How Strong Are The Archons? [Genshin Impact Lore and Theory] 

aether an archon aswell? he also has no sis

Imagining the Venti cutting down entire mountains and dumping the remains into the ocean like fruit peels is both Epic and Funny.

Venti will play a big role in the end of the story. 100%

The day the Archons get Skins of their original appearances will be the day many players go bankrupt.

Even though Zhongli doesn't show the ability to create domains himself, the adepti have shown thier ability to create them. Ping even gives us one. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say that the prime of the adepti also can make these spaces.

Something that never sat right with me is how Venti says that the strength of an archons power comes from being present in the nation and because he is rarely present in Mondstat, he is the weakest archon, but he’s literally like the ONLY person who said that. Nahida says that the strength of an archon’s power comes from how much they’re worshipped (therefore, she’s not the strongest) and if that’s the case, Venti would definitely be incredibly powerful considering there’s a whole CHURCH devoted to him (something we haven’t seen in other nations yet).

I would like to say a few more things on Zhongli’s end 1. Zhongli as a god is a great master of Geo. Not only did he create enormous Geo Spears bigger than mountains to seal Osial and many other gods, he also allegedly created many Geo Creatures. Among them are huge stone kites in the shape of birds that flew high and crashed down to seal or kill gods. He also created a huge Geo Whale to combat a Leviathan called the Baqiu. And in other cutscenes, he is shown with two big Geo hands beneath him. And apparently, he made small Geo cages to seal away small creepy creatures that infested Liyue Harbor, and are also the reason why he hates sea food. 2. Zhongli is not only the god of Geo, but the Prime Adeptus, or in other translations, “The Progenitor Of The Adepti”. As the Prime Adeptus, he is a master of all types of Adepti Arts. Madame Ping even says that he teaches and gifts many Adepti arts to other Adepti. Though he doesn’t show it, he still performed a few Adepti arts even as a mortal. Some of his Adepti Arts include the ability to make a Divine Prediction to guide Liyue in the future, he can see and walk into people’s dreams and converse with them, he can give eyes to blind dragons, can shape shift to and from a dragon, a human and to a mix of Liyue’s oldest creatures. And Madame Ping says that Sub-Space Creation, the ability to create pocket realms, is also a gift from him to the Adepti. And even the Adepti say that this ability isn’t anything to boast about and is child’s play to them. And those are just some of the Adepti Arts he can do. I’m sure he taught the Adepti other arts, like Xiao’s ability to summon someone’s spirit from their sleep. 3. I know you kinda covered Zhongli’s strength, but i wanna point out a few more things. According to Madame Ping, Zhongli once lifted and moved entire mountains and seas. And Ping and the other Adepti call that a demonstration of true power, which is superior to Sub-Space Creation. And in the lore of Aerosiderite, he fought an Abyssal Leviathan, and killed it. And this was a feat thought to be impossible for other gods that came from the same origins as Zhongli. And the lore continues to say that only power beyond Teyvat can stain the power of Rex Lapis. P.S: I know some of y’all might think some of these types of informations could be another case of Liyue overhyping Rex Lapis’ feats, but these pieces of lore make no mention of people talking about it. It’s factual lore made by the Mihoyo themselves. They aren’t those made up or overhyped stories specifically told by storytellers in the game.

I personally think Pantalone is more powerful than any archon, because he can simply swipe and get all the 7 gods C6 r5 in his account....

I want to see Venti using his archon powers in game SO BAD

UPD: Venti's power is also connected with memories (He demonstrated this in a relatively recent Mondstadt's event in 3.1), Perhaps he can erase memories, because "Stanley" does not remember who Venti is (maybe alcohol also affected, but in any case, what can be granted can be also taken away) As a bonus: Even though Venti got caught stealing food at the dawn winery, none of the NPCs talks about it, not even Diluс

I'm wondering if Venti's fixing of the lyre was really a temperary time manipulation technique where he rewound the lyre's time to it's older form. Also he could still be awake because he wants to watch the Traveler

Zhongli has shown teleportation feats, like when he rescued Xiao from falling in the chasm.

Zhongli is also capable of giving dreams and visions (not the elemental one). He said it in his archon quest. He used it to inform the adepti that he is alive.

timestamps cuz timestamps 1:20 What is classified as an Archon? 3:08 The Archons' constant set of abilities from a first impression 5:17 The Gnosis 6:28 Barbatos 9:00 Morax 10:58 Beelzebul 12:17 Buer 13:58 Conclusion

In Fontaine we may get to see some of Celestia’s power. They are hovering over Fontaine currently and something I noticed in the Travail trailer is that the structure behind the Fontaine characters shown kinda looks like a Celestial Nail. It even has a similar light around it like we see in game

With regards to domain expansion, I believe Madam Ping mensioned on the quest "A Teapot to Call Home"(Serenitea Pot) that her power of making pocket dimension was nothing compared to Zhongli. Hinting that all illuminated beast (not sure if Yakshas has the same ability) has an innate ability for sub-space creation.

Minor things not noted. Venti displays teleportation in the prologue act 1 Zhongli taught the adepti sub space creation according to Madame Ping Ei is capable of sealing techniques as she sealed both Orobashi and Kapatcir’s remains

Venti very much feels like Lisa in the lore - a character more powerful than they let on who also conserve their power in anticipation for something ominous that only they know about.

Raiden seems to be able to control weather patterns and forcibly make inazuma completely isolated from the outside. The ocean fog, thunderstorms, the waves, things only beidous ship with beidous expertise can get by. Very powerful!

I find it interesting that Venti is able to bring back the winds of the past to show people their pasts. If not their pasts in a picture form, the sounds and scents associated with said memories

Can we talk about how Morax probably can still create mora? I mean, when Liyue was founded 3700 years ago he showed people how to built houses WITH mora. And the Archon War ended 2000 years ago. I prefer to think that he just decided not to produce it so that he could happily continue playing human

A common misconception people make is that gnosis *only* allow archons to resonate with celestia and gain niche side abilities. The reality is, a gnosis is a very massive source of power, and isn't something that should be underestimated in that regard: Venti got a gnosis and went from a small wind spirit into a mountain destroying god despite originally not having many followers Venti calls a gnosis an internal magical foci in contrast to a vision being an external one, implying that the only main difference between the two is that the former is internal and can resonate with celestia. Considering visions offer massive amounts of power to those who receive them, suffice to say that a gnosis would as well. Zhongli's voicelines indicate a loss of power after losing a gnosis Zhongli kept the gnosis so that he could return Liyue back to normal should the osial issue get out of hand Zhongli's character stories calls the gnosis the divine ability to defend your respective nation Ei was going to use the gnosis as a power source for the raiden shogun Scaramouche literally used the gnosis to change the weather The gnosis is used to provide Scaramouche the power of an archon, as was literally the plan of the sages as they believed Nahida lacked the raw power of an archon and they were aiming to replace her with Scaramouche The power of two gnosis were used to enter the greater lord's consciousness. Nahida's character stories say that a gnosis can be used to accumulate a mass of elemental energy at one's discretion. As for the feats of the archons: *Venti* Venti is the most straight-forwards one. He started off as a small wind spirit without a hint of divine ingenuity(character stories), then got boosted by the prayers of a small rebel group allowing him to make a small shelter from andrius' storm(biography of gunhildr). After decarabian's downfall, he gains a gnosis and is able to split and throw mountains, creating the GAA, musk reef, and remove all of the ice and snow surrounding mondstat, all with a single divine wind. The rest of his abilities are sort of vague, as he's able to do some weird things with fake stanley and temporarily fix the lyre. He's also capable of buffing allies, as seen with dvalin and vanessa. He hasn't been fully fleshed out in this regard, though. *Morax* Also pretty straight-forwards. He constructed mountain sized spears from the earth and threw them. He also made animals out of the earth and taught the adepti how to use sub-space creation. He pinned down osial with a single spear(vortex vanquisher and roald's diary) with osial being strong enough to make waves as tall as mountains. He beat baqiu with his geo whale and geo kite with baqiu being said to be unparalleled among sea monsters. He also beat the Chi, though the Chi doesn't have much information about how strong it was According to madame ping and various other NPCs who I can't be bothered to look up the names for, he moved mountains and seas and raised various parts of liyue up from the depths. He did this prior to gaining a gnosis, and after gaining a gnosis, was capable of beating and sealing Azhdaha(subconsciously holding back), dragging him across the chasm all the way to the tree that he's sealed at now. He also sports petrification abilities with his meteors, and sealing abilities. That's about it for him. *Raiden* Many people focus on her orobashi feat where she cut yashiori island in half while running her blade through orobashi. However, there's a more hidden feat that people often overlook--her killing of the thunderbird. To preface, the remnant of the thunderbird's power is the thunder manifestation which was sealed by Ei after it was killed. According to neko(neko is a cat questline), ako domeki and mittoboru(GAA event/echoing conches), when hibiki unsealed the thunder manifestation in order to help domeki fight off the attacking shogunate fleets, upon spawning, it unleashed a shockwave that not only destroyed both domeki's and the shogunate's fleets(hamayumi weapon description), but also created a storm that fragmented seirai island, giving it the geography you see it have today(1.6 special program). There are at least two different thunder manifestations that the traveler fights in seirai stormchasers and in the tsurumi island quest. A single thunder manifestation was capable of fragmenting seirai island. In other words, a fraction of a fraction of the thunderbird's power fragmented seirai island, and Ei is shown one-shotting the full thing in her story teaser. Needless to say, this far eclipses the splitting of yashiori island. As for her abilities, she can control lightning and thunderstorms anywhere on earth(shogun voicelines), can create electro clones capable of exploding, can swing her sword so fast that it appears that time is stopped, can create portals to teleport, can move so fast that she appears to go invisible, can cut through space ignoring shielding and character resistances(shogun boss fight), and can bring you into the plane of euthymia, turning a physical battle into one of willpower, which in teyvat, the shogun is 2nd to none in(inazuma archon quest+raiden shogun 2nd story quest). Furthermore, due to both the shogun and Ei having a consciousness, both of them are capable of appearing in a realm of consciousness at the same time. Imagine being ganged up on by not one, but two raidens in the middle of a fight. To top this all off, all of this was without her using a gnosis, and without her gaining any boosts from faith due to her sister makoto being the face of the electro archon and handling public matters. Until recently, she didn't even fully awaken the musou isshin, and didn't even have the musou isshin during the archon war. Ei has only gotten much stronger since her notable feats now that she is the true electro archon, and has unlocked the potential of the musou isshin. Finally, Ei's puppet creation feat also goes unnoticed. Ei stumbled across some mysterious khaenriah technology and proceeded to build scaramouche as proof of concept in what would be well under a hundred years(only got the techniques after the cataclysm 500 years ago and scaramouche was already in tatarasuna 400 years ago and was wandering around for some time even before then. She proceeds to make countless more attempts and considering that she is done by present day, each attempt couldn't have taken too much time). In contrast, Dottore, our model super-genius, needed several decades of studying an already finished product in the form of scaramouche before he could go on to even begin making his segments(Wanderer's character stories). After Nahida makes him delete his other segments, Dottore remarks about how they are incredibly difficult to make, time consuming and resource heavy. In contrast, Ei says in her voicelines that we shouldn't hesitate to send the shogun into battle as even if she is destroyed, she can simply make another shogun. A very laissez faire and unbothered approach to the idea of her puppet being destroyed. Put simply, Ei is actually highly intelligent and sports a feat of intelligence that rivals the doctor himself. It only seems otherwise because she was isolated from the outside word for 500 years. A lack of knowledge is not tantamount of a lack of intelligence, which many people often conflate. *Nahida* The video basically named every single one of her feats. She can appear in dreams, can give dreams, can put people in samsaras, can create large scale mirages, can telepathically talk to you and hear your thoughts, and can even place you under a dream where you fight enemies from your memories(sumeru interlude quest). These enemies are just a strong as the real thing seeing as the traveler, post shoki no kami fight + with the experience boost given to them from nahida, still wasn't able to simply bulldoze the dream version of the shoki no kami and would have even died to the laser that the Wanderer blocked(travel log archives) While she lacks much in the way of raw power, her wisdom and abilities are nothing to scoff at. She's capable of things far beyond any of our imaginations according to Ei. Mind manipulation is a scary power. She also, of course, has access to irminsul, allowing her to sift through and delete information from all of teyvat's timeline at will. As shown with scaramouche during the sumeru interlude, doing this to a person causes even the person themselves to forget who they used to be. Pretty powerful stuff. These are all the feats I know of coupled with what was said in the video. Anyone can feel free to mention more if I didn't mention them, though I'm mainly focusing on things that we *know* the 4 archons can do, not speculation.

Isn't Zhongli's burst a way of opening a dominion in the sky to pull and throw a meteor in the enemies? 🤔

Each archon is unparalleled where they prevail.

Oh nice to see someone does think Venti is sussy. I long suspected him since I completed Liyue archon quest and further feel he is not so simple after Inazuma’s. I have a feeling he is one of they key to unlocking Celestia’s story. There is also a theory that Zhongli is one of the descenders. His story in the game didn’t change after Irminsul’s memories were. Not so sure if it’s a dev oversight or the devs are planting hints as usual.

I find jarring the fact of omitting the wall of Samiel, even if it wasn't made by Nahida, that level of plant manipulation is technically in her toolkit, considering Nahida is a byproduct of Rukkhadevata. Which would mean that every archon has some sort of terraforming capability.

A great comparison I like to connect to the concept of archons is the chinese religion/mythology of Daoism. Daoism is the most popular religion in China, but it is very much different from other religions: most of its relevancy and main sources are told in folklore and stories, and its main message is that "Anyone can become a god, mortal or immortal." Immortals and Mortals are also divided into two realms but both interact frequently, although still in folklore. In conclusion, you could call it as more of a mythology than a religion, but its relevancy in China and even most of Asia makes it possible to connect directly with Genshin. In some of the stories, Daoism even uses gods from other religions entirely, such as the appearances of Buddha in Journey to the West! tbf i couldve just summarized the entirety of liyue and its adepti with this but the stories of daoism were my entire childhood foiesjfaoifejaifo

An interesting topic to explore would be, what makes you a god? example: Scaramouche and Orobashi. It's said in the game that the people before Watatsumi asked Orobashi to be their god, and scaramouche is an artificial god but it's still a god since the boss description says so. So I think it's a pretty cool topic to have a discussion.

Zhongli rescued Xiao in Yaelan's story quest when he used all his power to take us out of the realm. He felt the events that were going on into the Chasm and literally from all the realms he found the one and rescued Xiao at will when his Yaksha was in danger. #ZhongliProtects As a main Zhongli I'm about to cry :(

Buer is one hell of a threat if she's given full access to Rukkha's memory and skills, she's basically a genjutsu master if we were to put it in Naruto terms, fooling even other gods (Scara's robot) multiple times over, and that's only after she's broken free from 500 years of imprisonment, prime time Rukkha could be even more dangerous

About the domain expansion thing the Serenitea Pot that Madame Ping gave us was taught to all the adepti by Zhongli

Morax is confirmed to create subspace, as he was the one who taught the adepti how to produce their domains. The teapot we use is an Adeptal art that Morax invented. Also, Ei has the ability to control weather

I seriously think Morax has the weirdest set of Powers, like some stuff he's done doesn't really relate to him being a Geo User at all. Morax could rip out the souls of the deceased and seal them (The Chi Lore), Is capable of Spatial Manipulation & Sub-space Creation and is the creator of Adeptal Arts (Serenitea Pot is one of his creations and the Domain where we fought Azhdaha was apparently a Domain he created to seal him beneath the earth), is capable of Shapeshifting and he could enter people's Dreams and give visions to them (Dream Trawler) as Zhongli, he was able to save Xiao from the Chasmic Maze where Time and Space is distorted during Perilous Trail, Morax having such an impeccable memory to the point that he still remembers Rukkhadevata despite her being deleted by the Irminsul Wipe, and lastly Morax's power was described as something that 'surpasses this world' in one of the Genshin Loading Screens "The stony halls of The Chasm's depths are the battleground for two powers that surpass this world..." the Two Powers described in the text probably refers to Morax and Azhdaha since they're the only ones we know that fought at the Chasm which were proven because it led to the existence of the Dragonfall Ores.

Zhongli did not have the gnosis yet when he first created Mora in Liyue Harbor. The archon war in Liyue was not won just yet since Havria was still killed by some other god and her ppl had to flee to Liyue harbor. Zhongli corroborates the historians statement when they said that the first house built in Liyue was made of pure Mora by him and Liyue harbor was built before him becoming archon (Historia Antiqua, Zhongli's 1st SQ). The gnosis likely was just used to power up the actual minting of Mora for the entirety of Teyvat. I imagine it would take a toll on his body if he were to produce Mora on such a large scale for the entire continent for thousands of years. But, if it were to produce Mora out of thin air, Zhongli can still do it. Remember the description of Prithiva Topaz Gemstone: "The currencies that flow through this land are my flesh and blood. For thus did I become the guarantor of the people's hard work, wisdom, and future. This is the trust I have placed in them. Betray it, and you taint my blood." Most likely, Zhongli said Mora cannot be produced anymore since ppl think that the Geo archon is the only one who can produce it, which he is, but since he's presumably dead, it would be suspicious if Mora were still being produced somewhere. Him saying that to traveler is not the first time he lied to us. The entire archon quest of Zhongli was basically him manipulating the scene to get what he wanted.

Morax as an adeptus has the power to create mini-worlds like the realm inside the serenitea pot

Zhongli also terraformed Liyue, cutting down mountains and most importantly, raising much of Western Liyue from the water to the surface.

I think you missed out a potential form of telekinesis for zhongli.Remember how he saved xiao without making physical contact with him in the chasm and how he threw away the God of Salt (Havria)'s artifacts into the ocean by simply performing hand gestures in his first story quest.

A few of ei's other abilities would be to be able to cut through space (lack of a better word) shown in her burst, she's able to place her conscious in the puppets she makes and finnaly she can create domains that have manipulation on time as shown in her story quest part two. Edit:I just realised that this means she can put her conscious in scara

My guess on how these 4 survived the archon war: zhongli: spammed his shield ability to make himself untouchable Ei: distracted the others by taking out her sword Nahita: smaller the size the smaller the hit box. The smaller the hit box the harder it is to hit. Venti: sat in the bar and drank a few hundred cups of wine while he watched the battle from afar.

Honestly, I find Nahida the scariest among the Archons. Her threat to Dottore during the Archon quest was insane.

About Zhongli and Azhdaha: the original size of Azhdaha is not the size as the weekly boss we see in game, as this version is smaller due to needing to be fit into the domain, (mf so fat he barely fits into his own soul) the actual size of Azhdaha can be measured relatively easily, as the tree above the entrance to the boss fight is Azhdaha's actual tail, which means that: 1: Azhdaha is buried underground all this time 2: We enter the weekly boss fight through 'neath his tail. And this is why he is so angry Which, as a result, gives us 2 possibilities: 1: Zhongli did use Domain Expansion to seal Azhdaha's soul inside of the domain, hence why he does not use it 2: Azhdaha can use Domain Expansion to give others access to his soul to fight, due to him being immobilized

We have technically seen Zhongli's domain. In fact, we go inside it everyday. XD Don't forget that the teapot is his creation. He was the one who taught Tubby and his Adepti on how to make their own abode in the teapot. Tubby mentions this the moment we enter the teapot that an Adepti with black hair and golden eyes had been the one to teach him all there is to know about creating a sub-space. In a way I guess it doesn't really count as his Archon powers because this is simply an Adepti ability but I feel like it's worth mentioning anyway. Looool. As for Mora, I think he simply used the Gnosis to multiply it easily in comparison to actually being the reason for it's creation. According to the Level-Up Material, it mentions that 'The currencies that flow through this land are my flesh and blood. For thus did I become the guarantor of the people's hard work, wisdom and future." so I believe it was created from him specifically and the Gnosis simply enhanced his ability in order to make more in the future. Morax has also been part of the Archon War since he first descended 6000 years ago because we still don't really know when the War started, only that it was already underway even when he descended to Mt Tianheng. We also learn that Zhongli is a very fair and just leader which is why the people of Liyue and even his Adepti would immediately seek him out when things go awry. While it's true that he is mostly known for being the brawn to Guizhong's brain, he's still a pretty smart cookie. Liyue would not have been prosperous as it is today without his vast amount of knowledge. He remembers everything down to the last detail no matter how big or small.

5:17 Bit more on the Gnosis: Gnoses have 3 different functions as far as we know: 1 They resonate directly with Celestia. (Venti flavor text) 2 They channel a mass of elemental power at the discretion of the Archon. (From Nahida Gnosis story) 3 Gnoses are emblematic for being one of the Seven (from Venti flavor text) I've seen a lot of debate around the topic of whether the Gnosis gives power or not besides the uses of creating Mora/maintaining the Akasha Terminal. From what I gathered, if an Archon were to part with their Gnosis they would lose some power considering Zhongli's Gnosis story directly states that by trading away the Gnosis he would lose the divine ability to defend Liyue. And by the fact that Gnoses in general are a higher-order nexus of elemental manipulation they can naturally also be used in combat.

dont forget that Zhongli has a Graveyard of dead or sealed gods at his front yard

This isn’t really related to power but for me it’s really interesting how Ei seems to not only manipulate electricity but also space (elemental skill and burst descriptions). And you can also see it visually when she uses her burst, not to mention the infamous line “Eternity is the closest to the heavenly principles”. If Venti is rightly connected to time then I think Ei’s right connection is with space

Great video but I have to note some others things each one of them can do Venti is the patron deity of Music, illusions, teleportation, time manipulation (to some degree) Morax show telekinesic à abilities, shielding and geo construct creation. Ei has some abilities related to time, slash through the fabric of reality, levitation, pure electro walking, Master martial artist, soul transmutation, power giver etc.

Uma coisa sobre o Venti que você esqueceu de mencionar nas habilidades dele é que ele também foi capaz de se teleportar, e assim como a Nahida ele tem algum domínio sobre as memórias das pessoas já que ele fez com que Stanley se esquecesse que ele era o arconte anemo e também criou memórias reais com imagens e sons de eventos que aconteceram e que alguns personagens nem sabiam como o Razor

Stronger than tartaglia

12:54 zhongli can also dream walk as mentioned in the archon quest by ninngguang. I belive Xiao also mentiones it dusing his story quest? Great video! I hope we eventually find out more about Barbatos's powers

4:30 zhongli taught the adepti how to create the serenitea pot, that should be a form of domain expansion

Nice little video but it felt like more of and overview than a full look at how strong they could each really be based of all the available lore, theories, and their in game kits (skills, talents and constellations) which I think might be quite the fun deep dive to do sometime.

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Also they're a product of natural phenomena like Venti literally is the wind, Zhongli comes from bedrock, Ei is a manifestation of lightning, and Nahida is literally a branch from irminsul. This just means there is a possibility that they will still live for eons as long as those things exist. As for erosion we haven't literally seen an Archon that is suffering from it. About Zhongli and Ei, their actions were a byproduct of their mindset since they always think for the long term but they haven't yet suffered from any sort of erosion. As for Venti, he IS the cause of erosion since he is literally the wind. And for Nahida, she is the avatar of irminsul so she probably will live longer than her predecessor.

I feel like when Morax’s exuvia came down from a light in the sky in the beginning of the Liyue Archon quest, that was his Domain Expansion

Venti specifically knows "all songs that are, were, and ever will be" or something like that-- considering the value/meaning of allegorical data, this is a _huge_ piece of information.

Listening to your videos while doing daily chores is my safe time! Thanks for all the information

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3:48 Normal People: "Domain Expansion." People who know it's True Name: *"Reality Marble."*

Babe wake up, Aster just posted.

Domain expansion can be made even by humans. The mushroom/pokemon showed that. The guy literally made a domain for the last round that Yae invaded. The tea pot could ALSO be considered a domain expansion. Loved how you explain the gnosis. As a divine energy instead of elemental one is very consistent because in canon dotore saying that she coudn't use the electro gnosis in battle. Also, it's canon from Barbatos AND Nahida that an arcon power have relation with the number of people that worship them/followers. In Venti's case he said that because he was out of Mondstadt for so long his power was weak. While Zhongli had the adepti, Venti was also not alone. He had the 4 winds and his conection with time alone... and Ei/Makoto had the yokais. The yokais are NOT weaker than adepti. From Kitsune to Tengu, each one had their own specialty and made part of the electro archon army. As for Nahida, you just need to count how many Aranaras there are and how much power each one have Nahida does NOT have the same powers as the full archons and she has said it many times. The first thing Great lord said to her was 'so you must be around 500 years old' which is VERY young in archons terms. Nahida still has the same form the greater lord had when her powers were exausted, so her potential is very much great if given some milenia

Wait, while we didn't witness Morax creating any Domains, from what I remember when Madame Ping gave us the Teapot she said that Rex Lapis taught adepti that technique of creating these small spaces.

Does anyone wonder whether Zhongli's employment at an undertaker's might have a hidden motive/meaning?

You're working a lot lately. I mean daily uploads with no diminished quality is impressive. I just hope you're sleeping enough.

Can't wait to see you hit 100k Subs Aster :)

I think they should definitely expand the abilities of Venti and Zhongli and Ei, not talking about brute force or elemental manipulation but the fact that all archons are not only gods of a certain element but also gods of a certain ideals. Nahida's the god of wisdom and dreams and it's clear that she has those powers by her being the caretaker of the Irminsul as a god and by her dream manipulation. Ei being the god of eternity is not so clear but Makoto most certainly was a god of eternity, considering how Ei's story quest ends with the sakura tree paradox and the quest ended in Ei growing as a person and archon, understanding her sister's views better, so I guess she can gain those powers. Venti's the god of freedom and songs and sure the fact that he lets his nation be free of his control is a part of this freedom but he has no powers directly connecting to that, he is a good bard and his songs are magical in a way, so I guess that's one of his powers. And as for Zhongli, the god of contracts and the god of history and wealth, while his mora creating powers are there, his history and contract powers are hard to pinpoint. I mean sure he punishes those who break the sacred contracts but that's pretty vague and just a use of his other powers. And his history powers are a bit too close to buer's Irminsul memory powers for me as a concept. I really hope mihoyo give the new archons distinct powers like nahida and go back to expand the powers of the ones we have because that'd make for a really interesting fight with Kheanria'h and Celestia eventually.

hey aster! in future would you possibly be able to edit the auto-generated captions to be more accurate to make the content a bit more accessible? i absolutely love your videos but struggle a bit to follow as the captions aren’t accurate 💗

💀💀i dont understand where it was written that "Zhongli gets his knowledge and kindness from guizhong". from the recent cutscene we saw it pretty much showed how they dont share the kind of relation this fandom likes to portray. i remember reading "she was the brains to his brawn" and that's it. it doesn't mean she gave Zhongli the knowledge he has. and as for kindness if he wasn't kind enough he would've never felt pity for azhdaha when we was just a bedrock. he was just strict with his contracts which he is till this date as he is the god of contracts.

Bruh, I always thought Ei had some ability from Khaenri’ah to create puppets, but when you say “Art of Khemia” it somehow makes more sense to me. It explains why the wanderer is so human, just like Albedo is. Interesting indeed. I hope we get more story quests in the future about this!

If venti knows about every song be from past,present or future it's possible that he has knowledge that was erased from irminsul and that his ballads are also stories erased from irminsul atleast some of them like bp cutscenes

I love your videos and discussions. Do you have a patreon? I'd love to support

3:24 unrelated but i love how Gorou ears are animated

Zhongli can create domains too. Adeptal arts are used to create domains.

What’s your theory as to why the big slash that created the electro gorge is perfectly lined up to be aimed at the sacred sakura? Especially considering it wasn’t originally there (but was, but wasn’t. Time travel is confusing)

I really think you ought to bring up Herscherrs and the Starrail's Aeon's at some point. We know they're all interwoven thematically, and in Raiden's case (and likely the other main Valks) directly shared. Herscherr cores/gems = Gnosis, Irminsul = Imaginary Tree simulacrum, Abyss = Sea of Quanta. Griseo = Primodial one with the 4 shades (her event summons). Also I still have bets on Alice being Elysia. The leyline energy rather than being "radiation" is likely either Imaginary power or directly Honkai. The forbidden knowledge? Well we can't have the Ark knowing about Honkai energy / Quanta to invite them into the Ark so we'll make it a curse to know. Aether / Lumine likely to be Aeons from HSR.

I might add that Ei is capable of controlling the stars of the sky by using the lore description of her elemental skill in-game "Beings of great divinity might affect all that they survey, and the Electro Archon can manipulate the very inauspicious stars themselves to defend her retainers and bring a thundering sentence down on their foes." alongside weather manipulation in all of Teyvat without the use of a gnosis

Great decernment on domain expansion for ZhongLi. I also thought him sealing the gods was such method. That said, why does liyue have so many sealed gods? Was the majority of the War in liyue?

So there appears to be two types of systems of magic or powers present in Teyvat which would be Divine Powers and Elemental Powers. I reckon Divine Powers is something that is derived from Celestia or the Primordial One while Elemental Powers was something from the old world with the Seven Sovreigns

Strong enough to dodge my wishes🫠

I always thought that Ei could just use the Musou no Hitotachi as her nomal attack. From what i known so far. She's the type that rarely get tired in a fight. I also like to think her Musoin gorge attack is never her strongest. Like another normal attack. If her Musoin one doesnt make her went to need a rest and that its attack reach Narukami mountain and cleave it in half which could probably meant that it went even further. Maybe expand into the black area of the map but who knows how far. And how strong and far larger the aoe will be if she uses enough energy to the point she needed 1 day rest before get back to fight again? Not to mention that the ingame map size was downsize to hell for optimization. My prefered size equilavent for the "in lore" size is that 1genshin meter = 55.96real meter. Let that sink in.

Plot twist: Venti is the strongest, but he can only use his full power whilst sober (never)

We didn’t get to see any of archons full power till now in the game, if there is a ranking of lower, middle, higher tier gods, all gods in teyvat seems like lower tier gods, maybe there are higher tier gods we’ll get to see in the future when we reach celestia

What's also interesting is that Nahida can hijack Katheryne- a bionic puppet. So it confirms that her hijacking is not limited to living beings. But also mechanical ones, so long as they have a "conciousness". What I'm trying to get at is that Buer can possibly operate those big chunga Ruin Golems. Seeing as Zhongli literally gave life to a rock (Azhdaha), It may be possible for Nahida go give to golems "conciousness" and hijack it.

I feel like zhongli and raiden have an ap of large country and venti is small country. I would put nahida at large room lvl she could probably break a couple chairs or something

Hey! Can we also talk about the sacrifices or what are the cost to ascend as Archon, cause It seems like every archon Lost someone before their title I guess...

Remember that the Serenitea pot ability was gifted to the Adepti by Rex Lapis. So yes, he does indeed have domain expansion(s).

Venti before he became Barbatos or as Venti per se, he was just a normal anemo spirit, a very small one. Giving him the Title of Archon and also authority thereof caused him to create massive anemo power and new abilities. Imagine how powerful Celestia is by giving such authority and power on a simple wind spirit.

Genshin is about gods stepping down and letting humans take control of their own destiny, this means gods giving up their power(not just their gnosis) and letting humans strive for their own dreams. This also means they are letting mortals lose faith in them willingly so that they start believing in themselves and gods start becoming weaker and shifts responsibilities to humans. Gods are said to gain power from people's faith in them, but I think that is not a full description of how it works, I think what it actually means is that the more people think their gods can help them achieve their dreams, the more powerful the god is. This also means that people are not believing in themselves and is handing their responsibility to the gods. We've already seen in all the Archon Quests when people can no longer rely on their gods because of various circumstances, they take responsibility on their own and became stronger and more motivated. Venti gave freedom to his people and his people took matters in their own hands and defended Mondstadt, over time their faith in him was reduced so he became much weaker. Zhongli retired and made his people believe that he is dead so that they are no longer bound to his contract and we've seen how Liyue is able to defeat demon gods on their own. Raiden lost some faith from her people because of the Vision Hunt and they fought back, showing that they have the power to challenge the Shogunate, Raiden then realised that as long as mortals continue to fight for their dreams, Inazuma will be eternal. Kusanali's influence for the past 500 years was minuscule and people even wondered if she actually exists, faith in her was almost non existent and when the people found out about her, they stood up and revolted against the Sages and were able to save her. I firmly believe that the Archons are all much weaker especially Venti who has given his people freedom for the longest time, he is not hiding anything, he is content with his position and the prosperity of his people. And the reason why all the Archons are willing to give up their power very likely has to do with Celestia, perhaps the Archons were the way Celestia controls Teyvat and by handing power to the mortals that's the way they can break free from Celestia. This is Genshin's message that power belongs to the people.

When aster said domain expansion I felt a shiver down my spine

great to see someone talks about a topic which rarely has been talked about.

not stronger than this wallet, i fear 😈 anyways, i was waiting for your opinion on this subject since its debated heavily within the community 😩

Venti can also ‘awaken memories’ or at least have a record of time that can be played, as seen in that one wine festival

your point at 14:33 really make sense. I'm taking notes

Everyone: talking about lore Me: zhonglis archon skin looks HOT

love this so much!!!!

With how strong characters are in cutscenes, the gods must be ridiculous. Can we just take a second and look at Ningguang and Shenhe. We've got levitation, transporting/creating large complex objects, a town sized Meteor shower, freezing an entire tsunami, casually jumping hundreds of meters carrying massive boulders etc, etc.

about the illusion power. i actually think he has some sort of time power. rather than making the lyre LOOK like its fixed he made the lyre look/be how it was in the past. sorta like making the lyre go back in time. tho it wont last long

Nahida also can make a temporarily puppet I guess (khathrin puppet in the quest) also connecting to it so she may have the power to read or connect with things (may gathering materials related to this) like stone reading zonghli have besides reading minds

What you say about the gnosis makes total sense. I wonder if instead of amplifying their powers, it instead allows them to do things outside the confines of what is possible in Teyvat. For example, Nahida time travelling.

Geo seems to mimic contracts which are subject to unbreakable barriers and seals. Probably why he could restrain many gods without having their miasma infect teyvat

It's pretty obvious. Zhongli is basically Superman with immense power. Raiden is basically Flash/Batman with speed and knowledge. Venti is basically a anime protagonist with hax abilities which he hides. Nahida is still learning but she's like Professor Xavier from Xmen. It's very hard to compare and say who's the strongest...