Have you ever wondered where the Electro
Sovereign is?... Well, I have… After all, across every nation up to Fontaine,
the Traveler has had an opportunity to interact with a major Elemental
Dragon… Yet somehow we went through all of Inazuma without a single
word about the Electro Dragon… So, I decided to look for an answer amongst the stars,
and that… Lead me to the Moon… In other words…. There is something wrong with the
Moon in Teyvat… Uhhh, hehe… Actually, I take that back… There are MANY things wrong
with the MOONS of Teyvat… Since Genshin has multiple Moons, and they are all Sussy for
their own reasons… … Take for example this picture of the Moon in the game… At first
glance, nothing looks out of the ordinary… It’s just another normal depiction of a
Moon in the sky that we are all familiar with… Y-You know what? It might be a bit TOO
familiar, perhaps even more than it should be because this isn’t just a random depiction of
A MOON… This is THE MOON, OUR MOON ON EARTH. Now, if you go to the Spiral Abyss and take a
look at the Abyssal Moon found there, you will notice that it is not the same as the one visible
from the surface of Teyvat… AND BOTH OF THOSE, are also different from the Crimson Moon present in
Beelzebul’s Realm of Consciousness… MEANING that the choice of making Genshin’s Moon identical to
the one seen from Earth was deliberate… But why? Well, lucky for me, I didn’t have to
wonder about it for too long… A couple of hours after I got that idea, I was
rummaging through the furniture items in my Tea Pot which is when I found this
piece of Wall Decore called Replica Mural: Ancient Ritual in a Sea of Fog… And as the
name suggests, the artwork is based on a mural found on Tsurumi Island depicting its ancient
inhabitants performing a ritual toward the moon. The ritual showcased was done before the
Thunderbird Kapatcir would descend on the Island of Tsurumi through the Sea of Fog
but what caught my attention is how the Moon appears in the mural… You’ve got this vaguely
crescent shape to indicate that this is indeed the Moon we are looking at, except it’s not
a real crescent since the outlines make up a full circle and then you have the fact
that a portion of it is completely hollow and see-through with a couple of stars visible
behind it and a few lines passing through it. The reason I am emphasizing this particular
depiction of the Moon is due to the fact that the art is based on the murals of Tsurumi
Island, which means that this is what the people of Tsurumi would have seen thousands of
years ago back then… And the Moon visible from that Island is not the Abyssal Moon or any other
variation… It is the Moon of the Human Realm, the one we care about right now… The one that
looks identical to the real Moon of Earth. Based on the description of the furnishing item,
these lines leading into the Fog, should in theory represent the path that Kanna Kapatcir took as
she descended on Tsurumi… And considering that this path traverses the Moon, it holds the
potential to unravel the mystery behind it. But this is where we need to stop and ask
a very important question… What exactly is the Thunderbird of Tsurumi
Island… What is Kanna Kapatcir? You see, depending on who or what she
is, we can end up with considerably differing outcomes… Therefore, it would be
beneficial for us to determine her identity, at least as close as we can get to it
based on the information currently at our disposal… And… Unfortunately… We don’t
have much at our disposal… Because somehow, even Hoyoverse themselves don’t seem to know
what the hell she is with official in-game sources contradicting themselves across different
languages… Some calling her an Eagle, or a Hawk, or even an Owl in Chinese… Which by the way, how
the heck is this an Owl?... And then you also have her undeniable resemblance to Oz, so we can add
Ravens and Crows to our list of Birds of Prey. Sooo, I am gonna have to run purely
based on mythology in addition to a few other clues found in-game… And
fingers crossed, I get it right… OK… Given the tremendous scale of her
power along with her size and age, Kapatcir is either a God, a Dragon, a powerful
Elemental Lifeform, OR even… A Star Beast, just like the Narhwal of Surtalogi… These are
the most likely options I found, anything else either doesn’t work or can be simply considered
as an extension of the aforementioned four. But hold on a sec, I know what some of you
are thinking… I just suggested that the Thunderbird could be a Dragon, and believe
it or not it’s not just a potential option, it is one of the more likely
options as you will see later. In case you are unfamiliar with Kanna Kapatcir, I
will give you a very brief rundown of her story… The Thunderbird later known as Kapatcir came to
exist on Teyvat thousands of years ago in an age long lost to the annals of history… She inhabited
Mount Kanna as her nest on Tsurumi Island and would travel the sky back and forth between that
point and Seirai Island… According to Kapatcir herself, she originally had a different
name, although, by the time we met her, she had already forgotten it long ago
along with the one who gave her that name. Following the Great War of Vengeance, the
Usurper King was wounded severely and the Heavens lost their ability to suppress
the world with absolute authority… So, the Usurper King sent down Divine Nails to mend
the land which was on the verge of collapse… And according to Kapatcir, a Celestial Object
fell on Tsurumi Island… She doesn’t clarify what that object was, but until we get further
information, let us just consider it a nail. At any rate, not long after a
thick Fog began to form around the Island of Tsurumi and eventually blotted
out the Sun… And even though the Thunderbird was fully capable of dispersing the Fog,
she never actually cared enough to do it. And that’s basically all you need to know about
Kapatcir… Now back to the main topic, what is she, and what is her connection with the Moon?
OK, let us start with the first and most obvious thing that we can point out
about the Thunderbird… And that is, her size… Because, heh heh… She was very,
very, VERY BIG… So much so that if you take an aerial view of Seirai, you can trace
her exact shape through the incision carved into the Island from the impact of
her fall after being killed by Beelzebul. Furthermore, to support the previous observation…
If we go to where Kapatcir’s head would have been, we will notice that there is a giant hole in
the ground leading to some ancient ruins… And, yeah… Heh, this hole was formed
by Kapatcir’s beak… That’s right, her BEAK… Going through the ruins when she fell. And judging by the sheer magnitude of energy she unleashed after death and how much it
altered the surrounding environment, it is safe to say that Kapatcir was at least
God-Like in Power if not a God-in-Truth. Thus, it should be to no one’s surprise that
a being like that would eventually end up as a recipient of worship from some tribe of
puny mortals at one point or another… And worship her they did, for after their Island
was engulfed by a blinding Fog, the people of Tsurumi became isolated from the world and
generations later they would forget the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars… Out of foolishness and
desperation, the people began offering their own kin as human sacrifices to their deity… But
the Thunderbird would heed not their cries, nor answer their prayers… In other
words, she didn’t give a shit about them. Don’t get the wrong idea tho… At that
point, the Thunderbird did not hate humans, she simply DID NOT CARE about them whatsoever…
That is… Until she was captivated by the singing of a young boy by the name of Ruu… Who
unbeknownst to her was next in line to become a human sacrifice for his tribe’s
god… Yeah, kinda awkward if you ask me. Soon, the Thunderbird grew fond of young Ruu and
he in return became her friend, giving her the name Kanna Kapatcir… Which means the “Great Eagle
of the Storm”... Where it should be apparent that Ruu got the first part of her name, Kanna,
from the Mountain which she used to inhabit. As you know, Inazuma as a whole is directly
inspired by the Yamato Japanese with some Greek influence carrying over from Byakuyakoku…
However, the Thunderbird Civilization of Tsurumi is inspired by an indigenous group known as the
Ainu, who inhabited the Japanese archipelago, in particular the island of Hokkaido,
prior to the arrival of the Yamato. And I wish I could talk about the Ainu
more because their story IS SO COOL… But unfortunately, that would send us off on a
long tangent from the main topic… So instead, if you are interested in their history, there
is this extremely well-made documentary by Kings and Generals detailing the rise
and fall of the Ainu people across Northern Japan… I am gonna leave
a link to it in the description. Now the reason I am bringing them up
is because the name of Mount Kanna on Tsurumi Island is derived from the
Ainu God of Lightning and Thunder Kanna-Kamuy… Which is apparently one of the
main characters in Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, and while I haven’t seen this anime it is
a cool easter egg for those who did… Thus, it should be obvious that the Thunderbird
Kanna Kapatcir in Genshin serves the same function as the Ainu God Kanna-Kamuy…
Which in Japan IS DEPICTED… As a Dragon. So, does this finally answer our question… Is
Kanna Kapatcir the Electro Dragon?!?... Weeeeell, not quite… And don’t get me wrong, while
she could very well be An Electro Dragon, I would have a hard time justifying her
as THE Electro Sovereign for a variety of reasons… And even then there are other clues
hinting towards her not being a Dragon at all… But, for the sake of argument, let us humour the idea that she IS a dragon… What
else can we add to support it? Several things, actually… The first is the fact
that the Elemental Dragons we have met so far are not the conventional giant T-Rex-like flying
lizards that you would normally expect… Instead, they tend to share features and attributes
from various other animals in their appearance. For instance, Azhdaha has horns and a body posture
akin to that of a Bison or an African Buffalo, while his general body shape resembles
that of a Chameleon with an inflated belly, prominent bony and overlapping scales, a large
and very strong tail… And also his ability to change colour after absorbing other elements… Then
you have Apep, who is described as an enormous Sandworm and bears similarities to a snake…
And then there is Dvalin who shares the most in common with Kapatcir, with bird-like limbs and
claws, a mouth that is shaped like a bird’s beak, along with many feathers scattered around
his body, most notably on his tail. Finally, when it comes to Neuvillette, well… If
these Leisurely Otters are anything to go by, then his Dragon form likely has some Otter features…
All this to say, that Kapatcir’s appearance as a Bird of Prey does not automatically
disqualify her from being a Dragon… Although I have to admit that she would be extremely
stretching the definition if that is the case. Another reason for as to why Kapatcir cannot be
the Electro Sovereign even if she was an Electro Dragon is because of… Uuuh, do you remember
earlier when I said that someone gave Kapatcir her original name?... Kapatcir refers to that
someone as a “She”... And interestingly enough if we go back to the Ainu God of Lightning
and Thunder, Kanna-Kamuy, it is said that he descended from heaven along with another Goddess
known as Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat… Who happens to be one of the most important deities
in Ainu mythology, serving as the Keeper of the Gateway from the Human Realm to Divinity, along
with governing over the Souls of the Dead before they would be assigned new bodies… Which is
yet another callback to Teyvat’s Cyclical Nature and Samsara Cycles… BUUUUUT, the point I
am trying to get across is that Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat seems to correspond to
the “She” who gave Kapatcir her true name. Also, Apemerukoyan-mat Unamerukoyan-mat has
two other names, those being Iresu and Fuchi and I am going to refer to her as Fuchi from
now on because it is cuter… Therefore, Fuchi, who supposedly descended from heaven with Kanna
would be a much more fitting candidate for the title of the Electro Sovereign, with Kapatcir
being one of her creations or followers. But now, we have another problem…
In one of my older videos, I suggested that the Electro Sovereign is
sealed beneath the Island of Kannazuka, with the Thunder Sakura Trees acting to suppress
it… And to this day, I still hold this belief since we know for a fact that something is beneath
Kannazuka, and from the reaction of Kuki Miyuki, Shinobu’s older sister who helped us fix
the seals, that thing seems very powerful. FURTHERMORE, I have another idea for as to
what Fuchi and Kapatcir are… It has to do with Fischl… And I am NOT talking about Amy,
I am talking about Princess Fischl… You see, it is no secret that Kapatcir bears
a huge resemblance to the Raven Oz, who happens to be the familiar of the
girl that cosplays Princess Fischl, Amy… As ever since Amy got her Vision, Oz became
her companion… Just like Xiangling and Guoba! Both Xiangling and Guoba are what you would
call Character Foils, which means they are contrasting characters used to highlight specific
traits or qualities of the main character… And in Genshin’s case, Xiangling and Guoba are foils
for the Traveler and Paimon… Think about it, just like the Traveler, Xiangling spends
her time exploring Teyvat in search of great delicacies to improve her cooking, while
her companion Guoba used to be a God known as Marchosius and the Traveler’s companion,
Paimon, is VERY likely a God as well. However, Oz is not like Marchosius
and Paimon… He is not a God, rather, he is a product of Amy’s Vision,
a manifestation of her ambition… A manifestation of… Her Fate… Ahhh, now we have
something we can work with… Listen carefully. In the description of the Wings of Merciful;
Wrathful Waters, it is written that the Shade of Life created Egeria from materials completely
native to Teyvat as a Heart for the Primordial Sea, to replace the fallen Hydro Sovereign
before her… The developers go on to add that Egeria possessed a heart with nobility akin to
that of a dragon, which when combined with the information that she was made without the use
of any outside matter, leads me to suspect that Egeria was quite legitimately fashioned out
of the heart of the deceased Hydro Sovereign… This is backed up by the fact when Egeria died, a
Third Heart was then born to replace her… And who was this new heart?... Was it the next Hydro
Archon?... NO, it was a Dragon, Neuvillette. Egeria, kind as she was, felt sympathy for
the Dragons and thus shed the first tear to create the Oceanids… And the author of the
Ancient Natural History Excerpts found in the Institute of Natural Philosophy, has this
to say about the birth of the Oceanids “The lizard's bones dissolved into mud,
from which swans emerged”... It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that the
“Swans” in that metaphor are the Oceanids, while the Lizard… Well, there could only be so
many Lizards with bones big enough to create an entire race… And you best believe that money
is on the Previous Hydro Dragon Sovereign. This explains why Hydro Mimics from the
Narzissenkreuz Adventure Questline go on and on about how the Oceanid in the Sealed Tower
is an Evil Dragon to which Paimon protests… It is because the Oceanids were made out of the
carcass of the Previous Hydro Sovereign and thus would be fittingly Draconic to some capacity… And
surprise surprise… When Kapatcir died, her power summoned the Thunder Manifestations, which are
almost identical to the Oceanids in appearance. And even tho what I said makes it sound as
if Kapatcir is comparable to the Hydro Dragon Sovereign… In reality, I am highlighting her
similarities with Egeria… Notice that Egeria was created by the Shade of Life to fulfill
the role of the Previous Hydro Sovereign… While Kapatcir is connected to an Unknown Female, who
for the sake of this video I call Fuchi based on Ainu mythology, that gave Kanna her original
name… Therefore, I assume that this Fuchi is likewise one of the Shades of the Primordial
One, probably also the Shade of Life, who created Kapatcir to fulfill the role of the former
Electro Dragon that was put out of commission. But what could that role possibly be?... Well,
it brings us ALL THE WAY BACK, to the Moon. In the opening chapter of the Book, Flowers
for Princess Fischl… The author of the story, Mr Nine, writes about the Beasts of the World
that reside in the center of the Universe… He names one of them as Gesamtkunstwerk and states
that it will appear in the Opera Theatre of the Apocalypse and fight the Laevatain… At
this point, we know that Gesamtkunstwerk is the Star-Devouring Nahrwal… But what is
interesting is that Mr. Nine mentions how all the other Beasts of the World will start
to appear in turn… And based on the fact that the Narwhal is Tartaglia’s constellation…
Then we know that the other Celestia Beasts are going to be the constellations
of the rest of Teyvat’s Inhabitants. Now, hold that thought for a moment… I will shift
the topic slightly, and we will get back to it… You see, based on the words of the
Fatui Harbingers Zandik and Scaramouche, we know that the Sky of Teyvat is
fake… And if the Sky is not real, then everything on it should be put
there by design… INCLUDING THE MOON. Now, if we take a look at the Murals of
Tsurumi Island, and in particular this one, the words inscribed onto it roughly translate
to “You are called the powerful Trivia, and you are called the Moon by your
borrowed Light”... And if we go back to the Mural Replica which kickstarted
this entire video, we can see what is presumably Kapatcir’s descent path going
THROUGH the Moon and into the Sea of Fog… But hold on… Remember that the Moon of Teyvat
looks identical to ours on Earth… Which brings me to the final piece of information we get
from Flowers for Princess Fischl… There it is written that those powerful enough will
possess their own Domains of Consciousness where various parts of themselves and their
power are stored… And in the Electro Archon, Beelzebul’s, Domain of Consciousness,
what do we find?… We find the Moon. However, the Moon in Beelzebul’s Domain
is not real… Just like the one in Teyvat’s sky… But if the Moon of the Human Realm
isn’t real… Then what is it?... Well, think about it this way… What does a Moon do?...
It reflects the Light of the Sun… And the Mural on Tsurumi goes a step further to hammer
in that point… So, perhaps… The Moon is an Imaginary Mirror created by the Primordial one to
reflect the image of the Star Beasts beyond the False Sky onto Teyvat… And use them to govern the
destinies of the puny mortals beneath the Heavens. And since the Murals of Tsurumi
display the Moon in conjuncture with Kapatcir’s flight along with
Beelzebul’s connection to the Moon, it isn’t outlandish for me to suggest that
this process, is likely sustained through the Authority of the Electro Sovereign…
After all, remember what Beelzebul says: And this makes me wonder… When Kapatcir tells Ruu
that she heard the Songs of the Rabbit, the Fox, the Boar, the Fish, and the Worm… Was she talking
about the animals of the wilderness… OR THE BEASTS SHE SAW, BEYOND THE REFLECTION OF THE MOON.
—- Buuuut… We still have a problem, you
see depending on the true identity of Fuchi that gave the Thunderbird her name,
Kapatcir could be either a Dragon, a God, an Elemental Lifeform or even heck
maybe a Star Beast that was brought down from the Heavens by Fuchi just
like in the Original Ainu story. And as much as I hate closing things off on
such a note… There are other things which I haven’t mentioned about Kapatcir for the sake
of time and if you bring those into the equation you can make a very good argument for her being
any of the aforementioned creatures… So… What is Kapatcir… Is she a God, a Dragon, a Star Beast?
I don’t know, you tell me, What do YOU think? But for the sake of having some degree of closure,
I am gonna give you my take on what’s going on with Kanna Kapatcir… Earlier, I talked about
how the text we have from the Ancient Natural History Excerpts along with the description of
the Fontaine Wind Gliders: Wings of Merciful; Wrathful Waters, heavily imply that the Shade
of Life created the Goddess Egeria from the Heart of the Previous Hydro Sovereign after the
latter perished… And Egeria herself then went on to create her Oceanid Familiars, likely from
the carcass of the deceased Dragon Sovereign. Following that same line of logic…
Remember that the Thunder Manifestations, which are essentially just Electro Oceanids,
were formed from the remnants of Kapatcir’s power following her death at the hands
of Beelzebul… Therefore, the “She” who presumably created Kapatcir would either be
the former Electro Dragon Sovereign OR the Shade of Life… And I am currently leaning
more toward the latter for a few reasons. You see Gods are the manifestations of
their own Constellations, they are the incarnations of their destinies, hence why each
God is associated with an ideal to which they follow and adhere… This means Morax is the
Constellation of Zhongli for example… And many Gods such as Morax and Amun are depicted
with a Sun behind them… The Sun, is a Star and since Gods are their own Constellations then
Star Beasts might be the God form of morals when they ascend to Celestia… Which explains why
Vanessa became a Falcon following her ascension. This means that arguing on whether Kapatcir is a
Star Beast or a God made by one of the Shades of the Primordial is kinda redundant because the
Gods might be Star Beasts themselves… With a few extra steps of course… And finally, based
on Skirk's words where she tells Neuvillette that he is one of the Primordial Dragons of
“This” Planet when referring to Teyvat… Along with Neuvillette being constantly shown by
Hoyoverse with imagery heavily associated with Stars… I Think Dragons might be Star Beasts
that inhabit various Planets and give them life… But that is a topic for another time… Because
now, we have reached the end of this video. And to close off with some food for thought, do you know how Egeria and Kapatcir
created the Oceanids and the Thunder Manifestations respectively?... Well, you
know what else looks like those creatures? Seelies… Seelies look almost identical to
them… And we have Egeria and Kapatcir with their Draconic connections along with
the Oceanids being likened to Dragons in the Narzissenkreuz Adventure Quest, so
what does this say about the Seelies… What do you think?... Could Seelies also be
aligned with the Dragons to some degree? I wonder what this implies regarding my
previous theory about the Khaenri’ahns being Seelies… I might have to revisit that
at some point in the future… But for now, thank you all for watching
and take care, until the next.
