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sachan33 · 1 year

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The Gnostic Chorus IS about the twins???

So I was watching the Gnostic Chorus cutscene again on YouTube when I came across this comment:

(Cut out the username just in case, but if this is you, let me know!)

And it makes SO MUCH SENSE

Of course, this is only a theory, and probably has gaping holes, but if you're willing to go down this rabbit hole with me, then let's GOOO Let's break it down!

The story opens with a "glorious kingdom from the heavens." This is likely referring to the travelers' journeying across the stars.

The first heir shown in the teaser looks female. As we know from other promotional videos, Aether is typically shown as the protagonist, while Lumine has been put in the antagonist role The Kingdom of Darkness is likely Khaenri'ah, where your sibling first appears in Teyvat.

In this shot, we see a serpent wrapped around a shell holding a pearl:

Looks a little like a certain place we know about now, doesn't it?

And who is the god that brought these people back up to the surface?

The big snek himself: Orobashi. The same god who got himself into some shit when he found a little book called Before Sun and Moon. The book that revealed the truth about the world that Celestia didn't want anyone knowing about.

It's also worth noting that in that shot of the serpent in the Gnostic Chorus, the serpent has two different colored eyes: one red and one purple. Both of these colors have been used in some sort of abyssal corruption:

Now here's where things get interesting.

Both your sibling and Nahida have confirmed that they had made their way through Teyvat already:

Now let's circle back around a little bit to the Irminsul tree. We know that your twin has record of being in Teyvat, but you do not:

Your twin arrived in Khaenri'ah, survived the disaster, woke you up, the two of you tried to escape, and you woke up 500 years later. Nahida confirms this timeline, and also has this to say:

You suspect this might have something to do with the Abyss, which may have had something to do with your twin being "deceived" in the story:

It could be possible the Abyss has warped her fate, and led her on the path to lead the Abyss Order (AKA former Khaenri'ah citizens). If we believe Khaenri'ah to be the Kingdom of Darkness, this would add up. FINALLY we come to the very last part of the story:

If we are to go along with the theory that this story is indeed about you and your twin, obviously that second heir is you. And it is you that can rewrite the fate of your sibling and likely the entirety of Teyvat:

That brings us to one question...if the Gnostic Chorus is a backup for the traveling twins, who was the one to make it? Well...

Whose voice is narrating the story?

--- A quick note: The Gnostic Chorus originally premiered as a story teaser before the release of the game. Since Aether is traditionally used in the promos/marketing, the perceived gender of the characters in the story would be a reflection of that. Therefore, this theory could still apply if you picked Lumine.

#theq #long post #really long post #jfc #genshin #genshin impact #genshin impact spoilers #gnostic chorus #venti is sus #genshin lore #genshin theory #genshin brainrot

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tears-of-boredom · 2 years

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Yeah to continue my complaining of Genshin. I don't like the illusion of choice thing they do. The Traveler is so obviously meant to be "you", so it's really annoying that you can't make your own desicions. If you aren't going to make it so you can actually play as yourself through the Traveler, then at least lean into that. Make Aether and Lumine a genuine character who maybe even speaks, make their personality more prone in other parts than just the cutscenes. Make them a character. I'm pretty sure that even the "Traveler doesn't speak much" thing is because you don't speak much. The game always lets others talk, while the Traveler has the most speaking roles in the character info. Clearly in the character screen the Traveler is just a character like everybody else. Yeah they're the protagonist, but they're part of the story. I just don't understand why you can't lean into either way. The hangout events are the only part really where your choices have any weight. I don't know, I get that there are a lot of games with illusion of choice, but genshin is a pretty big game and the quests are a really major part of it. Just lean into the fact that the player can't really control what the Traveler thinks, and just make their dialogue, actual dialogue. Make the Traveler just another character in the story that the player is following. The illusion of choice just stunts the dialogue for no reason.

#uhh yeah..#genshin impact #also where is the desert and rainforest i cant find them..#media #tearful stuff

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salsflore · 1 year

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stomterror , tank , & delusion if ure doing the ask game ^^

HII thank u for the ask anon :D ask game here

stormterror: which bosses do you find easy, which do you find difficult?

i don’t think i find any of the bosses particularly difficult but i do have the ones i find annoying! the raiden shogun boss, wolflord and the oceanid. raiden boss has a long ‘invincibility’ period and the oceanid takes a lot of time just spawning and destroying stuff. wolflord is always up in the air — but they’re not really difficult, just time consuming.

again i don’t find any boss really difficult but the bosses i find super easy are obviously all the cubes, whopperflowers and my beloved childe hi love him 10/10

delusion: what are your genshin unpopular opinions?

i have many ships and small stuff i dislike but no actual unpopular ‘ooh! big and scary!’ opinions, i don’t think.

every “unpopular” opinion i’ve seen about the game is literally not unpopular and almost everyone agrees, i’d probably sound the same.

still, i do want to say that: i hate that the genshin community is mostly unfunny ( with the main jokes they seem to make: yandere ayaka, traveller harem, cocogoat hehe haha ) and i disagree w the ‘aether seems more like the protagonist/lumine fits the villain better’ stuff. i have played as both ok

tank: which character do you feel is criminally underrated?

i think people misunderstood kokomi and yoimiya a lot upon first release, but that’s really all i have to say. i think the community’s started appreciating them more but i still see a lot of negativity towards them </3 i don’t rlly care enough abt the other characters oops

#⠀new message received !⠀#⠀anonヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ⠀

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snarkyscribe21 · 1 year

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!Spoilers ahead for Hatoful Boyfriend! Also, mentions of sensitive topics such as suicide!

Been playing a lot of Genshin and Hatoful Boyfriend recently and I caught myself wondering "Hmm, I wonder which Genshin characters would be which birbs."

So I gave it some thought and came up with a bit of a list:

Dottore is obviously Shuu

They both perform unethical experiments

Dottore would totally keep your severed head in a jar. He just gives off those vibes, ya know?

Probably more than a bit crazy

I can't think of anything else but I'm sure there's more

I thought of more

That one scene when Shuu sends over a Christmas 'turkey'

Razor is Anghel

Because I want him to be

I keep thinking of him bursting through a window accompanied by the sound of shattering glass, spouting off nonsense and leaving

Energetic

Would Xingqiu be Nageki?

Bookworm

???

He might actually be Anghel??

Not Sakuya though. Not stuck up enough for Sakuya

Would that make Scaramouche Nanaki?

Dead friend

Probably capable of identity theft

I could imagine him 'befriending' someone and then coercing said someone into a suicide pact, not actually following through on his end and stealing their identity

Capable of holding a grudge

Not narcoleptic though

Crazy? Yeah, probably

Maybe Kazuha would fit better as Nanaki actually

Or Zhongli

Itto as Okosan?

Best route in the whole game

True pudding

He'd probably be a fun god

Heizou is Yuuya

Flirty

Detective

Smooth jazz

Oh, wait..... No nononononononono

R. I. P. Heizou, you will be missed

Chongyun is Ryouta

Has a special condition

I love him as a character, so he must suffer

It is the law

Beidou is Azami

"Carve it into your soul, kid!"

Badass

Would totally join a law abiding biker gang

I can't think of anyone for Sakuya

???

Aether or Lumine could be Hiyoko

Protagonists

Would probably work well in Hiyoko's place

Can't think of anything else lol

This was way more than I intended to write.

#genshin impact #Wow #i put way too much effort into this #hatoful boyfriend #alternate au #alternate universe #mentions of suicide #Mentions of suicide pact #identity theft #Scaramouche commits it #Rip heizou #mentions of gore #fat bird #murder bird #coercion

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gleam-and-darken · 2 years

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Suddenly suffering from Genshin Impact and Legend of Zelda AU/crossover brainrot

#legend of zelda #loz #genshin impact #link as Aether (protagonist)#Zelda as lumine #just Genshin but with some Zelda enemies and characters from all games #maybe some plot points too #link’s triforce allows him to channel all the elements #all abyss mages are big Zelda enemies now (Ghirahim Zant Astor etc.)#maybe some Zelda characters are there with their own stories as a treat #urbosa is electro obviously #that twilight Princess researcher (Shad?) is geo #linebeck can be hydro #many thoughts head full

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astro-pioneer · 3 years

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Anyway thoughts about Dain and others. I'm gonna separate this into different parts since it's probably gonna get confusing. Might do a second part for certain parts of this.

So to get as accurate as possible I did search for more information about The Abyss and Khaenri'ah

OK so I'll give a little back story before diving into my thoughts: Khaenri'ah is an underground unreleased section where, in Dain's words, "the gods' gaze does not fall". It is the origin of Khemia, a type of alchemy heavily focused on the creation of life that ultimately destroyed it. Also, for the Sword Cemetery, that is a result of a war between Mondstadt and Khaenri'ah.

Khemia

Anyway thought time - so since Knaenri'ah has very little fauna and plants they have to find a way to survive and get food and whatnot - hence the creation of Khemia. Now, since there's no information on the aftermath of using Khemia on let's say a human, we're going to make assumptions.

So obviously altering with human life is bound to have it's backlashes, right? My three main bully victims are going to be Kaeya, Albedo, and Dain. Kaeya first: he was sent to Mondstadt as a last hope for his original homeland (I got too lazy to type it continuously) so I'm gonna assume that, before he was dropped off at Dawn Winery, he went through some alterations.

Kaeya

And you guys are gonna get mad but I'm gonna talk about his eye patch. Now, my assumption with the backlash is that it does something physical to the person undergoing Khemia. And yes, while Noelle does say she prepares Kaeya's eye patch, that doesn't necessarily mean that she puts it on him and has seen him without it.

Seeing as though Khemia isn't well-known by the common folk and is concerning to the gods (at least to Venti - thoughts on this later) it's best to hide any evidence of it when around people. That might be Kaeya's case with his eye patch, especially with the issue with Diluc and his father.

Albedo

Listen I hate myself for even starting this but I'm too far deep to give up so we gotta talk about his sexy ass. Now, his diamond. If that's a birthmark then holy hell that's one gorgeous mark. BUT I don't think it is. Since he's the one who practices Khemia, he probably knows how to manipulate the placement to be somewhere hidden or so small you can't see it.

Lmao that kinda contradicted my diamond topic but my thought behind that is that he got that from his teacher (I REFUSE to type that long ass name ok) before he knew the art himself. Him knowing the practice and Venti's wariness of it makes more sense now - will be explained soon.

Dain

THIS BITCH- Ok I need more content of him so I can understand him more but I hate him so muuuuuch. So since he admits that he saw Old Mondstadt before Dvalin resided in it, I immediately thought to the battle at Sword Cemetery even though it doesn't fit with the geography (be honest though nothing matches the geography since the "Wolf of the North" is in the wEST) and you can't see it even from atop the logs (before anyone says anything, yes, I did check with the tallest character I have and yes, I did blind myself at one in the morning just for that.)

Anyway we're getting off topic what I wanted to talk about is the galaxy thing right over his heart. This is going to be short since there's not a lot about him but it's very obvious that it's not natural (well duh) and it reminds me of the particles that erupt from Paimon and that appears out of Aether's hand for an idle animation (I, personally, chose Aether for the MC so I will be using him most of the the time). However, there's noy a lot on him and his attire so this is all I really have.

Venti and Khemia

So a little while ago someone found out that in front of Venti's statue in front of the cathedral it says "Gate to Celestia" backwards. And I do love the theories from many others about how the game might end right where it started, aka Mondstadt. Khaenri'ah dislikes the gods and is not under rule of the Seven and, with Kaeya as a "last hope" so to speak, I feel like (if he doesn't get too attached to everyone) Kaeya and possibly Albedo as well, is going to lead the hilichurls and possibly the Abyss to Mondstadt to open the gate to destroy Celestia.

This is probably why Venti is wary of anyone who knows Khemia or is a known member of Khaenri'ah. This is far fetched but what if he knows of a possible ending without the traveller that is Mondstadt and possibly Teyvat as a whole being destroyed? It's obvious that history and stories are told through songs and, as Venti said in the archon quest, he knows songs "from the past, present, and future."

The Abyss ft. Khaenri'ah & Dain (again)

This is probably going to be the biggest since there's a lot of parts to it. So it's been confirmed that the hilichurls, the people of Khaenri'ah, are being controlled by the Abyss. My thought process was that the Abyss was once a part of Khaenri'ah but there was so much Khemia practice on them that they became less and less human. On a similar note, Instagram user natrya_art made her own theory based off of the Abyss and the chambers just off of the opening screen itself (also one about Dain, Durin, and Alberich (Kaeya's last name) that's still on her story :D).

You guys are probably like "Astro where are you going with this" so I'll stop adding random information and get on with it. Dain specifically only mentions Lumine with "her" and "she" along with "is" and similar present tenses, meaning that she is still alive during whatever time he comes from (as he will decide fate himself if "Albedo were to make a single wrong move using Khemia" (possibly opening the gate) and that's the only time he'll interfere). It's obvious he knows Aether, as he's very easy to talk once he mentions being a traveller. Now, when have you ever heard anyone in genshin mention traveller that is not about Aether/Lumine? Exactly, barely ever if at all.

I mention this since Dain's interest isn't peaked when Aether introduces himself as an adventurer but only after he says he's a traveller looking for his sibling. I, personally, think that Dain was a travel buddy for Lumine since, branching off of Natrya's theory about the Abyss, she was probably brought to the Abyss when they were fighting on one of the paths in Celestia in the beginning.

Since Lumine is trying to redirect Aether from finding out anything about her plans, it shows that she does not want him to either catch her trying to destroy the world or get caught in the crossfire and die. In the time where Dain comes from, though, that's probably what happened and the Abyss wins in the end. So Dain, already knowing where Lumine and the Abyss went, brings Aether to every location that he can remember.

During the old timeline, let's call it that since it's obviously going to change with Aether having help from Dain and Friends™, Lumine most likely talked about Aether and what happened to them. Maybe Dain was just trying to see if he was the real Aether during the tavern scene? No one knows right now honestly (other than the voice actors and creators honestly but they can't say anything.)

It's also obvious that he knows how far Aether is on his journey, as he mentions the Contract to End All Contracts but not why it was made or what the Tsaritsa did with them all while knowing about Venti being Barbatos and the Stormterror battle. This could just be blamed on his failing memory but that's not the case, as he says that he doesn't lack time and will wait to talk about Rex Lapis. However, it's obvious he only knows one side of it, as Aether and the player know of Zhongli being a player in the Rite of Descension but Dain doesn't, as he questions his attitude towards it.

Prophecy

This is copied from Dain's profile on the genshin wiki: The confluence between the past and future. The original calamity had been overturned, yet the island in the sky set the earth to burn. Chalk pursues gold, in this time inopportune, the eclipse is swallowed by the crimson moon. The future must atone for bygone mistakes, as the bond familiar falters and breaks— of the same blood, elders and the youth... Such is the cycle of the world, in truth. Dain, what is that strand of blonde hair to you? Someone you must kill? Or the object of your penitence? - Self-proclaimed prophet

I changed the colour of the parts I want to talk about. The first line is obviously referring to Dain and his connection with going back in time to change the future he came from. "The island in the sky" is Celestia, and the line about setting earth alit could be talking about the gate opening or the gods thinking it'll be best to destroy earth to save themselves.

"Chalk pursues gold." THIS LINE. This one line is what I want to talk about a lot. Gold is not referring to the alchemist who destroyed Khaenri'ah, as it's not uppercased as all names should be. Instead, it's referring to Aether. (Note: the game is actually supposed to take place as you playing as Aether, which is why he's always in the trailers as the protagonist and is more expressive). Aether has multiple gold or gold coloured parts to him, including his hair, parts of his outfit, and it can even be argued that his eyes can be included too. Chalk is, obviously, Albedo, which connects to the quest about him where he's called the Chalk Prince when Dragonspine was introduced. Speaking of Dragonspine, Durin (the dragon that died there) actually came out of Khaenri'ah. Weird how Albedo is almost always in Dragonspine right? The pursuing part can go two ways: his ending line about how if he [Albedo] destroys Mondstadt, will Aether be there to stop him OR to make sure Aether is there to watch him destroy it. A third side is that Albedo pursues Lumine to help with her plan of Destroying Mindstadt/Teyvat.

Crimson moon is obviously about one of the trailers, where I think Lumine is seen walking on the path where her and Aether fought the god in Celestia with a red moon and sky in the background.

"Bond familiar falters and breaks - of the same blood, elders and youth" Aether and Lumine. I feel as though one of them (Aether most likely) will feel the most betrayed and he will lose all trust and love in Lumine and what's she's doing/done. Elders and youth is interesting. It can be nodding at the gods and the people of Teyvat or the gap between Lumine and how she's grown old while Aether died when he was young.

"That strand of blolde hair." English classes and teachers do not teach this enough!!! So I'll say it: blond, with no 'e' is masculine and is used to describe males. Blonde WITH an 'e' is feminine and for females. The use of blonde instead of blond eliminates Aether, Albedo, and Dain. The only blond we really encountered? Lumine. And I can already see the "well what if they didn't know the difference between e and no e" but we're talking about a game where a god dressed as a bard speaks in rhymes and riddles while Dain speaks like hes a poet. They know what they did. This might hint to him being the former travel companion of Lumine and any possible feelings he had that might get in the way of stopping him from helping everyone to stop her.

The Three Questions

When talking to Dain he asks three questions in order to see how similar your thought process is to Lumine. "Who do you think was the key to stopping the Stormterror incident" or something along the lines is the first question. Your answers are Barbatos, yourself, or the people. I will try to go off of memory with my answers, as his quest has yet to be added to the completed quests, as it's in chapter four which hasn't been released yet. I answered Barbatos for this question.

The next one is about Liyue and who will take care of it since Rex Lapis is no longer there to protect it. I said the people of the harbour, which was the third question. The last one is about Visions and who are more important in the eyes of the gods. The three answers are people with visions, without visions, or neither. I answered neither, giving me the dialogue of Aether's answers being similar to Lumine's.

Vision Question

The one about Visions struck me as odd. Visions are given by gods to people that they have acknowledged, yeah? Khaenri'ah isn't acknowledged by the gods and isn't run by any of the Seven. So that means that no one who resided in Khaenri'ah were never helped or were given visions. So why would Dain ask about them? I think it's due to Aether and most likely Lumine being able to weild the elements without a vision. There's also two certain dialogue options that are in the form of thoughts (I do not remember what quests they're from however) and the first one is like "(I'm getting back to my original strength)" I think it was in regards to getting geo too or something while the other one is "(I wish to get the powers of the gods)" or something.

When I first got them I paused for a second. Original strength and the powers of the gods... This obviously means the fact that with one touch of a statue we can switch to that element and can be "blessed" so to speak without actually being blessed. Also I've been meaning to talk about this ever since I leveled up Venti's statue but so far both Mondstadt and Liyue have an extra oculus. This is probably going to be for every region. I found that interesting, since you usually almost always interact with the statues with specific oculi, making it more powerful and giving you more stamina in the process. I think we have to use the extra one to fully harness the powers of that god in order to beat the final boss (probably Lumine.) They are also under the "Precious Items" tab in your inventory which is somewhat significant as well.

I'm gonna end this theory here for now since it got extremely long lmao. A part two might be coming though!

#ೄ sage #genshin thoughts #genshin theory #genshin impact theory #genshin impact thoughts #genshin #genshin impact

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jamesthenotsogiantpeach · 3 years

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Let’s see, salut comrades! Needless to say I am quite new to tumblr as a whole, and thought I might as well ramble on about my new favorite game I’ve been in love with; Genshin Impact.

I adore the Honkai-Verse and have been blown away by their games thus far, but miHoYo has absolutely knocked it out of the park with Genshin. I probably spend far too much time playing, but alas, I want to explain my ultimate Genshin dream team!

So I have this obsessive format I created in my mind when it comes down to a dream team and how to set up my party, so for reference I always go in the order from top to bottom, Mc, an archer, optional, and then a claymore user. Pretty simple, and my dream team is pretty run of the mill but I can’t think of anything else so why not!

First Off: MC; Aether!

So I chose Aether out of the two twins, (the male player as opposed to the female player), for no other reason than I thought he looked cool and was presented as the main character in the Genshin promotional trailers, so I clicked away!

In my opinion I think him and Lumine are easily the most powerful fighters in the game because of their ability, (depending on who you chose as your protagonist), to resonate with any one of the seven elemental abilities. That said, there’s obviously some leanway with this because you have to unlock those regions to gain access to those abilities, and it’s just my opinion!

I just tend to keep any MC in my fighting team on impulse, so there’s not much else I can comment on, other than I think Aether is a tad underrated compared to Lumine but ability wise they’re exactly the same and play the exact same role, so the only argument there is to make is just simply who you prefer!

Archer Spot: Childe! (Tartaglia)

I was ecstatic when Childe was released as a playable character, and even more pumped when I played his test run. I think he’s the most useful archer, in terms of strength. (Though when it comes to completing quests, amber takes the cake because of how much she’s required!)

I like that you can switch from duel blades to a bow so you don’t become immediately screwed over when you get charged at. Also, in other words I, like most people, just think he’s dope as hell!

[Spoiler] I’m already heart broken over his betrayal that I haven’t even gotten to yet lmfao. BuT aRen’t wE all, aTleast we get to use his Mora!

Optional: (Probably) Kaeya!

So Kaeya is great from becoming a mini Jesus and walking on water, but besides that he came in extremely handy when facing off against the Electro Hypostasis during the Adventure Rank 25 Ascension Quest, when at the time I didn’t have any other frost flavored fighters.

I have a mega bias for this guy because let’s be real, I think he’s hot like the gay weeb I am, but I’ll be classy and explain! With the combination of Childe’s water element, Kaeya becomes far more useful because of course you can freeze your enemie after they’ve been affected by Hydro. A good and convenient combination, though of course this spot is optional.

Some of my other favorite fighters that I currently own include Sucrose, Beidou, and Razor! Of course I adore them all though, except Lisa. Her character? Great! Her fighting ability? Oh my god stab my eyes out. That’s probably putting it a little harsh but you get what I mean. Anyways, moving onto the last but DEFINITELY not least;

Claymore User: Diluc!

Let’s be real, who doesn’t want Diluc? He’s strong as all hell and will set your ass ablaze in .5 seconds, literally. (Even more reason to have Childe, he sets everyone on fire.)

I unfortunately was unable to pull him in the time he was available, which granted would have been impressive given the .6% chance drop rate for all five star characters, but hey a guy never stops dreaming. But anyways, besides me gushing over all the characters, Diluc is an extremely powerful character and I desperately want to make use of his Pyro, which pairs very well with Anemo abilities when doing attack combinations.

I also love any character that uses a claymore type weapon not only for mining but because they are really damn good at demolishing anything in their path. Pair that with a flaming blaze and you got a damn good fighter!

Conclusion!

Well, if you actually read all my spewing, thank you! Basically in summary I love genshin, and all of its characters, and I also have WAYYY too much time in my hands!

I’m glad my first post (or blog I think it’s called), could be something I’m passionate about, even if it is just ritirations of what every Genshin player already probably wishes for. Still, I think my friends got tired of my rambling so why not!

Anyways, have a wonderful night, Traveler!

#genshin childe #genshin impact #genshin #genshin aether #genshin kaeya #genshin diluc #gaming #ramblings

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