[2.8] Kusanali & Sumeru Speculations - A Genshin Impact Theory

ley lines are the root of all of davot's problems literally because they're you know roots but if you think about it everything from abnormalities in domains to the weather to time itself gets messed up when you mess with these things so if you haven't been paying attention to them now is the time to start yeah i know what the video title says i know it says sumaru speculations but listen if you want the sumo of speculations you're going to need to sit through the next couple of minutes of explanatory lead line laura all right this stuff is super important and it's only gonna get more important as we go along so here we go now ley lines might sound complicated and mysterious but they're actually really simple if you picture a giant tree encompassing the whole planet and then picture magic tree roots weaving in and out of the entire planet and then imagine that the tree does not photosynthesize via light and water but instead uses elemental energy and data then you're mostly halfway there you can think of this whole tree and root network as something like the planet's circulatory or vascular system if the tree stops pumping or processing the energy within it the planet will likely shrivel and die likewise if you missed the leyline's rupture one or clog it up the energy and data within it will manifest as abnormalities usually known as leyline disorders you can find these inside of domains or in regions like surumi or leyline tree has been completely destroyed disturbing a ley line is very similar to cutting into a blood vein and you don't really want to bleed out as a person you know and so the ley line system doesn't want to bleed out its ley line energy either and things get weird if it does okay so that's basically the tldr and if you're not with me so far i highly recommend that you rewind a little bit and listen to that part again you will need to understand this concept before we move on to the next part now at this point in the game we haven't actually had like a really big in your face description explanation of what the ley lines do or what they're capable of everything that we know comes from little subtle nods hints and suggestions that are riddled throughout a ton of different quests of these the most blatant instance of what they actually can do comes from a second story quest wherein the damaged ley lines allowed memory data to leak out and manifest as semi-sentient apparitions of soldiers from 500 years ago the leaks were small and minor so the apparitions didn't last very long but they were still aware of their surroundings and you could interact with them even though they'd been dead for 500 years that means they're a bit more robust than you know like a like a pre-recorded hologram for example and if i'm remembering things correctly i believe this was the first time we actually had concrete instances of the ley lines actually manifesting into something somewhat real and physical and tangible this is important because you see as of making this video we're in the middle of the second version of the golden apple archipelago now last year the island got turned into a summertime bomb camp for clee courtesy of alice but this year well this year the islands were invaded by some future that wanted to test out a crazy machine that went haywire and basically ruptured a leyland which actually caused actual pieces of some characters memories and imaginations to manifest as real physical spaces which was weird but cool by the end of it i thought it was just going to be like a cool little easter egg kind of thing you know but but then at the end of the quest we had our dodo communicator hijacked by none other than [Music] the dendro archon herself little miss kusanali by the way this is definitely kusanali i know they called her nahidah but like nahida is exactly one letter off of anahita which is a very common variant of the name anahita which is a very important goddess from a bunch of different regions found throughout the entire persian empire which still appears to be the primary but not only inspiration from which subaru is based off of now remember this we're gonna come back to her anywho kusanali tells us that while remotely investigating a power anomaly that felt very related to her own abilities keywords there she discovered us and decided to have a little bit of fun she utilized and manipulated the fetu machine's malfunction to craft these so-called mirages based off of the memories and personalities of each of the traveler's friends kusanali calls them dreams though which is scary because that implies that she can use ley line energies to make dreams into reality seriously though the act of calling leyline manifestations dreaming is a little concerning because as you may recall in the travail trailer danesliff has this famous line in the perpetual meantime of a sheltered eternity most are content to live and not to dream but in the hidden corners where the god's gaze does not fall there are those who dream of dreaming and most of the things danes lift says are related to conriya cause well you know that's his faction but i have to point out that the final chapter of gentian impact is titled a dream yet to be dreamed so basically the dendroarcon's power is dream-based like kind of like how morax you know governs over contracts or venti governs over freedom they have like a tangible aspect in their element and then they have an intangible aspect in their like values or ideals or whatever you have that makes dendro the archon of dreams right but i want to remind you that dreams equate with hopes wishes and ambitions you know the things that visions are supposed to be based off of now visions grant elemental powers as far as we can tell anyway and elemental energy flows through the ley lines alongside the memories of the entire world and the ley lines are the roots of a giant invisible inverted tree and the dendro element is based off of plant life okay so let's assume elemental energy is just energy right and memories are just data or sets of instructions on how energy should be or could be manipulated kind of like a blueprint or a recipe going by the recipe metaphor that would make energy like your ingredients that you would cook with right so there's this really famous dude that you may have heard about he goes by the name of einstein and he came up with this really famous mathematical equation e equals mz squared which basically says that energy and mass are interchangeable i know that's kind of a gross over generalization but just roll with me if energy and mass are interchangeable to a degree then if you had an infinite amount of energy to draw from and a blueprint or a recipe to work from in the form of memory data you could theoretically literally manifest anything you wanted to you could make the intangible tangible you could convert all of the elemental energy into something physical based on blueprints laid out by someone's memories all of which reside or at least accessible through the ley line network which is part of the world tree now here's the next fun thing sumeru is called the nation of wisdom a nation that prides itself in its academic achievements to the point where none of them are able to dream anymore which is weird when you consider the fact that kusanali their archon is associated with dreaming even her statue of seven has her sleeping so she's napping look at her now all of these people of wisdom are hooked up to what appears to be a cloud server type thing like a network it all happens through these little earpieces right now they call this the akasha system now akasha might actually be referencing the akashic records which are records printed upon the akasha or like the astral light plane kind of thing now if you'd never heard of the akashic record before let me give you a little bit of context okay to quote britannica because i really couldn't phrase this any better the akashic records are a compendium of pictorial records or memories of all events actions thoughts and feelings that have ever occurred since the beginning of time they are said to be imprinted on the akasha the astral light which is described by spiritualists as a fluid ether existing beyond the range of human senses akasha allegedly transmits the waves of human willpower thought feeling and imagination and it's a reservoir of occult power an ocean of unconsciousness to which all are linked making prophecy and clairvoyance possible now does that sound like my definition of ley lines from earlier or doesn't it because i'm pretty sure that's like a much better definition of what i just described the ley lines to be except it's lacking the vasculatory system but that's kind of inconsequential at this point this leads me to only one conclusion and that is that the ley lines are the akashic record the akasha system is recording data directly into the system itself at the cost of the wearer's inability to dream and dreaming is how you come up with new ideas innovate and bring forth new things into reality is that not weird because this thing is also apparently powered by the dendro archons gnosis which is the second instance of us actually learning about what a gnosis even does which is concerning and if you think the craziness ends there you are absolutely kidding yourself because the in chinese the characters that they use for the akasha system line up with the characters used for void and in hong kai impact there happens to be this giant magic repository of all or at least most human knowledge contained in a single pocket-sized golden cube and this cube is known as the void archives now the void archives is notably a divine key in possession of hong kai's primary human antagonist otto apocalypse now why is this relevant you may ask it's because of najida well kusanali because who are we kidding see kusanali here is 100 without a doubt a reference to teresa apocalypse otto's adopted granddaughter who was basically a clone of the woman he once loved colin kaslana colin is extremely important to otto as she's basically his motivation for everything he does so this is kind of a big deal well uh trees are kind of funny you know as an element here because you can kind of just cut off a still living branch or you know sprout and force it to regrow roots and just plant it as a brand new tree this is a method that will effectively clone the original tree so if kusanali is supposed to be a plant archon right associated with plants and trees and grasses and everything else and she's also supposed to be a reference to theresa apocalypse who was a clone of colin kaslana then it's very possible here that the previous dendro archon was supposed to be a reference to colin kaslana that means ruka davada is colin kazlana or was right so where's otto in all of this i'm pretty sure he's in the desert here's my thinking kusanali for a long time really confused me in her design because she doesn't look particularly persian or north african or southeast asian she's just she kind of just looks like lumine in cosplay a little bit like her outfit has a lot of nods to lumine stress a lot of them and that's very strange because the last three argons that we had had a lot of cultural references within their designs and clothing like i know zhang li is mostly just wearing a suit but he's covered in dragon motifs and a lot of little tiny design elements that are very very very chinese or at least you know luin then venti is wearing a german bard outfit from medieval periods and a is wearing some kind of rendition of a japanese kimono-like thing so i it felt really weird that kusanali didn't look like any of this at all and then i had two thoughts kusanali might actually be a reference to the egyptian child god konsu now kansu was a lunar deity said to have been the son of moot and amun and he was generally depicted as green skinned in white clothing with a side lock to symbolize his youth these design elements kind of fit kusanali she's got a white dress green accents and she's got the side lock so she's really just missing the moon association for right now however you've got the moon which is equated with night time and night time is equated with sleeping and sleeping is equated with dreaming so maybe that's it i don't know but it's a little weird interestingly kansu was associated with the other lunar deity thoth who was also important because thoth is considered to be the father of alchemy and it was supposedly him who created the fabled emerald tablet as the whole as above so below foundational principles of alchemy itself which by the by was called kemia in egypt and i don't need to tell you why kemi is important do i because if i do yeah i don't think you've been paying very much attention what i'm getting at here though is if kusanali is in fact related in any way to konsu then she's probably related to thoth which makes her related to the art of chemia which is related to chondria which is related to this whole foundational principle of creating something from nothing or transmuting one thing into another which goes all the way back to this idea of energy and mass being interchangeable so long as you have a blueprint which by the way is how we get new alchemy recipes also worth noting that kansu's name means traveler which in any other circumstances wouldn't be noteworthy except that kusanali's clothing has a lot of subtle nods to lumine's design now it's heavily speculated that the twins came from the original civilization of tevat the unified civilization under the rule of the primordial one which has the architecture that we see in the chasm and encanomia if they are in fact from this era then their clothing should theoretically reflect it now incidentally the unified civilization is thought to be based on ancient greece since gnosticism has greek roots and narcissism is also the core inspiration of this entire game that implies that kusanali's outfit is less a reference to the persian empire and more a reference to the unified civilization's rendition of ancient greece okay so that means kusanali's inspiration should be both konsu and ancient greece slash lu mean slash unified civilization all right so if we go back to kansu for a second and take a look at his parents we're gonna see that he was the son of moot who was a primordial deity who was held in really high regard she was said to have helped create all life from the primordial waters which helps tie the whole anahita water goddess theme together you know with najida and kusanali right yeah now sometimes moot was considered amun's consort and sometimes she wasn't this ambiguity kind of suits otto and colin's one-sided weird little relationship type thing that they have going on now a moon is best known as amun ra after his merger with the sun god raw and raw was considered to be the one who ruled the entire world at some point during his stint in the underworld however raw was merged with osiris this is notable because in these temples in the desert we do see some references to osiris now if we happen to see more statues of a god with the head of a ram it is game over the temple will have been built for amun ra or for sure or whatever amun-ra-esque type related deity that we have because the ram was one of his most iconic forms now i personally think that an amun ra that's been fused with osiris is a perfect counterpart for the dualistic mentality and ethics and morality and just overall existence that is auto-apocalypse and that includes his ambiguous relationship with moot or colin now both egypt and persia have a really long history and weird relationship with greece in general so it's kind of interesting to me that sumeru itself appears to stretch all the way from southeast asia across what was known as the persian empire into basically all of north africa this area used to house like one of the earliest civilizations of mesopotamia and sumer and you know the sumerian civilization basically and that area was known as the cradle of civilization for a very long time and thanks to encanamia's book before sun and moon we know that the primordial one the creator of tavot supposedly created an ark or an egg within which humanity would be incubated and then this civilization would be known as the unified civilization i mentioned earlier all right now we don't usually associate eggs with cradles but a cradle is meant to house something very young it's supposed to house a baby right supposed to keep it look nice and contained and safe and all that kind of stuff and an egg is also supposed to be the same thing for the yolk and the fetus and the thingy inside of it right right right so you can kind of equate them to a similar thing they're like the source or the seed or the beginning of civilization however the book before sun and moon really pushes the ark metaphor and arcs aren't usually used by celestial gods to create worlds like an egg usually would be arcs are usually used by humans to save themselves from disasters or you know to like not sink to the bottom of the ocean so what if we took a little bit of a different spin what if we assumed that this world wasn't actually created by an actual god but was in fact created by humanity like a previous civilization and let's also assume that the primordial waters that would exist above the firmament which is something that we've been able to confirm in game right kind of relate to the primordial waters that say moot in this case would have created humanity from now let's say that mona's references to the starry seas might also be the primordial waters which mean that space is an ocean which would mean if you put an ark into space it would be a space ship which means that sumeru could have been a landing zone for a space ship an original arc and from here civilization could have been incubated and later spread also consider the idea that mount sumeru in buddhism and hinduism was considered to be the mountain at the center of the world and this mountain was shaped like an hourglass now what's out here in the middle of sumeru's desert an enormous hourglass shaped pyramid and mount sumeru is supposed to be related or surrounded by the cosmic ocean which we could easily interpret to be the same thing as the primordial waters that moot was associated with or the waters of the firmament from gnostic myth and those waters existed above the dome of the sky as we mentioned earlier now imagine on board this arc that traveled through the cosmic ocean was the void archives or at least a void archives equivalent something that contained you know data blueprints memories all this kind of stuff that would allow you to create anything you wanted so long as you had the energy to back it up and let's say the primordial one decided to you know seize control of the light realm which is the elemental realm where most elemental energy comes from in order to secure a power source and then fused it with the void archives you could effectively then use the void archives to recreate a version of humanity and that version of humanity might not be like a perfect one-to-one replication it might have been like a mish-mash of things maybe the reason why subaru is the way it is is because it's taking like historical data samplings from the real world and then smoosh swish swish swishing all together until you get something that's like kind of new and somewhat unrecognizable but also not really and then that ends up making all of devot which by the way tavot means ship or arc in some contexts so there's also that so fundamentally the idea here is that the akasha system is basically the void archives which could assist its user aka perhaps the primordial one in creating whatever they wished so long as they had the data to back it up and a dream of what everything would look like i really only have a couple more things to add here now i've suggested before in a previous video and you really should go watch that one if you're enjoying this one because it goes into a lot more detail that i believe tavot is a giant domain right a bubble-like world floating in a sea constantly bumping up and squishing smooshing into other bubbles sometimes merging with them and sometimes not and within this domain reality is constantly shaped by those with a vision but now i think that's not all there is to it now i think that somewhere deep within the darkest parts of the world there exists a dreamer who is the literal heart and soul of this world a tubby of tavat if you will cause you know dubby is the one who stabilizes our teapot domain right and if you put down too many teleport points tubby will get overwhelmed and she gets insomnia and if tubby gets insomnia then the whole domain goes haywire and stuff flies around everywhere rules and logic just go right out the window you know now picture that but for all of tavat so the real question ends up being who is the dreamer well i have my own theory as to who that might be but i'll leave that for another time for now i'm going to leave you all with one closing prediction if i'm right about the akashic record essentially being the void archives of gentian in the form of the ley lines then the premonition kolei had in the harbinger teaser may have been of detoure burning down the leyline tree that the people of sumeru are leveraging for their akasha system it would parallel the historic burning of the library of alexandria which happened in egypt by the by so it's fitting the destruction of so much collective knowledge would i classify that as an act of folly yeah i kind of think i would so thanks for watching guys i'll see you soon in sumeru take care [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Jul 29 2022