Who is Skirk? – Swordswoman of the Abyss (Genshin Theory and Speculation)



Skirk is a mysterious woman who we know little about, with most information on her coming from Childe’s voicelines and lore. In this video, I go over what we know about her, as well as some secrets that she could be hiding.

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Chapters
0:00 – Who is Skirk?
0:46 – What We Know
1:54 – The Abyss and Khaenri’ah
4:29 – The Cataclysm
6:37 – Her Future
8:55 – Ending Notes

Sources and Further Reading
Skirk – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Skirk
Tartaglia – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Tartaglia
Abyss – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Abyss
Foul Legacy Transformation – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Foul_Legacy_Transformation
Eleven Fatui Harbingers – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Eleven_Fatui_Harbingers
Abyss Herald – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Abyss_Herald
Abyss Lector – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Abyss_Lector
Cataclysm – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Cataclysm
Chlothar – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Chlothar
The Sinner – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Voice_Inside_the_Head
Dainsleif – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Dainsleif
Pierro – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Pierro
Khvarena of Good and Evil – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Khvarena_of_Good_and_Evil
La Signora – https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/La_Signora

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22 thoughts on “Who is Skirk? – Swordswoman of the Abyss (Genshin Theory and Speculation)”

  1. Thanks for this video. I also desperately want to know more about her. I also think it's kinda funny you think she could be connected to the Hexenzirkel as Ashikai also came to that conclusion, connecting her name to Circe. I think that would be fun to have play out but we must wait and see.

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  2. I am pleasantly surprised, this is a lot more substantial than i expected and has brought an interesting new hypothesis to my attention. Thought you would lean more heavily on the hexenzirkle theory.

    I remember islandXD dwelling on that hypothesis quite a bit in his theory Thursday streams during 3.5 windblume, the main thing is being that she's an extremely powerful and mysterious grey area woman just like the rest of the witches. Iirc the possibility of skirk being a former member who was kicked out due to her studies of the abyss was also discussed because we know of 6 witches, but there were 7 seats around the tea party table, and 8 depictions of witches at the start of the cinematic cutscene.

    There's a lot ways you can take this one to atm with how little concrete sources we have on her.

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  3. Top tier video as always. Skirk is one of my hyoed characters besides Varka and Alice that we have yet to see!

    I hope if Childe gets a 2nd story quest it'll be a flashback arc where we see Childe fall into the Abyss and train under Skirk.

    Skirk in my mind would look like Velvet Crowe from Tales of Berseria but I imagine her personality would be similar to Ozen The Immovable from Made In Abyss where she comes off as cold, aloof and deranged but in her own twisted way she cares for Childe (Ajax) as her student.

    Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.😂😂😂

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  4. It could still be possible that she’s an Abyss Herald. Because of Enjou, we at the very least know that the Lectors are able to transform into human forms. Who’s to say that the Heralds couldn’t too.

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  5. What if she's from enkonomya and saved ajax cuz kinship what if she thinks he was from enka too cuz ajax that's why she saved and didn't kill him

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  6. I will say on your point about only archons getting bosses with their second story quests: its hard to say because only archons have act two quests at the moment. Yoimiya is going to be our first non archon to get an act two. Also amusingly enough she does require part of a world quest for her quest!

    So who knows what will be the standard by the time we get to Snezhnaya, but the idea of something with Childe and revisiting the part of the Abyss he fell into as a child is a very fun idea.

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