Is it weird that I trust Venti the most out of all of the archons? Aside from Nahida, who only knows the factual history of the cataclysm through Irminsul, Venti has been indirectly informing us about Teyvat’s history through song and story. The events listed in the gnostic hymn that he clearly narrates, for example, has been slowly unveiled to us in the story and very clearly in the Caribert Quest. Yes, he acts very sus, but like Nahida, he knows that the best way to preserve and talk about the ACTUAL history of Teyvat is through music and fictional stories/myths. I truly believe that he wants to tell us everything, but feels he has to mask how he tells us because of the fear of Celestia that he shares with Zhongli and Ei.

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

I don't trust him at all because books/legends and etc not always telling the truth. Yes, he cares about humans a lot but something off about him

@fernandosiahaan906

Жыл бұрын

He and zhongli is clearly celestia lap dogs, cant wait for abyss princess lumine to execute them for being a traitor for humanity

@mauaglr

Жыл бұрын

@@whitecat3448 Stories, songs, riddles, and those are the only way for a God to tell us about something historically significant without it being susceptible for Irminsul deletion. I think that the fact that he usually tell us stuff in that form is his own kind of honesty. He’s telling us directly what we asked, but in a way in which whatever higher power who might be listening doesn’t find out.

@strawberrycrepesss

Жыл бұрын

For me it's the opposite 😭 he's too sus for me and I feel like the only one we can trust is nahida

@bellkim2284

Жыл бұрын

@@fernandosiahaan906 venti does NOT like celestia at all what 😭😭 bro speaks vehemently against it in his voice line. Zhongli legally cant talk ant it or else he/liyue prob dies. Only archon who is stated as one who would never go against celestia is the hydro archon in the trailer

Everyone in the archon party making fun of Venti for not having a story quest 2 Venti: They don’t know.. my act 2 has the secrets of Teyvat ☕️

@blueming431

Жыл бұрын

omg hebi? didnt expect to see you here

@ehmusibotuncleraymondsiol6464

Жыл бұрын

Potential third weekly boss for Mondstadt maybe?

@patrickcarter2829

Жыл бұрын

And considering every Archon's 2nd story quest involves a weekly boss, it would mean that Mondstadt would be the only region (so far) to have 3 weekly bosses.

@TheDhanaMC

Жыл бұрын

@@ehmusibotuncleraymondsiol6464 I think so, Andrius is different from the other weekly bosses. Not in a domain, his icon in the map is just like the other world bosses.

@bananaposo

Жыл бұрын

W. i need more venti content im desperate

Honestly? I think we can trust all the archons we've met so far except Venti. Zhongli has no issue announcing himself to us whenever he has something to hide. Lying is quite literally anathema to him. Ei is less a schemer and more of a... blunt object, so there's really no reason to suspect her of duplicity. Nahida is a brand new baby god that just got out of her cage and literally has no secrets to hold. Venit though? Deception comes naturally to him. He might not hold any ill intentions towards the traveler but he's not above manipulating us and others to achieve his personal goals.

@masked497

Жыл бұрын

oh nahida has many secrets we dont know yet...

@JohnKazuma

Жыл бұрын

What if Zhongli was contracted not to tell anyone? Ei yes but makoto though. maybe that is why she off herself. obviously the tsaritsa knows, that is why the twin and schneznaya has the same goal but a different way to do it.

@thunderwindknight

Жыл бұрын

Do you Venti in game?

@devilsadvocate22289

Жыл бұрын

I’m the opposite. I trust Venti more than the other Archons. Nahida informs us about what she knows out of ignorance of Celestia’s true power. Ei is clearly motivated by fear to not tell us everything she knows. Zhongli uses his contract as the reason why he can’t speak while leaving the obvious “why did he make that contract?” question unanswered. Venti is motivated by fear, but I think he tries to tell us about what he knows through song and story. I think he dodges the direct questions because he fears the wrath of Celestia. His narration during the Gnostic Hymn cutscene almost matches the story of what may have happened to the Abyss Sibling based on what we’ve seen from the Caribert quest specifically.

@Unresolvedissues101

Жыл бұрын

@@masked497 true but she does know she has those secrets

Nahida who knows nothing: what if I destroyed this gnosis and awoke the heavenly principles? Dottore who clearly has insider knowledge: oh she insane fr

@ManiacalBlueberry

Жыл бұрын

This comment made me laugh out loud lol. Maybe it’s the idea of DOTTORE calling someone insane.

The fact the Venti is still not sleeping after the Dvalin incident means there will be something in the future.

@Twocat5side

Жыл бұрын

He woke up just in time when the traveler started their journey

@eatthelemon6666

7 ай бұрын

Thisss

My pet theory has been that Chapter 7 will be "Mondstadt". Either Celestia or Abyss/Kh'anhria or both will "open up" there and Venti will be pivotal in setting up the finale. It matches his flare for the dramatic too.

@mauricioos2294

Жыл бұрын

I really hope the 7th or the last chapter will be about Mondstadt, i also hope for them to hold any Mond expansion until then tbh.

@Darkedor

Жыл бұрын

I've been saying that for quite a while as well, specially considering that in the Travail Trailer Khaenri'ah is labeled Chapter [White noise] despite being shown after Snezhnaya. The refusal to give it a clear label tells me that something will happen between Snezhnaya and Khaenri'ah, and since Venti sus, a whole non-prologue chapter dedicated to Mondstadt makes sense.

@shinya643

Жыл бұрын

😊000000900

@theunrelatable5961

Жыл бұрын

@@Darkedor (SPOILERS for all 3 dain quests, and last sumeru archon quest) oh shoot oh yeah, tho im not thinking the same answer DANG there might actually be something happening between Snezhnaya and Khaenri'ah because that would be the "end" of the travellers journey, and in nahida's words something happened at the end of the abyss twins journey and their path was changed The fact that they use "???" makes me believe.. well mondstadt is introduction and it is first in chronological order and Liyue is chapter 1 and is second in chronological order and so on and so forth, meaning the numbers state a chronological order. So maybe they added "???" because we might be taken to the past but we are still in the present which is why it doesnt have a number? because it is neither next nor behind in the chronological order. Cause we keep seeing memories through the twins eyes and they keep getting stronger, first with a glace at the abyss twin from an out of body perspective for 1 second in mondstadt and then a whole conversation in liyue with jaded colors and static-like and now a whole day in sumeru from the twins perspective so maybe at snezhnaya the vision get so strong they just get sent back into the past memories for a whole nations worth.

@stellarmelody2784

Жыл бұрын

so my brother say that in khaenriah they whould be just like pyro archon problem where one of them want to figth celestia the other to peace and then we go to figth our sibling then dain and then the unknown god if thats whats happening, here is my theory if the timeline were corupted either do what his sibling is doing repeat the cycle like living in khaenriah over and over or do what scaramouce is doing like rewrite the story that way no one knows who traveler is the timeline has been fix they remember the traveler but they don't remember their name and travel arive migth be in monstatd and our main character lost who they are and our outfit probably change

Speaking of Venti, if you guys remember the Irodori festival, he and Yae Miko had a conversation that we never knew about as they just changed the topic easily. Not even an interaction with Ei.

@nicolas._.2294

7 ай бұрын

If you ask me, venti is the most suspicious between the archons

My personal thoughts on each archon are as follows: Ei: a strong ally and a surprise tool that will help us later in the story. Probably around when big stuff happens on a world scale. Zhongli: he is merely an observer now. He knows everything because of experience, but because of his NDA, he can’t say anything. And so he will resign to simply watching, and presumably silently rooting for the Tsaritza. Nahida: she knows plenty and has revealed plenty too, however, she is too weak to be a big end game player in the plot. Venti: also knows everything, and maybe even more, and is clearly biding his time until the big change happens in Teyvat. Definitely end game important. Focalors: probably will try to stay neutral in the coming divine conflict. Unless I am completely wrong, in which case, that’ll be interesting. But in my opinion, I think all the archons will have something big to do in the finale of the Teyvat Chapter.

@venti4803

Жыл бұрын

I would absolutely love a fight with the heavenly principles vs the 7 archons i’d be a so badass

@razzledazzledorito6552

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if in the future Nahida will somehow grow in power and retain a form similar to rukkhadevata, and therefore be more useful in endgame?

@AnArtistInAVoid

Жыл бұрын

@@razzledazzledorito6552 future banner

@teacherbuknoyofficial

Жыл бұрын

Venti definitely knows something big is coming, and he is waiting for it. Historically, when Mondstadt is at peace, Barbatos goes into a deep slumber to preserve and protect himself from erosion, only waking up when something big and bad is happening in Mondstadt, like the Lawrence Aristocracy. So why is he awake now? He knows something's up and he's waiting to protect his people.

@lowliethxd1471

Жыл бұрын

At this point Nahida is used as a plot bot (which is okay, since they are executing it well) Zhongli is an observer currently Venti is that one guy who just watches the scene, but will step up if something big happens. There is a reason why he choose to be awake now, from his long slumber Ei and Murata will be the big guns later in the story. Focalors is the intermidiary, she may side with Celestia for now, but will fight against them after a realization Tsaritsa is the final boss before the final final boss.

Hoyoverse has some inspirations from Three Body Problem, which makes sense as it's the most famous CN sci fi novel. In Three Body there's a concept called the Shooter and the Farmer, basically imagine ourselves as turkeys living in a farm, everyday you observe at 11am a hole will open in the sky and food drops down and everyone gets fed. After observing for a long time you've collected enough data and declare as a scientist to your fellow turkeys that this hole where food drops down at 11am is a law of the universe, some kind of Heavenly Principle. But one day the law failed, the hole didn't open, instead a giant door opened and a humanoid being started grabbing turkeys away, turns out turkeys know nothing, their "science" has never been real. Outside of their world, the barn, are beings called humans who are celebrating something called Thanksgiving today. Teyvat is basically a farm, everyone living in it will never know the truth, we as players will also never know the truth until we are allowed to see outside the farm. Everyone is only acting based on their beliefs, even if their beliefs are based on "science" and "logic". Even Nahida with her access to Irminsul knows nothing beyond Teyvat, the Heavenly Principles and everything else are beyond her.

@michaeltorrisi7289

Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like Bertrand Russell's bit from "Problems of Philosophy".

@huismands

Жыл бұрын

Man, I'm gonna read that book now. Thanks!

@GuyWithAnAmazingHat

Жыл бұрын

@@huismands Hope you have a good read, the series is a trilogy starting with Three Body Problem > Dark Forest > Death's End

@huismands

Жыл бұрын

@@GuyWithAnAmazingHat Thank you!!

At the end of the mondstadt archon quest venti gives a LOT of information about visions, explicitly saying he shouldn't be telling the traveller this (calling vision holders allogenes) and the fact that this hasn't been brought up directly since then is very interesting to me. I believe that venti and zhongli both agreed to the same contract with celestia/the heavenly principles/whatever made the contract, but only venti is willing to break it, since preventing him from speaking about what he wants contradicts with his philosophy of freedom. I think he is worried about whatever his repercussions will be, or what the repercussions will be to anyone he divulges information to, which is why he is so fickle and avoidant, but I think if it came down to it and he thought it was the right time he would definitely reveal Big Things to the traveller. it just hasn't been the right time yet, maybe the traveller doesn't know enough for venti to feel like they're ready for what he needs to tell them? or maybe he's very guilty about what happened at khanriah like zhongli seems to be.

Most of us already know about Venti's "Hello" voice line ("Then allow me to join on your quest ONCE AGAIN") but an interesting thing is that he mentions almost the same thing at the end of Mondstadt's Archon quest: "Traveler, as you sat off on your journey ONCE AGAIN, you must remember that the journey itself has a meaning". Probably this proves that this is not our first journey and the other archons may be aware of this as well.

@farahest

Жыл бұрын

correction, bunch of other stuff arent stopped by the menu. Something I can remember on the top of my head are seelies (both on and off their pedestals), some lights of domains and the flow of water

@pozzsicle

Жыл бұрын

Does Paimon have connections to Focalors too then? The Hydro Hypo's rolling attack also still moves when the game is paused.

@farahest

Жыл бұрын

@@pozzsicle I personally believe that whatever happen in the Paimon menu isn’t actually tied to the lore whatsoever and is just sort of the pause button of Genshin, so to me at least it doesn’t really matter

@serah666

Жыл бұрын

​@@farahest agreed her time stop menu doesn't work in domains

@_stxr6304

Жыл бұрын

​@@farahest Thank you for the correction! I'll edit the comment to avoid confusion.

Also Nahida is not under "contract" with Celestia... They might not know she exists due to their lack of involvement after the Cataclysm with the world. Nadiha was born to sustain a need for the world of Teyvat but wasn't promoted to an "Archon" by Celestia. The other Archons are testing how far they can push now that Celestia is quiet for 500 years and they meet someone that won't be affected by the laws of this world. Nahida on the other hand has no personal fear of questioning everything.

@Mercyfalls

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Celestia knows and even indirectly acknowleged Nahida bc she had the Dendro Gnosis. It's literally their connection to Celestia. There is no need for Nahida to be reborn as an Archon since the Teyvat existed just fine before Archons were even a thing. It's Celestia that wants there to be seven Archons.

@starlight14673

Жыл бұрын

but she has a gnosis ? so technically THAT FLOATING CHUNK gods does know abt her

@kotarouinugami1745

6 ай бұрын

@@MercyfallsWith the new information from 4.2, we ca suspect Celestia gave out gnoses so that it would not have to touch them with a 10-foot pole. They are much more than just cell phones to call Celestia. And probably not useful as cell phones at all.

Yeah, about Zhongli and Venti, there's a small spoiler in the 3.6 World Quest that suggests something about the "methods of compiling and recording memories" in Teyvat (spoiler alert) A line of Zurvan, the First Pari: "In a world where things are being forgotten every hour of every day, what we engrave on the ground is far more reliable than what we sing to the wind"; maybe something about not trusting much on Venti and relying better on Zhongli?

@syahrezadifachri5121

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe believe physical evidence (engraving on the ground) more than hearsay or words from others (song in the winds)

@celestialarden

Жыл бұрын

wait that actually makes some sense

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

Venti if you mention something important: "Ehe". Strange that we haven't asked him about events 500 years ago

@ilovepalitaw

Жыл бұрын

that's hella suspicious

I think Zhongli is more tight lipped than other archons due to personally and prior role as the god of contracts. Even in simple conversation, he adheres to sense of hierarchy and authority. For example, back at the last lantern rite, he was quite strict in adhering to Hu Tao as director and his superior. I don't think he did this to hide his (former) entity. I think he did this because he sees her in a role of authority over him. If we extend this to Celestia, I think he will honor his contracts with them and in general as a higher authority - even if he doesn't agree with some of their actions.

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

In one of his voiceovers he says this: as for whether your own heart shines like gold let me wait and see. Also his gemstone' description: "if you betray this trust, you taint my blood". What about Hu Tao, he view himself like a mortal and plays this role very well, don't need to look too much in this

@caribbeanstrawhat

Жыл бұрын

But wasn't he just being polite? Cause in the latern rite, when Xiao tried to call him by his appropriate title Zhongli told him to just call him "Zhongli" completely disregarding any type of seniority and being lax enough to joke about it with Xiao

@crazygirls9000

Жыл бұрын

but zhongli is still the god of contracts?? he was long before the gnosis even existed it has nothing to do with it

@cosmefulanito5052

10 ай бұрын

@@crazygirls9000 but he renounced his godhood and is living as a mortal man. Just like guoba lost his and is now just a cooking companion

@crazygirls9000

10 ай бұрын

@@cosmefulanito5052 he renounced his archonhood which is the job of being an agent of celestia and he's now playing the role of being human and making some facetious comments but he can't exactly change his species??? It's very clearly completely symbolic

After reading ei voice line about vision she clearly states she is constrained about talking about them & Nahida is also a little sus cuz she gives us a riddle about visions & asks us to figure it ourselves which sort of implies she's hiding or maybe she doesn't know that much, that being said, she's much more reliable than the other archons for sure.

@lkimberly2064

Жыл бұрын

It is possible she is hiding things, but it's also possible she isn't sure enough yet (the riddle is hers as well as ours).

@gyusrealgf

Жыл бұрын

if she doesn't know much, how does she give us riddles?

Venti's second story quest is going be a huge deal, I suspect. Great video again, Aster!

@gyusrealgf

Жыл бұрын

if we have dvalin as mondstadt's weekly boss and NOT as venti's story quest weekly boss, then what if venti is the weekly boss in the act 2 of the story quest?

Venti is the most suspicious of the current revealed archons. Like the video states, Nahida has the knowledge but lack of experience to deal with Celestia. Ei really doesn’t know anything useful besides what could be in Enkanomiya, since Makoto would be the one with the knowledge of Celestia. Zhongli at least is honest in that he is binder by a Contract. The one that I have no idea over his stance on Celestia is Venti. He always looks afraid or concern over anything relating to Celestia, which is concerning considering the amount of times he has gone to Liyue to bother Zhongli… while he was still ruling over it. Yes he help Xiao, but still I would not go annoying someone that had a reputation of being ruthless… so what could scare Venti, who is an Archon related to the being of time to the point of deflecting the topic of Celestia?

@mauricioos2294

Жыл бұрын

Maybe something that can kill time.

@darkcust4478

Жыл бұрын

i think quite the opposite, venti clearly fears celestia more than likely because of ''heavenly principles'' which take away freedom from the world quite literally, NO ONE and NOTHING must go against them, may it be good willed or otherwise, and that probably why, the god of wind and freedom is scared of them, because he knows what powerfull beings are willing to do to keep that power

@AyumuTheTamer

Жыл бұрын

@@darkcust4478 didn’t think about it in that perspective. Though it could very well be a possibility.🤔

Even though venti is clearly hiding his true knowledge, I think it's for the traveler (and anyone else who asks about celestias) own good. In fact, I think all the archons, except nahida, are hiding info about celestia for the travelers own good. I think we are underestimating celestia's power. Also what is up with that one manga panel? the one where Vanessa asks about celestia, venti's thinks about this, cult-like army with a red sky...maybe he has more trama than we think.

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

But why? Why would it be for our own good? even if you say Celestia would be angry, Celestia is asleep for 500 years now surely he can at least tell us WHY He and the other archons can't say anything about the matter

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

@Harry ShadeI'm not asking him what he can't tell us, rather why he CAN'T tell us? like whatever it is let him keep it to himself, just why they all are hush hush about it all?

@freddyman5726

Жыл бұрын

Fyi celestia being asleep for 500 years is part of nahida's bluff to trick dottore. So that's not confirmed yet. So they're hiding something cuz afraid of celestia is still possible

@boshlovely2002

Жыл бұрын

@@mitab1 There’s no confirmation that Celestia is dormant, that’s simply what Nahida said as her bluff to Dottore and that was specifically the Heavenly Principles, Celestia as an organization could still be watching and just hasn’t made any overt signs in the past couple centuries

@achickensandwichwithaphone3551

Жыл бұрын

​@@mitab1 I'm pretty sure Celestia hasn't been asleep for 500 hundred years ,instead they have been quietly observing. I believe this since Nahida has a gnosis,which is a connection to Celestia, so Celestia have acknowledged Nahida so there aren't dormant.

🌸🌹I am one not to extend trust causally, thus I but utter, one can trust neither Archon unconditionally🌹🌸

Venti bro has been watching everything going on in Teyvat even before he took the human form, always travelling in air, going everywhere

Venti second story quest comes out: the entire lore and theory community lose their minds and can’t sleep

@rushalias8511

Жыл бұрын

When it comes out watch hum troll us about it being a wine stealing job.

I mean the traveler is also never fully open about themselves, being from another world and such. Everyone seems to be lying, and possibly for a good reason

I always get the feeling that Venti is the one who knows the most about celestia.

I love Venti sm. He knows so much more than he's shown, but he doesn't like to interfere and is more carefree than the other gods so far. Lovely little bard sus af but chillin. He's definitely going to play a huge role near the end, transforming into a 10 ft giant muscly oiled up fairy to have a twerk off with the heavenly principles to allow teyvat to be free from their rules.

Just a little thing I wish to add about Nahida’s willingness to share information. I belief that if she receives information that she finds suspicious, she might want to investigate it first before saying anything to us in fear of some misinformation being told to us. Belief in misinformation was an issue with Sumeru before, especially when concerning Knowledge Capsules, like Dori tells us in Cyno’s Story Quest, misinformation in Knowledge Capsules are accepted with no hesitation. And we do see Nahida hold back some information from us, Dottore talked to her about the False Sky (and with Nahida immediately telling us about Descenders seems to suggest that there is a connection between the two), Nahida doesn’t tell us about the False Sky at all. Would it be because it’s knowledge is heavily questionable, or because we just simply haven’t asked information about it? (For the latter point, if Descenders do relate to the False Sky, then wouldn’t that have been mentioned as well?)

After lantern rite this year, I honestly believe that Zhongli is trying his hardest to push the traveler towards some of the answers but can't say anything himself due to some contract. He accompanies us on journeys and tells other peoples tales in hopes that we will read between the lines and see what he is trying to say. He has told us about the horrors of the Archon War via Havria (and that history can be changed), the danger of erosion via Azdaha and with lantern rite, started to clue us into the tale of Guizhong. Interestingly enough, he hinted that there are more sides to that story and that the researcher who was suspicious almost of how Guizhong was able to be killed was mentioned as the closest to the actual truth. I really think he wants us to know more about this but can't say himself due to some contract surrounding her death.

Zhongli is the most dangerous archon in Celestia’s eyes because he has been writing down history in stone, as it cannot be altered by the Irminsul. So it would be in Celestia’s best interest to keep him quiet. He knows the truth of the world and the “secrets forgotten”. He has alluded to having met the Traveler before.

@anormalhooman6409

Жыл бұрын

You can literally say the same thing for Venti and the Hexenzirkel They both use stories to write down history or events that has been altered by Irminsul

@weeewohoo1685

Жыл бұрын

So does venti 😭 bro makes new songs and ballads everyday do you know realize how much he wrote since the day he became an archon and what he witnessed so far?

@boshlovely2002

Жыл бұрын

even stones erode, he said this himself Venti however knows every song from past and future and as Nahida told us if information is hidden in clever ways, Irminsul can’t erase it, so that means Venti has complete unfiltered knowledge of Teyvat from past to future and Venti is a part of Istaroth who is a shade, so if Celestia had anyone to be wary of it would be Venti

Oh no......The five aranara, that goes by the name 'Aster', has changed their profile picture! They're evolving!

Venti is the only character in the game talked about the allogenes, which is Genshin in Japanese. He even said this is a secret that only archons are privy to. I wonder why he talked about this secret while avoiding other questions for Celestia and Khaenri'ah.

@boge7575

10 ай бұрын

Venti gives hints and clues about endgame lore

Has anybody else noticed that so far, every archon is connected to the original seven? Venti and zhongli are part of the original seven, ei ruled next to one of the original seven and was with her at their tea parties or whatever they did together, and nahida thinks she's just one of the original seven but powered down and lost her memories (which was a theory before 3.2 that fell apart when you thought of the timeline)

@Joshioli88

Жыл бұрын

And if the theory that focalors killed the original hydro archon is true, that also leads to the thought aswell, with her maybe being a god that was angry at her loss and killed out of revenge and took on the ideals of justice

@pozzsicle

Жыл бұрын

​@@Joshioli88 but it isn't? Didn't thr 3.6 world quest say the previous Hydro Archon sacrificed herself?

@DavidJohnson-ib1dh

Жыл бұрын

It's more like for each of the archons that were said to be not of the original seven, the story ends up saying they actually were part of the original seven, but that the confusion is that they had a dopelganger that was the original archon and then some timey-wimey stuff happened and that turned out so that actually, they were the original archon all along.

@iosis9324

Жыл бұрын

@@Joshioli88 after the world quest, this theory was shattered. And now it is not relevant. It's possible that Focalor is somehow related to the previous hydro archon, but she definitely didn't kill her.

@justadragonnamemarcus1751

Жыл бұрын

Forbidden knowledge alert focalors have 2 separate personalities One is gone And other is ruling the world

10:00 also don't forget that the chapter trailer video from WAY back leads us to believe that what ever the pyro archon tells us is so huge we match INSTANTLY into the next destination

*Venti's story quest part 2 comes out* The lore: *blows up*

I'm waiting for the day Venti just decides to pour the whole tea pot in our laps

It feels like Nahida has developed a very special relationship with the traveler causing her to open up, heck she shared the Traveler's body twice; at one point Nahida stated that as a reward that she would answer any and all questions. -- I doubt she would be nearly as open with information to anyone else. The other Archons met have a good relationship with the traveler, But it's clear that the archons are Not all-knowing despite being gods, and it seems like maybe they who aren't the original 7 actually just don't know much at all, esp. about Kh'Aenria or Celestia, etc, at all. Morax/Zhongli is the only one we know for sure knows at least one thing that they are specifically hiding by contract. Venti may be hiding something or not.... Remember how even Nahida can't remember that which was deleted from Irminsul? Possibly as a result of Khaenri'ah; the purged removed some knowledge from even the other archons. If Celestia needed to ensure some secrets were kept, then the most secure approach may have been to remove record of the information, so even the archons would not remember. The Unknown god's records could have been removed or changed within Irminsul leaving only their laws and a vague knowledge of the heavenly principles.

Even if Zhongli hides a lot of secrets and related to contracts I trust him more than dendro archon and Venti for some reason.

Something I noticed, primarily with the first Zhongli story quest, but also with how the other archons interact with their nations, the trait that a god embodies (contracts, freedom, etc) is also what binds them. Venti can never truly be the god of his nation, he is restricted from directly intervening on anything short of a threat to the nation whole, as it is a land free from rule and to do so would impose himself onto his people. Zhongli must uphold a contract, never able to break it; not even out of kindness or to aid a friend. Ei will never understand her people, always striving for eternity leaves her blind to the passage of time, and ignorant to the importance of time to those with so little. I haven’t had time to really study Nahida yet, but I bet this theme will hold true for her, too.

@-alovelygaycat-

Жыл бұрын

I mean metaphorical wisdom (The Akademiya) literally locked her in a cage for centuries. Feels fitting to me, but may not be super accurate because I haven’t started the Sumeru Archon Quest yet.

@bastionrome9021

Жыл бұрын

With nahida being a child locked in a cage for centuries. I’d say the irony of being the “new” god of wisdom. She basically has no experiences to be considered wise although she is intelligent

the last time i was this early we still had 120 resin

Honestly, I love the lore of genshin, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to wait 3 or 4 years more to find out what happened in Kanriah or if we even go to Celestia. I've been playing this since 1.2, and it's honestly been fun. I made some friends and learned that I'm an emotional person lol(almost every archon quest made me cry). But I've now reached a point where I'm honestly ready to move on from the game. I'm still willing to play the game for some time, but I can easily see myself playing another game already. I always thought that I'd be able to play this game up until Kanrieah came out, but it's now starting to become harder to even see myself playing this game in the far future.

I have a feeling that venti also wants the fall of celestia as it is opposing to his ideals and releasing him from the fear celestia but thats a personal theory

Only little Buer can be trusted. Morax keeps secrets, venti ks scheming and Ei is clueless regarding outside world (Miko is scheming). Nahida takes every step possible to help us.

@kacperwoch4368

Жыл бұрын

I don't trust her because she spies on the Traveler through her dream powers.

@nk30020

Жыл бұрын

​@@kacperwoch4368 that's the reason why fbi is trusted by the government.

@hypercube9531

Жыл бұрын

oh hell nah, I can't help but distrust her since she spoke with the doctor and gave away the gnoses. I feel like she's been actively avoiding mention of information the doctor gave her so that the traveller doesn't even think to ask about it. I feel like this lines up with the idea that all the Archons that existed prior to the cataclysm are on the Tsaritsas side. In the case of Ei, it was Yae who was actually in charge and she's sus herself, and nahida wasn't originally on the tsaritsas side until the doctor told her whatever it is he did.

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

Well, Morax have his own reasons for it + his gemstone' description is very interesting. He trust traveler but not enough to reveal his secrets.

@dominikoza123

Жыл бұрын

@@hypercube9531 she can't be trusted because she traded wisdom with the doctor for her gnosis? then zhongli can't be trusted either because he traded his gnosis for the terms written in the contract between him and tsaritsa. she was the only one who searched irminsul for us for the information regarding our sibling. also, she did shared information she gained from the doctor, which was their knowledge about the decenders.

Recently I've seen people discussing the plausibility of Khaenriahns being Vishap people. As a means of explaining their particular bloodline and eyes. As a highly adaptable race I can see the potential. First the Vishaps adapted to become like humans and then later to become more like the abyss aka the heralds and such. Perhaps there's only partial truth to it but Khaenriah being an underground kingdom seems fitting. There's also a real life Norse story, pardon I cannot recall the name, about dwarves. In particular the same name as the Dragon king and Alberich are present in this story also including a cursed sword named, Dainsleif. This could go a long way towards explaining why the Khanriahns got different treatment by Celestia especially knowing that they also fought against the abyss. Knowing the corruptive nature of the Abyss and Vishap adaptation its quite possible the Abyss Order is merely a strain of those infected with Forbidden Knowledge and even they may not truly be entirely responsible for their actions. At least not any more then Dvalin was under the influence of abyssal corruption.

I'd trust Ei considering she kept fighting for like 500 years in the realm and seems to actually be trying to better herself (even if she still refuses to tell us about some stuff especially pertaining to celestia tho that seems common amongst the gods). Zonghli is only an issue because he can have some random contract he cant talk about and Venti probably hasn't said a single true thing ever. Idk about kusanali since I havent finished sumero yet.

@boge7575

10 ай бұрын

We never asked Venti about any meaningful thing

"sinner" and "unkown god" colluding.

Venti is sus but I trust him with my life. Zhongli is trustworthy, his reason no to tell anything is valid. Ei is clueless, I’ll only trust her to take care of my enemies, lol. Nahida is smart baby, but she is a baby, it felt wrong to sus her or depend on her, lol.

@arnowisp6244

Жыл бұрын

Clueless Waifu is best Waifu

@anshuman2952

Жыл бұрын

Shes clueless but she's willing to fight for the traveller

You changed your profile picture again? Girl you switching faces faster than Scara changes identities.

I feel like Nahida knows the consequences of giving top secret information, it's just that she doesn't care as much because if Celestia destroys her, the Irminsul will have another copy of her which again is a blank slate that "doesn't know the consequences"; so it's like she found a loop hole and is abusing it.

Can somebody tell me where has Venti supposed to have lied to us? Why does everyone always say to me that he is always lying? What are his supposed lies?

@lafeechloe6998

Жыл бұрын

He told us a few things that doesnt make sense and he lie pretty much frequently to us. Like in the last GAA when he made some kind of plan with Alice to send us there. He pretended that it was for vacations but he obviously knew about all the Fatui stuff going on there and it was probably the reason why we went there. When we asked him he pretended to know nothing.

This was actually a really nice video to listen to. Despite new content coming out, I honestly have a horrid memory, so going back through some of these things helps a ton. I completely forgot that Ei was separated from the gnosis OTL There's theories going around that the end of our quest is in Mondstat, so with Venti not having a second part of his story, it would make sense. It makes me wonder, though, why Mond? What is it about that location that might have so much focus? Thinking back, maybe it has something to do with past actions of Venti. After all, he might have been the first Archon to give his people freedom and to nearly take himself out of the picture. He doesn't seem to interact with his people like the other Archons do, so it makes me think he's "shirking his duties." Maybe he's afraid of Celestia's punishment, thus he hides his true powers. Maybe that's why he slept for so long. We don't know much about Celestia, so what if he's hidden himself from them all along and is waiting for just the right moment to step in?

Maybe when Venti's SQ 2 comes out, he himself will be the new weekly boss. Idk, I'm just hoping for some sort of corruption arc. 😂

Venti lies yes, but he never withold important information from the traveler, if he doesn't want to speak about it yet there is a reason, the traveler is probably not ready yet, remember the wind brings the seeds and accompanies them but the seeds are ultimately cultivated by time. Venti will tell us what he knows when the time is right

It's always a good day when Aster posts

For all four current archons released, I think Nahida is the one you can trust most. She's on the same boat as the traveler, not knowing anything that's going on and went on in the past. This cluelessness leads her to try and uncover what she doesn't know about the past and present just like the traveler. She'll be on our side until the very end and will very likely sacrifice herself for our survival and for the sake of learning a last piece of knowledge on how it feels like to die. Venti feels like he's a double agent for celestia but wants to side with us, but he can't expose his true allegiance. At the end, I think he will reveal his betrayal to celestia and will pay a fatal price for it. Zhongli feels like he's on our side and wouldn't mind being killed by celestia but has his hands tied due to a contract of non-disclosure he made that needs to be fulfilled. At the end, he will be forced to choose between breaking a contract or opposing the traveler for the sake of a contract. Either way, he will forfeit his life. Ei fears celestia and tries to not be on their radar. She even resorted to hiding her consciousness inside a sword which in turn is hidden within a supposedly indestructible puppet body. She feels like she wants to side with us but will ultimately side with celestia out of fear. At the end, we will be forced to kill her. Anyway, knowing Mihoyo is obsessed with tragic endings, all or most archons will die. Also, Paimon will die. Definitely. And her death will break the traveler permanently. It will also break you. Imagine going through the menu and other features of the game where she's supposed to talk to you but she's no longer there. Even if you try going out of bounds, there's no longer anyone who will try to stop you and you're the only one who will decide to turn back. "Let not explore that area for now. That's what Paimon would have wanted." Also, you will try eating food made from slimes in honor of her and regret not trying it out when you had her. It will taste sweet with a bitter aftertaste, further reminding you of her absence. See you at the endgame.

@Naofumi-Iwatani

Жыл бұрын

Dont

Rather than following their ideal the Archons are ''forced" to follow them. Not in the sense that they are threaten but rather it's like an instinct for them. Venti even thought he's inaction cause a few problems he still stand on he's interpretation of freedom for him and he's people (He gave up is gnosis to be ''free'' from celestia) Zhongli said mutiple times that he will never break a contract and we saw that he stand by it (He gave up the gnosis to uphold a contract) Ei go as far as discarded her body and was willing to put her nation in a 'stasis' to uphold to the eternity she seek. Even if she now try to find another possible way that still her main focus (ok i don't have any interpetation for Ei xD) And nahida 2nd story quest is the thing that brought this idea. Apep say " ''The truth'' the shackles that the God of Wisdom cannot escape". Meaning that whatever the price to pay if It can learn truth the God of Wisdom will pay it. And we saw it in the actual archon quest. (she gave the gnosis in exchange for truth and knowledge) No matter the price, as absurd as it seem the Archons are willing to pay to uphold to their Ideal almost like....an obscession

@hirods9889

Жыл бұрын

@Harry Shade I didn't say it was strange, juste that Apep called nahida's obscession ''shakcles"

Me waking up from my casket when i hear that aster has posted a video about archons

Venti: hehehe Zhongli: contract Ei: this is all I can tell you Nahida: don't you want to ask me about it? I've hired Scaramouche to help me search Irminsul for more answers.

It’s like Nahida said during her Archon quest, if you are from Teyvat then Irminsul will record it. Jhongli may well be a descender and Jhongli’s memories do not get affected by Irminsul. I’m not going to say he’s not a descender until I get more info. Anything is possible in this game.

Chill with Aster, or Chill with Kenny?

this video is honestly a banger pop off sis

Anemo archon since the beginning he has been protecting the traveler and their travels

The problem is what will happen when celestia designated traveler as teyvat public enemies? which archon can be trusted? i still betting for nahida lol.

@arnowisp6244

Жыл бұрын

Expect some John wick shite where the Archons don't go after us bur snekily help us.

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

Tbh I won't be surprised if Celestia actually like us, considering we were doing the archons job and thy would have all the right to get red of the archons and make us the new archon of teyvat, seeing that we keep fix shit around the place, also maybe Celestia were the ones who called us to this world in the first place

@arnowisp6244

Жыл бұрын

@@mitab1 Playable Unknowm god when?

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

@@arnowisp6244 I don't know it's spoiler or not but her name is asmoday

Zhongli is the only Archon who didnt show hostility towards Celestia. In one of his deleted voicelines he said "Celestia,i havent been there in a long time" in a very nostalgic tone as if he misses being there

Ooo the title is super interesting

I dont trust what venti says, and im sure hes hiding alot, but I trust his intentions and reasons. If you get what i mean.

Yet another thing that makes me very excited for Focalors. Especially because Celestia appears to be hovering over her nation.

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

I'm very curious about her personality and relationship with Celestia. And want to know more about previous hydro archon too

with Nahida, even though she didn't experience these events, it is stored in irminsul. But she is grown from a branch of irminsul, so I don't think she's as emotionally disconnected from these events as we are in reading about world wars... It's probably more like she "plays an extremely immersive VR game" that shows her what happens

I said “I need genshin theories!!” Shortly after I got this notification 🥳

love thhis upload so much!!!!

I have a theory after version 3.6. And that's about the beings that (possibly) preside over the themes in the artifacts. I believe that the one that presides over death. I think it would either be a dragon/vishap, or a shade. For my firsth theory, I don't think the Lord of Death is just any dragon, I think it's the dragon king. I came up with this theory after learning a little about the Dragon King in Nahida's recent story quest. I don't know if you have played it yet, but basically, we have to heal Apep, one of the Seven Sovereigns, of her void that was left after consuming all of the forbidden knowledge that is now gone. After we heal her, she talks about how she was collecting it and why. The reason she became so sick before was she consumed Al-Ahmar after he died and got all the forbidden knowledge with it. The reason she did this is because she was still a devout follower of the Dragon King(and we got his name, Nibelung! Its from germanic/old norse mythology), even after he died. Except a couple sentences later, she also says, that "By the time the Dragon King returned, the world had irrevocably changed". That means that the Dragon King DID die, but somehow he came back and it's indicated that he is alive to this day. Here is someone that came back from the dead, something we have seen no other being do before(I mean we have, but they aren't truly "living" anymore, and that was on a small being just like seconds after their passing and I think very weak beings would be much easier to ressurect than the previous ruler/maybe creator of the world). I theorize that he is truly alive, and this brings a theme of "death" and how he cheated it. Maybe the reason he is alive is because the Primordial One revived him to become the Lord of Death and make him now under his control to preside over the dead. Maybe the Primordial One killed him and by using his magic to revive him, the Dragon King is completely under his control. The Dragon King, having died before, now has death related powers so the Primordial One utilized him to preside over the dead. I believe in the theory of the types of artifact representing the four shades, except the only problem is there are four shades and five types of artifacts. I believe the four shades preside over life, time, void, and logic while the Primordial One had the Dragon King preside over death. Maybe Primordial One didn't think death needed a Lord at the time but had complications later so made the Dragon King rule over it. I think it would be really cool symbolism, symbolizing the death of the old order and the birth of a new one. Also imagine a super-powerful undead dragon, like oh my gosh. My other theory is that the one who presides over death is just simply one of the four shades. Perhaps we have one shade that presides over time, one that presides over void, one over logic, and one over life AND death. I think this would make sense due to the duality of life and death, how closely they're intertwined and how much they need each other, as Hu Tao recognizes. Since you can't have one without the other, it could make sense for their Lord to be the same being. I have less to say about this one because we really don't know like... anything about the shades aside from Istaroth, and she's the shade of time(also wind, but I don't know if this means that the other shades are also shades of elements on top of something else as well), we only know that the Primordial One created the shades AFTER he came to Teyvat. We also know that ONE of the shades is responsible for helping the Primordial One create "the birds of the air, the beasts of the land, and the fish of the sea", so to me that confirms that there is one shade that is at least the shade of life, but death is unclear. There is also the possibility that Phanes chose himself to preside over death, but I feel like this one is less likely because it's specifically stated that he had HELP from one of the shades to create the creatures so I feel like he wouldn't be the Lord over any of these artifact themes and instead it's delegated to his shades, or... undead dragons under his control. There's also the possibility that Nibelung somehow revived on his own or with the help of one of the Seven Sovereigns or something, and he's out and about with his own agency, either finally accepting the new order or is plotting to overthrow it still. Heck, he might have even turned to the power of the Abyss and is the "sinner" that we hear about in the 3.5 quest. Either way, I'm super excited about what they'll do with Nibelung. Anyway to anyone reading this, please tell me your thoughts!

@blablibloblou4992

Жыл бұрын

Delete it, it was useless

@mittenvonscrufflears7233

Жыл бұрын

​@Blabli Bloblou Thanks I can tell you're so nice irl

That profile pic made me think been Aster was going to muffle her voice for this entire vid

Whereas the first Story Quests showcase the personality and nature of the Archons, all the second acts have some connection to the Cataclysm, so it seems intentional and suspicious that Venti, who has connections with Vennessa and visits to Celestia, has not yet received one. Azhdaha, after or during the Archon War, experienced erosion (amplified by the mining in the Chasm) that Zhongli claims is a "natural order" "imposed" by the Heavenly Principles. Ei's sister died during the Cataclysm but left her consciousness to guide her. Rukkhadevatta met the same fate but left another part of her consciousness in Nahida.

I trust venti.. Sus but you can feel the comfort, you need to reach your journey end to really understand him..

the archons that i think knows the most are the Tsaritsa Zhongli and Venti. who of them knows the most i am not sure but it might actually be that venti knows more than either of them.

Love Celestia and Khaenri'ah content, thank you for this delicious morsel!

I think I’m going for trusting Venti, and the Pyro Archon… why? Could somebody roll the subtitles on the Natlan chapter? Read it, and that’s my reason why

Will you ever do a video on the original cryo archon

I love venti but the trust i have for him is Small

I wonder what the other archons are hiding when you really think about what will the hydro archon be hiding when we meet her

Well the hydro archon knows not to make a enemy of the divine, the pyro archon for some reason, shares her secrets with the travler to eventually prepare the story for tsaritsa rebellion against it, I think it pretty much summarize every archon opinion and trustworthiness on the subject

2:35 Could this connect to Focalors and her judging Nahida as the God of justice?

The only ones i trust are nahida and venti, im not of the thought that if someone doesnt tell you something they are instantly not to be trusted

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

I don't trust this bard at all, he's more suspicious than Zhongli

@darkcust4478

Жыл бұрын

@@whitecat3448 nah zhongli clearly doesn't care about the mc, venti at least seems to trully worry about his nation and friends

@whitecat3448

Жыл бұрын

@@darkcust4478 not true. He said some interesting things in the past, but half of this fandom doesn't pay attention to his words at all

@itzshaleaedits6859

Жыл бұрын

​@@whitecat3448 true

@arnowisp6244

Жыл бұрын

@@darkcust4478 What you mean he doesn't care? He does he literally trust us to Witness this world and be a record that wo won't be so easily forgotten.

Quick Mini Theory on on the 3.6 world quest, more specifically, a certain name that stood out to me; “Gnade”. I believe this is the name of Sandrone’s robot and is the main reason she is even in the Fatui harbingers in the first place. Let me explain… 1) “Gnade” was an abandoned ruin machine that was potentially one of the strongest creations during its time, using the energy resource that the fontaine explorers wanted to utilize (forgot the name). 2) It seems to have been broken out as shown within the area where we fight Killjor and his buddy friend, most likely by the fatui. 3) Sandrone at this point has shown very little expertise in making machines, with her only potentially useful trait being the katherynes (doesn’t justify the 7th placement, though) 4) “Gnade” seems to appear more advanced than the typical ruin machine, yet Sandrone is known to not have owned the ruin factory in the Childe story quest (that was Dottore). This can imply that she didn’t make it herself, but most likely has the most control over it compared to the other harbingers. TLDR: Gnade big funny robot butler.

Yae might be as useful as the archons too due to her connection with Sacred Sakura and the ley lines. Sacred Sakura is able to predict the future and Yae has the ability to control this tree Not to mention, this tree might have some power from Istaroth and obviously the power of Makoto

Well informative

It doesn’t seem that zhongli is afraid per day he just has a contact and he values that above all (because he tries to get past celestia by metaphor) that brings up a question why isn’t he afraid as much as ei or venti

I'm I the only one who realised that asters description says this is one of her channels for world domination help I'm scared now

Nahida tells us willingly and freely, also, she lost her memory and zhongli says something about a contract that he cannot tell us about traveller's twin or anything related so that means Nahida tells us freely and willingly probably cuz she does not remember the contract but also we don't know if Nahida was included in the contract

WELL VENTI ALWAYS FEELS DISTRESSED WHENEVER HE HEARS SMTHIGN ABT CELESTIA

I think we can trust them all. Nahida seems to be doing a lot for the traveller and provided a lot of information, if that's a good idea or not in relation to Nahidas safety, we'll see. Ei has suffered due to celestia and knows just how powerful celestia really is. She lost her sister and her closest friends causing her to take a completely different way of enforcing eternity to her sister. She clearly wants to avoid any more conflict with celestia. Zhongli is merely leading by example and holding his ideal high. He a man of his word and even if celestial wasn't any kind of a threat, he wouldn't tell us anyway because he just doesn't come off as someone who would break his word/contract. And as mentioned, he doesn't lie to us about it, he straight up says he can't say anything. Venti clearly suffers from PTSD to this day. Going through what he must have done through and all that he has lost too, is it really a wonder he turned to the booze. Along with his coping mechanisms of brushing any talk of celestia off with song or jokes or even just changing the conversation, he too fears the wrath of celestia and doesn't want to pass on anything that could provoke an attack from celestia

Shallow dive? You said shallow dive? This was beautifully 4th dimensional archon chess.

Here's an idea, do we really know that Celestia is the one made a contract with zhongli? becuse it could be someone else, like our sibling, the tsaritsa, or someone we don't know entirely,

@Quiscala

Жыл бұрын

This is a really good point! The last time I visited the wiki, it said Zhongli’s contract is with a “third party” and doesn’t specify who that third party is. Though Celestia is a likely identity, I don’t think we know for sure yet.

@Hunter635_

Жыл бұрын

he said that he signed it before it all being, What is this thing that started? We do not know, but the most thinks that it's before the destruction of khaenri'ah.

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

@@Hunter635_ maybe he's talking about thier rebellion against Celestia? that they signed the contract to overthrow the heavenly principals long ago and now their plans are now in motion

@Hunter635_

Жыл бұрын

@@mitab1 but with who?.. I do not think that the contract was with the cryo archon, because from the way he talks about the contract, it seems somewhat old. he said "I have always honoured the contract", it looks like a contract of hundreds or thousands of years.. and it seems that the traveler is not the first person to ask him.

@mitab1

Жыл бұрын

@@Hunter635_ maybe it's our sibling? or someone else we don't know?

venti is def very suspicious 🤨 especially because under his statue in monstadt is the words "gate to celestia", yeah he's hiding something. and the fact we havent got a part 2 of his story quest as well !! and how venti says "then allow me to join your quest /ONCE AGAIN/", he knows something we dont

Nice pfp

nahida is very open about the celestia because she isn't bound by the contract that Morax, Raiden, Barbatos, etc that restricted them from sharing to others.

Maybe lord rukadevatta wasn’t particularly scared of divulging information or wisdom just like Nahida, sure she’d of course be careful with forbidden knowledge and knew the dangers of the needles, but wouldn’t rukadevatta be a literal extension of Irmimsul? Maybe she inherently had less of a leash on her by celestia as the extension of irminsul, maybe she didn’t have “true” fear of celestia but rather some form of distaste, after all the censorship of celestia would inherently go against wisdom and what irminsul stands for as a sort of historical timekeeper

he is older than irminsul he came to this world after its creation

so i have a theory what if the abyss traveler was in old time an archon and the other traveler cant remeber it or something i say it becous the traveler says at the begining "when we wanted to leave..." and the fact that one of the siblings is a decender and the counter part is not

One thing i am not too sure about is if Zhongli's contract was with Celestia. Do we really know who made him promise not to talk about the Cataclysm? It wouldn't be entirely out of question for that to be our Twin, or even some Pierro.

He means himself have step down from the throne

Venti kind of has to lie and deceive the traveller, I mean he cant exactly tell the truth when the gate to celestia is right underneath his statue in mondstat. Not to mention that storm terrors lair is the original capital of his nation which is now in ruins just like khaen'ria.

I had to look twice because I didn't realize you changed your PFP 😂