Caribert - 3.5 Archon Quest Recap | Genshin Impact Explained 

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Dainsleif always be on top of lore dropping.

This Archon quest is by far the shortest but dropped big lore bombs on us 😬 Also, Minsleif is jus soooo down bad for Dain like goddamn 😂

"Ill allow him to do it again" This girl is showing her thirst to dainsleif in a calmest ways possible.

This quest by now is the most close to the abyss sibling, and the fact the Travaler can connects to their memoires is the only way they can know what happened and maybe we can have a other "dream" to know what happened to Teyvat and the "master plan" for all the desaster

I think since Caribert was "able to weave his own destiny" his curse was actually lifted, and eventually buried with his mother, but he had descendants too. Kaeya might be one of those descendants.

One very important info from this patch: Khaenri'ah people are immortal, and they are not necessarily linked to the abyss.

8:58 I don't know if someone already wrote it, but what's interessting about this is that Chlothar calls our sibling the prince/princess of Khaenri'ah. Until now we knew them as prince/princess of the Abyss Order. At that time, Chlothar didn't found the Abyss Order yet, and while we already knew that our sibling had ties to Khaenri'ah this makes things a bit more interesting. What this means in the grant scheme of things? No idea, just thought it was interesting. English is not my first language, so feel free to correct me if you find any mistakes, I tend to place way to many comma's :)

The fact no one is talking about this I find it so cute that traveler huggs Pimon after the quest.❤❤

About the artifact praying pose, I've seen some dev talking about their intentions behind that. It was a rough translation from CN, but from what I could read, it's intentional. You need to give your prayers to be able to use the artifact powers. Pretty interesting!

A curious thing is that the sinner mentions that our sibling has a "fate". This alludes to the fact that abyss sib has been committed to the irminsul then, which caused them to have a fate set in stone. To my knowledge, traveler doesnt have a fate according to Mona's scry. This probably applies to all outlanders naturally. "But what did you bring us instead?" Whatever they did, this was probably the defining moment which shackled the sibling to irminsul. Did they bring strife? The heavenly principles? War? Khemia? It was so bad an apocalypse began.

My question is that did Clothar intentionally fed his son the mushrooms fertilised by his dead mum? Or the skeleton of Caribert's mum was moved there after the Abyss sibling left?

my friend also mentioned that as soon as Dain wakes us up, he says we were dreaming of our "sibling" and allows us to rest more, meaning it's likely were in the dream even then. i liked the recap, especially since you add in relevant info that's not always easy to recall from older content. still have to personally rate the quest 1/10: not enough Dain

My eyes went wide when I recognized we were going towards the Chasm.

What I understand is that we do not know what happened to Caribert and Chlothar was able to break the curse some time later and achieved death. This means that some unknown amount of time after this event, the curse was some how broken by the Abyss. Because of how recent and intact this hut and area is, what I think is that Chlothar only achieved this feat very recently, e.g. within the lifetime of Kaeya. I believe that Caribert's curse was broken and he reverted back into a child in the last 20 years, becoming Kaeya. Seeing that breaking the curse was possible, Chlothar broke the curse on himself and left the world fulfilled, and left Kaeya with Diluc's father to live a peaceful life, or to further the plan of Loom of Fate. Loom of Fate could either be some "evil plan" as it sounds like, or a plan to counter fate and has achieved it's first success by reverting the curse of Khaenri'ah.

you are my favourite lore youtber and i love watching your videos because you provide so much context like the little info about the hidden message near knights headquarters, i really loved your vod for the archeon quest and watched it in full and i hope you will upload more of your future vods from twitch to youtube ❤❤

As someone who just finished the enkanomiya quest, this seems to have a suspicious amount of similarities… thinking about the 7 children…. There is also 7 archons…. What kind of correlation could this have? A thought crossed my mind…. Could the 7 archons be the reincarnations of the 7 children who were sacrificed?

I've got a crazy theory. What if... stay with me... Cryo Archon stands for LIFE. Kaya aquires his vision when he has to defend his life Qiqi gets life on death. Abyss is comming something atrocious is comming, that's why Tsaritsa gather's as much power as possible, Venti said that Archon's power is dependent on devotion of their followers and who has more fanatical followers than Cryo Archon? Kha'enria apears to have strong ties to the abyss they despise gods yet look for strength in something quasi divine. But abyss seems to be able only to corrupt, create anti-life. That's what ticks Tsaritsa life MUST prevail, that's why she in act of desperation reaches for dirty tricks like horryfying Doctors experiments (black goo maybe trying to find cure), dellusions and stealing Gnosis all in hope to save all life in Teyvat.

I don't think Kaeya is Caribert, but I do think that Caribert could be his father, or grandfather. Then it'd also make sense why their names resemble each other, if Kaeya was named after his ancestor

You just know there’s some juicy lore when daddy Dain is in the quest 😂

Correct me if I'm wrong but in the windblume of I think last year, it's revealed Kaeya knows atleast a bit of Hillichurl language as he was writing a "love letter" in Venti's class. Not gonna strongly hold this as evidence for the Kaeya is Caribert theory but was this ever explained or even just brought up ever again?

You're both very funny and enjoyable to listen to. You back up your theories very well as well... I really enjoy watching your content ❤

This was one of my favorite lore updates so far. It was really well done, creepy, sad, compelling loved it.

wow this whole version was so interesting, even the event. i’m also so intrigued about the hexenzirkel, can u pls do a video on it if possible?

this quest solidified my theory that the twins' places are interchangeable in the story not just from a gameplay point, but in the world of teyvat itself. I think at some point, we'll find ourselves on the side of the abyss after our twin has had their memory wiped and put back at the beginning of the story in mondstadt. perhaps this loop happened so many times that it's starting to break apart?

Recap b4 the new quest, thanks~ Man... this guy rly shows up once a yr, is the epitome of "why *didn't you tell me?- well you never asked", look pretty & disappears into the ether.

I can fully appreciate the story with your breakdowns thank you!!

I wonder how long Kaeya's lifespan is, considering he is halfblood human.

Juicy Lore summed up in one Leafy Video. Everything was brilliant! The choice of bg music, the editing, the graphic elements and ofc Minsleif's reactions to Dain 😹😹

Usually I’m pretty good with remembering and processing the lore, but in Caribert, I struggled A LOT. It went very fast, so thank you!

Love your content, thank you so much

I’m glad to know that you are a fellow lover of dainsleif. Also thank you so much for these videos it really helps with the amount of lore that is within this game. Hope we can one day be friends 🥰💙

Thank you for the recap !! it was great as usual !! too bad i can no more watch your streams !! work n stuff, i miss that a lot !!

I was sleeping when this was uploaded, but yay! I'm waiting for this! 🥰🥰🥰

thank you for this summary vid!

I was waiting for this

You know, as attached as Paimon is to the traveler, I always found weird how there's no sign nor mention of Paimon anywhere in the hangouts. Now that we see this Caribert quest is a memory from the sibling, what if hangouts are also...

And yes, HELPFUL from start to the end. Thank you for this. Been a fan for a long time. Thank you for helping us understand the lore and quest more. Glory to the Shogun! 🤭🤭👍🏻👍🏻

Dain very directly calls Kaeya "descendent of the Abyss Order's founder." So at present Kaeya being the progeny of Chlothar's siblings feels less likely. My guess is either Caribert or the "first son(going off Caribert being second)" which would be Chlothar's legitimate heir that he probably thought he lost. Chlothar doesn't seem like he would have had any extra kids after Caribert? He seemed to have loved Caribert and Caribert's mother enough that he was buried right next to her. So, leaving the possibility of Chlothar having more kids-post Caribert aside for now, that leaves Caribert himself and the potential legitimate Alberich that would assumedly still be a pure blood. Said legitimate Alberich could in theory have gone on to have kids leading to Kaeya, but this would mean either Kaeya's a pure blood, which he doesn't seem to be going off his eyes compared to others like Dain, Chlothar, Halfdan, etc. or Kaeya's mixed, which if the legit Alberich did have mixed kids down the line, I think they would most likely be afflicted with the curse and turned into Hilichurls without any currently known contact between them and the Abyss Order/Chlothar over the years? Chlothar himself is the one who found a way to die despite the curse of immortality, leaving your Twin to take the throne as Abyss Prince/Abyss Princess. This is a bit of a stretch, but I'd like to think Chlothar also found a way to make Caribert human again. Personally, at the moment, I think I subscribe to the thought that Kaeya is probably Caribert's descendent. If Kaeya is from Caribert's lineage and not actually Caribert himself, it's worth noting that Kaeya's eyes are a bit darker than Chlothar's, actually about the same color as Jean's and Barbara's, even. We know Caribert was born to Chlothar and a Mondstadt woman, so if said Mond woman was perhaps a Gunnhildr, that would explain both Kaeya's eyes having a smaller star compared to pure bloods, serving as proof he's mixed, as well as having similar eye colors to Jean and Barbara. This is purely speculation, of course, but it'd be hilariously on point if it was another hint Hoyo left in plain sight for years that wasn't relevant until something like a reveal of who the Mond woman Chlothar fell in love with was. Also, the Abyss Twin being called Prince or Princess of Khaenri'ah is it's own can of worms, since they were apparently royalty in Khaenri'ah and not just in the Abyss Order's hierarchy. Chlothar was apparently too low in status to ever interact with the Twin? It seems to suggest that Pierro, who lived with the Twin, was perhaps of much higher standing?

Thanks for the video ❤

I finally catch up with caribert, now I can watch this.

maybe that's why Sumeru is so huge because another Nation is literally under it

watching this before playing the srchin quest tonight

Imagine Kaeya is actually Caribert and over time he reverted back to human form and he wears the patch as a symbol of the mask his father told him not to take off…dang I’m reaching hard eh

Khaenri'ah, huh? You sure know a lot! The legacy of Khaenri'ah is long gone. The *sinners* are all that's left, and they're not worth mentioning.” It’s interesting that Kaeya has had this voiceline since the beginning of the game and we now know that the voice is the ‘great sinner.’ Kaeya definitely knows a lot more than he lets on. - he didn’t answer Paimon’s question if he was part of the abyss order, merely that it was too serious of a conversation. - even though it was said he didn’t know about his family’s origins, he didn’t seem that shocked about his family being founder’s of the abyss. - his voiceline about Fischl which has now changed from ‘future royal progeny’ to a ‘descendant of a *former* royal lineage.’ What’s interesting about that quote is that the Dyansty of the abyss order is still active with our sibling being the abyss prince/princess. So if Kaeya is referencing the abyss order that is not a former dynasty. The only former dynasty is the Eclipse Dynasty. Perhaps Kaeya is still related to the Eclipse Dynasty in a way we are still unaware of. This quest was very short but I felt like it was a solid foundation to establish how significant the Alberich’s are into finding more about the truth of this world and of Khaenri’ah. Overall I’m very excited to see how Kaeya’s story will go and also if we one day meet Kaeya’s father one day and if he will tell us more.

fantastic summery. Can you do one about the Eternal Oasis?

yay im so exited to watch this!!

Love how you pronounce the names and locations with the correct regional accent.

Not the step on me pls 😂 10:46 Ngl I think it is chlothar, I mean he found a way you help his child come to his senses but I’m not sure lol 12:47 I don’t think kaeya is carebear, we heard his dads voice during wind Blume his father’s voice is way different. 13:25 right after I said this too lmao 💀

Thank you so much for your videos. I often forgot wee bits of lore here and there, so I really appreciate all your theories and recaps

Forget about genshin lore, I'm in love with you minslief

1:39 Best part of the video is Minsleif's reaction to Dain 😹❤️🔥 too cute ANNND... QIQI being synonymous with DUMP 💀💩 too accurate.

What are your theories on Kaeya being the 'last hope' of Khaenriah

Oh my god, you even said Mondstadt correctly. My poor little German-speaking heart can't take this! You seem to really care about getting the pronunciation of foreign words and names correctly and I love that. Keep it up, Mins! Also, not the Dainsleif thirst 😭 I bet you chose Lumine at the start of the game because you like Dainslumi, I know what you are (just like me)

The voices of the 2 guys not matching could , I stress could , be due to the fact that the man we talk to in the quest sounds like he’s snapped quite a bit. I don’t advocate for one side or the other , just throwing out all the variables. Great video.

Finally found someone who knows everything......was so confused with this quest cause i couldn't play it in one shot. Thank you 🙏

thank you ma'am for this video

That artifact pose and their praying pose is similar to freemasons triangle symbols through they speak and send signals

gurl the "step on me" that's why I love you, cuz I thought the same lmao

i need this for every archon quest i forget so much with all the gaps in content

First thanks for your work I really appreciate i played the quest after i stop playing genshin impact for 6 months in fact after every archon quest thing got more complex and we already have complex in timeline something like we as travelers like put inside more circles of questions more than answers it's hoyoverse way to keep us waiting for next update i have theory in my own that the siner or the voice we heard in quest if something that live in kaneria and the reason that the heavenly principles order the seven to strike down kaneria something even den doesn't known about something have same original of the twin travelers

Kaeya must be a pure kaenriahn since he's not an hilichurl, so i think the "reborn caribert" theory is the most realistic and maybe that's why his eyes are different. not sure tho, i'm pretty curious about al of this can't wait for the next dain archon quest :))))

i love ur voice sm

Thank you so much for this

Your voice is as beautiful as always

Love the video!! Is there a way to watch VODs of older quests on twitch? By subscribing? And how far back does it go?

There's a theory that irmin is desheret, and now whenever I see the khenrian uniform crest it looks like desheret's insignia of a black star that has One eye in the middle. also the purple crystal from the priest's last story about desheret and rukkhadevata

A rather interesting detail that got skimmed over here was that the "Traveller" heard the crystal call themselves a Sinner and tells Eide as much when he starts worshipping them. Hes furious and shouts blasphemy to start, but after their dissapearance takes on that term like its even more proof of how different this being is from Teyvat's gods. Kaeya, who is descended from him but was seemingly quite young when his father separated him from whatever influence the Abyss Order had over their lives, distinctly uses the term sinners to refer to Khaenri'ahns in a way that may well be a left over from how he was raised - its been on my mind since the Caribert quest that for Kaeya to exist at all "Eide" must have had more kids after losing Caribert and going off the deep end, ans it seems likely that he had those kids with a purpose in mind. Im fairly certain that the Abyss Order includes a cult of the immortal pureblood Khaenri'ahns seeking revenge creating more generations among themselves, its kind of the only way i can imagine Kaeya existing with such a close connection to Kharnriah before leaving yet seemingly never having been near the country itself before. The sinner term could be a part of the lines of thought that have been developed by the cult over the centuries that was just an accepted thing to say around him as a child

3:42 i think dainsleif was addressing the sibling as we are dreaming of our syblings memory.

I was JUST looking for genshin theories and thinking "hmm when will the theory streamer upload".

chlothar's va was amazing

lord of the mysteries vibes...

lmao Minsleif continuously simping for Dainsleif is the highlight of the video.

I agree with your short sentence like "step on me pls"

So did we make a connection between abysmal energy and the gunk archons leave behind when they die? Because the sinner could just be personified wrath that came into consciences during the archon war.

I think The Sinner is God of Monster aka Ruler of Abyss and probably The darkness element archon . Maybe all the archon and heavenly principal sealed him since je became so powerful that they can't kill him .. Maybe he's controlling/ manipulating lumine because of her emotions towards kanrie'ah...and the operation of loom of fate might be a ritual to get him out of that seal.. idk .m story kinda messed up rn .

I feel bad for making kaeya fight the hillichurls during the daily commissions

why do i feel like the windblume event from before has connections with the third question in this video ("is kaeya caribert")? the event where kaeya had to write down a letter and that he wrote words that hilichurls use, "mi muhe ye" which venti mentioned that it means 'i love you', but it can also be conveyed as 'i triumph you' which also takes me back to the defiled statue of mondstadt. Do correct me if its unrelated but i wanted to make sure if it connects somehow with the third question as i am quite curious as well.

Ok here me out, how about, kaeya’s father is an older man and much more mature voice, probably after breaking the curse and aging normally. Around this time he also was able to relive his son caribert into a human, kaeya. And we don’t know exactly when the body was buried under the farm but it doesn’t take long for decomposed bodies to become nothing but bones. And this also would make sense that he sent kaeya to monstat because his mother was from the city of anemo. Another key is that kaeya was left in mond with albedo and his brother. Their creator is theorized to be part of the abyss order or at least helping them. That would make sense of the 2 creator ties to each other. And finally we don’t know what happened to cariberts mother, maybe she fled to mondstat, waited for her lover, and when he came with child kaeya they were almost to death so they returned to sumeru and died. I don’t know how cariberts mother survived and this last one is a far fetched one but I still think it’s a possibility. I’m you had albedos creator and cariberts father as alchemist.

Finished the Fontaine AQs and thought to review the previous ones to see how much good Fontaine’s really is. 9:12 nice one @min haha

What if Caribert is Kaeya’s dad 😬😬😬

can i just say that your OC is really pretty?

Step on me 😂 Idk if anyone has pointed this out yet but in JP and in CN too it seems (accdg to the wiki), dain is called "one who picks up branches" which makes the nuance somewhat different from keeper of the main branch of a tree. The EN is prolly translated that way for a reason but just thought to point this out so you can consider this information as well. Thanks for the entertaining summary! (*´▽`人)

Hi Minsleif! Or just anyone here. I’d like to ask if those khaenri’ahns who were born after the cataclysm like Kaeya (if not Caribert) are unaffected by the curse? Thanks!

That whole talk about the curse of halfblood and fullblood khaenri'ens made me wonder that maybe the reason khaenri'ha got destroyed is related to their Origins? We know that Khaenri'ens are different from people from the other nations and as said in the archon quest, all khaenri'ens descend from the same bloodline but who was it? Was it maybe one of the decenders? Another 'godly' being? Or maybe even from the dark entity that the traveler calls a "sinner"? This would also maybe explain why our sibling was the prince/princess or khaenri'ha. Maybe since khaenri'ens decended from a decender and our sibling is one as well they wanted to make them their leader which then maybe tied their fate to this world in some way???

I still have this question. This is the only thing that still bothers me is who was the traveling companion with Abyss sibling Chlothar saw with her/him in Traveler's memory?

Quick question: If kaeya is a mixed blood khaenri'an then why is he not affected by the curse? Is the whole bloodline not cursed?

i appreciate the effort you do for all of your community 🤍 amazing video queen!

this is unrelated but you're genuinely so pretty

I'm I the only who thinks the voice the Traveler hard was Pierro The Captain of the Fatui harbingers Idk but I keep thinking it was him

conclusion... kaeya is a hilichurl in disguise.

i think the people from the eclipse dynasty have a primogem and the people from the crimson moon dynasty have a cross like arlecchino because if everyone from khan ri ah no idea how to spell it, had a primogem would arle too unless it depends on which dynasty youre from

Maybe Dainsleif knows more than he leads on, which might be the reason why he says, "Defeat me, command me to step aside, show me that you are worthier than I to rescue her" in the storyline preview video

Can someone remind me what Kaeya said about his grandfather and a certain sword? A theory said that its traveler's sword

What's the piano song called at 9:03?

holy cow i was scared to death when i heard eide say his real surname was alberich

The thing that really puzzles me is why did the dark energy knock out the traveler but not Clothar? Also Clothar said that he is weaker after all these years of immortality, as if his "flesh was eroding from the inside" yet not only did he not get knocked out by the burst, but he also took the traveler back all the way to the house. In other instances, like the chasm, people without a vision had a hard time getting close to abyssal energy, while the traveler had no problem at all. Why was it the other way around this time? If we assume that Caribert died in that energy burst, it would mean that the dark energy doesn't stop people from dying. And if you rewatch that scene, Clothar is slightly closer to Caribert than the traveler. My guess is that the energy was transmitted to Clothar in that burst, which is why he didn't get knocked out, and why he could get the traveler back home, it is also why he could reweave his fate and die. I think the abyss order is trying to summon/recreate the voice and tap into that energy, which is why they keep doing weird shit like the defiled statue.

Lmaooo 9:10 step on me 😂😂😂

there are 2 questions in my head and I didnt find a good answer for...first, why was the traverler found unconscious although he was supposed to be asleep ? when did he wake up at the first place ? second is the sudden change in clothar attitude with the traveler after he woke up. He said he suspected the identity of the traveler so what made him sure ? and why hiding what happend to caribert ?

LISTEN!! If when we wake up and meet caliber .... we are in the "past memory" after we wake up he says "your companion left already" was that paimon in the past or Deinslief ????