What REALLY Happened In Khaenri'ah? (Genshin Impact Theory)

The fallen kingdom of Khaenri'ah is a huge mystery. Today though, in this Genshin Impact Theory, we figure out what really happened to Khaenriah.

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[Teyvationary]

Who can guess the music I used in this?

[bryansanchez]

I feel like the reason why "the ancient kingdom was wrongfully cursed" it's cause because of the actions of a few, the entire country paid the price and were turn into the abyss and/or hilichurls making the innocent people being wrongfully cursed
but I have to applaud to the theory

[adem]

Here’s my theory :
Celestia saw khaenri’ah as a threat, an obstacle, since it got technologically advanced and is with no gods which would go against their heavenly principles. They decided to destroy it, but since it could turn the other gods against them if they had destroyed discriminately, they manipulated the alchemist “Gold” into making the monsters who’ll attack Teyvat, giving them a reason to finally attack them.
And in the end, Celestia turned Khanri’ah citizens to monsters themselves as a punishment

[markitosevans]

The Khaenri ah story is by far my favorite lore in the game

[azutsukimiya]

The one flaw about Dain being Gold is that he travelled with the sibling around Teyvat before the sibling joined the Abyss and going against Celestia. Gold/_Rhinedottir_ wouldn't have the time for that.

The Bloodstained set is for the Bloodstained Knight, another figure that joined the Abyss after experiencing what the sibling also separately saw and we will see in the future - that Khaenri'ah was wrongfully destroyed and Celestia is the guilty party.

[dweemiesdarkmount]

plot twist: Teyvationary is the real Dendro Archon. He's just misleading us to Baizhu.
nice try, you wont fool me.

[thunderkravenrifthound]

The Unknown God could likely have some sort of artifact that would be based on the Genesis Pearl that corrupted the Unknown God to maintain balance in Teyvat due to Teyvat has it's own laws Khemia could create life and the Genesis Pearl could likely create life

[totoroblack]

That's an interesting take that Dain could be the alchemist gold, it lines up with him failing his nation and also why he was cursed and everyone else wasn't.... Also explains our siblings distrust of Oooo this is ❤️❤️

[draculacat]

everytime you say teyvactionary I'm just like hehe, nice

[aaravia]

Lore related to Khaenri'ah and khemia is my favorite type of lore!!

I don't know who Gold is, and I agree with you that it could be Dain. However I do have a theory on which in game characters could have been created through the mains of khemia, because I don't think that Albedo is the only one.

We do know that Durin is a creation for sure, but there is another character in the game heavily implied to be created artificially. This character is Albedo. After hours and hours of digging, I've realised that these two may not be the only creations we've come across during this game.

I started reading the stories under Albedo, and he seems to think that he does not have biological parents, rather he was somehow created by his master, Gold. He also has a talent called 'homuncular nature' which would suggest he indeed is not a real human, rather he was made by someone.

Now after this I looked up the meaning of his name. His name happens to be a stage of an alchemical process called Magnum Opus.
The definition of Magnum Opus is:
the process of working with the prima materia (also called dark matter) to create the philosopher's stone(elixir of LIFE).

It's steps are:
nigredo (blackness)
albedo (whiteness)
citrinitas (yellowness)
rubedo (redness, purpleness) - this is the final product

I was thinking since there is a personification of the second step of Magnum Opus (Albedo or whiteness), would it be weird to assume that the other steps could have a human embodiment too?
And if yes, who would these people be?

Here are the questions I asked myself:

1. If Albedo's name means whiteness which is basically what the second step of the Magnum Opus is, which names in the game could represent the other two, darkness, and yellowness?

2. I looked a little bit into the language of Khaenri'ah. Khaenri'ahn writing can be found in places like domains, alchemy tables or the abyss which we know have a connection to Khaenr'iah.
I searched for the Khaenr'iahn alphabet on the internet and in this process I learned that the alphabet is not the only thing we have translated into the english alphabet, but we also know that the phrases we get from these writings are all latin. So was the language of Khaenri'ah latin, or at least a romance language?

3. And the third question I asked myself. If my last speculation is true, which people in Teyvat seem to have latin names? Albedo, the person we know for sure has connections to Khaenr'iah and is related to the Magnum Opus (he is literally one of the steps) does have a latin name, then maybe these other homunculuses created by Gold for the Philosopher's Stone have latin names too. I looked up all the names we know if in the game and we only have three people with latin names as of now.

These names are:
1. Aether
2. Albedo
3. Lumine

Now this is where it gets even more interesting. The names seem to align with the steps of Magnum Opus. We have already figured out that the second step is Albedo, his name meaning whiteness. The first step is, blackness and to create the philosopher's stone for our first step we need to find black/dark matter or on its other name, first matter, and if you look up prima materia which is latin for first matter you get this definition:

 It is the primitive formless base of all matter similar to chaos, the quintessence or aether.

So that leaves us with the third step and the name Lumine. Citrinitas means yellowness. Lumine's name light, luminescent or a ray of sunshine.

So could it be that these 3 are actually all the creations of Gold? Could it be that the twins, just like Albedo, are not real people but rather artificial life created by this scientist we know as Gold?

Some more weird things I found that could more or less support this theory:

- If you look at the stories of the traveler, and you look at the character details, it says something about a creator

"The keeper is fading away; the creator has not yet come.

But the world shall burn no more, for you shall ascend."

- All Khaenr'iahn people we know of seem to have the Khaenr'iahn star symbol on their clothes, and most of them even on their eyes (Dainsleif and Kaeya). Now we don't know this for sure, since we havent met too many Khaenr'iahn people yet, but the only people who seem to bear the mark on on their clothes but not in their eyes are the twins and albedo. Could it be that the mark in the eye is a genetic thing that is seen in people born of Khaenr'iahn blood? And since these 3 people are not of real blood, they don't bear the star on their eyes?

3. Albedo knows that he doesn't have blood-related parents, or at least he doesn't remember them. Isn't it interesting that there is nothing in the game said about the parents of the travelers?

4. This is my weakest point, so probably shouldn't really even be taken into account, but I'll say it anyway. Since these people are probably homunculuses, maybe they don't actually age like real people. They're not real people at all. However, I don't think that Lumine and Aether know that they're actually created by Gold at the beginning of their journey. It is not mentioned by them at all that they were, and if this really were the case, that they didn't know, we could make sense of something Lumine said during our last story quest. When we offered her to come with us now, she told us that there is no need for that, since there is time to wait and there always have been. I think Lumine could've figured it out that she's not a real human being.


On a side note, I'd also like to add that I didn't fully understand this part, but rubedo (so the last phase of Magnum Opus) says something about 2 people and their reunion. Maybe these two people are the twins. Aether's goal is for them to reunite and one of the quests was called We Will be Reunited.

[KartierKen]

It’s always so refreshing to see creators who’s theories line up with my own. You just earned a new sub, keep up the amazing theory crafting !!

[jellyjamhorns]

Im so sad that Dainsleif ISNT Gold, that would have been so good

(New event calls Gold by a new name, Albedo calls Gold his "mother")

[drifindoril]

You already know I love this theory but just wanted to say I really enjoyed the editing on this one! That spoopy music!

[oofmcoofy]

The night mother may be the Abyssal Unknown God, born from the hatred and wrath of the gods who died during the archon war whom saw Khemia as a chance to strike back, so the night mother most likely infected Gold, forcing him to create more and more dangerous monsters, eventually leading to entire dragons with which to pave the path to Celestia. The real Unknown God, or 'Heavenly Principles' saw it, took control of the 7 with their Gnosis and attacked Khaenri'ah (the entire Khaenri'ah, not just the part Gold was in, that could explain the 'injustices'), however by doing this they either released all the creatures Gold had stockpiled, or Gold attempted to create literal armies of nightmarish creatures before dying, leading to the Cataclysm.
Then again it could be the Unknown God who instigated the Archon war for the very purpose of toying with Khaenri'ah, only Mihoyo knows

[Ren_rz]

Dainsleif's arm is the result of the khenriah's being transformed but for some reason he's stopped just with his could be that he managed to stop it somehow himself
Also I don't think Dainsleif is Gold coz Gold was a alchemist and as we have seen in the game app the alchemists seen to be too busy for themselves to have sometimes and Dainsleif's was one of the Royale guards so I doubt he'd hav enough time to do he's research
Also Dainsleif was the twilight sword back then which means he was probably recognised for his word play and we know Gold was the greatest alchemist to live so I doubt he'd be known more for his sword play
Also I think the weird power Dainsleif used against the herald was due to his half hazard transformation coz we do see him using it with his monster arm

[No_name]

One problem to this theory is that Khaenriah’s architecture is different to the one we see in the starting screen, we already know that the starting screen is Celestia because of Skyfrost nail and in the manga we see inside of Celestia and the outside and it matches with the architecture of the starting screen. As for Khaenriah’s architecture it matches the ones we see in Domains, The Spiral Abyss and Dragonspine.

[durein]

There is a popular speculation that Paimon is the unknown god. My thoughts on her is that Paimon may be a split personality of that unknown god, as it is already established with Azhdaha that this can happen. Perhaps, we will have this parallel with Dain being our sibling's companion, and is also a split personality of this alchemist Gold.

Now I am just bringing forth some dots that might have some connections. I am not that knowledgeable as those who research the lore, I just work with the stuff I know presented in the game thus far.

[cipherlifer]

Me watching every khaenriah theory ever made so I can make an OC form khaenriah:

[Oneofthecoments]

Hmm 🤔, I believe there’s an in game reference to Goulding being a woman. It also implies that Goulding corrupted Durin 500 years ago and when Albedo is investing Durin’s corruption on the mountain he implicated his master Rhinedottir as the creator. I kinda think Rhinedottir (who is friends with Alice & Varka btw) is Goulding. I do agree that Goulding wasn’t actually all bad though and somehow that’s going the be more complicated.

[williansantana]

lol didn't know that Ei's sister had died in the cataclysm too. Your videos are very good as always I'm just a little upset because, due to the pace of the game, it's still a long time before we have any relevant revelation on the subject .u.u