Explaining Knowledge, Fate, and Time [Genshin Impact Lore And Theory] 

The fact that stories cant be destroyed by irminsul makes Venti even more sus seing as he is a Bard and his songs most likely Bypass the alteration of History.

In gnostic hymn, it mentins how the first heir 'forgot their noble lineage' While not literal, in terms of our story, we could call it a metaphor for the travellers. They are searching for a 'genesis pearl' (A secret from celestia, like the truth of the world maybe?). One twin forged their origins and is corruupted (cue the abyss and them being recorded in teyvat's history) Second twin continues where the first failed. We could even call this the 'fairytale' of the travellers, a record to keep events straight for venti to remember (He narrates the story)

During Zhongli's story quest, connects forgetting to the power of erosion and says something about "the erosion imposed on me by the Heavenly Principles." It seems to me that a lot of the Archons and their associates are aware that their memories aren't safe, and perhaps that statement was more literal and that the Heavenly Principles deletes/edits memories for whatever reason it/they deem necessary. Nahida could already have had her backup folder already because she was preparing for that, not for Wanderer or any other intrusion into Irminsul. After Zhongli's story quest, we see him encouraging Iron Tongue Tian to continue telling and retelling the stories, but before that he listened to them over and over again. Perhaps the transformation of fact into lore distorted by retellings by different people through generations is sufficient to preserve it from being completely forgotten, becoming instead a story seemingly about someone else except it might still stir familiarity on the subject of the "erosion" such that they remember some of it back. Zhongli's trying to stave off his erosion in his way. And obviously, Venti's a bard and "lies" and retells events into metaphorical lyrics. Maybe he's not trying to be secretive, maybe he's just making sure the story will be preserved even if he forgets what it's about. Meanwhile, Ei's closest friend encourages writing down stories, often highly dramatized. Eventually, even those stories could be adapted enough times to not be affected by any changes because people have changed them already. And yet, they'd still exist as a record. The Mocking of a Tenko even has lines about whether in the future fiction will be thought by scholars as history, or if the truth of the past will be consumed as entertainment. In any case, Nahida's not the only Archon who are personally archiving "stories" or have people near them doing it for them. Yae Miko's also in charge of their Sacred Sakura, so she really was assigned by the Electro Archon to protect memories and the publishing house could be her way of doing it. There's even a quest where the way to educate Ei is to have her read the light novels to get her back in the loop. Maybe they all believe or know Erosion isn't a natural process but something being done to them by Celestia and they're all trying to use the loophole. Maybe the reason they even go by so many different names is as a really bad safeguard against it, in case whoever's doing it slips up or doesn't care enough to delete every single name/identity used. In any case, I think these instances we've seen aren't the only times it's happened and maybe the Archons all know it. Hey maybe that yet to be seen scene of Dottore burning Irminsul is an attempt at forcing Celestia to restore from a backup, exposing where these backups might be.

THANK YOU ive seen so much misinformation regarding the consequences of Scaras actions online and im glad you explained stuff so well. His actions basically redacted his name throughout history he didn't change it which a lot of people don't seem to get

You are always one step ahead of me, so the moment I complete something, you are there to explain wtf just happened. You are our Seelie guide.

I agree, Ei/Makoto didn’t just replace stuff in history, they created something new which altered everything. Scara and Kusanali just did a “find-replace”. It’s why it can’t affect allegories and why it didn’t change events done by Rukkahdevata previous to Kusanali being born. Had they actually erased Rukka, the world might have ended when The Scarlet King got corrupted, or at least that corruption would still be active since no one would’ve dealt with it. All they did was replace Kusanali’s name with Rukka’s. They even forgot to take away the Lesser Lord. Has nobody questioned why they call their only archon Lesser Lord Kusanali? That’s the biggest sign that they didn’t alter everything, just names. They just happen to call her Lesser Lord for some weird reason that nobody has questioned. With Wanderer fate had to be more creative into filling in the blanks.

I'm still curious about some of Venti's interactions with the Traveler, especially the "Hello" voice line, because it implies that he remembers us but we don't.

What would happen if someone removed something extremely important like an entire nation or the concept of archons? How extreme would the change be or would the world bend fate to make the same events take place but slightly different.

Never fated to be together to begin with. Now that sentence is I can strongly attest. Unless you are an F2P Traveler, you can use your influence (aka real money) to make the character you pull much stronger (getting more constellation and higher personal weapon level). This is like what FGO means on getting the character: if they feel that you deserve their help, they will come to you no matter what happens and if not they will ignore your wish whatever you do.

I don't think the thing that Scaramouche said about our twin can be taken as a word to word to understand it , it's more complicated then it looks "She only came to this world because the heavens responded to the summoning" I don't think that the "heaven" mentioned here is doing the summoning (so they didn't take you 50/50 luck), a third party was doing a summoning to which the heavens (Celestia maybe) responded but we do not know whether it was positive or a negative response. It's just a thought but maybe, what if this summoning was "the Arrigation of mankind" that had the sustainer pissed off Also another off thing about this convo is that every time mentioning our twin he mentions her being alone and this isn't info from Irminsol so we cannot apply the Descender logic here. He got this info from The Jester, surely there should've been atleast one mention of us being with the sibling This just a hypothesis but what if our twin erased our info from Irminsul so that we get the immunity that Descenders get from being affected by the changes in time something that our twin doesn't have right now

Irminsul manipulation is shown to be flawed as well. The previous Dendro Archon had the wisdom to properly set up Nahida as a replacement not only as an Archon, but also in history, because the change was relatively simple: dying and reincarnating vs losing power and memories. The motivation by the scholars to lock up Nahida were still largely the same (unfit for duty), and the Archon's condition was technically a form of the truth, even if the exact circumstances were different. In contrast, the Balladeer haphazardly rushed into erasing his aliases. This caused inconsistencies regarding his existance, which is why the voice at the end of the latest quest (it sounded like the same as the Unknown God, though since the tones were completely different, I am still unsure) reacted to this change and not the last one. Paimon should have remembered breaking the vase, but since there was no knowledge to substitute circumstances of the event, Paimon forgot even that. There are sure to be more. Most Inazuman inhabitants of the Raiden Gokaden incident are dead, with only long-lived creatures such as Yae Miko still being around. However, Miko probably suspects whomever was blamed for the incident may have not been the culprit. The Balladeer's long work with the Fatui is sure to cause inconsistencies as well. A new Harbinger was not made up to take his place, and the other Harbingers are sure to grow suspicious about why one of their number is wholly unknown to them and the Tsaritsa. The Balladeer often worked alone, so there would be no partner to be rewritten as the one to have committed his deeds. All this to say, the Wanderer (I named him Sora) royally screwed up when he triggered whatever entity talked to us at the end of the quest.

About Istaroth and the Sacred Sakura Tree: I believe Makoto asked Istaroth to create a time loop, where the planting of the Sacred Sakura would be ensured (at one point, Ei would eventually come to her senses and find the seed within Makoto's consciousness, and that very seed would be planted in the past, becoming a force protecting Inazuma and buying time for Ei to come to her senses) For Makoto to pull this off, she needs two things: the power to traverse through time via going outside of it, and the knowledge about Ei's eventual development. The first one can be achieved by creating a realm outside of space and time (the Plane of Euthymia) and borrowing Istaroth's power over time. The second one, however, requires the knowledge about "fate". The fate that Ei will EVENTUALLY come to her senses. In this aspect, I think Istaroth's power can help her look throughout the entire fate of Teyvat provide Makoto the needed knowledge. And after all that, the time loop only intertwined with a small part of Teyvat's history, and not even a devastatingly affecting part either. It's just there, protecting Inazuma (which will still be done anyway with the work of the Electro Archon, whoever might be at that point) Its appearance is only known to a very limited number of individuals, and all of them are either directly involved or not even a part of Teyvat. So the entire being of the Sacred Sakura Tree can be seen as just a small attachment to Teyvat's fate, not a change of fate itself.

My only gripe is that there was such a lost opportunity for Ei and Scara to interact, and so many unanswered questions like according to the new timeline 'Who did Yae trade the gnosis with to save the traveler? and how did it get to Sumeru?' It couldn't be Signora because Raiden Shogun killed her before leaving Inazuma. I truly hope we get those answers in the future and flesh out Ei's and Scara's complex relation, instead of being like 'oops, she forgot about him so all is good'

I believe the existence of the plane of euthymia and Ei's stutue as an Archon, gives her some protection from alterations in irminsul and time. She created it as a means to find "Eternity" a realm beneath the illusion that can protect a being from Erosion. For she was the only one to remember a timeline were the Sacred Sakura didn't exist. Also the relationship between how electro interacts with dendro and hydro (Our next adventure) Ei believed this to be the end for her but recent events show that it was all necessary in order to create a world in which inazuma survived the catastrophe. I believe this statues of hers also plays a role for future events, if shes able to realize a role Scara plays and why she gave him freedom to find his own path and not follow her.

The ending got me laughing hard 😂😂😂 "the 3.3 quest archon...bleuh!" "The 3 point_...blah!" 🙌

An interesting note in the 3.3 story is that the traveler says something to the effect of "am I the record keeper?" After he realizes only he/she knows about great Lord rukkhadavatta and scaramouche changing history. This is interesting because I immediately remembered that dainsleif is called the "bough keeper". So the traveler realizing they may be a sort of record keeper could be connected to dainsleifs title. Just a thought.

I have always kept in mind Mona's monologue from this year's GAA event at the end of her domain. She talked about fate and how it could never be altered no matter what one did to change it. Things could be guided here and there to try to avert fate but overall the end result always ended up being the same. Like your example of the segmented line: you can put some gaps in but the line will still remain straight; perspectives will change to fill the narrative with the same end result. She lamented the burden of an astrologist in knowing someone's fate but being unable to change anything. She even brings up if someone were to go too deep into knowing more than you should that your power to see fate would be blocked or obscured (which is really interesting given the lore bombshell Nahida gives us about our sibling's fate at the end of 3.2's archon quest OR after experiencing the voice at the end of the 3.3 archon interlude quest, hmmm who is that, I wonder). But, I like how she, even knowing all this, still finds herself believing in miracles. Or at least hoping for one. I think this is a nice little foreshadowing moment Hoyoverse writers have tucked into the Genshin story. I think we have yet to see our "tiny miracle" happen but when it does, perhaps it does have something to do with the "loom of fate" operation with the abyss. We'll have to wait and see.

Regarding encoded information, I find it interesting how the only in-game reference to Istaroth's actual name is written backwards. Also, I'm not entirely sure what happened with Ei was distinct from what happened with Rukkhadevata in terms of power. Rukkhadevata was a deletion, the Sacred Sakura was an insertion, but both rippled backward in time. The Sacred Sakura was written into Irminsul as having always been there, which is why everyone believed it as such, but did not actually come into being until the Cataclysm, hence why Ei believed it to be new. It's unexplained why Ei was unaffected but my personal theory is that: because she is the one who planted it, and her planting of it was in her future, it would be a paradox for it to affect her the way it affected everyone else. Thus, I believe the Sacred Sakura to also be an instance of Alternative History. If you're wondering "well, how did things like the Shrine spring into existance spontaneously at the moment of its creation during the Cataclysm?" that's a great question, but then also consider how the Wanderer had entirely different clothing...that, too, spontaneously came into being to accomidate the revised history. Lastly, it's perhaps worth noting that history is "the study of past events," which implies our present-day perception. So, technically, isn't changing our present-day perception of the past, in fact, rewriting history? There's a lot of confusion over terminology and you've done some work here to try and differentiate, which is super helpful; that said, perhaps it'd be better to say "Alternative History" vs. "Altered Past"? (technically Altered History would also be valid here) I know this may seem nitpicky but maybe it's worth being on the same page regarding terminology because of how confusing this is for so many folks. Just a thought! It's how I've been explaining it to folks and it seems to have helped on my end.

Since it is about Knowledge, Fate and Time, I really wonder the same thing to their sibling. I would though that someone who we will meet in the future altered the memories he has been with when he/she is in the 7 nations Teyvat, and so made them believed to have sided with the abyss, but it might be inaccurate, since only Nahida told the traveller the information about them (Venti for dodging it, Zhongli for not telling them because it’s part of the contract *which is suspicious asf*, and Ei was busy grieving for the death of her sister *it’s after the destruction happened*). EDIT: I also theorized that our sibling was the 3rd descender but someone altered their fate and memories, which could be the reason why the 3rd descender’s name is unknown/vacant (?)

Thank you a lot for these videos. I'm drowning in schoolwork really stressed but it's always nice to have a super chill video to listen to in the background while reading more old crusty research papers on econ and law.

After watching the Interlude quest, plus the parent game/story HI3 recent chapter 33, the implications are much more terrifying. The traveller's role in helping Nahida back up Scaramouche's true memories is akin to Project Ember; to preserve true knowledge to be passed on/make use in the future. Scaramouche erasing himself from the Irminsul and reborn as the clueless, innocent Wanderer is akin to Fenghuang Down.

I agree, Scaramouche only changed the memories and the perception of what happened, just like what happened to Rukkhadevata. The thing is HOW he managed to know that? I was thinking about the change of his outfit too, but I think that was just symbolic, to make him look like a "different person". And about the twins summoning... Scaramouche and Jester are not ones to trust so there is a 50/50 (haha) possibility of what they are saying is truth... we will only know when fontaine comes, probably.

"Lost 50/50 and a kidney" I felt that

I love knowledge SUIIIIII

so does this mean scara is still made by raiden even if she doesn’t know it? he has the little electro symbol on the back of his neck, how does he think he was made when he was the wanderer?

I feel like there has possibly been a great erasure that needs to be addressed: The archon's identities... This one is a bit fishy, but hear me out here. Venti goes by the name of... Venti. So far, so good, okay. This is his bard name, his "mortal" name. The character he uses to tell tales about Barbatos, however... The tales he tells, are often different from what the masses believe to be the truth, leading to trouble. In other words, he created those songs so the knowledge would not be lost and he could sing of his past deeds to the people. Then, we have Zhongli: talks about erosion and how it impacts him and his memory. What does he do? Spends a good bit of his time listening to stories about himself to attempt to regain lost knowledge, all despite his remaining treasure trove of knowledge regarding everything else being intact. Then, we have Ei. We know Inazuma didn't know their archon was being played by two twin sisters, so this could be Hoyo using it as an excuse for them not knowing who her sister was. In their mind, Ei was always the archon, very similarly to what happened with Nahida. But to make matters worse, she had to effectively delete her predecessor's identity herself... How is this relevant? Well, it was what was effectively poisoning Irminsul due to Forbidden Knowledge... Going back to Ei real quick, she likely remembers her sister due to having her consciousness stuck outside of time (same reason why she remembers the Sakura tree not being there before). What if the contract Zhongli mentioned at the end of his act was to have the archons forget all about what they saw in the Cataclysm and their divine identities, because what they saw could be considered Forbidden Knowledge? It would explain a lot of random things that until now felt like they were unused Chekhov's guns and feels like it would justify Venti's/Zhongli's decisions to step down. If we then look at the remaining archons, both the Hydro and Cryo ones are not the originals, meaning that while having their identity forgotten, their motive to be one of the Seven would be missing the initial drive (if their birth is similar to Nahida's), and it would explain their opposition to the concepts of the Divine. The Hydro archon wants to judge the others (likely for supporting what happened during the Cataclysm), not knowing the danger of the situation, while the Tsaritsa only remembers the bitterness she felt by the situation, seeing no reason to trust in the Divine. This theory needs a lot more to back it up, namely to know what Murata will tell us, but how a lot of it lines up is interesting to me. Edit: Just remembered something else that would relate how this could have affected the Tsaritsa: Her act's line in the Teyvat story trailer, "She is a god with no love left for her people, nor do they have any left for her.". Why would a god randomly lose her love for her own people, after seeing a superior entity effectively eradicate another civilization? Why would her people do that as well? Maybe, because all that was related to that personality, that part of her, was merely knowledge, now lost to time.

I swear it fuckes me so up when someone insited that the timeline has changed

Eyyy new lore just dropped

Does anyone remember in Lisa story quest thing, when we took back the book from the abyss mage and the abyss was stunned when we didn’t know what the book was truly about. I fear that this book just like scaras fairy tale has a forbidden or forgotten history

Hold up since you mentioned that anything said by anyone is recorded in irminsul than maybe Nahida could tell us about the archon war the Fatui and the abyss orders plans without us going to the other nations therefore the story could end in Sumeru and we could just focus on finding our sister and yeeting ourselves out of teyvat

This was a great video. Please keep making more! You help me understand this story better.

Salamat Ate Aster! Galing niyo talaga!

1:46 With the codes and cyphers being a possible potential maybe way of bypassing Irminsul edits...Remember how in Dragonspine and near Devantaka mountain there are those broken ruin machines that give you messages that need to be run through at least two layers of decoding? Possibly meaning that Khaenri'ah was onto the Irminsul edit powers and took measures to save info like that?

This is basically the same as ''if the forest burn but no body sees it, was there really a fire?" kind of paradox

Excellent video! This is a good basis for further analysis

You did wonderful job on explaining what happened

I’ve been thinking about venti ever since nahida explained how she kept the truth from being erased. Indirect info like metaphors and fairytales are safe. Venti’s whole shtik is he uses poems and songs to record history 🫢 curious to see if we will get an explanation in his 2nd story quest

When traveler entered irminsul i really thought damn nahida gave us access to her google drive

Soooo good to open YT before you sleep and find you’ve posted a vid. Nothing finishes a day like a good story to make your brain go off thinking about some weird stuff and falling asleep to it 😁😁😁

the thing i noticed about this is it doesnt change past and present, but it changes the future. all what scara did cant be undone, but things that were going to be done to him, say the fatui searching for him, is no more going to happen

I doubt Makoto/Ei and Nahida/Scaramouche were changing the past by using different processes. Surely there's just one way to do it and the rules of how it works out ought to be the same. But even if you ignore the Sakura tree, we have examples of physical objects changed by Irminsul. It's not just changing perspectives or memories but actual reality. The vase remains broken but Paimon didn't break it. In this reality a cat or a bird broke the vase. The past changed. Scaramouche didn't fail to change the past. He failed to change the part of the past he wanted to change.

Love the intro!

Basically the Irminsul is unable to change the past since Scaramouche still exists and event that has happened can't be unchanged. The Irminsul simply changes all Teyvatian perceptions and knowledges of past events such as Rukkhadevata removes the concept of herself and replaced as Kusanali, and Scaramouche wiping out the Raiden Gokaden but replaced as a blacksmith with a grudge. In the end of the interlude quest, the voice tells the Traveler to always believe on what they see with their own eyes since people's heart are simply illusions and can be changed by Irminsul and it cannot change real events.

In the end it all leads back to venti. He's mentioned before that his ballads are just stories waiting to be told, and even compares them to kusanalis wisdom. Makes sense he would use their vague implications to record the actual truth

GIGA BRAIN GIGA BRAIN how do you form words, ive been trying to say this in my own terms but never could and here you are!!! no but seriously the concept of how you can change memory and time in different ways yet still manage to parallel each other is super interesting and im glad genshin is dipping its toes into this concept. i love time/memory fuckery :DDD

My only real hope is that Irminsul doesn't turn into a plot device akin to the dragonballs in dragonball to just make stuff happen and revert things Also more lore like this does kinda make me wish a quest replay feature was in place so I can refresh myself on past events and more easily connect dots (yeah I can listen to the dialouge but that's less immersive) without starting a new account lol

Since the traveller is not part teyvat's history which means he will be forgotten as years goes by😭 But remember Venti makes poem and songs that cannot be erased by irminsul😎

Ok exactly. This is what I realised too. But many of my friends thought things actually changed... Altered history.

The way you spoke hilichurlian at the end of the video lmaooo

Scaramouche didn’t know about the incident in Inazuma. He also misunderstood what he got from the Traveler

pretty intro, aster!!!!! 🤍

unless paimons faking forgetting greater lord rukkedevata, this proves that she isn’t the heavenly principals because the heavenly principals are a descender and therefore paimon on would remember but as evidenced by her forgetting scara and rukkedevaata she must be if tevyat and not a descender

It’s so genius to me that Genshin’s lore is so thorough it even spans into metaphysical aspects of the game. I had a recent theory about the false sky, trying to understand how the sky can be fake but the stars can be read accurately by astrologers. But it occurred to me that each character has their own constellation to unlock skills and it made me wonder if this was the false sky, that mechanic. The fact that its fake in a meta sense, but still accurate within game. I didn’t give the theory any weight because I was certain genshins creators wouldn’t go for a metaphysical angle with the story, but after hearing you talk about the intertwined fates I’m starting to wonder if that really is their intention.

I think that irminsul does have the power to change reality (in specific, the *cause* part of causality) and that the constellations you mentioned as a seperate entity are just a projection of irminsul that show the prediction and pre-laid path created from it. I agree that there is "no more than timeline" simply because we are experiencing everything from the eyes of someone who is unaffected by *this* world's changes in time (at least as of now). I think you might've misunderstood why encoding into a fictional tale worked (used for a book the abyss order wanted too, if I recall correctly it was in Lisa's quest), it's not because of the encoding process itself (Nahida could've used a simple cypher instead if that were the case) but the fact that the encoding method masked it as some sort of data that held a value of it's own that still resonated with the continuity of reality, if someone is higly likely to mistake that for something else but still can understand and witness it then the system which rewrites (or rather, maintains) reality won't see the need to change it. I agree that Scaramouche killed the raiden gukaden but it is true that the mad swordsman also did. I have to disagree on how you pose the effects of changing irminsul's information work, especially with the vase section (and it's use as evidence to support that view), from which, together with the the dialogue of the unnamed individual, we can understand that while it is possible to actually change to *causes* of events, yet the effects are much harder to change and only a god might have a slim chance. Adding on that, it tells us to trust in our eyes and traveller thinks to trust in their memories, I belive it is a simple reminder that the traveller does not need to think of the existance of multiple timelines since they are experiencing the only one that actually exist and that their time is true even if the ones affected by time should think with the mental model of non-linear time.

Have you made a video mentioning the Traveler's ability to empower others? The way Venti talks about ascension got me thinking...

Plot Twist: Travellers sibling and the Abbys has been tampering Irminsul trying to avoid the doomsday of the whole Teyvat. _That's probably why the Abbys and the sibling has been fighting against Destiny (which is also, probably one of the Descenders)

really nice take 🍡

I love the new intro

8:51 soo much truth in that one sentence 😂

I would like to know what the other translations Scara says about this summoning. In EN: "The only reason [they are] in this world is that the heavens responded to the summoning" I don't see enough evidence that the sibling was the target of this summoning just yet and HoYo LOVES to make us think one thing and later we find out we were wrong. (Example; Ei confirms it's NOT archons handing out visions - and to this day people still insist that is the case)

One great example for Altered History would be Fire Emblem Awakening. One of the leads, Lucina, traveled back in time to challenge fate and save her father. Then there is a DLC where first generation units travel to the ruin future Lucina came from, and to aid their children on defeating Grima.

The fairytale reminds me of the moles code of the ruin guard in dragonspine.

That intro jumpscared me in a good way

wait I just thought of this, what if the book from Lisa's story Quest was written like a fairy tale to avoid getting changed after irmansul was altered like the book nahida made about Scaramouche? this has probably been thought of before but I just wanted to put it out there lmao

I wouldn't say he failed. He successfully removed himself as the person who caused the tragedy. No he didn't stop any tragedy or atrocity he caused, but now the world won't remember him as the cause. He also successfully quit the fatui by never having joined them.

I love this omggg finally

"Encoding information", like a song or a poem?

New intro nice. 👍

The lore legit went Grand Order/JoJo on us. Historical Events happening as intended - "Do you believe in Gravity? Do you believe that there's a reason *why you met me of all people*?" Though this also applies in both JoJo and Nasuverse. Wishes - moreso the lore implications simialr to that of FGO's. It also kind of brings to me the other worlds: Who became the traveller? Who became the abyssal twin?

In Sumeru Akademiya, there is a secret section in the library named after Aster.

I just thought of something- you know the ruin guards? Specifically the ones in dragonspine. They have different messages in a weird sort of script. What it they are trying to convey a message that was erased in people’s cognition?

Yup, this is pretty accurate!

im seriously still intrigued about that someone who obfuscated abyss sibling's fate.

Aster be explaining Jojo villain’s stand powers in this video

Now I really wander about the book in Lisas quest. Where did Lisa get it from and what is the secret the abyss mage said it holds?

Alrite time to listen b4 i sleep

I'm really confused as to why people didn't pick up on this earlier. Even back when the greater lord got erased I thought I was made decently Clear that that these were just re writing people's memories not the actual facts

To anyone who's still confused with the archon quest just imagine that the whole teyvat is following a single storyline, so no matter what happened nothing will change its fate (it is what it is / predestined). Although according to deinsleif the traveller can possibly change teyvat's fate based on the travail trailer ("reweave fate" = change the storyline). So even though scara and nahida erase some of teyvat's history the whole storyline will just adjust but with the same outcome as before.

If we go with the wishing system....after failing to tie fate, there's a guarantee of meeting them, however long it may take. Similarly for weapons. If we fail, we still meet with an alternate character and then will meet with the desired character.

COOL INTROOOOO

In other words it works like a literal eraser on a paper, you can try to erase a bad drawing but no matter how hard you try there will be its stains on that paper or eraser itself.

Getting to TES's dragonbreak levels of lore here...

i think he just erased everyones memories from irminsul and irminsul just peiced things together because it forgot scara.

5:49 This kinda reminds me of a theory I had about 5-stars and 4-stars and how the difference between the two is that 4-stars are more likely to continue with traveler on their journey, making them require less primogems/easier to connect fate with than 5-stars. It was a thought I only had for a few hours before just putting it in the back of my head because while it makes sense for most characters, some characters it may be harder to justify. Like ningguang and kaeya have duties to the citizens of their nations but they're 4-stars, while Klee and Kazuha are two people that tend to go exploring often but are 5-stars. There is reasoning to justify why they may still be more or less willing to join the traveler on their journey, but it might be harder to agree with 💀💀

The pale princess is probably a metaphor to get past the censorship

i wonder what happens to information scaramouche got when he touches Leonard's Constellation way back Unreconciled Stars.

I think it's really interesting that even Nahida didn't actually change history. Rukhadevatta might be deleted from everyone's memory, but everything she did still happened. Makes it seem like even the Archons can't fully change history

I'm going to be honest, at first I was very apprehensive about the ending of Scara's quest, but if the Genshin Impact team have even a fraction of your ability to lay out and explore the concepts of the story, I think I'll give it some, ehe, time to see how this ends up.

Can’t believe they made pulling in game characters cannon and consistent with in game story I’m flabbergasted

The ideas presented in this video has me pondering on the possibility that the stories of the three moon sisters, the princess and the pigmees, and the Gnostic chorus are all encoded allegories meant to hold a forgotten truth.

Tavat is world like sword art online

Just realized the tree in domain's are a tiny irminsul lol

Thats is a much better explanation than the traveler wan weild the memories of their power

If fairytales are used to secretly record history like how Nahida did about Scaramouche then maybe the tale about the heirs could be a way for someone like Venti to record the history about Lumine and Aether so far?

So in short, despite scaramouches efforts to erase himself, everything still technically happened the way we've come to know it. It's just everyone's perception and recollection of those events that have been altered. The events revolving around scaramouche still happened but the records of him specifically are missing. It's like handing in a test paper without a name attached to it. He still did the test but no one remembers who did it.

oh my god gacha is part of story and winning/losing 50/50 was destiny all along

Wish. We had a eit d scara reunion 😭

How you do your explanation is good and easy to follow. Any tips on how you do it?

I was very hooked up to the end of this lore theory until the outro was.... uhmmmmm... that was cute. 🤣🤣

Sumeru really vie us BIG BRAIN LORE GAMECHANGING EXPANSION!!!