12:20 Correction: Pegasus is a mythical creature and not a person as I've stated in the video. It is still interesting that the writer knows about this creature, did it exist in Teyvat before? or is it an imaginary creature?

In dragonspine lore, there is Venti In Enkanomiya lore, there is Venti In the abyss lore, there is Venti Now in the Chasm lore, there is Venti Whenever there is an abyss related big secrets, there is Venti

Mihoyo clearly understands we like all this deep lore why else would they make it so multiple players had to build & translate mysterious letter

Venti is once again mentioned. I swear, I'm going to deprive that bard of all the alcohol from all possible realms if he doesn't starting revealing what he knows/is a part of.

...Why is Venti literally everywhere? He's my favorite character in Genshin Impact and I just love him BUT he is so sus and connected to everything. The whole god of time thing, with him and the god of time both being worshipped but then the god of time mysteriously disappearing from history and being forgotten, the destruction of Khaenri'ah and it being unclear whether he was there or not, every theorist saying he will be important in the story later on, the base of his statue reading something similar to "Gateway to Celestia", Venti saying in his voicelines that he wouldn't go to Celestia even if he were invited (combined with the end of the Genshin manga prologue where it looks like Celestia is a prison after Vennessa "ascends" to Celestia), being mentioned in so many parts of the lore, and I'm sure there's something I'm missing. Oh, and him saying in the recent Irodori Festival, True Tales of the Violet Garden Part II, something like "Everyone has something they do not wish others to know." That automatically includes him. What is he hiding?

you know, “calamity” and “fate” could have been used metaphorically. fate is like a tyrant, which dictates who you become or how your future ends up. calamity is like a traveler, traveling places and bringing disaster to them

Fun fact: The Black Serpent Knights are named after characters from the book Eaters of the Dead and its movie adaptation, The 13th Warrior! It’s been about a decade but we read and watched it in high school and I immediately recognized the name Buliwyf. The character Buliwyf is based on Beowulf from the old epic. I thought that was a pretty nifty reference they did!

I personally think the words “a Pegasus” refer to an actual winged horse rather than the name of a god. Like saying “I cannot fly like a bird” just replaced with Pegasus. If that makes sense.

The "Mysterious Letter" is based on poem Catullus 58b (by Catullus) with Genshin twists. In both these writings the writers are tirelessly searching for their friends. The writer of the letter is searching for their friend, and the irl poet Catullus is searching for his friend Camerius. One notable change is the line "quos iunctos amica mea mihi dicares" in the letter. In the original poem, the line is "quos iunctos Cameri mihi dicares", which was obviously referring to Camerius. "amica mea", on the other hand, just means "my friend" or "friend" but feminine. It is implied that the "friend" referred to in this letter is a woman. If it was a man, the writer likely would have used "amice". If this is true, then the woman the letter referred to could be this Tenebra woman in the "Crede Tenebrae" achievement, which makes sense. Also all of this is CMIIW y'all, I don't know much about latin language

So something interesting I’ve noticed about the dark mud/abyssal corruption goop is that if you return to the upside down city and the area where the abyss twin left those flowers after the quest, the hilichurls are gone. The only thing left behind is puddles of dark mud and a few hilichurl masks you can pick up. My personal theory is that when while they can’t die, when the hilichurls minds become too eroded they completely lose their physical forms, instead becoming the black mud all over the chasm. It would explain why those who interact with the mud seem to see memories/visions as those could be the memories of those who succumbed to the curse.

I genuinely feel bad for the shadowy husks. While Khenri’ah may not be wholly innocent, they just wanted to do their job and protect the people. :(

"The guardian of Khaenri'ah" made me recall that Venti's statue is the "Gateway of Celestia" making him technically the guardian of Celestia in a sense.

I don't think we can discard the possibility of "the traveler know as calamity" and "the tyrant fate itself" being the Traveler and Paimon just because it would be too early. It would make for a very good foreshadowing which is something that we have a lot in this game. We even knew very small things like Uuyu restaurant being a thing in Inazuma thanks to a drifting bottle in Dragonspine that was there in 1.2 I wouldn't say it's definitive tho but I think it deserves consideration given that the amount of foreshadowing that Genshin has is insane

"Every player have different visible lines" Imagine Hoyo testing this for future puzzle, so you need another 3 players to discover the puzzle.. If player already finished the puzzle they can't help another player again

very clever of mihoyo putting different lines of the mysterious letter on different player's worlds. This makes me wonder if each player's worlds has some kind of lore aspect perhaps like an alternate universe or mihoyo really are just doing it just for the sake of being "mysterious"

i saw a tweet that says: every genshin lore ends with "venti what the fuck" and i 100% agree

Wow, Now Mihoyo is going all out with the Secret lore in this game. You need Twelve Friends to decipher that letter...and they know their players don't have friends. 🙃

Why in every lore bomb drops always have something that can be connected to Venti? Enkanomiya= Istaroth-> a Thousand winds->Venti Liyue= Archon war->Xiao->Karmik->Venti music heal him Chasm= myterious letter mentioned barbatos a.k.a Venti 1st traveller story quest= Corrupted upside down Venti Statue Both Zhongli and Ei lore just about their story quest and their nation. But Venti lore spread in all three nations so far. And Venti is still the only archon who never gets 2nd story quest even though he is the first archon we meet. HE IS SO SUSSSY!

The golden city reminds me of what those ghosts and boatman from Tsurumi island talking about a "land of dreams, land of gold"..

12:14 mann venti is everywhere. I swear he's the most sus archon.

I wonder if Sumeru will have Abyss related quests or events, it seems most likely since their god is the god of wisdom but they encourage false information

The Shadowy Husk has one of the coolest enemy design so far! And amazing it is not only Halfdan the remaining spirit within the armored enemies!

To me, "Guardian of Khaenri'ah" sounds like what Dainslief was supposed to be as the Twilight Sword. And the "My friend" in question could be the abyss twin shortly after they had split apart. He's worn away by the curse recently placed upon him, as mentioned by "Yet I should be tired to the bone and worn away by frequent faintness"

THIS RIGHT HERE is what makes me love playing Genshin Impact. The Lore and Mysteries that you find and explain it to us makes me More Curious and Excited for more archons quest that's coming up in near future . I can't wait for another video from this channel, keep it up

My jaw dropped when the part about the mysterious letter came up. Truly Genshin’s greatest detective

I'm curious if the "Envoy of the Heavens" could be referring to Valkyries. The letter talks about being "outfitted as that guardian of Khaenri'ah", "to soar like a Pegasus", something as if being swift like Morphes, "feather footed and the winged", and finally "call for the swiftness of the winds". A lot of winged/flying imagery, but the first line could also be referring to being outfitted in either weapons or armor similar to the Khaenri'ahn Guardian. MiHoYo is also no stranger to using the term already, hence the word Valkyrie being used in HI3 for the playable characters.

REALLY LONG TEXT/THEORY AHEAD I think the Celestia of old isn't the same Celestia as nowadays, or might even be a creation of the Second Throne after the primordial one (Phanes) got defeated and his shades brought into submission. It would explain why the ruins, and the pool of water, have this soothing effect on the people affected by the curse, since they're from a time before Celestia (as stated in another video), a time when the primordial one was reigning over a unified civilization. If the primordial one was still in charge and ruling over Teyvat and Celestia, it would make no sense for the ruins to be disconnected from Celestia while having this soothing effect on the curse. This means that the primordial one was a loving God (as shown by one of his shades, the God of Time, in Enkanomya, who took pity on the people of Enkanomya and their unjust treatment by the Second Who Came), whereas the new Celestia, ruled by the Second Who Came, eons ago, got rid of the primordial one and despises humanity, wanting to control everyone by using Archons and visions as a means to control the elements. It also makes sense that such a hateful God would start a war, spreading calamity and destruction all over the world, to determine who'd inherit the privilege to control an element (Archon Wars). I don't see the primordial one doing something like this, since humans all over Teyvat would be negatively impacted by the scale of such a war. The elements may have existed during the primordial one's rule as well, but were used by humanity as a whole to advance the species, not by a few select gods and vision bearers. Remember that visions are actually used by Celestia to spy on certain humans with great ambitions, with the ones showing too much potential being invited up to Celestia and taken away to jail (one preview of Celesita looked like a panopticon, a special type of jail). The abyss might actually be the kingdom of light like I saw mentioned somewhere else, aka. the remnants of the primordial one's power, with Celesita being the kingdom of the false "demonic ruler" that killed the primordial one and turned Teyvat upside down. You actually travel upwards while in the Abyss spire and the new chasm city is also upside down itself, which could be a huge hint towards the evil Celestia theory and could show us the scale of the destruction that followed the conflict between the Primordial One and the Second Who came, eons ago. Also, don't forget that all the Archons we met up until now gave up their gnosis willingly, which means they probably know more than they told us and bear a grudge towards the current gods of Celestia. And remember Sal Vindagnyr, the civilisation at the top of Dragonspire. They were treated with love and respect from Celestia before getting utterly destroyed out of seemingly nowhere. A change of management in Celestia itself could explain this, with the Second Who Came hunting down and destroying any civilisation remembering the gentle rule of the primordial one. Now, what did Kaenri'ah do to justify its destruction by Celestia? Maybe they got too close to the truth of what happened between the Second Who Came and the primordial one, delving into forbidden Abyssal knowledge and thus making Celestia angry, the Second Who Came maybe being afraid of being overthrown. After all, orobashi had to die because he learned the truth in Enkanomya. This also makes sense knowing the Abyssal Order's plan to overthrow Celestia using an artifical God. So, imo, the abyssal twin woke up first, traveled around in Teyvat before settling in Kaenri'ah, where he/she learned the truth about this world. Celestia launches an attack, the twins try to flee, are stopped by the unknown God because one of the twins has forbidden knowledge, and the rest is history. I do think the Abyssal twin had their journey with Dain before the cataclysm, with them discovering the truth at the end of it. The traveller will eventually discover it as well at the end of his own journey. I don't think the Abyssal order will remain our enemies at the end of the game, they can't, since it's common knowledge that the fall of Celestia is the ultimate goal of the game, which incidentally, is also the Abyssal Order's goal. And since the Fatui, under the cryo Archon's rule, are also trying to rebel against Celestia, I don't think they'll be our enemies towards the end of the game either. Regarding what happened in Inazuma and the whole timeline/time travel shenanigans, I think Celestia overdid it when they punished Kaenri'ah for getting too close to the truth, releasing monsters everywhere on the world. Remember that not everyone in the abyss is evil, since it may be the kingdom of light, as shown by Childe's mentor, which means that the monsters which attacked Inazuma might be a creation from Celestia. This lead to them having to correct their mistake with time travel and timeline change with the help of the previous electro Archon. My two cents regarding Genshin's complex lore. Obviously it's only theories, but it's what makes the most sense to me for now.

I find it weird that in the second line, the writer muse himself not to be a destructive self that were made to be the lyre of Barbartos. Judging from what we know about Venti so far, it is hard to imprint on him bringing destruction and etc Only two events that came close to the concept of destruction: When he band together with the nameless bard and Amos to overthrow Decarabian, becoming the Anemo Archon. And when he assisted Vennessa in destroying the aristocracy. Since this letter is from a period after Barbartos take the seat of the Seven, it is highly possible that the society where the writer resides deem certain aspect of Barbartos as destructive, and possibly dangerous to their way of life instead. Barbartos is the god of freedom, and from what we can see of Venti, he doesn't interfere with many things and only really take action when things are beyond the control of mortals. (Abit, not by choice as he was sleeping, see Cataclysm). If we were to take his belief in freedom at face value, where everyone is free to do whatever the heck they want, then this is truly a concept of "destructive". According to his friendship level 4 story, after he took over as Anemo Archon for 1600 years, Mondstadt's freedom has sunk to an all time low due to the aristocracy. The story is hinting that due to overflow of freedom, those with power become the oppressor as they have more "rights" to freedom as no one is judging them. Indirectly, it is hinting that too much of something good will eventually become bad, and what order that exist to begin with will become chaotic and destructive. It is possible that at the time this letter was written, the society which the writer belongs to, despise Barbartos for his way of ruling his subjects. If this theory holds some ground in later patches, then this society most likely have a strict hierarchy or a way of life where order is absolute. For the time being, it seems the letter was written by someone from Khaenri'ah and directed to a friend, after witnessing the cataclysm. So if Khaenri'ah is a society where order is valued above all, then it will be agreeable that they naturally become antagonistic towards Barbartos and why they stole the statue in the first place.

I thought the dark mud was revealed to be the disintegrated hilichurls? Like once they die their bodies turn into this dark mud and therefore containing their memories. when we came back to the spot where the dying hilichurls were sitting after the quest that was all there was left…

As I was traveling the Chasm, I found that the named Serpent Knights and Shadowy Husks have names that are similar to the names of characters in Beowulf. I'm not sure if this has some meaning yet but I found it pretty interesting!

everyday my suspicions about venti grow. every. single. day.

Wait, the dialog about "calamity" and "fate" reminds me of the phrase we hear when we met Kaeya for the first time, he says something like "Are you a new ally or a new storm". The thing is that is a phrase that you can think refers at the situation of Dvalin and all that, but Kaeya is from kaenriah', so makes me think if that's something about the situation or if it was for the same reason as the serpent knight sayed it

It's always been a theory of mine that there's an entity in the Abyss that's manipulating both the Abyss Sibling and the Abyss Order for their own ends, so it's nice to see we're getting some subtle hints to it.

So what I can gleam from this message for the most part: Barbatos was a friend of the writer who was somewhat jealous over his power to control the wind. Khaenri’ah was falling to pieces while he was searching for him. And this “guardian” could be referring to Dainsleif or someone else we are not aware of yet.

Venti is the most sus archon

"...Paimon is the Tyrant "fate" itself." I would joke about how we always Knew Paimon was evil all along. But at tbe same Time I keep getting the image of a chubby Paimon on the Throne demanding to be fed.

I think that Edgetho is referring to Twin and Dainsleif. If Twin did travel with Dainsleif, he would be their companion, and from Dainsleif's dialogue in the Teyvat Preview, it's pretty clear he controls "the threads of all fate", so he could also be known as "Fate". Add to that the fact that when the twins arrived in the world, Khaenri'ah's destruction was just occuring, Twin could be Fate's companion, Calamity. So, Edgetho might be mistaking us for our twin, and mistaking Paimon for Dainsleif.

5:05 Didn't Dainsleif say right after reuniting in the Chasm: "Now our paths cross again...fate, it seems, owes you an explanation." What if he literally means himself?

I feel Morphes can't be an archon purely due to the fact it isn't a demon in the Ars Goetia so it wouldn't match up with the current archons we have

With that letter… I got the “Defessus tamen omnibus medullis” line… while asking my Latin teacher if I was translating it right, we found Catullus’ poem 58… I was very confused on how that could relate to the Abyss and Khaenri’ah and all that :( I wonder if everyone else’s lines gave them such red herrings…

I kinda have a feeling that fate and calamity are actually referring lumine and dainsleif. Cuz dainsleif claims to have the knowledge of fate itself and lumine is an outlander who brought calamity, maybe by trying to help things on her way

This mysterious letter was likely written by Halfdan, considering that we can only enter this room by getting those 9 orbs from people who came from Khaenri’ah (the Husks) then the letter should of likely been written by a Khaenri’ah person, but they say they are not the Guardian of Khaenri’ah (maybe the Guardian is Dainsleif?). And it mentions the lyre of Barbatos so this letter was most definitely written after the Archon War, so it couldn’t of been written by someone who originally lived in the upside down city because it was likely destroyed long before the Archon War, plus the switch that opens the entrance to the Room is right side up, so it was placed there after the city was Upside-Downed. (Which makes the upside down teleport waypoint even more interesting) and as we know, Halfdan was still very conscious after being cursed even after 500 years, so when he was first cursed he must of been at his most conscious state being cursed. As for the reason why the 9 orbs was used as a key and was spread across the Chasm in the hands of the Husks, well, perhaps the treasure chests in the secret room were originally the treasures of those 9 Husks plus Halfdan’s.

My theory is that Dainsleif is the Guardian of Khaenri'ah. Also, I just noticed that Venti is everywhere, I think out of all the archons, he would have the biggest role that will come up in later parts ofthis lore, because I'm sure that Venti is the first archon we met for a reason. In addition to this, he's the only archon that has archon quest related to the abyss so far. (Edit) I just found out that Xiao nearly got corrupted like the other yakshas, but was saved by a music played by Venti, maybe that letter is from Xiao.

Case 3: What if... the Traveler known as "Calamity" and is also the companion of that tyrant "Fate" is not traveler/paimon but is the other twin? It could be portraying to the other twin who went with the Abyss and the companion is referring to Dainsleif? I'm not sure where's the 'tyrant' part to Dainsleif but he did mention he was the Abyss twin's companion before. Also at the start of this quest, Dainsleif comes out of a portal, met up with traveler and paimon, said a few lines on how he got there,yada yada, and also said "Now our paths cross again...fate, it seems, owes you an explanation. So well ok, typical confusing answer from him and yet he did all of the explaining as the quest goes on. Hmmm.

I think envoys of heaven refer to the lore in the tiara artifact sets description. There used to be a civilization blessed by Celestia and they were in constant contact with envoys. Then the humans inevitably got greedy and wanted to access the gods' garden, the envoys of Celestia were pissed, and I imagine these people got big nailed as usual. Maybe these envoys were sent to Khaenri'ah, or the inverted city is this civilization. Also, Aberaku mentions Pegasus when describing the rite in which Sunchildren were killed. The kids were told they would ride on Pegasus to the "feast of the sun". So I think it's either a mythological creature like in our world or Enkanomiya had some device with that name, just like the tower is considered the Helios and the carriage of the sun.

I think the black mud is the memories of hilichurls that has become one with the darkness The memories Zhiqiong saw were the Khaenriahs, probably during the calamity

My three theories: 1. Mephes, and Pegaus are Shades of the Primodial one like Istaroth, and Odin is the Primordial One 2. Going off of the first one, since they mentioned barbados along with these names, perhaps like Venti, they are related to the other primordial ones like Venti. 3. Since Khaenriah is clearly based on Norse/Nordic countries (by the names of their abyss nights), maybe Odin is like the Archon of Khaenriah or an important leader there.

And what if Pegasus and Morphes are the names of the two other shades of the Primordial one alongside Istaroth? Morphes could refer Morpheus, a greek god asociated with dreams and sleep. We know that Barbatos is related to Istaroth, as she was known as the Thousand Winds of Time and probably Venti was part of those thousand winds, same as Pegasus, who was a mythical greek beast capable of flying. And the three Istaroth (Kairos), Pegasus and Morphes (Morpheus) are related to Greek mythology.

I love your content and analysis, so in-depth and interesting! A pegasus is a winged horse in mythology, so rather than referring to a character I believe it's just referring to the myth, because it mentions "a" pegasus, not just "Pegasus". And if this letter mentions both Cryo and Anemo archon elements, perhaps the event causing the Tsaritsa to cut ties took place in the Chasm during the Cataclysm? ( I know that's reaching but it's possible.) And if the letter was not intended for a person in the Abyss Order, can others decipher the alphabet? Maybe it's actually Khaenri'ah's alphabet

I knew it, Venti Has a Really Deep Lore, Even if he is Lazy & Drunk he hides really deep lore than most of the Archons.

it's interesting with the use of pegasus, in the cinnabar spindle, albedo's weapon, it talks about an elder brother being a unicorn.

I have a feeling that there is one “celestial pillar” in every region and once all the regions are released,these pillars will join together and we can go to celestia or something like that

I think the letter is from the electro yaksha that disappeared, Xiao being barbatos’ “Lyre” for being saved by venti and getting an anemic vision. Talking about how envious how he couldn’t “fly” like Xiao fighting deals a lot with aerial attacks. Maybe this will lead to us finding out what happened to him/her?

5:55 I thought this was Dainsleif and the Abbyss traveler because they were once a team like the traveler and paimon

i honestly feel the dark mud in the Chasm is the same as the "Filth" that the sacred Sakra absorbs.

For anyone who want to give personal interpretation, here the hidden text: Not as if I were to be outfitted as that guardian of Khaenri'ah Not as if my destructive self were made to be the lyre of Barbatos Not as if I were to soar like a Pegasus Not if I were the swift, snow-white pair of Morphes Add these to the feather-footed and the winged And likewise, call for the swiftness of the winds And though you should harness these, friend, and offer them to me Yet I should be tired to the bone And worn away by frequent faintness My friend, while I would search for you The heavens fall to pieces And falsehoods collapse

I think pegasus refers to that greek mythical creature, and Morphes is actually the god Morpheus, the god of dreams and sleep, mostly depicted with white wings as all other gods of sleep also has wings.

I actually felt bad about the first orb that we spotted them doing something, the last line felt real, as if we're the bad guys... Hm

Maybe the line about Morphes is refering to the greek god Morpheus, who is a god of dreams. In the mythology he's a winged god, whose wings flaps really fast and make no sound. To me it makes sense that "the swift, snow-white pair" refers to his wings. It seems this poem is related to greek mythology, since it talks about Morpheus and Pegasus.

"Not as if i were to be outfitted as that guardian of khaenriah" Prolly refers to dainsleif

Finally someone updated about these letters! Dannnggggg thank you for making this video. The lore of the side quest is deep.

🌸❤️It would be secret so compelling that one would immediately be taken far beyond the thresholds of normal excitement❤️🌸

I'm convinced the thing that "came from the heavens" the black serpent knights are talking about is the pillar, in that quest about taking photos of "strange rocks" we are told that whatever struck and created the fossils, struck with such strength that it immediately created a massive change in the zone it struck, and all around it, such strength that the fossils are in excellent conditions, my theory is that while it struck and killed everything, although the knights of Khaenri'ah there did not die thanks to the curse, which begs the question why they were there, if the city was more ancient than Khaenri'ah, my wild guess is that they knew of its existance and used it as some kind of "safe zone" or gathering point, or they simply were unlucky enough to be there when it happened, but the last option wouldn't make much sense as we don't see similar water devices anywhere else that would attract hilichurls like that one did.

5:00 I came across this video again and after the new Archon Quest, "Caribert" this makes much more sense. This means Edgetho knows about the Loom of Fate and the sibling's connection to it. And calling the traveler as "Calamity" might connect to their fault in bringing destruction to Khaenri'ah.

Interestingly enough, the Skyfrost Nail in Dragonspine was also dropped, and it destroyed the silver leyline trees and caused dramatic weather changes to the land. Also, the Blizzard set tells the story of an outlander, entrusted by the people that time, returned to find the city abandoned and dead. Maybe this is similar to what happened to The Chasm?

i translated the letter too but it sounds a bit diffrent than in the video I cannot be imagined as a guardian of Khaenri'ah, nor am I the thunderous lyre of barbatos, nor can I fly like a Pegasus, nor morph a snowy and fluttering pair: I add featherly and wings like a bird and at the same time require the course of the wind When we were together, my love, you would say to me: I’m tired of everything deep inside and all the diseases. I’m searching for you, darling Heaven will fall away Falsehood will collaps Basically for me it sounds like: I'm not as strong as the guardians of khaenri'ah or the lyre of barbatos, neither can i fly or grow a pair of wings. but i'll still fly in the wind like a bird to get to you. it's like a love letter

The queen of the abyss is Istaroth. The primordial one sent her to find the genesis pearl but she was made to think that she is the queen of the abyss. Later Barbatos was sent to Teyvat to do what she couldn't

The interesting thing i noticed is when you mention ''Celestia may have dropped this pillar here to suppress these memories'' and when we actually stopped the abyss devices, Paimon wants us to interact with the pillar. Like Traveler is unsure we should do this and very hesitant but Paimon still trying to convince him/her to go for it

I have a feeling It's the alchemist Gold who wrote this letter. The letter is locked inside an ancient civilization ruin, yet it straight up mention Khaenraia, so the letter isn't much older than Khaenraia. It's likely written during Gold travels, after she became very tired. the Friend in it might be the person Childe met in Abyss and learned from. And so, that person would have been missing since days of Khaenraia. (No evidence though) The Pegasus is one of Gold's creations, just like Durin and Albedo and many other things. It's mentioned in Cinnabar Spindle. It was likely a marvelous creation, but one who couldn't reach the far end of philosophy, nor create a new destiny for gold and Khaenraia. So Gold was very much seeking a way to pull an Otto Apocalypse move and weave a new fate.. that explain a lot. Gold likely knew the sky is a lie, and the world of Tyvat is wrong due to whatever the second war caused. So the the fall of the heavens would reveal the truth, as the falsehood collapse. This make me think the pillars who have fell everywhere is a symptom of Celestia breaking apart.

I've noticed that in some locations in The Chasm, that abyssal writing could be seen on the walls and such, is it possible that the lines from the letter could be deciphered there or is it just a whole new thing completely. I've tried to find more puzzles and quest related to them but even after hitting 100% in the The Chasm I haven't seen anything. Perhaps its a future event hinting or maybe something else? I do hope we see Zhiqiong again since the idea of her just going deeper into the The Chasm doesn't sit well with me

If Paimon was “fate” it would make a lot of sense. Fate is the idea that life is destined to turn out a certain way. With Paimon, she leads us through each nation one at a time in a specific order at the exact moment a nation is having a problem. With the idea that she is the tyrant “fate” it would make a lot of sense that she would try to keep our journey on a specific track to have a certain outcome.

5:04 IIRC he might be referring to the book "Breeze Amidst the Forest" My memory is kinda vague about this book, but it tells a story about someone who meets a traveler from afar, they became close companions, but then a great disaster struck and they became separated (and they get cursed but I forgot how exactly)

What if the "companion of the tyrant" and the "traveler" is referring to the abyss twin and dainsleif ? Dainsleif mentioned in the archon quest that he was the traveler's companion, and they wanted to reach "the end of the journey" just like traveler and paimon!

5:21 About this, "calamity" refered to travelers. I ever heard some theory that every outlander who came to Teyvat, will bring a disaster to Teyvat. Refering to The Primordial One who overthrow the throne of The Seven Dragons, the Second Throne who declaring war to The Primordial One (and brought great disaster in Teyvat/one of them is Enkanomiya sinking), also traveler (Aether and Lumine) who arrived in Teyvat before the cataclysm took place, and many more?

Do anyone here remember about the horses creature that took form of adeptus and served the Geo Archon? The one in the Moonlit Bamboo Forest book? The ENG version doesn't clearly translate that part, but the original text from CN is clearly stated that. That golden eyed woman (who heavily implied to be the white horse creature because she appeared from a spring like the legend of horse like adepti told by Qingce Village elders) oddly knows about The Moon Sisters too. So, is this the Pegasus that this letter refers too? They used to serve Geo Archon in the past.

Guardian of Khaenri'ah could refer to Dainsleif or Skirk though for now Dain would be the best candidate yet since he is the one in command over Khaenri'an soldiers (Black serpent knights)

Another interesting thing is, that the "Friend" this letter is adressed to has to be female since lines 7 and 10 use the latin word "amica" to adress the reader. For a male recipient you would have to use the male version of friend which is "amicus". I wonder if the players who got those lines were playing with Aether, so the female friend would be the Abyss Twin Lumine. That would mean on the other hand, that there should be letters out there (for those who play with Lumine) with different Lines 7 and 10.

Like someone else said it was a pegasus that soared through the skies en that reminds me of that book that Amber gave us, which is again connected to venti.Wat does he have to do with this?

i love your videos. its so calming and makes a lot of sense. not confusing too. like, its the best lol

I think they do not necessarly have to be new characters, the four from the letter. Can be just different names for characters we know of. All of this has a lot of potential for more deeper research.

When Edgetho said "Companion of that tyrant, "Fate," the traveler known as "calamity." I first thought that the so as called Tyrant A.K.A Fate was Sustainer of heavenly principles and her traveler companion A.K.A "Calamity" was the missing sibling of our MC.

as usual, some high quality stuff! Thank you! I wonder who Calmity and Fate are...

I love how each world gives you a different line so you have to work with other people to figure it out.

Pegasus typically are seen as good creatures with wings as white as snow, which funnily enough matches the godly form a certain drunkard bard has when depicted as an archon, like in the statues, so I think the whole poem is about Barbatos and a missing friend of his Edit further down with an in depth analysis of the poem line-by-line after having some coffee to wake myself up, above was sleep addled first impressions with little thought to them Having watched again, I think it's written by and about a friend of Barbatos as the writer talks about themself and Barbatos separately, later probably talking about trying to physically find him but couldn't because of being on the opposing side. Also a lot of the statements say the speaker isn't what they compare themself to. My interpretations on the lines: 1. Compares themself to a specific guardian of Khaenri'ah in adornment and says they aren't, meaning they either haven't accomplishes enough before the end of writing this in order to have earned it or it could be more literal / 2. They say they weren't made to be the lyre of Barbatos, meaning the probably DID send messages to and from the aforementioned Archon most likely thought themselves too impure after an event happened that meant they weren't worthy to do so or continue to do so / 3. I believe the Pegasus mention is due to how they don't feel free to do as they like, while a Pegasus is free to fly wherever it's heart leads them. / 4. The mention of Morphes could be a reference to the Talaria, or Barbatos' wings as the breeze or wind would be cooling white they are depicted to be pure white. Also Barbatos has the ability to hide and bring forth his wings at the time of the war. / 5-6. "Add to these the winged and feather-footed" could be a plea to help the innocents that could escape to do so, as fellow archons would have a hard time trying to harm anyone Barbatos was protecting due to needing cooperation to have the ability to win the war. The next line could be a plea for him to come quickly as there probably wouldn't be much time left as the archons were said to have struck suddenly. / 7-8. Barbatos probably offered to shelter his friend in order to protect them but the friend, having already known their time was near due to a mysterious affliction and probably didn't want their archon friend, whom can't die, to see them like that. / 9-11. They say they would search for Barbatos if they could, but the world is breaking as are the falsehoods, meaning Kaehnri'ah probably had found the secrets Celestia wanted hidden and they knew they didn't have enough time, therefore wrote this most likely in the hopes that Barbatos would find it. Since Barbatos knows every past, present, and future song, he most likely is fluent enough in the language as to read this.

Hooly shit.. this is some next level secrecy.. I love it when they do it like this inside a game. You too who helped spread the word, thanks for this!

You are very attentive to details. Thanks for your hard work and explanations. Your videos make the story deeper. The further we go in the plot, the more it seems to me that we are going down the wrong path. Whether our twin is poisoned or not, history hints that our enemies may not be in the Abyss. And maybe we suppressed this black dirt in the Chasm in vain...

I just thought of a theory that this letter was from dainsleif (or someone with similar position as him) to kaeya. soar like a Pegasus may refer to Kaeya being a cavalry knight Morphes as described means snow or related to cryo, kaeya being a cryo user I know its kinda weak correlation/theory but just wanna share

Ok WHAT each player has a different letter?! bro Hoyo be on FIRE with the coding and small mundane details

I swear, your contents are one of the best here on KZfaq!

Calamity and fate sounds like poetic purpose to me, not actually discerning people - the concept of fate is likely compared to a tyrant because it controls everything, and as fate only brought bad things to the knight, they see it as a always being together with calamity. It'd be interesting to see the CN version of that line.

11:24 one shocked me, i didn't know we got different line. Thanks for making vidoes like this! I mostly focus on enemies in game so I miss detail facts like this. I really appreciate your efforts!

there is one thing that makes me unsettled.. why celestia or .. gods decided to destroy Khaenriah at that exact time.. I mean Khaenriah is already existed for such time.. and they decided to destroy it at the same time with Traveller's arrival .. maybe they just don't want any people to know that there is such a thing as other world..

Cat, could you make a video summarising the Fatui's mission in the Chasm and how it relates to the Tsaritsa's motives against Celestia? Esp the Fatui sentence "if not us, then who?" which raises a lot of qns about when they're so ready to sacrifice themselves. Does it have something to do with the Abyss? Or the cataclysm 500 years ago made irreparable changes to Snezhnaya? Childe fell into the Abyss as a child, does that mean there're doors to the Abyss lying around like potholes in Snezhnaya?

If the "tyrant" is actually referring to Paimon, that means we get another foreshadowing that Paimon might betray us in the future. First one was from Enjou who said the same thing

i subbed just because this is so well made and straight to the point :D

Thank you very much for parsing the letter! I thought for a long time that there is some other quest that I can't find how to start

something ive been curious about in the Chasm while exploring is that in some places you can find khaen'riah text?(or abyss text dunno) in walls, and other places, but when you approach them, they dissapear until you stay away from them, been wondering if the texts say something

FUNFACT; Halfdan's name was based on the quest context. on which after the Lector activates the spell, he jumped on to the center to stop it, only to be done half and the Traveler needs to finish the rest. Hence, Halfdan.

I think Istaroth is the writer of this letter. She was shown to support civilisations that were cast aside by celestia as she helped the people of enkanomiya. It would make sense for her to also be a 'guardian' of khaenri'ah. There are a lot of references to wind in the letter and Istaroth was also worshipped at the thousand winds temple in mondstadt. If she is trying to help the civilisations that were created before the second throne survive all by herself, it's no wonder she has grown tired. She is most likely searching for help as she can no longer protect these civilisations on her own.

y’know, I’ve never actually seen the deciphered versions of abyss letters and stuff, there’s quite a few around the world too, above the heads of abyss mages when chanting and even a couple in the chasms in ruins, idk if you’ve done a video on it before but it’d be cool to have all of the deciphered abyss text in one video