What we know: at least a part of Teyvat sky is false, artificial if not the whole, probably everything people in Teyvat know about the stars is 'memories' and not anything they have observed alone.
We know that the only moon in the sky is always full and also close to the earth for its trajectory comes under the island in the sky known as Celestia but probably being not Celestia.
The constant full moon means that every night Teyvat is exactly between the sun and the moon. More over, the sun and the moon appear like having the same size... which is weirdddd. It seems like they are at the same distance from the surface of the earth and that they orbit around it with exactly the same speed. Everthing about this game mechanic just leads to one conclusion that the sky is artificial and probaby Teyvat functions like an spherical astrolabe, armillery sphere.
The arrow we see when we adjust the time is one only, not a clock arrow, not a compass, rather exactly the arrow of time. The arrow of time is the way we percept the flow of time as one directional. Even if we'd be able to go back and forth in time, the time itself only goes forward. The time is represented by the trees in Genshin and Honkai. It grows and branches. But if someone is able to branch a different reality from the bough in order to change the happennings.. how does they connect it back to the bough to make the change effective not just a branch...
There is also the concept of firmaments covering the earth like a dome that ceparates it from the waters around and above as god created it on day 2.
With the recent release of Mobius in Honkai the resemblance of all of the symbolism in her design and so many things in Genshin is obvious. She as MANTIS belongs to a older civilization in the honkai universe, pioners who wanted to be heros and to change the world with science. Even before she was released eith the Elysian realm release I was starting to think that mhy is about to finally and officially connect the games stories. Maybe the siblings were actually part of the Mantis and they are project Arc. In a way i'd not mind if it was this obvious and simple than if they twisted it in a way that it'd make no sence. With all the theories gravitating it is hard not to get inspired by all the relations found in the myths and religion from all over the world but also as it happened with 2.1 story quest there was some common dissatisfaction with the presentation of the lore. It was less or more confusing (gladly tsurumi island quests made up for it!). I don't like to dig this much in the way the story will go but in the world shapes and structures. And in a way the new wolves enemies we got also strangely look like something that's come of Mobius experimental room.
We already know that the oroboros are important to Genshin too since they are the constellation of Dainsleif, and his name also derives from the norse mythology where the world itself is represented as a the sacred tree Yggdrasil in which roots lies a snake.
In biblical cosmology, the firmament is the vast solid dome created by God on the second day to divide the primal sea (called tehom) into upper and lower portions so that the dry land could appear.
The Hebrews believed the sky was a solid dome with the Sun, Moon, planets and stars embedded in it.
The Hebrews regarded the earth as a plain or a hill figured like a hemisphere, swimming on water. Over this is arched the solid vault of heaven. To this vault are fastened the lights, the stars. So slight is this elevation that birds may rise to it and fly along its expanse.
So is it a Armillary sphere like astrolabe, or a tree or a snowglobe... or a tree growing in a sphere?
I too support the idea of the world structure that is armillary sphere, just everything in game supports this certain concept. Hoewever I am trying to think of details of it. Like the moon and sun trajectories which appear to be identical. I am trying to imagine the way Teyvat's motion is like...
The arrow of time, also called time's arrow, is the concept positing the "one-way direction" or "asymmetry" of time.
This one direction tho could not be a line, but .. a circle. It still only goes, rotates in one direction only creating cycles, loops.
If Teyvat functions as an Armillary sphere then also the stars can tell for real when the next end of cycle will be, because it'd work precisely. Unless it was broken.
Since the second law of thermodynamics states that entropy increases as time flows toward the future, in general, the macroscopic universe does not show symmetry under time reversal. In other words, time is said to be non-symmetric, or asymmetric, except for special equilibrium states when the second law of thermodynamics predicts the time symmetry to hold.
Equilibrant Force, which keeps any object motionless and acts on virtually every object in the world that is not moving.
This would be important in a model where Teyvat is truly artificial, created with the actual means of stopping 'time' hence passing time makes the entropy effect stronger and the future harder to predict, therefore it also gets harder to defend the humanity from catastrophies.
The Kardashev scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is able to use.
The scale has three designated categories. This is the first 3 of 6 parts of the Kardashev scale:
A Type I civilization, also called a planetary civilization, can use and store all of the energy available on its planet.
A Type II civilization, also called a stellar civilization, can use and control energy at the scale of its planetary system.
A Type III civilization, also called a galactic civilization, can control energy at the scale of its entire host galaxy.
Without too deep dive into how much energy human use on Earth and how much they could potentially use, I'd think about where on this scale mhy games' worlds are. The Honkai universe is obviously advanced probably to the point of using every resource of earth, and even beyond, using the honkai power in one way or the other. Teyvat on the other side is rather idle which is reasonable after a great cataclysm. As I was thinking loudly about the possible true nature of the Seven elements to be one thing I'd try to apply it here too. Energy is one thing in the universe that cannot be created or destroyed but only transformed. Therefore I proposed that the elements are the same energy (or energy in general) that is shaped with the vision of the user or by idea of it, based on information or memory, transformation of the unknown into known shape. The more energy is used or consumed tho the more warmth is produced as aftereffect which is why we are still not even fully type I civilisation and it's be hard for us to grow more without to burn the planet. One sulution for it could be spacetraveling and inhabiting other planets. (Becoming a Kardashev Type I Civilization). Then how about Genshin? How would the energy scale define Teyvat? Our characters live in a world with many mysteries remaind of the previous civilization, but they don't exactly have the luxority of electric power, they use the power of wind and water, cook with fire and all the lapms we see around also are even using candles or maybe gas. However they use visions and elemental energy (apparently for combat purpose only). All this time. One reason I could think of about it is that the characters regain or collect or produce elemental energy mostly in combat. We sometimes receive elemental particles when around us slimes get in contact with electro crystals or elemental plants and that causes elemental reaction. Also the visions only contain certain ammount of energy and cannot stack more if it's not being used, they have capacity. Maybe they have been created with different purpose and maybe the world has been on the verge of collapsing not once or twice before. I started to think that teh so called Celestia is a formation of higher beings who oversee Teyvat in order to prevent its destruction but also that this destruction involves some selfdefense mechanisms.. such as Honkai energry, the destruction is natural punishment for unnatural behavior.
The Sea Of Quanta is a very important place in the world of Honkai Impact 3rd. It is the place where dead bubble universes reside and where several characters were sealed. The Sea Of Quanta is where Quantum Shadows are born and produced.
The Sea Of Quanta produced the Imaginary Tree. Since these two were the only living things in the universe, they began a long rivalry. The Tree wishes to absorb the Sea, while the Sea wishes to drown the Tree.
Which brings me back to how Teyvat or the Earth is like flatland to higher dimensional creatures. We don't have the way to experience the higher dimension completely unless we 'ascend' to higher state (of mind, soul, body). However we experience the higher dimension in a way we can - ghostly, creepy, monsterious but also sometimes beautiful phenomena.
The chaos and the order in metaphores of Sea and Tree. One that swallows and one that grows high. But everything starts with chaos. A calamity that turned the very universe upside down, in a cycle or death and rebirth.. maybe we are just too small to see the whole picture so early, to understand how it functions, what shapes it takes. We can see the always full moon, the dome like sky, we can doubt it this world and turst our allies. But if we break the sky and go back in time to meet the history of Teyvat what would we take to the future?
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