The Great Sin of Khaenri'ah's Six Pygmies | Genshin Impact Theory

The Archon Quest: Bedtime Story has finally given us an almost complete picture of what historical event is described in The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies.

However, it doesn't take a that much effort to realize that the Six Pygmies are Dainsleif and the Five Sinners... Hence why in this video I am less interested in that, and far more interested in uncovering the identity of the one whom the Pygmies swore an oath to, and betrayed.

Also, a lot of Egypt in this one.

Keep in mind that I will discuss potentially major spoilers regarding the characters of Dainsleif, Vedrfolnir, Rhinedottir, and the Khaenri'ah chapter in general.

Thanks for watching 😊
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Timestamps:-
Of Six, Five must pay a price (0:00)
What does Khaenri’ah mean? (1:07)
The God of the Thousand Winds (8:51)
The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (10:11)
Why did the Five Sinners betray Istaroth? (19:07)
Dainsleif’s identity (22:35)
The Quest for the Philosopher’s Stone (27:57)
Cecilia & Inteyvat (30:16)
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Spoiler Warning:-

Important: This video contains potentially major spoilers pertaining to unreleased volumes of the book series "The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies".

Archon Quest: Bedtime Story
Archon Quest: Masquerade of the Guilty
Trailblaze Mission Series: Then Wake To Weep
Anything before version 3.0 is fair game
Anything from Honkai Impact 3rd is fair game
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#genshinimpact #dainsleif #khaenriah
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*Special thanks to MapTiler and OpenStreetMap Contributors
*Select clips courtesy of Pixabay & Adobe Stock

[ShirouE]

Bro got tired from teaching Chemistry, History, and Geology, now he is teaching a freaking new language 🤣

[ReverseElectro]

In hindsight, considering how little information you had to work with back then, it's incredibly impressive how close you came to uncovering Dain's connection to the Prince of Light. Sure, Dain wasn’t the Prince himself, but he turned out to be the only Pygmy who remained by the Prince’s side till the end, and his power very likely stems from the Prince.

As far as I know, you were the only one back then who even suggested a link between Dainsleif and the Prince of Light, and you were remarkably close.

[SumiSakurasawa-uvyt]

Dude, what you said at the end about the Cecilia and Inteyvat flowers is way too important for it to just be a “cool fact”. That should have 100% been part of the main video.

[ziebus]

So prince of light cursed the pigmies to be unable to ever again see the light of day...
"...Terrifying rumors are spreading. Those who went aboveground and returned say that they have personally witnessed those who fled to the surface being afflicted with a strange disease and turning into monsters..."
surely its not same thing

[ragura]

I think it’s relevant that the Khaenriah chapter name glitches. We’ve seen glitches in a few trailers (most notably Albedo’s) and select instances in the game since the start, but it really came to the forefront with Arlechino and now a few scenes in the bedtime stories chapter. If I had to guess, the glitch means rewrites occurring. Another example is the glitch effect in Rhukkhadevata’s golden image we see in one of Sumeru’s archon quests, again hinting at a connection to reality and Irminsul. This is just to say that I think that’s how we’ll get to experience Khaenriah: through a glitch, a rewrite of sorts. The fact that it takes place after Shnezhnaya, which should bring the story of the gnosis to a close, might mean that one leads to the other in some way.

[Evitzeoshowerthoughts]

It's kinda funny that the pale princess book 'only' took 4 years to finally have a concrete link to the game after being called important by the game.
Bro mihoyoverse really 1st disguised the visionary as 1 big bad Sinner, then name dropped surtologi and the visionary while linking them to gold in the archon quest so it's not that confusing, and then linked all of them together and expanded with 2 more and linked all of it to the pale princess. Theorizing is fun and hard when books can appear important but suddenly be very important with new info.

[saltyboy]

thank you for continuing to dechiper the high tier lore for me because my small brain can't comprehend it without someone to explain it all to me

[Xelluse]

Btw, this also gives sense to the line "save her", as many thinks Dain refers to Lumine, but from all what we have seen she definitely is not the one who need to be saved and Dain does not act like he is trying to do that, more to stop her, not to save her, also it's quite strange to tell a brother that prove that are worthy to save your sister..., but if this theory is right, then he was talking about saving Astaroth, who loved those flowers. So he says to Traveller, that prove that you are the one who will save Astaroth and revive Prince....

[lorikaken]

Venti saying to us that " we meet again" is living rent free in my head. If loom of fate can play on the memories, what if our memory in khanreiah is wiped? and we met istaroth there? hence Venti knowing us . idk xD it is maybe all wrong.

[lnsflare]

If the Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies was an allegory, that suggests that it might be telling a story of events that were (or will be) erased from Irminsul (or the Loom of Fate), which could also be why the Khaenri'ah chapter has no number.

[noxmoonstone]

your videos aged better than theories of other lore enthusiasts. can't wait for the video on IL Capitano!

[Sinnum]

Your reading of the pygmies was so good!

[brightlight]

I can't help but feel like the pale princess is Lumine. The prince of light is Aether, who, in truth, is actually being reawakened from veing shattered once before. Hence why Lumine is so cold to Dain and calls him a traitor just like how the night mother warned Dain the pale princess would react to the truth. The Abyss sibling is trying to protect their reformed sibling. However the reformed sibling doesn't know this and the Abyss sibling is in danger of meeting the same fate once their own powers are unsealed.

[pontoon]

The night mother says that the warrior will weild a sword that heralds the dawn and a shield which reflects the sunlight. I think that the sword represents Dain and the shield is Paimon. Just a thought.

[RukkhaRukkha]

When you started talking about the Magnum Opus, it made me wonder, could the "Prince of Light" actually be an 'Object' rather than a real person?

[phoenix]

Dainleif .. a fallen sword ...
Meanwhile bladie : a fallen 🧐

[kotarouinugami]

Note that Pale Princess and Six Pygmies was probably written by Andersdottir. Now I'm imagining her showing off the new volume, with the 6 pygmies, to her witch friends in Hexenzircel. And Rhinesdottir recognizing herself in one of them. Their friendship must have been really tested that day.

[chimimin]

I used to think that Khaenri'ah was an anagram. I tried googling what names could be formed with these letters, and it gave me Hare Krishna, a mantra dedicated to Krishna, one of the eight avatars of Vishnu... It may have nothing to do with anything, but I find this coincidence interesting ^-^

[JuicyMangoes-uvcc]

11:44 "In the new world, they bade farewell to the shrouded sun"

[FlashKillerX]

We definitely need more dark souls and berserk lore tie ins. The dark souls lore specifically goes super hard and I would love to hear more about where it relates to Genshin