronicles, his actual existence remains uncertain.

"Manco Cápac" - Wikipedia

Founder and ruler are still within Kukulkan's range. Incest aside, being co-ruler with your siblings also fit Kukulkan and Xiuhcoatl's dynamic.

But, the name Manqu wasn't had only been held by one person.

Manqu Inka Yupanki (Quechua) (around 1515 – 1544) (Manco Inca Yupanqui in Spanish) was the founder and monarch (Sapa Inca) of the independent Neo-Inca State in Vilcabamba, although he was originally a puppet Inca Emperor installed by the Spaniards. He was also known as "Manco II" and "Manco Cápac II". He was one of the sons of Huayna Capac and a younger brother of Huascar.

...Manco Inca, one of the more than 50 sons of Huayna Capac, was born in Cuzco. When Atahualpa's troops took the city under the command of General Quizquiz, they killed the descendants of Huayna Capac, the Huascar supporters, and anyone who could try to take the place of the Inca. Because of this, Manco Inca was forced to flee, avoiding any contact with the atahualpists.

On 14 November 1533, he met the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his contingent, both Inca and Spanish. This and other events such as the massacre of Atahualpa led Manco Inca to believe that the Spaniards were "saviors" sent by the gods.

"Manco Inca Yupanqui" - Wikipedia

He was also the father of the aforementioned Titu Cusi btw. I have to admit, this is a gross comparison and a strech, but Manco Inca's initial belief that the Spaniards were "saviours" sent by the gods could be like how Kukulkan viewed humans as the "saviours" of the dragon race. Both became disillusioned in the end.

Now let's compare Titu and Manqu's historical counterparts with Legba's. That's right, they're worlds apart. The formers were emperors caught in family feuds and colonization, while the later is a Spirit best described as paternal.

But do you know who could be described as having many children?

Okay... I have to admit, this one is a bit of a stretch, especially since we don't know how Xiuhcoatl and the Dragonlords viewed each others, and how their relationships were like. But I want to point out Kukulkan's commentary left in the Secret Source Servant:

"Your descendants"... at the very least, Kukulkan acknowledged that the Dragonlords were Xiuhcoatl's descendants. (Btw, a little off-topic, but I NEED to talk about how Xiuhcoatl intentionally made the Secret Source Servants looks adorable. He could have just choose any other form that's more energy-efficient, but he insisted to use the adorable form??? My King...😭 born to make kawaii, forced to fight the Abyss, Celestia, and humans😔.)

• Let's retrace the mechanism of draconic shape-shifting a bit. Kukulkan explained that it was through the power of the Phlogiston of rewriting their physical form by borrowing the existing human ones' 'codes'.

Kukulkan: Phlogiston is an atom upon which information may be transcribed, and is itself a form of "computronium" — an element that can be used to imitate the essence of any and all things through the weaving of languageIridescent Inscriptions... This is why phlogiston can take on different forms and even switch between them, and this is also why you could see phantoms at the repair mechanisms in the Chamber of Deliberation.

- "An Omen of Annihilation and the Final Entreaty" Quest

So basically, shape-shifting is a bit like copying a code source. If someone knows the code source, they could copy the program. In this case, human soul acted as the code source, and Kukulkan stole them to copy their forms.

But this means that theoritically, this ability isn't just special to him. If someone knows programming, they could do a similar feat as him, right?

Well, well, well, who's the one who diddled with the power of Phlogiston first? Xiuhcoatl.

Kukulkan: Xiuhcoatl was the master of the first flame, wielder of all light, heat, and wisdom. He controlled the primal flame, and could even plunge his entire body into it.

And he also was the first dragon who emerged from the Primal Flame (unfortunately I didn't screenshot the text where Kukulkan said it😭 so correct me if I'm wrong.)

If he was the first master of the Primal Flame, and the one who came out with all the phlogistonization in the first place, is it too far-fetched to assume that he could also shape-shift?

But well... these are all my conjectures😅 I don't expect this to be true. I don't even know how or why he used Legba's form, and how he wasn't detected by Kukulkan all of those years. It could've been my account is kinda fucked, I haven't played certain quests, or I just dug too deep into it. And possibly because I just want my king to be alive okay😔

I also really, really, really want to dissect the Secret Source Servant's records, because damn some of those have very interesting implications😈

How about you? Does Legba in your account have changes in his dialogues? Or do you have your own theories?

Him not having wings from the start… just too good dude. UGH ILL BE THINKING ABOUT THIS FOR THE REST OF MY DAYS😭

This family soap opera will be the death of me and I’m not sure how much I can handle this anymore. The idea that Waxaklahun was reliant on Xiuhcoatl to fly is just incredibly angst worthy (foams at the mouth). Not sure if it was a dialogue leak or something he already said but somewhere I saw him say how he wished to see his race soar the sky’s again… just let it sink in with the idea that he himself can not fly…

Has anyone questioned Waxaklahun’s wings? They are basically absent in his model from 5.2 World quest, seemingly replaced by a secret source mechanism rather then them being feathery and well—wings— like in the mural of him.

I have a major theory about this but not enough to prove it to be correct. Hear me out, we all know that he is desperate and down right obsessed with evolution as he foresaw the down fall of dragons when the Vishaps stopped evolving—hence leading to the creation of Och-Kan— but what if its not just the future generations but older ones too… I present you with “Regressive Evolution”. Now before anyone reminds me that dragons can shift and change forms, it still does not make sense from him to have a mechanical version of wings (if they even are wings) when he has his own already.

Has anyone questioned Waxaklahun’s wings? They are basically absent in his model from 5.2 World quest, seemingly replaced by a secret source mechanism rather then them being feathery and well—wings— like in the mural of him.

I have a major theory about this but not enough to prove it to be correct. Hear me out, we all know that he is desperate and down right obsessed with evolution as he foresaw the down fall of dragons when the Vishaps stopped evolving—hence leading to the creation of Och-Kan— but what if its not just the future generations but older ones too… I present you with “Regressive Evolution”. Now before anyone reminds me that dragons can shift and change forms, it still does not make sense from him to have a mechanical version of wings (if they even are wings) when he has his own already.

Genshin randomly lore bombing us with the three moons lore!?

So genshin just dropped a web event that revealed ALOT about the moon sisters. I personally am more of a Dragon Lore person then a Three Moons lore so I know less about this topic.

But from what I gathered there were three moons, one for eternity. Eternity was heavily tied to Inazuma so I wonder how big of a connection it has to the land, much less Ei herself. It could also explain the statue that is in the main city which looked nothing like Ei or Makoto.

Then there is the Iridescent moon which is tied to the Crimson moon. This might sound weird but I wonder if it has any connections to the Iridescent inscriptions that the dragons used. Ixlel seemed to have known about the moons with something that fell from them so maybe that something is the material that the inscriptions are made out off. They were used to wield phlogiston so it’s unlikely that they were made from phlogiston.

The last moon, the Frost moon, stopped turning causing nations to fall. Looking at the image, this happened after the Iridescent/Crimson Moon fell into the abyss. The Frost moon is probably connected to Nod-Krai and maybe Sneznyha considering the name alone. We know that Nod-Krai worships some lunar deity (if not one when many) so this might be the moon that they worship.

After these three moons fell, it was stated a new moon arose and my personal theory on it is that it is our old friend, Welkin Moon. The other image is what I think, a teaser for Nod-Krai’s terrain, I don’t have to many thoughts about it other than that it’s most definitely mountainous.

Now what did capture my attention was the Teyvat Solar (lunar???) System.

I counted around 11 planets and obviously the three moons. If I’m being honest, I do not have a clue about which one is Teyvat.

Anyway that’s my little rant and thoughts on this insane of a lore bomb that Genshin choice to drop on us. The link for the web-event is right here: https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/moon?game_biz=hk4e_global&hyl_presentation_style=fullscreen&hyl_auth_required=true&hyl_landscape=true&hyl_hide_status_bar=true&utm_source=sns&utm_medium=reddit

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The prophecy has been unveiled, and the new moon approaches

The prophecy has been unveiled, and the new moon approaches. I'm browsing Genshin Impact 'Song of the Welkin Moon.' Click to participate and

What are anyone else’s thoughts about this? Like I mentioned earlier, my expertise lay with the dragons more then they do with the moons so if any lore is inaccurate or if something I said had already been confirmed, let me know ^^

I have sm thoughts on genshin impact lore and current story relating to natlan and thoughts on natlan as a whole.

Like how half baked natlan feels. also that mavuika feels like she wasn't the og archon the devs had in mind. Like the exploration is there but archon quest? nah.