If nothing else, Wuwa seems to have really focused on the concepts of the past overlapping with the present and people who are unable to free themselves from the past. This is obvious in the specifics of the lore and how the mechanics of the world work now, but it's also present in more "mundane" ways in some side quests. We see a lot of elderly NPCs who have some form of... dementia? I suppose, where they forget certain things and confuse the past and the present (Tiger's Maw Mine quest, Silver-haired Echo Trainer quest, even the daily commission with Kongming), which is very similar to what Retroact Rain causes through magical means -- the past overlays the present. At the same time, we have a number of quests about characters who can't let go of someone they lost and continue to cling to those memories (Yinlin quest, Eternal Concert quest, etc). I am wondering if this is also going to end up being a core part of the worldbuilding, in the sense that maybe Rover is actually an Echo being continually resummoned by the mystery space girl, or if she was like... someone's daughter that they broke space and time to resurrect.
There could be something to that with how alot of the lore is themed around echoes, maybe the memories of people fade away and makes people become echoes of themselves or something. There is indeed alot of things pointing to the idea that many are stuck in the past or wish to return to it. Aalto mentions that most who research the retroact rain have this goal in mind, personally though I currently prescribed to the idea of more timey wimey nonsense with the MC really moving to different points in the past and is repeatedly doing this for some yet to be explained goal
The Rover being an Echo is unlikely BUT I agree with you that he's resummoned all the time. In the Aalto and Encore quest, Aalto reveals to us that we have woken up on Solaris-3 before, in the Black Shores. Also, even with Jué's premonition, Jinhsi and Scar seems to know a lot about us, which doesn't make any sense IF we consider it's our first time here. Also several clues where we are COMPARED to a legend of the past. I feel like time is an important part of the story, and it may not flow in a straight line. Also, when we consider some stronger entities like sentinels have space-time abilities, it clicks.
I suspect given the preponderance of sound/waveform imagery and terminology in WuWa that in its physical/metaphysical scheme various aspects of reality correlate to specific frequencies. Thus, things that break with reality might be thought of as "silence", in this case due to reality's frequencies being met with perfect counter frequencies. That's why these phenomena are called Tacets ("silences"). When you disrupt the frequency for gravity, the normal flow of time, or what makes creatures "normal", you get antigravity, time distortions, or profound mutations. The cataclysm may have been caused by people trying to hack reality, which allowed the "Tacet dimension" to break in. Or something like that.
Theres a video im working on that kinda sorta speaks about them, though ill wait till 1.1 to come out to see if new details appear. Right now theres too little about her other than having an interesting in putting their hands into the MC's chest 😂
You can look up real life research i watch ink tank videos about a alein planet about like ionized frequencies and radio waves in lightning effect a leyden jar like structure the energy beings to meld and manifest forming a consciousness but the ionizion stabilized the frequencies and radio waves from being mindless, alien
In reality two of the best things to disrupt a signal are liquid, and metal. I took it, at the beginning of the game that the etheric sea would disrupt the terminals because a large body of liquid would do the same for our wireless communications. That is my realistic take given how the retroact rail and etheric sea are visually represented in the game. Whatever that stuff is actually made of, I have no idea. In other games and movies they say ectoplasm, or quantum blah blah to name the inexplicable thing they are talking about. I believe time is the X factor on how this game's "rules" of physics wildly differ from our own. The gravity loss has to do with how flexible the rules are in WW about time. In those areas with gravity loss, are spaces where time is not flowing, thus suspended, or at least detached from the forces of gravity that are apparent in the rest of the game's world. In this interpretation of what we see in WW, the flow of time going in reverse is mostly smaller and less uniform force and that is represented with the reactant rain. If we run this idea further, the pooling or culmination of this matter that is flowing backwards through time makes the etheric sea. And we have seen in cutscenes TDs being born or manifested from the etheric seas. Time, or the disruption of time is the thing that connects these phenomena. With so much of the game's terminology being wrapped around words having to do with sounds, I am trying to think of a temporal representation of sound, soundwaves, etc to anchor this idea in how the game describes these events. I am curious, in the original language of the developers is there possibly a hint of something else in how they talk about this? I am thinking of the movie "Your name" in the English dub which is a bit little clunky. The movie is amazing, but if you just watch the English dub you will miss a ton of the subtle meanings. Behind the red string, that the culture had names for concepts of nature as gods more like ancient Grecians and the more widely known in the western world Zeus, and the rest of the pantheon of those deities. If anyone knows, is there a cultural representation of time/water/sound interconnected? please let me know.
Yeah, the whole floating buildings think and a flying train ?wtf ... Has be stratching my head and saying.. why ? its so random and cant explain why this is a thing. I prety much had an idea of the sea (seen in the beginning being upside down) and the rain being linked to it as rain flowed upwards. But this random graveity thing is just so out of place. I'd rather walk into a ruined city and see buildings tumbled over, debrit everywhere. Rusted old cars and trains and stuff. IMO its like they tried to make this floating stuff too fantasy. I feel this gravity shet was unneeded /shrugs Just my thoughts.
If you think about tacet it is when there are other instruments playing but not your own and as TDs are collections of frequencies that aren’t necessarily their own they themselves are the silence and need to use other frequencies in order to still function in a world where everything has a frequency. I don’t know but I like this idea and it supports some stuff you said in the last video about TDs.
If nothing else, Wuwa seems to have really focused on the concepts of the past overlapping with the present and people who are unable to free themselves from the past. This is obvious in the specifics of the lore and how the mechanics of the world work now, but it's also present in more "mundane" ways in some side quests. We see a lot of elderly NPCs who have some form of... dementia? I suppose, where they forget certain things and confuse the past and the present (Tiger's Maw Mine quest, Silver-haired Echo Trainer quest, even the daily commission with Kongming), which is very similar to what Retroact Rain causes through magical means -- the past overlays the present.
At the same time, we have a number of quests about characters who can't let go of someone they lost and continue to cling to those memories (Yinlin quest, Eternal Concert quest, etc). I am wondering if this is also going to end up being a core part of the worldbuilding, in the sense that maybe Rover is actually an Echo being continually resummoned by the mystery space girl, or if she was like... someone's daughter that they broke space and time to resurrect.
There could be something to that with how alot of the lore is themed around echoes, maybe the memories of people fade away and makes people become echoes of themselves or something. There is indeed alot of things pointing to the idea that many are stuck in the past or wish to return to it. Aalto mentions that most who research the retroact rain have this goal in mind, personally though I currently prescribed to the idea of more timey wimey nonsense with the MC really moving to different points in the past and is repeatedly doing this for some yet to be explained goal
I think the explanation is more for the goddess than Rover
The Rover being an Echo is unlikely BUT I agree with you that he's resummoned all the time. In the Aalto and Encore quest, Aalto reveals to us that we have woken up on Solaris-3 before, in the Black Shores.
Also, even with Jué's premonition, Jinhsi and Scar seems to know a lot about us, which doesn't make any sense IF we consider it's our first time here. Also several clues where we are COMPARED to a legend of the past.
I feel like time is an important part of the story, and it may not flow in a straight line.
Also, when we consider some stronger entities like sentinels have space-time abilities, it clicks.
I suspect given the preponderance of sound/waveform imagery and terminology in WuWa that in its physical/metaphysical scheme various aspects of reality correlate to specific frequencies. Thus, things that break with reality might be thought of as "silence", in this case due to reality's frequencies being met with perfect counter frequencies. That's why these phenomena are called Tacets ("silences"). When you disrupt the frequency for gravity, the normal flow of time, or what makes creatures "normal", you get antigravity, time distortions, or profound mutations. The cataclysm may have been caused by people trying to hack reality, which allowed the "Tacet dimension" to break in. Or something like that.
You should make a video about the goddess or whatever she is. YK who I'm talking about right?
Theres a video im working on that kinda sorta speaks about them, though ill wait till 1.1 to come out to see if new details appear. Right now theres too little about her other than having an interesting in putting their hands into the MC's chest 😂
You can look up real life research i watch ink tank videos about a alein planet about like ionized frequencies and radio waves in lightning effect a leyden jar like structure the energy beings to meld and manifest forming a consciousness but the ionizion stabilized the frequencies and radio waves from being mindless, alien
In reality two of the best things to disrupt a signal are liquid, and metal. I took it, at the beginning of the game that the etheric sea would disrupt the terminals because a large body of liquid would do the same for our wireless communications. That is my realistic take given how the retroact rail and etheric sea are visually represented in the game. Whatever that stuff is actually made of, I have no idea. In other games and movies they say ectoplasm, or quantum blah blah to name the inexplicable thing they are talking about.
I believe time is the X factor on how this game's "rules" of physics wildly differ from our own.
The gravity loss has to do with how flexible the rules are in WW about time. In those areas with gravity loss, are spaces where time is not flowing, thus suspended, or at least detached from the forces of gravity that are apparent in the rest of the game's world.
In this interpretation of what we see in WW, the flow of time going in reverse is mostly smaller and less uniform force and that is represented with the reactant rain.
If we run this idea further, the pooling or culmination of this matter that is flowing backwards through time makes the etheric sea. And we have seen in cutscenes TDs being born or manifested from the etheric seas.
Time, or the disruption of time is the thing that connects these phenomena.
With so much of the game's terminology being wrapped around words having to do with sounds, I am trying to think of a temporal representation of sound, soundwaves, etc to anchor this idea in how the game describes these events.
I am curious, in the original language of the developers is there possibly a hint of something else in how they talk about this?
I am thinking of the movie "Your name" in the English dub which is a bit little clunky. The movie is amazing, but if you just watch the English dub you will miss a ton of the subtle meanings. Behind the red string, that the culture had names for concepts of nature as gods more like ancient Grecians and the more widely known in the western world Zeus, and the rest of the pantheon of those deities.
If anyone knows, is there a cultural representation of time/water/sound interconnected? please let me know.
Another banger LORE video 🗿🗿🗿
Rover lore in 1.1 is a bombshell
Yeah, the whole floating buildings think and a flying train ?wtf ... Has be stratching my head and saying.. why ? its so random and cant explain why this is a thing. I prety much had an idea of the sea (seen in the beginning being upside down) and the rain being linked to it as rain flowed upwards. But this random graveity thing is just so out of place. I'd rather walk into a ruined city and see buildings tumbled over, debrit everywhere. Rusted old cars and trains and stuff. IMO its like they tried to make this floating stuff too fantasy. I feel this gravity shet was unneeded /shrugs
Just my thoughts.
The apocalipsis that ocurred in the world is extremely Unique, the effects Will be Unique as well
If you think about tacet it is when there are other instruments playing but not your own and as TDs are collections of frequencies that aren’t necessarily their own they themselves are the silence and need to use other frequencies in order to still function in a world where everything has a frequency. I don’t know but I like this idea and it supports some stuff you said in the last video about TDs.
I want lore for PGR and Wuwa not genshin :/
Sadly I dont play PGR, but i'll continue covering Wuwa as long as the lore is interesting and HSR/GI is just something I've been covering for a while
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