Every year the Hexenzirkel puts on a summer event that foreshadows the upcoming region and this year was no exception! Although a little more cryptic than usual, the paperbound world of Simulanka gave us plenty of information to make some educated guesses about what we can expect to see in Natlan.
Get ready to learn about frogs, squirrels, dragons and ball games folks! The Pyro Archon Mavuika has a very interesting story to share with us.
**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Names
10:14 Games
19:07 Ignition
29:00 Heroes & Dragons
**SPOILER WARNINGS**
– Venti SQ 1
– Golden Slumber
– Simulanka (all quests)
– Zhongli SQ 2
– Nahida SQ 2
– Inversion of Genesis
– All archon quests through Chapter 4
**RELATED CONTENT**
Natlan Speculations (Ashikai): https://youtu.be/SS6lNjVK8J0
Vampire Penguins (Ashikai): https://youtu.be/o1C0_p98Zhs
Bale Moon (Ashikai): https://youtu.be/dmcmBf5H0pA
Death God (Ashikai): https://youtu.be/AajyhNchuRI
Hero Twin Myth (TED-Ed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kDttqywJ4
Kinich Ahau Myth (TED-Ed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vzrQWny_c
Natlan’s Fire is Fadin (The Laughing Man): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfViFjIr5Ss
**CITATIONS & ATTRIBUTIONS**
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*NOTES & CORRECTIONS*
Any bets on how much of this theory will still be valid after the livestream in a couple of days?
Does anyone else find themselves procrastinating story quests and events until they remember if they don’t complete them they won’t be able to watch Ashikai’s videos?
ASHIKAI PLEASE NOTICE ME I HAVE A THING TO SHARE!!! in 36:55 you mention how xbalanque and capitano could be TWINS and how they both POSSIBLY played the ball game at some point in history and since they both lost, they both got burned alive or IMPRISONED. Yknow who else got imprisoned??? AETHER AND LUMINE and you mentioned how POSSIBLY capitano was the only one the got resurrected, and yknow who ELSE got resurrected/woken up first? THE ABYSS TWINNNNNN and guess what, both the abyss twin and capitano turn to "evil doings" aka the fatui and the abyss order. ITS ALL CONNECTEDDDDDDD
there's a pyro saurian, the qucusaurus. it's weirder that there doesn't seem to be a cryo one.
Based from this video, I came up a thoery with the arrangement of the elements in the loading screen of Genshin.
Start from left to right…
Pyro – rebirth
Hydro – channel from death to rebirth
Anemo – death
Electro – between life and death
Dendro – having a life
Cryo – preserve life
Geo – life
That's the theory!
Before watching this video, what imo's going to happen is that the Tournament's Grand Finale will be Capitano Vs Traveler and because MC ain't on his level, Mavuika is gonna pass along her powers to MC to defeat the bad guy and then voilà we revive the Fire Dragon Sovereign
Babe wake up new aishikai genshin theory lore video just dropped
YESSSS you are using the correct "X" pronunciation 😀
22:06 tasty wind
Only Lumine and Aether call each other by their names, otherwise they are both just called Traveler.
I wonder if a lack of a name means something for them just like it does for Wanderer.
About Ororon's name, people aren't "guessing" that he's based on Olorun, his name is literally Olorun in every language's teaser for him except English.
I’ve theorised Natlan could be Hunger Games inspired since 4.5. I would love to see Ashikai go down that rabbit hole
The way i see things in terms of hoyoverse characterization is like many reference into one instead of one is to one. For example is ororun, they might use the olorun name to reference the yoruba god but they would also use other reference stated in the video as a pun like the manga or like from other culture. Plus the appearance of a bat can also reference other culture… So it was never one is to one but multiple reference to make up one character.
How do the twin myths apply to our traveler twins?
Wow amazing research that went into this. As always, kept me really engaged the entire time. I'm so excited to see which of these pans out.
The whole story after in Sumeru felt so important to Natlan with names. Note that all those names were "misspelled" to, so as not to have the same name, not that they weren't important
“The rules of war are woven in the womb” 🤔 my guess is she shares this with the traveler because technically he’s nameless so the fate that awaits the participants probably don’t apply to him
The Mat Pat of Genshin Impact 😂
Ashikai cooking again lezgooo 🔥🤙🏻
It isn’t as obvious because we have been catching on 😂
your theory on the games reminds me of how in ancient Rome, criminals could be executed by taking the role of a person that died in a play based on their murder in the colliseum
Mualani wasn't a sky goddess though, she was a princess
About Capitano, I think you were meant to say is that he is from Mondstadt but has Natlanian heritage; more specifically, Muratan ancestry. I did come up with this theory about the same time at the conclusion of the Fontaine arc(4.2-4.3) when he was going into the endless ring of war. Until proven otherwise, I do still firmly believe he is the Bloodstained Knight with his mannerisms and characteristics stacking in favour of it.
EDIT: My guess the reason behind for him to travel to Natlan is to reclaim the prize(Gnosis) that the Muratans were robbed of.
Would have liked to see more about the prophecies / three goddesses / simulanka creation myth, but this was cool too.
How do the multiple simultaneous truths thing work? Is it relevant?
And I kind of feel like part of the Sumeru book quest was about telling theorycrafters not too look too deep into everything. 😅
Damn you X.8s!
BTW, I'm surprised I see so few mentions of the Himeko connection. A lot of people compared Himeko to Mavuika, and Mavuika to the Pyro Archon, but no one seems to mention that the Archon's demon name is Murata and Honkai Himeko's name is literally "Himeko Murata". Although I still really really like the idea of Mavuika being a Yae Miko-type character and I hope that happens.
Tomorrow hype!
When someone is talking about the importance of name I always think about Neuvillette. He never told his real name (besides furina cf her constellations) to anyone, could be just his usual way to distance himself but eh…. A sovereign who carefully hides his name ??? Sus