Why Did The Traveler Take 500 Years to Wake Up? [Genshin Impact Lore Discussion] 

Traveler said "5 more minutes" then woke up 500 years later 💀

One of them saw the beauty of Tevyat.. The other one saw the devastation of Khaenri'ah..

My theory is that Istraoth woke them up at just the right moment. Just in time to purify Dvalin, Zhongli's fake death, the Loom of Fate project and during the Tsaritsa's plan of collecting the gnosis

*"The Keeper is fading away"* This line reminds me of Dainsleif, the bough *keeper* whose memory "has all but *faded* completely".

Traveler lore is my favorite thing about genshin. I've rewatched your traveler theory vids wayy too many times😓 its so annoying when ppl say they're boring or have no presonality or that they're MINORS?? when they're so painfully obviously not. Its honestly amazing writing to be able to give a pretty quite character personality and lore and backstory. And i just LOVE aether and traveler and lumine as the abyss princess, i just think it fits them so well

You see, they chose to keep the siblings on Teyvat because they knew that somewhere, in a far off distant world, someone would need them to be there to make a hit game known as Genshin Impact.

Will certainly be a long journey. But once we get past Fontaine and Natlan, I think things will become more clear. But also more confusing. All in all, traveler will ascend once they get all the elements!

So basically when the twins first arrived in teyvat one of the twins woke up first (the abyss sibling) and for some reason decided to not wake up their twin and instead go off alone to explore teyvat. Its unknown how long that time period was but it had to be enough to be familiar with khanria and its people enough to care about them. Supposedly the twin did something to anger celestia which resulted in the extermination of khanria, when the twin saw this they ran to get their sibling who was still asleep, and told them that they had to leave this world immediately. Thats when the first cutscene happens, where they try to escape only to be stopped and seperated by the unkown god. The abyss sibling is then sent down to teyvat without their original powers, to watch khanria get destroyed, while our traveler is sealed away in a sleep filled with endless nightmares, only to wake up 500 years later in a peaceful world. Those 500 years were the abyss siblings journey through teyvat with dain, gaining their original powers back and eventually becoming prince/princess of the abyss. And thats basically the vague timeline of the twins time in teyvat, just for anyone who wants to know. Obviously we know barely anything about them but this is what we know so far, feel free to add more details!

Another thing interesting about the traveller is, in the description of teleport waypoints it says that only the traveller can use them

My only question lies with Venti's voice line and that fact also with the Genshin manga. Venti said, "Ah, Traveler, we meet again! What? You don't remember me?". In the manga, you can see Aether's body behind Venti. We can confirm that it's a couple of years after Vanessa went up to Celestia because in the manga Venti said (to the Aether) " She's still keeping watch over Mondstadt after all these years. Now I wonder if the world became a little bit stronger. She always hoped to see that" So somewhere the traveler woke up earlier but then somehow lost their memories once again? Also another thing to add is that Venti absolutely hates Celestia and refuses to go back up there.

Plot Twist: He's just a very heavy sleeper

For aesthetic purposes, the English version differs from the Chinese text. The original CN text: 维系者正在死去，创造者尚未到来。但世界不会再度灼烧，因为你将登上「神」之座。 Literal translation: The sustainer is passing away; the creator has not yet come. But the world shall burn no more, for you shall ascend to the seat of "the god."

What if the Traveler was actually wandering around during those 500 years. I also hope we get to visit the place where Aether and Lumine landed on Teyvat. I also do think that the Sustainer was going in with killing intent, why spare them when you haven’t spared the others?

The real question is what the hell did traveler and paimon do for like a month before the story began!?

What if the travelers weren't actually put on stasis.... But instead those cube things worked like matter transporters and instead sent them to different time periods were celestia deemed them to be necessary....?

2:10 that's also what I had in mind... "the threads of fate will be yours to reweave", I think Dain says a similar thing in the Travail video. Most people think "by default" that the twins will move on to another world after they've explored Teyvat, but before we need to find out whether they really came from another world in the first place... or was that world the ancient Teyvat.

I think three events occurred within a few months of each other that could all be traced to one source. 1. Paimon falls into a lake with no memories. 2. Aether awakens. 3. The Abyss and The Harbingers start making moves against the archons on a scale they haven't in 500 years. My thinking is that the harbingers, the abyss, both, or perhaps some as-of-yet unknown alien power recently defeated the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles. My guess is the Abyss, since it likely happened in or near Mondstadt. 1. The Sustainer survived the attack by turning into a memoryless tiny shade, like Greater Lord Rukkhadevata. This is Paimon. 2. The Sustainer's prisoner, Aether, is released. This might be why the Abyss was attacking in the first place, or she might have just released all her prisoners upon losing her powers. 3. The Sustainer would normally oversee any attempt to steal the divinity within the gnoses, but now that she is gone, the Harbingers can make their various moves. So I think that is the big twist that explains why everything is happening now. The Sustainer is already defeated, and likely all that is left of her is Paimon.

traveler's original swords looks cool. i hope they added it to the game later.

Maybe it is similar to the reason the Traveler was able to find Ei and her puppet fighting again, the way they described it was like they were supposed to be there at the perfect moment or something

Not sure if you have a video for this. But do you have a theory as to why the abyss traveler did not wake up their sibling sooner. Why did they wait all the way until kanri'ah was being destroyed to wake them up and why is the abyss sibling always hiding things. Feels like the abyss sibling does not want their sibling to truly know the something.

I think it’s very interesting how Nahida said "if fate is the ultimate knowledge, then your future is the ultimate fate". Does it mean the traveler is somehow bound to Teyvat's fate? Maybe that’s also the reason Paimon acts as a guide and sometimes seems to "force" us into certain directions, aka trying to follow a "plotline" in order to keep Teyvat's future safe

Regarding Paimon, someone I can't remember (Nahida?) mentioned that she *also* resonated with Dendro, which seems like something important to note. Edit: Yes, it was Nahida when they first met her.

I just realize something. The Unknown God knows the language of the Traveler. Paimon teaches the Traveler the language of Teyvat, so the language that the Unknown god is taking in shouldn't be the language of Teyvat since at that time the traveler doesn't know that language. BUUUTTTT. If Lumine was the Abyss sibling, she would know. And she was the only one who talked where the Unknown god responded.

While I wonder why 500 years, my burning question is why was the Abyss twin released from their containment almost immediately after the capture of both of them? The Golden Nara in the stories of the Arana are almost certainly about the Abyss twin, and these take place in the events around and following the Khaenri-ah crisis. And if the Abyss twin was immediately free after the encounter with the Heavenly Principles, why did they not try to free the Traveler? This whole scenario makes it seems less like the Traveler was imprisoned, and more like they were a hostage. This has interesting implications, as it means that the Abyss twin was and still is acting under the Heavenly Principles instructions. That they have not sought out the Traveler now that they are free of their containment would indicate whatever threat the Traveler was under to get the Abyss twin's cooperation is still present (Paimon?). This is just my pet theory, though, with little to support it..... Except.... In the cutscene confronting Stormterror (Dvalin) on Starsnatch Cliff, when the Abyss mage says the line "The time has come for the dragon to serve it's true master...", the camera view has progressively rotated, so at that moment Celestia appears literally over the Abyss mage's shoulder. The symbolism here is clear, implying the power behind the Abyss mage, the dragon's true master.... is Celestia.

You know, we have a TON of story at this point, but there are still so many mysteries. The writing team, like most of the teams, are really top notch.

The idea that everything is a part of Celestia’s plan makes me think of the Archon war. Hopefully the twins aren’t going to have to fight to the death for a conclusion

Altering the Fate of the world would be tricky if one were already a part of that Fate. However an entity outside of that Fate could alter said Fate just by being an unaccounted for variable. To keep things in balance 2 variables working on opposite sides of said Fate would pull the necessary threads together like 2 crochet needles. The twin Travelers would indeed be perfect for such a plan. By inserting them into the timeline at separate points would indeed produce 2 distinctly different points of view. This would not be possible if they had all the information already thus by separating them their very minds can be manipulated as the information is presented to them in a certain order. In the end they will both understand everything but from opposite points of view and as Twins they will then have the task of reconciling those different points of view into a new whole. Currently we know far too little about the abyssal sibling but the Traveler we play as is something of a custodian cleaning up the mess of each kingdom they pass through. 1) We restore the statues of the 7 Archons. 2) We remove corruption and purify it wherever we come across it. 3) We uncover and keep secret the ancient knowledge of the world while removing evidence of its existence. (Not just Enkanomiya, the Chasm, etc. But even the simple artifacts of old laying hidden in the ruins of the world) 4) We might even consider that the unlocking of Domains is a re-establishment and cleansing of the various leylines of the world. 5) The Traveler, in some cases, even helps the dead to move on. The real Irony is that the Traveler is not publicly known for many of theses deeds. Defeating Davalin and standing up to the Raiden Shogun almost seems paltry in comparison and yet many only know of the Traveler because of such deeds. Talk about living a double life.

As the siblings are dimensional travellers with no ties to the world, I see the finale being that one decides to stay in Teyvat, perhaps usurping the Tsaritsa. And the other continues wandering, but still occasionally visiting Teyvat.

I just noticed that at 1:25 Aether summons his sword with his left hand before tossing it to his right hand. Does that mean theoretically Aether can also use his left hand? He could be right handed but trained to use his left hand while Lumine is true ambidextrous. I mean why summon the sword with his left if he gonna just toss it to his right in a potentially dangerous fight?

What do you think they dreamed about? Their old home getting destroyed? Their sibling getting taken away? Or maybe even the future troubles maybe the god of time had something to do with their nightmares

8:34 It is the Sustainer. The Japanese translation for that particular text refers to the 'keeper' as 'Chouteisha'. The Sustainer's full title in Japanese is 'Tenri no Chouteisha'. Dainsleif is the Bough Keeper, but his title in Japanese is 'The intersection of the past and the future'. Admittedly Japanese is not the main language of this game, but the Japanese localization had been quite faithful to the original Chinese. If it turns out Dainsleif was one of Isharoth's shades tho, how would that play out I wonder.

Paimon just like a sellie, Says pre determined words & intentions to a certainly determined path. I mean we have been doing stuffs for 2 years. and only some things are common here i.e. 01.Unlocking all Waypoints 02.Unlocked All statue of seven 03.Worship (collecting oculus) statue 04.Guiding Sellies to its location 05. Fixing different irumensul 06.Altering (fixing tyvet) By creating chaos ( not destruction but doing something that leads to a butterfly effect) aka fixing all 7 nations by changing story 07.Losing Genosis to fatui I think the 500 time difference is to do these important stuffs so that we might change something impossible in future.

Here is my take on why 500 years to wake up: 1) The traveler admits some type of seal was put on to him and he cannot use his original powers. So I believe 500 years of sleep must be reaction of such seal on him. Or, 2) After the fight with sustainer his power got sucked and then sealed. I believe during this fight he lost his strength and took 500 years to wake up. Maybe his body is trying to recover his strength. And is still weak. Remember with every .0 update he is buffed. I believe when he gets the last cryo archon's power the seal will break. But that's just a theory. Game Theo....!

it's because traveler's alarm didn't turn on

My main question: how is it that the Traveler is fishing Paimon out of the water but then has to go through a few weeks of content before unlocking fishing again?

im very inclined to believe that Nahida or also known as Lesser Lord Kusanali is amongst the more important pieces to resolving this dilemma since she barely has any erosion happening to her. Zhongli Ei and Venti are all from the original Archons having had multiple thousands of years of erosion behind them as well as bearing the events of the cataclysm on their shoulders when it comes to Venti and Zhongli

My favorite outlook of genshin as a whole is that if teyvat was truly one world out of countless others all from the tree from honkai then that means all of the headache, emotions, pain, suffering and history is but a fraction of what the tree holds let alone the world outside it.

Perhaps they were kept around to be twisted and molded into machines meant to wipe out the old order? Yes, this does mean you also overthrow Celestia and establish themselves as rulers. Give them a reason to not leave...by weakening them, forcing them to fight, to grow, to know this world and to love it... to not have a reason to leave.

I think the Traveler definitely has role to play for Teyvat. As if they were following a predestined path made especially for them. In Sumeru during the Archon quest where you meet the little girl who make predictions and you ask her about your loves, she seems confused and says something like "it's impossible ... why are there so many people ?". It's like if the Traveler needed to meet specific people, as if it was a scenario. The theory about the twins replacing Celestia is actually very likely to happen since in the end of the teaser of the whole storyline, Dainslef says "The threads of all fates will be yours to reweave" just like if the Traveler will have all powers over Teyvat and what will happen. For the identity of "The Keeper", it's not very clear in English but in French, they don't talk about the Keeper but use the French equivalent for "The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles", exactly the same title as in the intro cutscene so it might be a mistranslation but maybe not ! Also, the fact that the Travelers are able to us every element without a vision seems very weird. I mean, if they're not from this world, why would they be able to resonate with the fundamental energies of Teyvat ? I think it may has something to do with the Sustainer, maybe she did something for the Traveler to be able to do that, it's as if they were a living vision that would be capable of filling itself with any element whenever they want to. An other thing is it is very frustrating that the Traveler hides informations from the player. They know what is this place that we can see on the loading screen and how to access it but we have literally 0 information about it. And since we know the gods of Teyvat are not from this world, maybe the reason why the twins were in Teyvat in the first place, was to "decolonize" Teyvat and beating their ass up to the colonizer gods. Maybe, they are some sort of cosmic harbingers who are there to preserve the balance of the universe (I may have gone too far on this one but it would be so cool !)

i don’t know if the traveler will be on celestia level of godliness but they’re definitely a god in some sense, them and the archons are the only characters to have people in their constellations which is i’m positive is on purpose

What if it is deliberate. Travellers have travelled countless worlds and have seen the birth and death of stars. It is possible Lumine role is akin to that of a scout, mingling with the denizens and learning about them, and the twins sharing a connection, so the other sibling learns. Basically they could have also alternated this, on one aether awakens first and on other Lumine awakens first. That's my theory on this tbh, as we have found aether knows more than what he lets on, he knows about the abyss, the fall of khaenriah, being there specifically, and who knows? Maybe the forbidden knowledge deshret got was from Lumine?

Why did the Sibling let the Traveler sleep when they arrived? The sibling spent enought time in Teyvat to grow closer to the civilization of Khaenri'ah, while the Travel got glimpse of the civilization while trying to flee from the world. The more I think about it, the more I think the Traveler is still withhelding informations or twisting the narrative a little bit. Remember even Paimon did not know the Traveler saw Khaenri'ah. Where did they land the first time? Where did the Traveler wake up? It sure isn't the beach at the start of the game, because where paimon was fished up doesn't match with the beach. What did the Traveler do for the 2 months prior to fishing up Paimon? What happened to their own world, for how much time have they been traveling and who sent them to Teyvat? And many more... honestly the Traveler is the most interesting character in the game, in a sense that we know practically little to nothing about them, and yet we are still playing as them (or controlling them, whichever you prefer)

i can’t believe it took the traveler 500 years to

Traveler was on internet explorer

One thing I've been wondering for quite a while now is, why we started from where we started?. It's kinda questionable since if they were in fact heading to Mondstadt, they already went past it. The other possible speculation is they were from some kind of island but no boats can be seen where we started.

It doesn't seem like killing is an option for Teyvat/Celestia's gods, because it's been proven that killing gods results in increased damage and corruption to Teyvat's Leylines. In that sense, the Sustainer probably sealed the sibling as a long term solution. The Traveler waking up, or even the sibling, was either unintentional on Celestia's part, or only happened once Celestia saw a use for them.

I've been thinking about it. And, do you ever wonder why the MC is keeping things from the audience, like during the "We will be Reunited" chats with Dainsleif? The Traveler obviously knows more than they are revealing. But why do this from a storytelling pov? Why would Hoyo do this? The obvious reason would be spoilers would detract from the tension/suspense of the mystery. So it can be a couple of reasons why: 1.) The Traveler knows, and the truth is pretty simple and straightforward when the information is revealed. 2.) Or the one i lean toward is; The Traveler does know but the revelation will be better suited to a tragic backstory because what the Traveler knows is everything about his journey EXCEPT for a period of time where their memories have been taken/altered. But the Traveler is aware that they are missing time/memories but can't tell the audience for obvious spoilers and dramatic Impact. It's been hinted that the siblings have forgotten some things just by reading the Wings of Descension (if it's about the Traveler?). I don't think the Traveler was just asleep, I think that it's possible that one or both of the sibling have memories stolen from them. I think as the Abyss sibling, Lumine in my case, got her memories back at some point in her travels but may be missing one or two and thus why she has been led down a dark path, due to perhaps a misconception. I actually think its also possible Aether, traveler, could have also been experimented on in captivity thus explaining why Albedo a "failed" experiment resembles Aether. Thus, why Aether isn't even telling the audience what he does and doesn't know, so it can have more dramatic shock value. Those are just two off the cuff. But i'm sure their could be another reason why the Traveler isnt openly revealing to the audience. Whats the proof? So far in the story/lore, we KNOW that when someone overuse's their power they either weaken by falling into slumbering and reawakening OR losing power/memories. Aether, the Traveler, shows BOTH of these. In his character story, it says "Reawakening", and while he doesn't share all his knowledge with the audience about what he knows or doesn't, we can see his power is slowly returning as he attunes to the elements during his travels. Thus Lumine, Abyss sibling, tells him to journey thru the world. So Aether can not only see what's going on with his own eyes but recover his power and or memories. Edit: Also to the dialogue from their encounter Lumine says along the line "we've always had enough time". This along with how characters such as Zhongli and Ei tell their stories to Aether to ALWAYS remember means that the siblings don't have the issue of erosion or losing memories adds support that Aether shouldn't have problems with remembering. Even though what we are told is vague because once it's known he is missing memories the conclusion becomes obvious that he was tampered with.

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Bet Aether and Lumine were originally from Teyvat since after going back to Teyvat from the serenitea pot, it says smth along the lines of "returning to your home world"

I have an theory that the three Paimon and the twins are connected in some way, maybe being three different parts of the Primordial one, like what happened with Nahida or Guoba but in three parts I made this theory because of how the three, Paimon and the twins, have similar clothes, Aether is gold, Lumine is more white with her hair and clothes, and Paimon haves full white hair, and Paimon Symbol in her clothes haves a circle in the center, like a "three intites that are connected" and then a circle in the center like if it was the one who is connected to this other three We know that Genshin mostly base in other cultures and religions, and it could be that the twins and paimon are based in the Holy Trinity, that there are three separated entities but they all are connected to one person The Primordial one created Teyvat but that doesn't mean that he is from Teyvat, so my theory is that the twins and Paimon are three different parts of the Primordial One in a little more info, the particles that looks like constellations that the twins make in one of their animations and Paimon when it fly it makes it too, so they at least are totally related in some way

I think everyone is a pawn in Istaroth plan of revenge against Celestial, she helped Makoto, and she turn herself in Paimon or Paimon is her shade to guide Traveler and she keep Traveler in stasis to awaken in the most critical moment.

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From what the aranara said "someone loses their memory and forgets about the incredible powers they had. When they remember, they become invincible again" I think the aranara was referring to the dendro archon being reborn So in the future Nahida might be able to remember her past deeds as the original archon and become as powerful as she was before

omg whaaaa??1?1 it took 500 years for the traveler to ??

I think both travellers arrived at the present day but when they leave the gods mistake that they are 2 human steal the light element from Teyvat which weaken it. The god send 1 back in time where the chaos element erupt (kanrea) in hope that the light and chaos cancelled each other while left 1 in the present for back up.

Perhaps the Unknown God is like Eren knowing the future and acting accordingly as the villain of the Travelers to make them travel nation after nation making changes.

So u know who els can control elements without vision? The knights in the chasm and give the same glow the MC dose in any cutscenes when they do use elements. And it’s so strange and I can’t find any explanation for that

I don't think we can confirm that the second throne was defeated. The only witnesses of the war, the enkanomians, did not see the end of the war, as they were buried during the conflict. I think there a few hints that the second throne won even. First is that things changed after the war. During phanes time the people were taken care of very directly. Nowadays that doesn't seem to be the case. Phanes and their shades cared a lot about their people, while after the war, people were starving, flooding and getting destroyed by angry gods and nails.

Wow the way u broke this down was on point. Better than any other video I've seen so far

Your vids are awesome I enjoy them a lot. especially the theories. underrated

Seriously though. Why did it take them so long to [Genshin Impact Lore Discussion]?

My thoughts are that only one of the siblings was to help Teyvat, which is the Abyss sibling. But they sided with Khaenri'ah and the Abyss, and started fighting for a future where the Abyss would supposedly rule. They also got a traveling partner, Dain, who was also from Khaenri'ah. He didn't think it right to help the creatures of the Abyss take revenge on the gods, and so went against the Abyss sibling, who, after the destruction of Khaenri'ah, wanted revenge. Now Celestia thought that it was necessary to awaken the other sibling, the Traveler, in order to help the gods and create a new world in favor of them. The Traveler got Paimon as their traveling partner. She guided them through the nations, and leading them to assist the nations as well. Since the Traveler did not experience the fall of Khaenri'ah, they, like all the people of Teyvat, believed the Abyss to be evil, and sided with the Gods to help their nations and destroy the Abyss and the Fatui. Currently, because of the Abyss sibling, the 'ideal' new world is being opposed by the Abyss, and the Traveler is fighting to stop the Abyss. The Abyss was never supposed to grow so powerful, as the Traveler's sibling, who awakened first, was supposed to help the gods. But because of their decision to help the Abyss, we arrive at the current state of the siblings. Thanks for reading this excessively long paragraph, I know this barely makes any sense lol

I dont understand why no book and scripture tells about the Traveller, like there could be a book in that Enkanomiya Library in which it says that there was a God travelling from world to world but lost their power because they weren't trying to kill the sustainer but the Sustainer got them trapped, if this was written somewhere then it will be so good, like imagine after Sneznaya we go back again to Enkanomiya for clues and we stumble upon one such book including info about traveller and the Primordial One

kinda like the raiden quest with the time distortion placing the traveller 500 years in the future to witness the final battle between Ei and RS

I've had this thought for a while about paimon being istaroth. First off (we) traveler are able to manipulate time and like why would that be part of paimons options in the first place. Unless ofcourse she could be a lesser form of istaroth. God of time....And being able to fly. If we look at the statue in inazuma it is portrayed that istaroth has wings. And we've only seen very little characters npc who has that ability.

I have a tiny little problem with the timeline… The fact that someone lied because is literally impossible. Traveler and Abyss Twin enter teyvat at the same time since they both travel together, They get stopped by the sustainer that removes their powers, Abyss twin does their journey and traveler wakes up 2 months before meeting paimon. Problem is… How does Traveler know about the abyss if they were asleep the entire time. Only way i can think of is that the sustainer trapped the Traveler in the abyss. But that means the sustainer is using abyss powers wich means the abyss and Celestia are in kahoots somehow? Again someone here dropped a massive lie.

I feel like Celestia no longer functions as one unit, you can see that not only did the twins do substantial damage to the infrastructure of Celestia, the thing is shattered, but the sustainer is the only celestial official we meet. The fact that you can find celestial pillars in dragonspine and the chasm but Celestia hasn’t bothered to retrieve them suggests that they can’t either by being too weak or there’s no one there who cares to maintain it. If I had to guess, I’d say that what remains of Celestia or at least what controls it doesn’t have Teyvat’s best interests in mind. Possibly even having the same outlook as the Tsaritsa as the ends justifying the means which is why the traveler continues to interfere. Any entity as powerful as the traveler wouldn’t have just stayed knocked out, releasing them separately may have been a deliberate ploy to not only conserve energy from having to keep them down but also so that they develop different views and take each other out. Just my two cents of course

Alright here me out. I personally suspect the Traveler took 500 years to wake up because something happened that caused the Sustainer to lose all her power. It makes no sense to just suddenly be dropped off 500 years later after our sibling was sent down alongside our own weapon as a threat to them. Something happened that caused the sustainer to shrink into Paimon. These are key notes that cause me to suspect as much. 1: Paimon never denies she herself is a god but has no memories and no power. * We have encountered 2 Gods who suffered similar fates, one who still very much HAS power but not as much as she originally had. 2: We find Paimon by fishing her out of the water some time after we wake up. This could literally mean anything but this is here for context. 3: If something happened to the Sustainer's power as she still had us in her grasp... it could very well explain why WE were powerless when we woke up. Us being powerless fishing out a Powerless drained God out of the ocean. 4: It is also worth noting that the focus of the story is to FIND said Sustainer as well as our sibling. One has shown activity, the other has shown absolutely none despite the craziness. A part of me thinks it has something to do with the upside down statue... another part of me thinks something happened to the one in charge of the Sustainer. Either way it is also a fact that our sibling, although happy to see us was NOT SURPRISED we were up and about. This leads me to thinking whatever it was, the Abyss may have had a hand in. Now if we look squarely AT PAIMON... she has no stars in the sky to receive a reading from Mona... and nobody seems to question the Floating Fairy's existence. Despite having no memory, she knows Teyvat. And on an off note, Paimon looks like a baby version of Kiana from Honkai... while the Sustainer looks like the Herrscher of the Void. Simply put too many things are adding up for Paimon NOT to be the Sustainer and the whole 500 years thing seems to be as long as it took for someone to "free" us. That said I do not believe the Sustainer is evil. Paimon was attached to us from the moment we rescued her so maybe she wasn't the only one who lost her memory...?

I didn't really think about it much even after Zhongli said what he said, but it is super interesting that the Siblings might be the only beings in Teyvat who are not bound by the Heavenly Principles ("aging" or erosion being one that they do not experience) I'll just accept it as anime logic, but it is weird that the Twins aren't gigabrains. They can remember their childhoods, but have also visited countless worlds. You'd think they'd be near-omniscient. Though could also be that they have to basically do what FuHua does in Honkai Impact (she hasn't lived very long, but she has literally perfect memory, so in essence it's the same thing) and reset their memory every once in a while. But that's just me nitpicking.

The traveller was sent to the future by sustainer and she drained him when she transfered him there. I dont think he slept long just like his sister. Its just that he was shuttled 500yrs into the future.

Imagine at the end of our journey we meet lummine and the game resets and starts again from lummines perspective we get to see her side of story . Nah im just high 🗿

"the keeper is fading away", isn't dainsleif the Bough Keeper? and didnt he mentioned in the travail about his memory fading?

i want to know only 2 things about travelers. 1 why they don't age... 2 how can they travel through space, what kind of power to they have? and why are they considered humans and not gods with those powers. (its more than 2 i know XD)

Missing event's can really cause you to miss lore in Genshin.

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I have always thought that the ace up Celestia's sleeve has been the 2 twins, the first set him free exactly at the time and place to join the abyss and the other to help the archons, although it is still difficult to know the truth. reason that put the twin with the abyss, the second is very clear, which is to help the archons with their problems so that they prepare and not repeat the mistake of the last time. I still don't know why the twin will help the archons, since the only thing that is known is that the order will start the war again. but there is something clear Dainslief will turn against us.

8:05 Here can be a slight translation issue. A literal translation would be 'The Sustainer is dying; the Creator has not yet come. But the world shall not burn once again, because you are ascending to the throne of 「God」.' Yeah, the word god is specifically emphasised.

I think that the opening cutscene is before our sibling witnesses the the destruction because in the cutscene lumine asks who is she (and considering the original protag of the game is aether) it is certain that lumine (our sibling) does not know about the calamity because if she did she would have recognised the heavenly pricipal as you could see her cubes shown in the running cutscene (idk it could be a fake by lumines side)

Gotta appreciate how much effort is put into these theories

Cause that's the time it took for him to completely install the game the first time around

I headcanon that the Travelers are _eons_ old, descendants of a long-living mystical magical being perhaps. They have lots of stamina (adventuring and farming with no rest 24/7 unless story mode), can adapt quickly (moreso to Lumine in elements based by animation, but to both of them in quickly learning the language of the locals to the point they sound like ones, if the people who differentiates them only by clothes are any indication), and keep the pretty youth looks for your chosen traveller to sleep for half a decade. And it's simply funny to think that they are older than the Archons, and disinterests me from shipping. Not that I don't like shipping, I understand some people like it, but this is a headcanon/AU that focuses and glorifies the fact that the twins are mysterious and old in our human standards.

My theory is that the traveller we use supposedly died 500 years ago. But due to external interference, a new possibility opened up and some specific events were changed resulting to our traveller reviving.

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your style of talking made me your new sub... so i'll binge watch all your 300 videos

My question currently is Why didnt the abyss sibling wake the traveler up

Really interesting idea, if I may had something (I will spoil Shin Megami Tensei 5 a little here) The part about the first and second throne remind me of the end of SMT5 (SPOIL AHEAD) were you have to fight to take god's throne because the world is about to collapse. So i'm thinking what if the first throne didn't take down the 2nd and instead they kill each other (that or the supreme authority of teyvat die during the cataclysm) , and now to keep teyvat from collapsing a new "outside being" has to take the throne that why the unknow god appear out of nowhere as a mean of extreme urgency (like a program )to keep the potentiel candidates to leave the game. And the unknow god act as an arbitrator who place the 'competitors' (the travelers) and by making them experience different sides of Teyvat want to see which vision will be worthy of taking the throne. yeah farfetch but this whole throne stuff make me think of that

Some of the animations and cutscenes you have makes me wonder why I’ve never came across them… such as lumine watching wether and paimon fight and then running away with a ruin guard when they look up

Traveler was just tired

My question is how did the traveller slept for 500 years? Like they just landed on a place in teyvat and slept there for 500 years? If so, how come people didn't took notice of there body lying around for that long time? 🤣

Good content. My theory is, The Sustainer summoned the twins to stop the archon war (or some other calamity). She sends one first in case something might happen. Then after one twin knows the truth.. you know, You either die a hero or live long to become the villain stuff, it just added fuel to the fire. So she sends/wakes up the other twin after 500 years just to finish what the other should have done.

Damn watching your videos gives me motivation to play Genshin Impact again since I lost my motivation to play the game and its been like that for a year now

Ok dunno why this thought popped into my head. But ima blurt it out. 'home is where we are together.' At the end of the game. Imagine if the twins fuse together becoming this new God/new entity. Perhaps Celestia's separation of the twins is because they know very well that they are two parts of one much stronger God, a God from another world. The travellers may not know they are meant to be one being until the very end.

The Golden Apple Archipelago answers this question: the Traveler is just really bad at waking up in the morning unless Paimon wakes them up.

I'll be honest the travelers lore is interesting but I really like diving into Paimon more.The symbol on her outfit really can give us an idea of what to expect! The symbol is called the Celtic Triquetra which means means "Three corned" literally and its a symbol of three interlaced arcs it's also said "The line is unbroken and never-ending and is said to represent many things, such as unity, protection, and everlasting life." however this does not apply to Paimon since hers is upside down which could make it more like say "The line is broken and will end, it represents separation , danger and end". It seems to be very negative more like a symbolism of that Paimon may be "evil" but I don't believe so "The line is broken and will end" could mean Paimon's current form is not permanent which would make sense if her powers are regained then she would most likely evolve into a stronger form to help us towards the end of defeating the Unknown god , "It represents, separation , danger and end" which could actually refer to the start of the story "separation" we get separated from our opposite twin "danger" the danger we will face in our travels and "end" thinking that the 500 years of sleep was death and the end of our travelers journey which could mean that the theory of the Unknown god wanted to end us but failed would make even more sense than before! There is also a version with a circle around it that means infinite connections but we haven't seen that yet but it's good to look out for!

I thought about this, and sometimes think about the intro of the game when it was on beta testing. It could explain some things about the traveller but its just small thing

I still personally believe my theory that Genshin Impact's Teyvat is essentially a Honkai incident and that the Traveller was intially there to find his/her sibling who originally dived in and got lost due to the Honkai Energy. Having Teyvat as a Honkai Memory incident would explain tons of things in the lore and would tie in perfectly why there is a crossover event between Genshin and Honkai

Bro took 500 years just to

here before the error gets fixed!! :)

i mean.... imagine travelling through world by worlds.....i'd be sleeping for that long too

bro why's your voice so calming