I might’ve spoiled the plot of Natlan | Genshin Impact THEORY

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In which I read so much lore that I gained the power to see the future (maybe)

This ended up being a real challenge to make - but it was also really fun! Please lemme know what you reckon of these ideas - (and whether y’all wanna see me pattern-recognition my way into several corkboards worth of theories about any other topics sometime down the line) - in the comments! (^^)/

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TIMESTAMPS
- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:07 - Context
- 04:22 - What we DO know
- 07:30 - What’s the Deal with Visions?
- 10:09 - This is the Deal with Visions
- 12:24 - Pyro Silvia
- 14:40 - It’s Giving…
- 15:12 - A Closer Look
- 18:06 - KLEE???
- 19:45 - Lore isn’t Gender Locked
- 20:34 - Theories About Natlan
- 25:15 - In Summary…
- 26:43 - Outro / Endcard

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[ABDIllustrates]

Howdy y’all, thanks for stopping by – and here’s wishing y’all a very merry 2024!!! 🥳🎉
I’m ringin' in the new year with a real experimental video here but I could NOT get this train of thought outta my brain without making something about it, 'cause never hearing anybody talk about some of the patterns I was noticing was driving me bonkers sdgfdks – please do lemme know what you reckon of this vid and these theories here in the comments! (^^)/

EDIT: WOW this is reaching much farther afield than I thought it would -- hi again y'all! Real quick for clarifications' sake: the main themes of each archon (freedom, justice, etc) are ABSOLUTELY still a major crux for any character getting a vision of that archon's element, same goes for many other theories folks have! (tho that said, idk if all the pyro characters really stick to a "war" theme...🤔💭 but that's neither here nor there atp 'cause I've already made a whole video about them all sgdfshkfs-- anYWAY-)
My b if I didn't make it clear enough in-video here, but I'm really just fascinated by ALSO - (alongside those more-established theories and canon themes) - analysing the way that characters of any given element *connect with the people around them*, because there are definitely some really interesting patterns to be found when looking from that angle, and I haven't seen it explored before! 🔍✨

[destinys._.embrace]

chevreuse does have a pretty prominent father she’s the captain of the special surveillance patrol just like her father before her. and, there was that little bit of story during the roses and muskets event where she talked at length about her father. it seems like he was a pretty big influence on her life. abd cooked with this one

[gorou]

after literally entering natlan and hearing that the pyro archon is a human and is selected by succession I immediately look for this vid again, DUDE WAS SPOT ON!!!!

[derekpenales]

DUDE, GaMing also has main story/key points related to his
HIS THEORY IS GETTING MORE CONVINCING BY THE MINUTE

[kratos_benjamin]

Istg, when i played the freaking quest and heard that "The archon rotates via the tournament" i was like "oh my god that one guy was right..."

Mf, you cooked so hard, the "torch passing trough generations" being literally THE TITLE PASSING, + the fact that you said that "there might be a battle to decide the archon"... dude, you cooked SO HARD

[yu-gi-noob]

For seven whole months, I had this video in the back of my mind. I even had a sticky note and everything to remind me to check if you were right. And, well, you were right!

[zara]

for yanfei, she has a theme of being the "next generation" of the adepti as well, one born in peace and able to live alongside humans. her ideal of living happily is something her father passed on to her as well!

[Pupcat_Is_Amare]

My first thought when I saw the thumbnail was “Guys let’s let him cook”

[unnamedbees]

Also worth noting that Arlecchino herself has a pyro vision, and is one of the only harbingers we know of that is a successor to the previous one. Maybe that title passing on is what gave her her vision?

Love your videos!!

[xxmoonspellxx]

Update for Gaming🦁: He also should've inherited his father's business but like Xinyan he decided to follow his own path instead of the family business. But still the "passing the torch" is part of his character even tho he didn't do it at the end.

Wow you really cooked with this theory❤🔥

[Udii_tKoVvA]

18:02 The theory still checks out! Gaming (new Pyro character) has a backstory that is very centered around his father's wishes for his future versus his own. This video aged very well.

[miaumiku]

the idea of natlan’s archon seat having to be won (and the gnosis should come with that) is held up by the fact that capitano, the harbinger currently in natlan, has “thrown his hat into the endless ring of war, ” and so if he wins, he would obtain the gnosis and be able to give it to the tsaritsa. that makes him look less like some battle-hungry guy duking it out for the hell of it like childe and instead gives him a clear motivation. very cool theory, and im looking forward to seeing if it works out later this year!

[ornj]

This also explains why the researchers in genshin haven't found the common thread between the elements of the Visions users. I mean, not all of them are gonna give their level 10 friendship backstories to a random researcher, yknow?

[racool]

For Lyney, you can also consider the magician his story quest as a sort of father figure who gave him the art of magic

[alirizvi]

Coming back after 5.0 I have to say this theory aged like the finest wine

[luminii]

11:33 I think that Dendro reflects to someone who is passionate about learning new stuff. Nahida was locked up for 500 years, using dreams, or a person’s conscience to go around Sumeru and learn new stuff. Alhaitham is a scholar, more specifically a scribe, always checking documents of the Akademiya. Collei is learning to be a forest ranger, Kaveh is an architect, Kirara is a youkai who works as a delivery person, learning to communicate with humans, and about other nations, Tighnari is a forest ranger himself, researching about mushroom to make handful guide books for adventurers going around in the Sumeru rainforests, he’s also Collei’s teacher. YaoYao is the apprentice of Madam Ping, learning about adepti. While they are other characters related to this mindset, such as Sucrose, Lisa and Faruzan, they focus on other goals, or their backstory is more fitting for other visions. To make it simple for myself, I’m going to explain Faruzan. Faruzan was a popular Haravatat researcher in the Akademiya, who went to the dessert to explore King Deshret’s tomb and the puzzles that are in there. In result, she got trapped there for like 100 years, solving all sort of puzzles to get out of there as soon as possible, yearning for freedom again. While she had the desire to learn of that, the main factor here is that she wanted freedom for herself. After she managed to get out of there, she received her anemo vision, since she achieved her wanted freedom.

I yapped a lot. Too much.

[MonsterDroiid]

Klee will also be a powerful witch like her mom, even her skins is a nod to that

[henoji]

'Passing the torch' is so simple but elegant AND a pun. Theory accepted!

[shoevarnish]

There's also another passing of the torch for lyney!! in his story quest, not a father figure per say, though i still prefer to interpret it that way because it's cool and wholesome, he and lynette went to a famous magician Cesar, who helped them hone their skills at magic tricks. In the story cutscene for lyneys quest you can see Cesar saying magic should be mysterious, suprsing, and logic defying, and lyney repeat that notion in the cutscene. This can be scene as Cesar passing down an ideal of that phrase to lyney, and also the profession of being a magician because he agreed to teach them. In the story quest lyney also does the same trick, although a bit altered, that killed Cesar, so that can be seen as a passing of the torch too!

[seabound]

To think bro was right about the pyro archon changing is kinda crazy