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OK SO I WAS FIGHTING CHILDES DOMAIN RIGHT AND SO ALBEDO RANDOMLY CAME INTO MY MIND AND Y'ALL KNOW HOW HE WAS LIKE...... can I count on you to stop me if lose control and destroy Mondstat..... RIGHT REMEMBER THAT ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT IS THAT AT SOME POINT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AND WHEN IT DOES ITS PROBLY GONNA BECOME A DOMAIN ASWELL

if this does happen it's probably gonna so hard😭😭 dragonspine on it's own is difficult..but now a domain where there's most likely gonna be a cold climate where u constantly need heat WHILE trying to fight a powerfull non-human alchemist is..... not ok

HotD episode 7 was frightening in its approach. It resonated a single message loud and clear... fire will reign.

The entire episode carried the strength of fire is such a subtle manner that it left me stunned and at a loss of words. Each conflict was illuminated and outlines by bright, raging flames.

The first time we see the symbolism of separation by fire is during the conversation between Viserys and Daemon.

We see it again, when Raenys calls Corlys out for desiring the throne for himself, ending his delusion of righteousness.

We see it behind Alicent and Rhaenyra when Allicent loses control and goes feral as the dam of her patience breaks.

We even see it behind Laenor's 'death' and his end in flames itself.

Another aspect which consumed me was the blood and the comparisons drawn by it.

While on one hand we see Rhaenyra bleeding alone, without Laenor by her side.

We see Rhaenyra and Daemon bleed together as he binds himself to her by marriage.

We also get a beautiful parallel of Daemon and Rhaenyra walking on the same beach where Laenor and Rhaenyra once started their relationship. A new start and perhaps a better one.

In the end, only one thing stands true:

Fire is a prison. The Targaryens are made of fire, meant to burn together.

I have not read the books and all my interpretations are based solely on the show.

Back at it again, making random memes by badly editing like 2 things

This! As a person, obsession with mythology and religion playing genshin is like a minimalized version of becoming an archaeologist, which was my dream when I was little.

Everything is amazingly complex and scattered like some of the most amazing stories in real life.

I love genshin, even though the representation could be better, the lore is fascinating and so immersing

ok, so no one talks about it, but i truly adore how genshin presents its in-game lore as real life mythology and history is! you discover tevyat's history, culture, mythology by actually going through scattered texts you find while exploring, or reading descriptions of items you find, or in namecards, and even in tcg card descriptions! and a lot of these sources aren't fully reliable, are hard to make sense of, and are given to you in absolutely no chronological order.

EXACTLY LIKE REAL LIFE MYTHOLOGY. most cultures' mythologies are passed down orally until one wise person decides to actually write it down! and those become our only sources of insight into those myths and ancient stories. norse mythology, for example, has only like two viable texts and those were written after roman christians took control over the area. like the sources are scattered and one tale has many interpretations and endings. you have to become an actual scholar to decipher all of it.

and the fact, the mere fact, that genshin has been able to mirror this in a game is absolutely insane to me.

like, oh, you wanna learn about nabu malikata, the goddess of flowers? here are your sources: an artifact set, a weapon description, a npc dialogue, a world quest, the description of a flower (padisarahs). and all of these are scattered throughout the world of tevyat.

you have to work, like a damn archeologist, to figure what the fuck is tevyat truly and understand its history.

like god, i have never played a more lore-rich game. from old mondstadt, to the hexenzirkel, to dragonspine and durin, to the yakshas and adepti, to baal and beelzebul, to watatsumi and enkanomiya, to the chasm's civilisation, to khaenriah, to elynas, to remuria and remus, to apep and nibelung, to deshret and nabu malikata, to the combined civilisation before the second descender.

it is SO fleshed out. and i haven't even mentioned like 40% of wtf is going on in tevyat.

anyway, this was my love letter to genshin lore!

Do you recon Tyvats durins resurrection will be in carmen dei ii or during the Mondstadt expansion or perhaps in a separate event entirely? Because like with the whole prophecy of him coming back I am rather exited…