Nahida, The Small But Deadly Archon [Genshin Impact Character Lore and Analysis]

[@MountSec]

Funny how Nahida could turn out to be a worse Dottore if she lost her moral obligation to protect her people, despite not entirely understanding them...

[@Reydriel]

This! Dottore is an example of what intelligence and curiosity would look like without being tempered by compassion, so showing that Nahida strives to understand humans regardless is incredibly important

[@silverhawkscape2677]

This makes them Great foils.

[@prestigev6131]

Bingo. I always had the thought in my mind that nahida would be terrifying if hoyo didn’t make her a small and kind child. Nahida can read minds, control dreams, and hijack peoples’ consciousness. She would’ve been justified in wanting revenge on sumeru. With those powers, she could force all of sumeru into mindless slaves or all out combat with each other. Even the current kind nahida openly admits her hobby is stalking the traveler. Something her power lets her do at any time if they aren’t too far away. If nahida ever lost her moral compass, she’d make dottore look like a saint

[@Astrophel24]

@@prestigev6131 She would've been a terrifying villain indeed. She had little to no reason to be kind to the citizens of sumeru after/during being trapped but the fact that she did not blame the sages for imprisoning her at first and even gave azar the smallest punishment of sending him to exile and work in the avidya forest. Truly the kindest archon.

[@MountSec]

@@Astrophel24 Oooo.... You know Scp Nahida would be terrifying....

[@jackreacher7495]

Nahida is definitely my favorite archon. As a take on a "nature god," I find her refreshing - what's most interesting about this aspect of her identity is the title, "Avatar of Irminsul." This almost makes me think of her as a "manifestation," or the physical embodiment, of dendro itself. It puts dendro in a more interesting light as being more than just plants/nature, but specifically its essence, the energies of a life force. And I love how we see this play out in Nahida's skill, by connecting everybody's life energy for chain reactions.

[@thatguyglittaku]

Fr when she says “Everyone hold hands!” in her elemental skill, she ain’t joking around figuratively. *She’s straight up bending and morphing our souls Jujutsu Kaisen style.*

[@jackreacher7495]

@@thatguyglittaku I realized that the more I heard her lines, and decided to take them literally instead of playfully. Like, when she says "I see everything" she really does see their life energies lol.

[@RaGiAn87]

I have never thought of Nahida as a nature god lmao dendro doesnt really mean nature in any way. First of all half of nature is fauna and Dendro has 0 relation to that. The other half, flora, is barely even related to dendro. Dendro is the least manifested element on attack animations, it has bloom seeds at best and only if you use hydro, the rest are green rays and no trace of "nature".

[@jackreacher7495]

@@RaGiAn87 Weird tone you're going for here. Don't worry, you're not saying anything I didn't already notice. I was just speaking generally for simplicity's sake. You're right, though - the true "nature god" was the God of Flowers. But she's gone, and the Dendro Archon has become the god associated with nature and plantlife - even though, like I said and admired about her fresh take on such a deity, dendro isn't "literally" about plants, but life energy.

[@chickensky1121]

Actually, I love that Nahida is the Dendro Archon, and yet her abilities feel digital and have a lot of references to computers and stuff. It's a super cool contrast.

[@sweetreon7916]

I think hoyo making Nahida a child was honestly smart especially because she’s the god of wisdom children are always learning and curious and want to expand their knowledge so does Nahida because she’s the god of wisdom she wants to know more

[@angeldude101]

This is why I predicted she would use the child model _long_ before she was leaked and people started begging for her to be older.

[@Kettvnen]

i think another reason why she has small character model is because shes also young in terms of god age barbatos and beelzebub for example, are at least 2000 years old, possibly older, and morax is even older, being at least 6000 years old.

[@wisteria7052]

​​@@Kettvnenfocalors is the same age as her but uses teen model same as venti so this arguement falls apart. And in genshin there's no certain aging system for gods as they're not a race but a title. Elemental beings and different species of deities can ascend and obtain godhood just like how venti evolved from a wind spirit to the archon of anemo.

[@ubeia4857]

​@@wisteria7052Correction, Furina is the same age as Nahida not Focalors. Besides Furina was already in her current body from the start, she didn't start out from the beginning as a child. Focalors herself is likely older than Nahida since she was just another oceanid, but one that Egeria trusted enough to pass the archonhood to, and getting to the point where she is trusted by her god definitely took time hence why I think Focalors is definitely older than 500 years old. I do agree that appearance doesn't dictate the Archon's age but moreso it's just the form they've chosen for themselves, but for Nahida's case, I think Hoyo purposely made her a child to show her as "the youngest" of the archons. It makes thematic sense that she's also the youngest in looks.

[@silver_rocket_25]

It's weird. Nahida is the most comforting archon to be with, but when there's a villain like dottore around, I can't help but be terrified about what's going to happen. She's definitely one of the best developed characters in the game currently.

[@catlike9444]

Let's hope other archon war happens in the future.

[@xiRePeNTx]

BIG PP FAX 📠📠 right here 💯

[@redlox2]

Nahida is not just small. She is adorable and kind. She didn’t even kill the grand Sage! Imagine if the sages tried to pull what they did to Nahida on Ei or Makoto! I feel at best they would hope for a quick death!

[@CraftedFTW]

True ei and zhong would strait up pulverize anyone who tries to overpower them in such a way

[@plagueboi2861]

Nahida is baby.

[@wafflestoast4546]

nah makoto was pretty chill and weak according to the lore. Ei on the other hand, slash first ask questions never.

[@brunoluz3989]

Ei still spared the Kujou clan despite they lying to her over the true state of affairs in Inazuma

[@erikboncoref.7020]

@@wafflestoast4546 actually, if they did something to Makoto, Ei would've slain them both there and in the afterlife

[@Zzues]

Nahida quickly became my favorite character. Powerful without being violent is great and I think Hoyo writers did such an amazing job.

[@lunasquib]

Morax and Beezubul: throwing meteors and striking the land with lightning Venti slicing mountains and blowing them across the nation Nahida: I’ll make you sleep for eternity.. literally

[@walteranurantha5014]

While analyzing your weakness... Figuratively

[@walteranurantha5014]

While watching you... Surrender.

[@DPWrepublic]

meanwhile Focalor : drown her foes to death

[@Truck-kun11]

They nailed the mix of Wise Goddess and Innocent Child with Nahida.

[@FluffyWaffle33]

Gods/Archons are truly fascinating to analyse, becuase in hindsight, you cannot really look at them from the perspective of a human, because they are not, Venti is a wind wisp, he probably was in the same mental state as Nahida at some point in his life, curious about humanity but not really understanding it, it's amazing that gods such as Guizhong valued humanity so much, and it's also very interesting in terms of analysing Scaramouche because he has the body of a god but he has the same emotional range as a human. Nahida really does feel like an AI of sorts, her dook dook talk is funny but it's almost a clear example of her like, looking into an "algorithm" of what is common behaviour in humans, the same goes for how she was surprised by our reactions at the end of the quest, in fact, I believe the fact that Nilou was so fast to accept the samsara as a dream was a big example of how an "algorithm" of human behaviour is not representative of the individual, and while for some knowing they were in a dream would blow their minds, others like Nilou would take it in a slide.

[@anaplaysstuff]

And the thing with Guizhong is that she _didn't_ value humanity originally. She came to appreciate them over time. Similar to Aster talking about how Zhongli and Venti probably better understand them than the other Archons because they've walked among humanity for so long.

[@FluffyWaffle33]

@@anaplaysstuff I know right? Guizhong was an absolute queen

[@silverhawkscape2677]

They possess a Lot of Human traits to where they aren't that Different from Humans such as the Friendship and Camaraderie as well as lost and Pain. Dainself said it best on how there isn't too much difference between gods and humans. This is the aspect he was referring to. Where they aren't just a Higher elemental being. What makes them different is there inhuman experiences. Eternity of lost and Long Life. Access to senses humans do not possess and the fact they don't starve like humans. Any human born into those Circumstances will have radically different outcomes to the point of being inhuman.

[@angeldude101]

I mean, she wasn't unjustified. From what I have read, dreams do have a tendency to self-destruct if looked at too closely. It takes a lot of practice to be able to recognize a dream without it falling apart, and even more to exert conscious control over it.

[@boaoftheboaians]

Watching this video and reading your comment, it makes want one thing. I want to see a conversation between Nahida and the Architect from the Matrix trilogy. The Architect can't comprehend human emotions either, so it would be super fascinating for me to see the two of them interacting with each other xD

[@ChillwithAster]

I wasn't supposed to post today but I wanted to make a Nahida video because she's got such a unique powerset

[@mungunbayarbattsagaan3403]

Thanks aster!

[@thatguyglittaku]

She’s really a weird and unique character, what appears to be a powerless child has yet the most unpredictable moveset we’ve seen by far

[@fardareismai4495]

I love her a lot. She's a bit of a tragic character, she's kind and gentle, but does what needs to be done. She's also actually helpful to the Traveler, sharing information with them!

[@lordgaijee]

Thank you!

[@erikboncoref.7020]

Excellent video, @ChillwithAster, as always! Actually, so far, Nahida has always come up to me as the most transparent of the Archons so far, as if she seemed not to be hiding weird stuff like Venti, Zhongli and Ei (as far as we know). Another curious thing that has kept my attention, something that you actually mentioned: Mecha-mouche was powered with the Electro Gnosis and Pyro, Hydro, Cryo and Anemo Delusions (leaving Geo and Dendro out). And also, something very curious: so far, there has been some old Dendro enemies (slime, samachurl) and a few new incorporations (hypostasis, fungi, a Dendro elemental beast, an eremite version of Honkai's Ai-chan and the eremite archer), yet the Fatui still don't have Dendro Delusion soldiers. I wonder if they've been incapable of developing Dendro Delusions for whatever reason... (Or if it's just a game mechanic they haven't developed yet). What do you make of it?

[@redsn4pper]

Nahida is so powerful that she can put SAMPLE TEXT in Aster’s video (8:39)

[@lgr28]

I loved how the Archon quest was written to make us actually care about Nahida as a character and be invested enough to want to save her. In the other archon quests the traveler was pulled into whatever is happening in the nations almost against their will. The traveler only ever wants to learn stuff about their siblings whenever they enter a nation. They only play nice in Mondstat and start caring about the dragon problem because they're bestowed the position of the honorary knight, they're bullied into investigating the death of the archon in Liyue because they're framed for murder and they're very unwilling to fight the sakoku decree at first when they go to Inazuma. But in Sumeru no one asks the traveler to intervene in the problem. Even after the first act Nahida only talks about pursuing her own investigation of iriminsul. They're endeared enough to Nahida to tag along for her investigation and then they realize that she is a prisoner and they're enraged on her behalf. In the last act the traveler's main motivation is saving Nahida and everything else including the false God is secondary. They don't even expect her to answer questions about their sibling, Nahida has to remind them that they can ask such questions. That was such a nice way to develop both Nahida and the traveler as characters.

[@theundead1851]

7:40 This just made me realize that Venti is the only archon we know so far who has the most experience with humans which allows him to understand human emotions more than the other archons

[@ArgoBargo]

The one thing that kept nahida from being just straight up terrifying and evil was that she WANTS to understand human emotion. She recognizes that humans reasoning is flawed on a logical level and instead of deciding that they are broken or unworthy, she decides that the gap is reasoning is due to an error in HER logic. And so she wants to learn. And THATS why she’s my favorite

[@catlike9444]

She's definitely has one of the more haxs abilities so far in genshin. The ability to cast opponents into dream like Illusion can be very powerful depending on how its used. Then again illusion based abilities are always pretty op in animes like naruto and bleach for example.

[@kacperwoch4368]

One thing that stood out to me when playing the Archon quest is that it felt like Nahida was toying with others, with us. She literally has insight into human minds yet she looks at people with this weird curiousity that is better suited for solving sudoku, not human interaction.

[@angeldude101]

Wait... You mean that's _not_ how you're supposed to look at people? Then how _are_ you supposed to look at them?

[@Truck-kun11]

I just hope that in the future there will be an event where the Traveler helps plan a super birthday party for Nahida.

[@raphaelgabin6424]

Sabzerus Festival part 2

[@Eternity116]

​@@raphaelgabin6424 Hopefully minus the time loops and more on her actual, long awaited, birthday since 500 years of not properly celebrating it

[@oneperson1772]

Came back to find this comment 🎉

[@KazeMemaryu]

I kinda agree and disagree on Nahida's lack of experience. As you said, she replaces personal experience and emotional attachment with logical conclusions and observations. But through these observations, she saw many dreams of Sumeru's children, visions of the world yet-to-be heroes and scholars want to create, and can connect these through common denominators. To that end, she understands human emotion quite well, which is also why she's very adept at manipulating them. She even has the morality to not want to enter somebody's subconscious without prior permission, simply out of respect, despite standing contrary to her curiosity. I'd also argue she understands quite well how dangerous Celestia is, and how going against its authority spells inevitable destruction. That's why she even came up with the "destroy the gnosis" bluff in the first place. What Nahida still has to learn, is mortal desire. Her first lesson was when you broke into her confinement to wake her up from her dreamless slumber and made her finally realize what she truly wanted, and how she denied herself this due to attempting to assume her intended role as archon, and putting the needs of her people above herself. This kinda kickstarted her own desire, which why in her personal quest, she mingles with the populace in hoping to learn the reason behind emotional bonds and the peoples' attachment to their own emotions, even at the risk of great pain. And at the end, she admits she doesn't get it - because her only experience of emotional attachment and loss was literally wiped from Teyvat's hard drive: Rukkhadevata. Her erasure from Irminsul is a major setback in Nahida's emotional maturing process, which was already stumped by 500 years of confinement. And all of her involvement from Scaramouche's story onward so far has been in service to you, the Traveler, not for herself. So her arc might still need to reach a climax, as she simply lacks experience. But I find your explanation of wisdom as a weapon really cool. With how little we are supposed to know, Nahida's less restrained movements have a great amount of potential to uncover dark secrets, while we Travelers can retain this wisdom without any repercussions as beings outside of Irminsul. Our knowledge is basically the ultimate backup, and all archons are aware of that fact.

[@forresttheanimezilla3763]

Her powers are almost quite similar to Charles Xavier from the X-men Who is regarded as one of the most powerful telepaths in the marvel universe Or if you really wanna go there, Jean Gray but without the phoenix force or Martian Manhunter

[@thatguyglittaku]

nawww imagine bald nahida in a wheelchair hacking peoples minds😭

[@randomguyblank1616]

How about Herrscher of Sentience from Honkai?

[@forresttheanimezilla3763]

@@randomguyblank1616 i’m not well not knowledgeable enough on Honkai impacts unfortunately…….

[@dasytaylor]

i'm so glad you've made a video on her powers and potential! in my eyes Nahida has the most terrifying power amongst the archons so far. if she wasn't this kind but harbored malevolent intentions, Teyvat would be in huge trouble.

[@MysteriousFuture]

Nahida could easily bring Teyvat to its knees as quickly as humans getting visited by aliens tomorrow 😂 Note to self: _Never get on Nahida’s bad side_

[@Junnneee]

As a Nahida main with her as my favorite character, I very much approve of this! Nahida's personality and story is soo interesting, and I love how she can act so kind and caring to the ones she cares about yet cold and ruthless to those she doesn't. Nahida is my favorite genshin character, hands down. Also 8:40: *Sample Text*

[@metta3348]

8:41 i loved it when nahida said sample text

[@petrichorrs]

I love Nahida so much, she's one of my favourite characters in the game. I love how she is wise and benevolent, but also intimidating when the time calls for it. I also love that she doesn't have a complete grasp of human emotions, but despite that she knows it doesn't make them any less important. Emotions are a huge part of the human world, and her lack of experience with them doesn't invalidate that. If anything, it is part of her ever growing journey of seeking more knowledge and understanding of this world. She also isn't afraid of not playing safe, gambling with a possibility that could lead to nothing at best and a catastrophe at worst like she did with Dottore. In the end, they both got what they wanted. What is more valuable to a curious god than learning the very concealed truth of this world? To be wise is to be knowledgeable, and to be curious is to take all the chances given to you to gain that knowledge. That's how you get the God of Wisdom. One that is wise and always on the lookout for more knowledge. You never stop learning, and that's the beauty of it. All in all, I think she's an amazing character. I can't wait to see more of her in the story.

[@roseignis3255]

8:38 Very nice Sample text In all seriousness, I love the backing music of this video, as well as the ideas presented

[@toffee_todd]

is it just me who loves how dendro manifests? like the way it looks as nahidah uses it is just so pretty my gosh

[@jsonthefallen5218]

I have the idea that the gnosis doesn’t give its owner actual power… they give *knowledge* and recognition to an already extremely powerful being, that’s why the archons are not attached to it, the knowledge being the most important asset in this world it can and it’s perceived as power being that the reason the gnosis are so desired.

[@angeldude101]

The word "gnosis" is literally just Greek for "knowledge," so it's very possible.

[@RobbieStarburster]

Nahida's abilities can potentially be deadlier if she weren't so kind. I liken her to Aizen from Bleach where he basically manipluates a person's visual reality through illusions, to the point of fooling even Godly beings. It's quite the terrifying power. Nahida has shown similar abilites and theoretically can go beyond what even Aizen can do. She's more akin to Road Camelot from D. Gray-Man who can also control deams. Once she hijacks your mind the battle is lost. Even the other archons wouldn't be able to do much if she decided to kill them in their dreams, thus killing them in life as well. I also don't think she's at her peak yet. There's still time for her to grow and learn. Love Nahida.

[@jeffreyoiy5337]

Nahida main point is being kind.. Ei literally said that nahida has power that ei cant even imagine but used it just to right wrong and fix things.. or else she's deadliest archon in my opinion.. zongli also said she's hold the most important job guarding irminsul.. cus what happens to irminsul happens to all ENTIRE TEYVAT.. i mean if nahida has no moral and seeking destruction isn't cut down irminsul = Kill teyvat it self..? Even tho it is prob kills her too.. or else imagine she deleting or change someone's memory in irminsul to the rest of the world.. Like u woke up in the morning and the rest of the world think that u r an evil that should be killed and all nation wage war against u😅

[@RobbieStarburster]

@@jeffreyoiy5337 She's basically the server admin of Teyvat. I was just talking about her abilites by themselves but her connection to Irminsul can't be understated. Mass memory manipulation that even the other Archons can't fight against. She could possibly take over all the other nations just through that method alone if she wanted to. Good thing she's nice.

[@kaled20001]

@@jeffreyoiy5337 Well, it's stated in Raiden's second quest that the puppet and Ei have the power to even shatter dreams, so maybe it can stun them for a moment but to instantly win against other Archons is probably not the case. Ei says that she can do things beyond their imagination, it is probably referring to the Irminsul erasure, which doesn't actually erase someone from existence, she can do global changes with that yeah but she herself is susceptible to such a thing in the first place.

[@Pokoro211]

Gotta love the calming sound of piano in the background while we talk about how dangerous Nahida is

[@rafarania1524]

I have this feeling while the fandom likes to potray Nahida as sweet child, Scaramouche's aunt/mom that showers him with love compared to his original mom (don't get me wrong, I like them), I feel like the canon Nahida strikes me as a "emotionless" child (not in a bad way). She might have some grasp in human emotion, but she still have long way to go. Well, she is a god of logic and rationality, and she's the youngest archon so understanding mortal might be a challenge to her compared to more experienced one like Zhongli, Venti, Makoto, and Rukkhadevata. Like, she's stated multiple times that she doesn't completely understand with human interaction and emotion, thus that's why she asked Traveler to interact with people for her plan, right? The way she keep Scaramouche is because she think Scara have something beneficial for her in the long run, it feels like she's seeing Scara as a tool rather than a lost child. Instead of adopting Scara, I see it as Nahida rehabilitates Scara to become a better person/behaves well. At least Nahida have strong morality in my eyes compared to other archons. Her experience with human emotion and loss is when Rukkhadevata is still exist. She have this feeling that she's overshadowed by Rukkhadevata and she's crying when Rukkhadevata is gone. But well, Rukkhadevata doesn't exist now so her experience is gone. Or maybe this is because I played JP dub. JP dub gives me this "algorithmic, emotionless, rational and logical small god" compared to EN dub that is more "sweet child archon that have big curiousity"

[@tvesha2223]

nahida appreciation hour

[@jjplumful]

I’ve been lost in your videos for the past three days after stumbling across them and I just have to say thank you for all the effort you put into these. Especially during patch downtime it’s so fun to dive into these videos and speculate alongside. Amazing job and I can’t wait for even more!

[@sober1522]

Imagine if rukkhadevata was still alive and as cold as raiden... the worst nightmare istg

[@rawdasalmataman7908]

I felt she was the most helpful archon and yeah she is very logical but I doubt she doesn't understand humans She understood scaramouche pretty well I do have a hard time finding her flaws but I do like her alot I don't know how nahida and ei are two sides of the same coin Ei needed a reality check from the traveller and yae to know how wrong she was Her character arc was also so rushed and it just didn't feel natural Nahida knows herself and is definitely more wise

[@isdrakon9802]

I feel like knowledge is the greatest power in teyvet, with Celestia punishing those with it and how each of our five archons seem to collect it. We have nahida which is obvious, venti is by the the greatest story teller. If there's a person that's achieved anything, venti knows the story. Zhongli has acquired one of the largest expanses of general knowledge while also having specialized knowledge on many subjects. Ei is a true master of the blade should there be a fight I have no doubt she will win. She spent 500 years fighting herself, I don't think anyone else could keep a strong will like that besides her anymore. Then there's the tseritsa, collecting the best the world has to offer in the form of her harbingers. Researchers warriors and magicians, she has everything

[@catfishflavour]

"Nahida was careless enough by given us such informations" or she isn't. One of the things dangerous about her curiosity is she probably just gambling around with terrifying calculations, considering she has access to irminsul like no one ever had. And, even we aren't know much about her manipulative sides and acting skills, which means she probably gave such informations to make traveler move forward as her "chess piece"

[@ShanMichaelEscasio]

Nahida is my most favorite archon. She's the kindest and truly loves her peole. Also she's the only one who had been of help to us for reeal with heraccess to information.

[@lowliethxd1471]

This got me thinking. What if, at some point of the story, Nahida had understood forbidden knowledge? She had somehow fully grasped it, without being currupted, and without affecting irminsul? What would Celestia do then? What would Nahida do? Will she pull an "Orabashi" and sacrificed herself for Sumeru to not get nailed? Or will she embrace her new found, other wordly power to fight off Celestia? Kinda like what happened with Kiana from Honkai, where she got corrupted by Sirin and then embracing that power later in the story. (yeah I know some of you don't like comparing Honkai to Genshin but that's the most similar comparison I got). It would be interesting to see this happen, since Nahida is dubbed the purest branch of irmunsul. She may have a strong resistance to forbidden knowledge, and control and understand it without going crazy. This is definitely not because I wanna see an Alter Nahida..yep yep

[@angeldude101]

I literally started saving for Nahida the moment I finished the Inazuma Archon Quest. She did not disappoint, and even aligned far better with my predictions than I would expect. (There's also the fact that green hair, connection to nature, and ability to infodump are all shortcuts to get me to like a character. All she's missing are androgyny, a bow, cat ears, and, as of Xenoblade 2, a Welsh accent.) The part about a poor understanding of human emotions and trying to make sense of them logically isn't such a fantastical thing. People who are neurodivergent literally have their brains work differently than the majority, including experiencing emotion differently. For me, logic and emotion are tightly interconnected, neither really overriding the other, so it's taken time to make sense of the usual portrayal of the two as opposing each other. Is Nahida neurodivergent? No; she's not even human, but at the same time, neurodivergence has often been associated with inhumanity, so given her domain (and fae attributes) it's very unsurprising that she would display a few autistic traits.

[@mimik2829]

Im so excited for her second story quest if she gets one. I wonder who the weekly Boss will be

[@yesitsme-bk8bb]

It’s a dendro dragon. It’ll be in 2.6

[@mimik2829]

@@yesitsme-bk8bb i think ut might be apep. The snake/dragon friend of kind deshret

[@toast7257]

​@@yesitsme-bk8bb you mean 3.6? 2.6 already passed a long time ago

[@ShanMichaelEscasio]

"when you feel stressed, take a dookdook! Maybe you'll feel better." -Dookdook Archon 2022

[@justarandomhumanperson]

Yooo nahida video! Wait who is greater lord rukadevata I’ve never heard of her?

[@lunasquib]

I love the Small “child” or childlike but extremely smart and precise when needed and powerful

[@NoelleIsTheGeoArchon]

Villain: "I'm stronger, faster and better." Nahida: "Are you sure?" Villain is sweating profusely*

[@MysteriousFuture]

Why bother being an enemy to the hardest archon to defeat, she’ll make you sleep and dream fighting her until she gets all the info she needs to pass on to the traveler 😂😂😂

[@harmonialarts]

Are we really sure Nahida has shared everything with the Traveler? She purposefully avoided taking about the 'false sky' afterall and you can argue that she didn't want to talk about something she isn't 100% sure about, it still shows that even she's capable of witholding information from us.

[@KhezuOnYourScreen]

I feel like her threatening to break the gnosis isnt really a bluff. She knows that the Principles have been inactive for some time now and, like you said, she's a curious being. She's curious if breaking the gnosis will actually reactivate the Principles. It just so happens that that notion can be used as a bargaining chip for whatever Dottore can offer and to guarantee the Fatui's withdrawal from her nation.

[@simpleweeb2257]

Nahida can delete anyone existence from iRminsul even other archon will lost most of their power because as we know the more control over their region the more powerful they can get so that make a really deadly enemy if she wasn't kind at all

[@reiterhilfe3526]

We don't know the limit Nahida's mind maanipulation so imagine if she could warp a human preception, she could creat realistic halusinattion, or warp our preception of time so hard seconds feels like hours. If she turns evil she basically could be like AM from "I have no mouth and I must scream"

[@MysteriousFuture]

Trapping you in a eternal nightmare samsara is a fate worse than death, note to self: _Don’t make Nahida mad_

[@reiterhilfe3526]

@@MysteriousFuture you need to do some next level diabolical stuff to piss off Nahida, which Dottore apmost acomplished since she didn't put him in an eternal genjutsu

[@maxmaxwell5498]

nahida can really just look at your whole life thru irminsul plus her mind reading and possesion ability shes so strong not power wise but this makes her topple over gods like zhongli or ei and venti

[@Ze9zz]

Man these videos are amazing, keep up the good work Aster!

[@iiiinkman]

is nahida really fucking deadly? yes. do i still love her and want to hug her? of fucking course.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

Do I wanna steal her from custody of the akademiya and sign the adoption paper??? Yes yes yes yes YES!!!

[@iiiinkman]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 YOU GET MY FELLOW NAHIDA APPRECIATOR

[@MysteriousFuture]

The chance may be coming soon if the rumors are correct 😌

[@Ren_rz]

As Rukhadevata said "you may become a greater Archon then even I". Rukhadevata was an Avatar of Irminsul so basically Like a proxy for Irminsul but Nahida was created from the purest branch of Irminsol so she's basically Irminsul itself. That makes her quite powerful maybe even stronger then Rukhadevata. According to Rukhadevata she has the curiosity and passion for knowledge that even Rukhadevata lacked which is rather scary when you think about it. Curiously as we have seen in the story is quite the double edged sword, curiosity will give you knowledge but it will also being ruin. We know that much of Nahida's origin theme is how a branch of a tree can grow into the same type of tree i forgot what it's called, but what if since Nahida was created from the purest branch of Irminsol she might one day replace Irminsul itself as it will be destroyed in the future.

[@myne5689]

“Silent but deadly” So dook dooks?

[@lumine2626]

Nahida is my fav archon 🥹 she's so adorable

[@Nell420]

Gotta love the english subtitles making "Boomer" out of "Buer"

[@isaiahhaley4816]

Ngl all the archons have abilities that can be classified as deadly venti in his prime Cut mountains in half with only the wind and zhongli created gunyun stone forest only using Spears and raider cut a Island using the motou no hutou tachi

[@itsmeliska1186]

I just want to say that automatic subtitles translated Buer into Brewer and I found it precious 😂

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

Nahida is definitely contender for one of the most powerful beings considering she has every information to gether from and just straight up Hi-Jack your very consciousness. As for the time being she's just small and barely capable of greater deeds, but she follows in the Greater Lord's footsteps of being a caring and loving Archon towards her people. Ei, Zhongli and Venti also respects her greatly and acknowledges her capabilities. Ei specifically calls her a "Gentle goddess" which is super heartwarming considering how much Nahida's curiosity about humans is endearing. Lastly It is unknown at the moment if Nahida's mind reading capabilities are locked to individuals near her but we do know that the Traveler has linked their mind with Nahida so much that it's a lot likely that she's going to be watching and listening on our future travels :D

[@silverhawkscape2677]

So what if we go to the toilet or take a bath...

[@Youmu_Konpaku_]

@@silverhawkscape2677 she's known to activately spy on everyone so there's literally nothing to hide

[@MysteriousFuture]

@@silverhawkscape2677, Nahida says, “I see everything” so yea 😂😂😂

[@RationalRain]

Remember when Twitter use to trash about how she was a kid and why they would make her an archon now alot of people love her they did a 180 real quick didn't they

[@MysteriousFuture]

It happens all the time with many characters before they’re released and at the moment of release, minds change over time

[@gilbertosanchez2658]

8:39 Sample text HAHAHAHHA. Good video bro.

[@TheBeardenedBear]

I like that "sample text" you provided:)))

[@crinthecreature]

0:57 Ei: cuts you in half Nahida: Ik it was hard for you after your dad left but throwing your anger at innocent people won't solve anything

[@forresttheanimezilla3763]

It’s all fun and games until someone breaks into your house and hold You at gunpoint and steals your shit.💁

[@godofyeets4636]

speaking of us needing nahida in the future i'd be fun if nahida just showed up at random points in the story just tell us stuff or help reason with people if we have to just something that would be cool

[@NerdishGeekish]

If hoyo keep up the trend of the archon's 2nd story quest leading into a new weekly boss, I can't wait to learn more about our little baby radish goddess in 3.6!

[@firby7341]

yooo youre above 100k subs! congrats!!! well deserved

[@ittobestguy2254]

i just realized that in the archon quest, they went to 168 samsara cycles and the map that mrekk got his first 10 star fc and his 100x 1k pp scores on, is also called 168 (or balls dick balls dick)

[@Villanelle1783]

Is it just me or is everytime i find some movie where there's a nature/spring god they always associate them with wisdom

[@iamchair2173]

while nahida is in fact very powerful there are a few things and limitations that we need to know: first : it is unknown whether or not hijacking would work on beings stronger then her but it most likely doesn't work on beings stronger then her as she did not hijack scara during the boss fight which implies that she could not control him (same thing with dottore) (we don't know if you can resist the hijacking if you knew she was going try it) second : she could only send you into a dream if you are sleeping or unconscious state as both the academia and nahida sent people to dreams while they are asleep or unconscious (nahida's power would most likely need the power to actually touch the person's body while in a sleeping/unconscious state as shown in robot boss fight) third : her dreams would not work if you knew it was a dream which if have knowledge of her dreams and know how to break out then they would not work at all forth : she can't control your dreams as well since you are the dream host and you have absolute power over it even though she can enter it at will fifth : she seems to need to be right next to irminsul to manipulate it and other people seem to be able to manipulate irminsul as well which means if you can get irminsul before her then you can use her greatest weapon against her sixth : getting information about you won't help if you are too powerful for her to be able use ex: scara boss fight she got 168 loops worth of information about him but still needed the traveler to defeat him even with the entirety of sumeru's help seventh : she has a special weakness against morax since he controls the ground and plants need soil to grow and live she can't do anything against him otherwise he takes her power or kills her

[@randomguy10yearsand47]

You forgot that plant is the thing that make O² so without it they people of teyvat will died, it is a life element. Also there only 1 archon that can control irminsul, scaramouche can do it because nahida give him the access for irminsul information and because he still have some power from the knowledge capsule.

[@iamchair2173]

@@randomguy10yearsand47 plants only make 28% of the world's oxygen so it might be harder to breathe but you will be fine also wouldn't venti have control of the air?

[@TheZoobZoobs]

Kindaaa unrelated, but your theories make me think that this obsession with knowledge is how Dottore will probably die/be defeated; since he has no moral compass, he'll likely do something that goes too far and destroys his mind in the process, causing him to either be wiped clean (if Hoyo wants to make him playable) or die.

[@callmeravenlee1972]

Nahida has the most terrifying powers

[@forresttheanimezilla3763]

As I didn’t know this myself until yesterday but apparently Dead people is a common thing in Inazuma, since it's the only nation where plants grows from blood of those people who died. This plant is called Dendrobium Can you do a video about that?

[@themostmagicskeleton273]

“Omg Nahida is so cute!” My brother in Christ she can annihilate all memory of your existence with the press of a button and has most likely done so multiple times

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

Source for doing it multiple times???

[@themostmagicskeleton273]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 How would either of us know? For all we know I could have given dozens of reasons by now, only for Nahida to simply warp reality with her tiny lil baby hands so that part of the conversation ever happened…

[@MysteriousFuture]

Essentially Nahida has the ability to make that what she deems true, just is

[@themostmagicskeleton273]

@@MysteriousFuture least powerful FBI agent

[@kitsuneofelements6947]

I feel like Nahida hypothetically would have two main methods of mental manipulation in combat. 1. Take over the mind of someone with high combat prowess 2. Remove memories and knowledge of combat. You can’t beat someone when you don’t even remember how to wield your own weapon. Regardless, I think she’s adorable, one of the best characters in Genshin, and definitely my favorite Archon.

[@theglobalwarming6081]

8:38 uuuhhh... you forgot to edit the text xD Just leave it tho. Its kinda adorable and funny xD

[@uribove]

Wait who is this greater lord you talk about? Lesser Lord Kusanali was just in a 500y long sleep but she has returned to us 🤪🤪

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

There's one more thing she's unknowingly capable of Even when forbidden knowledge is rid of, Nahida has the potential to kickstart her own Nahi Nahi Apocalypse (Source: based on a Honkai Impact 3rd fanmovie, Teri Teri Apocalypse)

[@MysteriousFuture]

What would that look like? Throwing all humans of Teyvat into a everlasting dream simulation to extract knowledge

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

@@MysteriousFuture kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJmspaBtp96Uq5o No, turning everyone into Nahi Nahi/Teri Teri derp faces

[@MysteriousFuture]

@@shanedoesyoutube8001 you found something scarier than being trapped in a eternal nightmare, this would be total hell of everyone turned to Nahi Nahi’s

[@braken63]

The Useful Archon

[@MysteriousFuture]

The Blessed Archon 😌

[@Eternity116]

The Dook Dook Archon

[@skyemori3209]

Imagine if the Greater Lord participated in the Archon War with/without protecting the Irminsul. Oh boy! Teyvat will have a monster on their own minds. Yikes. But i know Venti can still survive if they battled because Venti has a connection with the God of Time, and he will know when not to fight.

[@Senbatorii]

Knowledge is power

[@EthHawke94]

Going by the Inversion of Genesis we can add Encryption of Information to her abilities.

[@latioshunter]

In Sumeru, knowledge is deemed as valuable as mora. It seems the same can be said for Teyvat as a whole.

[@Sheerwinter]

@_@ she is actually a deadly unit in abyss!

[@MurasakiNoKami]

Love our low empathy high compassion queen ❤️

[@fardareismai4495]

That's a very good way to put it!

[@WhatzitT00ya]

So, basically, Nahida’s tsukuyomi makes her the greatest genjutsu user of all time.

[@shanedoesyoutube8001]

That's what Cyno called it in his stream

[@Alim-aesir]

Even Ei acknowledged her power.

[@Aozora210]

I saw Nahida, I click like instantly. I'm a new player who started playing because of Sumeru, and I'm so so happy that Nahida is such an awesome character, as an archon or as her own individual, and you highlighted many aspects of her wonderfully in this video! Also I'm glad that you think Rukkhadevata =/= Buer/Kusanali/Nahida because of the memory thing (among many other reasons too). Thank you for making and sharing this video. Nahida is really awesome.

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Best to think of them as Avatars of Irminsul. Both are different from the other but come from the Same essence.

[@Aozora210]

​@@silverhawkscape2677 That's very true. It's not that they're completely unrelated, but my personal pet peeve is with people who believes that Nahida is just a complete copy/reincarnation/new vessel of Rukkhadevata based on purely because they look the same (and the line "I'm you but in another samsara") and that when Rukkhadevata was erased from Irminsul and Teyvat, they think Nahida completely takes over or become one with Rukkhadevata, which was what the people of Teyvat think after the memories alteration, but in reality they are still two different gods and a different individual at their core, eventhough they have the same role/essence. Personally to me, thinking of them as the very same disregard Rukkhadevata's deeds and Nahida's struggle and journey of her growth (and her whole character arc so far, basically). Like Aster said, their memories do not transfer, and in Nahida's SQ she believes that there's an existence that means a lot to her but she cannot and shouldn't remember for her own good. Also most people think that Buer = Rukkhadevata's demon name and that Nahida took it from her. I personally believe that Rukkhadevata did not go with the name Buer, because it'll be weird for Nahida to calls us her first sage while Rukkhadevata had her own first sage long long ago (esp while the two of them still exist in Teyvat at the same time back then). Unfortunately we never knew what demon name Rukkhadevata went with and perhaps will never find out so there's no strong proof against this.

[@angeldude101]

I personally see them as the same abstract entity, but different people. Genetically, Nahida would be a clone given how trees work. As people though, they're defined by their memories. Different memories means different people with different behaviors. On a more memey note, "Greater Lord Rhukadevata" is just some name that fans made up to refer to Nahida before she most recently lost her power and memories. 🙃 More seriously, I think that the flashback in the pyramid of the Dendro Archon reverting to a child was actually Rhukadevata's birth and that the adult Dendro Archon seen in the flashback was _her_ predecessor who was erased from people's memories and ended up conflated with Rhukadevata. So we'd actually have 3, or maybe more, different reincarnations/generations of the Dendro Archon, not just 2.

[@Monkey_D_Luffy56]

She'll be a better antagonist archon than Ei.

[@hezjz5231]

I swear to god thank you! Nahida is such an good character I love her and sometimes a fear her a little.

[@MysteriousFuture]

Note to self: _Don’t make Nahida mad_

[@raineisme]

Nahida went full Izanami on RoboScara

[@nurventilatoren]

She's a small, smart orb of adorableness combined with a lot of power. One of my absolute favorite Characters in this Game.

[@alexandrafuchs6482]

I have a question as a feeble scholar of genshin lore. Have you heard rumors regarding some very odd things in Zhongli lore? His constallation doesnt match his character story title, neither did Ruckedevata erasure have effect on him. He still says in his profile that only only 2 of original seven survived to this day, despite Irminsul supposedly changing this information to Nahida being part of original seven. Odd thing is that also the fact that he descended to teyvat over 6000 years ago and as we know Teyvat seems to be based on gnosticism, that why I speculate it has only 6000 years. It would mean Zhongli is older than current teyvat itself and that he belonged to old world of Teyvat. KZbin with nickname Wei noticed all those odd things and made a very interesting theory regarding this subject

[@StarStivia]

Ok genshin lore professor here, so zhongli's voice line did actually change, he used to "only two of the seven are alive now." But he he now says "only two of the seven are in positions of rulership now" meaning that yes, nahida is alive but was not fit to rule on account of the whole locked for 500 years thing

[@vikaa6969]

I can imagine nahida at her full potential using dendro to crawl into someones mind and make them go mad

[@kontters]

she already did that many times by accident already, just look into the mad scholars

[@vikaa6969]

@@kontters i meant like with literal vines through their eyeholes or earholes, up their nose, etc

[@Austeja608]

like for *SAMPLE TEXT*

[@bangtanssera]

I absoloutely love nahida

[@ANUBISseyes2]

Why do I feel like we gonna see a celestial nail descending in the future?

[@bazah23]

7:59 common aster W I adore her a lot

[@HellOnFourLegs]

wait, do we know for fact that nahida is not physically powerful (like ei and zhongli) or it is just that she hasn't had the chance to show off and she is secretly like gohan or its because she is just a little child physically, what about when she reaches teenager to adult size, and is bound to become faster and stronger as she grows up, who knows if there is an god/mythical asparagus/archon multiplier tied to growing up?

[@kazuu1749]

Nahida can just dook dook on the enemies 🤪

[@thalaseamyst3934]

70k per quickening tick. I think that's good enough reason.

[@MyMilho]

have you heard the music baby queen by gorillaz while watching nahida reveal trailer?? it's pretty crazy

[@silverhawkscape2677]

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