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I really appreciate the time between her uploading and you reacting to it. It's very respectful to give her video time to get viewed. Nicely done Bran

For the VA of Kaeya's father, that was not "that" long ago. It was during the wine-event, where we learned about Razor's parents. I don't think they'd change it that quickly. Also, even if EN dubs switch actors more freely, JP, and I assume CN as well, are very strict on keeping the same VA for the same characters. I think Kaeya's father might be a grown-up Caribert, whose curse was broken. The issue is how Kaeya recognizes Dain's eyes if his father was not full-blood either, but there are other ways he could have learned this information. I like the idea, because Caribert's mother was from Mondstadt. So, adult Caribert dropping Kaeya off in Mondstadt to give him a happier life just... makes a lot more sense. It also explains how Kaeya was able to grow up with Diluc, and age normally alongside him. He is probably not older than 22 (or, 25 now), unlike Caribert.

When Caribert disappeared for the second time, he left his scarf on a crate just outside the hut. Which is why everyone assumed that the corpse underneath the garden was Chlotar and because the corpse was *holding* (not tied) a scarf. I also think that our abyss twin was the one who buried Chlotar because the traveler was able to recall it and decided to unearth the garden. Our abyss twin wouldn't just bury a random person along with a scarf that is important to Chlotar. Which is why I think it was the real Chlotar who was buried in the garden. It also cant be Caribert who was buried cuz Paimon said that it just normal skeletons and not a hilichurl's After Caribert dies of cringe, Chlotar founded the Abyss Order as a proof of his faith to the Crystal. Died later on and was buried by our twin. Then our twin succeeded the role and continued the abyss order

Have I watched these Ashikai videos already? Yes. Will I watch them again with Bran? Yes. Yes I will.

I have a theory that Dainsleif is actually a sword that only the Royalty can use. In mythology, dainsleif is a sword that is suppossed to kill somebody when it's unleashed. Maybe that's why our twin is upset because he couldn't do his duty and kill the "threat" or whatever to save Khaenri'ah. Clothar also didn't really recognize Dain when he saw our twin and him, maybe Dainsleif wasn't always in a human form for Alberichs to see.

Ashikai teaching more about real life history than my history class

Yay. The LLLLOOOOORRRREEEE

the curse was also sort of broken in the case of Halfdan, like Dain said he was not supposed to retain any consiousness but he did.

The Caribert quest really made me appreciate Paimon and her companionship in general. Being around a strange npc like Chlothar who was clearly unstable and growing increastingly unhinged was pure nightmare fuel for me and I was safe behind a screen....just imagine how the Traveler felt...

9:51 Hey Bran! I wanna point out something interesting Ashiksi said here. Since it didn't matter which twin we play, the outcome will still be the same because they think so similarly; wouldn't that be the reason when choosing between two dialogue options, the response is still the same assuming if in situation the twins are together and pick both to complete each other sentences, it will make so much sense. Do you get what I mean?

About the VAs at 23:20 The VAs are different in every language, so it would make sense. Edit: He would have to start aging +-300-400 years (that's probably how old this quest is?) after this quest. He was shown as a children in the manga anyway. I think it's more likely that Clothar is his grand grand father or something. Also we don't know if Clothar had any siblings, so he might have been just an uncle.

as for keaya his family was very big no reason for him to be directly decendant from chlotar more likely another member of the family

To instantly dismiss the VA notion of Kaeya's father seems shortsighted. Mihoyo has consistently used and teased things with the smallest of hints. They clearly pay a lot of attention to the details (Breathing in Dragonspine w/ either puppet) and VA's would fall into this category. Especially when it comes to the CN and JP dubs. They are very consistent. Reusing the Honkai VA's for their Genshin equivalent is another one of these cases. TeriTeri still voices Nahida and same for Yae and Mei. Its def good to question it as your right situations can change but barring some massive issue Hoyo will and does seem to go out of their way to get the VA's. Just my thoughts on this particular segment.

39:00 yeah its true, as an engineer, most buildings skip floor 13 ( sometimes 4,14, etc) beacuse its bad omen.

I don't think the twins are clones, but I think they came from the same. As in, they are both the same person, split in half. I think they might be Phanes, fragmented into two twins, but they are not aware of it themselves. They are still their own individuals, but they were once the same.

Also i would like to add that people confused VERY EASILY immortality with invulnerability.. being immortal, only means you don't die from sickness or age.. they can still be killed. Otherwise it would still need to be full of people from kahenriha which is not. I don't remember if the games says that they cannot die even if you cut their heads or burn them. Also nobody even noticed that the abyss herald and similar have armor ad a mask, so there could totally be a human inside it, we never saw one without mask.

Mushrooms tend to grow on dead things like life and dead tree bark, an interesting detail.. The odd mushrooms resemble the very near identical rukkhashava mushroom, closely related to the god of life and wisdom or consciousness and growth from death My idea is that the odd mushrooms are normal rukkhashava mushrooms cultivated from the cursed energy of Eide’s wife buried in the field The absorbed curse having a sort of anti-curse effect when concocted into medicine for Caribert similar to how you need snake venom to make an antivenom with a careful/natural dosage So the combo of conscious energy, anti-curse and pure water/blessing is likely why Caribert was able to awaken from his inner coma

Re: the voice actors, you would be surprised how seriously jp deals w the consistency of their VAs. So if Clothar's jp VA is not the voice we hear during weinlese, then it is likely not him.

"You think Deshret would give off mad bottom energy too" I'M DEAD

If you look at the story of the traveler in the voice-lines we still have the following blocked, and at the end we have the "loom of fate"

I never thought Kaeya was Caribert that's why I don't understand where the theory even came from but during the time I was watching I changed mind a lot of times~ xD But in the end, Kaeya being a descendant of the Alberich and not being Caribert makes more sense. Kaeya grew up with Diluc, even if we say that maybe Chlotar left him in Dawn Winery when Caribert became human again it doesn't fit the timeline, the memory happened 100 years ago or atleast that long ago before Chlotar became the founder of the Abyss Order, if Caribert became human that time, Diluc isn't alive by then....during that 100 years to the time that Kaeya was left in the Winery, what did he do? Did he just slept just like the Traveler? Also, to Hoyoverse's credit, they are faithful to details like VAs different for different characters and VAs being similar to proxy characters between Honkai and Genshin, suddenly overlooking that detail between Chlotar and Kaeya's father during the Wine Festival is very uncharacteristic for them.

I wholeheartedly don't believe Kaeya is Caribert. My main counter to the whole Caribert is Kaeya idea is that it's stated that both Diluc and Kaeya grew up and AGED together. So if the events of the quest took place hundreds of years ago how could Kaeya have grew up and aged the same as Diluc. He would have to be hundreds of years older than Diluc and they would've have aged together.

Wasn't it you who theorized that Mondstadt would be the final battleground? Or was I thinking about somebody else? Anyway, what if Kaeya is NOT Caribert, instead, is a vessel for the loom that was obtained by the Alberich BECAUSE of Caribert? What if it was an inheritance among members of the family, passed on from one member to the next generation? What if they indeed were able to sever their ties to the curse, but because the one who carried the loom would suffer a fate worse than the curse, Kaeya's father chose to abandon him in Monds? Or left him there as a safety, to conceal him from anyone who'd use the secret? It could be possible that the Alberich are likewise biding their time and one day will return for Kaeya to take what's been stored in him, to use him as fodder for their purpose, assuming they're nefarious enough. If this is the case, then the final part of the story would be some mad dash to get to Kaeya first: Jester finds out of the truth, and he turns out to be the piece missing to be able to use all the gnoses, so the Harbingers race to Monds to capture him; the Abyss sibling and Order are there too, finally finding out about where the Loom is, or at the very least, the manual to make a loom that Kaeya isn't even aware of; Dain'd be there to stop them, Celestia would awake to destroy everything, the archons who wish to prevent another cataclysm, and then our Traveler who just wants to save everybody. Would be some finale...

Ashikai's lore video really sometimes answer our doubts and sometimes give rise to more questions (no offense)

Keaya = caribert doesn't make sense Especially since if we think chlothar broke cariberts curse and now he's human The timeline doesn't match up with keayas at all for example if caribert became a normal human with no immortality curse he'd be dead by now And if he was immortal it wouldn't make sense since the immortality curse won't make you age if it did dainsleif would be a fucking wrinkly ass person and we know keaya literally GREW UP within diluc he can age he isn't cursed at all Caribert quest was HUNDREDS OF YEARS old

Big Brain Time! I love your reactions to Ashikai's lore videos.

At the end mind was just blown😅 Ashikai just manages to connect everything in a way i would have never even think about. Its quite incredible to be honest 😶

I generally find it really interesting that in We Will Be Reunited, the abyss twin blames Dain for "failing to prevent the destruction of Khaenri'ah" and letting its people down, in spite of the fact they were clearly travel companions after those events took place. I'm also leaning towards a situation where Dain revealed something he'd done to the abyss twin that puts more blame on him than he was thought to previously shoulder, like a Kaeya- Diluc situation as mentioned in the video.

I've been playing Honkai Star Rail lately and getting to know more about Honkai characters (since there are so many similar characters) and i noticed some of the archons and gods are heavily based on Honkai characters (Venti, Raiden, Asmoday aka the Heavenly Principles, and very likely Murata will be Himeko expy and Bronya will be the tsaritsa) And just recently i found out Luocha is actually Otto Apocalypse. I am thinking Desheret/Irmin could be an Otto expy, which would explain why the twins look like him and might be related to him.

I suddenly realise something, Caribert gone nuts when he saw his face doesn't make sense or match with his memory, and us the Traveler kinda got shocked when we realise we are not ourself and freaked out when we saw our sibling's face instead of our own face. Aside from ambitions, identities, constellations, and Teyvat's laws, are their own faces somehow very important and can physically affect sentient beings on Teyvat as well?

A bit of correction on Ashikai's part, the twins were not separated by 500 years of time or space. If you read Character Story 1 on Traveler's profile, it says, and I quote: "The god took your only kin away, and you were sealed and cast into a deep slumber filled with nightmares..." Traveler really was just in a coma for 500 years, which is also the story they presented in the original closed beta, albeit in that version, our sibling gets impaled and chained up by Sustainer... which is interesting. Ashikai's theories here are overall fascinating and make a lot of sense, though. I am still curious as to why the gods destroyed Khaenri'ah, and I can't help but wonder if the Celestial Nails come into play, after what we learned from the Flower of Paradise Lost artifact set. The Goddess of Flowers told King Deshret that the Seelies were envoys of Celestia, and that era is also talked about in the Tiara artifacts in order of Frost, Flame, Torrents, and Thunder. She says that Descenders came and caused "breakthroughs" that caused people to see things they shouldn't have, and the Heavenly Principles sent down the Celestial Nails to repair these "breakthroughs", destroying civilizations in the process. Look to the destroyed civilization of Sal Vindagnyr on Dragonspine, which fell because of a Celestial Nail. But wait, the scribe that Sal Vindagnyr had at the time was named Ukko, and there is a Frostarm Lawachurl on Dragonspine with a special top-of-the-screen health bar with the name Ukko. Hilichurls are recorded as having existed for thousands of years, and Sal Vindagnyr was destroyed thousands of years ago, before Barbatos became the Anemo Archon (I can explain my reasoning in depth if need be, but I don't wanna make this comment too long, especially since I need to get ready for work soon). At the end of the Caribert quest, when Chlothar starts speaking to us as the Abyss Sibling, it starts to sound almost like he at least partially blames the Abyss Sibling for Khaenri'ah getting destroyed, and I wondered why. Well, if the Abyss Sibling came as a "Descender" before getting integrated into Irminsul, what if coming to Teyvat from the outside and integrating into Irminsul also adds your memories of the worlds beyond Teyvat into Irminsul's database, causing it to freak out from knowledge that shouldn't be in Teyvat? What if that's what causes "breakthroughs"? What if our Sibling inadvertently caused a "breakthrough" in Khaenri'ah and the Heavenly Principles responded by sending a Celestial Nail along with the Archons to try to contain the resulting damage?

My theory about which twin is canonical: I think both of them are because teyvat is a samsara, that loops between the two twins

I watched these on twitch vods just yesterday but I'll gladly watch these on YT again! Always interesting seeing your lore content Bran!

43:20 So at the end what we know that the reason of creating abyss order is because academia locked nahida up. So it was all academia's fault.

Ngl the caribert quest made me cry it was sad to me especially because you could hear the pain in caribert’s voice and the fact his dad went crazy just trying to save him

This quest gave me about 1 billion questions and i immediately went to her recap video as i finished the quest to unmelt my brain hopefully and now i have only more brain melt.

I’m pretty sure that the dead body is clothar because tbh the scarf would be the only way hoyo could identify a random npc since they all look alike

the abyss entrance is in mondstadt of course everything is connected to mondstadt in the end

It’s kinda tricky. But. At the end of the quest. When Chlotar was talking to the traveler after Caribert left he had the scarf on his arm.

Thank you for the great stream yesterday bran

Regarding the historical figures Clotaire the 1st (Clothar) had his son Caribert with a woman named Ingonde Ingonde is from Germany, and the mother of caribert in genshin is from mondstadt This is the only link i found other than the things said in the video for now

@BranOnline calling me out @48:39 was not on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are, damn. Also incase anyone was wondering, my name is a mix of Hisoka from hunterxhunter and Soka from Avatar the last airbender

If Desheret is Solomon, then it fits why the Gods have names from the Ars Goetia (lesser key of solomon) book of demonology.

i really enjoy this kind of videos of yours. reacting to the theory and adding own's perspective/theory/speculation as well. two heads are better than one, they say. keep it up~ PS: Ashikai the gigachad lore archon ♥

I've been missing this, gonna be a wild hour

Kayea is not Caribert you have to go through 50 loops so you can claim that it's the case.

I was waiting for this let's gooooo🎉

I said this in her video's comments: the "sinner" was NOT talking to the "Traveler" and I don't know why Ashikai assumes this. "It" was talking to Chlothar .... "Why do you bow down?" The traveler was NOT bowing down.

Idk if you'll see this Bran, but I was rewatching your Caribert playthrough and I thought to myself that Caribert is supposed to be the loom of fate right. Now Chlotar wanted Caribert to weave his own destiny and Kaeya did get sent to Mondstadt to live his own life aka weaving his own destiny. So wild theory but I think Kaeya is the reincarnation of Caribert, Chlotar found a way to get rid of the curse and off himself, THEREFORE he probably found a way to bring back and change Caribert's appearance. Also the "one death in the afternoon drink" kinds led me to think all this

13:33 that relatable moment when you fall out with your friends and run away to join the end of the entire world club “IM RUNNING AWAY” “And where do you think you’re gonna go?” “THE ABYSS”

13:34 Lumine straightup hitting her 'Rebellious teenager' phase

ashikai is one of my favorite genshin theorists. nice to see one of my fav streamers react to her videos

1:01:56 Ashikai refers here to Talmudic Midrashic literature; basically she makes references to the Hebrew Talmud

Dane also had the title of the Boughkeeper and had access to Irminsul. I still feel Dane wiped Lumine from Irminsul, manipulated Lumine’s mind trying to control her by order of The Jester. Lumine and her twin are from off world and the potion, or magical spell she was under, came undone and she became a loose canon or unwitting asset.

A lot of people are conviced that the theory: The Second Who Came lost to the war against the Primordial One, and banished Him to the depths of the Abyss and labaled him as a "Sinner". is true

The way I was so convinced by this theory until the 4.7 archon quest-

Didn't catch the stream so HERE WE GO B)

I mean the Va’s do matter tho, we’ve seen many npc’s talk to us years after they were introduced tho, I mean look at Huffman, he’s had the same voice all these years since we met him in the Mondstadt archon quest and Diluc’s story quest, and he spoke to the traveler just recently in the TCG event and it’s the same voice, so had Clothar’s and Kaeya’s dad been the same person, the voices would’ve perfectly matched

BTW Enjou's appearance wasn't of his true form or the form he had before he turned. His body was "constructed" or rather "disguised" as an Inazuman scholar to distribute any suspicions.

I was thinking... since forbidden knowledge is from the depths of the abyss and Rhukeddevatha had to erase herself from irminsul for it to "be completely removed"... ... but Kind Deshret wasn't forgotton, he wasn't erased from irminsul like rhukethevvatha was... and he may well have been 'contaminated' by forbidden knowledge. What if it didn't only contaminate him but altered him from irminsul instead, meaning he became a 'sinner' and not a god.

There might be another connection that's missed out regarding Nilou being an analogue for the Goddess of Flowers and Kaveh being an analogue for Deshret. If you look at Kaveh's kit, he is clearly meant to be played in a non-hyperbloom, non-burgeon, bloom comp. And which other character is so specifically focused on a pure Dendro-Hydro comp? Nilou.

yeah the new axe enemy is abyss exclusive, There have been a few enemies like that in the past, they eventually get a spot on the overworld, some abyss enemies were like that in the past as well. 20:10 exactly, been thinking of this for a while too, all these groups essentially want to take out celestia, they are going about it in a fairly evil way, but, I think we will have to work with them to fight off the bigger threat. I really hope eventually, there will be another "khaenri'ah level event" that celestia tries to start, and we will have to stop it, alongside the abyss/fetui/archons/ maybe even the people from the nation. I mean how cool would a avengers level team up be where you have a whole army of playable characters fighting against celestia in a war for the existence of Teyvat, THAT would be an epic finale. also it makes me wonder if we will ever get a "11 harbingers" of the abyss, I mean we know so little about the organization, apart from a few key members, they could certainly be saving them for the bigger antagonists between the fetui and celestia. I hope eventually they do introduce some key important top level characters from the abyss. Since they could be all sorts of humanoid/monsters/ half and halfs, they could have some crazy designs.

I haven't seen this yet just want to try and share something I heard Kaeya also mentions sinners in a voice line

Good thing I waited before watching Ashikai's video

i couldnt stop smiling at the youtube subtitles. D Luke, Divine Laser Fest, hillytroll

I love how the Subtitles keep calling Diluc „D-Loog“

I still can’t buy kaeya’s dad is chlothar mostly because i find the manner of speech very different. It feels like a complete personality shift. We don’t know how involved kaeya is with the abyss order but if he isn’t actually allies with them then why did chlothar chose to leave kaeya behind, not raise him in the Order? Did he regret forming the Order? Did chlothar magically regained his sanity and wanted kaeya to grow up far away from the mess?

39:10 my hometown does this! but it's skipping 4 more of 13, like we skipped 4, 14, 24, 34, you get the gist

Hi Bran. I found your video recently since I just get back to Genshin after stop playing the game after pulled for Venti in 1.0. Dont asked me why. hehe. I just watched this video and find your theory about everything comes back to mondstat is interesting. and I am here with couple of interesting topic to share with you. Hope you can read and think about it. It is a little bit too long thou. Sorry :D Think about it In mondstat, I think if I am not mistaken, it has the highest population of hilichurl, not the total amount but as area per spawn ratio since mondstat is quite small even if you take into account dragon spine, the area feels more populated. There are a lot simpler reason why Hoyo made it like that which in game design perspective, Hilichurl is the most basic enemy and it suits the game progression to have people learn the combat using the most basic enemies. However, maybe this is too stretch but if Hoyo really want mislead us on the whole world building and combat progression aspect, Khanreah maybe come from Mondstat all along. Think again, Hilichurl is Khanreah cursed civilian. Where are they come from? definitely from Khanreah. So, if we ignore the fact that they are basic mob for combat progression aspect, it makes less sense if there are a lot of them in Mondstat and not somewhere else if let say they spread across the world. It also does not make sense that only in Mondstat that people there have a way to communicate with them, see their reaction and sort of having coexistence with Hilichurl. Other thing is.... from all "DLC" area being release in Genshin, ie, Dragon spine, Desert, Enkonomiya, Chasm..... Dragonspine seems a little bit odd to include in the group. Why? In all other area except Dragonspine, there are structures which really resemble Khanreah architecture thou they are not Khanreah. Which means, Khanreah is not there or we assume not from those places. However, in Dragonspine, not only we dont have that kind of structure, we also dont have underground section of the main map in Mondstat while other region all have underground city or civilisation of some sort (if you consider the pyramid underground part of 'Underground' area). Which makes me wonder, what if Khanreah have been in Mondstat all along. Remember, the first cutscene and instances that the Twin watch us is when we are fighting monster in Mondstat which although it is not strong, imply that we are close to them. Considering if Khanreah is the main base for Abyss Order, the Twin can take a bit of walk or teleport to see us is not far fetch. Maybe Twin can just teleport to wherever place they want but it is possibility. And.. the first instance we talk to Dains is in Mondstat. The interlude section comes after Liyue which if we consider chronologically, we should be in Liyue and meet Dains there to make sense in real world travelling timeline sense. But we go back to Mondstat and met him there instead. It is interesting indeed. Maybe this all is far fetched as you say but it is interesting indeed.

a "soul" in Genshin might as well be the data of ones memories and personality

I saw Ashikai pushing the Deshret/Kaveh connection. While there is some merit to this theory, Kaveh's, and Deshret's personalities are kind of nothing alike. Desret was this big brain genius, who played the long game, and was insanely clever, founded, and ruled a civilization (or two if he was king Irmin too). Kaveh cn't even figure out how to adult, without Alhaitham's help he would be living on the streets. He is was literally called an empath by Alhaitham. He is very sensitive, and makes decisions based on his emotions. Because of his selfless nature, people constantly take advantage of him, and he cn't even stand up for himself. How does Kaveh resembles Desret, the king of warriors, who was assertive, possessed unshakable will, and was a strong handed leader? In tje game Kaveh symbolizes human emotions, sensibility according to his character stories.

Plot twist: kaveh is the future grand sage

Ashikai’s mention of the original sin is so cool considering now that we have the overture trailer and Fontaine being released in a couple weeks. the first line in the trailer is “the original sin is the fairest: everyone sinks”. now, im no theory crafter so id love to hear what the predictions are for Fontaine and how all of this will fall into affect.

this is so gonna be worth 1h of my time 👍👍👍

about Chlothar's wife, maybe she wasnt there when the curse was being placed. Maybe she died before the war or during the war, and chlothar preserved her dead body and later buried it in sumeru(where he tries to treat caribert).

The chains locking the crystal is similar to Nahida’s chain on her breast and her ability as well.

1:12:00 "Mad bottom energy."

Love Ashikai vids❤

20:10 I think this is completely true. If you watched the genshin impact teyvat chapter storyline preview, dain clearly says "defeat me. Command me to step aside, show me that you are worthier than I to rescue her" at the end of video (which can also imply the end of our journey in teyvat). Meaning we wont side for celestia (or dain at the very least), which makes us an "ally" of abyss order, and the fight against dain is inevitable. But with that statement, we probably also wont side for abyss order since we have to rescue our twin.

I've been to hotels where they don't have a thirteenth floor, when I enter the elevator I noticed there was a 12th floor, and the button below it is 12.5 -- this was decades ago, I don't remember which hotel I stayed at but I didn't understand it at the time. But thinking back on it now, and the whole superstitious thing it made some sorta sense

My headcanon crack theory: the final fight will not be against the heavenly principles… against the abyss … abyss twin v the traveller … paimon will sacrifice her and the traveler will solo entire teyvat in a fit of rage..

59:45 this roast is CRAZY good 😂😂

So, theoretically, The Sinner could be the Darth Vader of Genshin Impact.

The subtitles are insane...

Invite Ashikai to your podcast might be a good idea.

If anyone of you guys watched full metal alchemist brotherhood...the similarities with main villain is just too good.

yay lore reaction vids 🤍

We ARE getting a Khaenri'ah chapter at the end of the game, though. It's the last chapter in the Travail trailer.

I expected Kaeya to be a noble, not a straight up Regent fam, damn

I just realized something: based on this, if the twin travelled the lands before the other one and met the Aranara people, then that explains why they called the traveler "good nara" This means the other twin was not good or did something bad to them. I might be missing something from the quests lol but this just popped into my mind.

I really wish that after the genshin story is done we get genshin but from the other twin's prospective including what happend 500 years ago and the time they spent with the original Archons because from Zhongli story quest we know that he has a contract with the other twin

Hmm I don’t think choice of VA is that coincidental. I don’t think it’s enough to disprove any theory about Kaeya and Caribert alone but I don’t think it should be completely dismissed either.

Well Bois we are fighting the gods 💪.

10:05 this is also confirmed by the fact that abyss twin is so convinced that MC would help the aranara that they said that another golden nara would arrive

i think it makes sense that everything ends up getting tied back to mondstadt because dont you think theres a reason why that was the first place we started with

So the twins came to Teyvat before the 500 year marker and one lived with the Jester in Khaenri’ah before it fell and the other slept for another 500 years? So the twins are actually almost 1000 years old? I’ve always felt the 500 year time marker for everything to have happened in Teyvat was just not enough time. If this is true, then everything makes much more sense.

The voice was talking to Eide aka Chlotar we just happen to intercept the conversation

your Kaeya = Caribert theory is also my theory too

Genshin lore fans are that meme of Charlie from Its Always Sunny with his connection board