Game Theory: You're Fighting The WRONG Person! (Genshin Impact)

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Theorists, it's been a while since I talked about Genshin Impact and with the 2.5 update there is a new development I think I should cover. We need to talk about Tsaritsa, the Cryo Archon of Snezhnaya. Now, we the player have never actually SEEN her, but boy does she hold a lot of implications as to the future of the game's story. Get ready to go DEEP and find out who the real bad guy is and why you may have been fighting the WRONG PERSON this whole time!

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[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"Tsaritsa immediately starts giving off some serious Thanos vibes"

It's all fun and games until Tsaritsa says "you should've gone for the head".

[iamnini-_-]

La Signora was probably more violent towards Venti because of her own personal hatred towards him. Signora was previously a citizen of Mondstadt, and when her husband died during a battle she blamed Barbatos for it. I know the lore in the crimson witch artefacts are about La Signora.

[cavemanjazz]

btw, The tsaritsa doesn't actually have the electro gnosis. In the roguelike dungeon event we found out that Childe was searching for Scaramouch because he never delivered the gnosis to the tsaritsa

[idiotnamedhax]

Quick correction:
Scaramouche actually ran off with the electro gnosis, so the Fatui still only are in control of 3

[serbanstein]

*SPOILERS if you haven't finished all of Dain's quests as of 29.06.2022*

Khaenri'ah is supposedly the actual last nation we're supposed to visit and it it ABSOLUTELY extremely important to the main story. The Tsarisa might want to rebel against the gods, but Khaenri'ah was a land of vanilla HUMANS that actively rejected the rule of gods and the heavenly principles and it's why it was destroyed, because they kept taking and taking and taking from the gods' domain, presumably inventing technology without permission (Khaenri'ah's war machines), doing immoral alchemy (Rhinedottir's alchemy beasts i.e. "playing god") and harnessing cosmic powers (Dainsleif's "power from beyond") without playing by Heavenly Principle's rules. It's the "Adam and Eve" of Genshin's nations. Literally all of Khaenri'ah's surviving inhabitants were cursed with eternal life and all except Dain, with accelerated soul erosion (overall eternal torment) as a form of punishment (hilihcurls and abyss enemy origins). The "poetic" language sometimes used throughout the game makes the events and philosophies of all parties involved a little cloudy, but if you ever want to make a theory about Khaenri'ah, I suggest starting with Dainsleif. Most of Kaenri'ah's known lore comes from this gorgeous narrator meta-man.

[opressedwhitemale]

Correction: The Tsaritsa only has 3 out of 7 Gnosi. One of her Harbingers pocketed it and left all others in the dark (which led fo the Signora confrontation)

[Cwronaga]

Hey Matpat. You missed one major chunk of lore that changes how the events of the game we're going to play out. The tsaritsa never got the Electro gnosis because the balladeer who hates Humanity has stolen it and is missing. Also to add to your theory of Celestia being evil in the manga Celestia is shown to be designed like a prison and when asked about it by Vanessa the ancient hero venti becomes flustered and uncomfortable unwilling to answer

[atlasdwyer]

To be fair, seeing as Ei’s sister died in the cataclysm, I don’t imagine that Ei would want much to do with Celestia anymore…

[gpani]

Fun fact: all archon’s have magic hair. When they use their abilities it glows. If you look at the cutscene when signora takes venti’s gnosis, his hair never glows. Meaning he wanted his gnosis taken. He wasn’t actually being as resistant as it looks, it was an act. He’s secretly rooting for the tsaritsa, like zhongli.

[sunkitti]

MatPat has finally met his match, the entire Genshin fandom.

[ezrealbot]

one glaring issue i spotted halfway through:

scaramouche has the electro gnosis and has gone rogue, meanibg it's NOT in the fatui's clutches. childe was sent to inazuma during that xinyan event solely to find scaramouche. so ... tsaritsa doesn't have the electro gnosis.

[UrMom-sfwz]

i WISH matpat did more genshin theories
because MAAAN genshin has too many secrets, if only matpat wasn’t addicted to fnaf lore

[BrokenFortuna]

As a loyal Genshin theorist, there are a few things I feel need to be addressed.
1: If you wanna talk about lore, read the manga. In the manga Venti clearly shows some kind of PTSD towards Celestia, no need to theorize. And if Tsaritsa wants to overthrow them she's not exactly the bad guy.
2: Tsaritsa, the way Venti was the god of freedom, used to be a god of love. Venti mentions her change of heart happening 500 years ago, back when the disaster in Khaenri'ah happened. Her relations with Tsaritsa changed a lot since then. Remember that Khaenri'ah wad a godless land.
3: The reason why Signora treats Venti so roughly is far more personal than just "you a lazy god". Signora actually hails from Mondstadt and thus used to be one of his subjects, but left after her beloved Rostam died. She's angry he doesn't even recognize her.
4: Venti was actively trying to stop the Stomterror conflict initially by talking with Dvalin, then giving powers to the Traveler, then trying to soothe the dragon with a holy lyre and eventually helping to take down the dragon himself. Not like he wasn't trying to do anything, as fun-loving as he is

[alecxander]

Matpat: Tsaritsa isn't the bad guy!
Everyone: we're 4, actually 5 parallel universes ahead of you.

[stargirl]

The Tsaritsa doesn’t have the electro gnosis. Scaramouche does, he dipped after getting it. 3 days later, after we steal documents from the Tenryo commission for Yae to convince Sara, we fight Signora. In an event we learn that Scara disappeared after getting the gnosis for reasons not yet explained. She’ll get it eventually, but she doesn’t have it yet.

[clver_leaf]

I wonder if this theory will still work because of Nahida and Scaramouche’s intervention with the gnosis. I wonder if Nahida will give up both the dendro gnosis and the electro gnosis to the fatui because of the leading theory that Celestia is bad and the gods are trying to sever their ties with it. Gods I can’t wait to see how this game goes on!

[skybattler]

Mat Pat: Tsaritsa is not the true villain!

Other Genshin Lorists: Wow, you are late to the party... but a welcome one for sure.

[CHINA-gnwu]

Matpat: makes a genshin video

The entire genshin impact community: *actually, INHALES*

[nabukyo]

One thing I wanna add to Venti's part is that his Gnosis wasn't really taken forcefully, it's more like he let Signora take it. Even if he's the weakest among the 7 archons, he's still a god.

[MakaylaSullivan-cjqk]

Idk if it was in the story quest or if it was a line in one of the "About" character quotes but I heard that Venti hated Celestia bc it was more like a prison and he was enslaved there for a while until he got cased down onto Tyvat.