[3.6] The Beginner's Guide to Sumeru - Genshin Impact Lore

for those of you who struggle to decipher the vague contents of books who can't remember names or just can't be bothered to track down all the hidden bits of History tucked away in weird places you'd never think to check but you still want to learn about the lore of a region this is the video for you [Music] the beginner's guide to gentian lore sumeru Edition a contextual summation of all the historical events of samara's rainforest and Desert from the beginning of tavat's recorded history all the way up to the end of the conrian cataclysm so about 500 years before the game begins again this is a summary to be used for context and learning purposes and is not meant to be a completely comprehensive video this video will also contain no theories but may contain a few assumptions whenever the timeline is particularly unclear just be aware of that I will be marking the more contentious ones as always citations can be found in the description box while updates and Corrections will be available in append comment below and with all that out of the way my name is ashikai and this is a beginner's guide to sumeru our Story begins over 6 000 years ago a time when tavat was ruled not by people or archons but by dragons Bishops actually sumero in particular was ruled by the dragon Sovereign a pep the nation itself was a vast and Lush rainforest then the primordial one came a supreme and Powerful entity who would come to rule over to that it created four shades of itself and went to war with the dragons and the dragons put up a pretty good fight the king of all dragons nibilung even tried using the forbidden knowledge of the Abyss to fight back but once the celestial nails were launched they were forced to retreat underground One Nail hit the forests of sumeru and turned the entire region into a desolate desert at some point during or after this war with the dragons the primordial one presumably separated the Earth from the sky created the Sun the three moons night day and even laws such as gravity with the help of one of its Shades it created flora fauna and eventually humans now I say presumably because a pep claims that her region was already full of plant life meaning plants existed before the primordial one so it's probably safer to assume that the primordial one is only responsible for the creation of humans and everything else has just been attributed to them for propaganda reasons but that's a conversation for another time anyway humans then entered a pact with the primordial one and lived in a sort of blessed Utopia also known as the unified civilization where they were Guided by the race of celis envoys of heaven and all was well until it wasn't Invaders Came From Beyond the Furman and laid Siege to the rule of the primordial one bringing with them plagues and destruction it was a war much like the one against the dragons and although the primordial one managed to drive them back the losses were great at least two of the Moon sisters perished in the struggle along with the entire race of celis the land was completely devastated so the primordial one hurled down Divine nails to mend the land by driving back the Abyssal power that the Invaders brought along with them now the goddess of flowers also known as Nabu malikata was presumably a survivor of the war and one of the Sealy race she had been cast out of heaven and cursed and never gaze upon it again she wandered the desert of sumeru for 72 nights in rivers of blood flowed from her worn feet and night blue lotuses blossomed in those rivers from those lotuses came the race of the Jinn who thought of the goddess of flowers as their mistress or mother or both the goddess of flowers continued to create oases in the desert and one of them was a particularly beautiful padisara garden the Gin asked her to stay with them in the garden and so she did but while grieving over the loss of her Homeland she also created another Oasis from her tears and from that Oasis grew the city of Tule Tula the sapphire city of the tignarians of which the goddess was said to be quite fond it's unclear how long she lived alone with the Gin but eventually she did meet Deseret who was also known as The Scarlet king or al-amar I will be calling him desperate for the remainder of this video however the two formed a friendship and together they built the Great city of I canoom for the Jinn presumably this is where the parisara garden was it's unclear when or how Ruka devada appeared as the only record we have that could give us any insight is the scroll of streaming song which doesn't mention destroyed at all only the goddess of flowers so for the purpose of this video Let's just assume that by this point all three of these gods were already friends and not stressed about the particulars this friendship ends up being really important because When The archon War Began and deshra was offered a gnosis from Celestia he refused the offer and instead chose to share his throne with his two dearest friends this is likely why there isn't much mention of the archon war itself as a primary source of strife in sumeru's history the greatest of the Gods had already forged an alliance so there was no need for any combat But as time went on deshra began to express some rather Blasphemous ideas plans to rebel against the heaven and free the world from its shackles whatever that means while the goddess of flowers did share his sentiment towards the rule of Heaven she repeatedly refused to help him but his persistence finally won her over and she agreed to assist in his plans even if she knew his chances of success were slim to none it's unclear what exactly desert planned to do and what freeing the world from its shackles really entailed but what we do know is that the goddess of flowers believed it could result in a spark of hope for Humanity wherein they would be able to transcend and live in a world free of Gods now although she was a bit prophetic the goddess of flowers couldn't see beyond her own death and she knew that assisting Deseret would result in her death so she left behind a bit of a Fail-Safe she fashioned something like a daughter from her cavarna or divine power and left her in the care of her dear friend aruka devada had heard about her friend's plans and took refuge in the East where she cut created a young Forest that was still full of sand she gratefully took her friend's last gift the Kavarna and forged it into a Divine bird also known as a simerg and she charged this bird with the protection of the borders between life and death simmeric would stay with rugadavada for a time before leaving to sleep in a Desert Oasis until the prophecy of the cataclysm made by the goddess of flowers came to pass ruga Nevada then used the source song taught to her by the goddess of flowers to call forth an ishvata tree from urbanzul from which the aranara were born and with the assistance of her new children Ruka devada created a device known as the varuna contraption which could produce endless supplies of water over time this device turned her small Oasis into a sprawling rain forest and while this was going on the goddess of flowers led deshra into the darkness and taught him everything he needed to know about the skies and the abyss sandstorms swallowed the desert and only desperate walked out unscathed The Oasis Paradise and the goddess of flowers remain lost forever in the absence of their Queen the Jinn pledged loyalty to Deseret who promised to revive the goddess of flowers at some point in the future meanwhile he leveraged the power of the celestial nail in sumeru to create a powerful barrier that froze the padizah her Garden in time many believe the goddess of flowers to be sleeping quietly there and thus all were forbidden to enter lest they disturb her Slumber but for humans life in the desert was harsh and difficult resources were scarce and many found themselves consigned to a life of slavery But as time went on people began to congregate under the guidance of a Shepherd by the name of ormost a devout worshiper of deshred he founded the city of gurabad and desperate made a pact of rulership with the people there this was the promise of a better life back in the rainforest other such people would also congregate building the city of sumeru Atop A Divine tree and also a port to the South Ruka Nevada taught the people there how to forge weaponry and eventually helped establish the Academia things were a little different in the desert ormoz had just been pronounced King and dash red had decided to send his gin to assist this Mortal King in the construction of the kingdom of gurabad they built ornate temples in complex waterways while desperate secluded himself to begin his work on the golden Slumber this was a complex hive mind of sorts that would somehow Aid him in the goddess of flowers Resurrection theoretically and assist them both in overthrowing heaven don't ask me why or how this would work that is a discussion for another day the most notable gin among those sentigurabad were farage and lilupar farage appears to have been in charge of using her powers to ensure endless water would flow through these new waterways this allowed gurabad to become a lush and prosperous Paradise in the desert par on the other hand despise this system of slavery found among these human desert dwellers as a race Jin took the most pride in their freedom especially the freedom to feel which was granted to them whenever they took on human-like forms when stripped of that shape and instead placed into a machine or a bottle they became not much more than slaves themselves for this reason lilupar found the system of slavery among Mortals to be rather repulsive but lilupar believed ormoz would free the desert people from slavery and they fell in love with each other they soon wed and lilupar became the immortal gin queen of gurabad But as time went on lilupar began to realize that ormoz was nothing more than a tyrant and had no intention of eliminating slavery she was furious at what she perceived to be a betrayal of her trust and feelings and thus began to plot revenge against her husband she had bore him many children but she cursed in particular a daughter by the name of Shirin ormoz was aware of this curse and therefore shunned this daughter forbidding her from attending family Banquets and the like thus Shirin grew up a little bit resentful of her father soon after lilupar also bore a son named kisra whose father is actually unknown and had him raised by the Divine bird goggness now it is unlikely that gognis is the simmer but since simerg did not sleep immediately after her creation it is possible that gognis and simerg are the same Divine bird just have to throw that little caveat in there now kirstra grew up to be a hero and his numerous exploits led to oromaz adopting him and granting him Sheeran's hand in marriage as a reward on knowing that they were half siblings and all three of them were also completely unaware that this had been lilupar's plan all along Shirin and kisra were not in love but they consented to this marriage as they both desired the throne not enough to commit mass murder for but uh Lilo Park kind of had other ideas for them she tricked Sharon into delivering poisoned honey to be served at a banquet for her father and her 300 siblings and of course they all ate it and died took advantage of this event to seize this empty throne but as Sheeran realized what had happened and what had happened by her hand at that she began to lose her mind and in this unstable State she bore kisura a son by the name of shiruya who she would spoil to an unhealthy degree now kisra now known by the name of parvez then declared the abolition of all forms of slavery and became quite popular among the common folk and sure on the surface this appeared to be a great thing and exactly what Lee lupar had wanted in the first place but the thing is lilupar's priority was no longer the abolition of slavery it was revenge and revenge only and she was not done seeking her revenge yet she manipulated kisra amplifying his desire for power and control by messing with his dreams taunting him with designs of machines powered by The Souls of the Jinn kiesra recognized these gin machines as the opportunity that they were and he quickly began their Mass production Sheeran would also do her part by somehow giving birth to Gin fragments that would power these machines but these Jinn that she birthed were malformed and bound to the machines in ways that completely stripped them of their freedom their consciousnesses were shattered and fragmented but they still had some level of self-awareness and they resented Sheeran for birthing them into such a miserable existence they considered themselves slaves and as a race that prided itself and its freedom well let's just say their hatred and resentment began to Fester lilupar's sister farage saw what Lulu par was doing to her family and to the people of gurabed and she grew frightened unable or perhaps unwilling to stop her sister herself she decided to become the guardian to the entrance of the Eternal Oasis where the goddess of flowers rested this would forever restrict lilupar's access to their mistress but since this meant farage would leave her post at the waterways the endless Waters of gurabad began to run dry as soon as she left now the mass-produced Gin machines successfully removed the need for human slave labor and that seemed to be a blessing for the people of gurabed except that the need for human labor had been removed entirely not just slave labor so with no reason to care for the people who weren't earning the money former slave owners and employers had no incentive to care for the people and laborers no longer had a means to earn a living this led to a great period of civil unrest during this time Sheeran began to be tormented by her past deeds and by the cries of her enslaved Jinn children her one source of Solace was her son shiruya but when he reached adulthood kestra banished him from gurabad fearful that his son would soon overthrow him this pissed Sharon off and she was already pretty unstable so it should surprise nobody that she began to plot to kill her husband Sheeran covertly assisted shiruya in gathering the suffering common folk and former slaves who had been displaced by the Gin machines and whilst disguised beneath a brass mask shiruya LED those people in Rebellion against his father the rebellion was brutal somehow the malformed Gin within the machines were freed and they ravaged the people of gurabad in Revenge for their imprisonment and while all this was happening lilupar decided to lend the Rebellion a hand by leveraging the power of the abyss and unleashing a terrible black plague upon the city because that's apparently something she can do the details here are a bit unclear but it seems to be similar to Abyssal corruption as King kisura was transformed into a dark monster by it these events killed over half the population and the survivors were dispersed across the desert now you might be wondering where Destra was during all of this gurabed stuff well he was off working on the golden Slumber and it was around this time that he just so happened to return and he was enraged to see the state of gurabed and at what Lee lupar had done so he did what any sensible God would do and tore her into seven pieces instructing seven sages to hide each of her segments in different locations as punishment now things get a little complicated here because a pep claims that she swallowed deshret whole and thus became infected with forbidden knowledge as a result and this should have been around the time of garabad's fall but as you'll soon see there are still records of desperate Beyond this point I'm therefore going to make a rather large assumption one of the goals of the golden Slumber was to find a way to separate the soul from the body now we have a legend in game that claims Deseret died upon the throne of the golden Slumber while his body was eaten by worms I'm going to assume that the worms in this case are actually a pep since we know she ate him but I'm also going to assume that Deseret succeeded in separating his soul from his body meaning a pep only ate his body but his soul still lingered so he's effectively been split into two okay so that leaves us with a pep infected with Forbidden Knowledge and deshred's soul off doing who knows what in the desert with no more Gods to help them Ruka devada decided to come to the aid of the desert people in order to help stop the spread of the disasters that the Forbidden Knowledge brought with it she called upon the desert people likely through a man named ramshar and instructed them to build seven Towers which she imbued with the power of life these towers were enough to mitigate the disaster for a time at least in small localized areas now I would also like to propose the idea that deseret's Soul retreated to his Mausoleum perhaps to his now empty sarcophagus in order to process all of the forbidden knowledge that he had acquired in a sort of self-imposed quarantine I mostly say this because I don't think he was wandering around aimlessly for hundreds of years so some of these towers that Ruka Nevada had the desert people build were built near or within existing cities as was the case with toulay tula ikanoom and the wreckage of gurabed which people would then try to revive multiple times over the years with limited success the remaining Towers would attract people to build new cities around them each pronouncing their own local King with ramshar being crowned the king of all of the Kings these cities were safe havens from the ever lingering threat of the withering Eleazar and forbidden knowledge that still lingered in the desert all in all this era was more or less uneventful just your usual brand of political assassinations questionable regions marriages of convenience and you get the idea but just when you think things were finally starting to reach some sort of human normalcy the Jinn decided to up and rebel against the humans again the details are kind of Muddy around this whole gin Uprising thing we only really know that they rebelled and the results were disastrous you see the Gin were now under the control of their new leader garchasp who decapitated king ramshar killed a bunch of other important people and then established a new capital city which may or may not have been built on the ruins of gurabad which was soon set on fire and burned for seven days straight so that went well the remaining people fled to Talay to law and some more political stuff went down that's kinda inconsequential really rulers were killed and replaced one of them was exiled and restored like four times over the course of his whole life and eventually even to lay to La fell to ruin after the death of the infamous zephos from the zephos Moonlight series as for the remaining cities their Fates are more or less unknown they fell as well of course but we're just not exactly sure when or why or how but in any case all remaining sensible people moved to the edge of the desert and formed aru Village around what was previously a small Fort at the border trying their best to emulate the life that Deseret would have wanted for them and awaiting his inevitable Revival because remember he wasn't actually dead at this point or sealed or whatever at least the people didn't think so and I don't think so either now it is never stated that Deseret was successfully awoken or freed from what I dubbed his self-imposed quarantine state but it is kind of implied but either way as long as he still existed in this world the fact was that Forbidden Knowledge would continue to infect the people and the land as was the case for aru village now casala a priest of deshrit claims that Deseret was awake and aware enough to make a choice of sacrifice to be removed from Tibet in order to spare the world of his disease this is part of why I think he was still alive and in self-imposed quarantine granted him this request and sealed him away exhausting her power in the process her form then became that of a small child as she traded her power for his seal and with deshrit finally sealed away most likely for good this time and quink nudge nudge Ruka devada became the only God left in sumeru it's unclear at which point she became an archon but this would have been the latest point it could have occurred because you know she's the last God and with that archon ship installed sumeru was finally at peace relatively speaking of course I mean there was some stuff going on in the rainforest but in my opinion it's not really worth mentioning for now it doesn't really lead to anything consequential that is until the conrian cataclysm happened the abyss was Unleashed upon sumeru once again and Forbidden Knowledge began to ravage the land only this time it wasn't limited to just the desert black rain fell from the sky like toxic blood and the varuna contraption that supported the entire rainforest's ecosystem ceased to function on the opposite side of the forest vanarana caught fire and many rnras sacrificed their lives to prevent the fire spread the automatons of conria appeared from beneath the ground and fought the monsters that appeared alongside the mud Ruka devada did her best to drive back the monsters and the mud but eventually she had to leave and tend to erminzel while the other six archons were called deconria to stop the abyss at its source however it seems like the hydro archon may have died before reaching konria as her body was destroyed and turned into the emrita somewhere in the north of sumeru when the simerg awoke to fend off the tide of the dark beasts it used the remains of the hydro archon the emrita to do so its body then shattered into thousands of petals and those blessed by the Amrita became the Pari who took up arms alongside the seventh darshan the order of Skeptics or the nagarjunites depending on who you ask in order to fight the monsters zervon the first of the parries soon stumbled upon danesliff and later a one-armed Sage for the Academia who also fought alongside them now in her initial pursuit to find a way to drive back Forbidden Knowledge Ruka devada had created the Akasha sister which would harvest the dreams of Immortals and compile that knowledge to help her find a solution to complex problems now it's unclear if she ever used it to deal with the situation in the desert but she did successfully use it to find a way to purge The Forbidden Knowledge out of Urban Soul during the cataclysm however she soon realized that something had gone wrong she had cleansed urman so successfully but in the process her own body had become infected and since she was connected directly to erminzel it would only be a matter of time before Urban Soul itself was re-infected unable to remove the corruption from her own body she found the purest branch of urbanzul and created kusanali In Her Image before sealing herself the best she could waiting for the day when kusanali would return to delete her memory from Urban Soul and free it from the shackles of forbidden knowledge however as the cataclysm waned and the Monsters retreated kusanali was discovered and taken directly to the Academia by sages where they imprisoned her the residual effects of the cataclysm and urban Soul's remaining infection in the form of the corrupted Ruka devada remained unchecked so the withering and Eleazar once only found in the desert spread to the rainforest around this same time in the aftermath of the cataclysm the Traveler's twin helped the aranara relocate their home to the new vanarana and also helped them to repair the varuna contraption ensuring that the rainforest would not become a desert once again they would later reconnect with danesliff in the varukasha Oasis and the rest as they say is history this marks the end the beginner's guide to samaru but since we're always getting new information make sure to check the pinned comment for updates and Corrections thank you guys so much for watching and I'll catch you all in the next episode of The Beginner's Guide to genjen lore take care thank you [Music]

Channel: Ashikai

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Length: 24min 10sec (1450 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 22 2023