With the reveal in the 4.1 archon quest that
Chief Justice Neuvillette is the current Hydro Dragon Sovereign, some people may be wondering
what or who exactly a dragon Sovereign is and why is it important that Neuvillette is
one. So in this video I'm going to perfectly explain
what this particular chunk of lore means and why we should all care about it. This is the UnlikelyGenshinGamer and welcome
to a lore explanation about The Dragon Sovereigns of old. The Dragon Sovereigns are a fairly old concept
that has been trickled to us bit by bit since Enkanomiya and its corresponding world quest
were introduced back in version 2.4 and that's because of how closely connected they are
to Enkanomiya's history and the very very early history of all of Teyvat. That history is important because it reveals
some of Teyvat’s dirty hidden secrets that may very well come back to haunt it later. In the absolutely ancient history of Teyvat
before any people lived there, before the seven Archons, the land was inhabited by Vishaps.;
Land, air and sea dragons. And these vishaps were ruled by all powerful
elemental dragons called the Dragon Sovereigns. Each Dragon Sovereign resonated with it's
corresponding element and ruled the region of the world where that element was most bountiful. Sometime after this, perhaps thousands of
years later, an outsider, a completely new entity from somewhere else entirely, named
the Primordial One or Phanes arrived in Teyvat. They were described as being androgynous,
and are therefore referred to as they. This Primordial One made war with the Dragon
Sovereigns and their subjects the Vishaps, to conquer the land for Humans. It is left unclear whether they made humans
or whether they brought them to Teyvat from somewhere else. But they were determined to create a paradise
for them in Teyvat and that meant the Dragons and their Vishaps had to go. After the first defeat, which led to the rise
of Human civilization, the dragons decided to fight back again, much harder. We learn alot about what happened at that
time from three very important sources. One is Apep who is the original Dendro Sovereign. We meet her in Nahida’s second Story quest
and she is able to clarify quite a bit about what happened during that war. According to her, the dragons fought bitterly
to take back the world they saw as rightfully theirs and when they realized that they needed
more power to defeat the Primordial One and it's helpers called Shades, the Dragon King,
Nibelung left Teyvat completely to find help and came back with Forbidden Knowledge, the
Power of the Abyss. This is the Second Who Came or the Second
Throne of Heaven. The second source of information is the Mistress
of Flowers who was an ancient Seelie from the earliest history of Teyvat before she
ruled alongside King Deshret. She was a first-hand witness to the war between
the Primordial One and the dragons as well, and certain artifact set descriptions tell
of her account of what the Primordial One did to win and how badly the world was damaged
by it. And the third source of information is an
ancient book created by those early people in the Enkanomiya civilization. This book called Before Sun and Moon Is our
most important source of information for a few reasons, which I’ll explain shortly. Now, According to Apep, When Nibelung returned
to Teyvat with renewed force, The clash that came from these two mighty enemies, devastated
the entire continent so badly that the world was nearly obliterated. And the Mistress of Flowers tells us that
part of the reason why is because The Primordial one used the celestial nails to stamp out
Abyss corruption, which had gone completely out of control, but all the life around them
became collateral damage. These massive glowing crystalline missiles
were dropped from the sky in specific locations to completely turn back the enemy. An example of its destructive force is the
desert of Sumeru which before the nailing was a complete rainforest and was afterwards
turned entirely to desert. The small section that is rainforest again
was the handiwork of the Dendro Archon Rukkadevata later. Another one was dropped in the Mountain of
Mondstadt known now as dragonspine. Before the nailing it was a lush green and
fertile mountain and afterwards it was shrouded in perpetual ice wind and snow. After fighting to their last, the dragons,
lost the war and some of the Vishaps were cast into a strange region outside of Teyvat
known as the Dark Sea. These are the Bathysmal Vishaps we encounter
in Enkanomiya. The fate of most of the individual sovereigns
remains a mystery. And lastly the people who lived on the surface
before the war, were largely demolished with a very small portion being knocked into that
strange Dark Sea as well. This was the city of Enkanomiya, perhaps the
actual capital of that civilization. There are more remnants of that civilization
in the Chasm, where another spike can be found, and far out in the desert. The only Sovereign we definitely know the
fate of is Apep, who was directly corrupted by the Forbidden Knowledge and remained sickened
by it until Nahida heals her in Act 2 of Nahida’s story quest. Dvalin is also a vishap dragon but Venti has
described him as very young, so he may be the current instead of original Anemo Dragon
Sovereign. Azhdaha is another powerful Vishap Dragon,
who is described as King of the Geovishaps but it isn't clear if he is the original Sovereign
of Geo or a descendant either. Nothing is known about the Pyro, Electro,
or Cryo Sovereigns thus far, which brings us to the last one. Hydro. According to a prophecy left by the Vishaps
in the Dark Sea, the new Hydro Dragon Sovereign would be born in the form of a human because
the lineage of the current Bathysmal Vishaps had become unpure. This was something Orobashi found out through
experimenting on and studying the Bathysmal Vishaps when he took over Enkanomiya, and
he was determined to stop that from happening But it did, and that person has now been confirmed
to be Neuvillette. This makes him a powerful, controversial and
potentially dangerous individual. So what does this all mean. Time for me to come back to the book in Enkanomiya. The history of Enkanomiya is very interesting
because of the lengths the Primordial One has gone to to keep it secret. None of the history I just explained about
the dragons, the war and the destruction of that time is accessible knowledge. The reason no one, except very special individuals,
knows anything about the Dragons or the fact that the Primordial One isnt from Teyvat or
that there was a people that were cast aside and forgotten out in the Dark Sea is because
everyone who finds out gets killed before they can share that information. Case in point is Orobashi, the Watatsumi Omikami. Allow me to briefly explain his history. Orobashi was a contender for a gnosis during
the archon war who lost to Morax and was cast into the Dark Sea as well. While there he found the people of Enkanomiya
suffering under tyranny and agreed to be their god. But while there he inadvertently read that
forbidden book which lists all of Celestia's embarrassing secrets. Now as long as they were tucked away in that
lost region, he and the people that wrote that book, it didnt matter what secrets they
all knew, but when Orobashi proposed to bring those people out of the depths and back to
the surface world, a sacrifice had to be made. Orobashi would have to take all their supposed
sins unto himself and he would die with the secrets while they would be allowed to resurface. Those people became the inhabitants of Watatsumi
Island and Orobashi went to his death at the hand of Raiden’s Musou No Hitotachi under
the pretense of invading Yashiori Island. This indicates that almost no one is allowed
to know about anything found in that book. I feel as though the contract that Zhongli
says he made long before the events of Khaenri’ah which prohibits him from speaking of the events
of the Cataclysm also covers these sorts of old world secrets. Especially since Zhongli is one of the few
entities that existed back then. Celestia needed to be sure that everyone stayed
in the dark. If you would like to check out all the cryptic
messages in that book which are too much to read here, check out the link in the description
to the Genshin Wiki page about it. Some of them haven't been touched at all yet,
and it give us a glimpse into the secretive meddling from the god of time in Teyvat's
history Now having understood all this you can begin
to see why it's quite a big deal for the Sovereigns to be making a comeback and why its important
for the traveler to keep what they know a secret. If the Dragon Sovereigns main goal is to take
back the power and rule that the Usurper took from them then this makes the appointed Archons,
if not exactly their enemies, at the very least obstacles on the path to establishing
their rule again. Neuvillette has told us some interesting new
things which on one hand lends some substantiating content to a theory I have about the Archon
War and on the other we also learn about this mysterious title of Supreme Judge that Neuvillette
apparently inherits as the newly born Hydro Dragon. If a dragon of old now possesses the ability
and right to judge the entire world including the Archons and deliver a verdict on every
injustice that he will observe including the unjust treatment of the Dragons, who do you
think will end up on top? Neuvillette, though compassionate,is also
perfectly impartial. The archons will not escape judgment. Add to this what he said about his diminished
power due to the Usurpers intervention and things get very interesting indeed. Now we can all safely assume he is talking
about the gnosis. Meaning when the Primordial One suppressed
the dragons for the second time, they needed to ensure that they wouldn’t rise up again
right? So what if they took portions of each dragon's
elemental authority and focused it into their newly chosen Sovereigns through these Magical
Foci called gnosises? That would mean The Archon war was a contest
instigated by Celestia to gather from humanity extremely powerful individuals to give the
dragons’ stolen elemental authority to, to ensure it was locked away from them and
I think the method used to solidify the boundaries of this new authority, we're the Statutes
of the Seven. Allow me to borrow from Island XD’s genius
theory about the towers not only depicting the original seven but also the idea that
they are basically giant gnosises that resonate with celestia, and let me take it one step
further. I think these Towers actually depict the moment
when each original Archon received their Gnosis with the glowing relic they each hold being
a divine item containing the gnosis itself. The stream of light they project up into the
sky seems to support the idea of them being some sort of beacon and if we read the description
of the portable teleport waypoints of all things, you’ll will realize that humans
didn't build the current teleport way points because they don't understand leyline technology
enough. Check out this description: The Portable Waypoint
deployed here implements a degree of teleportation functionality. As a human-built replica, however, it has
all kinds of restrictions when compared to a bona fide teleport waypoint. This means these towers which also utilize
teleportation technology aren't human built at all. Now as for them depicting the original seven,
you may be thinking of the statutes in Sumeru which seem to rather convincingly depict Nahida
instead, but I disagree. Rukkadevata is indeed the one sitting on that
leaf. Sumeru’s section of the archon war was unique. Instead of fighting each other as the other
nations' gods did. Deshret, Nabu Malikata and Rukkadevata remained
close friends and shared their rule and because Deshret was scornful of Celestia’s laws
he declined their “gift”. Which was very likely the gnosis. Celestia wouldn't give out one until there
was only one contender standing for each region so as long as the three remained alive, none
could receive the gift. But Rukkadevata eventually ended up alone
anyway. First Nabu Maklikata sacrificed herself to
give Deshret the forbidden knowledge he sought and eventually when the consequences of that
event grew to an untenable level, he was forced to sacrifice himself as well to quell the
disaster with Rukkadevata’s help. And in that event enough of her power was
spent to turn her into a child. We all know this story. But then amidst the chaos of everything that
had happened, after losing her two friends, she was awarded the dendro gnosis and the
image on the statue depicts her sad form as she rests her head on the orb she received
it in, wearing the ceremonial robes that were now too big for her. And if you look very closely, that figure,
although far smaller than a grown woman, is also proportionately taller than Nahida with
longer hair as well. All the archons, in matching robes received
their gnosises after no one else was standing to challenge them and those towers were created
in tandem, marking the boundaries of their rule and resonating with the gnosis which
focused their elemental authority into themselves. For the dragons to take back this power, not
only would they need to take the gnosises, but each archon as Neuvillette said would
also need to relinquish their elemental authority as well. Many of the archons are now bereft of their
gnosis but still retain authority over their element. Perhaps when Neuvillette rises to the point
of being able to judge the entire world he will be able to take that authority away. It's too early to say what Neuvillette’s
true role in the rest of the archon quest will be, but the convoluted situation regarding
Fontaine’s archon and the whereabouts of the Gnosis means we could very well end this
chapter with a Sovereign Dragon ruling a piece of Teyvat again. Thanks for watching, like subscribe and share
if you found this helpful or entertaining and I'll see you in the next one.
