#like ashikai did a video on that too but i'm going one step further to say that if istaroth is kairos

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if you only have to watch one (1) genshin lore video, I highly recommend this one. not because it's a beginner-friendly guide to those new to the lore (it's not), but because the vibes of this theory are immaculate and explains like... the kinds of things that fascinate me about the game

paimon is consecrated for consumption, in a eucharist way. blood is wine is memories is life is power. ambrosia for ascension. the blood to the traveler's bones

there are so many things in the game that seem like innocuous off-hand comments but when put into a bigger picture, is so ???

like. do you ever think about how paimon likes to eat slimes because they are pure elemental energy, and she functions as the traveler's conduit for the elements similar to a vision for vision-wielders (even though she is not a vision)

and what does this mean for the traveler who is hinted to be a star? how much can they consume before they "collapse under their own gravity", so to speak

I really have nothing to add, I just wanted to share how much I love the vibes of the content of this video. this is peak genshin theorizing to me

#mine musings #liveblogging genshin #the stuff about chaotic spacetime and block universe are interesting too but not NEARLY as fun as “paimon is literal emergency food” imo #also because like. time travel shenanigans and quantum stuff aren't that new in scifi so it's like. neat but whatever #personally i'm starry-eyed over the idea of “blood is wine is memories is life” like. the implicationsss of that in genshin #“death is a one-time loss of memory” like man if i can just translate my thoughts about how venti IS a psychopomp #like ashikai did a video on that too but i'm going one step further to say that if istaroth is kairos #then venti is orpheus. if not ORPHIC DIONYSUS #if i can just translate my thoughts to words you'll understand but like. wine and katabasis and shit. that's venti #as long as you view death as tied to memories and wind is the carrier of memories and kairos is both weather and time #and venti is a strand of the thousand winds if not a fragment of istaroth herself #and acts like the psychopomp to stanley and promotes wine and festivities #and also did you know western theater was birthed in dionysian festivals #and how orphic theogony talks about phanes as the primeval god if not dionysus himself and dionysus is the twice born god and-- #anyway. yeah. i went off topic. i just wanted to say that traveler having communion with paimon as the sacramental offering is 👌 👌 👌 #genshin lore