It should be noted that none of Stellaron Hunters joined due shared ideology. Kafka joined because Elio promised her fear, Blade is here to die, Silver Wolf just think it's fun and Firefly wish for way to survival. They work for someone following path of Finality, but that doesn't mean they are following that path themselves. Most likely same could be said for Ten Cornestones, though Diamond gives them power of the Preservation, but it's his (well technically it's qliphoths, but close enough), not theirs.
@@shadow-faye I think that's not true. If it's just to live her life, she doesn't need Elio, Jade or anyone. It's just matter of attitude. Feixiao who is on same boat for example live her life fullest every day. Firefly wants live longer, not necessariy better.
2:32 - Kafka getting increasingly dumbfounded at you not sticking around to help isn't just because of some belief in the Finality's prophecies. Kafka and TB had an elaborate, long, and very close history together, as implied in the 'true' answers during the quest and mostly confirmed by Bladie at the quest's end. She wants to spend time with TB again, even for a moment. Hence why her questions to you during the game are 'what do you think of me?' and 'do you ever want to see me again?' - she's down bad, is what I'm saying. So by refusing to help her, you're not, in fact, being drawn back to the titular strange woman by the red string of fate and a shared destiny. Instead, Refuse!TB is taking time out of their day to come up to Kafka and tell her they don't want anything to do with her. She's getting heartbroken and barely hiding it, though she manages to cope well enough by the time you come back and read her letter where she mentions being proud of TB's ability to buck fate and having faith that they'll get their mutual promised destiny eventually. I'll note that 'Letter from a Strange/Mysterious Woman' is the name of a novella about a person who has repeated encounters with a stranger who, in hindsight, is revealed to be a soulmate whose live was intimately intertwined with the protagonist at every turn.
@@esther2079 It's 'Letter From an Unknown Woman' by Stefan Zweig. Much like the actual Franz Kafka, he was also a German-speaking author of Jewish descent born in what was the Austro-Hungarian empire. Just in Vienna instead of Prague.
@@Greennaris_Raterhe actually is. Despite his willingness to like put his life on the line constantly, he’s never like committed to it. It was all to keep himself alive. You can argue the fight against Acheron wasn’t evident of that, but his luck doesn’t fail him and in comes Argenti to save him. Aventurine preserves himself (also as the remains of his people).
Probably because lore wise IPC doesn't do much of tge preservation. They litterally have a department that destroyed multiple planes and Amber lord doesn't even touch the recourses they offer him. Stonehearts are the only ones noticed by Amber Lord as their leader is his emanator and they do seem to be actually following that path one way or another.
@@TowelRanger He abuses his infinite luck in order to insure his own victory. He doesn't get the buff unless he's in a desperate situation. Maybe Pres/destruction hybrid theme?
About Kafka: If you choose to help her, she invites you to play a game where you both tell a truth and a lie and you have to figure out what's what. If you follow the rules, she does too. One of the questions you can ask her is if free will exists. When she's telling the truth, she says yes. When she lies, she says no. Which should mean that she does believe in free will, despite following Elio's Script.
In addition to this, Finality is not the end, it’s the beginning. Origin is the end. That’s how it’s always been and it’s the same in Star Rail. Terminus is experiencing time backwards, thus moving towards the beginning, not the end
@@vietcuongnguyenle8530 Firefly, Silver Wolf and Blade seem to do the same thing at least on occasion. Firefly tries doing some things her own way when she sees the opportunity, Silver Wolf does whatever she wants when not needing to directly be involved in a script, and Blade still at least had a desire to/attempted to kill Dan Heng and fight Jingliu to the death regardless of whether he or they would be needed in Elio’s future plan
Oh!! That kinda makes me look at her quest differently. Cause if the TB chose to work around those other fights, then it’s kinda similar to Fu Xuan’s heliobi quest with the idea of free will
Mara feels more like dementia to me than moonrage. In fact, the symptoms of being marastruck and the symptoms of dementia are both caused by the same thing: The muddling, blurring and shifting of one's memories. People with dementia can have episodes much like someone who is marastruck where they remember some kind of traumatic event that lingers clearly in their memory amongst the broken pieces. Again, even gentle people become violent when they are suddenly transported mentally to a traumatic memory, in an unfamiliar place because something familiar triggered an episode. Blade is always transported back to when he committed that sin and the rage he felt for Dan Feng, and Jingliu similarly is transported back to the day she lost one of her closest friends, and the rage she felt when her memory was disrespected.
Luka believes that nothing matters aside from competing in the ring and saving belobog - in the event however, he was just being pessimistic. If he were to talk like a self-annihilator it’d be something like how Acheron speaks
@@ericx6969 that wasn't how it was before. He swung his fist because it was for the girl that looked up to him, and for the people he cared about, but because of how feeble and tiny human lives and even how miniscule their very existence was, he thought that maybe it was all pointless to keep trying-to continue throwing punches-because in the end, we'll all face death in the eye and those punches will be pointless. His worldview and mindset changed during the 2.5 event, which drew him farther from his nihilist thoughts.
not at all, Luke was being pessimistic, pushing himself down, self annihilators act normal and then turn nihilistic because eventually, they will lose themselves, starting slowly like fragments of memories
I'm more convinced than ever these days that there's really no such thing as a person in this universe who ONLY walks one singular path, and I really do mean *nobody.* Not normal people, not Pathstriders, not even Emanators. Its entirely possible for one person to *dedicate* themselves to a particular Path/Aeon and strive for its values (see: the entire Xianzhou) but Paths are at least in part, metaphysical wellsprings of emotional energy. That's one of the only things we really know about them. You don't *have* to be a Self-Annihilator to wake up feeling kinda crummy about life and feel the tug of the Nihility, and you don't need to be a Genius or a Guild member to have a clever idea. The Divergent Universe tells me that even if most people don't pull enough energy from the Paths to be classifed as true 'Pathstriders', that's a far cry from people simply not treading them at all.
well yea. fu xuan have the third eye from nous the erudition, dedicate herself to preserve loufu as the master diviner, and following the path of the hunt to kill the abundance. path is just as complex as personality. nobody is fully introvert and nobody is fully extrovert.
That's kind of why there's about to be an Aeon War, because the Aeons are unique in that they can only follow their Path; even Emenators can deviate. Also, Hoyo is just...not fond of Gods.
This is actually stated in the lore of the game, I think. A person may mostly follow a path but still somehow have some aspects of others as well...(actually...Dan Heng, the Traiblazer and March actually have different paths in game too), an Aeon has just one and one path only, they are fixated just on their path. They are obviously the most powerful beings, but the fact they are fixated on that path can actually be seen as a flow as well. And they are not actually truly free, either. A person can change a path, an Aeon cannot. They cannot adapt. I think they kind of adopted an ideal and drove it to the extreme...that's also part of the becoming an Aeon process, perhaps. They kind of have to leave behind every other aspect of theirs. The last patch's story about Lan The Hunt actually got me thinking. Don't know if it can be considered a spoiler...so stop reading if you haven't played the main story of the last patch in case... POSSIBLE SPOILERS ALERT!!! When Lan fires their arrow, they basically obliterate everything, friends and foes...many xhianzhou people died in the war against the borisin by Lan's arrow, not because of the borisin. It was implied that somehow they would have lost without their intervention, so they kind of saved them, and they are seen as a 'good Aeon' (not like the Voracity, the Propogation, the Destruction and so on who are basically villains) but actually Feixiao wants to become strong enough to obliterate their enemies so that Lan doesn't have to fire their arrow...because that would imply that not only enemies would die... I believe that Lan is so fixated on their path, as an Aeon, that they care only about hunting their enemies and don't care about anything else...and probably that's not how they were before becoming an Aeon...
I would like to disagree with you on a few points about Blade/Yingxing. There isn't any evidence that Dan Feng convinced Yingxing for help, the only evidence we have is that he did so on his own will. Secondly, I disagree that he became 'Blade' as soon as he became immortal. I agree that at that moment he stopped being Yingxing, but he was left a shell with no memories and mara. He became Blade when Jingliu found him and tortured (let's be real, that's what she did) him. She instilled her hatred and philosophy in him, and that is when he became Blade. His only purpose now being revenge/enforcing 'paying for their crimes', because that's what Jingliu wants. (Importantly I don't think Jingliu forced her philosophy selfishly - she genuinely believes what she does, and therefore did to Blade what she believes is right).
As I know it was Yingxing who offered the idea to use body of Shuhu to resurrect Baiheng and Feng turned or created Bailu from Baiheng. Blade definitely remembers his past life though maybe not very clear but in Jingliu`s quest he came to Bailu on his own and it is suspected that he loved Baiheng
@@pakboris2268 I agree with most of what you said, but completely disagree about him being in love with Baiheng. There is no evidence to suggest this was the case - if you are referring to him gifting her the flask, or him thinking about the flask, that is not implied as romantic (although, people can read into it as they wish). I agree that he loved her, but you can love your friends and that is just as valid. We still don't know exactly what happened during the sedition, but yeah it's heavily heavily implied that Bailu is the reincarnation of Baiheng's spirit. Blade does have memories (as confirmed by Kafka, and Blade's own memories) but we don't know how complete his memories are (especially since Kafka confirms that she has been wiping his memories to save him from mara). He clearly still knows enough about what he and Dan Feng did to know Bailu is important.
I believe MC also follow the Finality prior to the main story before joining Astral Express, and start folowing Traiblazing of Akivili, because their memories get wiped by Kafka, and it was written in their script by Elio.
I doubt that TB follow trailblaze path, since aeon is diseased. If this was the case, then Vidyarha would've follow path of Permanence. We have Idrilla followers, but it feels like self-proclaimed thing, such as Acheron calling herself ranger. The path itself collapsed with aeon.
My only disagreement is that it’s heavily implied in story that Blade only became Blade and started to track down DF/DH after his tine with Jingliu. Thats why he repeats her words about 3 needing to pay a price. It was just the Mara but the multiple deaths he faced under her that likely escalated and accelerated his Mara. Video makes it sound decent fully crazy and then met JL.
Note that there may be a possibility of us the player having a role in this And plus the narrator has their own personality and on some points of the story has actively conversed with the TrailBlazer as in TB literally replying back(as far as i remember)
Well, Silver is practically a Nihility, because she does everything for fun. If it's not fun, she becomes really anxious and becomes really lazy(which is a trait for Nihi charas), basically meaning, that everything is meaningless, if it's not fun. For Gui tho... Idk, really, i didn't read her story.
Lil'Gui may represent the Anti-nihilist side of the Nihility like the Doctors of Chaos. Reading her past she went through A LOT before coming to the Loufu and being the streamer we meet her as. Guinaifen probably knows that her time in the Loufu will be incredibly short compared to the lives of her long-life friends and fans, despite that though Guinaifen tries to live her life to the fullest.
I don’t think that is why the sedition happens it’s because Dan Feng and Blade used the power of Abundance in the flesh of an emanator to revive Baiheng. We actually don’t know how Blade was struck with mara especially since he was not a long life species.
When yingxing (now named blade) and Dan feng started screwing around with an emanators flesh to resurrect their friend, their desperate experiment went wrong; a ton of people died (though we don’t know precisely how they died) and yingxings body gained the regenerative properties of the abominations of abundance, but since yingxing was mutated by an actual emanators flesh, he became essentially impossible to kill without using emanator level powers. It’s said in an optional story quest for the loufu that if a long life species tries to modify their body, it will always return to its original state (a blind woman tried getting new eyes, her blind ones grew back in a few days). Blades body essentially does this exact thing, just thousands of times faster. I think it’s reasonable to say blade is now an extra extra extra long life species, so it makes sense he can get afflicted with Mara. This is all much to blades dismay, as he would like nothing more than allowing the sweet embrace of death to cleanse him of his sins and silence his tormented and self-hating thoughts. On that note, blade would probably have a very twisted sort of crush on Acheron if he knew about how easily Acheron can annihilate matter.
I think the implication was that the flesh of the emanator turned him into a long life human, like the abundance did so many years ago to the people of the Xianzhou. And with that comes the Mara once you can’t handle all those memories anymore.
Most likely that narrated version is uncertain, if with the current version we realize that the preceptors were behind most of the events, why take both as guilty? (Dan Feng and Yingxing). There is much that they are hiding from those events that everything up to now are estimates of events that will be explained in the future.
I wonder when you will cook about IPC 😂😂😂 Btw while blade (and firefly) is expected (because their blood thirsty and destruction behavior), i really don't expect the kafka one, i already know the "hidden" companion quest ending, but i didn't connect the dot...
I think it's because Eurodution represents things such as thoughtfulness, mindfulness, intelligence, awareness etc Argenti is a thoughtful man, and I would say he's decently intelligent. He's also very mindful and is aware of others struggles Granted, they also could've made him harmony, so that's a good question
@@HazZzel- Erudition followers are also always on the hunt for more knowledge and awareness if I remember correctly. Argenti is trying to gain the knowledge of where Idrila is, despite others saying they're/she's dead
The narrative with Blade seems a bit superficial, the game doesn't explain much to you either. But it can't be ruled out that the Mara came after his encounter with Jingliu (she conditioned him to be a weapon in her plan, to hunt down Dan Heng and in the process have Mara), and the Mara causes you problems with your memory....
All the stellaron hunters follow the finality as a faction by default led by elio, which is the one providing the scripts, that they do by the letter, to make the best outcome/future come true and get what they wished for.
@@candleplays8030 okay. I really don’t wanna get into this, buts it’s already been established that he is Dan Feng. He went through molting rebirth, which de ages them but their memories are erased. (The reason why DH has his memories is because Lingsha’s mentor did something to him)
So is this why the Finally Eminator meets us in Penacony? Because Trailblazer was a servant of Finality. Also if Finality isn't Kiana I will be disappointed
Because I hope it will get explained: Argenti! Beauty and Erudition! Also, Blade's desire for killing Dan Heng, potentially his former partner, is from Jingliu. They even share voice lines and she states she "carved these words into every wound."
Maybe could you do Misha? I dont understand his destruction path since he is the one responsible for making the dreamscape and "creating" dreams isn't he? Nothing about him seems destruction
Pretty sure Destruction comes with "wanting things to end/be concluded" in some way. Misha being the memoria creation that he is, just wanted to pass on his legacy and have his chapter finally end. Legwork wasn't "alive" but his memory bubble was awaiting the Astral Express crew to find. And once that is done, his path is finally finished and he can finally rest.
Just one little correction, Blade was a complete human, short life and all, the thing with dan feng made him imortal, and immortality is a crime in xianzhou But NOW that he is long life, he eventually becomes mara-struck too
While an interesting idea, I find it odd that no one ever talks about that you can get Kafka to spill the beans, and you can confirm it’s true because of a math problem that has a definite answer, and she makes a comment about “was it worth it, to know if I was telling the truth?” (Paraphrasing). She tells you that trailblazer was once a SH too, and that a love was to develop between her and the trailblazer, this love was actually a problem in the future, Elio never told her why, but the amnesia is suggested to be purposeful to ensure that forbidden love can develop. It’s also why you were sealed, and if I recall correctly, the MC was agreeable to the situation. Nihility is derived from “nihilism”, as the game has directly stated. Nihilism is a philosophy that “reduces” arguments. Ultimately, nihilism can be itself a fallacy because you can use it to reduce any argument to absurdity. This is why Acheron opposes IX and stands to guard people from “ceasing” to exist by following nihility “too far”. And the characters “debut” because they “reduce”. DoT reduces HP, as an example. Technically, if Blade was to find Acheron, pretty sure she could “reduce” him to actual nothing, so destruction isn’t the only way “to die”. That’s actually what Acheron’s story is about. IX might actually be able to “cure” the marastruck. Purely speculative of course.
I think everyone overlooked one character, Hook. Such a happy ( I played the companion quest, I know its not all sunshine and rainbows) character is destruction, very sus Personal theory, I think hook is, or will become a emanator of destruction!!
i think the type ingame for char just present which of 7 currently playable path the char have the most affinity toward regardless of which path they really follow in lore, what counted toward a char affinity is their belief/personality but many time it just natural affinity they r born with toward that path, think of it like Nen from HxH or charka element from naruto. Becoz all the path is not playable so the char type/path ingame might not even be their most compatible path, it might only be 2nd or just even 3rd best, that why some char feel off from their ingame type typical characteristic
Umm potential leaks, not sure if its true This video like made me realise and explained the rumours of kafka becomimg a free imaginary destruction character to me
This leak is higly questionable, i never saw it on the leak subreedit so it means the mod took it down after it was posted since it had no valid claim or backing from a realible leaker, it could be true but if it is true then it will be one of those too good to be true
Their game mechanic paths don't ALWAYS reflect the character. Some of them don't have 'gameplay' paths assignable. Black Swan is an Emanator of the Remembrance... but since the Remembrance does not have a 'game mechanic' tied to it, she's 'the next closest thing'
Interestingly enough we know Aeons are able to consume each other. What purpose does Finality serve when all roads lead to IX? Sure the Trailblaze and Finality walk opposite paths in time but they end in the same place. On a long enough timeline all succumb to IX
Finality not deny the meaning of existence Nihility deny it All thing suppose to have an end, but it didn’t suppose to have no meaning The thing which not lead to nihility is when existence put a meaning on itself
Am I still the only one wondering why theirs 2 nihility character and 2 destruction character in the stellaron hunters? Btw I think kafka and blade following the path of Terminus just means that they believe what the aeon is about like Jing Yuan being different path but being an emanator of The hunt
If I had a nickel for every time I found a youtuber who goes by “Nova” who makes excellent lore videos, I’d have 2. It’s not a bad thing at all ofc, just really strange that it happened twice and for different fandoms
It should be noted that none of Stellaron Hunters joined due shared ideology. Kafka joined because Elio promised her fear, Blade is here to die, Silver Wolf just think it's fun and Firefly wish for way to survival. They work for someone following path of Finality, but that doesn't mean they are following that path themselves.
Most likely same could be said for Ten Cornestones, though Diamond gives them power of the Preservation, but it's his (well technically it's qliphoths, but close enough), not theirs.
I agree with you 100%
firefly isnt so much looking for a way to survive as she is a way to live her life
Not fear
Elio promised to show Kafka the meaning of life or giving her life meaning
@@shadow-faye It is said she's trying to change the outcome of her fated demise
@@shadow-faye I think that's not true. If it's just to live her life, she doesn't need Elio, Jade or anyone. It's just matter of attitude. Feixiao who is on same boat for example live her life fullest every day. Firefly wants live longer, not necessariy better.
2:32 - Kafka getting increasingly dumbfounded at you not sticking around to help isn't just because of some belief in the Finality's prophecies. Kafka and TB had an elaborate, long, and very close history together, as implied in the 'true' answers during the quest and mostly confirmed by Bladie at the quest's end. She wants to spend time with TB again, even for a moment. Hence why her questions to you during the game are 'what do you think of me?' and 'do you ever want to see me again?' - she's down bad, is what I'm saying.
So by refusing to help her, you're not, in fact, being drawn back to the titular strange woman by the red string of fate and a shared destiny. Instead, Refuse!TB is taking time out of their day to come up to Kafka and tell her they don't want anything to do with her. She's getting heartbroken and barely hiding it, though she manages to cope well enough by the time you come back and read her letter where she mentions being proud of TB's ability to buck fate and having faith that they'll get their mutual promised destiny eventually.
I'll note that 'Letter from a Strange/Mysterious Woman' is the name of a novella about a person who has repeated encounters with a stranger who, in hindsight, is revealed to be a soulmate whose live was intimately intertwined with the protagonist at every turn.
wait, who wrote that novella? you got me interested
@@esther2079 It's 'Letter From an Unknown Woman' by Stefan Zweig. Much like the actual Franz Kafka, he was also a German-speaking author of Jewish descent born in what was the Austro-Hungarian empire. Just in Vienna instead of Prague.
@@AdrianArmbrusterAwesome detail, thank you for that. The depth of Hoyo's literary and cultural references never cease to impress me
Let Nova cook when talking about IPC, isnt it funny that so far aventurine is the only IPC member that is also preservation
And bro ain't even preserving
@@Greennaris_Raterhe actually is. Despite his willingness to like put his life on the line constantly, he’s never like committed to it. It was all to keep himself alive. You can argue the fight against Acheron wasn’t evident of that, but his luck doesn’t fail him and in comes Argenti to save him. Aventurine preserves himself (also as the remains of his people).
So far in terms of gameplay the IPC has been more Elation-related than the two playable Masked Fools we’ve been introduced to
Probably because lore wise IPC doesn't do much of tge preservation. They litterally have a department that destroyed multiple planes and Amber lord doesn't even touch the recourses they offer him.
Stonehearts are the only ones noticed by Amber Lord as their leader is his emanator and they do seem to be actually following that path one way or another.
@@TowelRanger He abuses his infinite luck in order to insure his own victory. He doesn't get the buff unless he's in a desperate situation. Maybe Pres/destruction hybrid theme?
If you go back to that spot there’s a note saying “you will be back ello told me”
Well, guess Elio was wrong
@@kaiky_3821 not if you really go back there - its kind of like schödingers cat
About Kafka: If you choose to help her, she invites you to play a game where you both tell a truth and a lie and you have to figure out what's what.
If you follow the rules, she does too. One of the questions you can ask her is if free will exists. When she's telling the truth, she says yes. When she lies, she says no. Which should mean that she does believe in free will, despite following Elio's Script.
In addition to this, Finality is not the end, it’s the beginning. Origin is the end. That’s how it’s always been and it’s the same in Star Rail. Terminus is experiencing time backwards, thus moving towards the beginning, not the end
OOOH That's a cool detail. So she truly doesn't know if it exists or not, but she wants to believe it does even though Elio tells her it doesn't.
@@NovaImpact144think about it, she always try to do thing she personally want to do when she know it not affect ellio script
@@vietcuongnguyenle8530 Firefly, Silver Wolf and Blade seem to do the same thing at least on occasion. Firefly tries doing some things her own way when she sees the opportunity, Silver Wolf does whatever she wants when not needing to directly be involved in a script, and Blade still at least had a desire to/attempted to kill Dan Heng and fight Jingliu to the death regardless of whether he or they would be needed in Elio’s future plan
Oh!! That kinda makes me look at her quest differently. Cause if the TB chose to work around those other fights, then it’s kinda similar to Fu Xuan’s heliobi quest with the idea of free will
Mara feels more like dementia to me than moonrage. In fact, the symptoms of being marastruck and the symptoms of dementia are both caused by the same thing: The muddling, blurring and shifting of one's memories. People with dementia can have episodes much like someone who is marastruck where they remember some kind of traumatic event that lingers clearly in their memory amongst the broken pieces. Again, even gentle people become violent when they are suddenly transported mentally to a traumatic memory, in an unfamiliar place because something familiar triggered an episode.
Blade is always transported back to when he committed that sin and the rage he felt for Dan Feng, and Jingliu similarly is transported back to the day she lost one of her closest friends, and the rage she felt when her memory was disrespected.
Thene there's Luka following the nihility in game and then talking like a self anhilator in the 2.5event.
Luka believes that nothing matters aside from competing in the ring and saving belobog - in the event however, he was just being pessimistic. If he were to talk like a self-annihilator it’d be something like how Acheron speaks
luka being nihility make no sense since he ideal is throw next punch future has meaning
@@beaniehats__ the journey has meaning even if end comes luka more finality
@@ericx6969 that wasn't how it was before.
He swung his fist because it was for the girl that looked up to him, and for the people he cared about, but because of how feeble and tiny human lives and even how miniscule their very existence was, he thought that maybe it was all pointless to keep trying-to continue throwing punches-because in the end, we'll all face death in the eye and those punches will be pointless.
His worldview and mindset changed during the 2.5 event, which drew him farther from his nihilist thoughts.
not at all, Luke was being pessimistic, pushing himself down, self annihilators act normal and then turn nihilistic because eventually, they will lose themselves, starting slowly like fragments of memories
I'm more convinced than ever these days that there's really no such thing as a person in this universe who ONLY walks one singular path, and I really do mean *nobody.* Not normal people, not Pathstriders, not even Emanators. Its entirely possible for one person to *dedicate* themselves to a particular Path/Aeon and strive for its values (see: the entire Xianzhou) but Paths are at least in part, metaphysical wellsprings of emotional energy. That's one of the only things we really know about them. You don't *have* to be a Self-Annihilator to wake up feeling kinda crummy about life and feel the tug of the Nihility, and you don't need to be a Genius or a Guild member to have a clever idea. The Divergent Universe tells me that even if most people don't pull enough energy from the Paths to be classifed as true 'Pathstriders', that's a far cry from people simply not treading them at all.
well yea. fu xuan have the third eye from nous the erudition, dedicate herself to preserve loufu as the master diviner, and following the path of the hunt to kill the abundance. path is just as complex as personality. nobody is fully introvert and nobody is fully extrovert.
That's kind of why there's about to be an Aeon War, because the Aeons are unique in that they can only follow their Path; even Emenators can deviate.
Also, Hoyo is just...not fond of Gods.
This is actually stated in the lore of the game, I think. A person may mostly follow a path but still somehow have some aspects of others as well...(actually...Dan Heng, the Traiblazer and March actually have different paths in game too), an Aeon has just one and one path only, they are fixated just on their path. They are obviously the most powerful beings, but the fact they are fixated on that path can actually be seen as a flow as well. And they are not actually truly free, either. A person can change a path, an Aeon cannot. They cannot adapt. I think they kind of adopted an ideal and drove it to the extreme...that's also part of the becoming an Aeon process, perhaps. They kind of have to leave behind every other aspect of theirs.
The last patch's story about Lan The Hunt actually got me thinking. Don't know if it can be considered a spoiler...so stop reading if you haven't played the main story of the last patch in case...
POSSIBLE SPOILERS ALERT!!!
When Lan fires their arrow, they basically obliterate everything, friends and foes...many xhianzhou people died in the war against the borisin by Lan's arrow, not because of the borisin. It was implied that somehow they would have lost without their intervention, so they kind of saved them, and they are seen as a 'good Aeon' (not like the Voracity, the Propogation, the Destruction and so on who are basically villains) but actually Feixiao wants to become strong enough to obliterate their enemies so that Lan doesn't have to fire their arrow...because that would imply that not only enemies would die...
I believe that Lan is so fixated on their path, as an Aeon, that they care only about hunting their enemies and don't care about anything else...and probably that's not how they were before becoming an Aeon...
I would like to disagree with you on a few points about Blade/Yingxing. There isn't any evidence that Dan Feng convinced Yingxing for help, the only evidence we have is that he did so on his own will. Secondly, I disagree that he became 'Blade' as soon as he became immortal. I agree that at that moment he stopped being Yingxing, but he was left a shell with no memories and mara. He became Blade when Jingliu found him and tortured (let's be real, that's what she did) him. She instilled her hatred and philosophy in him, and that is when he became Blade. His only purpose now being revenge/enforcing 'paying for their crimes', because that's what Jingliu wants. (Importantly I don't think Jingliu forced her philosophy selfishly - she genuinely believes what she does, and therefore did to Blade what she believes is right).
As I know it was Yingxing who offered the idea to use body of Shuhu to resurrect Baiheng and Feng turned or created Bailu from Baiheng. Blade definitely remembers his past life though maybe not very clear but in Jingliu`s quest he came to Bailu on his own and it is suspected that he loved Baiheng
@@pakboris2268 I agree with most of what you said, but completely disagree about him being in love with Baiheng. There is no evidence to suggest this was the case - if you are referring to him gifting her the flask, or him thinking about the flask, that is not implied as romantic (although, people can read into it as they wish). I agree that he loved her, but you can love your friends and that is just as valid.
We still don't know exactly what happened during the sedition, but yeah it's heavily heavily implied that Bailu is the reincarnation of Baiheng's spirit.
Blade does have memories (as confirmed by Kafka, and Blade's own memories) but we don't know how complete his memories are (especially since Kafka confirms that she has been wiping his memories to save him from mara). He clearly still knows enough about what he and Dan Feng did to know Bailu is important.
4:07 BLADIEEEEEEEE btw he also cuts his wrists when using his technique
Really?!
I have him in-game and yes he does.
His chest also bounces when you use his attack (don't ask me how I know)@@Randompersonyouhaventmet
This is why he's my favorite
@@mymadnessworld9342 u freaky… same tho
I believe MC also follow the Finality prior to the main story before joining Astral Express, and start folowing Traiblazing of Akivili, because their memories get wiped by Kafka, and it was written in their script by Elio.
I doubt that TB follow trailblaze path, since aeon is diseased. If this was the case, then Vidyarha would've follow path of Permanence.
We have Idrilla followers, but it feels like self-proclaimed thing, such as Acheron calling herself ranger. The path itself collapsed with aeon.
My only disagreement is that it’s heavily implied in story that Blade only became Blade and started to track down DF/DH after his tine with Jingliu. Thats why he repeats her words about 3 needing to pay a price. It was just the Mara but the multiple deaths he faced under her that likely escalated and accelerated his Mara. Video makes it sound decent fully crazy and then met JL.
Note that there may be a possibility of us the player having a role in this
And plus the narrator has their own personality and on some points of the story has actively conversed with the TrailBlazer as in TB literally replying back(as far as i remember)
Loved this so much!!!! Your enthusiasm really makes it fun to know more about the lore!!!
Ngl I literally refused Kafka's Request because I'm too lazy doing more missions then I got the Achievement "True Free Will or something".
I'm curious how Guinifen and Silver Wolf are Nihility, since they seem far from it, but I may not be looking deep enough.
This was very nice.
Well, Silver is practically a Nihility, because she does everything for fun. If it's not fun, she becomes really anxious and becomes really lazy(which is a trait for Nihi charas), basically meaning, that everything is meaningless, if it's not fun. For Gui tho... Idk, really, i didn't read her story.
@@Irbisadventurer That sounds like a mix between Elation and Nihility tbh.
Lil'Gui may represent the Anti-nihilist side of the Nihility like the Doctors of Chaos. Reading her past she went through A LOT before coming to the Loufu and being the streamer we meet her as. Guinaifen probably knows that her time in the Loufu will be incredibly short compared to the lives of her long-life friends and fans, despite that though Guinaifen tries to live her life to the fullest.
@@Irbisadventurerthat just sounds like elation
I don’t think that is why the sedition happens it’s because Dan Feng and Blade used the power of Abundance in the flesh of an emanator to revive Baiheng. We actually don’t know how Blade was struck with mara especially since he was not a long life species.
When yingxing (now named blade) and Dan feng started screwing around with an emanators flesh to resurrect their friend, their desperate experiment went wrong; a ton of people died (though we don’t know precisely how they died) and yingxings body gained the regenerative properties of the abominations of abundance, but since yingxing was mutated by an actual emanators flesh, he became essentially impossible to kill without using emanator level powers. It’s said in an optional story quest for the loufu that if a long life species tries to modify their body, it will always return to its original state (a blind woman tried getting new eyes, her blind ones grew back in a few days). Blades body essentially does this exact thing, just thousands of times faster. I think it’s reasonable to say blade is now an extra extra extra long life species, so it makes sense he can get afflicted with Mara. This is all much to blades dismay, as he would like nothing more than allowing the sweet embrace of death to cleanse him of his sins and silence his tormented and self-hating thoughts.
On that note, blade would probably have a very twisted sort of crush on Acheron if he knew about how easily Acheron can annihilate matter.
I think the implication was that the flesh of the emanator turned him into a long life human, like the abundance did so many years ago to the people of the Xianzhou. And with that comes the Mara once you can’t handle all those memories anymore.
Most likely that narrated version is uncertain, if with the current version we realize that the preceptors were behind most of the events, why take both as guilty? (Dan Feng and Yingxing). There is much that they are hiding from those events that everything up to now are estimates of events that will be explained in the future.
I wonder when you will cook about IPC 😂😂😂
Btw while blade (and firefly) is expected (because their blood thirsty and destruction behavior), i really don't expect the kafka one, i already know the "hidden" companion quest ending, but i didn't connect the dot...
The only reason Firefly is destruction is because of her past, and probably some other things I haven't looked too much into yet
Kafka and Silver Wolf: Nothing else but my objective really matters
Blade and Firefly: *IM HERE TO KILL AND GET KILLED*
Trust me, Kafka will have a new form follows the path of Erudition Fire.
Blade be like: Imma kill you Dang Heng in 8 Cycles
Please do argenti next please
I think it's because Eurodution represents things such as thoughtfulness, mindfulness, intelligence, awareness etc
Argenti is a thoughtful man, and I would say he's decently intelligent. He's also very mindful and is aware of others struggles
Granted, they also could've made him harmony, so that's a good question
@@HazZzel- Erudition followers are also always on the hunt for more knowledge and awareness if I remember correctly. Argenti is trying to gain the knowledge of where Idrila is, despite others saying they're/she's dead
@@Eclipse1075 Wait that actually fits so well
The narrative with Blade seems a bit superficial, the game doesn't explain much to you either. But it can't be ruled out that the Mara came after his encounter with Jingliu (she conditioned him to be a weapon in her plan, to hunt down Dan Heng and in the process have Mara), and the Mara causes you problems with your memory....
Nice content bro, you got yourself a sub
Why did I get destiny's slave confused with Destiny's Child
"Say my name, Bladie."
After this series, you should just explain everyone's lore. I learned so many things 🤯
*The good guys* without whom the pc wouldn’t exist
Is it confirmed that other stellaron hunters follow finality?
All the stellaron hunters follow the finality as a faction by default led by elio, which is the one providing the scripts, that they do by the letter, to make the best outcome/future come true and get what they wished for.
Wdym (we don’t like Dan Feng) that’s basically saying we don’t like Dan heng 💀
Side Note: I really like the HCQ lore because it’s interesting.
The entirety of dan heng character arc has literally been about how he's not dan feng
@@candleplays8030 okay. I really don’t wanna get into this, buts it’s already been established that he is Dan Feng. He went through molting rebirth, which de ages them but their memories are erased. (The reason why DH has his memories is because Lingsha’s mentor did something to him)
So is this why the Finally Eminator meets us in Penacony? Because Trailblazer was a servant of Finality.
Also if Finality isn't Kiana I will be disappointed
That means sparkle might be the path of elation instead of just harmony 🎉🎉
Harm-on-me from Harmony?
Because I hope it will get explained:
Argenti! Beauty and Erudition!
Also, Blade's desire for killing Dan Heng, potentially his former partner, is from Jingliu. They even share voice lines and she states she "carved these words into every wound."
Yay you really listen to my request about making videos Abt them
I always made the assumption that Kafka is Nihility because she’s based on Franz Kafka, a nihilist
Maybe could you do Misha? I dont understand his destruction path since he is the one responsible for making the dreamscape and "creating" dreams isn't he? Nothing about him seems destruction
Pretty sure Destruction comes with "wanting things to end/be concluded" in some way. Misha being the memoria creation that he is, just wanted to pass on his legacy and have his chapter finally end. Legwork wasn't "alive" but his memory bubble was awaiting the Astral Express crew to find. And once that is done, his path is finally finished and he can finally rest.
@@darkwarfare772 Wooaah you may be right, the whole point of going to penacony was getting Mikhails legacy
Bet Firefly is harmony
Just one little correction, Blade was a complete human, short life and all, the thing with dan feng made him imortal, and immortality is a crime in xianzhou
But NOW that he is long life, he eventually becomes mara-struck too
Amazing video though
I CAN CHANGE HER FR
While an interesting idea, I find it odd that no one ever talks about that you can get Kafka to spill the beans, and you can confirm it’s true because of a math problem that has a definite answer, and she makes a comment about “was it worth it, to know if I was telling the truth?” (Paraphrasing).
She tells you that trailblazer was once a SH too, and that a love was to develop between her and the trailblazer, this love was actually a problem in the future, Elio never told her why, but the amnesia is suggested to be purposeful to ensure that forbidden love can develop. It’s also why you were sealed, and if I recall correctly, the MC was agreeable to the situation.
Nihility is derived from “nihilism”, as the game has directly stated. Nihilism is a philosophy that “reduces” arguments. Ultimately, nihilism can be itself a fallacy because you can use it to reduce any argument to absurdity. This is why Acheron opposes IX and stands to guard people from “ceasing” to exist by following nihility “too far”. And the characters “debut” because they “reduce”. DoT reduces HP, as an example.
Technically, if Blade was to find Acheron, pretty sure she could “reduce” him to actual nothing, so destruction isn’t the only way “to die”. That’s actually what Acheron’s story is about. IX might actually be able to “cure” the marastruck. Purely speculative of course.
I think everyone overlooked one character, Hook.
Such a happy ( I played the companion quest, I know its not all sunshine and rainbows) character is destruction, very sus
Personal theory, I think hook is, or will become a emanator of destruction!!
Hook simply destroys the belongings of others
@@Sholver I really thought there was more to it. Thanks for answering anyway!
@@campulungeanushow2005 lol no problem
I think by "type" you're talking about pathstriding
Just let blade die with my wishes
Why Clara and Arlan are destrution path?
Bruh i want to ask st , is 8 infinity and 13 is death so blade's bounty is......
Why are we saying aeon wrong...
„Hoyo does not do things for no reason“ you say? I challenge that statement with „Pela is 16 years old“
She is right we only have 3 choices each time only 3 possibilities unless one dedies terminus
i think the type ingame for char just present which of 7 currently playable path the char have the most affinity toward regardless of which path they really follow in lore, what counted toward a char affinity is their belief/personality but many time it just natural affinity they r born with toward that path, think of it like Nen from HxH or charka element from naruto. Becoz all the path is not playable so the char type/path ingame might not even be their most compatible path, it might only be 2nd or just even 3rd best, that why some char feel off from their ingame type typical characteristic
There is only 2 type: Waifu hand Husbando the rest are F tier.
Umm potential leaks, not sure if its true
This video like made me realise and explained the rumours of kafka becomimg a free imaginary destruction character to me
This leak is higly questionable, i never saw it on the leak subreedit so it means the mod took it down after it was posted since it had no valid claim or backing from a realible leaker, it could be true but if it is true then it will be one of those too good to be true
@ibrahim5463 I know but if it's true the setup was immaculate, I'll link it if I find it
me clicking on this vid thinking dot was getting a chance again...
Their game mechanic paths don't ALWAYS reflect the character. Some of them don't have 'gameplay' paths assignable. Black Swan is an Emanator of the Remembrance... but since the Remembrance does not have a 'game mechanic' tied to it, she's 'the next closest thing'
Interestingly enough we know Aeons are able to consume each other. What purpose does Finality serve when all roads lead to IX? Sure the Trailblaze and Finality walk opposite paths in time but they end in the same place. On a long enough timeline all succumb to IX
Finality not deny the meaning of existence
Nihility deny it
All thing suppose to have an end, but it didn’t suppose to have no meaning
The thing which not lead to nihility is when existence put a meaning on itself
Opening statement is not true...
Guinafen and danheng il pls
the term type is already used in game to refer to a character's 'element' 😂
This series may get really confusing when "POTENTIOL REDACTED" path comes out
Am I still the only one wondering why theirs 2 nihility character and 2 destruction character in the stellaron hunters?
Btw I think kafka and blade following the path of Terminus just means that they believe what the aeon is about like Jing Yuan being different path but being an emanator of The hunt
If I had a nickel for every time I found a youtuber who goes by “Nova” who makes excellent lore videos, I’d have 2. It’s not a bad thing at all ofc, just really strange that it happened twice and for different fandoms
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