#inteyvat

[maqiisan]

she loves me… she loves me not…

this started as a quick sketch idea but since twitter loved it sm, i thought i’d reupload it here as well!!

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[kimeoshi]

a flower crown for another prince

[splattered-ink]

Fragments of frozen eternity

immortally delicate

Only when she returns home

can she wither

and crumble

in peace

[travellereon]

Someone probably got to this before me, but I haven't seen it yet, so I'm making my own sassy lil rant post about it!

We know that Hoyoverse is extremely lore conscious. I mean, take a look at the intense rewrites they do for Rukkhadevata's erasure! All of the Sumeru quests come with two versions of any line that mentions her, and they're played depending on whether you have or have not completed the Archon Quest. In all 4 languages, the team built in a hidden trigger that swaps out dialogue, changes voicelines, alters item descriptions, and even renamed a basic inventory item purely for the sake of lore consistency. They didn't have to rename the mushroom! Nobody needed to know the mushroom was named after a deity who didn't exist anymore! The Genshin team did that just for the sake of their world building and lore.

So why are Lumine's flowers still in the opening cutscene?

Lesson time kids

The flowers in Lumine's hair are the Inteyvat, the national flower of Khaenri'ah. That has been established since the main quest chapter 'Memories of Inteyvat.' Both Aether and Lumine will remark on that fact when they encounter the flower in the quest, saying that she's had the flowers since they woke up.

Since they woke up!

Hoyoverse polishes the daylights out of this game to ensure lore remains consistent. Could this really be a mistake on their part? It's such a major moment in the game when your character realizes the significance of the flower itself that I have a hard time believing this is a simple mistake.

The flowers certainly don't appear to change between the opening and the start of the game, not from where I'm standing. If someone can prove me wrong about the flowers being the same, I welcome it. But they really do look exactly the way they do in game from where I'm sitting.

It would be tedious, but they could edit the flower out if they really needed to. Hell, if they still have the full files for the original video, they could remove the flowers from the model in that set and re-render it for an update. They hid an entire trigger to swap out a massive amount of voice lines, written dialogue, lore, and even a useable item's name just to trip it based on where you stand in the Archon Quest. Hoyoverse clearly have the manpower and dedication to change this detail if it doesn't fit with their lore.

Lore and characters are the two big things that separate Genshin from other gacha games. If this truly is a continuity error, a video made before they decided the significance of the flowers in Lumine's hair, why would they not change it?

I'll tell you why!

Because it ISN'T a continuity error!

There's more than the 500 year slumber that we've missed. The siblings were in this world before they were separated. It could be insignificant, but from what we know of Hoyoverse, I'm betting it's not completely so. It might just be an emotional memory that will pop up towards the climax of the story, but it could be even more! It could be days of their time in Teyvat that have a great impact on why the Lost Sibling ended up in Khaenri'ah, and why they view the Archons with such disdain despite knowing Celestia probably forced them to participate in the Cataclysm.

This could be a major lore detail hidden in plain sight.

Now watch Hoyoverse erase the flower in the 4.0 update because that's always my luck

[wannabelaika]

im so happy with this one :D

[lastcycleszilly]

Floral arrangement - Teyvat

[cirkkaa]

About the traveler...

[jasminebythebay]

🐍🦚✨🗡️

[miothle]

Happy Birthday Kaeya!❄️

[baeshijima]

DAIN WHERE???

DAIN HERE I SAY

[erihelion]

cursed

[m-i-r-p]

I see nobody talking about hoyoverse taking out the chasm archon quest for new players and like. Wake up sheeple. THEY ARE TAKING HALFDAN AWAY FROM US

AND THE SIBLINGS’ LORE

[demystifiedstardust]

Voluntary Personal Lore

I like (read: hate) how "I have memories of being (Tou//hou Project) Yukari Yaku//mo's shikigami" would be totally normal in kin posting but "I think of myself as Yukari's shikigami because I roleplayed it consistently for so long outside of personal context that it somehow got subconsciously added into my personal lore in spite of my attempts to distance myself" would be super controversial.

Anyway, I've settled into some weird conflicting personal lore that isn't as strong as the stuff that just spawned into my heart without further context, but like, I don't feel like it's good to dismiss it just because I stumbled into it voluntarily through roleplay. It still has a strong inclination of "ah yes this is indeed my personal history".

(Readmore for length)

A few examples of the Weird Lore:

I've been her shikigami for years prior to becoming Aether, for years before Gen//shin was a thing, and it carried over.

Lumine is not a shikigami to my knowledge, however, and never has been.

My last fictional identity was also a noncanonical shikigami. Even though I personally changed, I didn't stop being a shikigami and my connection to Yukari persists.

This makes Ran Yaku//mo sort of like a senior coworker that I've never met?

I'm not on Ran's level and I likely never will be, but by virtue of being directly under Yukari (yes, she has sub-levels of shikigami; it's shikigami all the way down), it feels like it would be more coworkery.

Ran is so cool. I would bet every shikigami looks up to her, for good reason.

Even though this would technically be a 'crossover canon', in practice there's so much unexplored and nebulous traveler-twin history that it's Gen//shin-compliant until you look at the actual IP copyright. So like, it is, but it's not exactly AU either. I don't know.

I semi-regularly ask her for guidance now in a spiritualish way. I don't recommend anyone else do this; Yukari is a masterclass troll.

Don't get me wrong, she cares. She's just a troll about it.

[reginrokkr]

After much frustration and 3487857 times of trying a few of these, I finally made it through the most challenging content in Natlan. Now I can live.

[queen-ofsunflowers]

Don't ask how this happened. It's a long story. But I'm making a new AU! And it's based around one of my favorite shows as a kid. So far, only the main members of the cast I have in mind are going up!

The first is Lumine, the Fairy of Starlight. Aether is her opposite, since his stems from daylight. There will be more on that later. But for now, Lumine is separated from him when their kingdom fell 500 years before the start of the story. She and her guardian are sent forward in time centuries in the future to keep them safe, with her power sealed by Aether for her protection.

After arriving on Earth and being clueless about her past, Lumine runs into a strange girl with wings asking for her help against... trolls? In the ensuing battle, Lumine's magic starts to emerge again. Things will never be the same.

Lumine | Barbara | Keqing | Ayaka | Lynette | Collei

[dutybcrne]

Got several things done and written, a couple others drafted

Now I can think abt Thief!Kaeya again