#bc im doing so poorly in the corresponding theory course

[galescafe]

i'm going to crash tf out you can't just change formulas willy nilly to make your answers make sense

[gold-rhine]

okay, so while i think huge amount of your points are unconfirmed, debatable, i personally have no idea where you took from or straight up textually incorrect, for example, we know for a fact that sovereign authority (Sovereignty as you call it) was NOT turned into gnosis, bc gnoses were created much later, after the war with new descender (from neuvi's visions story), out of the remnants of third descender (from skirk). sovereign authority is actually contained within archon thrones, which is why neuvi regained his full authority after focalors destroyed hydro throne, but hydro gnosis still exists and neuvi doesn't care about it at all.

anyway, i'm not here to fact check other ppl's theories, you do you, i'm going to address one point where you argue with my actual post.

"leylines are a thing of Human Realm, while the other realms have their corresponding currents." - what are your sources for this? i'm not going to talk in terms of "realms", bc i think this is incredibly poorly defined thing in genshin at this point where we dont know actual properties, but we have textual evidence that vishaps are directly connected to leylines. in teyvat. we know it from azhdaha quest, bc the reasons for his madness was that humans disrupted leylines with excessive mining, we know that from neuvi, who controls all of waters in TEYVAT, not some dragon realm, and who could sense emotions from flow of all waters in the world even before he regained authority, we have Erinnyes where hydro vishap asks us to cleanse local leylines from abyss corruption, and more lesser examples. we have no evidence that dragon's powers and connections are restricted to "dragon realm" and they are not connected to the same leylines as the rest of teyvat.

EDIT: i said im not gonna say anything else, but your statement that "also besides Hydro Vishaps and Oceanids whose Sovereign (Neuvilette) still has the control over Primordial Water (and previously Egeria did and she seemed not to have any issues against dragons though don’t quote me on that) and the Dendro Fungi directly related to Apep, we know no other dragon descendants who can learn human speech either. Neither the geovishaps, nor most fungi including the fungi that now have personal training buddies in Sumeru." is driving me insane. Azhdaha yapped more than zhongli - geo vishap. Dvalin is there in Act 1 archon quest, talking - anemo. Abyss dragons, elynas and durin, talking perfectly well even without human contact btw. these are all in archon quests and related, not some obscure lore. we see pyro dragons talk in natlan flashbacks quests. the only ones we didn't see talk are electro dragons, bc we never met one. like?? second, dendro fungi are not all related to apep. the point was that some of the apep children took fungi form to survive, its an adaptation mechanism. of course the rest of fungi can't talk, they are not vishaps.

another thing, if natlan had leyline tree and it was destroyed (or mostly destroyed), can this be reason saurians are less intelligent than vishaps? like they are smarter than animals, but dont seem fully sentient and they can't talk! we know all vishaps are as smart as humans and can learn human speech, given enough time they turn into sophisticated yappers, but every vishap can learn to talk given exposure to humans, not just powerful and old ones. in enkanomiya they did experiments on vishaps and found out that any vishap can learn human speech at least on a child's level and they will improve with time. we meet a hydro vishap shapeshifted into melusine on Erinnyes who doesn't even have a lot of human exposure and still can talk and cooperate with humans.

so how is that saurians live with humans their entire lives and still can't communicate more productively than "rawr!!" ???? how is that the natlan's dragon quest that no one could pass in 500 years is just simple actions like walk through a room and touch a thing?? it would not be hard for any vishap to do, you didn't need a close friendship bond to do quests together with Erinnyes' vishap, bc like. thats a person, you just communicate what you want from them and they do it, its not hard! what was done to pyro vishaps to turn them into saurians