[3.3] Genshin Impact Chapter 3 Inversion of Genesis Quest Recap + Analysis 

**NOTES** - Lotta comments asking how paper and stuff changes if the past doesn't change. To that I can offer only two possible explanations. Either A) It's a situation like Azar + the Akasha where the Akasha tricked him into not seeing Nahida in the Sanctuary when she was there, or B) Irminsul can physically alter the present only which includes any texts that exist currently. I don't have a perfect answer though.

Sumeru really felt like a turning point in the game's plot. What was once obscure Lore limited to Description of Artifacts and Stone Books, is now becoming more and more important to the main story.

The voice is Bennett. Through his sheer bad luck he ends up somehow responsible for it.

If Sumeru was the point where the story started to get serious, Fontaine is probably going to be where the shit hits the fan. The Goddess of Justice apparently fears Celestia the most, and being a nation that revolves around judgment, how ironic would it be if they ended up being judged by a greater power.

This makes Rukkhadevata’s “Let the world completely forget me” even more significant. She never implied the erasure of her existence, only that the world would forget her.

The Sages of Khaenri'ah summoning the Twins makes the cutscene at the beginning of the game make a lot more sense. The two golden shooting stars are the Twins being summoned in Teyvat, which explains the similarity to the gacha's wish animation.

in chinese elements, lightning is an extension of the wood element

The Tsaritsa’s voice maybe? That’s my best guess other than Istaroth. With the tone of the voice that seems to really hate the current state of this world, the voice sounded dead inside like many people describe Tsaritsa. Once a loving god, now she hardened her heart and there’s no more love she can give. Since the traveler will eventually get to Snezhnaya and probably meet her. I would say doing something like dropping off a massive bomb for us to really question this world and remember what we saw and created this internal conflict so she can easily get us to join her side and rebel against the heavens. Massive manipulation per say. Since after the voice the traveler seems to even question their own memories.

When I saw Scaramouche's split personality coming together it definitely reminded me of an Ei and Makoto parallel.

The Raiden twin is a sentient wood that came to life by struck by lightning. Like Makoto turned herself into a seed and in Shintoism there is a special ceremony for a tree that has been struck by lightning. They are called 'Shinboku' (Sacred Tree).

Nahida's story quest and the world created in the dream by the Akasha for me is a lite version of tevyat. I think visions give enough energy to maintain the world from falling apart (which happened in the quest to the fake world) and once the person was removed from Akasha they woke up. Which for me means that if a person can be removed from Irminsol they will wake up somewhere. That means that Teyvat is nothing but a world created within a dream. And fatui harbingers and archons who are with them( giving them gnosis) are the ones who" dare to dream within the dream" i.e. they plan to unplug themselves from Irminsol. For me this is going the route of the matrix.

I honestly love your lore videos, as someone who loves this game's story but doesn't have nearly as much info or brain to piece it all together, this is amazing info. And besides it's about Scara, that turns it into more of a masterpiece

I actually think the voice could be that of the Tsaritsa herself. Despite the Fatui constantly being our enemies in game, there is just a lot of little things that point towards them not actually being the bad guys (big picture anyway). I kind of expect once we get to Snezhnaya the Tsaritsa will try to win us over, so this could easily be just her sending us hints as to what her plan ultimately is to get that started.

I think Ashikai dropped a strong hint at who the voice is. At first I thought Istaroth as well but after watching this vid I changed my mind. I think it’s actually the Tsaritza herself.

Yea, I agree. In Winter Night's Lazzo, Pierro said to the deceased Rosalyne-Kruscha Lohefalter that the she will be buried in the old world, means that Pierro and the Tsaritsa trying to revive the 7 dragon sovereigns, probably to fight the "master of the heaven"/primordial one *while* also fighting the second who came. Idk. But something along those lines.

Wouldn't Ei have been made of wood though? Makoto had to rebuild her after she ascended to Archon. I've probably got that wrong but I'm sure I read somewhere that Makoto had to "destroy" Ei (or whatever) so the gods would recognize her as the victor in the Archon war. My point is that Nahida's story is correct

I was so confused when I saw scara had the name Fujin cause that’s what I named my wanderer. Took me a second to realize. It’s a great name for him

oh that's definitely the reason to gather all the gnoses. it even adds up to the tsaritsa actually being the gentle god of love- if she succesfully changes the past, no one would have ever been hurt by her and the fatui's actions. using that reasoning, she can allow the atrocities the fatui commit to happen while still loving her people. every current pain will not matter when she changes time, only then she will allow her heart to defrost.

fun fact some text change after delting Rukadevata but if you look at zhongli text "story 5" is basicly did not change (the one talking about orginal 7 archons unless rukadevata was not one of the orginal 7) only 2 remains which is him and venti not 3 still 2 it is as his memories were not affected

Kinda hoping that the voice is Skirk, Mona's Master, or even Gold, but my mind is ofc set to the one you don't want to hear. Skirk is tied to the Abyss, so I'm hoping that its some of her own insight from within Irmunsul that caught up with us back when we came back into Teyvat after our first venture into Irmunsul's depths, but on a time delay because of how Time in the Abyssis all fuckywucky. similar to how we've slowly been exposed to the Abyss with Tartaglia's Abyssal transformation, our first meet up with our twin, the Mud from the Ley Lines, and the Withering and the energy that tried to swallow us in The Golden Slumber.

I was about to go to sleep but guess that's not happening today

For the voice I was thinking either Skirk or Rhinedottir since they are both relatively MIA and unmet characters who could certainly throw some whacky knowledge towards us without hesitation.

So Irminsul is basically a computer, it's roots extend into the Abyss... "The root folder, also called the root directory or sometimes just the root, of any partition or folder is the "highest" directory in the hierarchy. You can also think of it in general as the start or beginning of a particular folder structure. The root directory contains all other folders in the drive or folder, and can, of course, also contain files. You can visualize this with an upside-down tree where the roots (the root folder) are at the top and the branches (subfolders) fall below; the root is what holds together all of its lower items." "The root file system is the top of the hierarchical file tree. It contains the files and directories critical for system operation, including the device directory and programs for booting the system. The root file system also contains mount points where file systems can be mounted to connect to the root file system hierarchy." Interesting.

That idea of combining the gnoses to alter the future is something i NEVER had thought of and is like mind-blowing but feels like the actual plot... Great work!

Wait, could the voice be gold? We know she obviously has an understanding of teyvat deeper than most and since she is from khaenri'ah, she may have some experience with this.(this is because I believe that khaenri’ah might have tried something similar at the time which may have ended up in disaster leading to the intervention of celestia) in addition, the voice remarks “unfortunately, the fate of this world can not be changed easily, but perhaps a god might be able to” she seems as she has experienced failures of this project and as we know khaenri’ah was a nation without gods so she may be stating that this was a fatal flaw of their plan. Als this may relate to the loom of fate operation that the abyss is trying to achieve. Maybe this is their new attempt at this after their failure in the past and may have something to do with Dains line in the teravail trailer about the threads of fate being ours to reweave which sounds a lot like redoing and changing the past especially because of the word reweave.

Wild as it sounds, I believe the voice at the end was Rukkhadevata, and I have some reasons for believing this. First of all, the speech mannerisms in which the voice speaks. The voice speaks in metaphors just as Nahida does; "When a small animal runs into a tree trunk, though the tree may sway, it is not displaced. The same is true of fate. Like a vase that falls to the ground. Whether it is broken by a cat or by a bird, the result is still a broken vase, is it not?" This alone isn't enough to drive a conclusion, but it got me thinking. If Irminsul does not change the past but changes one's perception of the past, then the spirit of a forgotten god is still one who remains. We've seen this before- Orobashi's spirit remaining to rage on Yashiori island is evidence that gods still exhibit some presence on Teyvat even after death, and this is only one of numerous examples of this phenomenon. Now, using the metaphor-not so metaphor of Irminsul being a computer/server, imagine that you have a folder of files interacting with one another, and suddenly, the computer sends one of the files to the trash to delete it. No longer can a user open the file- it's in the trash, and likewise, files cannot interact with anymore. To them, it's as good as gone. But an outsider to this system- the user themselves, or the traveler in this metaphor, can still visibly see the file in the trash can, even if they can't open it. And what of the file itself? Well, it's still a file. A file can't be taught to forget itself- it is itself. It's a catch-22. Irminsul may allow all to forget about your existence and to rewrite the memory of history- but it cannot void your existence entirely. And so, Rukkhadevata remains in spirit, forgotten by all but no less real. And if Nahida kept a backup of Scaramouche's existence, what's to say there isn't a backup of Rukkhadevata somewhere? By following this logic, it makes a lot of sense why the voice would say what she said to us. Reading through the wording- in particular, "Unfortunately, the fate of Teyvat cannot easily be changed. Perhaps a god may have a slim chance, but for anyone else... who can say." In this scope, it sounds almost regretful with the use of the word "unfortunately", as if Rukkhadevata were to lament her own "passing". And why bring up "perhaps a god may have a slim chance" when this recent incident involving Scaramouche was post-godhood for him? This to me at the very least narrows the list of candidates to gods or greater beings speaking to us. Not really sure what else to make of it. But I should also mention as a completely different side note- Scaramouche instructed Irminsul to forget the names Balladeer and Kunikuzushi. He did not instruct it to forget the name Scaramouche. Whether this is an oversight or not remains to be seen, but I doubt this was unintentional. Maybe this is so that the Fatui do not forget him, but the rest of the world does. Maybe he wants them to remember his name, as his next step seems to be to seek revenge on Dottore.

My first thought for the voice was the tsaritsa actually. The...way the voice talks really reminds me of the Shivada Jade Gemstone text

The unknown voice at the end might be the previous hydro archon. She used to have spies all over Teyvat and following Traveler for some reason. She might knows a lot about how Irminsul works and taught Mona about hydromancy.

not gonna lie. The more times you keep mentioning irminsul in tech analogy reminded me of a podcast I just finished listening to. Tech podcast covered about '7 keys to the internet' & each key holders are from different countries, never have 2 key holders from same country. The short summary from what the key holders do is validate the internet domains with only their signature.

9:16 fun fact, a server designed specifically to turn an IP address to a URL for other computers to see and use is called a dns, or a domain name server.

Regarding the voice at the end i believe it could belong to tsaritsa..and my reason is sort of hidden in qiqi's vision story- Qiqi's Vision was given to her in the last moment of her life. She wanted to stop the clock from turning. She wanted to live happily again. She feared death. She wanted to live. She missed her family... These feelings coalesced at last into "ice." "If only I could freeze time... How wonderful would that be?" As she thought thus, tears fell from the moribund girl's eyes upon the Vision that had appeared before her. The mighty and illuminated adepti all acknowledged this as a legitimate form of "illumination" - the yearning of humanity for bygone days is, after all, a desire to protect that past. The important points are- -She wanted to stop the clock from turning. (freeze time or something or someone in time?) -These feelings coalesced at last into "ice." (can something as abstract as feelings can be turned into literal ice?) -"If only I could freeze time... How wonderful would that be?" (again freezing time) - a desire to protect that past. (maybe ashikai's theory of rewinding time and changing the past?) This piece of text has a lot of reference to time. Could it be possible that the cryo gnosis gives tsaritsa a sort of immunity to tampering of memories by freezing the memories in ice (time?) or sort of something like that? I am just rambling here it is after all a massive stretch.

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Holy sh!t if it's true that Pierro and Tsaritsa are collecting the gnosis for the purpose of changing the past then wouldn't that be the same like Otto from Honkai changing the past where kallen (someone he cared for) didn't die?

My guess of the disembodied voice is the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles. She is also a Descender and would know of the effects of edits in Irminsul. If you listen to the intro and the scene at the end of the quest, they are very similar voices. She says Fate is something that is quite difficult to change, perhaps that it may be a Heavenly Principle, that she felt inclined to give a nudge that we are scratching close to something important.

never thought scara as a being made from the branches of irminsul but that's exactly why you're my favorite genshin channel. I'll brainrot over this piece of information for the rest of the year thank you.

Interesting and cool ideas here! Excited for what story comes nest and your future vids! Just finished the new world quest, excited to hear what you have to say about the Eternal Oasis!

Hi, I recently found your channel. And I love your videos. You are really good at digging up information on all kinds of mythology and religions, it’s very interesting. And your analysis of everything you find is very clever. So it’s just fun to listen to all your theories while I play genshin. I appreciate all the time and effort you clearly put into this. Thank you 😊

Amazing video as always Ashikai, things are really picking up in the game and it makes me curious for what more Hoyoverse have planned. The voice at the end was a surprise for me and gives me Istaroth vibes for some reason, though I cannot explain why. Quick question for you and anyone else that might know the answer, what song was playing during the "Irminsul" segment between roughly 3:29 and 7:05? I've heard it a few times in your more recent lore/theory videos and have found myself liking it from the brief hearings of it, though my searches to find it haven't been successful. Hope you're well and looking forward to more lore content as always!

Wow, your theories are always spot on

OH MY GOSH I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE YOUR CONTENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been playing this game and looking at the lore just passively and just wondering why no one was seeing what I was seeing (or so I thought). The lore is SO beautiful! Like I'm really glad I found this game and your channel!

Please always make these videos I swear I don't understand anything until I watch them 🙃 THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARDWORK

The theory at the end with the gnoses was such a good point wow! Thanks for the awesome video as always

I know it's not part of your video but I really love how you named scaramouche fujin. I also did change mine to the alternative of fujin which was futen to mirror "raiden". All in all, I really love your videos!

Your videos are always so amazing and have my brain engineers start working. Seriously, I'm always looking forward to your next videos. They're so informative and entertaining. I think the Tsaritsa's reasons for collecting Gnoses could possibly be to have enough "God energy" to change the world. If I remember correctly there's a few mentions of the old world and bringing it back, but I haven't checked for a while so I'm unsure. Either way it's probably about changing the world in some way.

I feel like the traveler would have talked about waking up in Khaenriah if they were ever kept there (even if in cryo sleep). Since they remember everything up to being captured by Susty, it'd be pretty odd if they never mention remembering Khaenriah even a bit. My theory is they were both summoned by Khaenriah but were intercepted by Susty. Thats when the games opening happened. But she couldn't hold us both for too long in her little blocks. And because the twins seemed to possess some otherworldly power, she didn't wanna risk them teaming up further in the future. So, with the help of Istaroth, she sent the traveler into the future whilst the abyss twin broke out of the prison and found themselves on Khaenriah. That was how "a god can change the timeline" but for real, no memory deletion or anything required. I mean, if anyone, might as well be the god of time herself right? Plus, isn't that how the great Narukami tree sprouted as well? Actual change in history instead of a memory insertion/deletion? Back on topic, I think her statements about "The end of the arrogation of humans" was just how she was angry and she was going to destroy Khaenriah. She got real mad about the summoning and decided to destroy them for it. Now continuing from my tangent, I think the only "god" that can do the actual changes in the timeline is The God of Time. She already proved it by helping Makoto create the seed for the great Narukami tree. And I think that in itself is a confirmation that the voice we hear in the game is not Istaroth herself. I'm gonna go with the 2nd most boring answer and say its Focalor. I know, rehashing the same kinda teasers from the Nahida is very lazy, but I don't expect much more from Hoyoverse.

the things the voice said reminded me of what zhongli said at the end of this quest. Something along the lines of "I want you (the traveler) to be the witness to history". Which is really interesting bc he could be talking about erosion and how he might die soon so he won't be able to continue telling stories of the past but this also raises the question if traveler is immune to erosion which would mean we are entirely some other entity that is not immortals or gods. Another point is how did zhongli know this. What I'm saying is that both original archons have suggested that they have met us before (venti's voiceline about remembering him) and if I remember correctly the tsaritsa is also an original archon. Maybe she have met us before and that voice was her trying to remind or warn us and maybe get us on her side.

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!

10:47 The "the twins are actually aliens that were called by an SOS signal coming from khaenri'ah and traveled across the cosmos in their private spaceship" part seems a little bit far fetched, ngl. However, what does seem more plausible is that the twins were summoned not by a signal, but a wish, like we literally do to get more characters and weapons. We literally wish (summon) upon the heavens (the literal sky we see in every pulling animation) for them to bring into the world (our own world) a being from beyond the stars (the character we get literally didn't exist in or account before pulling for them, so they were "not from this/our world"). And if you look closely to that same animation you showed in that part that's literally how the twins made it into teyvat, they fell from the sky in shinning golden meteorites because they are 5* characters, and because they arrived in that way it means that they were summoned in a similar manner to how we summon characters.

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I just want to say loved that you named your wanderer Fujin, great meaning behind that. I have named mine Sei in hope to bring tranquility to his life(as that was the meaning behind the kanji i specifically chose). This quest gave me a bunch of questions but i'm pleased that it at least solved a few a well

You googling Descenders and getting that result made me chuckle a little.

no because the whole summoning and spaceship part makes so much damn sense!

The most interesting detail I'm considering from the Interlude Quest was in the storybook of Scaramouche's memories. In particular, the Doctor's appearance looking more than anything like a creature from the Abyss, either an Abyss Mage or maybe a Samachurl of sorts, wearing a fox(human) disguise. Considering Genshin's track record for detail. I'd find it hard to believe this wasn't meant as any sort of foreshadowing. Also his clear lack of concern for the harm he may cause people seems completely divorced from the general, at least theorized, idea that the Fatui are working for the greater good of humanity. There's the additional detail that out of all the Harbingers he ranks 2nd. Even over Columbina who, if theory crafting is correct, should be a particularly powerful individual with potential connections to the divine. Yet, a scholar/scientist somehow ranks higher than, not just her but, virtually all other Harbingers despite having no known special powers, connections or bloodline to suggest he should be anything special beyond a normal human. Even a being like the Crimson Witch or a master of all weaponry like Tartaglia rank significantly lower in terms of power or capability. A creature from the Abyss having weird/untold powers would make some sense but, a simple academic doesn't quite add up. If anything, it seems to suggest he'll play a particularly large role later in the story. Given that he doesn't seem to have any special reason for being so significantly powerful. That even a being designed by a god in order to be a god not only ranked lower but could be toyed with & raised to godhood by him & still he would not consider that made god a significant threat to either himself or the Fatui's overall goals, if it should be any concern at all, is all highly suspicious. Keep in mind, Childe was tasked with tracking down the Balladeer after he scurried off with the Gnosis. Yet, the Doctor was working, either with special permission or entirely in secret, with the Balladeer on this secret project in Sumeru. Also, in the 'A Winter Nights Lazzo' trailer Dottore is directly asked about Scaramouche, possibly having been given Childe's task after his failure to produce results in Inazuma, & gives a vague mention of Scara's goals but, conveniently neglects to mention any contact or collusion with him.

I really like the idea of the Alien traveler, but I am still not sure about Pierrot being in a disagreement of the Sages since he mentionned the "Old World" as the final resting place of Signora and with the space theory the OId World could sound like the current planet. And to add to the rewrite the past, in the Teyvat story preview, Dainsleif wants to you to defeat him and reweave fate. At many times, the term God or rather Divine is used to mean Celestia not the Archons so my understanding was that the voice meant that the Celestia could change the past. As for the identity of the voice, I thought it could be Focalors since what she said could be relevant in Fontaine(focus on the objective evidence during a trial) but she herself should also have been affected by Irminsul so that narrows it down to the descenders and its not Alice nor the Sustainer.

lovely video on explanations of irminsul and the whole world forgetting thing. Maybe the voice is one of phanes' parts or some other god or being that is awhare of things being changed.

My theory! The voice was that of the hydro archon. Secondly, I was wondering Ashikai if you think it's possible that either we will fill the role of the last empty fatui harbinger, or that our sibling was once the one who held the last empty seat? (I know you're super not in love with all the fatui lore from watching stream VODs, but I was curious if you think this is a possibility?) If anyone else read this far, what do you think?

Voice could be the Tsaritsa- given the Fatui theme music constantly references direct opposition to the Abyss, it would also fit neatly with your Gnosis conjecture. Seems like the Fatui dislike the other gods for incompetence, i.e. the Sustainer’s inability to remove the Abyssal influences entirely.

Okay so let me get this right. I knew they couldn't change the effects of the past but all this time I understood it as "if you broke a vase and then took yourself out of irminsul someone else would have broken the vase because it has To be done. (Thats why the books change) BUT what you're saying is that it doesn't change history at all but from the moment you are erased from irminsul the memory's are kind of semi-corrupted, so books and people put a random name to fill in the void even though the person who broke the vase never changed

Thank you for the video! it makes total sense for fatui to collect gnoses in order to gain power to change past. That goes well with the burning the OLD world idea. They will do whatever it takes and don't care how much they pay for it. Now that I think of it, it would be a great motivation for the harbingers too. We know that they are very different yet somehow they came together and are united with one goal. They all could want to change the past. We don't know much about all the harbingers, but Pierro obviously would want that. What brings us to idea that all antagonists (and not only them) are pursuing one goal - to change the fate. Abyss order and our sibling and Fatui. And since we know that protagonist will likely the one to reweave the fate/change the past. So it looks like everyone wants one thing

Ha, I like the idea of the domain keys being like the same thing you see in your browser - a lock icon, to indicate the information/address is protected. Then us activating the key presents us with the Captcha (the enemies) which we have to successfully deal with, then we can access the stored information in the file tree.

We're getting fed so well lately with content on this channel

Whoever the voice in the end is, she clearly knows the real events that happened just like the Traveler…meaning she is very likely a non Teyvat entity thats immune to Irminsul’s alteration?

I thinkthe mysterious voice is the Great Tortoise of Time mentioned by Nahida in her voiceline interaction talking about Faruzan. I've watched other lore content creators and none of them mention this interaction :'(

Yeah I thought about the god of flowers for the voice at the end of the quest But she's dead, so how could she do that ? I don't think it could be Focalor... However, I hope we will have some answers during Fontaine ! Anyway, nice video ! I was a bit confused about some details in the story quests and you made them clear so huge help !!! Can't wait for your next videos !

Another banger from Ashikai!

i have only watched two of your video and already can see myself bingewatching the rest and impatiently waiting for the next video lol. good work

We both gave scara the same name(named him Raiden Fujin tho), now I'm grinning from ear to ear. love the theory video also, I hope all your speculations are right

Wow, it's like a dream within a dream. Covered in sprinkles and layered with cream.

I personally think the voice saying only a god can alter time is someone who is a god and would know something like that so I’m thinking rukkhadevata seeing as she wasn’t removed from time just forgotten which means as far as everyone knows she might still be alive and had changed time before

OK so this is not a guess for who the voice was at the end of the 3.3 quest BUT for a split second i thought it was Yae Miko speaking bc whoever it was sounded a lot like Miko’s ENG VA, Ratana so i was sooo confused 😂😂

My pet peeve is when you explain something interesting and then say it's gonna be in a different video

I haven't done Nahida's story quest yet, but did Inversion of Genesis as soon as possible to try to avoid spoilers. At last my character story quest procrastination might pay off in the form of improved narrative cohesion!

The voice. "Only a God could have a slim chance." Within the last part of the Nahida Archon quest, the Traveler remembers Rukkhadevata stating no one person can be erased from history. Then the Traveler found the Wanderer. Nahida can talk to both the Traveler and Paimon in their heads, so being a Descender or one from Teyvat doesn't change her access. Other Archons or Gods don't show this ability nor the Heavenly Principles. The "computer files" for Archons must be kept at a different level. They could also have extra protection and a clean backup. In the conversation with Nahida, Rukkhadevata's voice is slightly altered due to corrupt knowledge. We also know Rukkhadevata is past 500 years old since she told Nahida she looks at least 500 years old. Rukkhadevata would have a more mature voice. Since Nahida is an Avatar of Irminsul, the only character that could have Nahida's abilities would be Rukkhadevata. Is it a stretch? Please feel free to leave your comments.

Ei, Makoto and Istaroth managed to change the past when the Sacred Sakura Tree was planted so it is possible and it has happened :p

First thought after hearing that voice was, it has to be Focalors. For no other reason than Fontaine will be our next stop. The Archons do know a lot more about what is going on, and they don‘t necessarily share everything with us. Prime example being Zhongli who actually tells us he is not allowed to because of some previous contract. It is hard to say if Focalors as the god of justice will feel compelled to abide by such a contract as well, or if she thinks that justice is rather served by sharing this with the traveler? If not Focalors, it might be one of the other Archons we have not met yet. My second guess would be the Tsaritsa.

Ashikai being a computer science major helping her a lot with this isminsul thing XD

5:55 so... The teleport waypoints could be the scanners/data receivers that gather information about the place they are located at and sending that information back to Irminsul!

I thought the voice was Istaroth at the beginning but looking at people's comments and believing that Istaroth is just too big to say anything right now in the story. I think it's more likely someone like Tsaritsa or maybe someone like Rhinedotter or Mona's Master.

Hello! cool video!

Gosh, I really hope you do a video on the Lantern Rite story!

Hmm it seems I've arrived a bit early today, can't wait to watch this

I think this voice could also be someone important from Hexenzirkel like Mona Master or another one from Alice's circle of friends. It would make sense too as I feel we will learn a lot more about these witches in Fontaine...

This is the earliest I've been! Edit: what did you think of Guizhong's face reveal?

to solve why the text change: - Irminsul can purge information, so text ( books, etc) is a form of information. Memories is a form of storing information. Irminsul was commanded to purge memories of Rukkhadevata. Irminsul did not change the past, but it delete all information on Rukkhadevata. - Irminsul can delete physical objects, it did delete Rukkhadevata, but cant delete things entirely nor can delete the consequences such deleted information did. In a PC example if you delete a desk icon, it will leave a space right? If you delete something on your PC, it cease to exist but it doesnt mean it didnt exist in the past. -Irminsul seems to need to sort the information, the reason escapes me, but I guess it may be that Irminsul itself needs all the information to make sense (regardless if the information is true or not). In the PC example of the deleted icon, say you dont like the blank space the icon left, you want order so you right click and "sort by" x the icons, and another icon will fill that space. In this same way, Irminsul take all the text, and memories of the world, to fill the gaps and make sense of what happened, yet it didn´t change the past. If Irminsul can delete physical things, it can very well change the ink on text book. Heck, it can alter the memories of the people in Teyvat. So why it did not change the past? Maybe because Irminsul take the less effort solution, maybe it does it this way because how much energy it needs. After all, it is implied that we change the past, we just need the absurd amount of energy. Want to point a few things: 1- the archon of dendro spend force and reverted to a child-like form. Paimon seems child-like to me. 2- irminsul consider Paimon to be from Teyvat. I know Paimon is a bag of mysteries, but this ones add to the list. Im not implying she did something with Irminsul, but she may have used her power for something else. 3- It seems the fatui doesnt remember the wanderer, so it may be safe to say the Tsaritsa memories are also altered. Even if that is the case, i dont think it will affect their plan, whatever it may be.

Why do I FEEEEEEL that the voice at the end of scara quest is mona's teacher voice i mean she sounds like an old woman and mona's teacher is one of the most mysterious and easy to forget characters that may hold a great importance in the future

i think the voice was focalor (or however you spell it) because she says to ONLY trust what the traveller sees for themselves, and since the next region of fontaine is the nation of justice and that there’s a good chance we’re going to be participating in trials, i can see this factor playing a role!! perhaps something will happen and someone erases everyone’s memory of them and how the occurrence happened as a means of getting away with their actions, however the traveller will be the only one who knows the truth !!! i also think what she said about “it doesn’t matter who what or why the vase was broken, what matters is that it’s broken” (not verbatim). But that’s my theory!!

I’m looking forward to a video on the recent 3.4 lore… I’m almost going insane just thinking abt it

the voice could come from the girl in the gnostic chorus. the 1st crowned heir that searched the genesis crystal and possibly the one dainsleif wants to rescue

I wonder if the Tsarista doesn't need the gnosis for time alteration but maybe using all of the gnosis, she may be able to get records of the old world and use that to safely understand forbidden knowledge and recreate the old world. Kinda in line with the Hexenzirkel video.

Here we gooo

Omg im early this time! ❤❤❤

There's also the Sacred Sakura Tree that Ei retrospectively planted in the past from Makoto's seed (possibly made with help from Istaroth) to help cleanse the filth in Inazuma. That is fairly solid evidence that with enough power you can make physical changes to the past which tangibly impact the future.

The voice in the end its the Tsaritsa putting that nail of doubt in the traveler''s head so she can hammer it in the future.

18:56 a new future OR a new world (By new world I mean it could either be a different teyvat or a hard reset) As for the mystery voice my take would be that it's someone from the hexenzirkel possibly Gold or one of the heavenly principles

Excellent video indeed, as always! Dunno if you could add any input about something related to this topic that, once I saw it, it puzzles me to no avail: Zhongli's character story V; its changes -or lack thereof- after Irminsul v2.1 are way too sus

I like how scaramocuhe May be distantly relayed to nahida and May actually be one of the few beings like her in the world which makes their found family have an additonal layer

I interpreted the "voice's" indication that a god might be able to change the past to mean that the sacred sakura tree was indeed planted in the present when Ei planted it but changed the past, allowing it to grow in the past. Who knows, maybe I'm wrong, but that's what my mind went to when I played the quest.

One thing that might be interesting to ponder about with the information of what the outlanders brought in relation to Teyvat... is how the 'world' of Teyvat is really just a single continent. While I doubt there was much beyond what currently exists(in terms of Humanity on this world), I can't help but wonder now if part of what made Teyvat be identified as a continent + chain of islands rather than the entire world... is the outlanders. With how the Dark Sea has islands that seemingly struggle to stay afloat(assuming all / most islands are like the GAA), it may be that they were only able to stabilize the single continent and the island chain(and not even all of it, since Enkanomiya exists). For the voice... I don't really know. I like Istaroth because of the connection to time she already has(not to mention the recent importance the story has given her). But for a wild guess that's likely incorrect... maybe a moon sister? She might've tried to alter time to save the others(maybe while she was dying) but only managed to save herself(aka why she said only a small chance, she knows minor changes CAN occur, but the outcome can't have been decided). Knowing that there are likely still some people out there who could know about the fact she was supposed to die, she hid herself away. It would explain why as of now we've only ever seen two of the three moons.

I'm still sticking with my 'Fatui collecting Gnosis = Thanos collecting Infinity Stones' theory! I'm all in!