Hi guys I am Inotia King a youtuber, redditor and gamer who likes theorizing about the story. I actually cobbled together a list of some of my more important theories with respect to the game Genshin Impact and Star Rail that I have been basing all of my newer theories on. I'll be putting more of those up on Hive along with new stuff but if you're impatient I also archived all my theories here. I hope some of you guys are game theorists too. Let's try to figure out these great games together!
(This theory was originally put up on reddit. It's very long because there's a bunch of stuff to explain combining several very old theories of mine so I've added a summary at the end.)
Fontaine is over and done with but unlike all the regions that have come before it Neuvillette didn't really tell us anything new about Natlan. Back when I was criticizing the Archon Quest (in supremely long fashion lol) I pointed out how each time we have a conversation with the Archon in charge we're told the Ars Goetia demon name, the ideal, some major event that'll be part of the Archon Quest and a small detail about the Archon that relates to what the quest will be about. For example Zhongli tells us Baal* has enacted the Vision Hunt Decree because she sees the Visions as an affront to Eternity, her ideal which is closest unto Heaven. Last time Nahida who even told us she doesn't know Focalors personally (how would she, having been stuck in an energy ball all her life?) still told us her name, that Fontaine revolves around her court of Justice and that Focalors reserves the right to final judgment though the Iudex presides over the trials. That last part even came up directly as Focalors herself gave the verdict and punishment in Furina's trial contrary to what Neuvillette expected.
So Neuvy ol' buddy ol' pal. What did you tell us about Natlan and its Archon?
Bupkis. All we get is that there's dragons and they aren't dragons like him or the vishaps but rather ones that live among the humans. Thanks man. Real helpful. At least he added that the nation is all about war which is the Archon's ideal though we already knew that much from Dainsleif back in Travail! (the other thing he mentions is about Capitano who we already knew was going to Natlan back in Windblume..... or for my long-time readers you guys knew ++for about a year earlier than that haha++)
So with that whole bunch of nothing and also zero NPCs to work off of either I'm just going to consolidate all my old Natlan theories and see if something will inspire a new prediction from "nation of dragons."
++My earliest theory about Natlan++ actually came a few weeks after Xiao's debut. You guys have all watched his teaser right? Of the five yaksha, one went insane, two turned on each other, one became evil, leaving only one survivor, Alatus.
We already know the identities of all of these guys now thanks to Perilous Trail. Of course Xiao is the survivor and he learns of Bosacious' fate after he lost his mind. Bonanus and Menogias killed each other. And that leaves the Pyro Yaksha Indarias as the one who fell to darkness. But why am I even talking about Liyue's yakshas when this is a Natlan theory?
Well much like my ++"all Fontainians are Oceanids"++ prediction, this one's probably going to sound crazy. I think the Pyro Archon "Murata" will be revealed as the resurrected Pyro Yaksha Indarias otherwise known as General Musatas. And no that's not how I came up with this idea.
Where was the logical leap that could possibly connect these two? especially with the knowledge that Musatas should be dead? I suppose the being dead part might be the biggest hurdle right? Ok well keeping in mind that Liyue thinks of these guys as being close to the level of gods, what else might be true? We know from Madame Ping that gods don't actually die. Her direct example was Marchosius aka Guoba but we also see Andrius who is a ghost by choice. Makoto is the Sacred Sakura, Egeria is the Amrita, Orobashi and Chi haunt the living through their remains which cause ++Tatarigami++ and we had to erase Rukkhadevata from Irminsul itself to truly get rid of her. ++(and even then Nahida felt like she forgot something important)++
But actually we don't need to rely on the god connection here either. The yaksha suffer from karma. While it's commonly known that in Buddhism when you die you will reincarnate if you didn't reach nirvana, that's not always the case. Instead if the karmic debt is great enough a soul can be condemned to the Naraka, the Buddhist version of hell. While this is a separate place from the world of the living we can toss in a little creative license given that Buddhism also has the phrase "all life is suffering" which has been interpreted as hell is the world of the living. As it relates to Genshin we've seen people punished with life which pulls them out of the natural cycle. So it wouldn't be the first time someone was cursed with life.
Side Note 1: It also wouldn't be the first time we've seen someone resurrected. Neuvillette is the reborn human form of the original Hydro Dragon.
Side Note 2: I'm also not the only one to propose that the world is Buddhist hell. There's a really old Hong Kong movie called Infernal Affairs (super super popular) where the main antagonist of the trilogy doesn't die at the end even after committing suicide. Meanwhile all of the major protagonists of the movies do die by heroic sacrifice. This is explained by the creators as saying the heroes are allowed to rest and move onto their next lives but the villain is to be punished by not being able to move on. He ends up a paraplegic thanks to his suicide attempt and has to live with himself since his greatest desire was to be the good guy.
Ok so why would Musatas be cursed? After all if it was just the karmic debt collected by being a yaksha then wouldn't Bosacius also be alive for the same reason? Back to that teaser, we know that Bosacius was the one who went insane and then vanished without a trace. So the only position left for Indarias is the one that fell to darkness. This could mean that she was overwhelmed by the karmic toll and succumbed to evil before she was killed. I think it's safe to say she'd have accumulated much more karmic debt than any of the others.
So if she is cursed with the same immortality of the gods and if that comes with the price of unrepaid karma I think it'd be safe to say she'd want to clear that debt wouldn't you?
++This might be how.++ Could the Pyro Archon who was resurrected as a curse hope to redeem herself by resurrecting the rest of the yaksha? We're told by Dainsleif that: "When the God of War shares this secret with the Traveler, it is because she has her reasons." This secret is about how the victors will burn brightly and the losers will turn to ash. I'll get to the specifics of that later but for now it seems she has a goal in mind. Could this be that goal?
Now this is just the premise of the quest. Of course we have the Fatui schemes running in lieu of this premise but I'll get to that later since I think I still need to do a little more convincing with this Pyro Archon = Pyro Yaksha thing. So first, to build on the idea of Indarias becoming corrupted we have the Yaksha's Wish World Quest. Now all cards on the table I used to believe that Bosacius was the Pyro Yaksha and that the Electro Yaksha was the one that went darkside. But that old theory still worked with a simple switcheroo. So in the quest Bosacius created a memorial for his fallen kin. There are two combat challenges in this quest one against a Geo Lawachurl and another against a Hydro Abyss Mage. Curious considering the yaksha that turned on each other just happened to be the Geo and Hydro Yaksha. Meanwhile Alatus didn't make the cut because he still lives and Bosacius wouldn't be memorializing himself but then why is Pyro missing? Later on in Perilous Trail we enter a unique Domain several times and have to solve elemental puzzles. ++The only element that's never found in any of these puzzles is Pyro.++ It's as if he was ashamed or disgusted by her fall and did not consider her in either his memorial or even his mental breakdown fear-induced Domain.
But how do we place a Liyue adepti into far off Natlan? So far the most we've seen are humans traveling around and settling in new regions. What could tie Musatas with Natlan? Well General Musatas is an English name and as I like to do, this name is gibberish and has nothing to do with her Chinese name. That name translates word for word into General Fire Rat 火鼠大将.
Side Note 1: The wiki suggests Musatas comes from "musatus" which is supposed to be Latin for "mouse-like" but besides them I could not find any other source that can confirm this so I'm going with gibberish for now.
Side Note 2: It may come as a shock but ++Murata isn't actually the Pyro Archon's name either.++ Yeah it's more localization fail. Mind you I still believe the Pyro Archon will be a Himeko expy but there's really nothing to confirm it besides her being perfect for the role. Murata Himeko is written like this 無量塔 姫子. 無量塔 is Murata. Now the only time we ever get a reference to this is in the Genshin manhua where Venti calls Vennessa one of the "Muratans." But actually he was using this term 穆纳塔. Not only are these words almost totally different but it wouldn't even translate to Murata at all. The words are Mu-Na-Ta and Na-Ta are the words for Natlan in Chinese. So what Venti was really saying was "Mu-Natlanian." That first word 穆 is just an honorific something like "the honorable Natlanians." He was just being polite. The English version took the almost exact spelling of its Chinese pinyin with the Japanese romaji spelling for Murata and rolled with it. So you'd think the Japanese localization wouldn't have screwed this up right? No. My guess is they were localizing from the English version because they just spelled out Murata in katakana which they typically use for foreign words. (It's just like how the French subtitles localized Focalors from English and had to spell it Foçalors to get that pronunciation used in the English dub.) In other words I think they were transliterating "Murata" and not 穆纳塔 probably causing further confusion for players that could read both English and Japanese but not the original Chinese. Over three years and we don't actually know what the Pyro Archon's name is. Thanks Neuvillette!
Side Note 3: Ok thought of this only while I was proofreading. What if Neuvillette didn't tell us a name because there isn't one? I mean these guys tell us the Ars Goetia name right? Yaksha don't qualify. I suppose we do have Baal and Beelzebul but maybe yaksha are more proud of their names? Indarias would already be a "Latin" name and had Neuvillette talked about the Pyro Archon Indarias that'd be the biggest spoiler ever.
Anyway the fire rat is a Chinese creature. If you're fans of Inuyasha you might recognize it as the fire rat demons whose fur was used to make his red outfit which is immune to fire. Well there's more to the lore. The fire rats also come from the "southern volcanoes" and where is Natlan with respect to Liyue? And as the nation of fire which is known to have natural hot springs ++I think it's a safe bet there will be at least one volcano there.++
Finally we again turn to Dainsleif who started off the Natlan section of Travail with: "The rules of war are woven in the womb." In Perilous Trail this is also how Xiao describes the path of the yaksha. War is in their blood. Suffice it to say I think Musatas checks many boxes already. But let's continue.
Now with all of that said it's time to address the elephant in the room. Why would miHoYo make a Liyue yaksha into the leader and god of another culture and region? Sounds bad right? ++(almost like those darn Chinese are making everything about them!)++ But Natlan (until we get better confirmation) is depicted as a stereotypical Native American culture. They have chiefs and those chiefs have your standard feathered headdress. We also have only one playable character in total for the region the upcoming chibi Iansan. Iansan is based on Oya Iansan-an a Yoruba god-like being that comes from West Africa. But Iansan is also worshipped in South America by a religion called Candomblé because its followers originally came from West Africa and adapted their former religion into the Christianity. (and local religions) If Natlan reflects this part of the culture then it shouldn't be surprising if it has an imported god.
On top of that, given the genericness of the Natlanians in the manhua maybe I could take some liberties with that depiction and bundle together all Native American cultures. (there may be an acceptable reason for this as there isn't really too much information we know about any specific tribe let alone the imported Candomblé) So if we expand to let's say Hawaii they have a good god to model the Archon after. Pele is the Hawaiian kupua (lesser god, remember the thing about adepti being a step below gods?) of fire and lord of the active volcano Kilauea. She is also not a native lord to this volcano as she took control over it after its original lord Ai Laau abandoned it.
It's not usually understood by us on this side of world that Hawaiians would count as Native Americans but legally this is the case and it does make sense right? All the other Native Americans also migrated from Asia so Hawaiian culture having descended from Pacific Islander culture is included. I needed to make this distinction clear because while I'm trying to justify importing the Pyro Archon from another region I need to justify miHoYo importing that Archon from Liyue even moreso. (if media can complain that ++Genshin is both overcensored for boobs++ and also ++exploiting boobs to make attractive waifus++ it's best to play it safe and explain all the angles) So besides the fact that the natives came from Asia what else do we know is located on the Asian mainland? As it turns out the natives ++weren't alone as they migrated into the Americas.++ During the Shang Dynasty merchants traveled to wherever their consumers might be and that included following along the trip into Alaska and down the west coast into modern day California. Now of course media around here got pissy over this because after all either Columbus or the Vikings discovered the Americas first right? So this news has come under fire a few times. Sadly for media ++the story didn't end there.++ Now there are actual studies being done to find the connections between Shang Dynasty era China and Native American groups even as far as Peru aka South America where Candomblé would eventually sprout. The current theory is that after the fall of the dynasty the surviving prince took his men on a journey to those lands he'd heard about and potentially arrived in Mexico with the Olmecs. Over the centuries whatever artifacts remained developed into Mesoamerican culture as far as Peru.
With that in mind is it really a stretch to think a yaksha from Genshin China could find herself moving into a southern volcano region and adopting their culture of war into her own warlike existence? And yes there's even more to this with respect to what Neuvillette told us.
But before I continue on that there's one more thread I haven't really backed up yet. The Pyro Yaksha became evil. Is there an evil Native American god? Enter the Aztec god Tezcatlipoca. Tezcatlipoca managed to corrupt the sky god Quetzalcoatl, bringing him down and using him to destroy the world. (actually the guy corrupted all of his fellow gods causing the world to be destroyed several times by wind, rain of fire and great flood) Something else Tezcatlipoca is known for is ++holding tests of strength where the loser is turned to ash.++ Tezcatlipoca is also a God of Fire and War and one of the five suns. (The other four include Quetzalcoatl and that's why the world was destroyed a few times. Can't have more than one sun at a time. Tezzie's such a diva.) And finally to go along with the theme of imported gods Tezcatlipoca is not originally Aztec. The Aztecs adopted him from their predecessors the Toltec. (same goes for Quetzalcoatl who first appeared in Olmec religion you know the group that that Shang Dynasty prince interacted with)
Side Note: I couldn't fit it anywhere else but going back to her name if she really was to be Murata well there are no Muratas in Yoruba, West Africa or South America. And if she's to be a Himeko expy then she's Japanese and there's no angle you could look at that where a Japanese expy could look African or South American. Thanks to this Shang Dynasty connection though any Murata, Musatas, Himeko expy could easily fit.
Now that we have the Archon and the lore let's apply it to what we do know for a fact. Natlan is a "nation of dragons" where the specific breed have long adapted to life among the humans. But what are dragons? It's probably still controversial but I am committed to the theory that ++dragons and Archons are just slightly different power levels of elemental beings.++ Another old theory of mine (also controversial) is that Teyvat is too young to have a dedicated dragon era separate from the age of gods and humans. Therefore the "Archon War" was likely fought not just between the Archons but also with the dragons too. (and lasted long enough to cover the downfall of the dragons through until the rise of the Seven) So if that's all true what do we know about the Archons that lost the Archon War? They either died or fled to the Dark Sea, a catch all term for anywhere not under the dominion of one of the Seven. But then we learned about Orobashi who survived the war and returned to form a new island next to the existing Inazuma islands. Who's to say he was the only one? What if Natlan is a "nation of dragons" because there was actually another group or groups of the dragons/fallen gods that never really got as far as the Dark Sea? Could they have instead fled to the land that would become Natlan before giving up and submitting to the new member of the Seven? Over time even if some were bitter about their fate they adapted to life among the humans under the Archon's protection.
If we're going to engage with a nation full of Archon War dragon survivors this means it will be a turning point. We could have a full send into lore about the specifics of the war which should relate to the ++Descenders++ and maybe even the Second Who Came. I doubt it will be very informative about the general lore but this turning point should lead into Snezhnaya which should serve as a bridge into the Khaenri'ah Chapter. And this is why we can't have any NPCs right now. There is no NPC miHoYo can present to us without giving up the goose. This is why Vennessa and her people were taken from Natlan so long ago that she barely knows her own heritage.
Speaking of displaced populations and people from West Africa brought to America, ++I think you guys know where I'm going with this.++ Could the nation have been populated by human refugees of the fallen unified human civilization following Celestia's attack? Could they be a nation of war because when they aren't fighting resentful dragons and gods they are scrambling to survive in exile? Maybe Vennessa's group weren't turned into slaves so much as they were part of the slave population of Natlan. After all to the victor go the spoils. Maybe they just drew the short straw. Maybe they were plagued by Ursa the Drake because it always owned them until they escaped but then were re-enslaved by the Mondstadt Aristocracy.
Side Note: To bolster my dragon = gods thing Ursa the Drake is called the demon dragon in Chinese swapping out god for dragon compared to the Archons who are called demon gods. This also could mean that Ursa was an ancient dragon like the sovereigns and just like Apep, it didn't adapt. It also had hilichurl henchmen so it could have been under the command of Nibelung and one of the dragons that relied on Abyssal power to one day mount a counterattack against Celestia.
Alright now we've got the Archon, her backstory, her region's backstory and the foundations for an Archon Quest. Now we need an antagonist to help our Archon learn a lesson and develop her character.
We already know who the Fatui will be. Capitano is a very popular Harbinger. Childe respects him and desires to fight him one day. Scara who is normally disrespectful of all other Harbingers can't help but begrudgingly accept the man's prestige. Viktor likes him far more than he does Signora. This guy is a bro. He's the Harbinger every Fatui Agent wants to work for. But that's not how it is in the commedia dell'arte. The Capitano there is an arrogant coward who isn't even a real captain. Yes he's a fraud and he gets away with it because he's new to the area so nobody can actually verify his story. Actually both Scaramouche and Signora share inspiration from this archetype. Scara is an evolution of Capitano while Signora is modeled after the characters Capitano and Columbina. (this is why originally I didn't predict Columbina as a Harbinger and instead went with Brighella) Both Scara and Signora show extreme levels of arrogance and are both revealed to be a fraud to some extent, Signora being the Crimson Witch of Embers and Scara having been a puppet and then revealed to have ++intense abandonment issues and an inferiority complex++ contrasting his speeches about being superior to all.
So for all the bluster Capitano's gotten so far what if that's his story too? He sounds really tough. He looks really cool. The people love him. Even Varka was sold on how awesome he is. What if that's all a front? Then on the other side is our Pyro Yaksha turned Archon. She fell so she knows she's not infallible. She's repenting so she can't be prideful. Her region's defined by war so against a backdrop of peaceful and prosperous neighbors she seems to be a failure of a leader. And if the Aztec sacrifices are going to play a part in this story I doubt the people will have very high opinions of her either. But that's all on the surface. Deep down Capitano is a fraud. He's fearful and cares more about his outward appearance than actually upholding any of the virtues his fans see in him. Meanwhile for all her faults the former general wants to do right and make amends. So by the end of Act V we should see these two for who they really are. Maybe the Weekly Boss fight in the story will force us to use Musatas to duel Capitano directly. And then instead of being an honorable opponent Capitano will abuse his prestige to have all of his Fatui Agents bombard Musatas in his place, only coming in to fight directly when he thinks Musatas has been knocked off balance. Little by little the sheer force of will by the Pyro Archon will persevere and she'll take down all the Fatui that Capitano sends at her before looming over him as he cowers in fear. Who knows maybe it'll even be revealed the Capitano outfit is just some kind of mech suit with a voice changer and the real Capitano's just some scrawny twerp.
With her true courage and determination reflected on her by her opponent's lack of honorable qualities she'll stand tall as her region's Archon for the first time also gaining the admiration of her people. (Speaking of foils and mirror matches, Tezcatlipoca's name means "smoking mirror" great for both that and her Pyro element.)
Now before Fontaine reset the Harbinger per region count I was under the impression that there was a trend. We had one for Mondstadt, one but with a subordinate in Liyue, two in Inazuma with a subordinate and three in Sumeru. So originally I had predicted that Fontaine would see the next step in this pattern with three Harbingers and a subordinate. That would have been Arlecchino, Pulcinella, Dottore with Columbina's first cameo. For Natlan that number would jump to four. While Arlecchino and Pulcinella would leave it at Fontaine with my predictions, Dottore is Rank Two so he could appear again but I thought it might be better for the big daddy of them all to cameo and be revealed late into the quest as the overseer of the operation similar to his role with Dottore's recruiting of Scara. And there was no reason why Columbina wouldn't also join in the managerial seat with him, seeing how she's Rank Three. This would give us some additional teases about them before we head into Snezhnaya and confront them directly. Ok so that's Capitano, Pierro and Columbina but I said four. Who's the last Harbinger?
Ok we have to backtrack a little. So let's keep in mind again what region we're dealing with. It's a stop gap for the losing gods and dragons from the Archon War so endless war is everybody's daily routine and some of those dragons and gods might have settled for marginal rule over small groups of humans something to the degree of cult leaders, slave masters, heads of crime families and at best something like Havria who provided a modest shelter away from all the killing. And remember what the yaksha did for Liyue following the end of the Archon War in their region. They killed off any straggler gods, destroyed their remains and sucked up the resulting karma to the point they went crazy or evil. And I'm saying Natlan is where the rest of them went. So going back to Tezcatlipoca he's responsible for setting up the Aztec practice of human sacrifice but in some versions of this story the reason he does this is because Earth is actually the corpse of Cipactli a terrifying and hungry primordial crocodile thing that used to eat anything Tezcatlipoca and the other gods made. You know something like
And finally the Pyro Archon is trying to make amends by using a ritual maybe even the one that was used to resurrect her, in order to resurrect the other fallen yaksha.
It's a shitshow is what I'm saying. And nothing about this says the humans in the Archon's care have to agree with her plans. There's nothing to say her plans are even a good thing. Right now we know immortality in this game is bad. We don't quite know how resurrection would be treated but if we consider Buddhism it should be seen as an affront too since it also ++undermines the natural cycle.++ And that's where Sandrone comes in. In the commedia Sandrone is a lowly peasant but also ++a spokesman for poorly treated people using trickery to get them by.++ What was the circumstances of the only Natlanians we know of? Slaves being poorly treated by the fatcats of Mondstadt. What a great group for Sandrone to speak for! Using her manipulation she could be goading Musatas into carrying out her resurrection plan to the detriment of her region and this spurs their disdain of being under her leadership. (maybe in place of the previous Pyro Archon as these stories tend to do)
Ok so how do we fix this mess? Enter our only known playable character Iansan! I already talked about her origins in West Africa under the Yoruba faith but I didn't get into what she's a god of. Oya Iansan-an is the god of Death and Rebirth and it's said she has control over the ++"mysteries of death."++ Just imagine a story about resurrection and here we have a major player who just happens to be inspired by a god like that. What a happy coincidence!
Actually the Yoruba don't use the term god and instead go with the term orisha which is translated more like divine spirits you know like kami. While the kami in Japan are often translated as gods they are actually often conflated with youkai too and I doubt anybody wants to call a youkai a god. So how about a step below the gods? Like an adepti?
It turns out Oya Iansan-an is married to another orisha Shango who is the ruler or Alaafin of the Yoruba. (actually he's the third leaving room for that original Archon and maybe even the Pyro Dragon Sovereign) And it just so happens he is the Orisha of War, Dominance and Aggression often associated with the color red. (he's also known as the Orisha of Thunder and Lightning but shhhh that's not important, ++don't worry about it Ei++)
Anyway during Shango's reign the Oyo Empire fell into civil war. This could be told through Sandrone's manipulation of the Natlanians. After seven years of endless fighting Shango was killed when his palace was struck by lightning. ++(geez Ei tell us how you really feel)++ Anyway we've had plenty of dead Archons getting replaced over the course of the game. While I doubt they'd kill Musatas since she's going to be playable (and killing off another Himeko will not sit well with players lol) we've also seen Archons just step down. Enter Iansan again who is said to be an undefeatable warrior. Could she replace Musatas as the first human leader of Natlan? Not only would this bring closure to the yaksha as she can hand over the reigns to someone who might have helped her come to terms with the yaksha's fate but as a yaksha from Liyue this would extend the current progression of her home region to her current one and bring her up to speed.
Side Note: Shango wields Labrys (or Ose in other sources) a dual-headed axe. Great for a Claymore Character as the Pyro Archon is assumed to be.
So to summarize my updated predictions for Natlan:
- Neuvillette only told us one new thing about Natlan compared to all previous leaders.
- The Pyro Archon is the Pyro Yaksha Musatas.
- Musatas was the yaksha who fell to darkness but was killed. But in Buddhism as in Genshin immortality can be used as a curse so maybe Musatas was cursed to live and repent.
- She could repent with the "Incandescent Ode of Resurrection." She hopes to bring back the yaksha.
- Musatas is really General Fire Rat. Fire Rats hail from the southern volcanoes and Natlan should be a volcanic region to the south of Liyue.
- Murata is not the Pyro Archon's name. We still don't know her name.
- Musatas as a Himeko expy (super light-skinned Asian chick) could be imported as Natlan's (West Africa/South America) Archon because in real life Shang Dynasty Chinese also migrated with Native Americans going as far as Peru.
- The reason there is no information and no NPCs is because Natlan will explain more details about the Archon War.
- Could the triangle trade be referenced in Natlan? Nation of war because they are still fighting any surviving dragon sovereigns, dragon loyalists, evil gods, etc? Maybe slavery is a normal thing there.
- Capitano could serve as a foil for Musatas and allow her to overcome her self-doubt and loathing because she fell.
- Sandrone could work behind the scenes egging Musatas on in her resurrection plot while sowing disdain in her people to ultimately reject her.
- Hawaii's Pele and the Aztec Tezcatlipoca are both imported fire gods with warlike personalities.
- Kupua Pele and Orisha Shango are not quite gods but a step below like the adepti are.
- Iansan could replace Musatas as the first human leader of Natlan. This could reflect Musatas being from Liyue where they are also in the Human Age.
How likely is any of this? I'll be the first to admit we don't have nearly enough information to make any kind of definitive predictions right now. But I hope with the real world data that I've provided my theory at least sounds like it would work even if miHoYo doesn't go for the same thing.
But what do you guys think? Did any of you already have theories of your own?
Topic originally created on December 14th, 2023. (based on far older theories extending back to ++1/27/2021++ and acts as a compilation of those theories)