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vv-ispy · 4 months ago

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Crack theory that Decarabian is inspired by Qin Shi Huang, founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor (previous rulers refered to themselves as 'king') of China

In the chinese version, Decarabian is occationally refered to as 孤王 (gūwáng, lone(ly) king) which is a title Qin Shi Huang created for himself for being so high and mighty that normal people cannot come close to him

Qin Shi Huang has been viewed as a tyrant, mostly due to assessments by the Han dynasty that came after

However, he also unified China via standardization of weights and measurement, wheel axels, currencies, written language script, and developed extensive networks of roads and canals for trade and communication. Similar to Decarabian's methodical organization (to the point of micromanagement) of his city

Qin Shi Huang is also known for connecting various state walls built during previous centuries into the precursor to the Great Wall of China for defence against attacks from northern tribes, parallelling Decarabian's tall walls that encircle Old Mondstadt for Safety (or even the storm barrier)

Bonus：

The state of Qin also conquered the six other powerful states in China at the time, ending the Warring States period — so I propose that Decarabian not only preemptively declared himself the seat of the Anemo Archon (which would explain why both he and Venti get refered to as 'wind god') but also the overall victor of the Archon War

#do you think there's historical revisionism in mondstadt? some guy writing 'ya know maybe decarabian wasn't That bad'#'sure he was a tyrant and it was miserable living under him but think about it he organized old mondstadt so effidently'#'he standardized wheel axels and units of measurement! Do you think Barbatos Archon of Freedom who let the Lawrence Clan take power—#— would have done that? We owe our beautiful landscapes and bountiful crops to Barbatos but we too owe the foundations—#— of our society to Decarabian' and then the church of favonius grills him for speaking ill of Barbatos #while Venti reluctantly goes 'I GUESS he has a point but for the record everything would have been standardized after the archon war anyway #'across teyvat even. Everyone uses Mora Decarabian sure didn't standarize THAT one'#anyway qin shi huang apparently also built a network of tunnels and passageway to his over 200 palaces #so mondstadt underground decarabian reminants map expansion When #genshin talk

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