[4.2] The Secret Of The Gnosis Isn't What You Think - A Genshin Impact Theory

should have the remains of the Third descender on your person yes I believe it may be called a nosis the nosis is the remains of the what version 4.2 had a lot of little lur bombs that really shook the foundations of everything we know and for a lot of people it probably wasn't in a good way I don't think anyone expected the nosis to be the remains of the third descender of all things for example I mean it certainly took me by surprise I mean I was pretty confused for a while about how and why the nosis were the remains of the third descender and what it might mean for the game as a whole and then I had an unexpected Epiphany and it just changed the way I saw everything cuz see there are no retcons there are no inconsistencies and there are no misdirections like I was really afraid there was going to be there are only stars and if we follow this trail of stars like a trail of thought we can begin to see exactly what hoyo has been trying to hide especially when it comes to the Mysteries behind the powers of the nois the true nature of visions and the perplexing existence of the Dragon sovereign's Throne so all righty guys you know the drill time stamps spoiler warnings links to other videos and resources for further reading are down in the description box while post video Corrections and notes will be in a pinned comment if you need them so without further Ado let's get this Celestial Theory started get it started cuz the the theories about stars I'll just start the video the twins are Stars full stop there is no way to contest this it is stated a bunch of times in game even by The Traveler themselves The Traveler is also the fourth descender and since descending is basically just fancy falling that kind of makes the traveler a falling or shooting star doesn't it kind of like a meteor and logic would then dictate that if the traveler is a fallen star and a descend Ender then other descenders could be stars as well right and this alone may explain why the nois which are the remains of the third descender have properties in common with the traveler who is the fourth descender now let's see if we can flesh out this connection by looking at the four things every nosis has been confirmed to be able to do and then compare that to the Traveler's abilities in doing so we should be able to confirm whether or not the third descender could be a star just like the traveler as of patch 4.2 the nosis are confirmed to be able to do the following one they can resonate with Celestia directly two they can summon massive amounts of energy three they can grant archons the Divine ability to protect their nation and four they can house the obsessions of their wielder okay so let's start with ability one resonating with Celestia directly at the end of the prologue when ventti is explaining what a nois is he presents them as symbols of archon hood that can resonate with Celestia directly then he immediately Compares them to Visions calling the latter primitive tools compared to the nois and that they allow people to ascend to godhood so stick with me while I connect the dots on this one because to understand why this matters we need to revisit some really old lore way back during 1. one's unreconciled Stars event we learned that the sky of tat is fake and that the stars are merely rocks condensed crystals full of memories of the person whose constellation that they belong to this false sky is also known as a firmament and it's also a type of barrier that surrounds toat now more recently during the final installment of the nartis and crits quest line you can find notes left behind by Renee which say to receive a vision is to sell oneself to the fate of this world now this is critical information because Net's character stories explain in explicit detail that this system of Fate is one that was created by celestial to control the living beings of tat if you haven't guessed yet this system is also the stars and constellations hanging in the firmament that's why you can use these stars as a method of fortune telling as illustrated by Mona so basically the firmament and the Stars within it are actually a fate controlling system used by Celestia and both visions and noes are tools to bind life forms to the system in a unique way remember this because we're going to be diving into this more detail in another section for now I would like to point out that it is heavily suggested that the branches of mmil are what make up this fake sky and these Crystal stars are just meril's fruits hanging from those branches this makes sense because heril is a tree that holds the memory of the world and we know from unreconciled stars that the stars are directly tied to one's memories I made a whole video on this topic that I will link in the description box if you're interested in the details cuz we're not going to have time to go into all of them right now but this idea is also supported in a bit of an unorthodox and New Way see these little nodes with an manil are eerily similar to teleport waypoints which are connected to ul's roote system and during the parade of provant event Leila says the following about them do you ever get the feeling that the lines have a regular flow similar to the way that celestial bodies follow fixed orbits if we were looking down from on high I wonder whether we'd find that the L lines are just the reflections of the Stars upon the earth now you might be wondering why I'm making all these roundabout connections the thing is Visions Grant elemental powers but the traveler doesn't get their powers from a vision they get them when they touch a statue of seven which in theory draws its power from the lay lines which are getting powered from manil which I think is actually the same thing as resonating with Celestia because prior to touching the statue of the seven The Traveler did not possess a constell ation or elemental powers touching the statue is what granted them both the constellation and elemental powers so if getting a vision binds one to the Fate written within the sky constellation and gives elemental powers then touching the statue of seven gives the traveler the same properties as a vision so what does this have to do with the nosis cuz that's what we're trying to compare remember the traveler and the nosis well remember that Visions are primitive versions of the nosis meaning a nosis must do something similar if Visions allow one to become a God and gods can possess a nosis and we know a nosis can amplify one's abilities to manipulate Elemental energy just like Visions then it is logical to assume that a nois can also bind a God to a particular fate this may be why gods and the traveler have unique constellations that reflect their own image they are special constellations unique Fates now remember this for later it's going to be very important for now let's talk about the nois second ability the ability to summon massive amounts of energy this is best illustrated by Nita and falor Nita needed a massive amount of power to delete Ruka deada power that could only be summoned via the nois while falor needed the nois to amass power over the course of 500 years in order to destroy her divinity we've seen the traveler summon massive amounts of energy but whenever they do this it's always with the help of nearby people so it would be easy to assume that the traveler is just borrowing the power of others instead of summoning raw power like a nois is but this is where things get kind of interesting if you watch these scenes where the traveler does their golden Power Up closely you'll notice that the traveler starts the encounter by having a power level akin to an average Vision user but as the hopes and wishes of the people around them begin to increase the Traveler's power level increases as well even from the people without Visions now let me remind you that the traveler is a star and people have a long history of Wishing on Stars so if the traveler is a star then doesn't it make a lot of sense that the collective wishes and hopes and dreams of the people around them would grant them the power to Grant those wishes regardless of whether or not those people have any elemental power at all we'll hold this thought as we look into the third ability of the nois to Grant archons the Divine Right to protect their Nation archons are not descenders as far as we know anyway so let's assume that they are also not stars but if descenders are stars and the noes are made of the remains of the third descenders then the noes must contain the fragment of a star I will take this opportunity to remind you that the archons derive their power from people's f Faith but what is Faith towards a God if not the power of prayer and what is prayer if not a wish so what if noes are given to archons out of necessity because the noes respond to the wishes of the people within an archon's nation and can in times of Crisis Grant an archon enough strength to grant their people's wishes by using the power of the star fragment within it is that not exactly what the traveler is doing and that brings me to the final ability of the nois their propensity to house the obsessions of the wielder something that also makes the nois more like Visions since Visions are the manifestations of one's ambition which is an obsession adjacent thing in my opinion anyway now this little tidbit about the nosis containing obsessions comes from the confrontation with Scaro who wanted the nosis to replace his heart it stands to reason that the nosis will reflect the intent of the person who holds it no matter how pure or corrupt they are because it's you know a star that people can wish on how can it discriminate between a good wish or a bad wish and this could be why doré and skirk call masterless nosis these harbingers of disaster that you kind of need to get rid of because without someone to control what sort of wishes reach the star inside of the nosis a masterless nosis will likely respond to any and all wishes indiscriminately therefore the archons must be to be the host of the nosis they are the will that keeps a nosis in check because the nosis has no sentience and without sentience how could it distinguish between a wish that would accomplish good things and a wish that would accomplish Terrible Things think of it a bit like an uncontrollable force of Nature and this would kind of explain why all of the winners of the archon war were never the ones who were the strongest but were instead the ones who loved Humanity the most they had to love Humanity the most in order to ensure that they could use that wish powerered nosis for their benefit power was never a factor because the nosis just straight up grants raw power at will now you're probably wondering if noes are star fragments granted to those who achieved archon Hood in order to grant wishes of their people then how can Visions be their primitive versions it's not like Visions are fragments of another descender right well that's true however I do think Visions are also stars but lesser Stars I've already made an entire Theory video about how I think Visions come from dragons so it might seem weird that I'm now saying Visions are stars unless of course a dragon's power source is a star now we in the biz call that foreshadowing in Net's character stories we learned that when a person's wish reaches the heavens the archons must grant them a gift a piece of their Mastery over the elements this gift takes the form of a vision it's pretty straightforward right well this lines up with what we already knew about Visions being the manifestations of someone's ambition because having an ambition implies having a goal that needs to be achieved and what is an ultimate goal but a wish that you plan to grant for yourself right in this way Visions still maintain their status as external organs because your wish is also a part of you if you perish before your wish is actually fulfilled then you might leave behind something called a masterless vision this masterless vision would be an unfulfilled wish which can only be reignited by someone who possesses the same level of ambition that would have fulfilled that wish and that's why this Vision here lit up when kazua blocked the muso noit toachi he fulfilled his friend's wish that was contained within the vision and this is kind of why I Call Visions Stars not because they're fragments of a descender but because they're accomplishing the same thing as a nosis on a much smaller scale it's all wish fulfillment nosis can respond to the wishes of many people all at once while Visions only seem to respond to the wish of a single person now this wish connection might also be why in the genin manga you'll often see Visions ditching their element symbol in favor of something a bit more Celestial this star shape is the same as the one used for basically any star that is not the four-pointed primost star you can see it in Yia Second Story Quest Mona's Golden Apple archipelago domain and it's even the same shape as the intertwined and acquaint Fates that we wish with now obviously Visions are not fragments of the third descender but they are manifestations of wishes and since wishes are star powerered only makes sense that the so-called Mastery that grants them also comes from a star now chapter 4's archon Quest taught us that an archon's power does not just come from their nosis but also from their Throne which is a New Concept and this Throne appears to contain the authorities that Celestia stole from the dragon sovereigns now it doesn't make much sense for two different powers to be attributed to one object so it's very likely that an archon's so-called Mastery and the stolen Dragon authorities are actually the same thing this idea is further supported by the fact that dragon sovereigns can also Grant Visions now how do I know a dragon can grant a vision well it's directly stated in Net's character story this character story says that by destroying herself felur also destroyed her Heavenly throne and that was what allowed nalet to regain his authority which he used to quote reforge his throne and the very first Vision that was given out under his rule was to finina and that vision is very unique not only does it Grant her control over both Numa and usia but it has very tiny claws on it which are not present on any other Fontan Vision it almost looks like a dragon claw clutching a pearl which is an amazing detail considering how Net's setting aside parts of himself is likened to a dragon treasure horde in his character stories and how he claims at the end of the AR Conquest to have complete control over numia the only conclusion here is that new Vette gave finina a piece of his authority Visions are actually Dragon pearls that's a real thing and did you know that in Chinese folklore Dragon pearls are actually called wish granting pearls all of this makes me wonder if those who receive Visions are destined to become dragons that Ascend beyond the heavens and become a real star after all it's a common theme in Chinese folklore that anyone who possesses the pearl of a dragon can become a dragon and Ascend to Heaven which is funny because nalet refers to the Dragon King neong as the heavenly father in Chinese and this exact phrase is used to describe God itself like a Yahweh type God the creator of all things so the name neong might have been a pun because the root word in it neble can also mean cloud like clouds in the heavens and the ties between heaven and Dragons doesn't stop there now the fact that nalet is the heart of the primordial sea which is basically a sea of Stardust and the fact that he equates neong with Heaven itself suggests to me that the dragons in genin were originally of celestial origin now I'm talking space Celestial not Celestia Celestial okay just to be clear in fact this is a repeating theme in hoo's other games too now don't worry I'm not going to waste any time trying to directly connect these games together but but it is undeniable that hoyo is trying to create a sort of Multiverse within which its games are set and throughout that hoyo verse a lot of the themes seem to repeat themselves for example in hunai Star rail the ancient leviathans appear to have been these Godlike draconic beings that were birthed from stars and then in honai Impact there's this very interesting story about a star descending to a planet and terraforming it and the tale is eerily similar to the one told in before sun and moon and it also kind of parallels a scientific theory that a meteor seeded all life on earth a meteor being a shooting star in this case and the star in this story uses the character for Gem bead or Pearl which is the same term as the one used for visions and like I mentioned earlier Visions are akin to Dragon pearls you starting to see the pattern here so if stars and dragons are intrinsically linked and descenders are also stars then descenders might be also a bit draconic in nature which may explain why the Traveler's combat kit resembles that of the Dragons more than that of the archons and why the traveler seems to be compatible with all of these systems within tat it's not so much that the traveler is from tat originally but that they belong to the same type of being that this planet's original life forms are based on the dragon sovereigns now all this talk about pearls and dead stars reminded me of the Buddhist ciras these are essentially Gems or pearls that form within the cremated remains of a spiritual master and much like Dragon pearls contain that person's spiritual Essence and knowledge these cira are often kept in vessels known as reliquaries many of which strongly resemble the nois these CRA are said to contain the knowledge and spiritual essence of the person whose remains they were formed in which reminds me a heck of a lot of delusions since delusions were made from the crystallized power found on aashi's remains this means that anyone with the delusion was simply borrowing aashi's power without permission and that power was pretty toxic if the effects of the tatarigami were anything to go by so it's no wonder that the uh Power kind of backfired on the wielders and speaking of taking things without permission Celestia sure has a history of stealing star power don't they I mean they stole the star power of both twins the beginning of the game then they stole a whole planet from the Star dragons then they proceeded to steal those star dragons powers and you know based on this flavor text from the Star lamp it's actually possible that the four shades of the primordial one weren't actually part of the primordial one but were instead Stars whose Powers were stolen cuz it says here that imprisoned Starlight leaves behind shade or Shadows which is a weirdly specific thing to say like why not just say it leaves behind dark Ness why be so specific on the shade part unless that has some sort of deeper meaning and if there is a deeper meaning then it makes all these references to black stars throughout the game a bit more suspicious like I'm wondering if these black and stars are stars that were imprisoned and then had their lights stolen like how the Traveler's lights were blacked out at the beginning of the game it makes me wonder if desit was originally a golden star and the reason he took the form of a blackened star was because he had been imprisoned in other words his light was stolen or sealed after all I mean his demon name was Amon which is the same name as the Egyptian Creator deity who later merged with the sun god raw and suns are obviously Stars this description also suits Pimon with her black hair accessory and little constellation particle effects as well as all of the conans who wanted to challenge heaven and carried the banner of a black star with them and it might even apply at least in part to the sustainer of heavenly principles since her stars are a mix of black and gold perhaps her light wasn't completely stolen and since the stars in Tat's false sky are actually part of Celestia's system of Fate which it uses to control all life on the surface I wonder if that's where all of the stolen star-based powers are actually kept perhaps these lights are tied to false Stars so that they can't escape but weren't the dragon authorities kept inside the archon's Thrones instead not a star like surely a throne and Celestia's fake stars can't be related too right right up until the end of chapter 4's archon Quest I actually thought those references that we had to Heavenly Thrones was kind of more of a metaphorical thing I mean I figured there might be a literal throne in Celestia somewhere but I thought of them as more like symbolic instead of serving a real practical function and then falor destroyed one and a dragon got their Authority back so clearly these Heavenly Thrones are critical infrastructure but we've never actually seen one not even in the scene where one was destroyed and I found that kind of confusing I was this close to writing off fur's talk of Thrones as being metaphorical again and then I remembered the words of the Abyss twin during the we will be reunited Quest until the abyss has engulfed the Thrones my war with Destiny will see no end given that a dragon's Authority appears to be locked within a throne the Thrones must be real and Powerful things that exist somewhere in order for the abyss twin to want to destroy them so then what is it and where is it now canonically we know next to nothing about these Thrones but I have a hypothesis that the word throne might refer to a part of a constellation here's my rationale in Chinese mythology the gods of Heaven are structured like an ancient Chinese god government you've got the Jade Emperor his advisers administrators magistrates and all kinds of governmental positions and stuff and this whole system of governance is literally reflected in the patterns of stars the emperor is the Polar Star and the Stars around him make up his Palace and other physical structures within Heaven itself while some other stars and constellation belong to real deities this is why the Chinese word for constellation is literally Destiny seat cuz it's like a seat in Parliament now I'm thinking that within Celestia's system of Fate there are reserved spaces or seats for every person those with greater importance get greater seats so a dragon king must be given the greatest seat because they are greatly important something like a I don't know King's seat or a throne and the same should be true for an archon since you know they're Gods now I think that the throne falor destroyed in chapter 4 was part of a special constellation where Celestia was keeping Net's Authority namely her constellation and that's why it was so crucial that she deceive Celestia and defy her own fate in order to return his authority to him deceiving fate and destroying fate are almost synonymous and in this case it destroyed a physical object part of her constellation and I think this was her plan from the very very start now if you read through Net's character stories you might remember that 500 years ago he received a letter from folor and it was an invitation she said I shall leave you a seat with the best view in the greatest Theater now throughout his character Stories the term seat is mostly used as foreshadowing for her intent to pass the throne over to him this is most obvious in Chinese because of the specific character used for seat it's the same as the one used for Destiny's seat a constellation this same character is later used in combination with the one for the king making it a king's seat or a throne so after furas destroyed her own Throne nuet was able to reclaim his authority and was able to then reconstruct his throne and this one is not under the control of Celestia now I've read that in Chinese astrology the brightest star in a constellation is often called a king while the rest of the stars are called princes now I think and this is wild speculation here that dragons are are actually their own constellations like physically they are the manifestation of their constellation and I think that their King star or their brightest star is the equivalent of their Throne this makes it their dragon pearl the thing that contains all of their power and wisdom and knowledge and stuff so maybe their body is made up of all of the prince stars but their power and knowledge and such is contained in their King star so without their King star they are considered an incomplete Dr dragon now I think a similar logic applies to archons whereby they are not actually their constellations but that their constellation dictates their fate and their King star is a regifted dragon Authority which grants archons their Divinity now since falor was the isolated Divinity of finina falor was permanently bound to her King star so if she destroyed herself the king star would also be destroyed and only the prince Stars would remain and that's basically finina now I think this is why nalet says his constellation is his own reflection in his character stories and that's why he's also free of Celestia's fate system he's literally his own constellation now if you're wondering about this Leviathan constellation that he has apparently it's a completely separate secondary constellation that he selected for himself so melines could have fun reading his astrological charts in the steam bird because they couldn't do this if they were to use his real one it's suggested that only those who possess the power to change the world can have a constellation that is an image of themselves for example Mona does not appear to be able to read the fate of people who possess constellations that are their owner's Reflections like ventti or the traveler so it stands to reason that the same would be true for nalet and finina now fina's Faith is basically the prophecy that Moda says is the fate of the world something that can only be read by a Visionary with which is probably why despite not being a god anymore finina still has a constellation that is In Her Image she already changed the fate of the world and uh speaking of within toat the role of the traveler appears to be that of the Wish granter by traveling through toat they learn about the people and act as a catalyst and making their wishes come true but it seems like the ultimate goal is for them to replace the head honcho and Celestia but for that to happen we're probably going to need to get everyone on board and I think the Serita might pose a bit of an obstacle to that if you've ever wondered why the Ser is collecting the seven nois it's probably because she intends to use all seven fragments of the third descender star in order to make her own wish come true to add to this the abyss twin should also naturally possess the ability to grant wishes but they're aligned with the abyss so they're probably intent on granting the wish of the Abyss instead but you know the abyss twin might actually be less of an issue than the Serita the Serita will have all seven pieces of a complete descender which should put her on par with the traveler who is also a descender but the abyss twin is not a descender and this is kind of a big deal because as a 4.2 we know what it means to be a descender see in the tower of Gestalt you'll find a note from Renee which says the following for not all that comes from Beyond may be as one that descends that title belongs only to Wills that can rival an entire world in other words not every Star is a descender there could be dozens or hundreds of fallen stars in tat and there's only four of them who can be considered descenders because only those four have the wills to rival an entire world which means that if the abyss twin is not considered a descender then their will is not strong enough to rival the world that said you know how I said the abyss twin might be trying to Grant the wish of the Abyss well in another set of Rene's notes he mentions that the abyss contains a will of its own so it's very possible that the abyss twin is trying to compensate for their lack of descender status by replacing their own will with the will of the abyss and that might put them on the same level as the Serita in terms of uh posing an obstacle to the Traveler's goals but regardless of which is which one thing is pretty clear to me con's original plan to overthrow Heaven involved That Power from Beyond that daniff mentions in the travail trailer the power of a descender and it seems like everyone wants this incredible wish granting power for their own reasons but no one has been able to completely replicate it the Serita can only gather the dead fragments of a descender but may or may not possess the will to utilize them the way they need to be now the abyss twin has the raw ability on their own but they lack a will to rival the world so they risk allowing the Abyssal will to override their own and it's possible that cona actually tried to summon a descender from Beyond the firmament in order to achieve their own goals I say this because cona was tracking the twins long before they entered Tat's orbit and Wanderer then tells us that the twins only arrived because the heavens responded to the summoning which means the Twins were summoned when this res resulted in a failed descender Allah the ABY win Pierro may have come up with a plan of collecting the nois instead and joined forces with the Serita but don't you think it's odd that the abyss has a will in the first place a will that can potentially rival the world I mean it's almost like the abyss itself is a descender wait a second if descenders are stars then they might have a similar life cycle to stars from our own universe meaning they start as stellar nebula or Stardust then take one of two branching paths with three possible outcomes a white dwarf a neutron star and a black hole isn't a black hole kind of like an endless Abyss that engulfs everything well now I'm wondering if the name of the game genin is a pun about the life cycle of stars like in Chinese the game is called Juan Shen but despite being pronounced a little differently and using different characters if you read it backwards it's Shen Juan which means abyss and I swear if they based cona on dwarves from dramatic folkore just so they could have the pun about the white dwarves then I'm going to going to I I don't know actually I'll probably just lay down on the floor and stare at the ceiling a little bit I'm tired I'm tired you know I'm weirdly excited about all the different lower implications if this Theory turns out to be accurate like the idea that we're all just wishing on Stars just it completely changed my perspective on a lot of little L bits and on screen now are my lovely little channel members who help me make all my videos just by existing Isn't that cool and while they scroll on by I kind of want to share a few last minute observations with you guys the all devouring narwhal is probably some kind of star beast in fact we know the Narwhal is a star Beast because of the lines the star beasts will drink the amniotic fluid and the amniotic fluid is the primordial see which is what the Narwhal drank and since Visions are stars and this narwhal seems to be weirdly connected to child's constellation child's Vision may be subject to the narwhal's moods which might be why it went all finicky at the beginning of chapter 4 now also note that a few of the narwhal's attacks are tied to black holes and black holes are the all devourers of space so uh the name is probably pretty fitting and one last thing you know the whole thing about finding the Genesis Pearl in the battle pass well I'm now like 85 is% sure that it's nong's Dragon Pearl since you know he's the heavenly father and thereby responsible for Genesis supposedly in fact this may have been staring at us in the face for like ever since the very beginning of the game cuz like notice how the light sigils of enomia have the eight-pointed star with a circle in it and now take a look at the icon for the Genesis Pearl in the battle pass they're pretty similar huh so uh yeah I'm pretty sure the battle pass story is about finding nong's Pearl which is probably somewhere lost in the abyss because where else would it be but I think that's all for me for today though I just want to say thank you one more time to my channel members for all their wonderful support and another special thanks to you dear viewer for watching and for making it to the end of the video not many people do that well take care of yourselves out there guys and I'll catch you all in the next video bye-bye

Channel: Ashikai

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Keywords: genshin impact, game theory, fontaine, skirk, descender

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Length: 34min 29sec (2069 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 20 2023