Paimon's Truth - Is Paimon Lying About Her Past? | Genshin Impact Theory 

This didn't just happen to the Aranara and Nahida. Gouba also sacrificed memory and life force as the Stove God, so it's a running theme throughout Teyvat and makes sense with Paimon as well.

I think she shrank twice. Once thousands of years ago when the Scarlet King incident happened (Nahida even says that the Scarlet King died long before Rhukadevata), and that the form she took was not completely a child yet, she became an archon after this event not before. This is why the statue of the seven is too small to be Rhukadevata but too large to be Kusanali, it was based on her form when she became an archon. But 500 years ago in the cataclysm she used her powers again to protect but this time she used up all her memories and was now in her child form.

I don't think Paimon has completely lost her memory, but I do believe she's withholding details about her past. Somewhere in the Aranara quest she mentions how before she met the traveler, her life was pretty bland, she wasn't happy or sad, but after she met the traveler her life is exciting and happy. Her saying this definitely means she remembers at least SOMETHING about her past., even if its just emotions,

Paimon did intentionally denied going into room which shows the past in chasm. I recon she could very well be hiding her past.

2:39 King Deshret's case is separate from the Cataclysm event 500 years ago. It is heavily implied that Nahida was the result of an even more straining use of her powers in the cataclysm than helping King Deshret combating forbitten knowledge. First time she lost her adult form, then, without even fully recovering, she used all of herself, her form and memories.

One line stood out to me the most in this game: _"To unlock the truth of this world."_ ✨I think Paimon is *THE TRUTH - THE KEY* of this world. ✨

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I feel that Paimon is a Seelie. The game has been outright suggesting it a lot recently with dialogue. While I won't say that her being a Seelie and a shade of Istaroth are mutually exclusive, a lot of the points people use to say that Paimon is the God of Time were disproven in a really great video by CatWithBlueHat. I think she and the Traveler met in a part of Monstadt we haven't been to yet as they had been traveling prior to when we first take control of the Traveler and the scenery where the Traveler fishes up Paimon doesn't match anywhere in current Monstadt, let alone where we start the game. Likewise, Paimon doesn't pause time in Domains, coop, story quest dungeons, nor the story (it definitely would have been helpful back when the Raiden Shogun was about to strike the Traveler down).

I'm pretty sure that the Scarlet King's death was around the time of the Archon War, considering that his modern era followers argue that Rhukkadevata betrayed him to become an Archon and usurp his title as the God of Wisdom, which would be weird if he died thousands of years after she became the first Dendro Archon and right as she was replaced by Kusanali. Especially since she didn't seem to have become as young as Nahida currently is (which, if they are in fact the same person, makes sense since whatever it was that happened in the Cataclysm seems like it was probably way more powerful than whatever the Scarlet King was sealing away) in that cutscene.

Now we all know that nahida is reborn because of “curse” knowledge, but the main question is, “What it has a connection with kkhaenriah war?”

As much as I like a lot of this channel’s, and other genshin lore theorist’s theories, I personally think that Rukkhadevata and Nahida, as people, are completely different. I am willing to entertain the thought that they might share a body, but they are completely different in individual identity. Exhibit A: Nahida’s confinement. Nahida wouldn’t have been imprisoned and essentially abandoned by the Akademia, had Nahida simply had the Divine Wisdom of Gods, that the Akademia idolizes. Now you might argue that Nahida didn’t have Rukkhadevata’s memories, and thus lacked in the wisdom of Rukkhadevata. To this I present Exhivit B: Nahida’s lack of Rukkhadevata’s memories. In the Aranara quest it is mentioned that losing memory is essentially like dying. This would mean that if Rukkhadevata did lose all her memories, that would mean that Rukkhadevata is dead. Plain and simple. Nahida might be in the body of the late Rukkhadevata, but I am sure that this hardly affects her identity as Nahida. In addition to all this, I would like to present Exhibit C: Guoba Guoba, confirmed to be born from what remains of a god in Liyue’s past, is definitely not that same god anymore. Guoba now is just a spicy bear, living in absolute ignorance and bliss.

There's an error at 2:40 into the video, that is actually covered in the 3.2 Archon quest: You mentioned that G.L. Ruukadevata gave her life saving King Deshret's people 500 yrs ago, but the Archon quest states that she helped save them thousands of yrs prior. The actual time of her sacrifice was 500 yrs prior to current events, but it was during the cataclysm of Kaenriah. I'm afraid your timeline is skewed, sir.

I have believed Paimon to be related to the god of Time for over 2 years now and with every new piece of lore we get it seems to become more and more likely. Good for me! Guess I wont ever need to rename my channel

That Nahida is Rukkhadevata is such a tragic irony; the god that the sages adores so much is right in front of them, but they don’t make the connection and mistreat her as an inferior replacement. There are memes suggesting Paimon is actually the unknown god, but the god of time makes much more sense. Either way will be interesting if we ever get more info.

I think Paimon was The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, look at her hair clip and then back at the portal she came out of in the opening cinematic.

You seem to of missed that rukkhadevata sacrificed her power and some memory to save deshrats kingdom around when the goddess of flowers died. This was BEFORE the archon wars so over 2000yearsago. In the trailer she has the form of a teenager (like fischl) bur was still herself. 500 years ago she went to 'heal irminsul' with makoto during the cataclysm/ khanria event using all her power returning again smaller to a child form with no memory. Same as gouba did when he first decided himself up then again lost more power later.

Paimons similarities to seelies lead me to believe that she isn't the God of time. From the guiding, educating, treasure obsessing, and shape of her being so similar to what we know of seelies I just can't say she's the God of time. Perhaps tied to her, though. Although she certainly has many time connections. Just, go to the time menu look at it and then look at Paimons eyes. I never even noticed until Paimons said something along the lines of "Time passes in a blink of an eye." Spent about 15 minutes wondering if I was reading in too deep of if the time clocks are actually her eyes.

I personally think that Paimon might just be a living seelie rather than a God of time because it makes sense that Paimon would be similar to a seelie in guiding us thru the world of teyvat.

Great summary! So I believe as well Paimon sacraficed herself on a similar manner as Kusanali. What I think Paimon did, was to somehow influence Celestia to stay silent / sealed up until present times. Lets see in 3 years if I was correct 😉👍

My theory about Paimon goes like this Paimon was Either The Primordial one (tho I don't really believe in this theory that strongly, but for now I'll consider this as a possibility) OR, She can be a really strong god UNDER the P. one, (One of the moon sisters?) basically! she was an important god in her past (a good one that is). it is said that the P. One was over thrown by some other powers, I assume that'd be the Unknown god, so during that war b/w this unknown god/army and the P. one. Paimon being one of the strong/important Gods in Celestia she too was fighting and was the last one left, she then either used her Memories/powers to their limits and gave a fatal blow to the Unkown god making her weak in some way, OR she thought of not risking her life and giving herself time to heal and fight back again with force, so she fled Celestia and maybe gave away her powers for some reason OR just Like Rukkhadevata who created Nahida from the Branch of Irminsule Paimon too is created from a fraction of that powerful god Or The P. one. The Story of the 3 moons sister is that these three moon sisters would change moons every month (like changing moons with the other one and repeat the cycle) if they stopped doing so a great calamity shall appear, and one day they didn't change (I forgot most of the part please correct me if I'm wrong in the next few lines) I believe they fought each other, after not being able to change the moons and the great calamity occurred. Or I like to believe that, the reason why they weren't able to change their moons was that Celestia was under attack by the Unknown god, Or the unknown god might have attacked these sisters and 2 of them were killed while the third one (Paimon) escaped and shrank due to her powers being drained. Now here comes the "The skies of Teyvat are fake" theory, why? cuz Celestia/unknown god didn't wanted the world to look at the real sky which probably was covered in blood of the war(s) that happened b/w the Celestial gods and the unknown god/her army, or maybe it's to hide the Secrets of 3 moons and the 3 sisters perhaps these mooons exist out there but they're being hidden for they have some great secret. I'm believe in Paimon being an important god Under the P. one, just because her Name Is 'Paimon', and we know that All the gods have a Demon name and Paimon is the Demon who is the strongest among all the other demons in hell and Is under direct control of Lucifer, to put it simply Paimon is someone with great importance but just her past ofc isn't cleared. please add some more theories and let's talk about things I don't have a friend who plays genshin and is into lore, while I'm all about it but have no one to talk to :' )

I see that other people have already brought up the complications regarding the timeline with Nahida. But that doesn't really affect the implications for Paimon. It's great to have you back!

Nahida and Rukkhadevatta are of completely different person. Nahida is just a tiny branch from the purest of irminsul that Rukkhadevatta created of her own image . She doesnt have a memory of her past because she was meant to be a greater version of herself to replace her and heal irminsul thus erasing herself in the annals of Teyvat along with the corruption that has been slowling eating Irminsul. Traveler even acknowledges that Rukkhadevatta now is completely wipeout from everyones memories exept himself.

I have another theory about Paimon. And it is such that Paimon was one of the Gods of Celestia but was expelled for some crime against the Heavenly Principles by the Supreme God of Celestia and no, I'm not talking about Asmodeus (aka the Unknown God), her title is only the Sustainer and not the creator, which suggests that she only protects and carries out the orders of the Supreme God, the Unknown God, according to my guesses, only serves the Heavenly Princes and the Leader of Celestia, I also think that during the cataclysm, performing her duties, the Unknown God most likely lost most of her power, possibly take off her memory and turned into a little girl and now she wanders around Taivat not knowing who she is and what happened to her, and it is possible that somewhere closer to the plot of Keanria'ha, the traveler will meet her in a weakened form and without memory, perhaps according to the plot she will regain her memory and eventually turn into a protégé of her ex the chief, then Leader Celestia, and if there is a region of Celestia, she will be a guide character there and it turns out that Paimon is also from Celestia, but was expelled and deprived of strength in punishment for some misconduct, but these are just my fan theories and until it is proven or this is only a theory, so no offense, okay. I just have a feeling that all of the current main antagonists are just a way to hide the main villain of the game for the time being - Fatui, the Evil Twin, the Unknown God, is just an enticing money maker, and towards the end they will show the real Final Boss.If anything I apologize for bad English

4 nations in and the traveler still hasn’t seriously questioned just what is Paimon?

Rukkhadevata saving Deshret's people was at least 2000 years ago. She was still Rukkhadevata then, just a younger/smaller/weaker version. Then she grew for another few thousand years before shrinking again during the Cataclysm 500 years ago to become Kusanali.

iirc when finding the dried Aranara seed in the chasm, Paimon says she will tell us a story from her past once we reach Sumeru. Not sure this part is made into the game at the current point of time, 3.1, though.

Another point in this theory favor is that when the Tree erases everyone's memories of Rhukka, even Paimon is affected meaning she is indeed from world/plane of existence. So she can't be something like the traveler an "outsider".

Finally!!! I've been waiting for more lore videos!

Very interesting theory! I originally assumed that Nahida’s transformation was unique to her Dentro abilities, as the Aranara and other plant-like creatures in Sumeru share some ability to transform based on the elements around them. However, it is good to remember that a key theme of the story is alchemy, which is well known for its fabled abilities of transmutation or transformation. Either way there is a precedent set here, so it is absolutely possible and perhaps likely that Paimon used to be someone else.

Awesome to see another lore video from you TH! As brilliantly presented and thought out as always!

I haven't done the new 3.2 archon quest, but from all i know nahida is basically a branch from the irminsul tree.

could paimon have been the reason the travelers were sent down to teyvat so far apart time wise? Maybe their arival could have caused some sort of problem and paimon used all their power to send one forward in time so they could prevent what ever could have happened.

I wonder what the traveler did before we meet Paimon and what we didt with her together in the 2 month before we tell her about our separation? We get to know about that in the opening cut Szene

The way I just wanted to watch some genshin lore contend and you popped up

I believe there were actually TWO instances of Rukkhadevata "shrinking". First was during the Archon War (2000+ years ago) when she saved the people of King Deshret. That time she remembered he former life, and carried her memories forward. In the priest's dream, she looks much older post shrinkage. However during the Cataclysm (500+ years ago) she gave away all her power and knowledge (similar to Aranara) to save the world/Irminsul and that left her with Nahida's current form where she had no knowledge or strength of her former self. The sage's interpreted what was left here (Nahida) as a different person from her former self (no wisdom, lack of power etc) that they only thought of preserving what is left of her in the Sanctuary of Surasthana. I definitely think this story beat is going to be repeated with Paimon as well, as the last time we saw this was with Guoba but that was an event where things can or cannot be considered canon to the lore. In Gouba's case he still remembered Zhongli to some extent. More Speculation: I think the Sages have this mentality of preserving Nahida in whatever form she is left in and try to save irminsul themselves without putting her in more danger. She has after all saved Sumeru multiple times at this point and has barely any power left so there might be this idea of the Sages to try to act without her involvement this time around and they are getting super desperate at this point which shows their "evil" actions recently... or atleast that's what I think the story indicates to some extent. We shall see with version 3.2 if i am right on this or not..

Maybe the god of time wanted to go to a future where there was no Archon war and turned into Paimon since she used too much power. And the reason she ended up in the sea could be because Venti dragged a ton of land into the sea. Probably along side where the god of time was at the time she time traveled.

Not only Paimon is moving when you pause the game, also some kids keep jumping or having fun. That's very sus because it was never ever patched since the game release

🌸😹I would not be so hesitant to utter Paimon is of false tongue about her past, but I must admit, I adore the numerous “Paimon The Betrayer” theories out there.😹🌸

It has been 500 years! Welcome back!

This could be a 'red herring' but in one of the world quests (I think its the one with the disguised fatui agents that want to leave) Paimon is explicitly called a seelie -- that makes me think that Paimon's connection to the seelies and their lore is stronger than the god of time/kairos/phanes connection. Honestly she could be connected to both and this doesn't prevent her from having 'shrunk' like Rhukadevata/Kusanali and Gouba, I just think there's more evidence for the seelie connection with her design/lore similarities and nicely explains why npcs don't question her existence/presense.

I really want to see a video abt who is the heavenly principle and who are the outlanders that came before traveller

Also, i recently replayde the mondstadt questline, and the first time you wait for the next night to enter dilucs tavern, it was said it was paimons power

Great theory video as always!

There is also another god you kinda forgot about, that shares this same trait of forgetting their past, shrinking, and becoming a lot weaker. The god of Stoves, Gouba. The fact that Nahida is another repetition of that same theme, it seems to me, an innate power of the gods. Not to mention the rule of 3 is in play for this theme now.

3:22 Yes, originally set up by Guoba's story in the cooking event.

Imo similarity between Nahida and Paimon is a chekov's gun. I don't think Paimon is related to what happend with Rukhiavada, but instead a hint that she did something similar.

Hello, your channel name is a household name on fb genshin communities as one of the few credible genshin lore youtubers. This content was just suggested to me out of nowhere. So knowing the name, i clicked without doubt and subbed. Better you than the clickbait creators. Lol

You should play CrisTales. It goes a bit into what may happen to living things were their time altered. Very similar concept in regards to the de-aging here.

graeter lord rukkadevata proceeded imansull from forbidden knowledge from the abyss and that knowledge is also reason the imansull was polluted and she is connected to imansull so her consciousness is the reason stayed corrupted and needed a new soul from imansull to free her. I know that the video was before 3.2 update but still I wanted to clear up the louse threads in your video

I find the theory of paimon being a seelie, not the husks we usually find and follow, more plausible.

I also have a theory about the traveler and their sibling I think that they were not separated by time when they were sealed but that ( I choose Ather as the protagonist) Lumine pleaded with pimon to send thier sibling to the future to protect them from the aftermath of Khrena because he did not have any allies to really on but Lumine did the people of Khnrea and that is why pimon was so close to us when we woke up and sending them to the future cost her a lot of power and her memory as archon because if she forgot everything then how could she be a guide for us if she is learning everything for the first time.

The idea that Paimon was the goddess of time has been around for many years now. Hard to confirm. They do seem to keep the secrets in this game JUST out of reach, as it should be.

I admire your work! Very beautiful and picturesque put the questions on the shelves. We love Paimon! I can't bear to be separated from her!

dude, your delivery was very good on this one, excellent work. I agree with you on most of it, sounds very solid and I'm happy to see you view Nahida like I do, I think a lot of people don't really see her as Rukkadevada herself but rather like a clone of her, but I see this as incorrect after seeing what all happens with the aranara as well. Looking forward to more content from you brother, have a good one!

Nahida says that the Irminsul has no information about the traveler since he is from another world. However, if Paimon is from Teyvat, then shouldn't there be information about her? Is the information so insignificant that it isn't even worth mentioning by Nahida? Or is it that it is skipped on purpose, like a lot of characters we meet don't question the existence of Paimon and her nature? It just puzzles me, if I were Paimon and didn't know my origins, I would definitely ask.

3:59 its not confirmed that we found her there, we were with her for two months, as said in game, its just that the game starts there

while I do think Paimon "is" the Unknown God or some other similar being, I don't believe she's actively lying to us. Paimon from day 1 has always been VERY similar to Higokumaru from Honkai and is as such only a fragment from the previous being. Higokumaru was the last remaining piece of "good" within the Herrcher Of The Corruption and truly did not know what she was until a later event restored her memory and when she found out it almost broke her

Okay... This back to back theories from theory channels about Nahida and Paimon just made me conjure up my own theory :

I didn't meant it to be negative but at same time of your video, Islandxd also posted similar video about paimon true identity theory, I find that more believing that your theory. Either it be paiman being the true God phanos as name genshin is or just one of the shades of phanos. great job on your theories.

*SPOILER* Additionally from the 3.2 Sumeru Archon quest, it was actually found that Nahida is not actually "Greater Lord Rukkhadevata" herself but a part/version of her being a pure manifestation of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata excluding the forbidden knowledge.

What if the event that took Paimons power was the Traveler falling to the Unknown God. We are meant to signify a change in Teyvat. A Era where mankind was solely responsible for the direction of the world. When we were taken by the unknown God our sibling "failed" or was "changed", halting that change. Using her power she ensured the we would end up at the correct moment in time to created the future we are destined for. We wake up at the lake and find Paimon, only to very shortly after run into Venti and help Dvalin. Our arrival in Mondstadt was not coincidence, but predetermined by Paimon. You could argue something like that shouldn't be difficult for a God of time but we are unsure what the Unknown God did to us, so perhaps it did require such power, to just to get us to that moment but to rescue us as well.

That aranara green flower shield reminded me of shirou from fate/heaven feel movie, exactly the same move

paimon es el dios del tiempo curiosamente en muchas partes da idea de esto como cuando los aranara indican q ellos se convierten en semillas para crear nuevo arbol pero pierden recuerdos , en ese momento paimon indica q es muy familiar eso o sea q probablemente ella sufrio eso por eso se encogio como nahida 😷

i never thought paimon as a unknown god. but the moment we learned about god of time in enkanomiya i then thought she could be the god of time and wind. i don't think she is primordial one that's for sure. another thing and it's pretty common but you know paimon is the one who always tell us what to do and when to like she giving us direction and we reach there in the accurate time. there's many things i wanna say but it will become whole essay. but yeah genshin lore goes real deep it's so deep i sometimes think we never gonna learn anything 🗿

SORRY FOR BEING SO LATE TO THE VIDEO TEYVAT

Paimon flies, time flies. How dis we miss this haha

Is Paimon actually the Archon of Time? One who actually fought against the Heavenly Principles, failed & was punished by having her memories taken? Are there actually 3 forbidden elements in Genshin instead only 2 others?

i believe that paimon isn’t one of the shades of the primordial one but the primordial one herself. and the sustainer of heavenly principles is one of of the four shades of paimon

Amazing video once again teyvat!!

Paimon: who els but the owner of a house greets thr guest and show them around.

Small mistake in the timeline, Scarlet king died over a thousand years ago; cataclysm was 500 years ago and the greater Lord disappeared during the cataclysm. While the theory does still make sense, the greater Lord would have to regenerate her form until she was nearly full force again, but something caused her to lose that form again during the cataclysm.

@teyvathistoria whenever the traveler becomes silent it definitely indicates he's thinking on a deeper level and realizes a few things that others don't see. I bet Al haitham hasn't connected the dots between Mahira and ruka because nobody knows what she even looks like.

Following off this exchange of life force, memories and elemental energy fact in teyvat. It randomly hit me a long while ago that… The second who came who challenged the primordial one: no I’m not saying paimon is the second who came the sustainer. No. I’m just speculating that paimon is the exhausted child form of the original primordial one who lost against the battle Theisis or Faunes (how on earth do you say the original primordial one’s name…) but I have more evidence, only a little. How does paimon know so much about this world? And how much of a connection she has to the ‘Old world’ of teyvat … I’m still working and building up my theory. I’m not trying to get attention, just an interesting idea I had as I pieced some things together.

back after 4months damnn

Could it be that Istaroth from before which is now Paimon used all her power so the Twins can reweave the destiny? It's like a reset of time or changed the timeline somehow to defeat the Sinner (Like one more chance hahaha)? It's like same as loop but changing the entire timeline hence Lumine and Aether were 500 years apart from the start. Chaotic theory of mine.

It's quite a bummer with the last 2 sundial because it's lock behind area that we have to wait 2 to 3 year before we can found it.

Hope you are doing well. Everybody needs breaks

I'm excited for this video because it seems other theorycrafters of Genshin are slowly catching up to the theory that Inotia King came up with a long while ago. That might be a sign that it's being proven true. If you guys like IslandXD and Ashikai too could work together I'm sure you'll uncover all the secrets. And it could be cool to see you guys discuss this stuff given all you've figured out already.

oh yeah! finally a dedicated lore channel!!

Im 99% sure that paimon is a seelie maybe the seelie princess but unsure of that

What if the travelers are the primordial one that has been splitted by the other gods because they wanted the powers of elements all for themselves?? Maybe after dividing the primordial one they have doomed the travellers to travel forever for worlds. Then they returned to Teyvat without their memories and are now doing what they are doing because they were the primordial one in the past.

OMG WELCOME BACK!

Its great to see you come back

great video TH! i definitely think there’s credence to the theory that Paimon expelled a great deal of power and lost most if not all of her memories/powers in a way similar to Kusanali/Rukkhadevata! personally i don’t think Paimon is intentionally hiding her past/true identity from the Traveller and just simply does not retain those memories just like how Nahida (as of 3.1) has no idea that she WAS Rukkhadevata…. like you said in the video it will probably be a LONG time before we get any solid answers about who/what Paimon is but the little bits of info we have right now are hard to ignore!

Hey Teyvat Historia! Just wanted to let you know that we do know Nahida/Kusanali's God name! It's Buer as revealed in leaked voice lines from the archons talking about her. Buer is a President in the Ars Goetia who teaches Natural, Moral Philosophy, Logic, and the uses and qualities of all different herbs and plants, as well as being able to heal afflictions. Very much Lines up with Nahida, her sort of healing dunyazard to keep her in stasis during the Samsara, Being Related to dendro obviously, and being incredibly wise with her weird analogies lmao.

Delicious lore, thank you.

Also in the Paimon menu your able to change the time

what about in the heizou quest where he refers to paimon as a "voice" and said he'd never seen one before

Paimon’s hairstyle LOOKS JUST LIKE the princess of the kingdom of darkness (in the battle pass) , like come on … it is the only gender-accurate theory regarding her and we be knowing by now that Hoyo doesn’t do coincidences ☺️

We miss your theories!

We literally know nothing about her, everyone who has the ability to learn things normally nobody else could have all at some point indirectly made mention on how unusual Paimon is and how her nature is similarly foreign to this world not that different from the Traveler. Though I can't help but feel too many people keep making the mistake of assuming the Traveler met Paimon for the first time on that beach at the beginning of the game even though Paimon herself states that at least several months have passed since then and it wouldn't make sense for the Traveler and Paimon to waste months on end chilling by the beach while they were so close to Mondstat already. Since it wouldn't make any sense for the Traveler to have met Paimon on that beach it kinda puts a hole on the theory that Paimon has a connection to the island if your trying to follow that line of reasoning. However regarding the title of the video, I don't think she's lying I think it's more likely this is gonna end up being a case of her just not knowing the truth about herself. Based on dialog and interactions that I can remember I don't recall her ever acting suspiciously or unusually for Paimon. Paimon generally has been fairly consistent so far: she loves food, is scared of fighting, isn't all that intelligent and most importantly she clearly has a large amount of affection towards the Traveler and is consistently and genuinely concerned for their safety.

Another reason I think why memories have played such a strong role in the stories of Sumeru is due to Sumeru's and the Dendro Archon's ties to Irminsul. It is literally the nexus of Teyvat's Ley Lines, which house the collective memories of Teyvat. (I believe this is what the Aranara are referring to when they refer to "Sarva"). This video has the gears in my head turning and I think I might be on to something. Supposing for a moment that Nahida was formerly Rukkhadevata and Paimon was formerly Istaroth...what if the power she needed to expend (that turned her into the Paimon of today) was so great that it wasn't just her own memories that were lost (to the Ley Lines, I'm assuming) but also the people of Teyvat's memories of Istaroth, as well? The only people we know are aware of Istaroth in the present day are Ei and Yae, and I'm willing to believe that they're an exception due to them not being human. Which also makes me think of the message in Irminsul. "World...forget me." What if that message has something to do with the possibility that this expenditure of power also has the potential for the world to forget them, as well? Which, I'm also just now remembering how people always thought Zhongli was God of the Stove. What if that's because everyone but "higher beings" forgot Marchosius ever existed after he expended his power, becoming Guoba?

Nahida was the purest branch from irminsul. She is the greater lord and lesser lord, but she is copy. A copy that was made to replace Ruk since her existence was preventing irminsul and the other impurities to be cleansed. But I shouldn’t to explain that Nahida is not an age regressed GL Ruk

Many ppl don't seen to notice that nahida knows who paimon is but she didn't hid it. More like she said it but traveler just never asked what the irmunsul saved of paimon

Alright then, The Paimon is the god of time, thanks dude

We did learn Nahida's Goetic name, though. Scaramouche called Nahida by the name Buer, which is indeed another demon's name, but from a tome closely related to the Ars Goetia, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum. So we can add Nahida = Buer.

Nahida Is not Rukka, She was BORN from the puerest branch of the irminsul, both are similar because both are avatars of irminsul 2 diferent meanwile similar beings

Nahida shrunk 2x, 1x durring the time before the archon war to help king desher, and a 2nd time durign the calamity 500 years ago, as the scarlet king died many thousands of years back, so she must have done it more than once. As for Paimon if she was the goddes of time, she might have used all her power, to get the traveler to this point in time space where everything is about to colide.

maybe all of the archon stories is shared with paimon.. venti even mentioned time and winds. my guess is paimon is related to every archon story but before the destruction if genshin impact ends its going to be a tear jerker involving paimon

Dont forget to do some lore about chptr III : Act V. It really shocked me😳i didn't realize tht traveler true identity was like tht🤔