[2.7] Time in Teyvat EXPLAINED - A Genshin Impact Theory

I had so much to cover for the 2.7 Perilous Trial Archon Quest that I had to split it into two parts. This part will be on the mechanics and world building elements, while the next part will cover the Yaksha.
*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Quest Recap and Context
9:43 The Actual Theory Part
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[@AnimeGeniuss]

You’ve used Yanfei for visuals so much that during the quest I felt like you were explaining it to me when Yanfei was talking. Like when Yanfei would explain something I would think “thanks Ashikai”

[@Mori-jayde]

Same! I was totally expecting Yanfei to have Ashikai’s voice since I haven’t built her yet and her story quest was so long ago

[@verymuchconfused4973]

She sounds so much like Yanfei that I am convinced Yanfei broke the fourth wall with her adepti domain manipulation mumbo jumbo and started a KZbin channel to create conspiracy theories about Teyvat.

[@cosmicjules]

me too

[@rodon265]

does that make it an identity theft? or something similar.

[@tuxmaceo2020]

I literally think of Yanfei as Ashikai lmao

[@BohemianRPSDY]

Childe does mention that he has "fought in the fissures that lie between *great tree roots* ..." and that *"Only those that wish for an end will find one"*

[@Ashikai]

Ah!! I completely forgot about the tree root comment! Nice catch!

[@scarazed7609]

@@Ashikai also maybe this theory could explain how they would move on from the "teyvat chapter",by moving on onto another bubble domain,giving us a whole new setting and story

[@grotimus2900]

Ashikai, in Ei's quest it was Very thoroughly explained that traveller *wanted* to *find* Ei, but they also wanted to *see her succeed*, WHICH IS WHY THEY ARRIVED AT THE END OF HER BATTLE. (going back would be if not a walked path then merely just as easy)

[@sayorinternet]

also miko kept telling us to be focused on our desire to see her, just like yanfei and her focus on the compass

[@ArgoBargo]

Her point still stands tho, the reasoning as to why the traveler got to with at the end of the battle doesn’t change the fact that 600 something years passed within one hour for the traveler

[@soltrice]

@@ArgoBargo i think they were reinforcing her point

[@ljunson]

ooo baby we just unlocked time travel

[@grotimus2900]

@@ArgoBargo yes, from a stationary perspective, but WE deliberately travelled through time. The point is, if Ei's battle was longer or shorter by a fraction of a second, or if we wanted to go to some other point in time, (not too far, as i guess we would be crushed by spacetime), the proportion of time passage would be completely different, and not because of some small statistical fluctuation, but rather human choice

[@MuddyAxolotl]

Time when you wait for a new Ashikai video has no meaning

[@MistyJadeYT]

underrated comment

[@The1andonlysharpshooter]

galaxy- i mean domain brain energy.

[@LightxShadowx]

The hex-witchy ladies could also be adding to Teyvat’s stability. Not sure if you read wing lore but the KFC wings is basically Alice telling the story of the PO and the og dragons but in a more “fun kid storybook” way but it ends with "Teyvat's borders have grown fragile these past two years - looks like Mommy's going to have to get busy” specifically calling out the fact that Teyvat not only has some kind of border but that it is slowly eroding away.

[@ljunson]

With this new bubble idea... if its a literal bubble, it'd make total sense to have some hydromancers go support its weakened points, assuming the Hexenzirkel ladies are hydromancers...

[@jonnysetzler5859]

Oooh that does make sense, and the Hexenzirkel is known to do ley line tree explorations too, so they might be searching along the roots of the world tree to find the points where the borders of the world are. Oooh I like that, can’t wait till we meet some of the Hexenzirkel

[@alvarofigueiredo6450]

Plus in honkai most bubble universes are shown to have their days(or millenia) counted, with quite a few of them slowly eroding into nothingness

[@echodragon6]

you mean the Hexenzirkel, right? They were suspiciously only mentioned like once or twice despite their supposed importance - you might be onto something

[@lXlDarKSuoLlXl]

@@ljunson hydromancers can't repair "space-time" bubbles... They're literal witches that do literal magic, they're also framed to be outrageously powerful, probably on par with archons which is kinda ridiculous... I hope we can get more info on the ladies who actually seem to run the show hahaha

[@alvi9463]

we did it guys we fixed the timeline. it honestly feels like all the mishaps we had with the chronological order of events now makes sense.

[@goodnightprince]

we fixed the timeline by taking a hammer and smashing it-- i love it

[@darkoakquarks8748]

@@goodnightprince we fix the timeline by breaking the timeline!

[@louisaniathemagnificent8246]

@@goodnightprince AKA every single story involving time travel.

[@link_team3855]

@@louisaniathemagnificent8246 This is why we dont play with time kids :P

[@Ikcatcher]

This new Archon Quest really gave me a sense of existential dread and terror, imagine being stuck in a completely enclosed space that’s completely seperated from time and space. And said enclosed space just constantly torments you with domains conjured up by your own imaginations

[@DiogoPires93]

I used to have this theory a really long time ago that if time functioned normally in Teyvat, there wouldn't be a need for archons to control things like the weather. Perhaps if natural phenomena is left without supervision by the Archons, things can get very messy because of the chaotic nature of time. Another aspect of the theory is that people in Teyvat might not age because of time, because time itself is unimportant in this "sheltered eternity", but rather seem to "age" due to their exposure to raw elements (think about what delusions do), and it's only because most of it is filtered that they "age" at a normal rate, unlike with delusions which might be unfiltered elemental energy and causes accelerated "aging". Also good to remember that one of the definitions of eternity is a state to whicj time has no application.

[@shar3859]

That makes so much sense

[@sabrexi7228]

Oh my god that’s genius

[@Darkedor]

The Raiden Shogun has a Voice Over line in which she mentions both storms summoned by her hand and natural storms, so weather isn't controlled by the archons they just have a high degree of influence over it and then each archons worshippers attribute all weather to them.

[@darkoakquarks8748]

Ohh....that might fit in with zhongli and azhdaha's whole erosion thing!

[@DiogoPires93]

@@Darkedor oh you're right!

[@A_Modern_Tragedy]

After watching everything, I was thinking about past domains and I couldn’t help but think of the ever changing domain-The event with Tartaglia, Xinyan, and our Shiktaishou (our little paper buddy). If the time within domains is meaningless, could it be possible that within that domain, it was pulling in memories of monsters directly from the lay lines? In addition, it could also be a chaotic space. Everything within it was random. And it would randomly decided to kick out everyone but Tartaglia and Shiktaishou. Shiktaishou makes sense considering he’s part of that domain. But Tartaglia? Think about it. He’s been to the abyss and may still have some of that energy within him, and so the effects of the domain can’t affect him because it just sees him as lay line energy. Then what about the parkcore event? It was specifically stated to be a domain many times. And it responded to the adventures and the Traveler’s thoughts and desires for what that place should be. Not to mention how you could set a time for the completion of the domain. All things to consider, all things to consider. Edit: Changed lil paper buddy’s name to Shiktaishou (thank you comment)

[@notraidenshogun8324]

Le paper buddy is ~chi-ki-tie-show Ehehehe shikitaishou

[@A_Modern_Tragedy]

@@notraidenshogun8324 thank you! I’m always terrified of accidentally disrespecting people by mispronouncing or spelling their name incorrectly, especially foreign folk.

[@Ranakel]

Also wasn't there a part where the gang was surprised Tartaglia fought for an entire day interrupted, and he was like "yeah, it was fun, didn't see time pass cuz I was having so much fun" and we just chalked it up to Childe being that much of a battle-thirsty gremlin

[@LEGENDARY_KING]

@@Ranakel YEA. God how does this nutcrackjob theory actually make sense lmao ashikai's got a weirdly great brain

[@notraidenshogun8324]

@@A_Modern_Tragedy aww no problem buddy :)

[@gimbo4025]

this actually makes so much sense. oh my god. for so long, kaeya being khanriahn had confused me, because khaenriah fell, and kaeya is in his twenties but the cataclysm happened 500 years ago so what gives? for the anchor part, comparing the the tp waypoints and statues reminds me of the little respawn gates inside of domains. super interesting stuff!

[@CupcakeKitty]

When you said Teyvat may be a domain the upsidedown bubble world suddenly became a plasma lamp in my head.

[@zafkielvondegurechaff3634]

If the Teyvat domain is slowly but surely falling apart, could this be the "Borders of the world" that Alice said have become fragile lately?

[@Ashikai]

Very possibly!!

[@ykmnkmi]

@@Ashikai what if all this is a big samsara.

[@breakthewall.mp3126]

@@ykmnkmi i feel like this is the most "casual-ish" players' first thought since "We will be reunited" quest came out, but i can't find actual smart people who know this game way better (like Ashikai) talk about this

[@Paimordial]

@@ykmnkmiUPDATE!!!!

[@Foxfire-chan]

I’m wondering if maybe this area in the chasm could be related to the god of dreams that kept Xiao under his control. Everyone got really and were shown memories of things specific to them and were slowly starting to feel sleepy and. Even Xiao who I don’t think really has to sleep a lot as well as Xiao’s comments about the space trying to devour them whole while also trying to whittle down their resolve being mentioned numerous times by those involved in the quest. Xiao was also originally forced to eat people’s dreams.

[@LeaksHater]

Doubt someone like that could have caused something like this. But haha would be interesting if that god fell here and thats why the space acquired such power.

[@zond3381]

I wonder if it could be the "Morphes" mentioned in the cryptic letter found in the Chasm. Morphes, or Morpheus, is associated with dreams in Roman mythology, cmiiw

[@LeaksHater]

@@zond3381 OO thats interesting thought. I myself have a thought that this space could have been created by another Shade and if Phanes-era is based on Antiquity, it could work.

[@yama8124]

Wait, this is the first time i heard that Xiao's former master is god of dream. I know Xiao was forced to eat dreams, but i thought it was some sort of yaksha ability that the master took advantage of him. Where should i read about this?

[@BulletSponge71436]

@@yama8124 Wasn't Xiao forced to eat souls instead of dreams though?

[@reaperofthings]

Hi, I’m watching currently with Enviosity and just wanted to say that you might want to revisit the Enkanomiya Three Realms event again, the Thing Calling Itself Enjou mentions that there are three realms, the Light/Pure Realm, the Abyss/Void and the Human World/Teyvat. Enkanomiya is actually part of the Light Realm, the Three Realms Gateway Offering was an attempt from the Abyss to corrupt the Light Realm and assimilate it into the Abyss. So Teyvat and Enkanomiya aren’t really a part of the Abyss, but they all overlap. The Abyss has its own perception of time, The Pure Realm has its own perception of time and Teyvat has its own perception of time. The Abyss is canonically toxic to the pure realm and it corrupts the Human realm, but the Pure Realm is at the same time the antithesis of the Abyss. The light in Enkanomiya overpowers the taint of the Abyss and forces it out while also weakening the Abyss the light doesn’t touch. However that doesn’t mean you’re wrong necessarily, the Three Realms could very easily be Domains themselves. Perilous Trail shows that Domains intersect all the time but don’t share the same properties, from time and space to composition, and with enough force you can make a portal through to a different domain. Sound familiar? I’d hope it does, because that’s what the Abyss Heralds do to travel between realms. Trying to access pocket dimensions without an active entry point forces you to travel through a chaotic space and hoping to all the gods that you reach the correct realm according to Yae Miko in Ei’s second quest. In short without an Anchor, if you leave the main domain you are sent flying until you eventually land. But with one, you immediately show up without worrying about being stranded in a random dimension by accident. So if each realm is surrounded by a chaotic space, I think that supports your bubble realm theory, and if you can poke holes in the realms to hop between them in a domain and you can do that in Teyvat proper, I think that just about confirms it. Although what we can’t tell is just how many pocket realities deep Teyvat is, but considering it is an alternate timeline to Honkai with many of the same people in different situations and the devs are talking about an entire Honkai universe, it’s safe to say we are at least 2 pocket realities deep.

[@artsyrenjuns4710]

danngg what a good catch

[@RosariaDewi]

damn it's morning here and i already 6 inch deep in existensial crisis

[@CX4_Pandea]

To add on to that, that could be why childe fell into the abyss. He found a portal that ripped through time and space which intersected the Human realm and the abyss realm. Since both are domains, Childe was able to travel through it like how Xiao passed through chaotic spaces. Furthermore, having enough power to form a rift between time and space itself between large scale “domains” could be a clue relating to the 3 different realms and how they come into play in the future

[@Ashikai]

Thanks for watching! But i do have to correct you on something: Enkanomiya is not part of the light realm. The light realm came before humanity was even a thing and the vishaps were from there, as they were elemental beings and the light realm is also known as the elemental realm. But the elemental realm got warped into the ley lines which were then used to create the human realm. When the vishaps we're defeated by the primordial one many of them fled and ended up below ground and that's why they're down there. If you'd like a full explanation with citations I will provide a link to the wiki. genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Realm

[@7miken646]

This comment is months late but I just want to say to the main comment @ reaper of things: nice observation 👍 Following what you have said about abyss heralds ability to travel between realms and trying to access pocket dimensions yadda yadda hoping to reach the correct realm, in Ch1 Act4: We will be reunited, was Dainsleif able to catch/follow the Abyss Princess/Prince? I just want to confirm since I kinda don’t remember whether Dainsleif was successful to catch up with the AP 😅 Also, since this would totally support what you’ve said.

[@celaninari8806]

I definitely agree that the pillars are likely part of the structure of Teyvat. I'm still torn between the pillars falling being intentional or accidental. One idea I have right now is that when the catastrophe that killed the moon sisters happened, the wreckage caused some of the structure of Teyvat to fracture and fall, thus the falling nails. Sometimes the nails just caused wide spread destruction (Dragonspine), but I think the nail in the chasm maybe fell so hard it pierced reality, but also plugged it. Like a nail sticking through a tire, but the tire self-seals around the nail. I think that allows the abyss to slip through, causing the creation of the chaotic space. Like... let's say Teyvat is a bubble supported by pillars. In the event, some of the pillar became damaged and fell, one of them piercing another part of the bubble. That bubble kept its structure, but some of the liquid (abyss) got in. At the same time, some of the air in the bubble slipped out, thus creating a bunch of smaller bubbles of air (the chaotic domains).

[@mmmgi6763]

OMG! Calling the structures nails seemed random, but the nails piercing a bubble of Teyvat would really make sense!

[@shntnsh382]

I'd say the forming of the nails could be either intentional or accidental, breaking off from a larger structure, but the locations those nails were placed were most likely intensional. The Dragonspine one is for erasing the whole civilization there, and the Chasm one...maybe for sealing the messed up area we fell into?

[@arsena5209]

I'm not sure how accurate this could be but that's an extremely interesting theory and I really like it tbh

[@mmmgi6763]

@@shntnsh382 This feels like questionning whether the chicken or the egg was first. From lore I know about so far either or could be true.

[@sabre7236]

you can always have enough time if there is no linear time - the abyss twin, probably also this would definitely reframe all the times venti or especially the traveler were unconscious/asleep for very long periods of time. It would explain how the traveler could have been asleep for 500 years after getting cubed without ever being noticed or whatever happened when the twins first showed up on Teyvat.

[@nicholasjohnson8932]

Yes, but, we know Traveler is not from Teyvat originally, and that the siblings traveled as literal stars. They have six wings during the encounter with the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, referencing Seraphim wings. I'm pretty sure they are not only not human, but also immortal, and (in gnostic terms) fragments of the divine monad. So they'll always have enough time for other reasons.

[@defiantmars9910]

I think the function of the Serenitea Pot does further reinforce this theory. If I recall the explanation for furniture creation correctly, we are actually willing the objects into being based on our desires and memories. The sub-space anchors also remind me of this chaotic space. Those anchors say that too many of them throws the adeptal energy into *disarray*, giving Tubby insomnia and causing terrain to displace. And “disarray” can be synonymous with “chaotic”. I would assume the adeptal energy is helping stabilize the domains of adepti, including our Teapot. The lack of someone to manage the domain like the Adepti themselves or a custodian like Tubby, these domain sub-spaces would either become more chaotic or collapse. I could totally see Teyvat becoming less stable as the power Phanes used wanes and the amount of information (memories) to manage increases. I was trying to understand a post by theorist for a completely different fandom which was talking about real world quantum physics and they were talking about false vacuum theory and bubble nucleation… I barely understand it, but those concepts reminded me of the ideas out forth here and in the world structure series.

[@nabieladrian]

Ohhhh I remember that "you can only either find out the exact position or the exact speed." and that even relative to others' existance. Essentially it's everything everywhere all at once, but the observer only can measure one and leave the other unknown. BUT, ISN'T THAT THE VERY REASON THAT THINGS CAME INTO EXISTANCE? THE OBSERVER BECOME THE ANCHOR?

[@cainiaowu]

Also dont forget the favor text on KFC wings, Alice notice the Teyvat becoming less stable as she is fixing them. "Teyvat's borders have grown fragile these past two years - looks like Mommy's going to have to get busy."

[@Kebatsuru]

The more I watch Ashikai the more I love Yanfei. It doesn't help that Yanfei just got another appearance this patch too.

[@Ashikai]

Yanfei skin when??

[@scarazed7609]

@@Ashikai yess

[@lahie16]

As you mentioned the floating bits of structure that defy gravity in the domains, I immediately thought of Dragon Spine and went "TEYVAT'S A DOMAIN!" it literally all makes sense. The chaotic space also seems similar to the sea of quanta? Anway, I definitely think you hit the nail on the head here.

[@mmmgi6763]

*hit Celestial nail on the head

[@mirufiyu4810]

After watching your theory, it suddenly reminds me of the anime Magi: the labyrinth of magic. In this anime, people also have different culture and countries, theres also domains like in genshin, and if you finish the manga (spoiler alert), the protagonists literally threw off and defy the "heaven", until they break the false world they live in and stop the cycle of life that the "God" made them to be. (I'm not sure if you guys can understand, its really hard to explain, but i'm sure Magi fans will understand) 😅

[@pokulock]

Now that if u think abt it.. Sinbad does remind me of allogenes where humans can transcend into heaven & became a god like Venessa- sinbad become a god in the final manga right? Its been a long time i might be wrong

[@mirufiyu4810]

@@pokulock yes he did, its been a long time too since i finished reading it. He defeated Ugo whos kindda like a "God" or manager of the world they made for the new people to live in. Aaahhh so hard to explain 😂 its just so good!!! Sadly its underrated, and yah now i'm kindda think of genshin world like the world in magi hahahhaha.

[@TairoruXRyuu]

Omg Magi reference FTW! It also made me think of how rukh/flow of rukh roughly correspond to the leylines in Genshin. Magi also uses demon names from the Book of Solomon. The Paimon in Magi is a bit different from our Genshin Paimon lmao. I had a hyperfixation on Magi in like 2015ish. Probably explains why I'm hyperfixating on Genshin

[@mirufiyu4810]

@@TairoruXRyuu ah yeeeeeees!! How am i so dumb to forgot about that?!! Right??? Rukh and the leyline, demon names, etc. What if genshin creators actually inspired its world building to Magi? 😍

[@pokulock]

Rukh and leylines hm.. i wonder if in Sumeru we'd get to know the dark side of the academia, just like Magnostadt arc of magi. Where they use outcasts/slaves as source for their magic tools energy. Maybe we'd get more info abt vision in sumeru?

[@akixyl425]

I'm not even mad. I'm laughing my ass off. You really putting in the grind on lore that's only just occuring to me. That is absolutely astounding and I am amazed at your ability to put it together as quickly as you did. Another amazing video!

[@1Henrink]

Something that I find most curious is how Paimon says that it "feels like traveling through space or time". I wonder, how would she know how that feels?

[@advanceringnewholder]

also, what if, the power of the twin traveler, is that they can travel in the space between the bubbles. that's why they're traveler traveling countless world. every world is essentially a bubble. it could also explain how aloy got to teyvat. maybe the game world of Horizon is a bubble, same as Honkai, and that's how Fischl could travel there. This opens up possibilities to collab with other games without breaking the lore. Why dragonborn in teyvat? oh, skyrim happens to intersect with teyvat. Why Zhongli appears in Fortnite? pocket dimensions additional theory. what if travelers original world is a dimension that's already burst

[@applesaucelord368]

Hmmm that’s a very interesting theory to think about

[@grass3056]

even though i don’t play it, zhongli in fortnite is something i really want to see

[@The1andonlysharpshooter]

persona 5 please. you would work wonders here.

[@colleennewholy9026]

Even Witcher has the whole "Conjunction of Sphere's" thing, where multiple worlds smashed into each other

[@shar3859]

Reminds me of the time chill with aster (another lore youtuber) once said that Earth is canon in Teyvat through Alice and the KFC glider - in other words, Earth is another bubble - meaning we are characters from Genshin Impact. Genshin Impact world dominion?

[@nevembra9850]

During your part at 17:10 and onwards I had a realization that if the sky is fake and everything is connected to a giant ley line tree that just repeats memories then could it be that if time is also meaningless because like a winding clock once it hits the end it has to be rewinded back to the start causing everything to happen again, is that why our abyss twin says "when you've come to the end" because they witnessed it and are trying to get Khaenr'ia back in order to use their ancient technology and science to counter and destroy the clock to stop time from being stuck in a loop? Is that why Venti says that he knows every song past, present and future because he's heard them all and seen the rewinds? Does the Tsaritsa know too and is that why she's getting the gnosis or has that happened before as well? And if everything that we experience rn is a product of ley lines then can we be sure that everyone we meet are actually alive? Is that why Mona can read the future of everyone except the traveller because they aren't part of the ley lines?

[@Paper-Parrot]

So, basically, the story of Genshin is just everything everywhere happening all at once. (Heheh.) It may sound ridiculous, but somehow it just *works*. Listening to this, I felt everything click together in my brain, especially the parts about constellations and people's fates. I can't wait (hah) for Unreconciled Stars to have a continuation so a bit more of the truth can come to light... and inevitably leave us with many more questions.

[@rachelkiesser5406]

Love that movie and so true for Genshin if this theory is correct!

[@jonathanwilson5355]

I’m sorry that made me think of everything, everywhere, at the end of time lmao XD

[@kas9680]

The picture of bubbles sticking together made me think of all the different areas with their own statue of the seven..

[@fitchlekvoda8721]

This has nasty fun implications! Implications which, in terms of the greater Genshin Impact story, may make this very probable... If this is right, then the architect of everyone's destiny and the overall stability of Teyvat is none other than the Heavenly Principles. This actually explains why she ground pounds civilizations that become too advanced - they were reaching the threshold of understanding the nature of this world and destiny, and in doing so, threatening it's overall stability. Where it gets interesting is the Tsaritsa's planned rebellion - if she succeeds, she will end up breaking the very thing preventing the whole world from collapsing into chaos... Fun times may lurk ahead...

[@Ranakel]

Two thoughts about this video, which I enjoyed tremendously. First, before even the end part, I was thinking about what other area could "surprisingly" turn out to be a domain, and my thoughts immediately went to the Golden Apple Archipelago. The way it's referred to as changing at every passage, the fact it's nested in a storm that gives it an entry point... It really feels like a space Alice stumbled upon, and shaped into this adventure summer theme part because having single-handedly enough willpower to shape a domain sounds like the kind of thing Alice would do. So seeing video extracts of the archipelago in the final section, I can't help but wonder if it's something you're also considering, of if that's just a coincidence. Second, I'm thinking back to an anime, Log Horizon, in which the world is said to expand and stretch, in a way that isn't visible yet seems to "make sense". Like, travel between two cities went from a two days trip to a four days trip, but nothing seems out of place. And that's got me wondering if a place falling into the Abyss works the same way. Like, say tomorrow dragonspine fell into the Abyss. There'd just be a Liyue/Mondstadt border region and people would be like "yeah, that's how it goes" even though a huge mountain disappeared. Or, unexisted, depending on the level of "timey wimey rootsy pant a tree in the pastsy BS" going on.

[@Gnidel]

That's what happened with Sacred Sakura.

[@Ranakel]

@@Gnidel Oh yes, that's what I meant by "Timey wimey plant a tree in the pastsy BS" except I wrote pant instead of plant.

[@louisaniathemagnificent8246]

Man I know this is mostly about GAA and how it ties to the themes of time but just who IS Alice? Like she can just will a place into existence, casually mentions how the borders of Tevyat are fading and that she has “work to do”, and pretty much sums up the truth of the world of Tevyat in a children's book. Albedo mentioned in 1.6 that Alice is omnipresent-like, and while I think he was only being half-hearted, I genuinely don’t think he’s wrong after everything we now know.

[@robertsanssouci2093]

A wise person once said “there is no time. There is only now” It was me…… I said it

[@JouganNeon]

So wise

[@nelaepowt]

damn

[@emjayen4235]

Another thing i realised is how those inteyvat flowers work, they don't die while outside of Khaenria but when they go back to Khaenria they immediately crumble n die. If this theory is true then alongside the inteyvat flowers lore it explains two things: 1. Khaenria is indeed outside Teyvat itself aka in the abyss OR in its own bubble in the abyss but the walls or borders are kinda thinner in comparison, where time kinda just doesn't exist or doesn't matter 2. Teyvat is in a bubble where time goes faster than the fantastic compass realm (because the compass gets destroyed when brought out) but slower than in Khaenriah (because when in teyvat the flowers don't die or are relatively frozen in time) The last two theories might not be too accurate but the inteyvat flowers and this time is meaningless theory are definitely compatible imo, along with other things

[@rayhandinaufal4166]

Considering your second theory, then living beings growth rate is set to where they were born. Following that theory, kaeya should grow up slower than diluc because kaeya is from khaenriah. But in game, they grew up together with the same growth rate. Sorry if I sounded rude, I seriously don't mean to. I just thought you theory is interisting and i just want to discuss about it

[@emjayen4235]

@@rayhandinaufal4166 Oh that's a good point now that you've mentioned it, hmm... One possibility though that could make the theory still valid is that Kaeya, though being from Khaenria, wasn't born in Khaenria but in Teyvat, IF assuming a certain bunch of people from Khaenria (including his father) somehow survived the Cataclysm. Since where Kaeya was born and the circumstances surrounding it isn't canonically confirmed yet, its still an open possibility imo. And no of course you're not being rude haha, I like to discuss these things as well, I'm not that much of a theorist so I could be wrong as well. I actually hadn't considered it from that exact perspective before either (of people's growth rate being set to where they were born) so thanks for pointing that out!

[@mmmgi6763]

Somehow it seems fitting for Venti to be archon of time. Letting time run wild and free seems to be a theme. Venti disappearing for great amount of time would also make sense. The jumps between bubbles would make him out of sync with Teyvat's time (hence explaining his long disappearances). I'd argue, the stability of all the connected domain would be more his business compared to all archons we met so far. Quite a big ask I'd say, especially with celestia breathing down his neck.

[@lahie16]

LITERALLY was just thinking about this same thing. Could also explain why Istaroth "disappeared" from history. At one point in time, Venti could have been Istaroth who traveled through time. She left but then came back to around the same point when she first disappeared, but this time as Venti. To mortals who can't perceive time (like with Ei who planted a tree in the present-day and it appeared in the past) they would have always assumed Mondstadt always had two separate Gods instead of one that just altered their appearance. Of course, this doesn't explain why Venti first appeared as a tiny wisp. Or does it? Perhaps like Guoba, Istaroth had somehow become weakened to the point of a tiny wisp? Well, Venti is either Isaroth themself or a shade of istaroth.

[@baggiemaggie3832]

@@lahie16 (Long comment here. Tl;dr = Venti being Istaroth herself makes so much connections to lore points it is well within the realm of possibility) A wild speculation but to match yours (if Venti IS Istaroth), he could be present and actively participated during the war between the First and Second Throne and got weakened when it is over (wisp-ified?). Perhaps why all the weird timey wimey things happened is because the God that’s supposed to be overseeing time itself has essentially lost most of their power (Assuming that the Four Shades are very important gods for the stability of Teyvat) It kind of matches the timeline (if we can still call it that...) since iirc from the video, the furthest back we can go to have concrete evidence of distorted spacetime between domains is the fall of Enkanomiya which suspiciously coincides with the war between the First and Second Throne. It may also explain why tf Venti is connected to Teyvat’s lore EVERYWHERE. The bard would’ve been hopping around the bubbles like noone’s business. If he had a role in sustaining the stability of the bubbles then it makes sense that he would answer the prayers of Enka; likely not voluntarily but he ended up there to do a quick check-up, throw up some wisdom for the Dainichi Mikoshi (could be a bubble’s anchor) which fits his nature of “letting people do the work” perfectly, and peaced out. Venti being weak would also make sense. He isn’t “weak” per se, but maybe it’s more to conserve his power for bubble maintenance? It makes sense to conserve your power for smaller issues to deal with a bigger one. Noone in genshin mentioned Barbatos being the weakest than Venti himself, and we all know how Venti can lie as naturally as breathing (looking at his fabricated tales of Barbatos). Explains why he’s so calm about losing the gnosis, it never mattered to him. Additionally, Venti is the only archon so far that never mentioned nor cared about erosion on HIMSELF. Erosion is caused by forces such as wind over TIME. The God of Time wouldn’t need to be so worried over the effects of their own element. We already have proof of that from fighting Ei in 2.0-2.1; she is immune to attacks of the electro element. So who’s to say that Venti as the Time God isn’t immune to the ravages of time? Venti seems to be more worried of the effects of erosion on OTHERS and their legacy. You might say that he meant immortalizing others through prose and song, but we already know those stories will be eroded by time. Venti would also know that considering stories of the Time God itself is forgotten by the people of Mond. So immortalizing someone’s legacy is impossible unless....the storyteller THEMSELVES are immortal and is constantly refreshing the memory of the world, like what Venti is doing as a bard. He is confident of his own ability to retain his sanity and memories because he isn’t affected by erosion as he’s the time god. Also explains why the Abyss Order is most active in Mond. Seriously, why are they the “main antagonists” only in Mond? Liyue and Inazuma’s main antagonists are the Fatui but in Mondstadt? Dvalin nearly got brainwashed, Andrius was targetted once, and the defiled statue thingy that everyone almost forgot about. If we take into account of the Abyss Order’s desire to bring back the glory of Khaenri’ah, could it be that they target Mondstadt spesifically to collect the power of it’s archon as the ruler of time? After all, if they can turn back time, then they could go back 500+ yrs to Khaenri’ah pre-cataclysm and change their fate against the gods. But hey, this is just a speculation ^_^ Feeling like a conspiracy theorist considering this “theory” is not so common as the assumption that Paimon is the Time God. But I never subscribed to that theory, it seems too obvious, almost like a red herring. If anything I believe Paimon to be the weakened Shade of Space, considering her close banter and matching Trinity knot motifs with Venti, the weakened Shade of Time. When the game menu stops to turn forward time, and we’re using the power of one of the Four Shades (Shade of Time, Istaroth), wont it make sense that the rest of the Three Shades, or even Phanes himself, would be unaffected? It’s baseless but, it is likely the whole time menu game mechanic thing is Venti’s doing, as he got a gimmick of giving his power for others to do his, though benevolent, bidding. After all, iirc, grass is still moved by the wind even when the menu opens. When Istaroth/Venti exerts their power, why would Paimon/Shade of Space be frozen like everyone? After all, they’re on the same calliber.

[@lahie16]

Also, this makes sense why Venti claimed to have met the Traveler at the start of the game? Perhaps he had been companions with the traveler during a different point in time and space?

[@ava_240p5]

Speaking of domains, do you think the golden apple archipelago could have been domain/chaotic space? Considering Alice's voice was heard at the end of those quests in a similar way to how Xiao's voice was heard in the 2.7 archon quest. Now I know Alice's voice was heard through an object, but I'm thinking that the voice player somehow wasn't completely real. Do these ideas have any merit to them?

[@akramgenshingaming]

That whole area is so sus. We don't even know its location. And it has things / leftovers from different nations. And let's not forget we used a wormhole in a puzzle to go back to mondstadt (while leading a seelie or something)

[@knightofcarrion7358]

This was my thought too.. it's also in the dark sea so it's really sus.. and I always thought it's inclusion was strange and didn't fit. Just an island outside of teyvat with another culture? Didn't seem to be connected to anything.. and the entire island made mechanical by Alice? How would she have the ability to go underwater and create a mechnical platform... unless she willed the domain into it. And she is a mystic adventurer so I wouldn't be surprised if she knows how to manipulate domains. !!SPOILER LEAK!! 2.8 has the GAA again and it looks different and has different enemies in the center. Maybe everything there is a memory and the memories are changing which is why the map and enemies change..

[@gammaray1583]

definitely agree with all of this, the GAA also contained those shells with memories within them.

[@The1andonlysharpshooter]

Didn’t albedo set all those up though for Klee as Alice instructed? this would mean he knows that its chaotic and knows how to manoeuvre it already. Wait- how did Albedo even ge t there 😭

[@The1andonlysharpshooter]

@@knightofcarrion7358 The fact that character domains exist too. It’s literally willing people to see whatever you want. I’m just not understanding the Albedo aspect of how he set things up😭 Unless Alice just instructed him to imagine certain things and they’d show up? BUT THEN again How does that explain the random inazuman puppet left in there?? But the puppet did go mad right? So it’s maddening could be blamed on the chaotic energy of the domain. But the people?? Im so lost im so very lost. Theres no clues to them going mad either. Unless they weren’t real? A figment of the puppet’s memories? I’m so lost i’m so very lost.

[@Pyramid789]

I find it fascinating that this idea existed centuries ago irl

[@Mysteryman1ism]

"Time is weird, so is Space. I hope ours match again someday." -Cecil Palmer, Welcome To Nightvale

[@sleepyboi2232]

"Domains are chaotic spaces which have fallen into the Abyss, where time has no meaning" This is starting to sound like a certain tree and a sea

[@danipaulson9404]

Y'all the theory about the bubbles being pockets of the universe at 20:20 is actually referenced in the sumeru archon quest when nahida tries to leave the city. She says there were many bubbles of memories and she could enter them.

[@AhmadAli-kv2ho]

I feel like your editing has improved so much, it feels handcrafted

[@willrisk1552]

Want to start with: THIS IS THE BEST VIDEO YOU EVER MADE. i just want to point out that according to Einstein’s theory of relativity, all mass can be energy and back (E= m*c^2 and electron + position= foton + foton ). Since HoYoVerse loves physics, this could mean a memory is an energy. There are even theory’s that when we die, we lose 1/10^100000 of our mass.

[@Ashikai]

Thank you!

[@nabieladrian]

I legit got chills when you explaining why fates are written, I never thought of that. It feels so forbidden that if people really think about it, surely chaos will happen. With that in mind, I really can't decide which side is right or wrong, if that's even a thing. Excellent work, Ashikai! p. s apparently one of Hoyoverse's CEO stated on GDC that in 2014 they have goals to make Honkaiverse in mind when creating Genshin.

[@sherlicc2511]

now the line "We have always had enough time" spoken by the abyss twin during the archon quest makes sense now...

[@xrosiex7085]

This theory broke my brain a little (but I loved it lol) and it got me thinking. So, if the world of Teyvat has "anchors" that keep it in place and going, following the same rules and people's desires can affect it, what if visions really are given to the people who have the willpower to change that order and they are essentially a way to control them? But how would a vision control a person? Well, I came up with something. A vision is a blessing that represents a person's desires and aspirations. If you think about it every vision user up until this point (archons excluded because as we know their visions are fake) has had the same aspirations ever since they got their vision. Xiangling's passion is to cook. Well she has been cooking for a very long time now, hasn't she? How isn't she bored? Why and how is she still that interested in it? As interested as she was in the beginning. Everyone else is pretty much the same. So what if the way a vision controls a person (who has enough power to change the world) is by making sure they never let go of a singular passion that in no way breaks the world? What if people are being given visions just to keep them distracted and busy with this one thing forever so they don't go around breaking the carefully constructed order of Teyvat? Of course, this is just my thoughts after watching this AMAZING theory. It truly changed the way I see the game so much (like many other of Ashikai's theories) and I'm open to other suggestions and thoughts!

[@artsyrenjuns4710]

Thats true. Also when someone's vision gets confiscated, their strong ambition and desires also cease to exist. And they lose part of their memory.

[@reaperofthings]

Also, whenever someone’s Vision grows strong enough to Ascend to Celestia and become Allogenes. Lisa once looked into the truth of Visions and what she saw scared her so badly she stopped being ambitious and basically refused to continue growing in power. According to some, Celestia actually takes the form of a prison, where the Allogenes are held. Soooo, looks like your little theory just might be true.

[@anaplaysstuff]

@@artsyrenjuns4710 "Also when someone's vision gets confiscated, their strong ambition and desires also cease to exist." But not always, as we see with Itto. His Vision was confiscated and from everything we're shown...he didn't seem to have changed appreciably as a result of it.

[@xXzman9000Xx]

@@anaplaysstuff but itto is also not human. non humans might not follow the same rules. key point, most if not all of the non humans had elemental powers before they got their visions. even half humans like ganyu stated she still had cryo power before she got her vision. if anyone knows of any non humans in genshin who are confirmed to not have special power without visions i'd be interested to hear it.

[@Gnidel]

@@xXzman9000Xx Humans can use elements before getting vision too. Mona claimed that her vision does nothing to her but make her wet.

[@sydnohorse]

This made me think of how in one of the traveler's voicelines, I think they comment on how time flows a lot more quickly in teyvat than what they're used to

[@Akiro367]

now i can see why people who theorize on games and they avoid the timelines in games as much as possible i will make you pull out your hair and confused the hell out you. love the video and it was worth the wait

[@oli_5923]

In physics time is the 4th dimension but unlike the first three dimensions which are spatial dimensions you cannot travel freely through time. You can move left and right, forwards and backwards, up and down but you cannot go to the future or the past, you’re stuck in the present. Unless you’re able to gain access to higher dimension where time might just be another spacial dimension like in the movie Interstellar. Perhaps Teyvat is some kind of 3 dimensional representation of a 5 or even higher dimensional space. There are also ways to slow down time in our own universe such as traveling at light speed or orbiting a black hole because of how extreme their gravity is. I don’t really know how this could relate to time in genshin but I thought providing some real world examples of this phenomenon could be helpful.

[@cosmicjules]

my brain is exploding. the possibilties this theory opens up. so many new theories. i've watched so many theory/lore videos and this just reinforced all the theories i bought into the most and all the other things i've thought could be true. galaxy brain moment

[@Risachi100]

ok crazy theory here: So assuming that thoughts could shape the world around you, what if vishaps did not have that strong thoughts and only thought about survival, which is why there was no light but plenty of energy. The primordial one had exceptionally 'strong' desires and shaped the old teyvat (and was like the oxygen producing organisms on old earth). This allowed other things to exist (like humans, gods, the second who came). A theory in a theory: So what if Teyvat was not that big in the beginning and pulled many small domains in to make one big one (fusion of bubbles, but not all at once). Each former bubble may have had their own god and now they all exist in one space. They have such strong thoughts (like one only thinks of salt or rock or thunder) that teyvat becomes destabilized. So the world needs gods to keep the space relatively stable but there are also too many of them => archon war happens. This would explain why every region matches their archon, they have the strongest thought in that region and shaped the world around them. This theory has probably more holes than swiss cheese but I wanted to share it.

[@rachelkiesser5406]

Ohhh I love this

[@Risachi100]

Forgot to add: The tataragami would also fit into this. The last thoughts of a killed god would be resentful so they shaped their surroundings into a resentful one. ...So if a lingering thought is strong enough to shape the surroundings, maybe it is strong enough to shape humans (into being more powerful= delusions?)

[@nadanoodle3264]

Well, you do enter a door on the game's loading screen, as though the world is a domain

[@kiyomi_kamimoto]

I think the conclusion 1 is correct 🤔 In Childe's backstory, it is revealed that the time he spent in the abyss wasn't the same as the time that was spent in Teyvat during his absence. 3 months had passed in the abyss, while only 3 days went by in the real world. It is similar to Makoto's realm of consciousness, which is also kind of a domain since it is where Ei/we fought the Shogun puppet. As you said, only one hour if not less has spent in Inazuma, while 500 years passed in the domain. The domains are therefore probably related to the Abyss, or are in the abyss/have falen into the abyss. Also, there is a kind of "space-like portal" whenever we enter one, which is similar to the Spiral Abyss' portal and the portals the Abyss order use to teleport themselves.

[@koteghe7600]

teyvat being domain some sort and many "bubbles" of domains make so much sense Travelers literally travelled worlds (in this case that could be domains) they could just have powers that allow them to travel between domains/to the space that is between bubbles

[@cofeespear4992]

Meaning Kaeya could technically be 500+ years old while also being someone around his late 20s or early 30s

[@fischl1098]

This makes a lot of sense but when you talk about the irminisul tree or the world tree and how tevyat possibly exists in the roots as a domain it made me think of something like nodules found on roots of leguminous plants formed by bacteria. Maybe the structure is similar to that hence why the abyss and the leylines might be made up of similar stuff

[@Ashikai]

It's funny you say that because I've been thinking of the leylines like some kind of mycorrhizal network that connects a bunch of plants together. Interesting.

[@brigidferris2785]

Question, were visions a thing before celestia? At which stage of the world were they given to humans? The vishap era? The Primordial one/Seele era? Or were they an invention of celestia? I don't think that question has a definitive answer at the moment, but I think its food for thought as we take their existence for granted and we don't question where they came from.

[@-nery-]

considering they show similarities to the gnosis, my current speculation would be, that vision started to appear around the archon war, bit another thing to note: celestia isn't directly imprisoning or removing vision bearers from the ley lines, we actually met ley line memories of some in Eis story quest. So far their purpose only seems to be a container for ambitions and an element...

[@akramgenshingaming]

Well i think it's when the archons system was established that's when visions started. It's like a new regime by Celestia. In the vishap/seelie eras there were no humans. Wait, after Writing the 2nd part, it hit me, We have non-humans vision holders, like Yae miko, albedo, Sara, sucrose, etc... So that leads to some confusion. Like were gods /beasts had visions or something? That's just me displaying random ideas 😅

[@-nery-]

@@akramgenshingaming problem with yae: she might as well have smth like the inner 3rd eye l, but won't tell us...

[@-nery-]

@@akramgenshingaming at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if ambition is what attracts elemental energy to the bearer, which in turn is then filtered by the vision, ashikai had after all a vid already about elemental energy showing radiative behavior

[@mmmgi6763]

Theory: Archons are gods that were tasked to take care of the pillars that keep the domain stable. Those pillars are manifested as gnosises. Celestia made visions to be somewhat similar to gnosises in effort to stabilise Teyvat further. The leader/-s of wishaps were original owners of gnosises, but they did not have visions. Because of that, they had to be able to adapt rapidly, since Teyvat itself was unstable and everchanging. They also may have ended up in different domains from time to time (since there was always lots of them around strange gate things in Enkanomiya) I have no idea about moon sisters or seelies tho. (Pls excuse my terrible spelling)

[@AnArtistInAVoid]

And on today’s episode of “Ashikai unravels Genshin world structure” we get to proof of an imaginary tree that allows time travel, multiverses, and consciousness controlling the universe. It’s like persona 5 and honkai impact worlds had a child, and the result was whatever Teyvat is.

[@weebyjason]

I- There's a lot to unpack here. But glad to see that most of my weird random thoughts are actually in your theory XD. ALSO THANX FOR NOTICING THE HIGHER POWER THING TOO. Well not much to say besides some things I found interesting in this theory and the quest (some of them are kinda baseless or out-of-nowhere but THIS IS A THEORY CHANNEL LET MY MIND RUN WILD) 1. The ghost's color is blackish-red and the only time we've seen those two together is with Susty. And this domain devouring souls similar to HOW SUSTY DEVOURED THE SOULS OF PPL AND MADE THEM INTO HILICHURLS O-o... 2. I had theorised about time working different in Khaernri'ah and Enkanomiya in a way that one was reverse. Dunno what it entails but glad to know I wasn't stupid. 3. Thing that hypes me the most abt Scara is that he was purposely confirmed onscreen to know about the False Sky. I can't wait to read his Profile... Oh Boi... 4. The Abyss has the power of emptiness... LIKE THE VOID?!? sus... Also it doesn't help knowing that what Aether recognises as the Abyss is awfully similar to the Spiral Abyss (maybe this was obvious but I just found it interesting).

[@erllukep.2159]

This actually cleared up a lot of the time confusion within the game's story. Teyvat's domain does function like the floors of the Elysian Realm. In which a few number of floors are themed after a Moth member. So are the enemies you face there, being the past recods of the Moths who fought them. With how domain's artifacts, theme, drops and enemies you face being connected to the leylines memories of that particular domain. And all of them being connected to a great central space that's mostly satble. With Teyvat being the central space for other domains and the True Deep End of the Elysian Realm. Whre in it's gigantic space that houses an entire city and is mostly a peaceful place with the occasional enemies that are doted around the place. Only in genshin's case, it's an entire world. miHoyo's parallels are getting wilder and wilder.

[@sreenidhi8297]

Awesome!!..another theory video...can't wait!

[@reneedemers8218]

As a quote from one of my other favorite properties has said: "Time is a Weird Soup" Looking forward to seeing you become resigned to this.

[@-nery-]

in Xianxia novels, so called "mystic realms" r a thing, places created by a higher being connected to the world via a portal, opening under special circumstances like time intervals or conditions. Just thought I'll share this with u, as some domains in genshin r time-gated as game mechanism

[@krispiek4084]

I’ve been wondering more and more about how time works in Genshin (lore wise) from Enkanomiya, Ei’s story quest, Tsurumi Island, and now this interlude quest and I’ve never been fully sold that it all functions linearly but I’m wondering now that you mention Aether(?) Anchors if time and space is chaotic by default and the leylines and trees are what tether all these bubble domains and universes together. I’m starting to think time and space might actually function like a bubble where it is fluid and shapeless of everything existing all at once with an outer perimeter imposed for containing that chaotic mess and then these leylines are extended to give further structure in the more tangible form of a tree. I think that it goes further that these trees are the physical manifestations of these anchors and perhaps each significant area has or has had a tree (or an attempt at a tree like in Enkanomiya) at some point. Plus in addition to each tree in each significant region there are the mora and xp leylines that might be smaller anchors that further help hold Teyvat together. I’m then wondering if Celestia’s divine punishment on Dragonspine and the depths of the chasm was meant to sever its anchor and connection from the rest of the collective in order to stop those places from corrupting the rest of Teyvat. Like amputating an infected limb to save the rest of the body. I’m thinking that might’ve be Celestia’s method in dealing with these types of matters like how the curse of Khaenri’ah removed those afflicted from the cycle and from the structure of time and space that the world tree gives. I’m super interested to see if we’ll see more significance in trees, leylines, or the world tree in Sumeru!

[@Ashikai]

You bring up a good point. The nails may have two functions, to sever an anchor and essentially Force an area out of the world and into its own domain, and to seal up the leak that gets left behind. If we think of them that way then they can be both a weapon and a blessing...

[@trulymrword]

So based on conclusion 1, we have Sleeping Worlds. Conclusion 2 supports Conclusion 3, and conclusion actually makes sense since we can use resin on wild Leyline Outcrops to get Mora and EXP cards, we can revisit boss battles as "Memories" and billets feel more like weapons that have memories imprinted on them to give form and power. Hell, the tea base is literally a collage of memories given form. [Sleeping Worlds is a term in Kingdom Hearts wherein a world that lost its heart and reclaimed it fails to wake up from the darkness, instead the world dreams; replaying memories of the world's history.] Ngl, if a concept in a game sounds like something KH would introduce things start to make sense to me.

[@Yvonne-Bella]

It makes even more sense when you think about Domain gameplay. Each one has a different time clearance.

[@chalkprinc3]

Now that you've mentioned Scaramouche, I've found something in Tsurumi island that helps with his claim that the sky is fake. On one of the four Murals in the main room, the middle Mural where there's three in a room, the symbols translated to Latin read "vigilabi caelus est no", and from a Google translate, it means "the sky is awake no". I think that backs up his whole thing of "the sky is fake"

[@OneRadicalDreamer]

Watching this retroactively is a lore gold mine

[@gimmefreemogems7048]

Ashikai video lets go!!! need more info about Istaroth

[@slivasun]

THATS WHY WE ENTER FROM A DOOR AT THE START OF THE LOGIN IN THE GAME OMFG my brain is on fire

[@jonnevitu4979]

5:35 just wanna point out a really neat detail that if you press esc or whatever is your pause button while Paimon is tired, she wont appear at your side.

[@shntnsh382]

Yes! I also thought the same about the time-space theories about the domains and anchor/pillar of bubble universes. I am getting the vibe that while the main Archon quests focus on the new regions and world building of Teyvat, the interlude Archon quests focus on the world building of Abyss, the past incidents and such, in order to ready the players for the big "time travel" in the end to save Khaenri'ah and solve the Teyvat problems once and for all. Imagine a "new" Teyvat, same map and areas, but hundreds or even thousands of years ago and with new content, we literally get to explore Teyvat a second time, and even save some characters like Signora or Scaramouche on the sideline. Who knows, Genshin might even have a pretty solid happy ending for Teyvat (but not for the Travelers and Paimon, no no no, not them, Hoyoverse will make sure that they suffer in the end). Looking forward to your next part of your video! This interlude ready did answer a lot of questions, so I'm really excited to see what you got from it.

[@amouramarie]

I believe _we're_ actually in the past. Teyvat has been destroyed, Abyss Twin saw it happen as it happened, and somehow sent the Traveler back in time to make the same journey she did - when Teyvat still existed. Like Zhongli says: *we are a witness.* We're here so we can know, we can witness the downfall of Teyvat - and in our memory they can exist and live on when we "leave" Teyvat (reach the end of our twin's journey, witness what she witnessed, at which point the domain of Teyvat will end, and we will exit).

[@amouramarie]

Mm, maybe the Archons know this/saw this happen already, and the Tsaritsa, being the Archon of Love, couldn't handle seeing all those deaths and decided to change it, so put into effect her plan to save Teyvat via the gnoses? Would explain why the other archons don't fight her very hard: despite their duty, they don't want to see the world end, either. Maybe that's why the Harbingers are already dead - the Tsaritsa found a way to send actual people, rather than memories, back in time, but she couldn't pluck them out of the timeline until it was already over. I guess that would require Ishtaroth's help. UGH, nevermind, I'm just tangling my thoughts around each other, haha. It's fun though!

[@VergilTFS]

Just watched this vid, this also kinda explains how the portals or tunnels for the abyss work, they think or concentrate to were they want to be, that why Dainsleif could not pursue our twin during the archon quest, they used the same portal but ended on different points, "we have always... enough time"

[@joeswanson7727]

Given this theory, time travel may indeed be possible through jumping between domains (Something that the Istaroth can do mayhaps?)... You know what this means? Dead characters could be playable! Signora, kazuhas friend, the yakshas, etc etc. Copium intensifies

[@trulymrword]

That statue of Barbatos just screams: Secret Portal to me.

[@joeswanson7727]

@@trulymrword Second venti archon quest mayhaps?

[@trulymrword]

@@joeswanson7727 Old Teyvat for sure

[@elizabethvein4328]

Being a god for a space where time is chaotically meaningless must've been so hard that ishtarot just straight up delete herself from history x'D

[@jonnysetzler5859]

This does make me wonder about event domains like the vibro Crystal or Hyakunin Ikki though, were they just domains that people happened to find and use, or are they somehow making them

[@Ashikai]

Hard to say. We know Harunosuke traveled to liyue to study adeptal arts, iirc, so at the very least I'm going to assume that people can learn how to modify them. I think repurposing spaces is also very possible.

[@sweetkillerforfun]

Something that is on my mind now is that some of this chaotic domains are just appearing now, after what is like thousands of years in teyvat, the main domain at the moment, so it means that teyvat domain is getting chaotic or it’s the traveler and it’s brother in some way interacting with the ley line flow and causing sections to collide because’ they have this power to travel through worlds/domains or for last collecting the gnosis may cause some kind of disturbance in the fragil domain system celestia build, that’s why the most domain events happens after the main quest where the archon loses or gives its gnosis, maybe they serve to repel other bubbles to collide or intersect with teyvat randomly 🤔

[@sweetkillerforfun]

Maybe i could summarize to: the tree and pillars can sustain teyvat just not effect in preventing it to collide or intersect with others small domais or bubbles, but gnosis maybe can also serve like magnets using the principle of attract and repel to a certain degree to keep the designed pass of time stable Basically an asteroid impact avoidance plan hahhah

[@lemonZzzzs]

This is a somewhat common world building trope, actually. That is, that the universe is mostly chaotic space, with domains (and Teyvat) being islands of order close to some conduit of order (probably Celestia) or its byproducts (nails, statues, archons/gnoses, maybe even visions). The Abyss could be chaotic space in general, a stronger point of its influence adjacent to Teyvat, a "hole" in Teyvat's domain that seeps it into the chaotic space outside domains, or some sort of a chaos conduit. Domains (and Teyvat) can be unstable/stable as the influence of Celestia (order) erodes or strengthens relative to them. Reminds me of the Chronicles of Amber series (among quite a few other works of fiction, of course).

[@kingalex105x7]

This is probably my favorite theory of yours, it's just so good

[@virgiornos6420]

at 4:30, the traveler felt the same amount of time passed as we did in real life, since this part of the quest was time locked to one day

[@greenssus9779]

Okay your bubble universe theory is the first thing I remember when I saw 2.8 event screen. It's literally bubbles and we get to explore character domains...

[@rivalifritdarc2481]

Really good theory you got there, maybe one of the best theory of Genshin Impact

[@stardustyuki]

That outro was one of the best things ever, thanks for making my evening. was kicking myself for not being able to watch this sooner!

[@skipclassfordota3361]

Ei's 2nd archon quest is weird,.according to hoyoverse it is almost impossible to do becuz it involves tempering with rules on the tree. The fact that Ei could not remember the tree but inuzuma ppl do suggests that shes in a parallel universe and indeed an "outsider"

[@doplop]

what if time being chaotic is the default for everything but teyvat specifically had the time stabilized or something? since like the primordial one created it right

[@antreascookies3200]

me disabling adblock to help ashikai as much as possible because she deserves it

[@captaindanger13]

i like the way paimon says months there

[@scaracooch1320]

I mean- within in game mechanics enka is a domain, compared to the chasm at least, the entrance to enkanomiya does look like a portal, just like the one we had under the nail for this quest, but the entrance to the chasm is a physical hole, if you look at it from the outside it just looks like a hole and not like a portal

[@andrewrivera7496]

What looks like a portal is actually just a seal

[@LeaksHater]

Chasm and the "Space" are not the same thing. Also, that space had an entry point just like a portal. If you left the Space and then wanted to get in again, you would go to below the nail and see the portal.

[@theblackgamester8776]

Now that I think about it when you said domains are spaces where normal rules don't apply, I remembered one of the loading screen texts saying Tevat Has Its Own Rules

[@themagikconk]

I feel like this theory is definitely close, but there will be something really funky going on behind the scenes that we learn about in like years from now.

[@Togno94]

What if Domains are remnant of worlds? Like a world starts as stable but in "time" it will erode away little by little then the nails will be removed and it will fall in the abyss the in the case of the Tree could be like the earth and they will make the base as nutrient for others worlds , and the cycle repeat. Like some is actuslly trying to create the perfect world. I know is probably a little to vague but this is what i actually felt like after looking at domains

[@melosmi]

omg i love that outro line. thank you ms theorist! fantastic video as usual~

[@FurryBunny536]

This makes a lot of sense, even the sky’s are fake in Teyvat and Traveler has also said that the day’s and night’s are short. Hence, Teyvat is a domain.

[@Zarozian]

Ashikai is truly a treasure within our lore community. ;>

[@dasytaylor]

I got goosebumps towards the end as you got into the possibilities because they popped into my mind right before you said them out loud and it just clicked into place way too well. This. This is the theory I've been sensing but never seeing myself.

[@burritopablito]

Gosh, this time theory of Genshin legit explains everything. It makes everything seem so much more simpler... thank you!!

[@rosaSECRETA]

Holy f- this might be your best theory yet I am fully sold on the many domains theory. Wonder if time flows the way it does in the Teyvat (human living space) is because, like how adepti made those other domains, this one is Istaroth's. She's could be the one making time make sense

[@Trxncl]

It's amazing how you made this in 2.7 and talked about stitched domains, and the Samsara concept in dreams were shown in 3.0.

[@angelotorrelli7478]

The fight against the Electro Yaksha is the most deceiving fight I've seen in the game.

[@palakmehta365]

Ahhh i was waiting or your take on this !!!!

[@Suelve20]

This was brilliant! I feel enriched with knowledge. It all makes sense now. Thank you :)

[@Kill3rRAAP]

Tiny Winny icky mucky lol so cute as always. This video was very interesting. Something I've speculated for a while. Also it seems like you found someone to edit your videos. Was hoping to be the one to help with that but I'm just glad you are getting help😊Love your videos as always and looking forward to more ❤️

[@Gnidel]

Enkanomiya could be in two states at once during the event, which would be explained by chaotic space.

[@LeaksHater]

but we had to manually swap it, it wasn't at once.