[2.5] We Finally Know Whose Statue This Is! (Genshin Impact Theory) 

It makes sense now as to why we don't receive any materials from eye of the storm except for artifact pieces rarely. Probably because Istharoth is supposed to ignored/abandoned/forgotten by the celestials and mortals.

It makes even more sense why the cecilia appeared in Albedo's trailer when he mentioned "Time"! We had this right under our nose for over a year now

Btw the eye of storm is the only opponent that haven't got any variations so far. In short, its unique even though its anemo (there is no geo or electro variation).

fascinating how every region we go to.. links to mondstadt in one way or the other.. also in some quests traveler calls mondstadt as their home..it might not seem like it now but later mondstadt will have a very heavy role in lore i believe

Now I'm kind of curious about the connection between Istaroth and Venti. Because if Istaroth is connected to the eye of the storm, it's interesting how the first time we meet an Eye of the storm in the story is when we are at the Barbatos statue in Windrise, and Venti says someone isn't happy to see him. And there's another eye of the storm blocking the statue near the winery.

Something that always makes me curious is when Venti said that he knows "songs from the past, present, and future".

It's called the "Hundred Eyed God" and the ceremony we stopped was for the confiscation of the.... You guessed it, THE HUNDRED VISION" which were also called god eyes in Japanese if I'm not mistaken

the necklace the omnipresent statue has looks reeeally similar to the oculis.

Theory: Teyvat has a destined fate, and Khaenr’ah somehow triggered Teyvat’s destiny to stray from its pre-determined course. Higher powers put constellations in the night sky for every vision bearer, before that person exists and long after they pass. These constellations determine that person’s destiny as well, and they are granted a vision to pursue that fate, and this allows Celestia more control over Teyvat and its future. Khaenri’ah using alchemy instead of relying on gods and visions somehow changed the path of Teyvat’s future, and so the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles was forced to step in and intervene (similar to the Time Variance Authority in the Loki series). If the Tsaritsa knows about Teyvat’s future and it is not a good one, then that would explain her plan to go to war with Celestia. And it would explain her morally-questionable means of doing so, if she knows that something bad is going to happen to Teyvat, then she can justify doing whatever it takes to stop that from happening

Do you think that the area in stormterror's lair with the glowing water and the tree is like Venti's birth place lmao? It's such a random spot since literally everything else there is dead, other than some flowers and bushes.

with Venti being what you called "Branches of Time" He also preserved such "moments" like him taking form of his deceased friend

Another interesting fun bit is the Traveler's pen name chosen by Yae in her quest. "Thousand Hands".

*Wait...I just noticed 2 things.....first, the cecilia flowers have three big petals and its shape is similar to the "triquetra" symbols we see in domains. Second thing is, remember how they keeps saying Mare Jivari is a windless place? So, if its windless, does that mean, its not within the gaze of Ishtaroth and time/moments in that area may be different from other places???*

What about the similarity between the Venti statues ( both Statue of Seven version and the giant one in Mondstadt) and the Omnipresent God? Wings, hood, etc. What if Istaroth eroded down to a mere wind spirit and then grew back into Venti? Gouba was once a Stove God. (Funny because stove as a noun is for cooking. Stove as a verb is the past tense of stave: to strike or ward off... so a stove god could be a god that was struck down.) Imagine if something happened to Xiangling (similar to the Unknown Bard) causing Gouba to grew in power to honor her memory...

The details are insane... It makes me wonder how much the lore builders prepared for all of these. Everywhere there are bread crumbs of lore.

Okay , this maybe far fetch but in chinese. There is a saying "人在做，天在看。" Meaning the "mortal doing is on the heavenly surveillance." Hence every doing is being record down.

I just wonder why in the 3 regions as far we know that they are not shocked of Paimon's appearance or is a flying fairy like human really that common in Teyvat?

Theory: The Oculi are the "Thousand" eyes of the God of Moments or God of time. I am pretty sure that's what the necklace on the statue is.

I do think the statue is Istaroth too, but I'm not sure about the eyes of the storm. If they were Istaroth's hundred eyes I think we'd see them in Inazuma and Enkanomiya too. My theory is that they were created naturally from Decarabian's archon residue/resentment. It'd make sense for some to escape to Liyue since it's Mondstadt's neighbor and they could slip in, but Inazuma is way too far. We still haven't seen how Decarabian's death affected Mondstadt beyond fucking up the old Mondstadt's tower and leaving those permanent wind currents around, which seems pretty tame compared to other regions

If it wasn't for the wings argument, I might even add a small theory(? Going off very little evidence here) The three moon sisters represent the three shades of Phanes, and Istaroth is the dormant moon we see in Teyvat's sky (or in the spiral abyss, whichever you prefer). It's mostly because once again, the design of the Welkin Moon is eerily similar, and the thousands eye wings are hinting at another biblical category of angel (I forgot which one, just know that it's not a throne). The Wind and Time quest also had a -lunar- quadrant, not to mention that if she really was in Mondstadt at some point in history, she was involved with the Moon City quite literally.

The amount of research, detail, editing and updating new ideas/theories you put up with these videos is beyond outstanding. I literally skip the quests for the most part because you explain them better to me(us). I can't thank you enough

Bro paimon sound so calm at this time 🤣🤣 4:34 Playing since 1.0 kinda missed old paimon voice lmao

I would be curious if the design of the statue is based on the description of Istaroth or based on what Ei remembers them looking like when they met if they ever did. The former seems more reasonable since most people seem unfamiliar with or do not recognize the Archons in the forms we see them in.... Still, while it seems weird to me to make a statue of someone you know, this was also someone very, very important, so maybe it makes sense for Ei to revere or even hope to appease Istaroth. I am thinking of statues of famous rulers, religious figures, etc. It is not unheard of...

You missed one thing. Raiden Weekly Boss has many links to this statue - halo behind her is in almost the same shape as wings of the statue, in her design she has also many eyes and many arms which match the name "Statue of the Thousand-Armed, Hundred-Eyed God".

lmao I still remember people thinking that yae miko is the electro archon and some shit occured and miko gave up her position

I had my fair share of guesses of who the statue could be representing, and ofcourse god of time was one of them, now that we know Celestia doesn't like time(as you explained in the previous video) so I'd call it the statue of time shade!

imagine istaroth making barbatos go into deep slumber just to save him from danger

that part of mentioning higher power at raiden's 2nd story didn't have a voice-over on mine 😆

Wow. The creators of the genshin lore really put a LOT of thought into this. I hope Mihoyo consider adding past event story and world quests as permanent things. It sucks when new players missed a lot of these. Ill create a new account and play this game again once the 7 nations is finished. That time, I'll treat it as a full rpg game and i hope traveller can switch element instantly so that it's possible to play this game as solo traveller.

but then again... why did the eye of the storm came to attack(?) venti? If he was one of Istaroth's thousand winds? Dont get me wrong I approve of this theory hehe. I just wonder why.

Another thing I think is interesting is that ‘hundreds of eyes and arms’ is something that you typically see in descriptions of angels istaroth to some is heavily believed to have been one of the moon goddesses of the seelie seelies have always been described to have heavenly appearances and have many similarities to angels like how they watched over humans like guardian angels, sing and are forbidden too falling in love ( it’s actually a common troupe of guardian angels falling in love and causing war to happen between the heavens and hell or humans even outside of genshin) I think this could be considerd another tie to that theory Another thing is Raidens attacks, her hold attack becomes a clear and intentional, symbol of the moon. Raiden herself seems to have ties with the moon sisters beyond that which I can’t recall atm and I’ve always wondered why but this theory and the istaroth = moon goddess theory would make raidens case make a lot more sense.

Just a wild theory here, but the reason why the statue of Istaroth looks similar to the welkin moon girl is because they are separate entities but related, by which both of them are one of the three Moon Sisters, which comprises of 3 of the 4 shades, with the last shade being Phanes. Paimon's hair similarity may also be because shes the 3rd sister, or a fragment of her (Paimon literally controls time by being able to move around while the menu is paused).

This video made me remember Inazuma's archon quest when Thoma got captured and they were about to make a ceremony for confiscating the 100th vision, or the "hundredth eye" I'd say?! And the celebration makes me wonder if that means Raiden was about to "awaken" or "activate" something has to do with the statue.

If you guys also notice. There's no statue in liyue.. other than the small statues of Morax. There is no large statue with wings or anything that depicts a god on liyue....

I think it would be interesting if Paimon was Istaroth. Since Istaroth basically has the ability to preserve the consciousness of a being (to a certain extent) to anyone she takes interest in, it could open up some very interesting story possibilities if Paimon were Istaroth

I am starting to wonder if the visions are Istaroths doing as well...In japanese they are called "eye of god"...and if Istaroth is the thousand armed, hundred eyed god and the visions are the eyes... that would match up.. Wait... I just realized! Istaroth is the shade of the first god that came, and the enemy of the second god. If the second god won against the first god (which seem very possible since the Celestian gods wanted Orobaxi dead after he learned the truth about Enkanomiya), then they may be the current rulers in Celestia... What if Istaroth is trying to raise a rebellion with gods made from humans with the help of visions? But Celestia knows this and jails almost all new gods unless they swear allegiance to them? And that is why we see a jail like place when we look into Celestia in the manga? That could be why Vennessa was allowed to take the form of a falcon/eagle and protect Mondstadt...They seem to like making deals considering they made deals with Zhongli and Orobaxi... And the reason why the Eye of the storms were pissed that Venti, was because even though he was born of the thousand winds, he aligned with the second gods gnosis system... this would align a lot of things...

One thing that I cannot forget about Venti bc I saw it in a promotional banner before about him was he was called as the "Prodigal Son", whose son?

We need more Venti quest.

Something doesn't quite add up for me. If The primordial one and the second one had a fight that destroyed everything, that caused for a civilization reset and Enkanomiya sliding into the Abyss. The second one is responsible for Celestia, then why would there still be an Istaroth statue? I understand if she helped the people from Enkanomiya, that falls outside of the Teyvat concept, unless she pledged to the second one. It's a yaldabaoth like story, with a sprinkle of Evangelion. Also, my guess is that the second one is actually Paimon. And that the unknown goddess had to put herself through a similar fate as Guoba, hence why the Guoba story was so important. She had to split the twins up, since she knew she couldn't let them go. What better way to deal with this issue than to attach yourself to one of the siblings. I'm guessing we're going to see an event down the road where Guoba regains some memories.... as a setup for what happens later with Paimon.

Maybe thousand-armed and hundred-eye represents the puppet's Migatsu Mitake Narukami No Mikoto form. For thousand armed, she contructs 4 arms and 1 set of hand, and hundred-eye represents the thing that i think its safe to say that its a set of eye (because the pattern matchs with the statue's necklace) that is on the palm of the hand under her (the brown hand), and we can see another 2 set of eyes (again, im not sure if its eye or not) in the arm that hold the katana

I hope there is a cutscenes or specific story quest in the future updates that reveals more about Istaroth.

Just a small detail, To unlock the Dawn Winery statue of the seven. You had to defeat an eye of storm. Like the statue was being protected or som

Paimon’s voice sounded more mature or normal back then rather than squeaky-ish as it is now

Lets go for a ride, maybe Istaroth is the one giving visions to people. So that necklace also heavily resembles oculi, which also has the "eye" related theme and are expected to be present in all regions of Teyvat (the thousand eyed god). We also expect oculi of each element to exist. It is as if Istaroth can manipulate each abundant element in the region for the oculi to be present". It is also related to the light element that is theorized to be used by Istaroth and alike, and hinted in the game tip that suggest elements to be like a rainbow, born from light. Visions are ambitions engraved in that physical object that can be preserved for quite a long time, even after death as we saw with kazuhas friend. When a person loses their vision, their ambition fades as well, as if their ambition never happened. I lack references for how the characters got their visions, but it seems like every one got theirs by random. It is like that moment of inspiration was to be preserved. We already know that archons do not know how visions work as well, and they are not the ones handling them to people. Istaroth, on the other hand, could manipulate ligh element, and has a thing for eyes. She could be the one preserving the ambitions of people in the visions, so that moment could exist forever and their inspiration never fade. The reason may be related to celestia, and how ilegal it seems to be to manipulate time in any other way. Visions are more related to celestia than any other thing anyways and it could be that they are using Istaroth as a medium for that purpose.

hi, i loved to enjoy ur videos and how u combine storytelling, music, visualization, and all, to please our eyes and ears

I do think paimon is istaroth. As she is never frozen when we stop the game or even if we change time. As she was fished near the sealed time god location and its well positioned too cause we start the in game time from there so its like a new timeline start thats why paimon is in a child’s form. Moreover her claiming she will be a travel companion and explain everything to us even though starting the journey of this world with us might mean she has fragmented memory from past thats why she tells us about teleport points and statue of seven, and the biggest of them all being to touch the statue to gain power. And Venti being carefree as he is, his relations with his friends would be really casual and of a fun nature maybe thats why venti fools around with paimon in quest.

Not related to the vid but what if paimon was also one of the gods in celestia? What if she was against the destruction of khaenriah and was cast out from celestia? Her powers removed and memory erased and coincidentally the traveler finds her? Or maybe it's just my imagination😂

The statue represents Ishtaroth and I believe she's also one of the three moon sisters. This would make Paimon and The welkin moon girl the other two sisters. This also goes together with Ishtaroth being one of the four shades. Possibly three moons and one sun. Leaving phanes as the sun. Which would make sense.

In CN, JP and KR every single Archon from Barbatos to Havria are all called 魔神, Demon God, based on the 72 Demons of Solomon. However Istaroth is only known with the title of 大神, Great God, suggesting she is indeed a different tier or group of god. Her title of Omnipresent God is 常世大神, which means God of all Reality. I don't think she has anything to do with the element of wind, it's just a metaphor for how she is the passing of time that shapes all of reality.

in albedos trailer in the part where he talks about time and being, there is a cecilia shown to represent time ??

If that's true, and Venti and Ei really had a connection with Istaroth, the god of time, maybe that will explain why the anemo and electro hypostasis is in mondstadt, where her temple is.

There's a new PV released in HI3rd. It featured Aphonia. She has the very similar design to the welkin moon.

It's pretty obvious that the Anemo symbol looks like the wings of the One Thousand-armed, One Hundred-Eyed God The battle-pass icon also looks like it- and so does the statue of the Welkin Moon. Sure, both of those have primogems, not eyes, at the centre, but primogems have been equated with eyes before. The field tillers/ruin guards have primogem eyes, and Kaeya, Dainsleif, and the Unknown God have primogem pupils. The snake from the Battle Pass story's eye turns into the symbol as well. The distance between standing on the hands of this statue and sitting on the hands of the Anemo Archon statue in Mondstadt is exactly 6666m

YOOOOO MY THEORYYYYYYYY IM SO GLAD U LIGHTEN UP THIS I ALWAYS HAD SPECULATIONS ABT IT BUT NEVER THOUGHT TO ACTUALLY SHARE IT SINCE I THOUGHT IT WAS A COINCIDENCE BUT MAN I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE HER NECKLACE LOOKS LIKE THE EYE OF THE STORM

This really makes sense. In the nameless island,it was mentioned that the god of time and god of wind has connections

Hundred eyed also lines up with the quest "Stillness, the Sublimation of Shadow" where Raiden celebrates the seizing of the 100th Vision, also known as the "Eye of God"

There is one thing with venti and cecilias tho. Didnt venti get his current form from that one friend that died when decarbian was being overthrown in the old mondstadt?

Miko seems to know something about Istaroth

There might be a total of 1000 eye if storms in tevyat. Is there a reason why inazuma has no eye of storm? Weird the one place where there is a statue of istaroth, there is no eye of storm.

i know this is not related into the video but i have another theory abt venti,ya'll remember abt venti story quest?(that one we need to unlock it with keys) so in the story quest we met stanley,he has an imaginary friend which is his own old friend that doesn't make it in mare jivari, in the story quest stanley says that he uses his old friends name to refers his amazing things he done,and venti says that he also uses his old friend name's (nameless bard) to represent him, so... maybe the nameless bard name is venti? (srry abt my english)

Will Istaroth be a playable character in the coming years? XD Raiden's story quest in this 2.5 patch really is a treasure trove of lore, but ngl it was a little disappointing to see Makoto as just a "purple electro sphere" when there were ghosts in their full forms in other quests. But it's understandable since Makoto, an archon, was already dead when Ei reached that place and had to preserve the remaining will and consciousness before they could completely disappear.

It's possible that all these statues represent one being, they were sculptured base on the image the owner wanted them to be in, so there are going to be differences compared to the original being. It's like 10 people having a dream about a second coming of Christ, It's completely possible all ten people will have a similar description of Christ but also have varieties, some may say he had a armband, while others will say a chain, etc.. (This is just an example.) So my take is, these statues are based on Istaroth after she revealed herself in dreams but her appearance was recollected differently, except the obvious. Which are, she had a hood on, her hair was talk and flow down from the cheeks to her neck, wings and she had "a" symbol (necklace) on her chest, (not a specific necklace, but they remember her having something on her chest.) If you look at the Omnipresent Statue and the statue that's theorized to be Venti in mondstat (which I believe it's not), they have the same design with discrepancies ofcourse, but like I explained they we built base on the image that person remembered of her, a hood, tall hair running on the sides of her cheeks, "a" necklace, wings... It's not just coincidences...

I usually like your theories, but the most crucial points in this are kind of reaches. That statue could easily just be a stylized statue of Makoto. I doubt Ei ever saw Ishtarot in person, let alone have any reference to make a statue of her.

Now I think about it, this explains why a Eye of the Storm attacked Venti when we encountered him at Windrise. It thinks that Barbatos is betraying his duty to preserve the memories of Istaroth.

This statue is Kaedehara Kazuha or Kazuha mother. observed from his constellation. he has wing behind maple leaf. 🍁

Hmm in the v5.6 Honkai trailer we see Aponia who is from a place in honkai which has a similar resemblance to clestia. Her design matches with the statue of the Omnipresent God [with the hood and hair]. Most people are saying she looks like the person in the welkin moon because both have a primogem on their chest so maybe the welkin person is the statue? The only thing is what the video said that doesn't link with this theory is the necklaces being different.

What if Barbatos is Istaroth him/herself. Wind and time both have connections to venti. The most mysterious god, his statue is is the gateway to Celestia, Celestia is closest to his nation (mondstatd), knows song from past, present and future (he said this somewhere in the game dialogue) which kinda hinted him having relation to time. Also his ascension materials need Cecelia flowers.

I have a thought bout Paimon, that Black star she has on her hair, matches with that of features of Dainsleifs eyes, so she might be Khaenri'ah related. And in relation to that comes our sibling. Now with regards to that Paimon has a line bout being a Goddess of protection for the traveler. So maybe, just a far stretch maybe, with all the relations with Khaenri'ah and our sibling, what if she's an existence related to our sibling ordered/created to Guide us and Protect us in our journey through out Teyvat?

there is a very small chance that the statue represents either of the 2 other gods of time. we dont know anything about them, though...

Holy shit this makes a lot of sense you are indeed a genius Mr.Bluehatcat

I have always think that the statue has similar features with Venti. So thats has a reason

Maybe Barbatos is just like kusanali...a avatar/reincarnation of a previous god, in this case, the god of time, Istaroth. Here is why I think so:- 1. He is born of the branches of time and is a wind spirit in early life. Istaroth is the thousand winds and god of time. 2. He remembers all the songs that were ever created and will ever be created. 3. He acts familiar to the traveller despite meeting him/her for the first time. 4. He has the power of storying history in his songs, manipulation of winds as the anemo archon and subtle time manipulation. Only his element manipulation should have been possible if he was just a regular god. 5. Despite the tumultuous period and relative closeness of Mondstadt with liyue, he suffered little to no challenges to his rule during the archon war, while his neighbouring nation was like Europe in world war 2. And liyue was packed with allied gods , dragon and adepti yet it was attacked time and again. Strangely Mondstadt only had internal strifes and once Decarabian was dealt with, the other god decided to kill himself. Strangely peaceful and fortuitous. 6. Barbatos is the only known being in Teyvat to have ascended to godhood campione style! The adepti who are worshipped by liyue citizens since eons past, the dragonlord that once enjoyed equal fame as the geo Archon, the revered Winds of Mondstadt who have dedicated temples, the many youkai of Inazuma, none ever rose to godhood despite the power, lifespan and prestige... Barbatos on the other hand, achieved godhood in a short amount of time, just by the worship of a small clan and had enough power to defeat Decarabian in his home turf! Not even Kanna Kapatcir achieved godhood despite the thunderbird civilization living around her worship... It's like barbatos only needed to gather his strength and godhood was never a requirement....Very very weird. The only people who could be used as contention here are Guhua and Vanessa, both of whom ascended to Celestia. But in their cases, whether they became gods or just something like the Einherjar remains to be seen

6:05 god of time and *wind* ? So venti is what? 😩

"Time Flies by When Contemplating Life, the Universe, and Everything" a quote from loading screen.. Isnt this related to God of Time/Moments as a way of how time flows?

Well i noticed this already. The statues in both Inazuma and mondstadt are of Istaroth. (yeah the one in mondstadt looks like venti, but he is probably born off of Istaroth). also, the reason liyue doesn't have a statue, is because rex lapis didn't have a story/an affaire with Istaroth, at least not directly. We'll see of sumeru has a statue or not and if the lore is connected to Istaroth. Even tho i don't think so.

I've always thought the statue looks awful lot like lumine. I hope the twins or at least lumine is directly related to the Shades

2 years late and i haven't even started the video yet but I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that that thing looks the the eye of the storm

2:46 "Whenever the "God of the Moments" looks upon someone at some point with favor, their feelings and memories will forever remain in this world." Sounds like ley lines, the only difference is that the leylines' memories does not remain forever.

the thing that made me believe it's istaroth is that "the ruler of the unchanging world" is one of her names what other reason for her statue being in inazuma, if not to symbolize the 'eternity' shogun pursues/pursued

From the lore, it seems to set up that Teyvat was invaded by Celestia as a space civilization and defeated the original inhabitants the vishaps, then supported humans and created the archons to terraform Teyvat. Perhaps Celestials created an artificial sun to drive the vishaps underground to make it a more desirable planet to sustain the Celestial civilization with elemental particles. I believe the enemy of Celestial was something created by Gold that involved abyss energy that spread all over Teyvat as a weapon to overthrow Celestial reign. This caused Celestia to have the Archons completely wipe out the entire civilization. However, before it was wiped, they managed to preserve all the data about it in the ley line trees. The survivors hid within the domains in another dimension to escape Celestia's wrath. These survivors than continued Golds research to corrupt beings using abyss energy. I believe istharoth is a Celestial that is omniscient, being able to accurately predict the future through simulations and collecting data with the storms. I believe that she also grants visions to those who she observes to be worthy. Currently, there is an ongoing war between Celestia and all the factions that have been attacked by them. It seems like visions are just tools for humans to fight against the abyss given out by Celestia. Now the real question is who can be considered the enemy? Celestial who seemingly made Teyvat inhabitable for humans, or those from the abyss that seems to be the true people of Teyvat.

Ok so i'm a little late, but i have a lil theory to propose: What is the unknown god at the start of the game is Istharoth? It makes sense since the unknown god was trying to prevent the travellers from being able to to freely move around Teyvat, and its as if she had been watching them for some time. Also, this would explain her link to paimon, think about it. Paimon knows a lot about the world around us as a guide, as if she had been watching for some *time*. I'm not saying that paimon is the unknown god, but they could be linked in some way. And Istharoth is an old God, which explains the unknown God's name 'Sustainer of Heavenly Principals,' its as if because she is like an 'elder god', she is the ultimate one who is watching over teyvat, with her many cubes representing her 'hundreds of eyes'. But wait. what if because of khaenri'ah's advancement, so much so that they were 'ahead of time', isathroth is the reason why the cataclysm happened? because she wanted time in teyvat to be 'Sustained'. It would also explain the cubes in the story teaser abt when Lumine woke up first 500 years ago, coincidently the time when khaenri'ah fell. So what's the final theory? Istharoth is the unknown god. She stopped the travellers and took away their powers because she felt threatened by them, and had been watching them for a while. This happened around 500 years ago. When the first twin woke up, Istharoth was angered by khaenri'ah's advancement, as if they were ahead of time, so she called on the archons to destroy the place. but they couldn't say no to her, bc she's the elder god, and is way more powerful and has a higher status. All because of her main worry: Time. Perhaps she thinks that time is moving too fast for her liking, so she's doing everything she can to slow it down. Perhaps she is the one who instilled this idea of 'eternity' in the raiden twin's minds. Anyway, this is my theory! what do you think? ^-^

It also makes sense why ei chose to build her statue to honour her previous idols, cus she clearly sees istaroth as a higher power

Istg if you're living in Tevyat you'd be a Vision holder rn, maybe Dendro. Cuz, you know, you're f-ing smart, dude.

Eye of the storm. Makes sense because "I am the storm that is approaching".

I feel like there's some connection we don't yet understand between the Istaroth, the Primordial God & the travelers for a few reasons: 1. In the scene where the Unknown God attacked the travelers, the gold part of their wings closely resembles the winged eyes on the statue that the visions are inlayed upon, if you stacked them on each other. (winged-eyes are also found on the domain murals) 2. It would also make a little more sense why Lumine said "we have always had enough time" to Aether. 3. If there is something to the gold symbol on their wings resembling the winged eyes on the statue & therefore a connection between them & that God, then maybe, just maybe, that's why the traveler is able to connect with all of the different visions at once during the 2nd battle against Raiden & all of the elements (primordial god relation for this one). Another thing I wanted to touch on (copy & pasted from an earlier comment of mine)- Paimon's sleeve & boot cuffs are the exact same design found cupping the bottom of the archon statues. It'd been bugging me for the longest time, I knew I'd seen her sleeve design somewhere before. If that design was found on only the Mondstadt archon statue, that would've led me to believe in a stronger connection between her & the god of time (potentially being her), but when I found the same design on all of the archon statues regardless of which one or their region, I knew that didn't tie her to just the god of time's statue. That's when it made me think she has a higher role or some other celestial relation I can't connect yet. Realizing all this got me curious & I went searching for if anyone else had noticed the similarities between her design & the archon statues & it led me to a reddit link that made so many details fall into place. There are still so many plausible theories out there, but this is one I feel not many people have thought about bc in the entire game we scarcely hear anything, even a mention, regarding the artificial God Khaenri'ah had attempted to create so it's the farthest thing from our minds, but it's actually a very compelling theory. This person's theory would also help make sense of another design feature on Paimon that I'd been wondering about. Why is Paimon the only place that a dot shows up in the center of a triquetra in the entire game? A dot cannot be found in a single other triquetra in the game & the dot present in the triquetra when used in the Holy Trinity symbolizes God. Though, I'm still not sure what the 3 little marks below her triquetra are supposed to represent. Here's the reddit link: Link: www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/comments/mzegq8/a_possible_origin_for_paimon_14_archon_quest/

Just wanna add that i've inspected all the ruins across teyvat, and the white, round marble pillars found in an area of mond near the Cecilia garden is very unique. In addition to some unique architecture found only in stormterror's lair, some areas of liyue, and enkanomiya, all the other ruins from mond to dragonspine to liyue and narukami have the same designs.

Also, something I’ve noticed, Eye of storm doesn’t have any kind of special drops ingame (yeah it will sometimes drop 4* artifacts) but it doesn’t have any kind of drops like Abyss Mages,Fatui’s etc.

Venti was one of the 1000 kids of her befor becoming the anemo archon

perhaps walking moon and paimon were also born from branches of time? btw branches imaginary tree from honkai impact :^

I have a pet theory. What if the Seven original archons (including Ei bc she's Makoto's twin) are actually 'fragments' of Istaroth? All have attributes that link back to the God of Time eitheer through themselves directly or through the lands they rule or the things they create. Perhaps the Sustainer and Istaroth were once close (Twins/clones maybe? Twins/clones play a lot of important roles in genshin) but they got into a feud that Sustainer won? Istaroth, in order to escape death, or maybe because this was her punishement, split into several pieces. This would end her presence as a whole god. These seven, as fragments, would have no knowledge of being once part of a whole. It's hard to say if the Sustainer would know about the fragments or not. If she does, then making them archons and forcing them to exist under 'heavenly principles' would be a good way to keep track of them and make sure that they don't reform into Istaroth one day. If she doesn't, then these fragments of an elder god would definitely be more powerful than a regular god and would make sense why the original Seven landed their places on the thrones. Here is where things get interesting. Only Zhongli and Venti remain of the original Seven, everyone else is a successor. That means five fragments of Istaroth could have returned to her resting place or they're up for grabs. I don't think these fragments could be the gnoses as they were given out by Celestia and I personally believe that the gnoses are how Celestia monitors its archons and forces them to abide by their principles. I think this is why Ei could complete the planting of the Sacred Sakura, the plant that is 'free from the heavenly principles'(paraphrased), without Celestia striking it down with a skyfrost nail. Raiden Ei even says that she believes Makoto had the help of Istaroth. Everywhere once touched by Istaroth or her followers has been ruined, locked away or left as an enigma. As for the Eye of Storm, I believe that they could either be security set up by Istaroth when she was alive to watch out for intruders, be part of her fragmentation/destruction or be her 'children' that now roam scared after their 'mother' has vanished.

You reminded me that Eye of Storm exists. Poor guy gets forgotten

when the traveller get to the statue of the unknown, and the traveller without any restraint said, hey paimon... that statue looks exactly like you but so much bigger.... and the whole squad just paused for like 5 minutes in complete total unskippable silence.

It’d be interesting if when Venti had to rest from their fight with Durin, they actually didn’t make it, and Istaroth has been parading around in the “shell” of Venti.

request: Flamechaser Aponia ≈ Blessing of Welkin Moon Theory🗿 Imagine there is a spy from MANTIS for each region in Tevyat: Aponia in Celestia Yae in Inazuma Hua in Liyue (GuoBa flashback) 🗿

Okay but what if istaroth is paimon? I mean how else are we aka traveler able to manipulate time in game if it wasn't for her ability and it would make sense why people have forgotten her. Oh and we fish her out of mondstat where if we pay attention is close to that thousand winds island.

I hate that they wrote i/staroth above ''a higher power'', i didnt notice it was there but i could still guess it was her. For anyone who read before sun and moon it was obvious, so it was kinda annoying they had to hold our hands there

This is literally telling me that the whole journey is going to be like those old jrpgs where the "final boss" is gonna appear in the 1st town, drawing the whole journey in the map to a full circle, before finally facing them in their realm. Also, when you use the *elemental sight in the nameless island, the center circle (where the eye of storm appears) will be white - like those breakable rocks. When i 1st went there, i literally plunged in different times of the day because i thought the clue - the arrow on the sundial - is pointing at an entry point. 😅

this is amazing! Your level of detail was incredible! Awesome video!

1:40 An elder god? Raiden must be having a field day

My theory out of nowhere: Venti was a moment of Istaroth that evolved that she created (to take care of Mondstadt?). A branch that eventually grew into a drunk bard