[3.3] Genshin Impact Chapter 3 Inversion of Genesis Quest Recap + Analysis

the inversion of Genesis was certainly your average Scaramouche Quest little guy shows up out of nowhere insults you a few times to your face dropped some very cryptic but also kind of earth-shattering lore bombs refuses to elaborate and leaves typical but as usual what lore he did give us was pretty valuable and worth taking a bit of a closer look at now usually with these recap videos I try to give a very quick tldr summary of everything that happened in the quest that was noteworthy but because this quest's primary focus was garbage's history and character development I don't think I can create the same type of recap that I usually do instead we're just gonna go over the interesting bits of information that we learned and analyze them if you are one of those people who wants to know more about scars specifically there will be two videos on my Channel that I will leave links to in the description box that will cover all of your little Gremlin needs it's recommended that you watch the history video regardless just because I've basically stripped out all of the skarnish references in this video so that would help you get more context all right and without further Ado let's undo this recap Okay I lied I didn't completely remove this guy from the recap but I have a good reason for this one little thing that we're gonna focus on him for specifically what nahida meant when she said he still had some useful functions in the fairy tale nahida uses to recover the memories of Scaramouche she explicitly states that he is made of white wood this is a seemingly useless statement in an allegorical Fable but given how his constellation seems based on a kokeshi doll which is a very simple doll car from wood it's very possible that he is in fact a wooden puppet in addition we can take a look at the description for the sumero glider which describes the Animo Geo and Electro archons having a debate but describes them in relation to their original forms venti is the win taken human form Zhang Li is a talking stone and a is a wooden thing full of Electro a makes the claim that she crafted the Shogun puppet from parts of herself so either a and makado were originally beings made from wood or a deliberately created her pup bits from white wood and the second option makes more sense because anytime the game references wood or a tree that is silver or white it's specifically talking about Urban Soul therefore Scaramouche and the Shogun puppet may be made from branches of Urban Soul in this light it makes sense that scarves possesses some Advanced capabilities when it comes to interacting with urbanzil and its functions to the point where he can perform similar tasks to the dendro archon skarmish's construction also served as the foundation for notorious segments and de Tori said that his segments are expensive time-consuming and difficult to make and this may be because the materials themselves are rare they're branches of erminzel this also suggests that when detore deleted his segments it wasn't too far removed from how scarmouche and nahida performed their respective deletions the main difference being that no one's memories were altered this time but since he wasn't really trying to delete himself so much as destroy his other bodies I can kind of ignore this inconsistency now all that said skarmouche being made from Urban Soul means that he is the ideal candidate for performing tasks within the tree and therefore a perfect partner for nahida and that's part of the reason why I think Nikita sent Scaramouche into urbanzville instead of taking the traveler there herself the other reason is a little bit more complicated and has to do with how I think Urban Soul functions let's see if I can actually explain this without making it too confusing the information nahida wanted to acquire was on the descenders she already did a curse research of urban Zone was not able to find anything however she did believe that if the information was available in the tree Scaramouche should be able to find it instead this is because he would be more familiar with what the information would look like and that alone gives us some insight into how we should think about data storage in Urban Soul now in previous videos I've talked about how Urban Seoul shares a lot of similarities with the computer and this Quest kind of took that metaphor to a much more literal level that means erminsel should be thought of as a literal super computer now a basic desktop computer essentially has three main components it has the hardware the software and the interface in this oversimplified example the hardware is Urban Soul itself as a physical data tree the interface is nahida since she's basically a keyboard mouse Monitor and Siri like assistant all-in-one and the software should basically just include all of the functions erminzel can perform like data storage deletion migration alterations search so let's just say there are like billions of files on this Urban Soul computer as some of them are tagged with keywords and properly stored and correctly labeled nested folders with easy access to desktop shortcuts While others have randomized file names no searchable text and are kind of dumped within poorly or unlabeled nested folders somewhere on the machine but no one knows quite where now if you were looking for something really specific you could find it either by logically following the labeled files and folders or by searching for keywords you would then be presented with a list of relevant results which would likely contain the file you're looking for I think this is what nahida did in her initial cursory search for descenders but what would you do if the file that you were looking for was not labeled or tagged and was instead this weird randomized file dumped somewhere on the machine that you couldn't remember where or maybe you never knew and let's say it was a file that you'd never seen before so you didn't know its file type size or literally anything else about it other than one vague keyword that you can't really search for because it doesn't turn up any search results and what if that file was supposedly encrypted like how nahida encrypted scar versus literal memories in a fable format like how would you know if that was the file you wanted well the best thing to do would be to ask someone who is familiar with the file in question to find said file enter Scaramouche who has a much better idea of what the file is than nahida does now if that file is stored normally just poorly labeled and organized then he should be able to find it right right but this ignores the possibility that the file is not only poorly labeled but could also potentially be stored under an encrypted directory that requires administrative access that no one currently has if someone with lower level access were to look for said file it would look like the file doesn't exist at all so naturally they must assume that there is no file that matches their criteria and they would just move on assuming it doesn't exist but that may not actually be the case the files may still be there encrypted or stored under a password protected directory but those directories may only be available to certain user accounts therefore it would just take the right user to unlock that folder to reveal the file in question so basically I think Nikita is jumping to conclusions when she says that urbanzelle definitely doesn't have any descender data Siri only has the same level of access as the person interfacing with her after all and thus far nahida Siri has only interface with herself and Scaramouche and in not the traveler or pymon so that's point one that I wanted to make about erminzel on to point two this little transient tree branch like thing is something Scaramouche calls Anonymous data but it actually looks a lot like a Teleport Waypoint so I got to thinking what if this Anonymous data isn't actually the data itself but instead a URL that points to a bunch of data and yes I mean a URL like the one in your web browser and yeah I know that a file path is technically a local URL and functions the same way but URLs have a couple of unique functions that file paths kind of lack at least in common use the earlier erminzel metaphor was for an offline computer but if you plug that computer into a network like the leyline network suddenly erminsul is a server connected to the world's internet now files and directories can be assigned location aliases that we know as domain names typing a domain name into a browser directs you to a very specific file or folder located on a server but domain names themselves are not fixed to any one location as they can be reassigned hence why we call them aliases file paths are by contrast absolute and if you change any part of them they stop working yes there are caveats to this I'm not talking about them right now I'm just using this as a metaphor for explanatory purposes all right this is not a computer science course I promise okay we know for a fact that teleport waypoints can use the Ley lines in order to get you from point A to point B and we also know that teleport waypoints can be physically moved so what if these waypoints are actually just physical domain names domain names can be transferred to different servers and set up to represent different websites just like how teleport waypoints can be picked up and moved to different locations which would then change the place you warp to but doesn't actually change the Waypoint itself just its destination this would also explain how you can get from point A to point B with just a Teleport point they function just like domain names and since they share structural similarities with the statues of seven one can only assume that the two draw inspiration from the exact same thing Urban Soul this also implies they were probably made by the same people which was probably Celestia but that's probably a whole nother discussion interestingly we can also warp to domains so now I'm wondering if given the keys on the inside of the material domains these are meant to represent directories then offering resin to the petrified tree functions as some kind of a decryption process that Nets us files in the form of crystallized memory data which is exactly what artifacts are like canonically that's what they're called if you look at their description in game but I I don't know I I just think it's interesting to think about despite not finding anything relevant in Urban Soul scarbrush does tell us what he knows about descenders he claims that with regards to the twins specifically they arrive because quote the heavens responded to the summoning I puzzled over this for like a really long time and I came to only one conclusion see Scaramouche tells us that the abyss twin lived alongside Piero and conria as it was the first place they arrived after descending he also says that Piero was a royal mage of conoria which gives him a fairly high rank and in the Lazo trailer Piero talks about the sages like they were all idiots and he also talks about the sages one more time in the pale flame set to much the same effect and by the way these are not sumeru sages these are conria sages what we can glean from this is that Pirro did not agree with whatever the sages of conria were doing he believed that what they were doing was quote tearing away the veil of sin ushering in a tide of divine wrath and therefore my conclusion is that I think the sages attempted to summon something from Beyond the firmament and the heavens responded by delivering them the twins bear with me we know that the twins traveled from world to world before they arrived into that and that they arrived in some sort of meteorite but I can't help but wonder if it wasn't so much a meteorite as it was a spaceship traveling from world to World sounds just a lot like Interstellar travel going from habitable planet to habitable planet across the galaxies following that line of thought what if conri's attempt at summoning was actually more like sending out an SOS signal into space that was intercepted by the twin ship which responded by setting a course for to that the twins would exit their ship to investigate and one twin would wake up while the other continued to sleep in maybe something like a cryostasis the awake twin would then live in conria for a time until the disaster struck at that point they panicked woke the other twin and tried to leave the planet only to be intercepted by the sustainer of heavenly principles I know this sounds a little far out there but in this context the words of the sustainer that she says the very beginning of the game make a lot more sense she calls the twins Outlanders which makes sense if they were aliens of some sort or at least came from outside the firmament and then she says that their Journey ends here meaning they are not allowed to leave she then finishes by saying that the irrigation of mankind ends now and this is the part where I think she's referring to the SOS signal I mentioned earlier to further illustrate my point the flower of Paradise Lost says that the primordial one or at least the master of the heavens who I'm assuming is the same thing because they share a lot in common anyway whoever this was the master of Heavens was attacked by Invaders from outside to that who brought all sorts of dangerous things like delusion breakthroughs illusions that could break the shackles of the land I don't know what that means but the master of Heavens as the goddess of flowers calls them was consumed by fear of what the Invaders brought and sent down Celestial nails to try to fix that damage the way I see it the sustainer is probably trying to prevent any contact with the world outside the firmament the twins aren't allowed to leave because she's afraid that they may bring more Outsiders and their disasters along with them the irrigation of mankind that she talks about is likely Mankind's quest for whatever lay beyond the firmament extraterrestrial contact or whatever and it's quite possible that the reason the abyss twin refuses to leave the planet quietly with The Travelers because they know something about their Noble Origins and their relation to this planet specifically and they cannot leave until that is taken care of I do plan to go into more depth on this topic in another video That's supposed to follow up on this other video that I made on the god of time so look forward to an expansion on this idea in the somewhat very near future but while we are on the subject of the god of time I want to talk about this one other thing that happened during the inversion of Genesis time alteration or rather the illusion of it this is going to get really confusing so I need to establish a couple of things first I am pretty sure that Nikita's story Quest should have been placed canonically after the inversion of Genesis because prior to the interlude Quest The Traveler actually believed canonically that the past had been changed when nahida deleted Ruger Nevada it was only at the end of the interlude Quest that they realized that the past had not changed only that people's memories had been altered remember that prior to the memory wipe in inversion of Genesis pymon broke a vase The Traveler assumed that since Scaramouche presumably changed time this vase should never have been broken and yet it was broken the implication here is that even though she doesn't remember breaking the vase pymon did break it time never changed only her memory of it playing Nikita's story Quest before the inversion of Genesis makes the stuff in the interlude kind of confusing because it seems like the traveler should already have realized this so I just had to clarify that to start with because it even confused me I had to go over this a couple of times anyway the Big Point here is that so far no character has actually managed to change the past successfully we can prove this by looking at nahida's first story Quest wherein The Traveler thinks about telling nahida about Ruger Nevada there would be no significance to this action if the past had actually been changed and she would have never actually existed in the first place so it wouldn't really matter to nahida The Traveler then says in the quest quote even if she has been forgotten nahida's mind and willpower are the proof that Ruka devada once existed nahida did not change the past she only altered how the past was remembered there's a big difference and this is what is highlighted by scaramouche's Quest Scaramouche did remove himself successfully from history and while he didn't die or disappear his identity and all of his memories did but he didn't successfully change the past again that's not possible all of the events of the past still happened he still shut down the mikake furnace he still joined the fatoui and he still killed all those Raiden gokaden bladesmiths history just doesn't remember that those events were attributed to him so it makes up other reasons as to why certain events played out the way they did nothing actually changed though because like if it was the case that he actually changed the past then the fairy tale Nikita made up as a backup of his memories wouldn't have done anything because there would have been nothing to remember and the fairy tale she made wasn't even a complete record of all of his memories it was just enough of a scaffold to force her and Scar mush to remember things on their own and that's why skarmersch goes out of his way to tell the traveler that he plans to take responsibility for the things that he's done if the past had actually changed he wouldn't have had anything to atone for because he wouldn't have committed any crimes but he did commit those crimes even if no one remembers that it was him and therefore he feels the need to take responsibility now even though neither nahida nor Scaramouche managed to change the past a disembodied voice at the end of the quest suggests that change in the past is actually possible what what is this I don't like these conflicting bits of information The Voice we hear at the end of the quest does not belong to any character we've met so far as far as I can tell but they are fairly omniscient-ish in teacher kind of Alice like and they are capable of long distance communication the same way Nakita was during the golden apple archipelago event however I am less concerned about who the voice is than I am about what the voice says the voice at the end of the quest quite clearly states the traveler should only trust what they see and only trust their own memories which makes sense because we know that the traveler is immune to Urban Soul's memory tampering whatever they witness is going to be the truth regardless of what any records or anyone else's memories say this includes instances where the past has been forgotten as illustrated by the incidents with Scaramouche and nahida the voice also says that the past cannot be changed but puts a little bit of an asterisk on that statement as it turns out Mortals are too small and lack the power or influence needed to actually adjust the flow of time but then she suggests that someone with the power of a god might be able to do just that which is kind of a weird thing to say because nahida is a God but she didn't change the past when she deleted Ruka devada but then again nahida needed two noses to delete Ruka devada considering the gnosis is known as the heart of God I wonder if chaining multiple noses together would eventually generate enough god-like power to actually change the past instead of just one singular memory of it gnosis do amass a large amounts of energy after all and the voice implies that the more power one has the more likely their chances at altering time itself which now has me wondering if that's the Sarita and Piero's plan to collect the gnosis with the intent of using them on erminsul to alter time itself and create a completely new future but what do you guys think who do you think the disembodied voice belong to and don't say istroff everyone says istroff I'm sick of hysteroth she's obviously a candidate for the voice everyone knows that but come on guys let's get creative who else could it be besides this trough right anyway this was a little bit of an unorthodox post-quest recap thingy but I hope you enjoyed it all the same a massive thanks to all of my YouTube members for supporting this channel directly and a very special thanks to you dear viewer for making it all the way to the end of this video I hope you had fun in 3.3 I loved it it was fantastic I am so ready for 3.4 I'm ready to jump right into the brand new desert region so I'll just see you guys on the flip side take care guys and happy Lantern right foreign [Music]

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Length: 19min 55sec (1195 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 21 2023