Don't forget about the special mirror in March's room which looks suspiciously similar to the mirror at the forgotten hall.

If you go to March's room and look at her pictures you will see some that she wasnt present for or couldnt take a picture during so it could make sense that she is collecting memories

inb4 March is actually Idrila the Beauty, who disappeared (in this case, was frozen solid by Fuli). Much like Fuli, the path of Beauty would also explain her love for taking photos, the beauty of the world around her

Interesting theory. Sampo being emanator to Elation could be true. I just don’t think Sampo was talking to us. He did speak to an audience, but not the players. He probably belongs to the Masked Fools, followers of Elation Aha who just wreak chaos across the universe just for fun. Sampo was basically streaming his deeds to other members. In the simulated universe some events are about a tavern with masked people. (Usually cowboy fights, or you can choose to fight A, B or both of them.) That is the meeting place for the Masked Fools and Sampo mentions a tavern in his fourth wall speech. Sampo is a lot like what Masked Fools are. Not really “good” or “evil”, just doing anything to never be boring or bored. Why wouldn’t Aha resonate with him. I’m interested to know more of him. Chaos is fun but can also be dangerous.

Don't forget Clara! The rating gun notedly refuses to rank her.

I'm gonna get pissed if March doesn't get an awakened form just like Dang Heng

Here’s a cool theory: The person who provides the memory of chaos said that if she did something forbidden she would be forced to lose her name, identity, memories and possibly existence (where no one ends up remembering her- idk if all that’s true tho) which sounds awfully similar to what happened to March 7th- maybe she managed to survive was because Fuli had something else planned for her like you said- but it could explain why no one remembers her

This theory does hold ground, there’s even evidence in March’s in game kit, as even though in combat she’s considered Preservation, and she does well enough with that role, her skills are more focused on inflicting freeze and ice weakness break (which applies freeze).

I was thinking about March like 3-4 days ago and came to the same conclusion, her obsession with photos is such an obvious hint to Fuli (also remember the scene from luo fu when dang heng sees her crystals and says like "yeah march were there", it was like her crystals heavily implying the concept of making timestamps or marks that point to past events). Same goes for Sampo, from the moment I've read the line about masked fools in the SU, I knew with whom he was close to. however I don't have the General, and I didn't know much about his lore so thank you for you for the hypothesis about connecting them together!

This theory is ringing more true now. It doesn't rate Acheron either.

Being literally the icon face of HSR, March 7th's story aint that simple. Look at Paimon and Kiana.

i think it's more likely that sampo is part of the masked fools rather than an emanator of aha but it could also be possible that everyone in the masked fools are granted powers by aha just because aha just does it for fun just like how one time he made a worm gain the powers of an aeon just for fun

The theory seems good, but if being an eminator of an aeon gives such results, than that would mean that Herta should also have the same rating, as she is an eminator of Nous the erudition. However, she is rated very low, 3 points if I'm not mistaken, which may disprove this theory. One explanation for Herta's low score may be that she uses puppet bodies, but it may also be a defective of random scoring curio.

I wouldn't say that march's theory has a hole, more of a unbuilt bridge since the leader of the stellaron hunters literally left out key info to kafka due to the mind reading abilities from Xianzhou and given the fact that the Fuli's followers literally have the ability to take and view memories it would be dumb to leave her with memories that can be traced.

My first time interacting with that gun was with March, Sampo and Jing Yuan on my team so I thought it only rated MC before I saw videos about this. I really like this theory of March and Sampo being emanators. The connections between March and Fuli are so strong too, what with the memory loss and wanting to take pictures of everything to never forget them. And the fact that the path of Preservation in the Simulated Universe is all about freezing things

I believe the gun rates people based on how closely related they are to whatever aeon they are part of in some way. March, Sampo, and Jing yuan have very close if not direct connections their aeons whether that be through having a portion their power or whatever. MC has a rather high score but it isnt invalid because the MC as a person isnt directly connected to an aeon and its mainly the stellaron affecting their score because well stellarons can do many crazy things. It could also be that the MC can only get so close to an aeon and doesnt have an invalid score because they can have more than one path cannonicaly

If I remember correctly, Jing Yuan also receives an invalid rating, and Sushang does not even receive a rating of any kind (she doesn't even get the "invalid text") it's as if the rating text has been skipped, but the weird thing is that her (? or more likely the player's?) reaction to the rating is still there, as if she was given a rating, we just can't see the rating. Sushang's rating could have been an accident but either way it's still worth mentioning because of how fishy it is.

Sampo biggest link to Elation is not that he breaks 4th wall but he performs for The Tavern, an entertainment hub for Elation.

I’m here after 2.1 to pass on some very important info about this theory. Acheron (confirmed Emanator) gets this message.

everyone is hyped about dan heng's true form... what really scares me is March 7th's origins. If she happens to be the Primordial One from another universe, i will riot.

I think the rating of the gun is more likely to do with the path they are taking vs the characters actual path. For example Sampo should be Elation not Nihility, March should be Remembrace not Perservation, Jingguang shouldn't be Erudition he should be Hunt (story wise). I'm guessing other characters like Clara, for example, her path is Destruction but that path is more Svarog than her, she seems more abundance perhaps ? Susshang isn't sure of what her path is yet since she is just starting her "journey" she is just Hunt because that's the "nation's path" and Bailu is a child, who have to take the job of cure people, so didn't got much of a choice for the moment. That's my theory, sorry if I write any names wrong

Meanwhile, Silver Wolf hacks the gun to give her a rating of 110, lol.

Might also explain March’s immediate dislike for Sampo

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="209">3:29</a> some crack theory i made about march. she could be emanator of rememberance, or atleast has some close connection to Fuli because the ice that she was sealed in looks similar to Fuli's mirror shards, she wakes up not remembering anything, and her hobby is taking pictures(collecting memories)

Black Swan is an Emanator of Fuli the Remembrance, but her rating is 61 (according to the wiki, I don't have Black Swan)

I like this theory! I also think March has a lot more secrets about her origin than it looks like. Her eidolons are also all about memory. The gun can rate the Trailblazer who has a whole ass Stellaron in their body, so I think anything short of that is being a straight up Emanator who has unlimited access to the Imaginary Energy of their Paths. Herta's puppets probably have a different energy source other than their Path which makes them still rate-able.

Thats actually a good theory i mean sampo breaking the 4th wall is mind blowing march literally has no past cuz we dont know about it I heard in other few theory that sampo may be aha or follows aha cuz he said in the cutscene to sends regards to the boys and girls in the tavern and aha/s followers were described to be in a tavern but i know as much as u know great theory btw

Watching this video now and Acheron's score is also invalid

Man, I can't wait for when march comes with an alter form and has an ice greatsword

P.S. the gun doesn't rates any of the xianzhou chars for some reason except 1 or 2

It also doesn't rate Sushang!! That one is what cracks me.

Fun fact: Acheron also can't be rated by the gun

i think the gun does detect emanators with the "invalid" response. recently i had gotten Acheron and it is confirmed that she is a emanator of nihility. after seeing this video i went to check her with the rating gun, and she gotten a invalid score as well.

Dang I didn't even think about the thought that March's hobby of taking pictures is similar to the Garden of Recollections making Light Cones from memories.

The reason is pretty straight forward for Sampo especially now, he's not a complete being anymore. All Masked Fools who follow Aha are like the Fatui of Teyvat, they give up their identity, their personality, their self. Kunikuzushi died and Scaramouche was born. The artifacts in Genshin go over how it's more of a spiritual process than just a physical one, that they become their rank. From Sparkle's trailer this is seemingly the same but a much more intense degree. While the Fatui still exist, the real people are still there, Tartaglia goes home to his family as Ajax, it seems like the opposite isn't the same for members of the Masked Fools. the statement "I'm just Sparkle" and "My beloved mask, when I'm smiling, you're smiling too" and devolving from there. continuing on until we get to "It's you my beloved mask," to "You're like a mirror, showing my reflection and the one in the mirror, that's Sparkle". and until "I'm not Sparkle, no, I'm Sparkle." Sparkle, whoever she is or was, has undergone a seemingly total death of id and ego and destroyed the original personality of who she as a person was, Sparkle is Sparkle, Sparkle is the Veil, Sparkle is the mask, and she is Sparkle. And it looks like the same thing has happened to Giovani and Sampo, sure they can take off their masks, they can seemingly remove some of that connection to Aha but it doesn't matter, they are no longer themselves. Whoever they were, that person is dead now, they are Sparkle, they are Giovani, they are Sampo. They are whoever and whatever the mask is. And Sampo doesn't have his mask, Sparkle has it. She's seemingly had it since before he touched down on Jarilo-IV and that's why the gun can't read him. He's Sampo, yes, but he's not actually Sampo or he's not the complete Sampo.

well, i have a theory that the gun doesn't actuall rate people. for some of the characters, it gives confusingly low scores, and the text even says "it would be a peculiar prank indeed if the gun was actually giving random numbers" or something along those lines. what if the whole point of the gun is that its a joke?

I had theorized that march was an aeon. I mean we know her memories would be very harmful to her if they were to be unlocked and she has a mysterious past. We also don’t know if a aeon has truly died for example Akivili is theorized to be dead, but they could be alive somewhere. She seems to align the most with Idrilla, as she has a love for beauty and photos. (It’s also cool to think that Argenti met the Aeon he loves so much without even realizing it)

What if Sampo is Aha all along in disguise and investigating the MC thinking he/she is Akivili The Trailblazer.

I just saw this video and i scanned acheron the newest emanator and she also comes up rating invalid, therys turning out very plausible.

Future 2.0 player here, fun fact, Sampo is a Masked Fool, maybe that has something to do with it

According to the leaks, Acheron also got "Rating Invalid". +1 point to this theory!

You said that the aeon of remembrance is anywhere a major event happens. If you check march's room and her photos the MC says that many of the photos couldn't have been taken by march and in many of these events she wasn't even there

I think that March is the eminator of remembrance and the reason she can’t remember her past is possibly because in order to become an eminator of remembrance you must first forget. And then later when you need to remember your past you will and that will unlock your powers as an eminator. I also think it’s possible that sampo could be a eminator of elation however it could also be bc the masked fools being so unpredictable that they simply aren’t rateable bc of how unpredictable they are

On the other end of the scale SW mentions in the cutscenen the Gun rates from 0-100 she herself gets a rating from over 100.

Well, I can tell you now that Black Swan, supposedly an Emanator of the Remembrance (there is dialogue in a quest that says all Memokeepers are Emanators, though that’s the only proof we have), has a score of 61.

a whole video on something thats been on my mind since release? im happily ascending to heaven

I like the idea that an emanator of an aeon doesn't have to follow the path of their aeon.

at the present Penacony event Black Swan says something about a memokeeper who likes to record their memories on a camera

The thing about sampo is his relation to aha.and as we know in lore aha once spend years dusguising as a human to join akivili trailblazer just to ended with a prank that explode some of akivili train and a planet.

Maybe March 7th is a bad memosnatcher and Fuli imprisoned her for stealing buncha memories, or maybe she's one of those historical fictionologists that got on Fuli's watchlist so she crystalized her Awesome video! Makes you really think. They did an awesome job with the backstory of this game and the plot going forward.

Hm, Sampo being a Wind and Nihilist is something that struck me, Nihilism being Pointless and Meaningless Actions according to the loading screen and Wind being something that Moves Aimlessly going through where others of it lead.. And noting that the Aeon of Nihility is a Image of a Black Hole which shows a "Ring Revolving" and him using Ring Blade Boomerang like Weapon is something to take in consideration

the way the astral express shoots over fuli's neck, what if he's already dead, and all that's left behind is him memory maintaining the path of rememberance.

Really interesting and well thought out theory!!!

Just found this video and it's intriguing me to try them out. Just realized that Luocha is also can't be detected by the rating gun. But Herta, who is an emanator of Erudition is rated just fine, and get 4.

JingYuan, March and Sampo aren't rateable and with Clara, Bailu and Sushang, the pistol remains silent

Cant wait for them to release the patg if Elation and just put Sampo in as a 5* quantum elation character

this is actually quite believable and makes me excited for more lore

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="304">5:04</a> the "unknown nameless" was actually Dan heng

Since the three so far who have received invalid ratings are March, Sampo, and Jingyuan, then the rating system if meaning anything at all, would very likely be based on something related to Aeons/Paths specifically rather than other factors. Seeing as the game is about a journey, and paths are different condensed philosophies, the rating could indicate how close a character is to arriving at a clear personal ideology (sort of like the clarity of path ahead of them from their own perspective)? And characters with no ratings could be ones who are not really concerned with Aeon paths maybe ? in Sushang's case she was pretty unfamiliar with the story between Lan and Yaoshi (she said she didn't really go to school) (I'm probably very wrong lmao)

welp acheron is unratable too so i guess youre right (tho heard there march7th alter gonna be at 3.x)

honestly, i feel like the idea of them being emanators or somehow related to the aeons would be cool and possible now that we have acheron, who also has an invalid rating my only thing is that herta, who is also an emanator has a rating of 4 points... i wonder if that applies to the real herta, or if it's only because the herta we have is a puppet of the real deal

Hindsight but so far, all emanators have been unratable, excluding one that was a borrowed power emanator.

This is a cool theory, but I believe that Herta is an emanator of erudition, and she gets a rating from the gun.

I don't get where your statement that it took Welt, Himeko, and an unknown third nameless a long time to free her came from? March gives a vague statement indicating she thought they'd done something to free her from the ice, but if you talk to Welt and Himeko about it they say they didn't do anything. Just "as soon" as they brought her aboard, the ice melted by itself. The third nameless you state is unknown is also all but stated to be Void Archives. So none of that section is accurate.

Sampo is now confirmed to be a Masked Fool, but far from an emanator. After Black Swan and Sparkle's story quest, Sampo is seen talking to Sparkle and Sparkle giving Sampo his mask back, which means he lost the title of "Masked Fool" until helping Sparkle, which makes him seems like an unimpressive Masked Fool. The reason the rating gun can't rate Sampo is probably because the Masked Fools are never what they seem and their true identity is mostly hidden

8 months later, and we may finally be able to tell if this theory is true when Acheron releases. (not sure if there's any other emanators besides the ones already listed)

March constantly taking pictures screams being an emanator of Fuli

this is an interesting theory! before i heard about the emanator theory i used to think march wasn't human but instead some celestial being or sth which is why the gun wouldn't rate her

Something I thought about is that the wall photos in March's room. It says some photos were taken by someone else. Maybe Fuli?

i have a theory march is possibly blessed by fuli,and fuli sealed march's memories of her past away because something super traumatic happened and march will only regain those memories when shes ready to handle those memories

March 7th's eidolons all bring up memories as well, could be a connection to the remembrance

Maybe she got her power from fuli but had to give her memories and ,after she’ll be a 5 star with full control of the powers and get her memories back

I have an idea for Sambo Maybe he is the same Ion Aha, but he erased his memory and then became involved with the Stelron Hunters Because he loves tricks and trying fun things, and the experience of wiping his memory to see what will happen seems like an exciting experience

One more thing the ice crystals in which march was trapped has resemblance with the crystals in memory of Chaos and forgotten hall Could be a coincidence but who knows

Im pretty sure Sampo has some connection to the Aeon Aha. Im the sim universe when you encounter it it breaks the fourth wall and knows its in a simulation, just like Sampo at the end of the Belebog story line.

This conjecture proved true so far since Luocha, an emanation of abundance and Acheron, a self annihilate and emanation of Nihility, also cannot be rated

i was thinking she could have possibly been akivili or the trailblaze if you prefer partly from the gun but also from that memory thing that you could buy in penacony very much so kinda sounds like pom pom is talking to march in that scene

To add another evidence to march, her pictures in her room. If you interact to it just enough to show a dialogue, saying that the pictures taken was during their adventures BUT it is very different for a normal capturing perspective...

I created a new account and got Bailu. She received a rating of "71", so her not receiving a score previously might just be a bug. Anyways, M7 is confirmed to be related to at least one Aeon. I'm looking forward to the 5-star SP cards for her, Sampo, and maybe Herta. (Wouldn't it be nice to have grown-up Yanqing too)

For anyone wondering: Sparkle’s rating is 55, so if we’re thinking that the gun can’t read that of emenators, then that means that sparkle isn’t one :/ (or aha for some people thinking that..)

Maybe because they both are emanator. Since Acheron, emanator of nihility can't use this gun too. (Sry 4 my awful Eng TT)

Sempo being related to Aha is possible but I think March 7th being connected to Fuli is certain.Not only does she have magical "ice" powers that so far only she has but she doesnt know how she got it either. Everyone else uses normal ice only March uses the six-phased ice. And lets be honest WHO ELSE would be able to freeze someone in a crystal and keep them alive in space for who knows how long. I am certain Fuli has a connection to march.

I couldn't rate Jing and my Welt only got a 5...

The rating Gun is odd - when I first had the trailblazer check it, it said cannot rate, but later it was able to give a number

Next patch we'll have another emanetor to test this teory

now u mention it, march 7th room have all the image from unknown angle even no one there before to capturing it, even the MC confused about that, it must be from the memory and aeon "REMEMBRANCE" coincidence i think NOT!!!

Acheron will probably fill this theory out for us...

There are so many characters that can't be rated by the mirror. Random characters from xianzhou loufu like jing yuan, sushang and Bailu too. Even Clara.

Samp didnt break the fourth wall from what I recall. He was talking to the main character (in a dream).

There's a theory that he's in the masked fools group able he's able to go without any trace he doesn't leave foot prints in the snow and in the end of that fouth wall scene he says we you at the tavern or something like that and masked fools has some kind of place they call tavern

But woudn't Argenti be frozen too? Hance he literally is a member of the Knights of Beauty, which are a group of followers of the path of Beauty. Just like Sampo and Sparkle are part of the fools, the group that follows the path of Elation.

Tbh March's case for me is similar to BMO from Adventure Time. The "robot", in this case emanator, is send out to the world to learn, love and live.

With Herta being able to be rated, is maybe because the puppet isn't actually Herta? Like it's not her actual body being present to being rated, it's the puppet body that's being rated instead of Herta herself? That way the idea of emanators are unratable could still hold up.

great vid!

I don't think it's random as there are other things in the game that actually are random such as counting coins in the pool. If it were random I think they'd program it that way and not have it consistent for each character. Do you have any ideas what the numbers mean though? It can't be strength, since even Laboratory Glass Doors have a rating of 10 which is higher than the likes of Herta herself and even Welt. Maybe it's related to something they did? Hence why there's characters like Clara, Sushang and Bailu might not have a rating whereas characters with unknown pasts or mysteries are invalid since it can't determine it? Maybe it is just some giant prank by hoyoverse...

Is it ever explicitly stated that Jing Yuan is an emanator? I know his lighting lord was given to him by Lan but I never read anything about him being an emanator. Unlike with Herta where it’s clearly stated.

We will meet Sampo again in Penacony. There was a hint after you complete artherium war 100%. You will find a memory bubble which revealed a secret dialouge between Giovanni and Sampo. Giovanni told Sampo that a certain person was coming to penacony and Sampo actually doesn't like to meet this person again.

Please correct me if I am wrong, pretty sure Sampo's cutscene is a dream by MC. It became an option as well when March asked MC how was his rest.

March could just be a shaved off part of Fuli lol

Very good theory. Emanator of Remembrance with amnesia... What an irony. I think she might have sacrifices all her memories to Fuli for a power boost or something, considering they use memories as currency.