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(I had to cut out a small glitch, so the video is re-processing itself)

- Ranakel on Discord pointed out that Paimon doesn't just teach the Traveler language, but she also helps train our fighting skills. If you check the skill/talent descriptions for the Traveler, at the bottom there's always "You and Paimon studied the-" or "You and Paimon observed-" etc. So Paimon DOES play a critical role in teaching the traveler, even if it's through her own learning which is cool.

- I've heard a lot of people suggest that Tighnari's name means Fox but I have been unable to locate a source I could cite thus far so I did not include it in the video. If you have a source and are willing to share it, please let me know!

- Here's a very basic Aranara Vocab sheet for those of you who would like one (thanks to Netzi2 for the original compilation):

Nara = human
Valuka = Sand/desert
Vana = Forest
Sarva = Source (i think) which may refer to the Irminsul tree since all life returns there
Marana = death
Ashvatta = Sacred tree meant to help seal Marana
Vasara = Special tree like the Ashvatta but less powerful
Mahavanaranapna = The Aranara Universe
Iron Chunks = Ruin Robots
Ruin Golem = The giant Ruin Robot
Vanagni = Whopperflowers
Apshvaana = Spincocrocodiles
Queen Aranyani = Rukkahdevata
Ararakalari = Aranara memory magic
Bija = a fruit that contains dreams and memories

headcanon for this video, Yanfei was so overwhelmed with the amount of lore, she called up Kuki for assistance

"Okay Imma do the Aranyaka quest real quick" [almost a week later] "Damn these lil radishes got LORE"

I think the whole "dying is just a loss of memory" thing is referring to the life cycle of Teyvat. When you die, you get converted into memory data and then are repurposed into new stuff, so in a way, you never actually die. The only way you could possibly die is if your memories were completely erased, meaning that you'd have nothing to pass on. That's also why turning the Kaenria'ahns into hilichurls and force their memories to get eroded away is such a huge deal

love how apparently our sibling told the Aranara that we (their sibling (or rather "another golden nara")) would one day appear in Sumeru, meaning our sibling both knew we wouldn't be together when that day came and that they have an idea of how our journey will go. along with bits we hear throughout the Aranara lines it lends a LOT of points to many speculations you've discussed before

Nahida's story in a nutshell:
Ei : Morax, I can explain
Zhongli : U got every person on your nation to worship you, even after you torture them? My worshippers didn't even try to look for me after I fake my death!
Venti : lol the only people that worship me are the church and they basically kinda nuts
Nahida: people talk to you guys?

The idea of Nahida looking like the Goddess of Flowers makes so much sense with the relation of Paimon being a Seelie. Cause if GoF was a seelie herself that befriended the Scarlet King and Rukkhadevata, she would then have to look like Paimon and other seelies with white hair. Thats why the only two characters who are called "The Moon" are both Paimon and Kusanali.

I too think Paimon is a seelie. She's also obsessed with finding treasures, kinda like how seelie actually do guide us towards treasures. Also, I think the moon sisters are the 3 other shades, along with Istaroth as the 4 shades of Phanes. They predate the archons as they're the first who came.

I feel like no one ever points out, some of the locations we go to that are underground, are absolutely MASSIVE. Enkonomiya for example, and the last section of the Aranara questline also takes us to a very large open underground locations. The Irminsul being underground means jack all, when we have multiple underground locations that are mind bogglingly huge. Being underground means nothing in terms of space or sky, with how huge these locations are.

Wait, could this all tie into Dainslief’s line that “there are those are content to live and not to dream.” Those Content to live are those who have accepted their fates, which therefore means that to dream is to try and change your fate. Which ties into Loom of Fate, and also the fact that Dreams are said by Kusanali to be bundles of Wisdom, and Khanriah was cursed for forbidden Wisdom, and they “Dreamed of Dreaming.” Also interesting connection, Rana received her Vision after she was able to see Arama again, so in other words she started dreaming and denied her fate, so does that make Visions embodiments of dreams and therefore people’s ability to change their fate?

I love it that we got more info about our sibling through the aranara than all the archons so far combined.

"would most likely make her out to be the goddess of flowers" SHAKING AFTER THE RECENT ARCHON QUEST!!!

I was waiting for this video 😄

Fun fact: Marana (মরণ) in Bengali literally translates to death, and Nara  (নর) translates to human. I could identify most of the aranara terminologies as they have strong linkage to Bangla which is my first language.

Also if Nahida is based on the goddess of flowers, and the goddess of flowers is a seelie, that would explain why her appearance and clothing are more similar to Paimon than to the other people of Sumeru. I remember some people were upset that Nahida’s outfit seemed more Greco-Roman than middle eastern.

What disturbing is that Snezhnaya successfully created a bionic puppet with a self consciousness while Sumeru the place of knowledge barely can. On Tighnari's story quest the inventor made the robot to somehow think for itself but it's not confirmed, it's just a command input. But Katheryne as a whole is close to a human.

There is also a NPC close to nahida's "home" that talks about teyvat physical shape, saying that it being a sphere (a planet) it would explain a lot of things (like the sun and moon behavior) but also saying that de math dont add up to this


Its pretty much a confirmation that teyvat is NOT a normal planet, but we still dont know if it is a "plane earth" thing or that old theory of it being actually a planet, but inside the surface, in a way that going deeper means actually the oposite.

It is my favorite theory considering how much mihoyo likes using the concept of the sky, the abyss, inverted things and false things.

lol it's funny going back and watching the section on the moon sisters and seelie after all the lore of Nod Krai

Regarding Tighnari's name pronunciation, actually his VA (Elliot Gindi) also aware that the correct way to pronounce it is "Tih-gh-nah-ree" but the director wants him to pronouce it as "Tie-nah-ree", the reasons simply because its easier for english speaker to copy it. He said it on Aether's VA youtube livestream

I actually thought Dunyarzad ending up living was more interesting than if she had died. Killing an almost nameless npc with no unique model that was introduced a few moments ago is already something they did with tepei, and that wasn't interesting at all. The fact Dunyarzad is not killed off for feels made this honestly more interesting and surprising. To me at least.

I finally realized, that Greater Lord Rukkhadevata saynig: ,,World...forget me...'' could mean that Sumeru and the world has to forget about her to heal the Irminsul Tree. Even though this might not be true it's just a thought that came to my head.

Edit: it became true lol