The Secret Behind These Abyss Messages in Chasm (Genshin Impact) 

In short. The Secret message is an Abyss Recruitment message. Saying "Have you suffered from Celestia throwing pillars at you? Join the Abyss Today and Prevent further tears from this pain."

What makes it interesting is, they conceal the truth in the darkness. While the letter requires many player to join hand. I think it is foreshadowing the rise of the abyss against the Celestia, not just the abyss but many, many worlds that also sinked into the darkness by the hand of the Celestia. They join force in order to goes against the Celestia and they have been planning for a long time ago.

7:51 There’s another theory that Zhiquong (the lady we kept adventuring with during the Chasm)might’ve fell into the Abyss after we see her letter confirming that she went to do more digging on the secrets of the Chasm.So we’ll likely see her again in the future as an Abyss Lector like Enjou considering she wished to learn more about why the gods don’t gift average hardworking people a Vision.Despite her recklessness I actually liked how she questioned Celestia’s way of governing Teyvat.

We turned from a galactic world traveler to a glorifying world problem mystery solver.

As a lore head, I sometimes worry that I take the lore too far and that some of the theories out there are too far fetched but then hoyoverse pulls this shit, and it becomes very clear that they really are THAT detailed with their world building.

Here’s a fun fact I found when researching this text: lines 6 and 3 here “Vivos voco. Mortuos plango.” are actually from the first lines of the poem written by German poet Friedrich Schiller “Song of the Bell”. What’s more, we have to ring two bells in the world quest. Coincidence?

Game lore : Dark, mysterious and sorrowful. Game stories currently : Odd job Game story at the end : Unknown God wants dango milk. Buy one for her.

We should honestly just make Dainsleif our traveling partner along side with Paimon since it appears that every time he's here, there's some sort of interaction between the traveler and their sibling. Having Dainsleif as our travel partner would make finding the traveler's sibling so much easier than just traveling to different nations just to get nothing in return/no helpful information whenever we help them.

I was curious about those writtings. It is interesting they only show up in the dark and you need to unequip the crystal to collect them.

First of all, I would like to point out that all this scripts (which also appear in the domains and other quests with Dainsleif) may suggest that Khaenria'h is based on the Roman Empire. In fact, that would make a lot of sense since their language would be latin. What is more, in the We Will Be Reunited quest, Dainslief, after defeating the abyss mages, finds a talisman and begins to translate it. Then he tells the traveler that what is written in the talisman refers to the «Loom of fate». If we use the alphabet shown in the video to translate what's written in the talisman (the purple letters which surround the abyss mage), we find that it says «Fati textrix», which in latin means exactly «Loom of fate». That somehow implies that Dainsleif knows latin canonically. And the analogy is not that foolish; Rome (Khaenria'h), a technologically advanced nation, which had no god (well Romans actually had some gods but most of them where Greek imports and plus Rome was a way more pragmatic culture) also fell «because» of Christendom, or at least it was in Rome's weakest moments when it had to accept religion in order to survive, even if it didn't change its fate. Snezhnaya would be the eastern Roman Empire (since it's based on Russia and Moscow is also known as the «Third Rome» and Russia is an orthodox country, just as the Byzantine Empire was) which is trying to restore Rome's (or Khaenria'h's) ancient glory. However, I don't see how «caell ese un to umus» translates to «the dweller in heaven send the thorns». That would be «Caelo habitans spinas mittit». I've been studying latin for three years and I just don't understand how it translates to that. It's a pity because so far Hoyoverse was doing a good work using accurate Latin (for example, in the unreconciled starts event menu). Edit: Since so much people are asking me what «caell ese un to umus» means, it means absolutely nothing, at least written that way. Rearranged and corrected, «Caeles eunt dumus» means «They go towards the celestial [thing/place]», and then the «dumus» belongs to another clause. I translated the whole text correctly from Latin, which you can find scrolling down in my answer to another user.

Taking account that Abyss Lectors are also know as "Abyss Chanters" or "Abyss Bards" on another languages. My especulation is that those two Abyss Lectors -- Egill and Agnaar. Were the ones who left those messages behind, why? Because they want to spread their power on the Chasm. Another thing that I noticed about each other's names. *Agnaar* was the name of a character know as Agnaar Geirrodsson, he was attested at the Poetic Edda --- who aided Odin disguised as Grímnir to escape torture. And as for *Egill* -- he seems to named after Egill Skallagrimmson, he was sorcerrer, berserker and a war-era poet. Mostly know as anti-hero of the Egil's saga.

So… …beneath Monstadt is Khaenri’ah, whose remnants bear seemingly Scandinavian names. Beneath Inazuma is Enkanomiya, inhabited by shades with Hellenic names. And beneath Liyue is the Chasm, the structures of which mirror Enkanomiya and the former citizens of which has left messages inscribed in Latin. …Norse, Greek, and Roman… Did Mihoyo write the abyss as the representation of ancient cultures whose religions have been reduced to mythologies? And if so, what does that say about the currently existing nations of Teyvat? …also, I have no idea what that city above Dragonspine represents.

I just remember that Abyss Order members are recruiting hilichurls in Enkanomiya and Dragonspine. Now that I think about it, Dainsleif never had a chance to visit Enkanomiya and maybe read Before Sun and Moon :(

kudos to the creators of The Underground Chasm. I was scared while exploring that place. Not really freaking out, but like constantly having that feeling of dread.

You are doing the archons work. Appreciate the effort as always 👍

Its crazy how Hoyo dev’s actually think a lot about the lore of this game..and I absolutely love it! The fact that we had to unite to decode the letter and now this.. I really love it, makes me feel proud of being a lore community member since they’ve must have noticed numerous theories by now! ❤️ also, another great video! 🙏🏻

I saw these writings before and I was like "wow would it be cool if we knew what they meant" and the community doesn't disappoint! With the code cracked, is there a translation for the words that appear when abyss mages are idling? I've noticed they appear more often than before since the chasm update. Man, I can't wait for Khaenri'ah storyline. I feel like it won't just be an 8th region, but rather it will slowly start to interfere more and more with the main story.

This is exactly why I play Genshin Impact. Secrets and deep exceptional lore. Now that we have a better understanding of the Abyss alphabet, it will be easy to translate latin into english or other languages for people who learnt it :)

"The Dweller in Heaven sends the thorns" It's giving me "The Lannisters send their regards" kind of vibe.

Now that it can be translated, anyone knows the messages that exists in every domain?

I remember the time when i was so *CONFUSED* of how it disappears when i walk right into it with my lumenstone adjuvant, then i notice it doesn't disappears anymore when i got my adjuvant lights out

"The dweller of in heavens sends the thorns, for the way of the abyss is not to be" I think this means that celestia nuked the ancient civilization because they were a little too close to the abyss The other is probably them summoning abyss creatures to help or something

I love the lore and mysterious stories in Genshin man ..keep up the good work!

The amount of hidden lore in Genshin is actually surprising

Hitting the like button even before finishing the video, cause I know it's gonna be awesome.

Maybe they are referring to the hilichurls because in the story quest the hilichurls go to the chasm because they are dying and one of the message said “mourning to the dead” thats might be the reason for the flash back the traveler saw when he/she with dain and paimon the “the calling of the living” might refer to the hilichurls going inside chasm and “and the shadow” might referring to the curse and for the “to prevent of shedding tears” might referring to the action they made in the last part of the cut scene and also the one that been referred in the flash backs because on how painful it is when they are dying the curse get stronger so i don’t believe that this is the message for telling the traveler to joining the abyss its more like what they are feeling or thoughts about it

I do love this part of the Genshin community. People diving deep into secret messages and using their brains so I don't have to

Thanks for your hard work Mr. Cat, Love you for your videos Even your predict for Sumeru was right. Xamaran mention it. "Ignorance might be blessing , Knowledge brings Calamity"

What's interesting is that the text recharges your lumenspar, then dissapears

Thank you for this tremendous work, and thanks to all redditors participating in this search for the Genshin lore. Story is progressing in Genshin, soon we might get some pretty wild revelations, maybe we're the Revelator like in Tree of Savior? Can't help but think there is also a connection with Honkai.

Putting my tinfoil hat on: We know that the destruction of Khaenria'h and the occurrence of the abyss were two different events. Those pillars were thrown at the chasm and the kingdom at dragonspine when they started to adapt the ways of the abyss because the abyss warned them about what Celestia did to Khaenria'h.

A small addittion I can make, as a person who's learning latin, "Abyssus via" can also mean "To the abyss" or "To the depths of the Abyss". This can refer to the place known as the Abyss, not Abyss order itself.

I think the dweller more likely refers to Asmoday, since the "Heavens" already refers to Celestia

i love your lore videos, they're so journalistic in the approach, there's something just so amazing about that

This feels like a bigger event of a lore thane we thought....Mihoyo you smarty

I always had a feeling that Celestia maybe not as bad as we thought of. Yes, true that Celestia made khaenri'ah suffer but in exchange they manage to protect those under their arms. Sometimes you gotta be selfish to protect what you own.. Still I do agree with dainsleif words about, "it's better to not revive the homeland" Here he means that he'd rather protect the one who still alive and full of life rather the one who lose, because those two had not that much difference. Both are just like two sides of coins. Looking at how happy the world is on this side too, reminds you enough how the past had been. It's time to move on, and accept it that we lose...

This is like the 'Cicada puzzle' where they recruit those who can encript the message.

Thank you so so so much for compiling all this lore and making your RU-vid videos!! I absolutely adore getting to know all of this lore information that isn’t directly within the Archon quests! Thank you again for all the hard work you do, it’s very very much appreciated!! ❤️☺️😊

This is what I've been waiting for from your channel! thank you for sharing!

"Non est ad" is the beginning of one of the many renditions of a very famous Latin phrase "Ad astra per aspera" that translates to "To the stars, through adversities." This specific rendition of this phrase is "Non est ad astra mollis e Terris via" and translate slightly differently "There's no easy path from the Earth to the Stars" and was written by Seneca in Hercules furens.

I think the dweller in the first message more likely refers to Asmoday, since the "Heavens" already refers to Celestia ? And for 4:48, the "I" is either our sibling or the abyss queen. Either way, it's they have the same thoughts about Celestia anyway, whether they are a leader or a simple abyss mage so I don't think it's that important. 6:14, well, most likely Khaenri'ah's people tears, as the Abyss Order wants to revive the nation and save its people. Ofc, Celestia caused the tears, and the ones that want to prevent them is obviously the Abyss Order.

So basically it goes like this: Join the Abyss today! We have cookies and healthcare :)

I was waiting for you to cover the purple glow-in-the-dark text. Thank you very much for covering it :D

Watched your video yesterday before sleeping but forgot to leave a comment! Thank you for this video, it's really interesting! Also I''m grateful to all comments! Thanks to you all others can build new theories and open something new in previous quests!

Very simple but very cool editing!! Thanks for compiling the info.

I've been waiting for you to make this video!!

I was waiting for you to discover this! thanks as always, keep doing the good work.

a friendly reminder that this channel posts facts after lots of research it's sad to see some people considering his videos as theories

At this point i dont trust anyone in Genshin's world, everyone and everything is hella sus Zhongli said that he and "frikin frog" used The Chasm as a battle ground, but it's in too good of a shape for a hard fought battle, why would Zhongli pin Azhdaha under a tree close to Liyue amd not in the chasm, while other monsters where either killed or pinned in a more safe areas Why would Celestia drop the pin in a place that just to happens to be a mining site and "battleground"

THANK YOU Ive always wanted to know the translations of them after finding so many everywhere!!!!

WARNING: SPOILERS from the new archon quest called "Caribert". After I finished the new archon quest, the first thing I thought about was exactly this message. That "Sinner" we meet in the new archon quest reminds me so much about this dark message, like he is inviting us to join the abyss, just like here. The modus operandi is the same: I know your pain, I feel your anger to the heavens, come to the abyss. Maybe the abyss order uses that anger, sadness and desperation of those who are cursed to make invitations to enter into the abyss.

If you find a giant sky nail there’s bound to be a lost civilization that Celestia has smite down.

I can't wait for more crumbs on these stories 😩

Around Ergill, there's a shadowy "door" floating midair. Can be seen from normal camera height. When Pyro/Electro is used against it, it will explode, dealing damage to characters around. I wonder what it is

'call upon the living' probably calling anyone whom become a subject to Celestia judgement to join the abyss and seek for revenge

Here's a fun fact. I'm Greek mythology"Aether" is called God of "Primordial". He's the god of space.

2:18 shakespeare finally made up his mind

Thank you for translating the message, I was waiting for someone to decode it. I searched everywhere in internet but nobody has until now.

As usual, great video to compelling every scattered infos. Reading Genshin_Lore, participating in Genshin discords on lore, and finding out infos myself can be very tiresome you know, simply to find something else to do after finishing my real life assignments. I need to touch grass lmao.

Thank you for doing this, I had collected all the messages and hadn't gotten around to doing this yet. That the first line is an encrypted version of the second I find most interesting, as it's like finding a Rosetta while only ever having found Greek texts, no Egyptian. It implies there will be standalone encrypted texts in the future, otherwise there would be no need to give us a key to de-encrypt in this way.

Imagine all messages in dains voice

that is amazing! thank you to all who worked to decipher this

Great work as always. Also thumbs up for the reddit users! This is very interesting.

Amazing video, great job putting it all together~! 💙🦋

What I still don’t understand is.. Why would Celestia or someone from Celestia (Unknown god - Asmoday) stop us from leaving this godforsaken world? Not only that she also took away all our powers! Aether wakes up first (I chose Lumine) goes through a journey, becomes abyss order prince! Now Lumine wakes up goes through a journey, so far everything is against Celestia! Archons are against Celestia.. the abyss order is against Celestia! Did she (unknown god) thought that we would solve this problem? What is she planning?

A VERY IMPORTANT THING TO NOTICE IN UNDERGROUND CHASM IS THE STONE WALLS: THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE CUBE POWERS OF THE UNKNOWN GOD IN THE BEGINING OF THE GAME: BUT ONLY FROZEN IN STONE. and when u try climibing them too high even if theres no "red border" paimons says "theres nothing there we should go back" or something like " it feels dangeroues"

So much work, what a good video! Thank you!!

That tells me with every pillar lifted up at these places are actually ancient civilizations that goes against' the celestial gods' ideals. Layered up with the story of Archons that leads up to the wars. Covered again with some local area big events (Liyue has ground dragon aka tortoise lol, Monstadt with the Dragonspine dragon and Inazuma with the serpent entities on par with the respective archons on each nation) with the cherry on top being the current, the present time of civilization. Can't you believe this is coming from a free to play game? Years of content waiting to be discovered...looking forward to what contents Sumeru offers next.

wait...with this key also the scripts in Dragonspine can be translated. And the ones in Domains. Basically we have the key to effectively translate Abyssal writings. O_O ( kudos to the person that thought about Latin )

6:40 to me, it seems the abyss has been battling Celestia for thousands of years, and the abyss joined/used/tricked many civilizations to aid them just to get struck with a pillar by Celestia, this also may or may not work in favor of my other prediction that teyvat is somewhat a coin shape land which probably a joke around the saying "BE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN" referring to the abyss and celestial

I've been waiting for you to post abt this since i couldn't translate those 😩

Then there's our bro enjou so chill despite being a pyro lector

Amazing video. Hidden lore is the best. Thanks bro!

Thank goodness i was waiting for the translation of these abyss messages in the chasm

After doing caribet quest the 2nd interpretation makes more sense.

I feel like this is a criminal documentary

Thank you for your good work. This new area is interesting.

6:40 I think the order might be off. I think what they're trying to say is "Egill and Agnarr call on the living to mourn the dead and prevent the shedding of tears." Remember us, and do not repeat our mistakes. As for what mistake, my pet theory is that immortality is not actually a part of the curse put upon Khaenri'ah. They achieved immortality on their own. Which is a crime in the eyes of celestia, and the curse that is turning them into Hilichurls is their punishment.

I love every vid, keep it up

so, I have a question then - In Dragonspine there is similar text that we saw on the Albedo event, at various locations. is there a link to a video that has translated that? - and i am not talking about the common one with the ruin guards...

4:50 I think 'I call the living' signals to the hillichurls that were put at ease down in the depths, I'm not too confident though

I saw those everywhere in the chasm but couldn't understand them you're amazing

I was waiting for somebody to translate these

What timing! I just finished the chasm (I think) and this video just got released 😹

thanks for your effort man!

so... the whole latin text reads: "caeles eunt dumus, abyssis via non est ad. pius egill et imp agnarr mortuos plango, vivos voco, et umbra vedi flevi"

Those messages could also mean that it was a message on how they would save the people of abyss (or Khaenri'ah) that was been cursed. For the two abyss herald, Agnarr and Egill to do and risk it all for prevent anymore sufferings of their people. I thought when I first read the lines it was just like a summary for new archon quest line. But there are different meanings out there. I'm really curious how would genshin conclude it's story.

My theory is that everytime a nation setts itself free from gods, celestia comes and ends this nation. On this ruins new nations build their fundation. Khaenri’ah, the nation before Enkanomiya and whatever Nation came before Khaenri’ah in the Chasm. And also Dragonspine.

обитатель небес посылает шипы. ибо пути бездны не быть, верный эгил и растущий агнарр. оплакивайте мертвых, взывайте к живым, и тени не дадут пролить слезы

theyre also on the island witha ll the fog as well, certain parts of the island you can see symbols with that same color but the change everytime you look at them and look away and then look back

You can’t even imagine how hard I waited for this video from you hahaha

So this place was also picking a fight with Celestia and got destroyed just like khaenri'ah

OMG you'll not believe that just yesterday i tried to find the translations for those texts and i couldnt. What a timing

Sounds like a Recruitment Poster to join the abyss

The thumbnail as it reads to be: "Celestia, created, abyss."

I AM WAITING FOR THIS!

Finally, i expected this for like months ago

honestly this is like undertale/deltarune, most of these secrets are like these in the 2 games and always kinda deep too

Getting goosebumps 👀👀👀

Angara means rising anger in Hindi, which could mean the peak tolerance of the world is at its limit and now celestia will consequences of what they did.