[3.5] Losing my mind over the Primordial One - Genshin Impact Lore/Theory

there is no lore in gentian Impact that manages to confuse me quite as much as the lore of the primordial one if you're not familiar with it go read this book this is before sun and moon it is the single most important text in the entirety of the game as of time of recording and if you only ever read one book from this game it should be this one but for those of you too stubborn to go read this one book here are the key points that you need to know for today's video first that the world was originally ruled by seven Elemental Dragon Kings second that the primordial one created four shades of itself and conquered said world with them and third that the primordial one and one of its Shades created all life on earth once the dragon Kings were dealt with yes there is more in this book no I probably won't talk about it at length that's a discussion for another day something odd about the whole existence of the primordial one is that you don't actually find out it exists until you get to encanomea which is like three archon quests in it's it's a long ways into the game you know you'd think that if this was some almighty God that's ruling over the entirety of Tibet that you know it would be more prevalent we'd have more instances of it but we just don't instead we only have instances of Celestia which to be fair is not a person but a location or maybe you could also call it like an organization well whatever it is Celestia is what currently rules over to that now some very popular theories involve the idea that there is an imposter inside of Celestia so the original God or in this case the primordial one is not the one who is ruling inside of Celestia right now but instead you know a series of imposters or Invaders or in some cases known as the second who came or the second throne for the purposes of this video in particular I am going to be assuming that the primordial one is the one who originally established Celestia as like you know the Mount Olympus of Tibet so to speak and that it is still the god that's inside of it ruling or at least technically like there's I'm assuming there are no imposters basically and part of the reason for that is because I want to stay on topic and I don't really want to spend too much time going into all these other possibilities but also because the flower of Paradise Lost set has the goddess of flowers suggesting that the primordial one did successfully manage to drive back the Invaders which means that they shouldn't have managed to take over Celestia to begin with so I'm assuming providing nothing happened to the primordial one that it should still be up there in theory or at least there's no one else up there anyway back to the book for a second one of the most important Lines within it reads the primordial one may have been famous then the book goes on to say that the primordial one had wings in a crown was birthed from an egg and was androgynous now all of these things match the description of the orphic God by the same name Thanos had wings and a well they had a horned helmet instead of a crown but it counts right and they were considered androgynous in nature even though they were mostly depicted with a male physique so that also checks out so that kind of settles it right Thanos must be the primordial one that's its name but I've always gotten really hung up on the whole may have been thing the fact that the Scribe of istoroth herself the god of time of all things is uncertain about the actual identity and name of the primordial one really irks me it bothers me on so many levels and then I get to thinking well what if the primordial one isn't famous and if it's not famous then who is it and that is actually the whole point of today's video it's the reason why I'm making it only took me four minutes to get here so without further Ado let's uh take a closer look at the primordial ones Shades and see if we can get them to shed a little light on the primordial ones identity whether famous or not famous by all accounts the best candidates for the primordial shades are the three Moon goddesses res sonnet and Canon which I know only numbers three but lore from sources like the staff of the Scarlet Sands seems to suggest that the sun was created around the same time as all three moons so if the moon goddesses are really good candidates for Shades and the sun was made in very close timing to the Moon goddesses themselves then the sun is also a very good candidate for one of the shades right now assuming that the four shades are the three Moon goddesses and a sun god the idea that famous is the primordial one starts to fall apart a little bit you see the orphic god famous is supposed to have had a body made purely of Light which makes them a perfect candidate for a sun god and as you may recall from our introductory bullet points one of the primordial ones Shades was responsible for creating all life on Earth well guess what the light of the sun is literally the lifeblood of a planet and Thanos themselves was considered a god of Creation in orific mythology which means in spite of being a creation God they are a shade of the primordial one and not really the primordial one itself or so the evidence seems to suggest which means the primordial one has to be someone else or the sun isn't a shade at all and there's another unnamed character that exists alongside the moon sisters it's one of the two we'll explore both options a little bit so okay we need a God that is more powerful than a Creator God and if we go back to orphic mythology to find some Clues as to potential candidates we end up with one perfect one her name is NYX the goddess of night now NYX is fascinating because in traditional Greek myth she is one of the primordial Gods she was born of chaos also known as the void or the abyss and she was so powerful that even Zeus did not dare to challenge her now Knight is a perfect complementary shade candidate to three moons right so if you were to be in the camp that famous was the primordial one then you could assume that his foreshadows in this case would be three moons and then the Knight itself it's they're complementary it makes sense but this is where things get more interesting you see an orphic Mythos which is different from regular Greek Mythos it's like a different sect okay NYX was not only a primordial god in orphic mythology she was considered the goddess to be born at the beginning of time itself she was born from time itself and she is considered the parent of all life and get ready for this one she can be either the mother sister wife or child of Thanos now remember fanis was the god of creation when they hatched from the cosmic egg all of life began to propagate throughout the Universe but NYX was said to have come before that because she is remember the parent of all life so if Thanos was the start of all life then NYX really should be the mother of famous so hold on to that idea of Nyx being the parent of all life for a minute you know how we just got that lore on the hexen circle you know genjen's witch club and how one of the witches was named ander's daughter and she was best known for writing the boar princess and how it is speculated that she also wrote The Pale Princess and the six pygmies for reasons you can learn more about in my deep dive video on the topic Link in the description you remember that well the pale Princess and the six pygmies was a book that we helped Lisa recover from an abyss Mage who claimed it contained a secret and for the longest time I thought the secret was about the role of the pale princess and the prince of light for which the book is named but now I think the secret is actually about the character known as the Knight mother cause you know NYX is the primordial goddess of night and she's known as the parent of all life that makes her a night mother and as much as I would like to go into the book and try to tell you all the reasons why this is so fascinating that's really all I can all I can say about this book right now since we only have the first volume and the rest is delete material but fun fact just like famous NYX was said to have both wings and a crown or rather a Halo of dark clouds around her head but a Halo is really just a non-physical Crown right wings and a crown she fits the description of the primordial one minus the androgyny a little bit but the three Moon sisters Arya Sonic and Canon who are heavily implied to be three of the four primordial Shades have a lot in common with the Greek Mori who were also known as the Greek Fates well guess who birthed the fates it was NYX NYX is the mother of Fate itself and in some sources she is also the mother of fans right so now night mother birth a son God a god of light and birthed three Fates gods of the Moon alright that's all well and good I get it there's you know some great little mythological connections there but what about that whole egg thing right the primordial one was said to have been born from an egg well no matter what orific myth you look at the character that kicks off the creation of life is always famous and therein lies the Paradox see a human life especially wasn't created until after the dragon Kings had been subjugated right so the only way that Thanos could be the primordial one here is if they actually created the shades while they were still inside of the shell of the cosmic egg and the shades did all the fighting for them and that doesn't seem very plausible that just doesn't seem very realistic it seems more realistic that the primordial one and three Shades fought the dragon Kings and the fourth shade was incubating Life all at the time and then eventually the egg would crack and then humans would come out and so would birds and oceans and trees and flowers and all that kind of stuff but okay you might be wondering why a goddess of night would create a shade that is technically a being of Light how does that make sense I get the moons but how does a Sun God make sense where genchin is concerned the dragon Kings lived in a place known as the light or Elemental realm right so if you have this primordial one who's this goddess of darkness and she's the goddess of night right it's very feasible to assume that she would have defeated these light Kings then used fragments of the light realm to infuse it into her Cosmic egg for Creationary purposes thus making a Sun God now this actually has some mythological Merit to it believe it or not because NYX an orphic myth was also the mother of hamara the goddess of day and ether a god of upper air or Radiance also known as light and in some Tales she's even the mother of EOS the goddess of dawn that's three light beings coming from a goddess of night and yes I did say ether and yes it is the same ether as one of the twins and before you go this is Lumin eraser please note that there is a theory about waves of light that goes by the name luminiferous ether which is likely how both twins got their names in English at the very least in other languages their names are sky and glow or like luminescence which still works here because the concept of luminiferous ether is that ether is the space through which the light travels so sky and light or glow still works here now what are three things that you associate with nighttime how about sleep Dreams and Nightmares those are all things that happen at night right well it just so happens that NYX mothered hypnose the god of sleep and ornery the god of dreams and Momos the god of nightmares well technically the those are groups of gods but whatever it's more the fact that she has sleep Dreams and Nightmares as like her children and we've got dreams in my engine impact dreams are a massive source of power in gentian Ruka Nevada and desperate both created hive mind systems the Akasha and the golden Slumber and both of them were built on this Foundation of dreams and dreams themselves are heavily associated with conria and quote those who dream of dreaming now revisions are even said to be manifestations of one's ambition but it is also said that they could be manifestations of both hopes and dreams let's go back to the egg for a second that Cosmic one that famous came out of in the battle pass cutscene we are shown this black snake guarding the Genesis Pearl and if you think about it eggs are mostly Pearl shaped and colored and Genesis means beginning so an egg could easily be a Genesis Pearl if you think about it you want to get all poetic and nice and all that kind of stuff and famous as a deity is often depicted with a serpent coiled around them sometimes guarding an egg which is supposed to represent the egg that they came from this snake is thought to be their mother which should make it either NYX or a monkey now a nanki is a primordial God of fate or inevitability in some cases like in some tellings who is also said to be the mother of the Mori in some myth so I think for genjin purposes we can probably equate NYX with a nanki here now in the orphica epicurus fragment this Snake Here presumably squeezed the cosmic egg until it divided the world into two hemispheres in other words it separated the Earth from the heavens just like how and before sun and moon the primordial one use the eggshell to separate the universe so Heaven from the microcosm of the world so Earth now before sun and moon attributes this action of separating Heaven and Earth to both Thanos and the primordial one as it's kind of assumed here by the Scribe that they are the same but you could look at it like this that the primordial one opened the egg and because Venus was inside the heavens were then separated from the earth right therefore the creation of the world is attributed to both of them am I reaching maybe but let me reach some more because I hate Segways and I have one more thing to add when it comes to non-elemental energy gentian is pretty specific about its color theory it is either blue gold or in the case of anything Abyssal a weird magenta e purple color but we don't really care about the magenta I've got a whole video on that if you're really interested in my take on the color of magenta we're just gonna focus on blue and gold the color gold seems to be heavily associated with the power of light and that's often a power that's used by either twin in the opening cutscene or by the traveler throughout many cut scenes throughout the game and it's also the color of like morale lines and the activated Urban Soul branches and domains blue on the other hand is the power of something we're not really sure of but Dane's lift seems to use something within its color palette and so does the abyss twin it's also the color of experienced space Ley lines and the inactive Urban Soul tree now in fact almost all Ley lines that are not around an elemental creature like a Regis Vine have either veins of gold or blue there are very few instances of it being anything else and most of the time it's blue now if you go into most domains and you go behind the Urban Soul Branch you'll see this big mural like tablet thing right and you'll notice that the reliefs and the symbols on this tablet are in Gold but the glowing energy behind it is blue now if we were to assume that gold and the power of light is like the ultimate power into that then famous should be the primordial one right and that means that every Heavenly power should theoretically be gold except the only Heavenly power we've actually witnessed are the celestial nails and those are not gold they are blue Celestial nails are blue crystal nails which implies that the power of Heaven Is Not Gold but blue so what if blue is the color of Knight's power and gold is the color of days power that implies that the Heavenly power that's guarding everything right now is not day but night it's not light but Darkness but I need to stop talking about this or else I'm gonna go really off topic and start talking about things like how venti looks a lot like Orpheus and how he might actually be a representation of The Bard that told all of the orific myths but that's not really relevant now is it Anyway the tldr of this entire video is that I am seriously convinced that either NYX is the night mother and the primordial one or that NYX is a missing fourth shade alongside the moon sisters although I am heavily leaning in favor of the former rather than a ladder just makes more sense to me anyway thank you all for watching and thanks to you all lovely channel members that are on screen right now for a really short period of time this is a very shortcut sequence for supporting the channel I appreciate you all I really do but now that I've gotten this out of my system and there's going to be no more Genesis talk until I release that final colony to that finale video thing oh I got at least been version 3.6 I promise I promise I'm I'm go I'm going I'm going I'm waiting for something really specific okay I'm going bye bye see ya [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 17min 39sec (1059 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 06 2023