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The Sky of Tevyat, The Irminsul Tree and Summoning Circles
Before we start, here’s a disclaimer. These are just weird things I’ve noticed while playing Genshin Impact. I could literally have no ground to stand on at all. I do not know all the genshin lore so I might point out something that isn’t what it actually is. A lot of this information can be linked to characters that I main so you can excuse me as someone who is biased right away if you so desire. I’ll try to keep this as unbiased as possible though. Some thoughts in this are actually thoughts of my wife @rest-in-bees. This post is me seeing a bunch of dots and connecting then but if you’re looking for a conclusion, there is none.
So I’m sure at some point all of us have looked up at the sky of Tevyat and have gone, huh, that’s the shape of a flower!
I tried to take a clear picture. It was kinda hard. But it’s a ten petaled flower with multiple layers. I at first said ‘oh that’s just the sky programming overlapping and also because of my camera angle, whatever’. And I carried on with my life. I like looking at things from weird angles and messing around with my camera, so I kept looking at this flower and carrying on with my life. Until I noticed that the sky only looked this way in Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma and Forest Sumeru. In Fontaine and Desert Sumeru, the sky doesn’t look like this.
You could just say that they decided to do better for these areas! Mondstadt, Liyue and Inazuma were early on nations and so they have a basic sky that isn’t really well done. At first this is what I believed. But then out of curiosity I decided to see if there are finer tuned details in the Mondstadt sky that would make it seem like they actually somewhat worked on the sky.
The sky does have details to it. Also to test things out I decided to see what it would be like if I ran all the way from the chasm to Desert Sumeru while looking up at the sky. When you enter Desert Sumeru the sky gets incredibly unclear because of ‘sand’?. As soon as you exit this area, the sky is completely different. I thought this was interesting. Of course, we can still argue that this is still nothing significant! Which! True!
Anyway, I mostly thought of this and then let it go. But see, I happen to be a Wanderer main. And so one day while looking up at the sky I decided to mess around and completely flip the camera, which resulted in me staring at Wanderer’s hat.
And I kind of froze because…I was looking at a flower in the sky made of stars, why am I looking at one on Wanderer’s head where there are even dots on the black parts of the hat that look like stars? So then I asked my wife, hey, what kind of Tevyat flower does that look like? A Niloptala Lotus? And she said, maybe? But I think it looks more like a Kalpalata Lotus because it’s layered petals.
Quick Kalpalata Lotus 101. Kalpalata Lotuses are local specialities found in the forest part of Sumeru. They are used as ascension material for Nahida and Dori. The fun thing about the Kalpalata Lotuses is that legend says that they are the first thing to have ever been created in the forest. Their roots are said to be connected to every plant across Tevyat including the Undying Divine tree. Amurta scholars have proven this wrong, but people still believe it. You can find this information in the Genshin Archive under Materials.
So the Amurta scholars disproved this. But then it occurred to me that we do know a plant that has it’s roots connected everywhere across Tevyat. The Irminsul tree. Canonically, their roots are said to cause Leylines and you can find its roots in the form of petrified trees in the Chasm, Dragonspine, Shirokoro Peak, and even Mt. Damavand. The Frost Bearing Tree is considered part of the Irminsul tree as well. But here’s the fun fact. Kalpalata Lotuses are not lotuses. They look like lotuses but they’re actually false. Weird when you connect them to their lore similarities to the Irminsul tree, but then you remember that the Irminsul tree can literally falsify history.
Another thought. We’re told that the sky of Tevyat is fake.
Anyways, needless to say, I started to become drawn to anything that looked even remotely similar to Wanderer’s Hat or the flower in the sky or Kalpalata Lotuses.
This is when I remembered that I’d seen something that looked like Wanderer’s hat before.
Istaroth’s moon dials. They look almost identical to the ring behind Wanderer’s back which is what his hat becomes.
But then I realized that Wanderer’s little ring in his windfavored state reminded me of summoning circles. Namely:
I remembered when Ningguang summoned the Guizhong Ballistas and Venti’s skill. I’m sure there are other characters who have displayed this, I just can’t quite remember them at the moment. So then I thought…interesting? What do other summoning circles look like in game? So I went to go look.
The ones I found in Fontaine look eerily like the same kind of pattern and like Wanderer’s hat. I thought it was really weird that Wanderer’s hat and ring in his windfavored state looked exactly like a summoning circle (this is when I developed a theory that when he tried to erase himself from Irminsul, someone summoned him back and his hat is his summoning circle, but that’s a different post).
And then I remembered.
Venti’s statue in Mondstadt is surrounded by a flower like structure that is nearly identical to the sky flower. And Venti’s statue says ‘The Gateway to Celestia’. And I wondered if maybe it was called that because it’s a giant summoning circle that connects Celestia and Mondstadt.
And then I wondered if Tevyat’s sky above Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma and Forest Sumeru is a giant summoning circle. Which is probably a crazy idea. But. Whatever. I have interesting thoughts sometimes. Time to go work on an extensive post about why Wanderer is incredibly sus character lore wise.
#genshin impact#genshin impact theory#the skies of tevyat are fake#wanderer genshin#scaramouche#irminsul tree#long post#god the post i'll make about wanderer's character lore#being really sus#is gonna be longer#i have many thoughts#but no organization#take this dump of thoughts#god what has the world come to#i'm making genshin impact theory posts#on my tumblr#see#i saw someone talking about the sky on tiktok#but not to this extent and said#fuck no#i'm making this post before someone else beats me to the punch#but i refuse to do this on tiktok#or reddit#so now you guys have to suffer through it#we can pretend i'm a mostly one piece blog#after i'm done with the theory posts
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happy birthday, nahida!! 💚✨💚✨
#my art#genshin impact#nahida#nahida bday art was ofc a neccessity!#the baby... shes freeeeeee#this was originally gonne be a normal tree and then i went Fuck It#Irminsul
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Hey… hey dont cry…. Nahida and wanderer being born from the same tree, ok?
#‘carved from the wood of a white tree’ nahida. elaborate.#mmmhhmmmmm irminsul branch scara 🤤🤤🤤#nahida#wanderer#nahida genshin#wanderer genshin#scaramouche#lodish#genshin impact#genshin
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Charlemagne destroys the Irminsul (details) by Hermann Wislicenus
#hermann wislicenus#art#charlemagne#emperor#irminsul#franks#saxons#frankish#saxon#history#medieval#middle ages#germanic#knights#europe#european#mural#saxon wars#tree#pillar#sacred trees#sacred groves#paganism#christian#christianity#pagan#germany#imperial palace of goslar#holy roman empire#holy roman emperor
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A thing I absolutely adore about Scaramouche is that aesthetically he is a yokai.
The whispers in the background and weirdly flickering screen in his trailer and when the Traveler first meets him in Sumeru.
The way he flies like a ghost from modern horror movies and not like any kind of monk.
The fact his constellation is a kokeshi doll (there’s a popular belief that those dolls were made to hold the souls of murdered unwanted children).
Just the way his story develops, that very specific shift from something horrible and unnatural to bitter and serene beauty (and the fact that you cannot simply kill a yokai, you need to acquire the knowlege of how it was created first). He could have been another episode of Ayakashi/Mononoke series.
He’s not a ghost, he is an artifical creation, and yet it’s so surprisingly fitting. A lot of older yokais are just inanimate things that became animate for one reason or another (sometimes the most ridiculous things like umbrellas, lanterns or scrolls in a badly kept library). And a sentient puppet is technically just that, an inanimate thing made animate. It’s like... the most natural parallel to draw and yet I’ve never seen anyone do that.
Mihoyo, you mad lads.
#I'm not a huge fan of the Inazuma chapter#but with his story I got everything I wanted to see when they announced Inazuma and much more#me happy#also I think he's made from wood of the Irminsul tree#Nahida calls him a cat cut from the branch of a white tree in her fairy tale#and someone refered to Raiden as wooden puppet iirc#or maybe my memory is playing tricks on me#anyway#it's such a great story#scaramouche#genshin#genshin impact#wanderer
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“hey man hows your wips going” zhongli x oc love child
#my art#.oc#original character#oc#oc art#original character art#genshin oc#suyin#shes from the future WHOOAAA#got tangled in leyline roots and was sent into the current genshin timeline#scaramouche messing with the irminsul tree semi confirmed an idea i had for suyin so shoutout to him thanks pookie
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Made in archicad+lumion
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humoring the looping implications from furina's salon solitaire character story.
furina has seen clorinde, navia, lyney, lynette, freminet, chevreuse, & all of fontaine dissolve into the primordial water via the great flood once or twice before but since those memories were taken away from her she doesn't remember them, she only vaguely recognizes that some time looping was present.
#ooc. ( ready...action! )#hc. ( don't look at me... )#the way time works in teyvat is so much fun narrative wise#ei's second quest gave us a perfect example of it#when she planted the sakura tree in present day just for it to bloom in the past & protect inazuma during the cataclysm way back then#time isn't going in a straight line in teyvat#& time is actually the only way one can successfully foil fate#which is why i mourn the method scaramouche tried to take via irminsul#aside from it being reckless & emotionally impulsive of him he also just didn't know so it makes sense taking his circumstances into accoun#istaroth has been helping all of this time#she's helped multiple nations out but it makes me happy that it's heavily implied with inazuma & fontaine#because of how close they're becoming. it's something else that unites them in a way.
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"Sentient plant-things sure suck don't they."
#ic | (heard and loved);#dash | (commentary from the leylines);#era | (giant powerful omniscient tree said go take a vacation probably);#(tonitoni with her irminsul/imaginary tree backer: I Get The Feeling Unfortunately)
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What do you mean “if I have an AU I want to make comics for, I actually have to make the designs and draw the comics???” Why can’t I just magically manifest them into existence??? Anyways, here’s some KevinSu fam and MobiKlein fam designs and concepts for a “Flame Chasers + whoever else is convenient for me get reborn into Genshin and slowly regain their memories from Honkai” AU
Mobius and Klein were Tanit scholars/doctors
(OG Klein is the one on the far left btw. I know I changed a lot of her design elements and I’m not sure how clear that is, so I’m just specifying here. Also, it’s on the side of her belt so idk how well y’all can see it, but she has a hydro vision)
They left the tribe pretty early on (if you’ve played that quest™️, you know why. If you don’t, I’m not gonna spoil it here)
They also left so Mobi could investigate the withering and see if it might have any connections to the Honkai/ see if there was any chance of the Honkai leaking into Teyvat
Klein never got her Honkai memories back, but she still fell in love with Mobi anyways and they’re still lab partners. Mobi got her memories back fairly early on
Klein got Eleazar, so they decided to move from the desert to Sumeru city to seek better medical treatment
She’s fine now and made it through the end of the arcon quest, so she got cured 👍
Mobi is a professor at the academia
Her students are terrified of her
So usual Mobius shenanigans
Being a professor also put her in a position where she’s closer to Irminsul, so she’s content with the situation
The matra know damn well she’s continuing her artificial life experiments, but they can’t prove shit so she’s in the clear
Alhaitham was the first successful clone baby she made, Klein jr was the second
The thing Elysia did to Su’s arm stuck through the reincarnation, so Su got his memories back very early on
He grew up on the same block as Fu Hua over in Liyue harbor, but she didn’t get her memories back until her late teens
Su grew up hearing a lot of stories about the chasm, and he was worried that it might have something to do with the Honkai
But he didn’t actually have the clearance to investigate that, so had to go to Sumeru Academia to get the research clearance only to find out about Eleazar and the Withering and get significantly more anxious
Imagine his face after being told he has to go through med school again lmao (at least there’s legitimately different illnesses and treatments in Teyvat, so he does have something new to learn)
Anyways, he ran into Mobi and Kevin at the Academia
Kevin grew up in Mondstad and got his memories back in his early 20s. He moved to Sumeru city because he thought it’d be the place with highest chance of him running into someone he knows so that they can explain wtf is going on
Kevin and Su got married somewhere along the way I guess, but that’s not important right now
Anyways, Mobius basically stole their genes off their clothes or something so she wouldn’t have to use any of Klein’s in the prototypes for her experiments
Alhaitham was the first successful artificial life she made and she just sorta handed him off to Kevin and Su and they both sorta just “aight, guess we have a kid now”
Mobius still got to be his grandma though and watched him a lot while Kevin and Su (well, Su mostly. Kevin was there more as a bodyguard) were off doing research in the chasm (which is why Alhaitham is the way he is)
#honkai impact#genshin impact#what this AU totally isn’t an excuse to point out signs that the Honkai is leaking into Genshin what are you talking about#this is a reminder that all Irminsul trees in Teyvat are connected and part of the same tree (read: the imaginary tree probably)#so I don’t want to see a single ‘um actually- none of this is related at all’#especially since this is mostly me having fun with an AU fanfic#but ya interesting that the things plaguing Sumeru (a nation named after tech from Honkai) are withering and a disease that transforms peopl#this is a reminder that Honkai roughly translates to ‘decay’#Klein: a girl so boobless and assless you could skip her like a prized stone#ya I ignore the canon models a lot and y’all are just gonna have to get use to that#no mantis genes here so Mobi and Klein are just old here#they’re both between 40-60#Klein looks a bit older though cuz chronic illness is a bitch and ages you#I’d be so happy if I got any asks about this AU ngl#honkai su#kevin kaslana#alhaitham#honkai mobius#Honkai Klein
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✧ @delusionaid & @jueying asked: [ META ] + home
Dain has a complicated relationship with the concept of home dating back since relatively-peaceful days in Khaenri'ah that he spent. There is no doubt that he sees it as his homeland and its people something precious to protect and to feel a sense of pride for all the achievements the sum of people who lived in the kingdom accomplished, and that he still feels strongly for it as there is a new official artwork of him holding an inteyvat in his hand, a symbol of the tenderness of home as well as a flower that blooms in a place that is incompatible with life (flora and fauna unless artificially made), ergo against all odds. Nevertheless, it is also a place of conflict with his own beliefs as nuanced in Chiori's miscellany, where he says that one must follow the law established in a land regardless of the beliefs you have. To me, this is telling that he knows Khaenri'ah isn't an idyllic home and that he still chose to stay and protect its people, all of them and not just the aristocracy.
Since the moment Khaenri'ah was destroyed, it's safe to say that he lost the home he had and it's possible that he learned more from its darkness as years passed, either on his own or during his dispute against the Abyss Order since its conception. He's a nomad with a mission, going from one place to the next with nowhere to really stay and call his home anymore. Nevertheless, due to his connection with Irminsul —spiritual, I'd say—, lingering a little while under the glow of trees that are reminiscent of the holy tree or the very tree itself (there are descriptions of a kingdom established at the roots of Irminsul which may or may not be Khaenri'ah, if it is, then it would give another layer of homesickness to him), where he feels at ease and safe from any external danger until he's done resting.
Going a little further with this and playing with the concept of realm of consciousness or memory palace, Dain's own is an entire field of inteyvat flowers under a gentle true sky (as a sign that he knows of the source of all fate and can look past the layer of false sky created possibly by Phanes to act as an hermetic layer around Teyvat) that changes from hues associated with day to night and Irminsul.
#delusionaid#jueying#it's been always a headcanon of mine#that he lingers in places with emanations of Irminsul#like the weeping willow for example#the lunar tree in L.iyue and so on#but never thought about that little detail of perhaps K.haenri'ah#being established at its roots#and thus giving Dain another reason to feel at ease there#feels aside— thank you for sending these to you both ♥︎
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a thought process. Scaramouche could be made out of sakura tree wood. following that logic. maybe he can grow sakura flowers. like a sakura flower crown. he cannot control this.
KSBDJSBF That cursed doll thing with their hair growing longer, except it's flowers and Scara is like those grass head thingies you water and stuff. Not even Dottore could keep the flowers at bay, so it's another reason to wear the hat besides being too pretty for this world
Also, I know it's probably wisteria– but imagine the flowers growing in a way that looks like Makoto's hairpiece
#ask#moops#genshin impact#I think I remember reading somehwere that he's made of wood from a white tree aka likely irminsul#and like y'know what flowers it makes. boon blossoms.#you beat him up and he just drops mora and exp books everywhere#but honestly as funny as that would be‚ a more bluish purple shade of sakura flowers would looks nice on him
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A little about Dokuro family, and a bit about the world of this story.(OC)
Dokuro is a family that must work as watchmakers for 100 generations and protect Irminsul from the Worms of Nothingness because of the deal with Irminsul.
Irminsul - The tree into the nowhere. Looks like a balloon. It is not clear where it came from or how, but each branch of this tree is a world (canon) from each branch leaves grow and then they are transforming into new branches (AU). The tree grows forever. The basis(the core) is the "our" world, no one from outside can get there. Watchmakers are the function of the tree to regulate its growth and care. They are creatures created by the tree. Worms of Nothingness are the timeless dead worlds and creatures from them.
Branches of the tree (history) - worlds what is created by the minds of people from the "our" world, acquires a real shell as a brunch and nourishes Irminsul so that it doesn't disappear (I think it is possible to say that Irminsul lives on the imagination of those people who live in its core). Each story goes on its own track. Which means a thoughtful plot. The task of watchmakers is to give stories the opportunity to grow and be finished (mostly to reach the intended end). Nonexistent worms eat the important for the plot things and the task of watchmakers is not to let Nothing-worms eat the world/ if the world is eaten, then guide it in another way (that is why stories can have strange twists of the plot)/follow the story to the end (though sometimes they are idiotic). The more the franchise is, the more it’s worth protecting, because Irminsul will get more nutrients from it. But don't forget about small ones, because corrosion begins with small. If the author doesn't have a clear plot/world/character structure, then they will be very weak to resist the nothing-worms. The Nothing-worms aspire to the main branches (canon), the small ones (au) protect it. First the worms pass through Au, and then proceed to the canon. It’s the watchmakers' job to stop them.
Nothing-worms (Worms of Nothingness, what fool coined this name?) - the remnants of vanished worlds that fused together. Driven by the desire to return to the original state, therefore devour living worlds. Practically have no consciousness.
Chronologists (in the common people - watchmakers) - the union subordinate to Irminsul, monitor the course of stories, protect the stories from the Nothing-worms, correct the stories devoured by the Nothing-worms, evacuate those stories that can no longer be corrected.
Dokuro En and Dokuro Mina, survivors of one of the eaten worlds, became watchmakers because they concluded that this was a best way to protect themselves and their family (what was left of it). Made a deal with Irminsul, and now a hundred generations (including themselves) need to work as watchmakers to protect Irminsul, and in return the tree gives them the strength and the ability to protect their family.
The Plot - there is no plot yet, but it is likely to be a collection of stories about the lives of some characters from these 100 generations.
#oc#Dokuro family#so Dokuro family AU is about multiverse where my OC'es play one of the main role and travel between a lot of stories to regulate them#and some characters from this stories became the part of the family trough the adoption or birth#Mina is really greedy character she wants interesting characters become her children or grandchildren#and this desire permeates 100 generations after her#people write their characters into canon#and I write other characters into my canon#my english is still suck#reverso context is my blessing#Worms of Nothingness? who have no taste in naming? I have no taste in naming#I also have no ideas how to name the three so just named it Irminsul as the tree full of information#genshin corrupted my brain
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@snowtombedstar &&. said... Tem would simply love to replace the tassels on his hat with something a little more festive. Red-and-white diagonal stripes like candy canes, perhaps? Or one red, and one green? And some ornaments to hang from the brim, as well!
❝ ... ❞ head swivels to and fro — as if attempting to survey the DAMAGE. something seems to emit a festive little jingle from the movement, though the wanderer's attempts to discern WHAT only serve to rattle the blasted thing around all the more. he doesn't make much of an effort to involve himself with mortal holidays; after so many centuries of existence, they all become a bit bland. ( an indecipherable blur of excuses to drink and be merry. ) perhaps this is meant to be some form of PUNISHMENT, whether at tem's behest or simply fate itself, for being such a miserable killjoy year after year after year. assuming that is the case, ren can only imagine he has all the more reason to DETEST IT.
a heavy sigh escapes the wanderer's lips — purely performative, as most things are. carefully ( as to not break any of the absurd little trinkets ) he extracts the kasa from his head. nose wrinkles slightly as he's finally, finally able to get a good look at what's been done to his beloved hat. talk about a yuletide tragedy ...
❝ here. ❞ unceremoniously, he drops it atop tem's head instead. ❝ if you want to be festive so badly, you can wear it. ❞
#snowtombedstar#( this becomes extra funny when you consider he's partially made out of irminsul wood )#( she decorated him like the tree he is smh JVKJS )
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Mondstat - Freedom/Stories
Liyue - Contracts/Mora
Inazuma - ?
Sumeru - Memories/Dreams
#genshin impact#aranara literally run on memory power#dendro archon irminsul tree scaramouche memory tampering#pari plume of light return memories to amrita pool#but also to aranara forgetting is kind of scary#which they have reasons for#versus mihir 'i hope we're all forgotten.'#which she also has reaons for#but the. juxtaposition?#don't want to forget/want to be forgotten#i've only just got the first song though we'll see how this really goes#whatshisname sus#inazuma is so far away from everything and there's no real. interrogation? of the Raiden Shogun#literally everyone is like 'i'm sure she had her reasons :)'#we don't get to see her from different angles really#authority/ambition?#her authority is absolute#she gives the visions (ambitions) back to the people
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also like okay whatever i guess the fatui have always just been fucking around n trying to destabilise nations i suppose. maybe they just didn’t think abt the stealing gnosis idea until after 400 years of failing to do the first thing lol
#x#gi posting#but also like why. does destabilising inazuma get back at celestia specifically#is it a taste of their own medicine thing. payback for khaenriah#soooo curious abt what exactly the tsaritsa was doing during the cataclysm that drove her to this ngl. was she there at khaenriah ?? did she#stay back for some reason?? whom knows#also at this point i feel like half the archons didn’t even GO to khaenriah when they were called by celestia lmfaoooo#like we know. actually we don’t know. did venti go?#zhongli can’t say but i’m taking that as a yes#raiden ei wasn’t but makoto was#rukkhadevata didn’t go bc she was at the irminsul tree trying to protect it#i gotta assume they’ll reveal that the hydro and pyro archons Were there bc otherwise the numbers will be weirdly skewered towards actually#none of these dudes except like 2 went lol
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