#why is kaeya always connected to something important and hoyoverse never gives him screen time

[wanderer-moonchild]

As usual, when endgame lore drops, Kaeya’s stans go crazy with their theories bc our boy’s lore is pretty complicated and could fill an entire book. So, here’s my very long essay on it.

As much as Pierro’s design has similarities to Kaeya’s, I don’t think he is his father. At least, not with the amount of information we have about them.

According to the pale flame artifact, he was a sage who failed to earn the favor of the previous ruler and, somehow, he and Tsaritsa connected. “Then I shall become instead a fool, a Fatuus, and devote myself to Her Majesty, who understands my pain...”

Pierro’s main goal seems to be to challenge the divine principles in order to create a new world order. “Let us don our masks in mockery of the world as we go forth and rewrite the rules of destiny.”

He also wants to cleanse the abyss, where the cursed Khaenri’ahns live, and the Abyss Order carry their own plans. As we know so far, they are: create a mechanical god to match the god’s powers, revive the homeland and break Celestia’s curse. "Let the darkness of corruption, the pain of the world, and the humans, beasts, and the sin they carry all be purified by silent ice."

In the Wise Doctor's Pinion from the Pale Flame set, which has to do with Dottore and Pierro's relationship, it says that Pierro asked Dottore to create "improved humans" (experiments with god residue  as we’ve seen in the webtoon) and he even alluded to the possibility of creating a god-like being.

Fundamentally, the goals of the Fatui and the Abyss Order are the same and will have a similar outcome. Whoever succeeds in destroying the gods will create a completely different world. Perhaps these events will be similar to the Archon War.

The abyss sibling has emotional ties to Khaenri’ah and not only wants to overthrow the gods, but also to bring back their homeland so they can live a dignified life again.

Pierro, on the other hand, has apparently cut ties with his people who “ushered in a tide of wrath, destruction and foolishness” and devoted himself to Tsaritsa because she understood his pain. The fact that Pierro quickly turned to serve another royal leads me to believe that he fits the role of an advisor rather than a ruler.

What about Kaeya, then?

He was placed in Mondstadt as an agent of Khaenri’ah – not of the Abyss Order, not of the fatui. Plus, his lore seems to have more to do with the abyss than with the fatui:

The dwarf Alberich, which is Kaeya’s surname, is known as the ‘ruler of supernatural beings’. He appears in several epic German tales and, in the 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', he steals gold from the Rhine maidens to forge a ring that grants him this power. You know, Rhinedottir, Albedo’s creator who also goes by Gold???

Kaeya’s second constellation ‘Never-Ending Performance’ has the same name as Childe’s boss battle theme (chaeya confirmed).

Kaeya’s attacks are similar to those of Abyss Mages and Abyss Lectors.

Kaeya was the first person to tell the traveler about the Abyss Order’s leader, which I think is VERY SUS. The traveler and the anemo archon went off to deal with the Stormterror, leaving Kaeya to deal with a supposed attack by the Abyss Order that no one but him witnessed?? Even Amber was like “Kaeya is lazy and left me and the Knights alone to defend Mondstadt >:(“. The way Kaeya talks about this it’s also incredibly sus. He says he is blessed with “linguistic powers”, and later we learn that he can speak hilichurlian????

 ALSO, why would he tell the traveler, someone he barely knows, this important information? Sure, the traveler helped them and is the honorary knight, but… I don’t know, Kaeya certainly didn’t entirely trust them as we saw in his story quest, so that seems a little too convenient to me. Maybe he met the abyss sibling and was instructed to tell the traveler about it?

And that’s all I can think of right now.

I don’t think Kaeya works for the Abyss Order, though. It could be that there’s a 3rd group of Khaenri’ahns hanging around somewhere and they have closer ties to the abyss than to the surface, but they aren’t part of the Abyss Order.

A)

Dainsleif is one of the reasons I think that. He was the captain of the royal knights, and, in the chasm quest, he says that he went back to the castle after telling the knights to protect the people of Khaenri’ah. 

However, Dainsleif seems to not be aware of Kaeya’s existence and, somehow, he became closer to the abyss sibling rather than to the royal family, who he was supposed to serve.

Perhaps the royal family had already fled when he arrived at the castle, so he doesn’t know anything about their whereabouts? Perhaps that was the time when he and the abyssal sibling became closer? IDK, something must've happened in that short period of time.

B)

The other reason is the Abyss Corridor in the Spiral Abyss, which is known to connect worlds and was built by an ancient civilization long gone. What if the royal family fled to the Abyss Corridor when the gods attacked Khaenri’ah? Or they moved to the Abyss Corridor after Khaenri’ah fell into the abyss bc living there became impossible?

In his story, it says: “Kaeya's father squeezed his son's lean shoulders as he spoke, seemingly looking right through Kaeya to some place far beyond. On the other side of the horizon sat their distant homeland of Khaenri'ah.”

Hoyoverse could’ve said ‘ruins of Khaenri’ah’, or even mention something about Khaenri’ah being underground, but they didn’t. So, Khaenri’ah is still definitely a place somewhere and people who've received a curse similar to Kaeya probably live there.

SO…

In short, the characters from Khaenri'ah are all connected and have similar goals, but we lack information about how they relate to each other. Personally, I don't think Pierro and Kaeya are directly related because much of Kaeya's lore points to the abyss (not necessarily the Abyss Order) instead of the fatui, but perhaps Hoyoverse has an interesting way to connect them.