Genshin lore is deceptively extensive. Even the most random items or world quests can have lore bombs. Its a shame that the more toxic side of the fanbase destroyed its reputation so much. Its a genuinely decent game.
And there are so many random stories in the world. Some suicide notes, some last notes before a disaster, some missing people, some love stories. Crazy.
the only think i didn't like about fountain story is archon quest started in act 5 and it was pretty small . sumeru was peak the story was great and better villains.
In terms of the Traveler’s necessity to be there, I’d agree. But it wasn’t too bad, it provided things like the disparity of the penal system vs the economics, and that people will want to stay even after their time is done. Also the Caterpillar quest is there.
@@Destiny87 I think it's debatable. Imo, Fontaine has better early acts to hook with murder case investigation, but weak in the middle with the life in prison. Each of Sumeru acts is more like a slow build up with act 2 being somewhat polarizing bc some player like it, some don't.(I like it tho.). The final acts are pretty good for both of them. For me, I give a point to Fontaine bc they didn't hold back killing NPCs, some of them leave quite an impact to many players(RIP Melus and Silver) and I think it might do the same if Dunyazard actually died in Sumeru AQ.
I think that video was not for deep lore just quests and stories that players encounter without looking for it. Of course this is maybe not even 5% of the story but it is what a casual player would see.
@@kazukiph.6976 Yeah I am not at all against hom going more in depth, I was simply making sure people remember that was not the point of this particular video he reacted too. The all caps saying the lore is more deep just made me think you meant this video wasnt good enough or something.
One detail that got left out from this summary is the fact that Tsaritsa, the one behind the Fatui, used to be friends with both the Anemo Archon and the Geo Archon, and all three had a problem with Celestia, so it actually makes sense why Rex Lapis would give his Gnosis away so easily. While Tsaritsa is changed, she still has their trust
@@JonaD757 Either Venti is in on it, or perhaps it is becayse Tsaritsa knows Venti's will for freedom is too great, she knows that taking it by force is the only way to get him to participate
@@Gytis_Of_KFP_The_4th_PenKing except for plot points he directly talked and repeated paused over. Like how gnosis contain the gods powers, parts of the sumeru story, etc.
@@V.F.D.DaleSalvador will you stop complaining, he got majority of it right. Besides parts of sumeru and I don't think he knows Zhongli is the geo Archon. He got most of ir right regardless. He doesn't need a one-to-one understanding when he most likely will not play the game.
Genshin lore is an iceberg, this is what you see above the water theres so many sidequest with lore and Books and most weapons and items have a description which contains lore. for theorist everytime a new weapon comes out or artifact set it can completely change what they thought was going on in the world of teyvat there is a reason genshin has stayed suscessful other than the gacha and combat.
The character development we need, now Hoyo can sponsor Nux more in the future. Btw, the video only focused on the Main Story. In fact, she not even mentioned Archon War, Celestia and more. Fun fact: in 3rd Anniversary this year, the CEO revealed that Genshin had 10.878 million words around 4.0. So to put in perspective how much lore you you can find in the game as there's bunch of theories for different things .ie about the unluckiest dude in Mondstadt is actually related to the Fire God(6th Region which coming in 2024)
A fallen angel who is referred to as a star. As in the morning and evening stars being the siblings. As in y'know, the two parts of Lucifer, the light bringer. And we travel with Paimon, the demon most loyal to Lucifer...
@@tobyharris4777 Also Paimon is known for being able to 'summon people and equipment at the wish of the magician who commands them' so it fits the whole gacha/wishes thing.
Ah yes the nux community or newer genshin community discovering about the fallen angel and demon paimon theory 😂 Meanwhile I'm over here thinking about this theory back in like 2021
or the wildest one i saw recently that the traveler could be a Nameless ... connecting GI with HSR ... the lore is lore-ing and the theory is theorizing
6:23 they worship the GOD OF FREEDOM. And don't really have any RULES that restrict people much(other than basic country laws, like, don't get naked in the street, don't steal, don't kill, ect..).
Can’t wait for him to find out there is literally 5000 years of history for the Genshin world. And when the Genshin anime comes out it will take place around 3000years ago during the archon war.
Its crazy that Nux never wondered that if all those Archons are so willing to give the Gnosis for free then maybe it's because the fatuis might be good guys and what they want to do with them is actually the best option. It is not a for sure thing, but a very possible thing.
Or as we found out later in the final Fontaine archon quest, they don't want cursed objects coming with cursed connections to stay with them any longer.
to be fair the fatui do horrible things in each country so it makes sense. We speculate that the tsaritsa is trying to overthrow celestia but meinsleif in this video didn't go over the fact that celestia stole the power from the primordial dragon and the dragon sovereigns as well as wipe out kaenriah. she mentioned kaenriahs fall but it wasn't addressed as very impactful sadly. basically the video painted celestia in a good light and only showed the fatui at face level joining in and causing chaos in each country by stealing venti's gnosis, aiding zhongli in a trial by fire for his country, supplying weapons to the government and resistance in inazuma, and created a false god and siding with a government who imprisoned their god.
I do agree the Fatui may have good intention but I still hate them solely because most of their actions are aggressive & causing unnecessary suffering to people.
So here's a fun theory some members of the fan base came up with regarding the loss of each Gnosis. Each Gnosis was taken thus far by using the Heavenly Principle governing each nation against each ruling god. Venti, being the God of Freedom, had his taken freely. Zhongli surrendered his via a contract. Ei lost hers via Scaramouche, whom she created in pursuit of Eternity. Nahida lost hers because as a God of Knowledge, she can't resist the acquisition of new information. And more recently, Furina lost hers through her own justice system, being the God presiding over justice. With six now in the Fatui's possession, all that's left is the Pyro Gnosis, and the ruling Archon presides over war. And since each Archon has lost each Gnosis via their Heavenly Principle, it seems safe to say, that the Pyro Archon will lose theirs as a result of the war they are currently waging. There is at least some sort of thought put into how these Gnoses are being taken.
Myittle theory is that maybe smth haopens in the pyro region and the archon wages war against sneznaya as to loosing their gnosis maybe? And we just get into sneznaya as some spies or whatever hahahaha
DUDE litereally like every item in this game has like descriptions of lore, theres lore scattered across items and notes and its just a lot, i love genshin uwu
It's hilarious. When new weapons or artifacts are leaked, people scour the descriptions _of stat gear_ in order to find clues hidden in metaphor, and it's actually hidden in there because lore hints are hidden in everyfuckingthing XD
Despite not playing the game, Nux managed to get the major shift in the main story at 34:22. After this quest, the traveler stopped looking for the sister, and more about traveling and understanding the world. Which is why the game makes a prolonged stop in every nation. A point that a lot of players somehow missed, and keep harping about how Traveler forgot about the sibling.
Cant believe nux understood that the goal changed from "where is my sister" to "what is she doing". Meanwhile hoyotards are mad because traveler doesn't ask about her in fontaine. Everyone assumed traveler forgot about them
I would LOOOVEE to see character deep dives because personally I love the story but some of my favourite parts and moments are to do with the characters, I would love to see nux loose his mind over Scaramouche’s story line backstory and “redemption” as well as some of the more side story’s, I believe it’s tighnaris character quest that makes me tear up every time I see that robot. And don’t even get me started on having to see that cut scene with nahida again literally sobbing
Finally he understands Genshin Impact is not a bad game its only the Fandom that is weird The fact that Nux isn't understanding how dark the entire plot of Genshin is in reality make me feel like he will definitely make a future video regarding so analysis or something Something for Nux to know every side quest is important and I am not kidding Also Nux Gacha doesn't matter in Genshin I am not kidding you play the entire game without pulling even once it's literally not a necessity infact if you forget the wishing system exists it doesn't even feel like a Gacha game all you have to do is be a monk and not spend money
The gacha sistem and weapon really is bad, they inventing the 50/50 rate banner should be considered a crime of humanity for all eternity... Genshin lore is kinda good, but the mojority of the time, they don't take themselves seriously... like, child almost exterminated liyue, but not let him be free and play as him...
@@Y4ngCP See that's the thing it's dumb to question Gacha system when other game companies are charging $60 for a broken bugged game like Starfield and Genshin is fucking Free is takes money and commitment to make a game this great and then make it free also they don't encourage spending of money infact you don't even have to pull in order to continue playing this game also what do you mean by making Childe Free bruh there are modelers, character design artist, 3d rigging artists, Special Effects Team, Voice Actors and also Script Writers what do you mean by making him free how will they pay them do think art is just generated automatically or something these various artists had to work their asses off to create a character why should they give him for free also weapon banner is completely unnecessary cuz you can craft weapons which are more than good also all banners have 4 star and 5 star weapons available in the standard banner, Genshin Impact has one of the most tolerable Gacha system FGO has a far worse one which makes no sense cuz the whole game is 2d and the pity in FGO is on the 330th pull meaning Genshin has it on 77th pull also the other Gacha games before Genshin were far worse and nobody complained cuz Asians are used to Gacha mechanics when Western Audience flooded into the Gacha side of things because of Genshin People thought that the Gacha mechanism is very bad but that is totally not the case you guys think of it like that cuz you guys haven't experienced the other things also Genshin's lore can't be summarised using only the Archon Quests that Minslief did in this video cuz the majority of the lore is behind hidden world quests that unlock once you complete requirements and also behind limited time events which can effect the main story in reality the overall Lore of Genshin Impact is equal to those Souls games or Elden Ring in reality it's just that the common player base don't play this game's storyline much they only play archon quests and leave or spend a lot of fucking money for no reason
@@Y4ngCPGenshin's gacha system is quite literally more forgiving that alof of others lol. Though there's still others better than it. If you want to know a much more horrid one just look at FGO which for a long time didn't even have a pity system and the current one implemented requires hundreds of pulls
Fontaine is one of the most technologically advanced out of all the nations, yes. The archon quest itself is over and, by the way, the Kyogre reference you keep making isn't actually too far from the truth. I love that you chose a Minsleif video! She, Ashikai and Chill With Aster are some of my favorite Genshin content channels!
One pretty important history subplot this summary didn't explain: Celestia was not always a thing. "God" used to be a meaningless term for any vaguely strong being, then Celestia came in, took power, said "there's now only 7 gods allowed", and all hell broke loose in the battle royale for those 7 slots. All of this is before the "500 years ago" incident, in which Celestia mobilized some of the Archons to punish the region for defying the heavenly order (basically Tower of Babel). So all of the surviving major gods or their successors, especially the ones forced to take part 500 years ago, have major issues with their new boss. This makes them eager to get mugged or conned into giving their Celestia ID cards to the Fatui, since the Fatui's reasoning for gathering the Gnoses is to attack and dethrone Celestia. tldr: Fatui warmongering is only so successful at getting Gnoses because the Archons want to rebel, but can't directly because Celestia is always watching.
34:50 is another very interesting part of the story, what you explained is exactly how players shifted their views, but the Traveler stops being self-insert and goes a bit crazy from this reveal. They live in complete denial of everything their sibling said and blame it on brainwashing, continuing to look for where their sibling is "being held captive". Many of Traveler's heroics are left unclear in motivation, how much they actually care vs how much is selfishly doing good in order to get information so they can leave Teyvat with their sibling, regardless of consequences for this one world. The game usually doesn't draw attention to this greyness, letting the audience be tricked just like the rest of Teyvat into thinking Traveler is a pure hero, but a couple moments such as this denial make it very apparent.
there's a lot of evidence that The Seven Archons are giving out the Gnosis on purpose to fulfill the Cryo Archon(the Archon that the Fatui work for)'s plan against Celestia
You can make an argument that Morax might have done so. (As we still do not know what her got out of the trade. Yes, he got retirement, but that, according to him, wasn't the main thing he traded the gnosis for.) Maybe Barbados and Buer could have but there is very, very little evidence to support this. Baal/Beelezabul, definitely not. Especially as Yae Miko was the one with the gnosis. Could Yae have? Possibly, but she'll never tell.
34:55 Bro understood this point better than a decent chunk of players who keep that thinking we're looking for our sibling, while in reality our sibling told us to fk off until we're done learning about how fked up the world is
Honestly this impressing you says a lot about the plot because this is HEAVILY condensed. Not only that it straight up ignores stuff that fleshes out the history of the world and the characters in general. While 500 years ago is important narratively, the actual history of the world goes so much further back. Actually, given the direction of the plot is going, stuff regarding the now forgotten Genesis of Teyvat is very much relevant and that's _well over 6000 years ago._ Most lore for that comes from a region that's completely optional btw.
Funny to see you commenting on Genshin introducing characters boobs first in case of Kokomi who has essentially just a big bow on her chest to cover up what's missing under it. But true it's not clear at first sight. The wild thing is that they can make such characters and have success with them because they sell way more than just sex appeal. No matter who you are, you can likely find a lot of what you like in this game as long as you drop the prejudice.
Bro I’m a grown ass man and I can say I’ve teared up quite a few times from this story. The game is a banger, and I recommend it to a lot of my friends even if it does make me look like a weeb😂🤷♀️ also I hate the way she pronounces so many words, but the video was soooo well made. Huge props to her and her hard work
Love how they just skipped enkanomia(one of the most lore important part), the witches, the dragons, apep, the descenders, the 4 shades, the first who came, the second who came, the primordial one etc
This video was really good, buuut I also feel like a lot was missed out on in this recap. It skips over details that I feel would be important and give you a bigger picture of certain regions or even the bad organizations of Teyvat, though I get that this is just a recap.. You should definitely learn about some of the characters in the world as well, maybe also get a more detailed organization of the story in Teyvat. This game has really good main story, and even sidequest stories, and if you're down to learn more about the world then I'd highly recommend you do another dive. The Sorush sidequest is not the most interesting in Sumeru and it's a shame it's the only one mentioned. 😔
Yeah, when Mainsleif went almost immediately from "We break the Samsara cycle" to "With help of Nahida you defeat Scaramouch" I was kind of dissapointed
The lore goes so hard! I have played Genshin on and off over the years but I always came back for the lore drops and the surprising existential horror subtly woven into the story.
fun fact: "Waifu" is a derogatory term in asian culture as for them it mean "F@p material", in contrast to ours were we see it as more of a "character/personality desirable in a wife". In a similar way as how "Otaku" is semi-derogatory as "fanatic with poor social skills" over there, but to us its just "someone who likes japanese themed animation"
i would be honored if someone called me "fap material" that sounds like i'm sexy and you know it. now if you were called an ona-hole (or cum dumpster) that is getting a bit mean.
28:14 fun fact about the japanese VA of Dainslaif. He had some... minor roles in voice acting such as, I dunno, Seto Kaiba from Yugioh, Nanami Kento from Jujutsu Kaisen, Joker from Fire Force or Overhaul from MHA. Believe me when I tell you the voice acting of almost every character is just on fucking point :D
@@JinteiModding As Max0r said. That rap wasn't released, it fucking escaped. But I'm mainly talking about the japanese voice acting tbh I immediately swapped languages when I heard Paimon talk for the first time lmao
😂 If this is how he reacts to Mondstadt and Liyue’s aftermath, I can’t wait to see what he thinks when at the end of Sumeru, a child god trades the equivalent of 2 nuclear reactors for a conspiracy theory
Dude, I know this might be too much to ask, but I'm begging you here: please react to the character teasers and demos. It would be one of the best things to see you react to and it kind of gives you an idea of who the characters are. Plus, you get to listen to good music while you are at it.
Bro you should stream or record genshin they just recently added Fontain the region or Hyrdo to genshin and the new Archon quest is immaculate. Brought a tear to my eyes.
The main archon story is only like a quarter of the total lore you can experience in the give. There’s character stories where you experience a story mainly tied to a single character and there’s bunch of them, some characters get more then 1. There’s world quest where you get to learn about lore in the world you don’t get to hear in the archon quest, this is also how you unlock certain areas of the map. There’s also hangout quest where you just simply hangout with a character I think (I haven’t actually done one yet, I’m still playing catch up with all the other story stuff lol) And lastly there’s limited time event story quest where they add some fun mini games you can do along side experience the story
I seriously thought he would learn about the story a bit but after 30 mins all he did was make jokes about everything every 20 seconds and ask questions showing he never paid attention, sad.
Fontaine's story is so good, It got me crying multiple different times as I watched other people's reactions to the quest It's got me my 2nd Favorite Genshin character as well
I've been on the quest for infinite internet knowledge since I started being on the internet so Its Awesome seeing Nix take the same trip down lore and fun facts lane
16:20 Yes!! There's a video on TH-cam named Teyvat Chapter Storyline Preview: Travail, and it shows all of the regions that will supposedly come out, and words of mystery that hints at the story each region will tell
The Gnosis are the remains of the third descender the descender who entered Teyvat before your chosen twin did. Though I wonder how devastating the truth is about the fate of the twin you didn't choose to play as
The cool part is minsleif only tackle the main plot of the story(archon quest) and didnt mention how deep lore is and how great genshin world building that you only experience if you do some world quest and read some books and item descriptions.. not to mention the great event story aswell.
Since the Fatui work for the Cryo Archon, who likely has the cryo gnosis, its actually more accurate to say they have 5/7 gnosis(or 6/7 once you complete hydro story) So they just need to get pyro next year for whatever plan they have cooking. Then a year later we go to cryo nation to either see what happens or stop it, or heck maybe even join in idk.
1:10:11 the clones of The Doctor essentially made it possible for him to be in multiple places at once but also nearly impossible to defeat, not even death could do it.
So she skipped the part about why Wanderer decided to attempt to erase himself from history. Even though the people he tried to stop from dying died of different reasons.
29:27 - About major events coincidentally happening just as the Traveler appears in the nations: it appears that way, BUT there is a god of Time in the story, who is sometimes called the God of Critical Moments. Part of her job is arranging things so that they happen exactly when they need to. There is a theory that she is guiding the Traveler, and arranging the major events to happen in alignment with our journey. Like a temporal Rube Goldberg machine. There aren't really any coincidences in Genshin. It's very well plotted and everything mysterious has a lore reason behind it. Having the God of Time as the in-universe explanation for why the player happens to be involved in every major event is very on-brand for Genshin's lore.
The Traveler (aka, the player) and their sibling are the aliens lol. They are basically Planeswalkers from MTG, but after their encounter with Sustainer they seem to have lost the power to leave Teyvat.
bro I swear the characters be giving the gnosis for free to the Fatui like damn.......at least Venti didn't just hand over his gnosis, bro got jumped by Signora 😭
Fontaines Archon quests just recently ended, and it is the best arc so far in MY opinion. I definitely think you should do a video reacting to Fontaine! It gets very dark in some parts, though, so if you do react to it, be prepared!
Couple things missed in the video is that you learn about the war of the gods during Zhongli's personal quest line, and it didn't touch on Enkonomiya that lies under watatsumi Island
Id recommend reacting to more of minsleifs videos, especially her fontaine ones You can also try Ashikai's videos, but those go much much deeper into lore and are frankly pretty confusing, to me at least
The funny thing is that the main plot of the game is just scratching the surface of world building and lore. Every nation so far has thousands of years of history (much of it fairly hidden or only hinted at). As for the pre-planning of the main plot, it was planned out seven years in advance. One of the early promotional videos gave a small hint at each of the seven nations and what will come after visiting them all. While I'm sure that most of the details were left open to change there seems to have been a staggering amount of ground work laid for the plot before the game released. I do agree that gacha in general is a scummy business model, I don't think this game could have existed in any other format. Also if you want the 'deep lore', I'd recommend Ashikai's channel. She does insane work.
Aside from the fact that this is a bare bones summary (seriously. This is just the basics when it comes to genshin lore), MatPat did a video on Genshin about how Zhongli ruined the world when he gave up the Gnosis.
that video matpat did was honestly kind of awful, bro made so many logical jumps and pointed out things that are basically common knowledge for average genshin players as if theyre some kind of phenomenal news lol. Dont get me wrong, I love matpat, but bro barely did ANY research for that video lmao. It honestly just kind of felt forced, like he did it purely for the sake of sponsorship and nothing else. Which is fair tbh, i just dont think that video is particularly good.
Most lore relevant to the main story quest takes place within 500 years but we know several lore that date back 2000+ years ago to the archon war. Most of this older lore is centered around the archons or other immortal beings close to the archon but it can be really interesting learning about the different gods and how their involvement shaped teyvat today. Whats also interesting is lore surrounding celestia such as the nail at the top of dragon spine or how the chasm was created.
"They just casually giving the gnosis" I don't know man, after knowing the lore after Fontaine Archon quest... I think it's safe to say that those gnoses are, well, interesting and chilling "items"
There are entire novels you can unlock that reveal even deeper lore. Unfortunately i dont have the patience to read all of it. Also when you're erased from the tree, you don't actually cease to be. You did everything you did in the past, it's just that no one remembers you did it. They attribute it to someone else.
Funny thing is genshin's lore goes so much deeper than the story. There's a lot of wild shit in this game that the story doesnt touch on
Its honestly crazy. Theres like 1000 diffrent books with their own story line, some with 5+ parts, 1k words.
Yet is your key word they will go there judging from honkai impact they just aren’t using it yet.
Like how Teyvat is in its fourth Samsara cycle. Or what the Gnosis really are
Jeht’s story, ‘nuff said
There’s a lot of memorable side lore, like the history of Inazuma’s islands, or the golden archipelago islands from Alice.
Genshin lore is deceptively extensive. Even the most random items or world quests can have lore bombs. Its a shame that the more toxic side of the fanbase destroyed its reputation so much. Its a genuinely decent game.
This is why a lot of us are just staying away from that group. The lore community tends to be the friendliest.
Nah, 50/50 rates are not decent 😂
I just keep playing the Game while deeply separating myself from every group Apart from Like Lore and my Friends
@@Y4ngCPexcept they are
@@Y4ngCP i think he was referring to you when he talked about "that" part of the community
Petition for him to react to character teasers so he sees they’re not just soulless waifus.
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Ehhh... more than half of them are if we gotta be honest
Some are better than others, but even Amber and Xiangling have intricate details and lore about them
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And there are so many random stories in the world. Some suicide notes, some last notes before a disaster, some missing people, some love stories. Crazy.
Faceless ayato
"Those are just chess pieces"
Nux accidentally stumbling right into the genshin chess board theory 😂😂
@kokopium8003its true
I feel like the Genshin Story gets noticeably better every region. Fontaine was nuts. I didn't think it could one up Sumeru but it did.
It one up'd Neon Inception Evangelion? How do you one up a badass combo like that?
Can't say I agree. The ending of Fontaine is pretty much a retread of Sumeru's ending. Also the bit in the prison was a complete waste of time.
the only think i didn't like about fountain story is archon quest started in act 5 and it was pretty small .
sumeru was peak the story was great and better villains.
In terms of the Traveler’s necessity to be there, I’d agree. But it wasn’t too bad, it provided things like the disparity of the penal system vs the economics, and that people will want to stay even after their time is done. Also the Caterpillar quest is there.
@@Destiny87 I think it's debatable. Imo, Fontaine has better early acts to hook with murder case investigation, but weak in the middle with the life in prison. Each of Sumeru acts is more like a slow build up with act 2 being somewhat polarizing bc some player like it, some don't.(I like it tho.). The final acts are pretty good for both of them.
For me, I give a point to Fontaine bc they didn't hold back killing NPCs, some of them leave quite an impact to many players(RIP Melus and Silver) and I think it might do the same if Dunyazard actually died in Sumeru AQ.
GENSHIN LORE IS SOOOO MUCH MORE DEEP- someone get this man over to Ashikai STAT
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I think that video was not for deep lore just quests and stories that players encounter without looking for it. Of course this is maybe not even 5% of the story but it is what a casual player would see.
@@Casta2 i mean he said it himself he want to do a deep dive on videogame lore soo...
@@kazukiph.6976 Yeah I am not at all against hom going more in depth, I was simply making sure people remember that was not the point of this particular video he reacted too. The all caps saying the lore is more deep just made me think you meant this video wasnt good enough or something.
@@officiallytrustissues5411 I watched almost everything Wei made yet. I love how the videos are made its funny but still very informative.
One detail that got left out from this summary is the fact that Tsaritsa, the one behind the Fatui, used to be friends with both the Anemo Archon and the Geo Archon, and all three had a problem with Celestia, so it actually makes sense why Rex Lapis would give his Gnosis away so easily. While Tsaritsa is changed, she still has their trust
Zhongli perhaps, but she straight up hates Venti now for some reason.
@@JonaD757 Either Venti is in on it, or perhaps it is becayse Tsaritsa knows Venti's will for freedom is too great, she knows that taking it by force is the only way to get him to participate
@@Vekcrazahisn't it because venti don't participate in the archon war, letting the boyfriend archon of tsaritza, the old dendro archon to be slayed?
@@Y4ngCPno lol where did u hear that?? None of that is in lore. The dendro archon has always been female
@@Y4ngCP change pfp
Nux: keeps talking over plot
Also Nux: wait I'm confused wtf is happening
Nux pre watch ability refused to activate
he followed 90% of everything quite well even while talking no stop..which was impressive on its own xD
@@Gytis_Of_KFP_The_4th_PenKing except for plot points he directly talked and repeated paused over. Like how gnosis contain the gods powers, parts of the sumeru story, etc.
@@V.F.D.DaleSalvador will you stop complaining, he got majority of it right. Besides parts of sumeru and I don't think he knows Zhongli is the geo Archon. He got most of ir right regardless. He doesn't need a one-to-one understanding when he most likely will not play the game.
If he doesn't talk, what's the point in watching this instead of just rewatching the original video?
25:30 No one tell him that the left crane has a human form that’s coming out in a few months
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Or that said human form looks like a sexier Beyonetta
@@eddmario Lmao not sexier Bayonetta
genshin has full or lore
everything has lore
a rock has lore
your food has lore
Traveler picks up a flower on the ground, LORE
Yo dawg. I heard you like lore, so I put lore in your lore.
the air has lore
Even Dull blade has lore, personal favorite is skyrider sword, the owner tried to ride the sword off a cliff hoping to fly then he died after
@@steblatipaymanyazeeds.1294 yea
Wasnt there a sequel too
Genshin lore is an iceberg, this is what you see above the water theres so many sidequest with lore and Books and most weapons and items have a description which contains lore. for theorist everytime a new weapon comes out or artifact set it can completely change what they thought was going on in the world of teyvat there is a reason genshin has stayed suscessful other than the gacha and combat.
36:55 she rebuilt the Jade Chamber because she lives there. Ningguang lives inside of a Nuke
I love how Nux just casually skims past the whole "sky being fake" thing. It totally is, by the way.
The character development we need, now Hoyo can sponsor Nux more in the future.
Btw, the video only focused on the Main Story. In fact, she not even mentioned Archon War, Celestia and more.
Fun fact: in 3rd Anniversary this year, the CEO revealed that Genshin had 10.878 million words around 4.0. So to put in perspective how much lore you you can find in the game as there's bunch of theories for different things .ie about the unluckiest dude in Mondstadt is actually related to the Fire God(6th Region which coming in 2024)
So... no one want to think about how the MC is a fallen angel of light and keeps running into demons bound by Solomon?
A fallen angel who is referred to as a star. As in the morning and evening stars being the siblings. As in y'know, the two parts of Lucifer, the light bringer. And we travel with Paimon, the demon most loyal to Lucifer...
@@tobyharris4777 Also Paimon is known for being able to 'summon people and equipment at the wish of the magician who commands them' so it fits the whole gacha/wishes thing.
Ah yes the nux community or newer genshin community discovering about the fallen angel and demon paimon theory 😂
Meanwhile I'm over here thinking about this theory back in like 2021
or the wildest one i saw recently that the traveler could be a Nameless ... connecting GI with HSR ... the lore is lore-ing and the theory is theorizing
@@kiwiseed7563 Traveler is Akivili, confirmed? And this is where he's been since disappearing from the universe?
6:23 they worship the GOD OF FREEDOM. And don't really have any RULES that restrict people much(other than basic country laws, like, don't get naked in the street, don't steal, don't kill, ect..).
There is lore in the artifacts in Genshin and books you can read also. The lore goes deep!
Can’t wait for him to find out there is literally 5000 years of history for the Genshin world. And when the Genshin anime comes out it will take place around 3000years ago during the archon war.
Where’s you here that? I haven’t heard any news of the Genshin anime since the preview of it came out
@@BazzyBaka it’s a leak from a unconfirmed source
It makes the most sense for it to take place around that era
Its crazy that Nux never wondered that if all those Archons are so willing to give the Gnosis for free then maybe it's because the fatuis might be good guys and what they want to do with them is actually the best option. It is not a for sure thing, but a very possible thing.
Well, celestia really is suspect...
Or as we found out later in the final Fontaine archon quest, they don't want cursed objects coming with cursed connections to stay with them any longer.
to be fair the fatui do horrible things in each country so it makes sense. We speculate that the tsaritsa is trying to overthrow celestia but meinsleif in this video didn't go over the fact that celestia stole the power from the primordial dragon and the dragon sovereigns as well as wipe out kaenriah. she mentioned kaenriahs fall but it wasn't addressed as very impactful sadly. basically the video painted celestia in a good light and only showed the fatui at face level joining in and causing chaos in each country by stealing venti's gnosis, aiding zhongli in a trial by fire for his country, supplying weapons to the government and resistance in inazuma, and created a false god and siding with a government who imprisoned their god.
I do agree the Fatui may have good intention but I still hate them solely because most of their actions are aggressive & causing unnecessary suffering to people.
I mean seeing some of their actions, idk if it’s really accurate to call them “good guys”😃 the doctor sure don’t seem very good..
If you really want a deep dive into Genshin Lore I would highly recommend the "Begginers guide to Genshin Lore" series by Ashikai.
So here's a fun theory some members of the fan base came up with regarding the loss of each Gnosis. Each Gnosis was taken thus far by using the Heavenly Principle governing each nation against each ruling god. Venti, being the God of Freedom, had his taken freely. Zhongli surrendered his via a contract. Ei lost hers via Scaramouche, whom she created in pursuit of Eternity. Nahida lost hers because as a God of Knowledge, she can't resist the acquisition of new information. And more recently, Furina lost hers through her own justice system, being the God presiding over justice. With six now in the Fatui's possession, all that's left is the Pyro Gnosis, and the ruling Archon presides over war. And since each Archon has lost each Gnosis via their Heavenly Principle, it seems safe to say, that the Pyro Archon will lose theirs as a result of the war they are currently waging. There is at least some sort of thought put into how these Gnoses are being taken.
The Fatui really plays by the opponent's rule
That's really an interesting take on it, and I agree with it.
Myittle theory is that maybe smth haopens in the pyro region and the archon wages war against sneznaya as to loosing their gnosis maybe? And we just get into sneznaya as some spies or whatever hahahaha
DUDE litereally like every item in this game has like descriptions of lore, theres lore scattered across items and notes and its just a lot, i love genshin uwu
It's hilarious. When new weapons or artifacts are leaked, people scour the descriptions _of stat gear_ in order to find clues hidden in metaphor, and it's actually hidden in there because lore hints are hidden in everyfuckingthing XD
If you really want to dive deep into the story and lose sanity, ashikai is a good place to start
I agree
Agree for aqhikai, the CC of the sumary tend to overlook a lot of point for what I stumble upon
Yes Fontaine's main story is basically over and you can watch a recap for it
Despite not playing the game, Nux managed to get the major shift in the main story at 34:22. After this quest, the traveler stopped looking for the sister, and more about traveling and understanding the world. Which is why the game makes a prolonged stop in every nation.
A point that a lot of players somehow missed, and keep harping about how Traveler forgot about the sibling.
NUX WE NEED YOU TO WATCH ALL THE DEMO TRAILERS FOR THE CHARACTERS. YOU WOULD LOVE IT!
Bruh -she just skipped almost every speck of lore surrounding the Anemo Archon, and Venti. Heading straight to Dvalin, The Fatui, and The Abyss Order.
Tbf, Venti's backstory has no importance or bearing on the Archon Quest other than his relation to Dvalin
@zackang4731 I mean, you're not wrong, but still, she had to him being referred to as a god, in his MORTAL VESSEL....
This man will never be the same again
Cant believe nux understood that the goal changed from "where is my sister" to "what is she doing". Meanwhile hoyotards are mad because traveler doesn't ask about her in fontaine. Everyone assumed traveler forgot about them
I would LOOOVEE to see character deep dives because personally I love the story but some of my favourite parts and moments are to do with the characters, I would love to see nux loose his mind over Scaramouche’s story line backstory and “redemption” as well as some of the more side story’s, I believe it’s tighnaris character quest that makes me tear up every time I see that robot. And don’t even get me started on having to see that cut scene with nahida again literally sobbing
1:16:20 "I feel like Fontaine is probably gonna be the best story." PLEEEEAAASSSEEE DOO IITTT
The moment you realize who the hilicherals are. The game changed for me
Finally he understands Genshin Impact is not a bad game its only the Fandom that is weird
The fact that Nux isn't understanding how dark the entire plot of Genshin is in reality make me feel like he will definitely make a future video regarding so analysis or something
Something for Nux to know every side quest is important and I am not kidding
Also Nux Gacha doesn't matter in Genshin I am not kidding you play the entire game without pulling even once it's literally not a necessity infact if you forget the wishing system exists it doesn't even feel like a Gacha game all you have to do is be a monk and not spend money
The gacha sistem and weapon really is bad, they inventing the 50/50 rate banner should be considered a crime of humanity for all eternity...
Genshin lore is kinda good, but the mojority of the time, they don't take themselves seriously... like, child almost exterminated liyue, but not let him be free and play as him...
@@Y4ngCP See that's the thing it's dumb to question Gacha system when other game companies are charging $60 for a broken bugged game like Starfield and Genshin is fucking Free is takes money and commitment to make a game this great and then make it free also they don't encourage spending of money infact you don't even have to pull in order to continue playing this game also what do you mean by making Childe Free bruh there are modelers, character design artist, 3d rigging artists, Special Effects Team, Voice Actors and also Script Writers what do you mean by making him free how will they pay them do think art is just generated automatically or something these various artists had to work their asses off to create a character why should they give him for free also weapon banner is completely unnecessary cuz you can craft weapons which are more than good also all banners have 4 star and 5 star weapons available in the standard banner, Genshin Impact has one of the most tolerable Gacha system FGO has a far worse one which makes no sense cuz the whole game is 2d and the pity in FGO is on the 330th pull meaning Genshin has it on 77th pull also the other Gacha games before Genshin were far worse and nobody complained cuz Asians are used to Gacha mechanics when Western Audience flooded into the Gacha side of things because of Genshin People thought that the Gacha mechanism is very bad but that is totally not the case you guys think of it like that cuz you guys haven't experienced the other things also Genshin's lore can't be summarised using only the Archon Quests that Minslief did in this video cuz the majority of the lore is behind hidden world quests that unlock once you complete requirements and also behind limited time events which can effect the main story in reality the overall Lore of Genshin Impact is equal to those Souls games or Elden Ring in reality it's just that the common player base don't play this game's storyline much they only play archon quests and leave or spend a lot of fucking money for no reason
@@Y4ngCP The Western Audience just have a very wrong impression of Genshin Impact cuz they never experienced Gacha games before nothing much
The fandom is great. Have you seen hoyofairs? There's tons of incredible fanmade content
@@Y4ngCPGenshin's gacha system is quite literally more forgiving that alof of others lol. Though there's still others better than it. If you want to know a much more horrid one just look at FGO which for a long time didn't even have a pity system and the current one implemented requires hundreds of pulls
6:21 There is nothing inherently anti freedom about religion. Most people try to control what you say or do are quite non religious in fact.
Fontaine is one of the most technologically advanced out of all the nations, yes. The archon quest itself is over and, by the way, the Kyogre reference you keep making isn't actually too far from the truth.
I love that you chose a Minsleif video! She, Ashikai and Chill With Aster are some of my favorite Genshin content channels!
Sumerian vs Fontaine in terms of innovation? One has airpods technology and Apple, other has Samsung cameras and robots
One pretty important history subplot this summary didn't explain: Celestia was not always a thing. "God" used to be a meaningless term for any vaguely strong being, then Celestia came in, took power, said "there's now only 7 gods allowed", and all hell broke loose in the battle royale for those 7 slots.
All of this is before the "500 years ago" incident, in which Celestia mobilized some of the Archons to punish the region for defying the heavenly order (basically Tower of Babel).
So all of the surviving major gods or their successors, especially the ones forced to take part 500 years ago, have major issues with their new boss. This makes them eager to get mugged or conned into giving their Celestia ID cards to the Fatui, since the Fatui's reasoning for gathering the Gnoses is to attack and dethrone Celestia.
tldr: Fatui warmongering is only so successful at getting Gnoses because the Archons want to rebel, but can't directly because Celestia is always watching.
34:50 is another very interesting part of the story, what you explained is exactly how players shifted their views, but the Traveler stops being self-insert and goes a bit crazy from this reveal. They live in complete denial of everything their sibling said and blame it on brainwashing, continuing to look for where their sibling is "being held captive".
Many of Traveler's heroics are left unclear in motivation, how much they actually care vs how much is selfishly doing good in order to get information so they can leave Teyvat with their sibling, regardless of consequences for this one world.
The game usually doesn't draw attention to this greyness, letting the audience be tricked just like the rest of Teyvat into thinking Traveler is a pure hero, but a couple moments such as this denial make it very apparent.
Great way of explaining it lol
you forgot to mention that before The Primordial One came, Teyvat was ruled by dragons and they had to defeat them to rule over
Genshin is amazing as long as you don't spend money on it. The exploration is S-tier and the later stories are enjoyable.
there's a lot of evidence that The Seven Archons are giving out the Gnosis on purpose to fulfill the Cryo Archon(the Archon that the Fatui work for)'s plan against Celestia
You can make an argument that Morax might have done so. (As we still do not know what her got out of the trade. Yes, he got retirement, but that, according to him, wasn't the main thing he traded the gnosis for.)
Maybe Barbados and Buer could have but there is very, very little evidence to support this.
Baal/Beelezabul, definitely not. Especially as Yae Miko was the one with the gnosis. Could Yae have? Possibly, but she'll never tell.
Its a shame that the vid doesn’t even touch the archon war
I want him to see the backstory of all the arcons and along with scaramoshes backstory
34:55 Bro understood this point better than a decent chunk of players who keep that thinking we're looking for our sibling, while in reality our sibling told us to fk off until we're done learning about how fked up the world is
Honestly this impressing you says a lot about the plot because this is HEAVILY condensed. Not only that it straight up ignores stuff that fleshes out the history of the world and the characters in general.
While 500 years ago is important narratively, the actual history of the world goes so much further back. Actually, given the direction of the plot is going, stuff regarding the now forgotten Genesis of Teyvat is very much relevant and that's _well over 6000 years ago._ Most lore for that comes from a region that's completely optional btw.
Mhm!
Funny to see you commenting on Genshin introducing characters boobs first in case of Kokomi who has essentially just a big bow on her chest to cover up what's missing under it. But true it's not clear at first sight. The wild thing is that they can make such characters and have success with them because they sell way more than just sex appeal. No matter who you are, you can likely find a lot of what you like in this game as long as you drop the prejudice.
Bro I’m a grown ass man and I can say I’ve teared up quite a few times from this story. The game is a banger, and I recommend it to a lot of my friends even if it does make me look like a weeb😂🤷♀️ also I hate the way she pronounces so many words, but the video was soooo well made. Huge props to her and her hard work
Love how they just skipped enkanomia(one of the most lore important part), the witches, the dragons, apep, the descenders, the 4 shades, the first who came, the second who came, the primordial one etc
yea thats really important, it has not been aborded so much in the main storyline but it's way too important
This video was really good, buuut I also feel like a lot was missed out on in this recap. It skips over details that I feel would be important and give you a bigger picture of certain regions or even the bad organizations of Teyvat, though I get that this is just a recap.. You should definitely learn about some of the characters in the world as well, maybe also get a more detailed organization of the story in Teyvat. This game has really good main story, and even sidequest stories, and if you're down to learn more about the world then I'd highly recommend you do another dive.
The Sorush sidequest is not the most interesting in Sumeru and it's a shame it's the only one mentioned. 😔
Yeah, when Mainsleif went almost immediately from "We break the Samsara cycle" to "With help of Nahida you defeat Scaramouch" I was kind of dissapointed
The lore goes so hard! I have played Genshin on and off over the years but I always came back for the lore drops and the surprising existential horror subtly woven into the story.
fun fact: "Waifu" is a derogatory term in asian culture as for them it mean "F@p material", in contrast to ours were we see it as more of a "character/personality desirable in a wife". In a similar way as how "Otaku" is semi-derogatory as "fanatic with poor social skills" over there, but to us its just "someone who likes japanese themed animation"
meanwhile Mihoyo's slogan is "tech otakus save the world" and they make anime-inspired games lol
@@randomperson8375All waifus are "waifus" So it still fits
i would be honored if someone called me "fap material" that sounds like i'm sexy and you know it.
now if you were called an ona-hole (or cum dumpster) that is getting a bit mean.
I’ve never seen anyone who I think calling waifus for waifus is bc they’re actually wife material.. I think the original description fits pretty well
@@line7596 i thought it meant wife material 😭
You've just probably scratched the Genshins tip of the iceberg with this video, since the lore goes so much more deeper
28:14 fun fact about the japanese VA of Dainslaif. He had some... minor roles in voice acting such as, I dunno, Seto Kaiba from Yugioh, Nanami Kento from Jujutsu Kaisen, Joker from Fire Force or Overhaul from MHA. Believe me when I tell you the voice acting of almost every character is just on fucking point :D
Unless its hu tao's rap from last year's liyue festival (altough to be fair, thats just forcing CN lyrics into English, which didnt flow at all)
@@JinteiModding As Max0r said. That rap wasn't released, it fucking escaped. But I'm mainly talking about the japanese voice acting tbh
I immediately swapped languages when I heard Paimon talk for the first time lmao
And his English VA is Yuri fucking Lowenthal
@@eddmario I would have to google who that is from the top of my head. But I bet he's great :)
@@XxKingCraZyxX Well known anime voice actor. Most people know him as the English VA for Sasuke in Naruto.
"No one sits like that".
Looking at the pose in which I was watching this at that moment... Uuuuuuhmmmmm...
😂 If this is how he reacts to Mondstadt and Liyue’s aftermath, I can’t wait to see what he thinks when at the end of Sumeru, a child god trades the equivalent of 2 nuclear reactors for a conspiracy theory
1:10:22 Not the reaction I expected, but I'll take it lol 😂
Dude, I know this might be too much to ask, but I'm begging you here: please react to the character teasers and demos. It would be one of the best things to see you react to and it kind of gives you an idea of who the characters are. Plus, you get to listen to good music while you are at it.
I conveniently needed this, was getting back into Genshin after a year or two
Same though. I kind of stopped playing it for a while and just recently got back into it. I'm glad I did.
Bro you should stream or record genshin they just recently added Fontain the region or Hyrdo to genshin and the new Archon quest is immaculate. Brought a tear to my eyes.
The main archon story is only like a quarter of the total lore you can experience in the give.
There’s character stories where you experience a story mainly tied to a single character and there’s bunch of them, some characters get more then 1.
There’s world quest where you get to learn about lore in the world you don’t get to hear in the archon quest, this is also how you unlock certain areas of the map.
There’s also hangout quest where you just simply hangout with a character I think (I haven’t actually done one yet, I’m still playing catch up with all the other story stuff lol)
And lastly there’s limited time event story quest where they add some fun mini games you can do along side experience the story
I seriously thought he would learn about the story a bit but after 30 mins all he did was make jokes about everything every 20 seconds and ask questions showing he never paid attention, sad.
I know. Nux is good with his video essays, but his attention span needs some work.
No lie, I think Genshin's lore may be deeper than Mass Effect or Warcraft, speaking as someone deeply into both franchises.
Fontaine's story is so good, It got me crying multiple different times as I watched other people's reactions to the quest
It's got me my 2nd Favorite Genshin character as well
I've been on the quest for infinite internet knowledge since I started being on the internet so Its Awesome seeing Nix take the same trip down lore and fun facts lane
16:20 Yes!! There's a video on TH-cam named Teyvat Chapter Storyline Preview: Travail, and it shows all of the regions that will supposedly come out, and words of mystery that hints at the story each region will tell
Take a shot everytime there are 5 seconds of uninterrupted video. After 1:19:55 you will still be sober
bro this is just the world story, each character has their own personal stories that are just as deep i love genshin
The Gnosis are the remains of the third descender the descender who entered Teyvat before your chosen twin did. Though I wonder how devastating the truth is about the fate of the twin you didn't choose to play as
Genshin lore gets real dark if you dig deep into it
The cool part is minsleif only tackle the main plot of the story(archon quest) and didnt mention how deep lore is and how great genshin world building that you only experience if you do some world quest and read some books and item descriptions.. not to mention the great event story aswell.
"there is no way this happens every time right?"
welllllllllllllll
Since the Fatui work for the Cryo Archon, who likely has the cryo gnosis, its actually more accurate to say they have 5/7 gnosis(or 6/7 once you complete hydro story) So they just need to get pyro next year for whatever plan they have cooking. Then a year later we go to cryo nation to either see what happens or stop it, or heck maybe even join in idk.
1:10:11 the clones of The Doctor essentially made it possible for him to be in multiple places at once but also nearly impossible to defeat, not even death could do it.
2:42 yeah the descenders are aliens
Nux needs to watch every character demo next.
It's crazy because this video covers the main story and some side quests only.
If it went into the lore, the video would be sooo long
Technically the archons would be robbing the cradle. Especially Zhongli. Dudes a six thousand year old Dragon like Adeptus
So she skipped the part about why Wanderer decided to attempt to erase himself from history. Even though the people he tried to stop from dying died of different reasons.
the character story side-quests were skipped, yes...
@@stevdor6146 oh yeah I forgot to add to the end about how because Irmunsil has to stick to the status quo to still keep the timeline afloat
29:27 - About major events coincidentally happening just as the Traveler appears in the nations: it appears that way, BUT there is a god of Time in the story, who is sometimes called the God of Critical Moments. Part of her job is arranging things so that they happen exactly when they need to. There is a theory that she is guiding the Traveler, and arranging the major events to happen in alignment with our journey. Like a temporal Rube Goldberg machine.
There aren't really any coincidences in Genshin. It's very well plotted and everything mysterious has a lore reason behind it. Having the God of Time as the in-universe explanation for why the player happens to be involved in every major event is very on-brand for Genshin's lore.
The Traveler (aka, the player) and their sibling are the aliens lol. They are basically Planeswalkers from MTG, but after their encounter with Sustainer they seem to have lost the power to leave Teyvat.
Yes, Fontaine main story is pretty much over and is very good, arguably the best main story quest to date. Definitely check it out if you can!
bro I swear the characters be giving the gnosis for free to the Fatui like damn.......at least Venti didn't just hand over his gnosis, bro got jumped by Signora 😭
As a Genshin player and lover,the lore is DEEEEEP. More deep than this
how nice of katheryne to recap the main story for us
"sustainer of heavenly principles blocking the relationship between me and my sibling" HUH, WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THIS
Fontaines Archon quests just recently ended, and it is the best arc so far in MY opinion.
I definitely think you should do a video reacting to Fontaine!
It gets very dark in some parts, though, so if you do react to it, be prepared!
Couple things missed in the video is that you learn about the war of the gods during Zhongli's personal quest line, and it didn't touch on Enkonomiya that lies under watatsumi Island
Fortunately, he is at least aware of it, thanks to Max0r.
Id recommend reacting to more of minsleifs videos, especially her fontaine ones
You can also try Ashikai's videos, but those go much much deeper into lore and are frankly pretty confusing, to me at least
25:31 "oh good it's two swans and a stag"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The funny thing is that the main plot of the game is just scratching the surface of world building and lore. Every nation so far has thousands of years of history (much of it fairly hidden or only hinted at). As for the pre-planning of the main plot, it was planned out seven years in advance. One of the early promotional videos gave a small hint at each of the seven nations and what will come after visiting them all. While I'm sure that most of the details were left open to change there seems to have been a staggering amount of ground work laid for the plot before the game released.
I do agree that gacha in general is a scummy business model, I don't think this game could have existed in any other format.
Also if you want the 'deep lore', I'd recommend Ashikai's channel. She does insane work.
I hope Nux reacts to all the genshin teasers and demos :3
The Sumeru part is so heavily summarised that i don't blame Nux for misinterpreted some of it but he kinda able to follow it pretty well despite that
Aside from the fact that this is a bare bones summary (seriously. This is just the basics when it comes to genshin lore), MatPat did a video on Genshin about how Zhongli ruined the world when he gave up the Gnosis.
that video matpat did was honestly kind of awful, bro made so many logical jumps and pointed out things that are basically common knowledge for average genshin players as if theyre some kind of phenomenal news lol.
Dont get me wrong, I love matpat, but bro barely did ANY research for that video lmao. It honestly just kind of felt forced, like he did it purely for the sake of sponsorship and nothing else. Which is fair tbh, i just dont think that video is particularly good.
Ahem: "WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?" - Death of Discworld
bro got his redemption arc
With how much he loves deep lore and worlds, I'd love to get nux to watch Ascendance of a Bookworm. The depth and detail of that world is crazy
Most lore relevant to the main story quest takes place within 500 years but we know several lore that date back 2000+ years ago to the archon war. Most of this older lore is centered around the archons or other immortal beings close to the archon but it can be really interesting learning about the different gods and how their involvement shaped teyvat today. Whats also interesting is lore surrounding celestia such as the nail at the top of dragon spine or how the chasm was created.
500. Its not exactly an undetermined amount of years, its around 500 I think the beginning happened at the same time as Khaenriahs destruction
Inazuma affected the world too, people stranded in inazuma were allowed to leave and inazuma natives have started appearing into the events
"They just casually giving the gnosis"
I don't know man, after knowing the lore after Fontaine Archon quest... I think it's safe to say that those gnoses are, well, interesting and chilling "items"
Sumeru was a race war into time loop dream sequence into a heist to steal a god into fighting an eva built by havard
There are entire novels you can unlock that reveal even deeper lore. Unfortunately i dont have the patience to read all of it.
Also when you're erased from the tree, you don't actually cease to be. You did everything you did in the past, it's just that no one remembers you did it. They attribute it to someone else.
congratulations! you learned about 1% of genshin lore