Are the shades trying to sabotage celestia through the 7 thrones since the very start of the archon war and is Zhongli just another example of that?

I love how Zhongli never shuts up in-game but we still know so little about his past 😂 just a thought

Orobashi dared to challenge Raiden Shogun even though he was ultimately defeated. But the orobashi trembled in fear at the mere sound of Morax's name and fled into the dark sea. this alone shows that Morax really is on a different level.

The fact he was the first one who gave us a hint about our main role — a witness — just out of nowhere, oh he for sure knows everything but doesn’t say anything of that ugh

My personal theory is that Paimon is a creation of the shadow of Time whose purpose is to guide and protect the traveler.
For Zhongli I have the impression that many people miss it but Xiao tells us that Zhongli knows legends of another world and it is all the more strange, it seems to confirm that Zhongli was not born in Teyvat +6000 years ago but that he has lived there for more than 6000 years

A few other points I want to add:
1) Zhongli is closely associated with gold, and gold color is very important in genshin and indicates either descenders or some other great power. Think of the Traveler and Albedo, or how the 5 stars are all gold.
2) Teapot is literally a tiny thing that hides an enormous space within it, which is clearly manipulation with space, and it is an adepti technology
3) He said our role is to record the history of this world. Might indicate that he knows Traveler's memory can't be tempered with
4) His ulti is a meteor falling from the sky (which is fake so where is it falling from?..) It's kind of reminiscent of a falling star, no? Both come from space

Many Gods just fleed from Tyvat during Archon war cuz they just know he's totally in different league.

To add salt to injury it cannot be a coincidence, since :

1) Zhongli pretty much foreshadowed most things that happened with the traveler thought their journey, his two ominous story quest gathered key elements to almost everything that happened in every nation (erosion opposing eternity and the dangers that come form killing gods in Inazuma/Fontaine, that memory is fallible and the traveler is immune to the laws that govern this world in Sumeru as few examples ...) he knew we were immune to Irminsul tempering, because we are a descender, before even Nahida did (the neat part is she still doesn't).
2) His contract to keep his silence wouldn't make any sense if he was to be subject to Irminsul tempering
3) He straight out told the traveler that he's going to wait and see whether their heart is made of Gold.... you know, pretty much like him 😅 adding to the long list of similarities between them (being a star or a meteor as one of them)

Btw, in some Natlan quest with challenges for MC and his lil tepetlisaur companion, Paimon says: "Paimon has many more abilities, wich actually scare, you just don't know about them yet!". So, maybe she is like Zhongli, she knows who she is, but pretending Paimon. Moreover, she never calls herself by "I", "Me", "My", "Mine" etc. assigning all his actions not to “herself”, but to Paimon

I think Zhongli has a strong case to be connected to the Shade of Space(probably the Sustainer). Zhongli has always been depicted as The Sun and the Sun is the primary thing we see in Space also In the Scion of Blazing Sun it was said that Deshret fought against The Sun and fell to the earth. Space may also mean dimensional control and Zhongli is a master in that as well. The Adepti whose Domains are already capable of sealing gods inside them for millenniums and been stated to be crude imitation of what Zhongli's domains are by Ping.

The last connection I see is that it was stated somewhere in Liyue that Rex Lapis's constructs are indestructible and the only thing that could affect them was The Abyss which would turn those constructs Black. If Zhongli is connected to the Shade of Space aka the Sustainer then I think the reason why she did what she did was because she was under the control of the Abyss as her powers too turned black

I do feel it is important to mention Morax has the ability to remove both soul and spirit independently from OTHER GODS, as stated in the Chi of yore

Edit: I also think that after new information that perhaps Morax or rather Deus Auri (a latin name that ONLY another dragon calls him in all of teyvat, ad latin is the primordial language of the dragons/ teyvat, also Mora existed before the death of the pyro sovereign as its mentioned being in low supply before the fall of ochkanatlan),  perhaps is of they dragon race and that he stole the Geo authority from celestia amidst the destruction of the palace and fled on the celestial horse which are mentioned in the recent Ochkanatlan quest. Also his old self as rex lapis is called an Exuvia which is another name for a shed bug shell, aka a molt. And sice we now know ONLY dragons are capable of solo evolution it makes sense.

Also Xiao states the weird dragon person statues in qingce are based directly off morax himself, and even zhongli tells us morax has a true form that no we haven't seen yet. And he specifically refers to morax in the 3rd person.

Another iteresting possibility is that Morax may be the child of the "morning star" (cough sun) and one of the moon sisters concieved when the celestial palace fell and then fled on the back of a celestial horse to come to teyvat as purposed in moonlit bamboo forest, as we have to keep in mind the seele weren't just banished many of them died first and that would mean 6000 years ago amidst the events of moonlit bamboo forest that the palace fell to ruin. I think the 3 moon sisters perhaps at one point were the shades and that would explain their banishment as they survived the destruction but were banished along with the rest although that would still leave one shade un accounted for and that seemingly would BE the shade of space. I propose that perhaps there is a more biological connection to Morax if Morax isnt the "morning star mentioned which would ,make him the RULER of the celestial palace or the child of the queen of night and the morning sun, two prominent celestial bodies IN space

ALSO just a fun fact, the symbol on his back is the Quincux which is the most important symbol in alchemy, symbolizing the transformation of non precious metals into, guess what, gold. Oh and the mist veiled exiled reveals that Alchemy is ACTUALLY an adeptal art, which ALL come from morax.

Big reach but what if Zhongli is Nibelung and he was helped by shade of space to give him a place in teyvat again after being defeated a second time, bound by a contract to stay silent about himself so as to go unnoticed.

Ashikai made a similar a theory about this. In the CN text, the term "descended" is intentionally vague and thus implying that he is royalty or a Prince.

Descende could mean tree things;
1) He descended from the sky.
2) He was demoted.
3) That he was tasked with a duty.

The void/space is known for chaos. It could be why Zhongli's one line is "I WILL have order."

You and my name for now should do a collab on a megatheory, cus you 2 are the only theorists thst actually make sense

Ayo, no one thinks Zhongli is the shade of Life. Everyone thinks he is the shade of Space because of the cube, representing tridimensionality.

Not all who comes from beyond teyvat is one who descends that only applies to someone whose will can rival the entire world
1. Protect the world
2. Sustain the world
3. Destroy the world

As you've mentioned that Zhongli remembers the original Dendro Archon because he's not from Teyvat and since you also mention Paimon: Paimon doesn't remember the original Dendro Archon, though.

Space is in direct unity with earth and with it stone. They are both a space where you traverse in and are stable areas where everything resides in. That Zhongli is connected with the Shade of Space therefore makes really sense like Venti is connected to the invisible but yet changing and manipulating winds like time. I believe that they are both at least the apostles of the two corespondent Shades and i really hope that the theory gets canon.

Nice video by the way. To this point out of all the others, i really think that your takes on the lore are the closest to the hidden truth. Keep up the good work 🔥 ^^

You know what's funny to me; why does everyone assume the Primordial One stopped at 4 Shades?