The Genshin Impact Lore Iceberg Explained (pt. 1)

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  • @starlightveronica1873
    @starlightveronica1873 2 роки тому +971

    Both pyro agents and cicin mages have (what are probably) delusions visible on their character models, so they don't seem to be limited to harbingers.

    • @Chopsparillo
      @Chopsparillo 2 роки тому +96

      Yep all elite fatui enemies have delusions. Pyro agents, Cicin mages, and Mirror Maidens all have them.

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +94

      the things you can miss when you're worried about the other things. Don't know how I missed this one

    • @Deepstab1
      @Deepstab1 2 роки тому +46

      Delusions seem to come in levels too, the ones they gave to the resistance soldiers were definenitely not the same the harbingers receive

    • @Diamondflower101
      @Diamondflower101 2 роки тому +22

      Aside from the Fatui, Diluc's dad died from using a delusion. I don't remember if that was mentioned in Diluc's character story or if it was just a manga/webtoon thing

    • @chilledkhaos
      @chilledkhaos 2 роки тому +9

      The skirmisher type enemies however don’t use delusions they use element infused equipment

  • @ambers.9499
    @ambers.9499 2 роки тому +663

    Nonhumans probably refers to people like Diona, Yae, Itto, and Gorou. Potentially also Albedo and Scaramouche since they’re artificial.

    • @03303j
      @03303j 2 роки тому +62

      plus klee, zhongli, venti, ganyu(half), xiao, yanfei(half)

    • @RuiPlushReal
      @RuiPlushReal 2 роки тому +27

      @@03303j and Sucrose

    • @Kretyszarlota
      @Kretyszarlota 2 роки тому +3

      @@RuiPlushReal what do you mean sucrose is non human hello

    • @Kretyszarlota
      @Kretyszarlota 2 роки тому +39

      I FORGOT SHE HAS EARS OK NEVERMIND 😭

    • @pixieraze
      @pixieraze 2 роки тому +6

      @@Kretyszarlota bye~

  • @Who_is_Ari
    @Who_is_Ari 2 роки тому +136

    "Slimes being used for mundane activities" is probably referencing that we see anemo slimes used for transportation, pyro slimes used to start fires, etc.

    • @estefanoalfredopavangoncal9518
      @estefanoalfredopavangoncal9518 2 роки тому +9

      Pyro slimes are also a snack, I'm just not sure if they taste better with salt and pepper or garlic and herbs

  • @midnashadow8439
    @midnashadow8439 2 роки тому +128

    In the lavawalker artifact set, I think the lord mentions how a traveler found a baby in the desert, that baby turning out to be Bennett

    • @Malloooow
      @Malloooow 2 роки тому +7

      Poggers imma read the lore of the set later

  • @LilyGuitarASMR
    @LilyGuitarASMR 2 роки тому +536

    Considering its spot on the iceberg, I thought Timmie’s Mother referred to the fact that Sister Grace has been taking care of him and is the one her refers to as “mommy” (if you kill the ducks you’re supposed to feed in his daily quest, you get an apology quest the next day where this is explained)

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +56

      I meant to talk about Sister Grace but I like, forgot to put it in the script so
      whoops

  • @dankbudew4830
    @dankbudew4830 2 роки тому +309

    I think we need to hear Dainslef’s side of the story first before we jump into any conclusions. Khaenriah was a godless nation, and the citizens there never needed an archon to protect them or to pray to. They probably had some type of Golden Age of Science, Literature, arts, etc. But this could go two ways:
    1) Celestia found this to be a threat to the status quo in the world. If one nation is godless, then others will follow suit, not wanting to worship them anymore, so they destroyed them for that reason.
    OR
    2) Hubris. Or Pride. Was their downfall. If Fischl’s books are anything to go by, the princezzin visited a kingdom of Eternal Night ruled by a 13,000 yr old bloodline. In their arrogance, refused the help she was willing to offer them. And since some of the archons and other figures in the game have names related to biblical demons, maybe Khaenriah slowly turned into something akin to Sodom and Gomorrah, or even how Egypt was portrayed in the story of Moses.
    From Kaeya’s character story, it feels like his father is so obsessed with reclaiming a long lost legacy from 500 years ago, he would willingly abandon his only child into an unknown country with a whole different language, so sure his son would fulfill this prophecy he’s created in his head. It makes me both mad AND sad if that’s the case

    • @1LuvMLPFiM
      @1LuvMLPFiM 2 роки тому

      I wonder why the sibling is so determined to lead the Abyss Order.

    • @TheXorph64
      @TheXorph64 2 роки тому +2

      ​@@1LuvMLPFiM If Dank Budew's Theory #1 is correct, then Khaenriah being destroyed was an incredibly unjust if not outright evil thing to happen. In that situation, the Abyss Order are remnants of Khaenriah citizens trying to get justified revenge on the gods for how they genocided them.
      If Tabibi's sibling was awake the entire 500 years we were sealed away, it makes sense that witnessing Khaenriah's destruction firsthand radicalized them into devoting all of that time to helping/leading the Abyss Order, since they'd see fighting against Celestia as the just thing to do (similar to how seeing firsthand how someone having their vision stolen scrambles their brain convinced Tabibi to fight against Inazuma/the Shogun).

  • @rensee1165
    @rensee1165 2 роки тому +185

    I wonder why teppei didn't get a vision knowing how determined he was, guess there's a different between obsession and ambition

    • @confuseddiluc4972
      @confuseddiluc4972 2 роки тому +29

      His ambition was literally to get a vision

    • @appleoftheground
      @appleoftheground 2 роки тому +43

      Ei also mentioned that there's another part to getting a vision besides ambition, though she didn't expand on it

    • @1LuvMLPFiM
      @1LuvMLPFiM 2 роки тому +5

      Our boy Teppei... :(

    • @Al_musawi14
      @Al_musawi14 2 роки тому +3

      Ruu> Teppei

    • @shyflower184
      @shyflower184 Рік тому

      Maybe because it was possible Teppi never believed he could ever make a difference without some sort of higher power to make him stronger and maybe that's what makes vision holders different from others.

  • @sfjuhispst8144
    @sfjuhispst8144 2 роки тому +118

    The hilichurls use cryo and pyro slimes as explosives. You can see them stuffed in the barrels. Probably related to the "slimes in everyday use."

  • @vivivianmelody
    @vivivianmelody 2 роки тому +94

    I am probably wrong but I've always thought that Childe fell to the abyss? And he has to survive down there and a person named Skirk thought Childe how to fight?

    • @acedetective9542
      @acedetective9542 2 роки тому +14

      pretty sure that’s what happened

    • @acclasica9496
      @acclasica9496 2 роки тому +38

      That is in fact the case, you can read it in his character profile. He didnt decided to go there to train, he fell, and it was a very traumatic experience which then gives him his bloodlust and battle seeking nature.

  • @HERMES097
    @HERMES097 2 роки тому +48

    That moment when you name your entire civilization after a ship

  • @mad.mao.mao.
    @mad.mao.mao. 2 роки тому +221

    i need more of this, right now. i don't mind a longer video, sitting here and just listening to the lore explained is great.

    • @venti9925
      @venti9925 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah I was like oh at least there's a part two. And now I see this is the most recent video. halpp I need whale milk

  • @Miniredlights
    @Miniredlights 2 роки тому +57

    For Timmies Mother what I believe it is referring to is a commission, one which comes after the commission named "the Pigeon, Duck, and Child" If you do this quest normally and feed the ducks then nothing happens, but if you kill every duck the next day a commission called "Sorry, Timmie!" appears. The first step in this commission is to talk to a sister of the church named Grace, when you ask her about the "mommy" that timmy talks about she will reply with "it's me. I've been taking care of the children who need care for a while now.
    Timmie's the one I've looked after longest. He's even come to call me Mommy. But in truth, I'm not his real family." which leads me to believe that that part of the iceberg is referring to Grace.

  • @ignemuton5500
    @ignemuton5500 2 роки тому +78

    It frustrates me to no end to know that both zhongli and venti know exactly what happened 500 years before the beginning of the game but zhongli is signed on a contract and venti just keeps avoiding answering.

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +18

      He's a slippery little bitch and I will never forgive him for that

    • @1LuvMLPFiM
      @1LuvMLPFiM 2 роки тому +2

      Perhaps the gods are evil after all?!

    • @ignemuton5500
      @ignemuton5500 2 роки тому +11

      @@1LuvMLPFiM i think that this is the generally accepted theory among the community, that the tsaritsa is actually trying to revolt against the gods of celestia and needs all the gnoses to have enough power to do that

    • @1LuvMLPFiM
      @1LuvMLPFiM 2 роки тому +6

      @@ignemuton5500 So that means the Abyss Order and Tsaritsa have the same goal. Only thing is the Abyss Order wants archons gone, too.

    • @TheXorph64
      @TheXorph64 2 роки тому +9

      @@1LuvMLPFiM That, or it's possible that whatever went down traumatized Venti so badly that he does everything he can to avoid thinking/talking about it. T'would certainly explain the alcoholism. Could be both!

  • @evesning
    @evesning 2 роки тому +23

    13:15 from the travail trailer: "she is a god with no love left for her people, nor do they have any left for her".

  • @evesning
    @evesning 2 роки тому +26

    theres actually a commission that features timmies mom though. she's a nun. the commission is called "Sorry, Timmie!' where you apologize for killing the ducks you were supposed to feed by giving timmie a hash brown grace, his mom, made for him. there's nothing mysterious about her lol!

    • @adeptus_xiao9448
      @adeptus_xiao9448 2 роки тому +5

      sister grace is not timmies mother she just adopted(?) him and glory(the blind girl)

  • @justtrash4132
    @justtrash4132 2 роки тому +14

    "But we can make educated guesses as to why the archons went sicko mode on the nation" sent me for some reason

  • @Asmaa-mw4ov
    @Asmaa-mw4ov 2 роки тому +26

    For the nameless island u can just glide there from the hill

  • @pianotm
    @pianotm 2 роки тому +9

    Another thing about Fontaine =France: France is where the camera was invented. I always felt like the Kamera was a very on-the-nose reference to that.
    For the Hidden Island, no cryo bridge. I literally just flew as far as I could, swam the rest of the way, used boosting meals to get my stamina back up, coupled with the realization that your stamina doesn't go down if you don't move while swimming or climbing, meaning if you're in the red and nowhere near land, you can just stop and wait for the cooldown on the stamina boosting dishes.
    Yes! Continue! Is Paimon the last of the Seelies who will never die because there's no food in the afterlife?

  • @initialreeee8yearsago598
    @initialreeee8yearsago598 2 роки тому +60

    I dont know if u have covered this, but theres a family right outside the mondstat city talking about the “dandelion sea” and dreaming of acending to celestia, could be referring to the white flower fields the travelers appear in. More below…

    • @initialreeee8yearsago598
      @initialreeee8yearsago598 2 роки тому +17

      The boy says the that you will find talking foxes in the sea of dandelions, and that he also ran into Venti. Theres also the Ancient Investigation Journals that I haven’t seen covered, nor the floating Island escape above Qingyun Peak. If u have covered these please point me in the direction of your vids.

    • @Ilwenray85
      @Ilwenray85 2 роки тому +30

      @@initialreeee8yearsago598 First, sorry for my English, is not my first language.
      The Fox in the Dandelion Sea is a book saga in Genshin.
      It is a scary tale, at least when you look at it deeply.
      A Hunter prays almost every day to kill as much prey he can, to always have meat in the table.
      But for some reason, spares a fox.
      Turns out the fox are like some kind of adepti or like I don't know, some being like Yae Miko, because they can do magic and make a deal with him, teach a little one to talk like the humans, so he can play with a human friend that the way they describe him reminds me of Razor ( _he looked and had eyes like a wolf_ ) in exchange for the Fox Changing Magic ( _I want to learn to transform just like foxes do. That way I could turn into a bird and fly to the highest of heights, and behold places that were once too far for my eyes to see. I could even use the magic to hunt!_ )
      And for a long time a Female Fox, the Hunter and the "Child fox" were living surrounded by the Dandelion Sea. Something the foxes apparently can use to communicate with the Anemo Archon and ask wishes that are always granted.
      It seemed a happy place... until the kid learns to talk finally, and then it is the turn for the Hunter to learn "Fox Changing Magic" as it was their "contract."
      The Female Fox sure, teaches him a transformation spell... that turns the Hunter into a dandelion, she picks it, blows it and says: _Oh, Anemo Archon, I beg you to turn us into humans! For only then can we be safe from their hunting bows and knives._
      That is scary because there is a god-damn *Dandelion Sea* in that place, if every flower is a human soul or something like that, the implications are... well.
      Then the story loops in itself with the Hunter without memories of the events, as if all the 11 books were a test for the Hunter/Humanity that always fails, even after the period of time living together in harmony the Hunter doesn't change his ways, always get punished for it, and starts again.
      If we are being kind, it is as if the Anemo Archon can't satisfy both wishes (the animal's freedom and the Hunter's desire for meat every day) and the best solution he could think about was that they will always be trapped in that cycle, hoping that one side, stops wishing opposing things.
      If we are not kind, it is a test to Humanity by the Gods, that when we fail, we get wiped, and the cycle starts again.
      With the souls going... somewhere. Be it Hilichurls (our particular Dandelion) or Celestia maybe, the cycle of destruction and tests is pretty much a given in Genshin.

    • @Create_new_handle.
      @Create_new_handle. 2 роки тому +1

      I know this is a little late, but the white flower fields that the traveler’s appear in are actually filled with flowers that can be only found in k’haneriah… ( if you played through chasm events you should be able to find more info )

    • @initialreeee8yearsago598
      @initialreeee8yearsago598 2 роки тому

      @@Create_new_handle. thanks for the info

  • @atiredlux3198
    @atiredlux3198 2 роки тому +6

    Small thing: losing a vision does not always mean losing your ambition. It was stated that some people in the Watatsumi army were people who got their visions taken, along with Itto being energetic even after his vision was taken

  • @medleyman
    @medleyman 2 роки тому +94

    I don't know when this iceberg was made but if it's recent, I believe the Jiangxue one is referring to how he gave up his vision yet doesn't particularly suffer from doing so? Also, It may have been changed but the description for mages & agents when you track them say that they have been given delusions. Oh! I haven't really thought about this one that much, however the Tsaritsa could take some action that steals her supposed title down the line. The only evidence for this is the Teyvat storyline trailer that gives "spoiler" out of context info, I suppose. Great video, so far!

    • @knightofwisdom8851
      @knightofwisdom8851 2 роки тому +2

      Maybe he has nothing to lose,that's why he was unaffected?

    • @TapiocaDeQueijoo
      @TapiocaDeQueijoo 2 роки тому +1

      Prolly he lost his ambition during his time with a vision

    • @foreverandonward
      @foreverandonward 2 роки тому

      He stopped using his vision but he still has it, if you get his daily quest there is a scene where an a ruin machine that no one can damage appears, to which he takes out and uses his Vision and with the particle effect on the Ruin Machine, it looks like a Pyro vision as it appears over water and the Hydro Pyro reactionn is shown after (can't remember the name). There does seem to be some level when it comes to visions as there are plenty of small bits of people giving them up or getting rid of them but being unaffected, it seems only Shogun/Ei's method of taking them effects a person as they seem to have some control over the visions themselves as shown being able to just pull and summon them off of people.

    • @TheXorph64
      @TheXorph64 2 роки тому

      @@foreverandonward My guess is that willingly giving up/getting rid of a Vision doesn't cause issues since the person is by extension knowingly giving up on the ambition that led to them gaining the Vision in the first place.
      In comparison, the Shogun taking someone's Vision away against their will (when that person presumably very much still wants to pursue their ambition) messes them up so bad because they still have the ambition in their mind, but have "lost sight of it" due to losing their Vision. IIRC all of the people you talk to who had theirs taken away know they have an ambition of some sort, they just can't remember what it is. It seems like in some capacity the Vision is a physical manifestation of a person's ability to "see"/conceptualize/understand their ambition, so I'd imagine that their minds would still get just as scrambled if a street thief stole it rather than the Shogun.

  • @deductionsdiary105
    @deductionsdiary105 2 роки тому +17

    Some things i noticed:
    - Nonhumans could refer to the Kemonomimi (Half-Human-Half-Animal) such as Diona, Sucrose, Gorou; Yokai such as Itto, Sara and Yae; Adeptis such as Xiao, Zhongli, Madame Ping, (Half) Ganyu and Yanfei; Hilichurls; Abyss People; Artificial Humans such as Albedo and Scaramouche
    - Jiu DOES get involved in a quest. It was a world quest called "The Secret of Nantianmen" which was changed in 1.5 to remove her from the quest so players who finished the story quest first won't get stuck.
    - Timmie's Mother could be referring to Sister Grace who takes care of him and other children
    - Childe was trained by Skirk inside the Abyss, not on his own

  • @moraelity
    @moraelity 2 роки тому +4

    A little note to Childe’s tie to the abyss, he didn’t do it to make himself stronger. He did it because, as a dumb 14 year old, he thought he could go out adventuring like in his father’s stories and fell in the abyss. It was an accident, but he found what he was good at so he’s happy that it happened

  • @ancalyme
    @ancalyme 2 роки тому +27

    The iceberg was made by someone from the Khaenri'ah Lore Project a while ago, so some of those things are out of date xD it's also more a theory iceberg rather than lore facts. A lot of them were confirmed later, like Crimson Witch Signora or Rhindedottir being Gold.
    Re: slimes used for mundane things
    Hilichurls use pyro slimes to make explosives and anemo slimes to float their balloon thingies
    Slimes in general are used in food (like Paimon making some sussy sweets from a slime, or Xiangling, but not just them)
    Re: nonhumans
    I think this refers to Diona, Sucrose, Gorou, who are part something else, and adepti and Klee.

  • @shira6864
    @shira6864 2 роки тому +33

    Ooh, love iceberg explained videos
    Also I heard an interesting theory about verr godlet being part of a secret organization collecting and exchanging info all around teyvat (where diluc or possibly kaeya's sources come from)

  • @callmeandoru2627
    @callmeandoru2627 2 роки тому +9

    The way genshin was created pretty much made 99% of its lore below the ice berg

  • @theresivy
    @theresivy 2 роки тому +13

    After Yelan’s reveal, I’m convinced that there’s NO WAY she ISNT Skirk. She’s got the same ascension mats as Childe, is a hydro bow user, and is currently seen in the Chasm where its also heavily related to the Abyss.

  • @andrewcalebgorospe2754
    @andrewcalebgorospe2754 2 роки тому +13

    There are five connected to khaenriah: dainsleif, kaeya, albedo, gold(rhinedottir) & sibling

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +5

      I generally don’t like to count albedo as connected to khaenri’ah because it’s very indirect and he was never there, and I don’t mention rhinedottir because we haven’t actually met her

    • @andrewcalebgorospe2754
      @andrewcalebgorospe2754 2 роки тому

      @@WhaleMilk u've got a good point there, though I count him & gold coz of all the foreshadowing the plot does for them both.

  • @rat1763
    @rat1763 2 роки тому +7

    to my knowledge the wanderes troupe appeared before vennessa! their lore is linked to the widsith, the stringless, the flute and the bell
    from the stringless lore:
    "After the uprising failed, the wanderes troupe disbanded and its members fled.
    The harpist stayed till the end, deftly plucking the instrument's strings and raining down a torrent of arrows to protect his comrades. He played till he exhausted his repertoire, and his arrows."
    wonderful video! cant wait to watch the next parts !

  • @CrowFGC
    @CrowFGC 2 роки тому +3

    I’m almost positive the login screen isn’t Celestia, but an unnamed area outside of worlds in the universe of Genshin. The door is how the twins entered Teyvat.

  • @Orii-2
    @Orii-2 2 роки тому +2

    6:16 Diluc’s dad had a delusion…

  • @brady1689
    @brady1689 2 роки тому +19

    5:00 was this recorded pre-Ekanomiya? Because with the lore from Before Sun and Moon and the rest of the set this was pretty much confirmed

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +6

      Yes this was recorded before Enka, so a bit of outdated stuff already

  • @CrowFGC
    @CrowFGC 2 роки тому +4

    I also don’t think the Archons actually destroyed Khenri’ah. Celestia did, and the Archons can’t say or they’ll be wiped out.

  • @hsmacaraig
    @hsmacaraig 2 роки тому +3

    hi uh so clarification that i’m pretty sure someone else has said but this is rlly minor so sorry: childe didn’t _want_ to fall into the abyss, he just accidentally did when he ran away from home, searching for adventure bc his life prior was too mundane for him. the fact it was an accident, that he was 14, and that he has never been the same again is rlly sad tbh :,)

  • @veneziajoy
    @veneziajoy 2 роки тому +4

    i just found out about your channel today because of this video and instantly subscribed! this is really fascinating and i'm hoping for a part 2!!

  • @byerage
    @byerage 2 роки тому +1

    just watching this one video of yours has taught me SOOOOO much about SOOOOO many things that i love and are not genshin related, im glad i searched this. new fav!

  • @breet9499
    @breet9499 2 роки тому +3

    how did you not notice that all the transport balloons are just slimes tied to baskets XD
    the exploding barrels are slimes, and the hilichurls toss slimes at us too

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +1

      ya know after a while you start to tune certain details out lol

    • @breet9499
      @breet9499 2 роки тому

      @@WhaleMilk fair enough

  • @sangwonlee7705
    @sangwonlee7705 2 роки тому +7

    really liked this! hope we can go more in depth too!

  • @foreverandonward
    @foreverandonward 2 роки тому +6

    Some points we have, Delusions are made using dead or still living god's power. In Inazuma Scaramouche was using the Electroblight of the Crystal Marrow and Tatarasuna to create Delusions and seems to have needed those materials.
    Jiangxue has a Vision, perhaps a Pyro vision based on the effects when he takes down the Ruin Machine, it would also make him one of the oldest vision bearers seen in game outside of that swords master in Inazuma
    For Khaenriah, the destruction was actually caused because they attacked from various points all across Teyvat those currently known are the Chasm and seemingly Watatsumi island, the same event that killed Makoto and Ei's friends. It's unknown what caused this attack but seemingly Khaenriah after creating multiple monsters via Alchemy and weapons of war and mass destruction in the Ruin machines meant specifically to kill and subjugate, attacked and after killing two Archons was destroyed

  • @m1c4ela14
    @m1c4ela14 2 роки тому +3

    1:19
    are you talking about that thief quest “raptor”(?) makes his escape and uses a anemo slime to take off so that’s why there were slime condenses left on the path during the quest

  • @DerillPlays
    @DerillPlays 2 роки тому +4

    Jingxue, former vision holder

  • @crystallizer7308
    @crystallizer7308 2 роки тому +4

    Decarabian sympathy is understood to an extent, but the “misunderstanding” was a two-way street. He likely wouldn’t have been deposed should he understood the desires of his people rather than blindly assuming he knew best. Also i believe Jiangxue made an appearance in the recent lantern rite cutscene sharing a dinner with the rest of the Wangshu Gang with Xiao.

  • @katiedeity4399
    @katiedeity4399 2 роки тому +3

    On the Nameless Island thing, it relates to the god of Time, who is also heavily mentioned in the lore of Enkanomiya, having given Abrax (Aberaku) the wisdom to create the Helios (Dainichi Mikoshi) as was therefore worshipped there. To have her worshipped both in Enkanomiya and Mondstadt is very intriguing, two different societies from two different parts of the world in two seperate parts of time. She is also based on the Greek god of Opportune Moments, Kairos, and her real name Istaroth is oddly similar to Astaroth, a demon who rules over hell with Lucifer and Beelzebub, tying into the Genshin gods being named after occult demons and such.

  • @cry0gen60
    @cry0gen60 2 роки тому +2

    Finally someone made a video for this iceberg. Looking forward to the second part of the video cause I can't find much information around the deeper depths of the iceberg

  • @TapiocaDeQueijoo
    @TapiocaDeQueijoo 2 роки тому +7

    13:37
    It was destroyed by the *GODS
    Not the Archons
    We can clearly see that what destroyed Khaenri'ah is the weapon from the Heavenly Principles God(aka. The Unknown God that steals our Sibling out of the blue)

    • @gywghhb
      @gywghhb 2 роки тому +2

      TL;DR: We don’t know if the Gods here refers to other gods or Archons, but they were definitely there during the Cataclysm.
      Blame the translation. In original text Archons (魔神) and gods (神) are not as distinguished in terms of their identities as in the English translation. Statues of the Seven are literally “statues of the seven gods”. The play on words here is that Archon is a title given to god-like beings selected by Celestia after winning the Archon War, and they are considered as gods (神) to the people of Teyvat, but in English translation the word Archon is used to refer to the race itself as well as a given title, hence the confusion. An example of this confusion would be Harvia, _God_ of Salt. In the Chinese text her name was 盐之魔神 ( _Archon_ of salt), indicating that she was an 魔神 (Archon), but that contradicts the English translation as she was not an Archon as she didn’t win the war. And the term 魔神战争 (Archon War) refers to the battle among the “archons” to become “Gods” selected by Celestia, while in English it means “gods” fighting for the title of “Archons.”
      With what we know from Enkanomiya, we can roughly sketch the hierarchy of god-like beings in Teyvat: powerful elemental beings from Teyvat (Azhdaha, Boreas, etc.) < the common gods (Harvia, Decarabian, Orobashi etc.) < Archons (selected from common gods through the Archon War) < Gods from Celestia < some other thing I forgot < Phanes

    • @TapiocaDeQueijoo
      @TapiocaDeQueijoo 2 роки тому

      @@gywghhb Literally only 2 Archons nowadays were actually choosen by the Archon War
      And Venti was not a god, the one supposed to be the Archon was Andrius, but he have his place up
      All the others died in some moments
      Also, how the hell a Godless Nation actually killed *2 ARCHONS IN A ROLL(Makoto and the God of Wood)?!?*
      Not only that, but *why would the god of Freedom destroy another land with the same value??????*
      Every Archon is a god but not every god is an Archon
      And let's not forget that was Ei who said that the land was destroyed by the Heavenly Principles God
      Also, we need to remember about mister Durin attacking Mond
      Which basicly means that Barbatos was focused on saving his Nation
      All Archons are quiet because they are scared to suffer the same
      Venti is more a free-talker, but he still needs to hide some info for the sake of _his children_
      And prolly the traveler's sake too

  • @blackdiamond1161
    @blackdiamond1161 2 роки тому +2

    "if you're living under rock"
    Yeah i live ander Zhongli's MASSIVE, ROUND ROCKS!😏

  • @uhm._
    @uhm._ 2 роки тому

    omg I loved the video pls do more (also LMAOOO the ‘girlboss trinity’)

  • @deathsinger969
    @deathsinger969 Рік тому +1

    Timmie‘s Mum is a nun, we meet her in the daylie commission one day after the daylie where we need to feed ducks for Timmie

  • @atomikms7803
    @atomikms7803 2 роки тому +3

    I loved this video please make a part two soon

  • @Skyflyskyflyskyfly--
    @Skyflyskyflyskyfly-- 2 роки тому +1

    I feel like everywhere I go, if there's lore, ashikai pops up.

  • @LordHedgehog
    @LordHedgehog 2 роки тому +1

    9:20 Timmy calls one of the sisters in the cathedral mother
    If you kill his birds in the daily quest he gives you
    you will meet her the next day
    Timmy is an orphan
    She isnt really his mom
    But she seems to love him a lot

  • @flyingcow5235
    @flyingcow5235 Рік тому +1

    we actually meet timmie's mother in one commission. There's this commission where timmie tells you to feed the ducks. But if you kill them instead, timmie says he'll complain to his mom and the next day, you get a commission where you meet timmie's mom (i forgot her name) and basically have to make hash browns for timmie as a form of apology. appearance wise, she's a normal npc with the mondstadt church clothes

  • @rajadarshidash1016
    @rajadarshidash1016 2 роки тому +3

    Here's a lore drop for anyone who doesn't know:- Khaenri'ah is just kind of a prologue to the real story. Celestia doesn't belong to this world like the Traveller siblings and Traveller's Character details sums up the Entire Genshin story. Have a great day!

  • @meow-gk8gz
    @meow-gk8gz 2 роки тому +2

    timmie’s mother is one of the sisters at the cathedral.. she have a commission for you to give timmie some hash brown if you kill the ducks while feeding them
    also childe didn’t decide to go to they abyss.. he fell in it and couldn’t get out by himself so he had to learn how to fight and obtained abyssal power in the process

  • @neonnyagic8803
    @neonnyagic8803 2 роки тому +13

    Didn’t tartaglia accidentally fell to the abyss instead of going down there by choice
    And the only reason he knew their fighting style because of the person that saved and taught him everything???

  • @ryu246
    @ryu246 2 роки тому +1

    I haven't finished the video yet, but I'm loving this so far!
    never thought I could see an iceberg dedicated to genshin, what a nice surprise.
    one thing about Sumeru Academia is that La Singora, Dottore studied there. also, Lisa being a really good talented student that Sumeru saw in 2 centuries.
    to add, the loading screen might be the borders of teyvat, where we met the unknown god. and Childe fell into the abyss, he didn't go there by will.
    (sorry for poor English)

  • @catboisub
    @catboisub 2 роки тому +3

    2:00 sumeru is hard to pinpoint which country it represents but I think it pertains to the ancient civilization sumeria thus the resemblance of different cultures in one region in teyvat.

  • @boredandanxious4951
    @boredandanxious4951 2 роки тому +1

    According to Xiao's character story, a secret agent from the Liyue Qixing is tasked to support Xiao and "runs a front organization called Wangshu Inn." Verr Goldet's entry might be referring to this.

  • @zeldahyrule3127
    @zeldahyrule3127 2 роки тому +2

    I can’t wait for part 2!

  • @longvalley8942
    @longvalley8942 2 роки тому +1

    I’m pretty sure that timmie’s mom is the nun in front of the statue because of the commission if you kill the birds.

  • @sushitime5052
    @sushitime5052 2 роки тому +1

    17:07 might also be relating to Diona being blessed by a spring fairy

  • @Prefusify
    @Prefusify 2 роки тому +1

    2:56, btw this iceberg is talking about the cats and elf eared people, like klee, alice, draff and diona

  • @AntoniaSorell
    @AntoniaSorell 2 роки тому +1

    The Verr Goldet one is also referring to Jiangxue mentioning that she claims she’s from Mondstadt, but no one seems to know her.

  • @OfficerIDPD
    @OfficerIDPD 2 роки тому +2

    One thing I wanna point out; loosing your vision doesn't necessarily mean you'll lose your ambition, Itto lost his vision in the VHD but got to remain energetic, and Nobumori(an NPC in komore teahouse) lost his vision in a duel against Kamisato Ayato and afterwards found joy in being a doorman for the clan

  • @pedrosilva-di4lg
    @pedrosilva-di4lg 2 роки тому +2

    2:58 probably refers to elves like Klee and Alice and animal people like sucrose, diano, gorou and kitsune like Yae, also adepti and the gods should be non-human.

    • @chirpofthebudgie
      @chirpofthebudgie 2 роки тому

      What makes Klee nonhuman?

    • @pedrosilva-di4lg
      @pedrosilva-di4lg 2 роки тому

      @@chirpofthebudgie she's an elf

    • @chirpofthebudgie
      @chirpofthebudgie 2 роки тому

      @@pedrosilva-di4lg whaaaaat i didnt know that but i did find her ears to be weird

    • @pedrosilva-di4lg
      @pedrosilva-di4lg 2 роки тому

      @@chirpofthebudgie it's not straight up said that see is but even Alice said that they are of a long lived race so it all points to being elves

  • @cheese7119
    @cheese7119 2 роки тому +1

    When u said monstad is Europe I instantly thought of alcohol xD
    It's pretty dang accurate

  • @nadeemk9265
    @nadeemk9265 2 роки тому +1

    We need part 2 ASAP 🙏

  • @meepswag35
    @meepswag35 2 роки тому +2

    for the tsaritsa being the archon of love, the one trailer listing all of the different archon quests, says she has no love left for her people, and they dont have any left for her either.

  • @alecxander9573
    @alecxander9573 2 роки тому +2

    I'm disappointed that K.K. wasn't even mentioned in the iceberg.

  • @DavidBaronStevensPersonal
    @DavidBaronStevensPersonal 2 роки тому +2

    6:23 if you ask the inkeeper's husband about her, he will tell you that they and everyone that works at the inn are martial artists.
    Gives off a vibe like The Continental, in the John Wick world

  • @m4yliy
    @m4yliy 2 роки тому +1

    about the tsaritsa, i think someone said that she was the god of love, but not one of her people loved her, in the trailer it also hints
    "she is the god of love with no love for her people, while they have no love left for her," I think.
    so she created the fatui for the people who have been wronged to conquer or something, that's why Signora is in the fatui because she was the one who saved monstadt but venti got all the credit, and Dottore thought that his work was good but others thought it was crazy or weird, as for childe, I have no idea

  • @RishabhSharma-lq1id
    @RishabhSharma-lq1id 2 роки тому +2

    My dude is back 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

  • @ayacu578
    @ayacu578 2 роки тому +1

    I think the Mare jivari may be the map border of Natlan, just like a desert may be the map border of Sumeru

  • @NexusBecauseWhyNot
    @NexusBecauseWhyNot 2 роки тому +6

    I feel like archon names being inspired by occult demons (including Paimon) needs to be put in the iceberg. Same with the kid's dad from Qingce village (I think the kid was Dongdong) should be added because we see random signs of his presence, including "Someone's diary" and the "Unlucky Father" conch story iin the archipelago. Roand should also be added because we will continue to find his stupid diaries as the game progresses. They are not really about the past, but I personally think they are lore-worthy xD

    • @1LuvMLPFiM
      @1LuvMLPFiM 2 роки тому

      Paimon might be the god of gluttony.

  • @grimangel4432
    @grimangel4432 2 роки тому +2

    Soeeking of sandstorms!! What if they add an elemental reaction with geo and animo!!!! Like swirl. But call it Buffet! Deals decent extra damage and wares away enemies defences!

  • @justbecause3754
    @justbecause3754 2 роки тому +1

    Fun Fact: You can fly to the nameless island. That's how I got to mine. I have no patience in manually freezing the sea so I found a way to fly to it. Just need an additional 50 stamina to get there or a buff that slows down the use of stamina.

  • @joaocardoso3037
    @joaocardoso3037 2 роки тому

    cant wait for the next video

  • @ravenpotter3
    @ravenpotter3 2 роки тому +1

    I think “non humans” might refer to Diona and Sucrose who have cat ears

  • @adeptus_xiao9448
    @adeptus_xiao9448 2 роки тому +1

    at 13:48 you forgot albedo who was created by Rhinedottir(also known as gold), an alchemist from khaenri'ah

  • @nikolaskulka9574
    @nikolaskulka9574 2 роки тому +1

    Would wanna see part 2

  • @fullipsp
    @fullipsp 2 роки тому +1

    Waiting for part 2!!

  • @nagihiro1382
    @nagihiro1382 2 роки тому +2

    wait I think you're wrong childe didn't willfully descend into the abyss. He fell and had to fight to survive which is why he became a battle maniac I'm pretty sure

  • @chara1089
    @chara1089 Рік тому +1

    I wonder how Diluc/Diluc's Father managed to get a delusion....

  • @evesning
    @evesning 2 роки тому

    great vid!! keep it up

  • @depressednoodle8579
    @depressednoodle8579 2 роки тому +1

    Regarding the slime one; hydro slimes are also used as an emergency water supply by adventurers. Although consuming it too much makes people sick. Which makes me wonder te difference between normal water and hydro energy. And if the same applies to other elements as well.

  • @longvalley8942
    @longvalley8942 2 роки тому +1

    According to Noelle, Amber has used multiple headbands so it’s probably not part of her hair.

  • @zorahhh6882
    @zorahhh6882 2 роки тому +1

    I can continue to listen to this.

  • @ashyisallyskitten4676
    @ashyisallyskitten4676 2 роки тому +1

    You can confirm the celestia is the body floating from archon quest with dainsleif because the ruin guard sitting on top of stormterror's liar has been told to look directly into the celestia from there. Snezhnaya is russia and it is confirmed by English VA.

  • @jorgus1
    @jorgus1 2 роки тому +1

    I also think "nonhumans in teyvat" is referring to diona, sucrose, gorou, and the other animal-based people in teyvat

  • @javisantiquenio7034
    @javisantiquenio7034 2 роки тому

    The fatui guard inside the cathedral tells that delusion are not limited to harbingers.

  • @user-dz1du7ee5y
    @user-dz1du7ee5y 2 роки тому +1

    ( i just decided to comment this before watching the whole video)
    This is a messy comment and I'm sorry but bare with me
    there was a fanmade leak of somesorts (like a drawing that was based off leaks) showing the full genshin map with all of the 7 nations. In the map of the leak, within fontaine was a pond area that has a name (in i can't remember language) that translates to the celest doors indicating that that place is where you would be able to ascend to celestia. People had speculations of where celestia now floats over based on where we can see celestia and how close it is that it now is seen that the pond area is directly underneath celestia. If you look closer in the leak, there was 7 little islands connecting like bridges to the middle of island in the pond that seem to represent the 7 nations. The bridges that connect to the middle island that represent mondstat, liyue, inazuma and snezhnaya have seem to be broken off (indicating that they are no longer connected to celestia because its said that the gnosis are the archon's connection to celestia).
    In early game, venti talks about how we dislikes celestia and in the webtoon, inside one of celestia's buildings seem to show prison cells that keep going and going upwards. Somewhere in the game or webtoon (I think) it's mentioned on how the tsarista wanted to start a rebellion against the great and the divine. People I saw started asking about how zhongli wouldn't just give up his gnosis for something bad and all I wanted to say was that yes, he wouldn't give up him gnosis if he didn't understand why the tsarista wanted his gnosis in the first place. Zhongli is smart and wise, He knows more about celestia than we do at the moment, he gave up his gnosis to help tsarista start the rebellion aganist celestia.
    Thats all I wanted to say, thanks for reading this comment
    If it doesn't make sense then Im sorry

  • @swanaung8890
    @swanaung8890 2 роки тому +1

    11:20 that work but it's not the proper way. You are supposed to glide towards there from Starsnatch Cliff

  • @c.ry.o
    @c.ry.o 2 роки тому +1

    Actually hexeenzirkel is more supposed to mean either smt like an Organisation between witches or a spell circle to summon smt,

  • @lancerotalucardhd8793
    @lancerotalucardhd8793 8 місяців тому

    that nameless island quest pissed me off the first time i've played due to the Eye of the Storm in that area repositioning itself and replenishing all of its HP, during that time, i didn't have enough characters or level do deal with one of those things,and that thing drove me crazy,i almost break my keyboard during that.

  • @zee.mp4
    @zee.mp4 2 роки тому +1

    actually, for natlan
    there is a few things that show that it is not only inspired by mesoamerican and south american cultures, but also africian aswell

  • @rioistrash
    @rioistrash 2 роки тому +1

    Honestly am surprised there's so much in the lore alone

  • @witch_hat49
    @witch_hat49 2 роки тому +1

    MOAR PLS

  • @juxn1687
    @juxn1687 2 роки тому +3

    idk why but ur kinda giving me 💅 vibes. Also I NEED A PART 2

    • @WhaleMilk
      @WhaleMilk  2 роки тому +2

      I can't tell if you're calling me gay or not but if you are....
      you are correct I am not straight

    • @juxn1687
      @juxn1687 2 роки тому +2

      @@WhaleMilk yh lol idk i was just getting the vibes and my gaydar is never wrong hehe

  • @darthchilde8880
    @darthchilde8880 Рік тому

    I think enkanomia lore goes even deeper with the books about the origin of teyvat.

  • @user-dk8iu1nj6j
    @user-dk8iu1nj6j 2 роки тому +1

    Wait what if Jiangxue is just moon carver human form. Since its well known that the adepti each has an adeptus and a human form. And in the new quest Fleeting Colors in Flight part 2,where we met Cloud Retainer, she said that moon carver was anxious about liyue and he disguise himself as a human to see the well doing in liyue Harbour. So there might be possibility that Jiangxue is him since the power he used was similar to moon carver. And after we fought osial we had an conversation with him and he did sounded kinda nice. Sooo to sum it up there are some similarities between Jiangxue and moon carver :)) but maybe I'm over analysing it haha... Well maybe we'll get to see moon carvers human form soon.