#i LOVE elynas my favorite beast!!!!!!

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isnt elynas confirmed to be a dragon bc neuv is his reincarnation (i know they used other word but i really dont remember) like hes pretty much confirmed go be a sovereign right??

Elynas is not the same creature as the hydro sovereign, elynas is a creature made by Gold/Rhinedottir just like durin. In the quest where the traveler gets to talk to his consciousness he explains himself that he was some kind of formless being floating across the darkness (likely somewhere in the abyss) until "mother" found him and gave him a body and brought him to teyvat (and he mentions having multiple "brothers" as well as having some mild form of control over abyssal energy even after his body died and only his consciousness stuck around since he uses said control over abyssal energy to generate the breacher primus species at some point after the melusines' unintentional creation in order to have them protect the melusines as well as his carcass where they built their village). Also the properties of his blood get compared by in-game logs to those of the blood of durin too so we can guess he's yet another one of gold's fucked up alchemy experiments

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Ultimate NPC Tournament: Round 3

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Elynas:

He's so sweet. The Ancient Colors world quest was probably my favorite quest because of him. He cares so much about his family (a bunch of melusine who spawned from his decaying corpse). He cares so much about his visitors, and feels sad that his body seems to be toxic and threatening to them. He just wants to play and make friends but his definition of fun and beautiful is so unconventional that he ends up hurting people. If I remember correctly he's implied to be created by Gold which would make him Albedo and Durin's sibling as well. He's a giant dragon. He's an island. He's known to many humans as a beast. He's a system of caves flourishing with life. He's got biohazardous but very useful blood. He's a ghost. He's disembodied but still capable of controlling some elements of his body and communicating with melusine. He's an enormous terror with absolutely benevolent intention. He's just a little guy. In his mind scape he takes the shape of a melusine because he thinks the life that sprung from his decaying body is so beautiful. he's my favorite character ever.

Jeht (& Jebrael):

Actually has a really compelling character arc. Also is loved enough that she got Valentine's Day art despite being an NPC which is iconic on its own

Unironically has a better multi part quest than the majority of archon and character quests. The fact that her story doesnt end on "oh her father died now she must continue his legacy" is genuinely refreshing. Also her second quest where she takes revenge with the traveller is my absolute favourite quest. All that and I'm always right and never wrong.

She’s the protagonist of multiple World Quests, and the Traveler is merely a side character. attracted to F!Traveler, but never to M!Traveler. Killed a guy who tried to force her to marry him. Traumatized to hell and back. Committed genocide. Fully deserves to be a playable character.

LOOK AT THEIR STORY, LOOK AT THEIR LORE. LOOK AT HOW MUCH GOOD IN THE WORLD THEY WISH FOR. Fr tho. The tragic father and daughter of all time I need THERAPY

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anyway, fontaine world quests spoilers, but since Elynas is now my favorite sweet child, here is a little summary\speculations in case ppl mb did not catch some details from the quests and about abyss lore:

Elynas is the monster from the Abyss, some kind of dragon or a serpent. He is gigantic and Elynas island basically formed around him.

He existed in "cosmic cold", i.e. Abyss, until "Mother" summoned him and his "siblings". We know from the logs of fontaine fleet which was following "great beast Elynas" that he appeared during the cataclysm 500 years ago. As we know, Rhinedottir was known to open portals to Abyss that let abyss monsters in, so logically, Elynas was one of these, and "Mother" is most likely Rhinedottir and siblings are other monsters summoned.

Like other Rhine's creation, Durin, Elynas was actually very good natured and didn't wish to harm anyone, but apparently his abyssal origin made him see the world differently and the actions he thought were harmless, were in fact destructive to this world. Spoilers for "Book of Esoteric knowledge", in the domain at the end of this quest we learn that Melusines see places corrupted by abyss not as ruined, but as a beautiful garden and abyssal rifthounds as friendly puppies. And in fact, after we fight rifthound here, it also turns into a friendly dog, hinting that ALL abyss monsters are well-natured, but there is some kind of warp going on that shifts their perspective\actions when they enter Teyvat into being destructive, while they see it completely differently.

after some time, Elynas realized that he was in fact, damaging the world around him, which saddened him greatly and he intentionally sought death to stop suffering of others. He was killed most likely by the fontaine fleet that followed him which i mentioned before, but its not stated directly. He died, but his consciousness still lingered and he is basically aware of his body and whats going on around.

After his death, he didn't rot, but calcified, and apparently many factions, including abyss order, Narzissenkreuz Institute and "spirit of primordial waters" (oceanid? hydro dragon?) explored his body and were collecting his blood and flesh, for which he was glad bc he felt lonely and liked to have company. Especially he liked Narzissenkreuz's Jakob, bc he felt the presence of same cold cosmic power (i.e. abyss) in him and so thought that consuming his flesh will be good for him. Jakob as we know, turned into "Inquitous Baptist" after this, but Narzissenkreuz drama is a different story. But we can at least intuit that one way of turning into abyss lectors\heralds\etc is consuming abyss monsters flesh\blood, btw hey Childe, can we have a word of how you got your foul legacy form? did u eat that whale, Childe???

At some point, there was a battle between former friends from Narzissenkreuz Institute inside of Elynas (mentioned before as Narzissenkreuz drama), which led to huge explosion. As result of this, wounds inside of Elynas were opened by explosions, and Melusines were created from them. Elynas was delighted, thought of them as his children and shaped them into what he thought was a beautiful form. They could hear him telepathically at first and he used this to guide and teach them, but with time, most of them lost this ability. The only one who can still hear him, Mamere, is able to do so because she paints with his blood (she doesn't know its his blood ofc), and so has prolonged contact with him. He still loves them and cares for them deeply.

Jakob tried to restart Elynas' heart with unknown goal, but Elynas didn't want to come back to life, stating that doing so would mean he will keep harming the world, which he doesn't want to. He appeared to traveler in the spirit form in a shape of Melusine bc he thinks they are cute:3 He dreams of being able to exist in the world without damaging it and to show traveler his true form eventually

i did not yet find all 13 pages for "Book of Esoteric Knowledge" quest, so here is probs more info to follow, but I think this is overall what we know of Elynas for now

oh, another thing is that every Melusine was born with a "token", which they don't know what it is, but highly treasure. Elynas doesn't mention them. This token can power a mechanical dog tho and dog calls it "power source". Elynas does mention many "mechanical animals" in the battle that resulted in explosion, so mb these power sources from exploded mechanisms interacting with abyss flesh were the triggers for creation of Melusines? Open question for now, hope to have these Eldritch NFTs explained later