#[ and the death of the previous dendro archon during khaenri’ah ]

[sylvctica]

i gotta try to remember if i wrote a headcanon detailing sylvie’s fear of being forgotten… i feel like i have but … i’d have to go dig…

[mayuuunaise]

another genshin archon fun lore! the god of wisdom, the dendro archon, rules over sumeru and is the youngest out of all the archons. we can infer that the previous dendro archon died in the war against Khaenri’ah and was succeeded by the current god of wisdom. Ganyu claims that they are “merely five hundred years old,” which suggest that either a) this is a rough estimate and that the god of wisdom had been alive during the previous dendro archon’s reign; or, b) this is an exact number and that the current dendro archon was born as the next archon.

now, the latter is exciting to consider! because we’ve already established the possibility that losing your gnosis means losing your archon seat but it doesn’t explain how fast (or what even exactly) the process of filling that archon seat goes. but IF the new archon is born when the previous ones die, there’s a lot of loopholey things to think about! if the Tsaritsa’s goal, actually, is to usher in a new age of archons, leaving Morax and Barabatos as they are would be unacceptable. unless taking the gnosis is actually a veryyyyy slow assassination attempt, i don’t think the Tsaritsa would leave their deaths to chance. 🧐

though honestly the real reason for this post was to talk about the dendro archon, i wanna think that the lore we’ll get once we reach sumeru is related to the succession process of the archons. especially since the god of wisdom doesn’t seem to... uhh... value conventional wisdom at all LOL

screenshots below lmao i’m on mobile and have no idea how this works sry.