[3.4] The Dirge of Bilqis: v3.4 Lore Recap & Analysis - Genshin Impact

[@sup-md1mo]

To quote someone from the wiki Tirzad: Casual racism Liloupar: Competitive racism

[@vukkicos5688]

Competitive? Girl, she is uncontested. One sentence she slays all races. If anything she is inclusive 💅

[@xxkingsnipeshooter6942]

Tirzad is the true racist. Liloupar did say really shi**y things throughout the quest buts that's because of her history with the people of the desert (although to be honest it still doesn't justify anything)

[@luisreynamboarcos2958]

Racism is racism. But It's really impresive writing becouse for all the shit Liloupar says you can tell she cares for Jeth as she guides, her, conforts her and tries to protect her from Babel's lies. So in that regard Liloupar story is not justifying her racism but showing her overcome it through genuine interactions with the people she disrespected, specialy as the weight of her crimes start to finally crush her. Becouse in her atempt to punish her husband for not ending slavery, she herself enslaved her own kind and grandchildren. It's a really messed up story, and so it's good that the protagonists are also messed up. A cruel regicide that killed her familly? Of course she can be horrible racist, which makes it more meaningfull when she starts to care for the one she looks down on. A sweet girl who is desperately trying to find a new home after lossing everything she loved? Of course she is going to be easyly manipulated by a cruel manipulative witch and of course she is going to go full Uchiha on their asses when she finaly understands she was being used! I love this story quest is the best one so far besides sumeru's archon quest.

[@illusionofquality979]

@@xxkingsnipeshooter6942 If Liloupar was not mean-spirited right after being awaken it would be questionable. She went through a lot and then was put in slumber, never experiencing anything new. I think that the fact that she becomes more understanding over time shows that she is not a stubborn fool.

[@EngelAguilar]

@@luisreynamboarcos2958 true I saw some comments about poor writing but for me it was amazing having characters like that and how they face situations that confront their wrong ideas

[@_black_bird]

The reveal that Irminsul couldn't touch the eternal oasis was something I wasn't expecting at all

[@tyronetalam8488]

Im a little weirded out by that info ngl bc at the back of the little island in the middle of the lake you could actually see an irminsul branch jutting out from the rock

[@mkldnl]

@@tyronetalam8488 iirc the eternal oasis is a recreation of the scene during the goddess of flower’s final moments so it’s highly likely that the irminsul tree was present during her last moments. it might not be a genuine irminsul tree

[@idmss2663]

Aren't their names on the chair missing a few letters if you translate it? could that work as sort of an "encryption"

[@legendaryswordsman653]

Yeah that was surprising to find out an interesting touch. Look forward to your thoughts on todays Archon quest, wow is it a dosey.

[@Yammerzaki123fr]

@@idmss2663 well that's how that script works, the script it was based off of doesn't really have vowels

[@excubitor3440]

It's funny, I was re-watching the Golden Slumber being played on Twitch and...the reason Tirzad hates the Eremites is his sister, a researcher, ran off with one. The thing is the story of how his sister ran off with one and the story of Jebrael and Jeht's mother is...remarkably similar. Tirzad may very well be Jeht's uncle, Jeht may very well have family who would accept her...and they'll never know because Jebrael never said anything.

[@rafarania1524]

And remember at the end of the Golden Slumber quest, Tirzad feels guilty and wants to help Jeht, anything that she wants? At first, I feels like Tirzad just felt bad to Jeht. But now, I think Tirzad felt some platonic connection due to what they experience and by their bloodline. This only makes me even sadder. What if Jeht and Tirzad finally help each other and become family? Both lost someone that's important to them (Jeht with Jebrael, her mother, and her clan. Tirzad with his sister who might be the same person as Jeht's mother)

[@hmstransit909]

This could be a fitting ending to Jeht's story, she returns to Sumeru and finds out that Tirzad has been her uncle this whole time

[@よしみ-x5j]

Woah, that's great observation, thank you

[@hpropganda]

well they weren't siblings, tirzad barely knows anything about her which is why he refers to her as his relative.

[@somedragonbastard]

Yeah I got that vibe too, I thought they'd make it explicit. Idk, maybe if we see Jeht again (pls pls pls) it'll get confirmed

[@Truck-kun11]

What intrigued me the most was the dialogue in which the Traveler confirms he is a Prince. He could just be joking or wanting to simplify for Liloupar, but it didn't seem like that to me....

[@Aether776]

Same, people are not paying attention to that line at all and i get the feeling it's more important than we think

[@kamloft3269]

YES !! that’s the biggest thing that’s stuck out to me through the whole quest, and i’ve seen maybe one lore theorist talk about it even just a little.

[@hachikuji_mayoi]

@@Aether776 nah in my experience most people focus on that line too much as it is such a vague line there's no possible conclusions to draw + we already know of the prince thing through gnostic chorus.

[@euriditia]

Same! That line stuck out to me too. The traveler confirms it but it's hard to tell if it was jokingly or if they were truly feeling shocked and awkward that someone saw or knew this about them. Hopefully it's expanded upon!

[@a_dsr4467]

Have you all the done the 3.5 archon quest? That might help a little

[@amorimjt]

It’s infuriating the fact that such important storyline is not voiced. The Aranara was already enraging… but the whole desert quest also unvoiced was such a blow. 😭

[@luisreynamboarcos2958]

When ufotable animates sumeru they must do the aranara and jeth's quests their own seasons. Specialy Jeth's.

[@pichchoco7866]

They would've to spent a lot of money to voiced all this quest. The aranara quest alone is like three previous regions archon quest combine and have like 200 different aranara...lol

[@idmss2663]

@@pichchoco7866 they don't need the Aranaras to say stuff, just make them make cute creature noises that is usable across all language(since lore say they can manipulate dreams and consciousness, you can say they could telepathically talk to you even if they are just making noises) and make the humans talk cuz they have little lines

[@demoxis2378]

​@@pichchoco7866 Mihoyo is a poor indie company, we should cut them some slack.

[@124deaper1]

@@demoxis2378 I think it's more because if they added voice it'd make the game take up even more storage. Gotta conserve that storage every patch for mobile users too.

[@shar3859]

Liloupar was so damn interesting. I love unapologetically smug yet batshit crazy non-mortal beings. I think they represented that mystical being(?) aspect in her dialogue very well, especially considering her greatest exploits had already passed. At the same time, she had shades of gray and the way they played with that with her attachment to the Traveler, her conversation with her sister, her hurt, her love for her old mistress, and her interactions with Jeht, going from "slave girl" to "she's a good kid," was fascinating.

[@Adser261]

Liloupar is amazing and I am really sad that she was not the antagonist of the quest, she would have been far better than the bargain bin version we got in Babel. We know from the start that Liloupar is an ass, but that does not prepare us for learning that she is a mass murderer who used her children as tools to take vengeance on a long dead man. Her ending can be resumed to "I know I am going to hell for what I have done and I will walk down there singing in JOY because it was worth it". To have to face someone who is that obsessed about something that there is no price they wont pay, no length they won't go, is terrifying. Can you imagine if Liloupar thought her revenge still wasn't done and she had been plotting during the quest how to kill the Tanith, damn the consequences? That would have been amazing. But no, we get Babel. Who is just as obsessed, this time about power, but lacks the skill, intelligence or self-awareness to get anything done. What did Babel do? She attempted to get the Traveler murdered, and when that failed she just said they were traitors and then she tried again until she literally ran out of people to use in her attempts, all the while insisting that she was doing it for the good of the Tanith, instead of admitting that she just wanted the power.

[@dotkiarika1026]

SHADES OF GRAY??? Bruh she killed and ruined an entire nation lol???? You'e supposed to be horrified by the things she did

[@gdgetsceb4115]

When we first met Liloupar she said she used to transformed into many shape to "pleased" Ormazd wildest imagination, including a dancer, a little girl (FBI inc), a Yaksha (even Xiao is not spared) and a magical beast of darkness (tentacle fetish I guess). Bro when I read that line I was screaming "W.T.Fuhhhhh~". That man Ormazd have seen everything and died without any regrets for Jinnussy 😂 At first I was like dayumm why can't you transform into a hotty that travels around with me during my quests but then when we discovered Ormazd backstory, I was like "Nah actually stay in that bottle, girl I'm good"

[@thienphucn1]

On the point where you said Irminsul is unable to affect the Eternal Oasis: In the patch notes of update 3.5 Hoyo posted yesterday, they went back into the game's code and make it so that the Treasure Compass cannot be used at all in the Eternal Oasis. That may have very well been for lore reasons

[@Elijah.04]

So before 3.5 we were able to use the compass? Granted I just used the HoYoLAB map so I didn't need it that much

[@thienphucn1]

@@Elijah.04 Before 3.5 you can use the compass inside the Eternal Oasis. But all the chests in there are tied to very puzzles so I don't think losing access to the compass for that one small area would hurt much

[@BuluhTerbang]

We might lost access Eternal Oasis in future quest as it's dissapering and getting buried in the sands. The treasures being tied to quest puzzle and if I'm not mistaken, no Dendroculus in there might've hinted at that.

[@Reydriel]

@@BuluhTerbang Except there are multiple dedroculi in there lol

[@faceless1911]

@@ReydrielThey could make it so that we cannot enter the place again after we have collected all the Dendroculi in the Eternal Oasis

[@Dupes1721]

Very interesting on the "looks like my master" bit, as the dialogue with Lumine was slightly different. She asked me if "i was a princess in exile" which i could respond with "no" or "i am but not from here"

[@xXzman9000Xx]

yeah...i'm surprised how few people pick up on that importance. when i got that option, i sat there on the screen for like 5 minutes trying to figure out what it implied... cause it felt like a huge reveal.

[@breezyveezy]

Yeah I was wondering about that too. This entire quest had pretty big differences between travelers, especially in regards to their relationship with Jeht, but it seems like there are a few things outside of that. I definitely remember the princess line though because the options were so sus. I chose “I’m not…” but the ellipses itself makes it seem like she’s just straight up deflecting.

[@insectslayer1374]

I think only the prince/princess part is different about that iirc it's the same dialogue (my traveler is Aether)

[@nowifi8063]

I mean who’s rlly surprised that lumine is royalty? After all, abyss aether referred to as prince and princess with abyss lumine.

[@kctoygacha5069]

@@insectslayer1374 What does Aether say?

[@Truck-kun11]

As for King Deshret using a Celestial Nail to create the Eternal Oasis, I think he may have used the Nail as an energy source to power whatever spell or mechanism caused the time freeze.

[@asiersantamaria1930]

I find it interesting that Liloupar refers to the Traveler as a prince/princess in exile, and you have the option to deny it, or admit to being one but refusing to elavorate. Most of the time this dialoge options don't contradict each other, but are rather just different ways of saying the same thing, so maybe the Traveler is some form of royalty in exile. I know the abyss twin is usually referred to as prince or princess by the Abyss order, but to my knowledge this is the first time the Traveler is, which begs the question of what the twins were in their original world, why they left it, and whether the Abyss knows anything about it and uses the title because of it, or they just happend to bestow the same title to the Abyss twin that they had back in their original world.

[@Hebiiiii1]

I can’t express how much I loved this quest. Mainly because the puzzles were so much easier and this was my first time reading world quest dialogue cuz I made a new year resolution to not skip side quest dialogue and read it 😭

[@atriyakoller136]

I've read it too. I generally don't skip dialogues in unvoiced quests but sometimes I can click off too fast - made sure to avoid that in this one because Jeht is the best girl :3 I really liked her attitude at the end of Golden Slumber and was happy when I realised that the main questline in the new desert is about her. :3

[@8pril745]

@@atriyakoller136 we all love jeht, jeht supremacy

[@noox13]

Bruh, one of the reasons I loved the second summer Island event was because it felt like they at least tried to make the puzzles challenging. Other than that the puzzles are always easy with very few exceptions.

[@penguinnuts4487]

i lowkey hated the way they wrote the questline’s ending. why couldn’t jeht just live happily every after in a united tanit tribe with a revived oasis 😭

[@Naokarma]

Honestly, while making the mechanics simpler was a good idea, the puzzles are wayyyy too easy and linear now. This isn't a puzzle game, but it feels way too straightforward to even be called a puzzle at this point. There's a balance somewhere in there, just not here.

[@OhItsNekoAgain]

Babel for sure has something to do with the tower of Babel from the old testament. All people spoke the same language, lived in harmony and peace. But when they started building a city and a tower to reach heaven, Yahwe saw it as blasphemy and scattered all the people around the globe and shattered their language. Personally, I always associated Khaenriah's war against the second throne to be very, very similar with the Tower of Babel, reminding me of the structrues in the log in screen. A city above the clouds, unfinished. All of Teyvat speaking the same language and so on. Maybe some food for thought. Here's something straight up from the Tower of Babel wiki page if it interests you since it quite literally quotes the place that is the name sake of Sumeru and the location inspiration. :D "Some modern scholars have associated the Tower of Babel with known structures, notably the Etemenanki, a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in Babylon. A Sumerian story with some similar elements is told in Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta."

[@michaelamackovaa]

This together with the teory, that the sky is actally under (the upside down tree) and the spiral abyss - a place that goes further down, represented as spiral stairs - makes so much sense. Edit: I believe what I'm talking about was the series World Structure Theory (specifically [v2.2] World Structure part 3)

[@HmLys]

16:54 actually there's a point in these worldquests where Liloupar reveals that the Jinn's weren't always like this. But after the Goddess of Flowers passed, all goodness left the Jinns and they became „sadistic and wicked"

[@drpaimon2369]

17:50 well in Dragonspine, the snow never melts, which we know isn't due to altitude. You could say that the seasons are frozen in time there.

[@MyMilho]

​people be like 'ohh wee genshin lore is so much safe and there aren't any gray area...........' the desert sidequests: 'INCEST GENOCIDE MURDER'

[@thegamrpersonguy6077]

The Goddess of Flowers is consistently associated with a fuchsia-like color. This color (and similar colors, such as pink) is frequently seen in the color palettes of Electro characters, notably Beidou, Kujou Sara, Yae Miko, Kuki Shinobu, and Dori. These characters also have a consistent emotional property to their personality and the reason why they have Visions. Additionally, the one character associated with Jinn (Dori) is themselves Electro, as is their Jinn. The Goddess of Flowers was most likely Electro, or some unnamed element of emotion between Electro and Pyro, like how Marchosius was an unnamed element between Pyro and Geo.

[@eboshisdescendant8697]

When Liloupar told us the Ormazd's tale, she said the Traveler is “much like him”. So I wonder if her “master” mentioned in our first meeting is Ormazd, not Deshret.

[@hachikuji_mayoi]

yeah I really don't think deshret is right, they would have just named him if it was him.

[@shiroxkuro934]

Well the wikia said she saw Ormazd good qualities in traveller so Ashikai might be wrongly assume master means king Deshret.

[@inthemiddleofnowhere6721]

That's my impression as well

[@reinhartwiza4888]

Thank you very much Ashikai, for making this video even though it's very tiring. I cannot express how much gratitude for your effort, despite all the tiredness (mentally and physically) you felt. Please take some time off after this video to do anything you want to do, like resting or pay the taxes, or just chilling (in your preferable way) to elevate your mental and physical health. Once again, thank you.

[@dasytaylor]

I second this, take care of yourself, Ashikai!

[@Gilgamesh_Servant]

Damn I just want to hug Jeht for everything she went through

[@lonelywolf6180]

I think the part where they explain that the Oasis was stopped in time by using the Celestial Nails it makes a lot of sence after seeing all the other places that were struck by them, Dragonspine was literally frozen in a perpetual winter that affects the living beings, we could also think that because of the Nail , Durin's Heart is still beating, giving the idea that the Nail has multiple properties that would alter reality. The second was found at the depths of The Chasm and we can see its effects altering reality in the upside down castle and during that short event where they were trapped in an infinite space that had a time alteration. We should make notice that all the points where there is a Nail landing are starting to make a curve line towards the current position of Celestia.

[@lnsflare1]

The lore of the Goddess of Flowers oriented Ascension Material also portrays her as being more than a bit yikes as well, and somewhat alien and cruel in her mindset.

[@agent6bell]

Man Golden Slumber and Dirge of Bilqis was top tier world quest

[@child2534]

Don't forget to take break from making videos, life is crazy but that doesnt mean you should put your mental and physical health at risk. If you need a break then go ahead, we love you and will support you

[@jackson3475]

Damn, Niloupar's logic is fit of a freaking psycopath which is weird considering she came from the goddess of flowers that was supposed to be a very positive entity, almost like the embodiment of kindness or something... or maybe she was not as nice as the Sumeru folklore seems to imply.

[@lnsflare1]

Check the lore of the platter (IIRC) Ascension materials in Sumeru. It paints the Goddess of Flowers as being something of a trickster goddess who has somewhat alien priorities, including... SORTA-SPOILERS ....planning her own death.

[@emperormaxwell432]

If Nahida was brought to the eternal oasis or w/e its called and sees the name Rukkhadevada, would that jolt her memory of her? And if it does, would that bring back the forbidden knowledge and elizar?

[@jackson3475]

She probably already knows, the Traveller kept thinking about it everytime they were around her so Nahida could've just heard their thoughts at some point.

[@prestigev6131]

@@jackson3475 I doubt she’d just invade the privacy of a friend like that. Plus, her voice lines indicate she’d rather be told about or experience the traveler’s adventures so reading his mind would be out of character

[@aghitsaplane4262]

@@jackson3475 doesn't nahida dislike reading peoples minds without their consent? i swear that point get brought up like 3 times during the archon quest

[@supayambaek]

​@@aghitsaplane4262 Well, she hadn't ask the Traveler for consent nor did the Traveler consented voluntarily.

[@LordRuby.]

maybe in her second story quest, we'll go to the eternal oasis together and she'll get to know about Rukkhadevada :D

[@renifal5201]

wow. so this was one way to find out that despite finishing the exploration achievement for the zone and exploring the place top to bottom, i completely missed the final part of jehts story. i thought babel just gave her a pat on the back after everything and that was the end. and now its maintenance and i can even log in to finish it aaaaah

[@kori2169]

no same, i don't think i ever unlocked that part of the story, so i'm literally frantically checking genshin for anything that i've missed

[@jarrenraves]

did you find/remember where to trigger it? the same thing's happened to me and I dont know where to continue the quest

[@Ilwenray85]

In case you are still wondering, go to Jeht's tent after a few real days have passed to continue the story. Edit: With Liloupar equipped of course, otherwise Jeht won't spawn.

[@tommynobaka]

Lilopar's backstory and the city of gurabad reminds me of Enkanomiya. Both kingdoms brought to a tragic end due to cruel mothers

[@henoji777]

I hope jeht becomes playable 🥺 ooh or maybe she'll meet up with the lady from the aranara quest and they'll form a group Thanks for the summary and for acknowledging the criticism!

[@SunsetTwist]

At this point I’m just hoping she doesn’t die, when she told the traveler she wants to return to the oasis with her parents when dies dies was ominous af

[@samirhawill]

The point that you made about aranara is the embodiment of Rukkhdevata and Jinns are of goddess of flower had me thinking that she could have the one who brought abyssal mud to Sumeru while golden slumber. She has the perfect reason to plot a revenge on Deshret as he was not loyal to primordial one. Now I think Istaroth is not the kind goddess anymore and why Venti doesn't even talk about her.

[@shiroxkuro934]

Personally despite everything, I think Goddess of flowers is not exactly Istaroth cause I don't think Istaroth dead yet(since Ei story quest require her power for the Thunder sakura to actually bloom in the past) while goddess of flower is pretty much confirmed dead. My tinfoil theory is that the goddess of flower is trying to get revenge against the divine that exile her from heaven by kickstarting an Apocalypse by using Deshret overflowing love towards her. As we can see, it mostly works except she didn't take account that Rukkhadevata wouldn't turn out like Deshret cause unlike Deshret who is emotional, Rukkhadevata was pragmatic. Rukkhadevata was there to stop Deshret madness from escalate too much which resulted in the World still intact. Though if goddess of flower actually taken account of Rukkhadevata personality, she might be planning to corrupt the irminsul all along since destruction of Irminsul equal destruction of world. Summary of my points -Goddess of flowers is not Istaroth cause Istaroth presumably alive while goddess of flower is dead -My theory is the goddess of flowers planned her death to either make Deshret unknowingly destroy the world while trying to revive her or to corrupt irminsul through Deshret actions or both.

[@DangerScone]

The audio buzzed and then went out for me right as you were starting to mention Rukkhadevata. I had to rewind and watch again to see if it was on purpose (which obviously it wasn't since it's fine now) but it was pretty funny. 😆

[@TheDramacist]

Because the Oasis is a programme paused in time by use of a Celestial Nail, it's reasonable that the Oasis is outside of Irminsul's sight. Celestia is running Teyvat as a fake world (a literal artificial world within the true world). Since Irmisul is the programme's route directory, the way Celestia runs, pauses or deletes data from Teyvat, it makes sense the Oasis is built (or paused) outside of the Teyvat programme. I hope that made sense? Very few people follow the 'Teyvat is a fake world' theory. But so far, everything fits. Just imagine Celestia is the programmer or coder. Irminsul the directory and programme itself, and everything Irminsul touches is part of that programme. Abyss corruption and forbidden knowledge is incompatible data seeping in from the original world. This is why Lumine is not a descender. She was part of the true REAL Teyvat before its most recent rewrite. Traveller awoke as an outsider, invading the programme. He is a descender. The stars in the sky are data notes, fruit of Irminsul, containing the coding for a person's constellation. One fell from the sky and infected the residents with the desire to scale a mountain top (limited time event nearly 3 yrs ago). Most concepts and stories fit into this theory. Try it out for size! The question of where is the true world...? I think it's like the movie Patema Iverted (great animation). We have to go INSIDE, deep into Teyvat to find the truth (the litrral upside down truth!).

[@TheDramacist]

Using Celestial Nails to freeze time makes sense. If Teyvat as it currently is, is a fake world, built inside the real world, then Celestia's powers to rebuild and reshape both time and matter makes perfect sense. Not only does Celestia run all the code for her Teyvat, she can pause programmes from running, or delete them entirely (changing the data inside the great tree). Ofc this doesnt stop forbidden data seeping into her programme and messing up its inhabitants, but she often swiftly rectifies this. Or Traveller does. Much to Lumine's annoyance. But since Lumine has travelled this world once before and discovered its truth, inserting herself into its story before its last rewrite. So, it's only a matter of time before Traveller does the same.

[@amayobidjo]

Dragonspine - ice never melts Chasm - no way out Oasis - standstill but you can move grass by walking through it

[@notme6344]

Not related to this video, but a thought I had recently. Zhognli sees the traveler as some sort of record keeper, and this view is shared by a few others in the game. What if the archive with the cosmic looking book is actually a book the traveler has and is writing in, and is actually keeping a very detailed record of the world of teyvat.

[@bookswithike3256]

Something that stood out to me in this video as someone who has not played the quest (yeah I know, but I only started actually playing the game a couple of weeks ago and I can't resist an Ashikai video), is Ormazd's name. Continuing in the tradition of naming Genshin characters after irl gods, Ormazd is clearly named after Ahura Mazda, the creator deity of Zoroastrianism. One of his other names is even Ohrmazd. Do you intend to talk about the symbolism in this name at any point? From my very limited understanding, Zoroastrianism is quite a similar religion to Gnosticism, and we all know how important Gnosticism is to this game.

[@PGM991]

Lucky me that in my country have a youtuber who heavily into lore and read out loud every single sentence and every documents in quest. She even prepared 80+ page of A4 summarise (current)confirmed history of desert.

[@LuketheDuke424]

Another interesting note considering the King Solomon-King Deshret connection: The opening quest for the new storyline is called "Wisdom has built her house, she has hewn out her seven pillars", which is taken from Proverbs 9:1; a verse in a book of the Bible that was written by King Solomon. As soon as I saw the quest title I was like "wait I know that verse!" xD

[@wonyoungiie831]

Kisra and shirin is inspired real folklore story of king khosrow II of sasanid of persian empire and his wive shirin. That folklore become famous poem when persia(iran) become muslim and told as tragic romance for centuries

[@acanthafiore]

I wish they'd add voices to the world quests. I know for a fact that Liloupar would sound like Rolf from Ed, Edd n Eddy. "There's another me behind that wall Ed boy!"

[@blueevermore]

Yeah man idc how gd the world quest is I'm playing a game not reading a story so I skip it

[@lnsflare1]

Jeht is Danny DeVito. "So anyway, I started bladin'."

[@davidskep]

Im gonna do this quest right now only because i want to be able to watch this video whilst also having fun doing the quest

[@KaiSaeren]

Man, Jeht's story is really sad, why cant we take her with us, or send her to Aru village :( I dont think we will be killing her, I think her story will continue but the direction of it can be both tragic and more happy. She is free and reclaimed her name, wont be used anymore and knows now what home should be. On the other hand she will be hated and hunted with only the traveler as her friend and we cant behave like a person and support her because this is a life service gacha... but yea, now hopefully she goes off into a brighter future and become traveler herself, not go into the desert alone... She seriously deserves a happy ending, Babel seriously messed with her head and this was allowed in the first place because we didnt care enough to stop her and provide support the first time she was distraught over loss and her life changed, we seriously should have learned our lesson, hope it wont lead to anything bad down the road... as for Liloupar, cant really judge her for something so far in the past we have so little knowledge about, she could be perceived as a monster for sure, but she could also be simply seen as a member of another species that give and take in equal measures, just far more extreme than ours, her love was unconditional and so was her hatred, it reminds me of characters like Rhea from Three Houses, or the dragon race in FF XIV where pain and suffering of loss is a far longer and further reaching than we can imagine or understand because their lifes are essentially never ending and time glows differently, losing family or loved ones, feeling the pain of hundred years past as if it happened yesterday, being left all alone for eternity, something similar happened to her, it doesnt excuse her actions just explains it I guess.

[@shnitzela]

Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the Caribert quest!

[@DaichiOkami]

thank you so much for this vid 😭

[@Roihclem871]

Shout out to your open mind toward lilopar ashiki, things are complicated. Thank you for all your hard work

[@Foggles]

"Naaah fam, i dont need your trinkets!"

[@astrokye_]

Thank you Ashikai for summarizing the lore so I can skip as much as I want lol. Also did anyone else notice the "Princess and the Pea" reference towards the beginning of the quest?

[@GinKadia]

Thank you for explaining this quest. It was really hard to wrap my head around what they were talking about at times x.x

[@jennamicieli2931]

So glad I was able to catch this video. Lilopaur's quest was so hard for me to follow xD

[@whystaroth]

The fact that the Eternal Oasis was made using the power of a celestial nail could mean that the other places where we have celestial nails also can't be affected by Irminsul changes? Cause that's kinda of interesting to think about. It could create a breach to the rules of the traveler being the only one who's not affected and the only one who remembers if someone manage to use this power to protect themselves of being "altered".

[@kaikobrin2726]

"Nuances are really important when building bridges of understanding and progress" is such a great line. I'm stealing it because it applies to the real world so well.

[@srialxperimentsrae]

this video is how i found out this quest doesn't end where i thought it ends and is actually way longer lol

[@lunarisdreaming]

Ashikai: 3.4 had a lot of lore and none of which was voiced. Me: livestreaming and trying giving each of them distinct voices as best i can hehe it was fun~

[@hajrakhan2129]

thanks, was reallly confused after completing the quest

[@Sheerwinter]

😭 saying good bye to jet was heart breaking. :( I wanted her to join our travels..... :( She was always there for us. Damage wasn't great but the fighting style was superb. @_@ jet the battle companion.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

When good old friends are going away, will you wish them to remember your name???

[@mythologiasend3264]

Liloupar is my favorite pet for no particular reason

[@hima478]

Thank you so much for the recap! A family tree sort of visual would help a lot when the story has characters that are related to one another. It was a bit hard to keep track of who did what to whom for the liloupar story recap.

[@micamourani4204]

ASHIKAIIIII if visions are overseen by the gods and therefore they purify elemental energy does that explain why delusion are harmful after using them because they are “not celestia made/aproved” and therefore are unable to purify elemental energy. it’s just something that adds on your theory about visions. Secondly the traveler and lumine s armours are like a vision that they wear kinda to channel power and purify power of any kind elemental energy or the “light element” and possibly abyssal power but this is just speculation over speculation but it’s grounded in the fact they have the ability to purify corruption and stuff like that and effectively use elements without getting harmed.

[@talabigaming]

Chef's kiss content, as always! Thanks Ashikai.

[@Zarozian]

Now I can spam this to all my friends who don't read and skip such important stuff! JUST CAUSE IT ISN'T VOICED! O _O You have saved me the trouble of explaining to them what's up! Thank you so much!

[@raypalmer5125]

Ayoooo only 4 hours left till 3.5 this is exactly what I needed right now.

[@Amuneh]

Man i cried during this quest, i cried and sobbed and was a total mess during the ending.

[@diazpramudita5165]

Playable Liloupar when? Definitely one of my favourite character in Genshin.

[@CarlosAnglada]

A most excellent (and concise) recap. Using the murals to help illustrate the story was a great choice. I’m curious as to what you make of “The Queen of Sheba” moniker on the throne?

[@Saya-ng1sl]

That should refer to the goddess of flowers. History time: The Queen of Sheba was known as a beautiful and wise desert queen who tested King Solomon with riddles along with controlling the Jinn. In some accounts it was said that the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon were lovers. And since King Deshret is pretty much Genshin’s interpretation of King Solomon it would only be fair if the Queen of Sheba was the basis for the Goddess of Flowers Being a fate fan has never been more useful lmao

[@williamhall2386]

I saw this upload and literally the only thought I had was “thank freaking God”

[@dotterato]

when you play Genius Invokation against Azariq, he specifically played two Fatui-related cards. i initially thought this could be foreshadowing, but decided not to look into it much. seems that i was correct though!

[@TheBeardenedBear]

Thank you so much for the recap. Oh btw did you notice the "white branch" coming out of the island in the middle of the oasis? That was a neat detail:)

[@Justakatto]

OK wow.. 5mins in and I had no clue about half the stuff being talked about. I didn't even know the story was that deep. Tysm for making a vid like this !

[@marstic]

WAJT I DIDNT EVEN GET THE PART AFTER WHERE BABEL BETTAYS US IT JUST ENDED ???

[@NyanBites]

same. how do we get the quest

[@trulymrword]

I like the murder, the murder is *chef's kiss* the best part of the quest.

[@mattmatier5745]

I finished the quests last night and immediately thought - I hope Ashikai has a video on this. Thanks for being here for us casual lore nerds :P

[@matttan8066]

Hello! Remember the time you talked about dainsleif and kaeya had the same eyes well your theory was correct all along. You are amazing as ever!!

[@angelinejesudasan4642]

[banging on tables] xiao was the slave of the goddess of dreams and the goddess of flower IS the goddess of dreams and if the jinn are a reflection of GoF then isn't this even more plausible!!!!??!

[@angelinejesudasan4642]

anyways great vid i lvoed it

[@mini-mei]

I hated that this quest was not voiced, and Jeht's previous one wasn't either. I missed so much of what was going on, so thank you for the recap. Also, thanks for confirming that it actually isn't clearly stated what the eternal oasis is. I read in the fan wiki that it was created by Deshret in memory of the goddess of flowers, and I did not find any hints that that was so, and thought I was missing even more from the lore. There is some interesting stuff about the character of the goddess of flowers on the wiki, though, so I think your idea about her character is reasonable. I also completely missed the last part of the quest where Babel is trying to make Jeht and the Traveler kill each other. Because, for some reason, HYV doesn't mark these quest as available in any way that I have seen other than the blue exclamation mark sometimes when you get close enough. Totally didn't think that Deshret could also be a descender, thanks for the brain food. Actually, the fact that Irminsul is not able to change things with Deshret's influence/power on them also hints towards him being a descender. Irminsul could also not change our own knowledge of Rukkhadevata, only the common description in the inventory is changed, you can still find her mentioned in our archive.

[@imlivinginyourbasement6157]

now im waiting wut u think of new archon quest cuz the whole thing had my jaw on the floor

[@azuarc]

Me at 11:30 -- I don't think I've finished this questline...

[@kokocute123]

This is my second favorite lore after Enkanomiya. It's so rich and intriguing. Thanks for the great wrap up!

[@14dcook]

King Deshret really did use a Celestial Nail to become Dio. ZA WARUDO!!!

[@baquithemonkey5330]

Wow I can't believe how much I missed or didn't understand in this quest. In particular, a lot of the events related to liloupar story. I did read everything thrown at me but i was not about to read every single stone tablet in the desert. I knew a video like this would come out to fill the plot holes

[@macabrevoid]

After all these videos, it is my belief that Ashikai is the unoffical 2nd Voice Actor of Yanfei

[@Deepstab1]

Yeah, the great discovery this quest was the existence of places outside irmminsoul's reach and that they can be created with Celestias technology. The rest was interesting but mostly lore

[@zukodude487987]

Wasnt there an instance when Liloupar called traveler an exiled prince/princess?

[@bigchubb5268]

Always look forward to your videos to keep me sane while I try unravel what I just played

[@wtuluna]

anxiously waiting for your next video bc i feel as though my brain has melted with the latest update and all the lore

[@CallieBlader]

honestly wish these world quests were voiced. they're important lore/story bits, PAY THE VA'S TO VOICE THEM HOYO yeesh

[@hou-kazu]

Hey Ashikai! As always, thanks for your hard work. They are always appreciated! Though I have a minor gripe about this video, it feels too fast paced? What I liked the most about your videos is that they feel like they are matching the pace of the viewer, or rather, it is friendly for people who have a slow/low attention span like me. (This is my new second acc btw, I've been following you on my main since 2021)

[@danielm5535]

It seems that domains are not in Teyvat, but adjacent to it- the flow of time in Makoto’s realm, Enkanomiya, and the dimension under the Celestial Nail in the Chasm seem to have time that flows differently. Enkanomiya, being sunken and sealed underneath the ocean allowed Before Sun and Moon to remain unchanged. That Khaenri’ah being underground, that Ei was there when she also planted the Sacred Sakura in the past allowed her to remember Inazuma without it. This may suggest Khaenri’ah is also not directly in Teyvat, but adjacent to it, too.

[@williamnicol8236]

I wasn't massively keen on the story focus for 3.4 but how good was the eternal oasis music? The new Dainsleif quest will get things going back in the right direction, drop massive lore bombs, kick an assortment of butt AND there will be feels. If anyone can Dainsleif can!

[@CHEESEPUFF_7]

THANK YOU I did not understand the Liloupar stuff in the quest at all! All I got was that she murdered some people, including possibly her own child

[@adnanm.elghamji4547]

enjoyed every second thanks ❤

[@Hope_Beyond]

great work as always

[@animeboy-qy5sq]

For the Celestia nail it did damage the ley lines of the Tsurumi Island which causes itself to repeat time, so it does have the power to control time.

[@MrGrimx1]

Another great lore video! Thanks!!!!!

[@karamasan1552]

There's a lot of texts about the GoF tricking or using Deshret, not in like a "oh she doesn't like him, it's not reciprocal" but very much like Liloupar, as in "I know I can manipulate him, so I will", it's very interesting to have presumably a very old being (maybe even a Moon Sister) be so scheming and definitely not typical "good guy"

[@The1andonlysharpshooter]

Celestial nails possibly stopping time makes sense if we take in to account the nail that is supposedly under water in abyss wolf island in inazuma. It ties in nicely because that island had that whole repetition of the same sacrifice day. I’m not saying its the root cause but its oddly coincidental.

[@manporo5865]

The fact that Irminsul couldn't reach the Eternal Oasis and that Deshret stopped TIME (or is implied to) are huge. This whole story has so much more relevance than what we've gotten from the abyss quests so far (yes, I know they aren't complete and are part of the main story) since it would imply that A) an archon level being can wield celestial level power and/or B) Forbidden knowledge can lead to the understanding of celestial power.

[@fencerderio9814]

This is unrelated but I adore the new avatar!

[@KaleksananBagusMassani]

I don't understand shit at all everything about the world quest in relation to this topic so months after, I re visited this topic, reads all the wikis related and re watch this video -I finally able to makes sense of it. Thank you! Arrgg I'm glad we're having you in the community. I just can't imagine if you're disappear one day, I couldn't understand a thing in this game without you (I'm too dumb) lmao 😂😂

[@mcwindouglas6697]

Ima be honest, at this point I'd believe anything you'd say regarding Genshin. Your words become truly dependant for my Genshin knowledge. anyways Thank You bro 😃👍

[@Amethyst.i]

That’s actually interesting that to Oasis isn’t affected by Irminsul…

[@idyotako]

MOAR CONTENT! LET'S FREAKING GO! WHOOOOO! YEAH BABY!