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The theory was great and easy to understand as always but moving to the important part..."sigh" we have found it, the strongest weapon one and only DULL BLADE.

Remember the namecard obtainable after completing all 'Elemental specialist' achievements? it goes like this: "Light can refract into countless colors, but people stop at seven because they're lazy to count. Perhaps the elements are like that, too." With Marchosius (aka Guoba) lore we also got a 'new' elemental symbol: the fusion of Geo and Pyro (Geo as a base and the flame of Pyro), this new symbol represents Marchosius origin 'Marchosius, God of the Stove, born from a spark when stone struck stone'. If we relate light to 'Celestia' (we are constantly told that Gods descends upon the mortal realm), then the 7 elements are just oversimplifications of countless building blocks, and oversimplifications always tend to left something important behind.

I found out an interesting detail: In the fight with the Sustainer, Aether actually lost his weapon, so the light we see him use against her can take physical form.

You know that the traveller is winning once he gets that Golden Aura.

Wow, I thought I was the only one that noticed this. The game is almost to an obsessive point always points out how the Traveler doesn't have a Vision, even though he doesn't need one.

This makes the chess theories (cause u know, black and white) a whole more interesting.

The game even says that before archons, there used to be many gods of many different elemenents. It all changed when Celeastia created gnosis. Also, Zhongli giving up his gnosis equals him not being allowed to rule over the land/nation of Liyue, even though before the Archon War a gnosis wasn't required. It all heavily implies that the current 7 Archon setup is very much by design of Celeastia.

The story line keeps getting darker and darker and I’m starting to get worried(the charecter death in story and blood in shouguns story quest feels like it’s only the start)

maybe instead of light and dark we can look at as corruption and purity, corruption resembling the negative and dark energy and purity resembling the light and positive energy, we’ve seen the traveler purify dvalins tears that were corrupted by the abyss, perhaps when the other traveller was taken by the heavenly principals it corrupted them granting them the ability to manipulate the dark energy

The travellers are stuck in an endless time loop at the moment and thier loops only started getting easier when they discovered the strongest element of all, plastic, specifically mom's 💳

I'm pretty sure the blue and gold auras are a form of pure elemental energy, like the type of energy found in leylines. The color likely represents concentration with blue being the normal color and gold as the purest. The pure energy likely gets converted into one of the seven elements when being used by something like a Vision or an Adeptal seal, similar to how electricity gets converted into mechanical energy and heat when placed into a machine motor. Pure elemental energy and the supposed positive "Light" energy is probably the same thing. Also the Dark energy has a name, it's called Abyssal energy and we see it everywhere Abyss order-related from the Heralds to Dainsleaf. And it's been explicitly mentioned as a contrast to Celestia's power which is elemental energy.

i was a bit disappointed by the rushed archon quest but these videos really help me rethink and appreciate it more, thank you for your great work as usual! looking forward for more as usual

Light and Void: Lumine and Aether. It's literally their names.

Coincidentally my friend is playing through this quest when they meet right at this moment hahaha.

I just also wanna point out that it’s possible the attack the traveler did to the unknown god ruined the sword they were using which would explain why they still use the dull blade in cutscenes; it’s what was left of the weapon after that explosion. We know that the traveler didn’t want to change clothing during Ayakas story quest because it has sentimental value for them, so that’s probably why they kept on using the dull blade; it’s a reminder of their former power. Just my thoughts. Idk.

9:04 "But Aether remains silent..." I means, hasn't he always been silent. 😂

The missing elements that support all other elements, are time and space. Together, they give all elements the power to exist. Once separated, elements would cease to exist, and so is life. The siblings are Gods of Time and Space. That's the reason why the unknown God had to separate them from each other: to weaken the power they share when together. And that's the reason why they can resonate with all the elements. Lumine, created a portal in the quest, which means she has control of space. Same goes for Aether who can freely travel through teleport waypoints. And as we know so far, the traveler is the only one using those waypoints, as we are the one who's unlocking it across the map. Since Lumine completed her journey first, she might have created those space waypoints knowing that her brother's power after he wakes up would not be as strong, and would find it useful. It is possible that Aether is the forgotten God of Time in the secret island, since he was trapped for another 500 years after Lumine woke up. That is enough time for people to forget. This is my theory. It also makes sense that they can travel from one world to another, another proof that they have control over time and space. Check out Greek Mythology, they have 9 elements there, 7 of which what we have in the game. The other 2 being time and space.

Imagine if sustainer turned out to be the good lady and be like: "I planned this since the beginning I did all this so u could distroy Celestia"

This proves Kazuha is so pure, pure enough to completely snap the traveler out of his trance just by being near him-

these theories are so wonderful but i must admit I’m so afraid of mihoyo wasting the potential of their stories and going for something extremely basic and predictable. I was wondering how mihoyo would do Inazuma’s quest since the initial potential of it was amazing- epic storyline, great characters and narrative. But then they wrapped it up with one ugly, wonky ribbon in the form of bland solutions (the power of friendship at the end with Ei), and wasted character potentials (basically nullified any “bad” things the electro archon did by giving her a soft sweet side to make the fandom love her and .. kokomi…). They really ended that chapter badly and you can tell that, as the game gains popularity, the difficulties are dumbed down, they become more pushed to release chapters and meet the fandoms expectations (selectively though, as they seem not to care about the fandom when it comes to rewards >_>). Anyways, my main point is that this storyline has massive potential, enough so to be maybe a ground braking game that could honestly leave its own legacy in mobile and gacha history. But, mihoyo seems extremely prone to wasting potential in order to meet deadlines, or satisfying the “money” side of the fandom by dulling down characters. I only hope the ending conclusions are as intricate, detailed and magnificent as these theories you come up with!!

This might be something un-essential but i think the traveler we chose still has their original power My only clue is that only mona and aether can summons stars from their palms in their idle animation

Speaking of this dark and light theory ; brings to notice; that the corruption on dvalin was "purified" by just coming in contact with the traveller Maybe these powers are inherently counteractive just like qua and Img in honkai Maybe our traveller will have to fight this dark energy head on to truly awaken his light energy Tho it'll be years before that happens

Theres also an important factor that many end up forgetting. The fact that MC purifies Dvalin's Tears from the corruption they once had, something that not even archons could get rid of and those corrupted tears originating from the poison left in Dvalin's body after the fight against Durin.

Makes me think that Pierro, the First of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, quite possibly uses the dark element as his main ability instead of one of the seven natural elements of Teyvat. He more than likely still uses a Delusion of one, but he seems like a very obvious user of the Shadow element to me. He has a relatively noble cause, but one born of negative, dark ambition of vengeance and anger, the desire to bring ruin to those who destroyed his nation and people. That's what I'm thinking anyway.

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Original "light" power is indicated by white colour in siblings costumes. The thing is, that by using dark power Lumine still has white light emanating from her dress, only her sword changes (like a cursed weapon). I think This power is corrupted light or corrupted Celestial energy. That would explain why they needed distorted statue of the seven.

At the start of the game when the traveler is speaking with paimon, he says something "after i woke up....my powers were gone", stating that he knew about his powers already and wasn't just an ambition of a second when lumine was being taken away. So I think aether wielded the light element but his powers were locked within him and currently his powers only resurface when his ambition reaches its peak (like you said). I may be wrong, feel free to correct me or share your ideas.

I would love to play the other sibling's path before we get to the end of the story. Like a flashback or as its own chapter with its own set of characters. That would be dope.

"Abyss Herald uses dark power to create a portal." Umm how about those portals created by the fatui to assault the jade chamber back in 1.1? Are they the same thing?

Imagine if traveler was the first dendro character.

About the dark energy that affected the traveler could it have anything to do with that one Dainsleif line of soul darkening that showed Aether?

I guess for my theory here is collecting all elements allows you to ascend to celestia More edit: yes "collection" why im saying this? Remember that teyvat trailer said "seven treasures" which is represent elements and "doorway to divinity" also kazuha proved us that you can wield more than one vision. So my theory here is if you have all seven elements you will be able to ascend to celestia

light: I can give life to dead charters. everyone: oh no qiqi! time to swich to hu tou .

your videos are so ridiculously well made, I love how the music synchs with the tone at certain moments and all the footage that really sends what you're saying home, quality stuff

I would say that this the game has introduced the concept of someone having an affinity to positive/negative energy other than the traveler before, with Chongyun, who has a an abundance of yang (positive) energy, and in the lore he never reveals what goal/ambition led to him receiving a vision. He also claims to have personality changes when the yang energy takes over...somewhat similar to the traveler acting differently when confronting Scaramouche or at Tenshukaku (and yes dw I know that yin/yang and Chongyun's story tropes are not only a genshin thing, it just struck me as interesting that the game incorporated this concept which initially appeared to only affect one character)

One thing that I also find interesting is how you can actually see the traveler in their constellation, much like the archons.

This game needs to be turned into anime with no less then 8 seasons

DUUUDE ive been wanting there to be a light and dark ability in the game so we can play dainslef and light traveller

This is actually a really nice theory. Makes a lot of sense, just to clarify there are the know 7 elements which has their own gnosis. But what about the light and dark elements? Do they have a gnosis? What do you think?

my guess is that we might get these elements after we get all the 7 ones. nice video! I hope we so more details about the light and dark elements soon in the story ^^

I found that scene with the heavy atmosphere weird and did thought it was as Paimon said Shogun's power

We need a video on Dull Blade and why it’s canonically the strongest weapon we’ve seen

Assuming that rewinding of the explosion was Time magic, she could very well be Venti's lost friend, the God of Time (coincidentally, in the Paimon menu as it is called, we have the option to fast-forward time but that might just be a game mechanic)

yooo!!! i've had this theory for a while as well, really cool to see you speaking on it!

I also noticed that the parts of aethers clothes that glow in game were dark in the beginning, but lumines are white. This may also be hinting that there is some kind of power she possess that aether doesn't anymore, since when they fight the unknown God these parts glow white on both of their clothes

wouldnt it be neat if there was an actual reason behind the colors of each element which would explain why light and dark almost match geo and electro

This channel is very underrated. Kudos to you bro very well thought theory. Looking forward to watch more of your theories.

I hate that we have to wait years for the story to be complete, if there is one thing I hate is waiting.

I will always wonder why theorists have those soothing talk show podcast voices and they really just make you understand everything 😌 it’s just really nice 👍🏽

I think the evil siblings (Let's go with Lunine) journey was the same as Aethers in terms of order...she visited each kingdom in Tyvat and helped them with their problems much like her brother did and befriended people and The Archons as well. From what we know from the treiler the last kingdom that will unlock for us would be Khanriah...I think that was the last kingdom for Lumine as well, where unlike everywhere else they helped her look for her brother actively as well. But when "the incident" happened and Khanriah was demolished by the Archons she once saw as friends it may have triggered her Dark Ambition...now why doesn't anyone remember her? Well besides Venti and Zhongli all the archons are new and after that war. Alsk Dainslief was cursed to Immortality...so the magics here are powerful. Perhaps Lumine was forcefully removed from the remaining archond memory as a symbolic way to "burn" the friendship they once had?

The quality of your Videos, and theories, is always top notch! So good

So Chongyun positive energy or yang energy is maybe a key of the story. If chongyun able to control his yang energy. A cryo and light ice boy. hmm I like it.

The energy that surrounds the Traveler in the Scaramouche scene is very similar to the one that surrounded the Evil Sibling, I love this theory

I've found your channel a few days back and I've been hooked ever since. I'm recommending all my genshin friends to check you out. You deserve the 100k. Keep up the good work.

Solid bro, missed these videos. Reminding me why you’re the best!

I guess this explains how our traveller was able the purify divalin's tears in the prologue

There seems like 4 to 5 different energies imo. 1.: White light is only seen on twins clothes and maybe their wings and sustainer when she blocks the 2 swords. 1.1: Golden light you can see on sustainers feet when she walks in the air and her star shaped gates before they turn dark red, all over both travelers, on sigils of permission when Childe calls Osial, on the jade chamber scene and in Ei's purified realm. 2.: Cosmic blue-black is on Dain and Paimon. 3.: Purple smoke is in abyss and Khaenr'ah, also coating sibling's sword. 4.: Dark red you can see on sustainer cubes and Ei's realm expansion. P.S.: If I had to guess what each of those is: White: actual divine (god) power Gold: divine creations Cosmic: time Purple: honkai Dark red: space/void Also I don't think travelers will ever have a vision or a gnosis. World is dying the actual creator is gone the sustainer yeets the 2 siblings down and puts their power into the land so if they want it back they have to cleanse it. Sustainer guards actual heavenly kingdom while celestia pretends to be god and honkai is here to f everyone. Khaenri'ah let it out into the world accidentally so sustainer went to plug the hole and fkd it up. Bottom like I feel like it's not enough clear info to really understand anything rn.

This was beyond fascinating ! While I just grasped the struggle within our player and how it probably meant something, your video goes so much farther, it’s mesmerizing! Thank you I had a fabulous time ! 💛

Your voice is so clear. Sometimes when I listen to theories or stuffs like this I'd have to turn on the cc or replay some lines I didn't catch but that never happened here. Very clean voice, and I love the pronunciation

Ngl when the Traveler have that aura I was like "Holy crap Traveler getting Ultra Instinct or Golden Experience Requiem, Ei stand 0 chance"

That’s a very interesting idea, the twins being more adept at absorbing these supposed elements like conduits. Makes me wonder what Dain was using, something more blueish but with a galaxy theme

Man ur theories are amazing thanks for making these amazing videos... Keep it up!

No wonder the Traveler uses the Dull Blade, "Youthful dreams and the thrill of adventure. If this isn't enough, then make it up with valiance."

Things that almost all theories fail to acknowledge. Before the Archon wars there was more than 7 elements. Havria was the God of Salt. She controlled salt and only salt. Knowing this, how many other elements could have existed in the past and what caused the main 7 to be chosen? Nor main character nor the sibling was sealed for 500 years. Its not know for how long either have being awake. All we know is that they awoke sometime between 2 months to 500 years ago and the main character was wandering alone from that moment until he meet Paimon. Were the they woke could be a very significant piece of information. Did they woke In a cave, a ancient ruin, in the Mondstadt region, in the middle of no were or in the region were khaenri'ah was located? The location could contain a lot of information about the how they where sealed and the unknow god.

have u seen Ashikai’s theory about the siblings being stars? looking at this and that together, it’s making sense out of a lot of things and also confusing me

2:16 Ah, yes, Yae "I just /gave/ the gnosis away" Miko.

Your insight and ideas are so interesting to hear about!

The chess theory starts making more and more sense, it explains why there are only 7 elements but 8 pieces for two sides. The king pieces may be related to the gnosis of those who wield those special powers, the white king maybe resides in celestia right now but the MC may be able to ascend and steal the throne, while the sibling is the black king. The only little thing that I don't like and would have been really cool imo, would have been if somehow aether was the black king and lumine the white king. Since lumine moved first in teyvat and aether moved after her. It could still make sense if like lumine tried to ascend as black king but failed, and now aether has the chance to either become the white king himself and overtake celestia, or become the dark king and slaughter all the white pieces in his way until he can capture the white king

If you guys know Honkai Impacts Story then Aether/Lumine is going to fall further in the Dark side soo yeah I'm just going Hmmm whats gonna happen next.

Nice video man thanks! By the way, there's not only the theory about the elements of light and dark, there's also someone who drew a theory about the element of "Time" too. Also Take a good look at Paimon's clothes, it's a triquetra, in old celtic culture, que triquetra would be sign of divinity, more precisely the triple moon goddess which well... in genshin there's was once 3 moons... perharps our little emergency food is much more than meets the eyes or maybe she could be it's even linked to the fact that in genshin lore, Teyvat has been experiecing a cycle of Life, Death and Rebirth. Many civilizations inside it have seen the day and sunddenly got destroyed for later then another new civilization to rise from it's ashes, this kind of cycle is also linked to the triquetra... Also i might be kind of crazy but there's also something about the Seelies (littles spirits we like to guide to statues to find chests) who were in the past a race of beautiful humanoids with great power and wisdom, they were tasked with guiding humanity in teyvat, but suddenly their existence came to a rather abrupt end after One of the Seelies major ancestors fell in love with a certain Traveler from afar... Perharps there was others travelers before Lumine and Aether too in teyvat... anyways the lore of this game is crazy good a full of mysteries to be solved;)

You remind me of Shoddycast and their TES lore videos. Keep up the good work!

🌸❤️I would say a title to inspire the noggin and wet the curiosity! You have once achieved the impossible, and commanded the gaze, I am but powerless to extend it❤️🌸

It also helps that their names are respectively supposed to be representing darkness and light although Aether is more "quintessence/void" and Lumine is more "light" (literal and non-celestial, just sparkle) and their clothing having to embody such elements too. If you play as Lumine it would make much more sense lol.

I believe Collei had this as well, a pure and genuine hatred/darkness that manifested in a black fire that would only eat living things. She was also "cured" of this and eventually got a true vision. Also, another thing I noticed when genshin first came out was that the domains we enter for the first time are purified by our touch, just like the tears.

I love theory and lore videos! Keep the good work up!! I think there are new books at the Yae publishing house that tells inazuma's past. But I haven't have the time to read it yet, maybe check those out. Looking forward to your next video 😄

very interesting idea Toward the end you say that the sustainer capture lumine and she witness the destruction of kaenriah after that but during the dainsleif quest the traveler stat that lumine wake him up and told him they should leave because she already assist the cataclysm

when u said that the sustainer rewinds time i immediately thought of paimon who controls time... im doubting her now

Just found this channel. Love the story telling ASMR 😊 So soothing

i feel like the sustainer is just doing her job (judging how one arm is seemingly the corrupt one and one being a cleaaner one with a 4 spiked star, it is kinda clear how neutral she is to me personally), she saw the siblings as a threat to the heavenly principles that was intended for teyvat but after witnessing how it was a mistake to try and stop aether and their powers reacted abnormally, she made a quick decision to send them back to teyvat as she might've seen them now as the balance that teyvat needed to permanently abide by the heavenly principles and thus sent lumine in a journey through darkness, possibly assisted by the sustainer's corrupt side and aether with paimon as the sustainer's light side.

What if the sustainer was reacting to our siblings fall to dark. And she sealed us to be a way to save teyvat as we could resonate with light

OMG AETHER IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE LIKE LUMINE- GETTING ANGRIER AND STUFF?!?!?!?? TEYVAT THIS THEORY IS SCARING ME STAWPPPP

I wish you made more videos because your voice is so good to hear

Lol i can’t get over how badly he’s trying to sound like Dain

If you believe in this theory, it might do you well to explore what we know about Azhdaha, maybe in its own video. For instance (spoilers to Zhongli Story Quest) Azhdaha is a character deeply connected to both ley lines AND The Chasm, but is also an entity that can possess all of the current elements (barring dendro) and is also specifically able to use Yin (dark) to manifest their vengeance into manipulating others, as well as its Yang (light) to manifest its resolve into guidance. It is something to consider seeing as the miners who were manipulated were under Azhdaha/Jiu's control, but it could just be a nice coincidence, considering the idea of Yin Yang kind of seems to exist in Liyue already (see Chongyun) and the power seemed to look different to the abyssal powers Lumine had. Still, it was interesting to me when I first encountered it and Azhdaha, while not being directly important to the happenings of Teyvat, biologically seems to hold a lot of history in them, just food for thought.

The Visions do seem to be given to those whose ambitions and personalities line up with the Archon of that element. The Archons might just be used as archetypes for deciding who receives what Vision. Maybe that's why the Electro Visions stopped appearing because when Ei sealed herself inside her puppet, perhaps she was deemed unfit to serve as an archetype for choosing Electro Vision wielders. Perhaps the twins align with the shadow and holo archons.

This is well done! Love the analysis!

even the glowing parts of their outfit show the specific element and at the beginning aethers was black and lumines was white

[Long post warning] I've been wondering if maybe the twins could in a sense function the same way that visions do. How visions are powered by one's ambition, they too have shown to be powered in some way by other people's ambitions such as in Liyue with the adeptal energies and in Inazuma with the people's ambitions. Also (possibly unrelated) at the very beginning of the game when the Traveler first gains Anemo, Paimon says "Did you just feel the elements of the world?" Then she goes on to say how no one else in the world can gain power as easily as the Traveler can so maybe that was all foreshadowing everything to come in more ways than one. I think the personality and emotions of each vision wielder probably has some effect on their manifestation of their vision (cryo-wielders being lonely, pyro-wielders being passionate). If that's the case, I think a big distinction between these two light and dark energies is that the light seems to be powered by desire to protect (Aether in Liyue and Inazuma) while the dark seems to be powered by vengeance (Lumine's vengeance for Khaenri'ah). However, those are two very similar desires that there can be a lot of moral ambiguity between the two so that could be easily swayed either way. Also I think the corrupting power that Xiao and the other Yakshas deal/dealt with as well as the Tatarigami in Inazuma may be connected in some way to this dark negative form of energy since they both seem to be powered by vengeance or some similar negative emotion. Durin's remains on Dragonspine and the corruption of the sacred sakura might also be connected to that negative energy. Collei in the manga also has some sort of dark power that didn't seem to be connected to the other elements or a vision but she seemed to be powered by her negative emotions and desire for vengeance but also the archon residue forcibly injected into her. I think we might get a lot more information about these positive and negative energies in Sumeru since that's where Collei and Cyno were headed at the end of the manga and Cyno seemed to be pretty knowledgeable about Collei's powers. Maybe the reason why the abyss twin wants us to reach the end of our journey is so we can see the true nature of the world as being horrible and unjust and see what they saw. In the We Will Be Reunited cutscene we saw the abyss twin using some dark (purple) power which Dainsleif also seems to use and they both are driven by desire for vengeance (against the gods). So far the playable twin hasn't really seen much that could stir that much anger and vengeance yet except for Signora's execution and the encounter with Scaramouche (who seems to know a lot more about the world from the Unreconciled Stars event) and Scaramouche eggs them on to "embrace the anger". I feel like as the story progresses the Traveler may see a lot more things that could push them in that direction and that might be something they have to actively resist or give in to like in a lot of LightvsDark stories. I was really hoping to see what other people thought of that sequence right after seeing Signora's death since there wasn't really any concrete explanation about the headaches and everything. Loved the video, can't wait for more!

This reminds me of the Dragonspine Sword Story with Albedo. The sword had that dark energy inside and only the traveller could use it... I can't remember exactly what was going on, but Albedo researched the travellers skills. He seems to have an idea of that dark and light theory.

Wow I never realised the Sustainer looked suprised for a sec. Good stuff!

Glad to help you reach 100k

"2.1 story sucks ass! Everything is rushed! Its like there was no point to it at all!" *Historia uploads* "Maybe I treated you too harshly."

First time watching this content and its very good and interesting. Although i am in a little bit of pickle here, i thought both traveler were together during archon war and destruction of khenria and when they were trying to escape the world of teyvat their path were block by unknown god. This was said in " we will be reunited" quest line, when paimon asks deinslief 'what happend 500 years ago' the traveller replied he knows what happened and tell every thing to paimon but not us (the players).And dainslief was also surprise that traveller knew and he was there at that time. Am i missing some thing important in the time line of story , can some one explain in detail of this specific part.

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I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AAAAA

Ooow shi- here we go again!

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who paid attention at the idea of the Traveller eventually getting a vision of some sort.

God damn these are the best Genshin videos. Pls keep it up. You’ll be at a million in no time

Aw man I theorized about this for such a long time, now I see that there was even more details that I missed, it's funny how all times when I ask a question in comments and livestreams the answer is: "I'm making a video about it". I love your content.