[3.6] What Does the Khaenri'ahn Symbol Mean? | Genshin Impact Theory 

Baizhu wishes to keep giving life force to patients but also wishes to keep living a long life, his combat kit actually looks like he steals life force from enemies.

The achievement after reaching there is called: *"ye who enter here, abandon all hope"* This line is from a 3 volume poem called "dante's divine Comedy".in that he explains that he found a gate to hell and explores all 9 layers of hell.

On the upside down tree thing. It always seems inconsistent. For example if the tree is upside down then the roots are not underground where Khaenri'ah is but instead up in the sky, or at least on the regular land surface. Therefore if the tree is upside down then the city/country founded on the roots of that tree should either be in the sky or on the surface but that's a fail for matching Khaenri'ah.

The symbol of Khaenri'ah is simpler. It's not the symbol of Khaenri'ah but the symbol of the last dynasty - namely the Eclipse. It's an eclipse symbol (or "black star" in Chinese). It has a central circle and 8 points coming from it. You can see it in Hilichurl camps sometimes. An eight pointed star is obviously also used commonly in other places most obviously by the Adventurers' Guild which is symbolized by the compass. Compass symbolism often doesn't have the central circle but often does have an outer circle around the radial points. In general the symbolism of the game isn't too exact though. The same symbol doesn't always look the exact same in each case. Even the Knights of Favonious symbols are often a little varied from each other and that's probably the best example of a symbol or icon that is often exactly duplicated down to the tiniest detail. The 8 pointed star in the Hexenzirkel doesn't feel like an eclipse but is more compassy but I don't think it's meant to be either one. Because of the second asymmetric star behind it and the rotations and bramble symbolism. Fate is connected with the pre-Abyss order Lector and the Sinner.

Great vid! I remember seeing the doors with Kaeya and when he did his coin flip it made that symbol but it makes so much sense to be a khaenri’ah symbol. There’s so much more to uncover in this game! The lore keeps giving

this is a pretty interesting take i knew the moment i saw the title you'll say that it represents fate which in itself it is true, the 8 pointed star symbol has been used so far 3 times in MiHoyo's games in Honkai impact 3rd, Honkai star rail and Genshin and in each of them , this symbol is related to destiny/fate/ time and all of this words are connected to each others, you probably never played the other hoyo games but i wanna give my opinion regarding this topic in hi3 , it represents time, this power is called "the Finality" which symbolised by an 8 Pointed star , this power keeps reseting time and recycling cvilisations all over again until they reach the right outcome which in itself, changing destiny over and over again in star rail , we know that there are aeons , higher dimensional beings that have power over "paths", these path are like phylophical concepts, "destruction , beauty , hunt , abunadance , nihility etc..) and again , each has their own symbol, then there the Aeon of Finality and it's symbol is again 8 pointed star, the Aeon was said to be surfing the universe while moving "backward in time" while murmuring a prophecy that is yet to happen, again, this is related to fate and destiny in Genshin now, we know that teyvat could be in a constant state of "timeloop" from various hints and that changing destiny is one of the core themes of genshin , we know that , there's a god of "time" called istaroth, and if you search for the name ishtar, she's a goddess who's symbol is either 6 pointed star or 8 pointed one , and istaroth was present in khaenri'ah and the DAY the cataclysm happened, and MONA believes that "changing fate" is impossible

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite theorists :) Keep it up

As for things living by biting on the roots of Irminsul trees Albedo says there's a species of spider that do so. At the time I thought that was a nod to the Nithog myth. But in general I don't think any out of game lore ever carries over into the game, except to be a source of names. For example while gods names come from Ars Goetia the characteristics of the corresponding demons have no relation with the game lore and have no predictive power.

4:00 also king deshret 😮

I just wanted to make an addition to what you were saying about vikings and the compass. Naturally, compasses werent yet invented, and Vikings used the stars to navigate, buuuut! They did have something that acted like a navigational aid! There are texts that mention what is called a "sunstone". And what is a "sun", but a star? Its also quite interesting that Deshret is illustrated as a star/sun, and it ends up looking both as the Khaenriahn star and the sign of Apoasha!

You know where else the symbol of Khanriah/fate can be seen? It's on the chest of male traveler. Tho only bottom part is seen tho because it's covered by his scarf

Also with the dwarves connection : In Wagner's Ring Cycle based off the Nibelungenlied , the dwarf Alberich steals magical gold (Rhine Gold) from the daughters of the Rhine (Rhinedottir?) to craft a ring of power. So yeah, Alberich

just found yer vids and love so many new interesting perspectives

The king is an Elden ring lord

Good theory and awesome observations, but I disagree that the 8-pointed star is a rune. As pointed out (pun not intended) in the video, Odin (or Genshin's sinner) learned about Runes (which are pretty much called Khemia in old hebrew script ... also known as Talismans or Sigils) while hanging upside down on the tree of life (Yggdrasil / Irminsul... where the last also corresponds to physical "pillars of the world" worshipped in "pagan" rituals in the old Germanic world - Charles Magnus burned that stuff down)... ... BUT said Runes are the letters seen in Abyss mages and Lecters' spells, written with a certain "script" also used to write the "true names of angels" and the such in IRL "Alchemy". The 8-pointed star doesn't correspond to any Rune: it may be a symbol for something norse or viking or mesopotamian... but not a Rune, I don't think so.

That vegvisir is not a viking-age symbol. It's a common misconception.

I don’t think it’s the door to khanenriah but the door to the the Teyvat actual world but upside down cuz the achievement (Abandon all Hope ye who Enters here) dialogue is written “Reach the end of the surface realm” it specifically says *surface realm*..hopefully we get to know more about this gate xD

2:24 I think it's not an 8 pointed star. The way I see it, there was two 4 pointed star overlapping each other which make it looks like an eight pointed star. A large and small primo shape stars overlapping each other.

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King irmin might be s titel the king gets In star wars there are mendalotians and the leader is the mandalorian who has to abond his prev identaty to be the mandalorian Maby it's similar to that with irmin

According to ye ol' google machine, the Helm of Awe is still Norse, so it could havd been relevant maybe?

Fontain will get us morefermament lore baused on the pari

What if Nibelung is Irmin

I’m not gonna lie you seem to be stretching a lot of these. Hoyo definitely took inspiration from all of this, but I’m 100% certain they’re not going exactly 1 to 1 with norse myth. They’re going to change things.

great video but can you lower the volume of the music next time?

bro why u put halfdan cutscene in there i didnt understand anything u said cuz of it

Kaeya is a drawf so there might be 3 more drawf clans

Sure, there’s an 8 point star. But why are there bugs in my skin, the itch itchy, itchy itchy bugs in my skin get this skin off.

Ngl, the reveal was garbage. For how important this place is supposed to be, the way we end up finding the entrance should have been epic, including a major cutscene during an Archon quest with Dain or someone else very important, and definitely not by ourselves... The only epic part here, is Hoyo's failure. I'm really disappointing.