[Genshin Impact theory] Thoughts about the chess game and the light spectrum

 So I don't really play chess to know the rules too well but I guess I also have some thoughts about the Gnosis shapes and the search of the King.

I'd strongly agree tho that the electro gnosis should not be the King else .. game over. It's make no sense. 

It cannot be denied that the choice of animation of the elements on the loading screen is interesting not because the order but because the colors. Black and white. The complete lack of light and the light itself containing all the colors.

Of course on other loading screens in the game we see the elements loading one by one and they are colorful. Why the difference? I am also still thinking about it.

But let's try to theorize the chess pieces as the elements and the Kings identity. 

If he'd be the Original god then .. who is playing this game of chess... 

Besides this questing we'd also think what the 8th element would be...

In any meaning it makes sense that the King is that 8th element and not one of the 7.

I think that the king is the white light, the color that contain all others.

Therefore there is also a black king, the complete lack of light. Or... maybe the space in which light travels. Or Lumine and Aether. Of course they are also thought to be actually the pawns and the pawns can be promoted into any piece but the king. It made me think that if the main character is the pawn then even they could not 'defeat the Destiny', at least not by becoming the King whom I think is the representation of Dentiny. More like if the one king is the Destiny then the other is its oposite and maybe our character sibling is effectively on that king side.

With the latest quest we met another ancient god named after a demon from the Lesser Key of Solomon. We do know that many gods existed and many disappeared. All of those are actually defined by people and some continue having followers even after centuries. Because the system of the Seven is.. artificial, it is order created with some intentions we could theorize about but it is not.. natural. It's a plan, a game.

 Promotion in chess is a rule that requires a pawn that reaches the eighth rank to be replaced by the player's choice of a bishop, knight, rook, or queen of the same color. The piece chosen cannot be another king nor another pawn. The new piece replaces the pawn on its starting square on the same move. The choice of the new piece is not limited to pieces previously captured, thus promotion can result in a player owning, for example, two or more queens despite starting the game with one.

If the vision holders could potentially replace the archon and become gods as they believe then why has it never happened, basically. Not in this game like perspective. If people believe they could become gods than shouldn't they also associate this with some element, or the element they use and if they do then they'd know they could replace the current gods. In fact this seemed to be a thing only in Mondstadt's lore. What if this promotion to godhood is nothing but a sacrifice. However... the game might end with more than one queen... Could it? If the game is played with the gnosis and they are created and limitted to 7 (or 8) could the promotion be actual? Is that what the Tsaritsa is doing? And maybe the Traveler is that one pawn that can actually and efffectivelly become a second Queen or Rook or anything. But the King. Which is why their war will see no end for so long, if they could easily replace or become a king they would. But the king should be defeated. But what about the second king then, why would the sibling be on its side. 

It's also mean that on the oposite side of the board is  the Abyss. Because it makes no sense to be the Fatui. Fatui and the Archons still seem to be on the same side of the board. Maybe the Tsaritsa still wants to finish this game unlike the others and therefore she wants to hold all the pieces in her control.

I have the wild theory that the Tsaritsa might also be already given up her own gnosis and let the Fatui doi whatever they want, that she is actually in their control.

With the 2.1 stories we witnessed how MHY can also make no sense and how sometimes all the logic we'd ally to theories is just missing at all at the final product. Therefore I also think that mhy adjust many details later but of course they must have a clear vision for the endgame as well. Therefore the choice to represent the gnosis as chess pieces cannot be coincidence.But for sure the genshin game of chess won't completely bent under the rules or chess as well. 

What is the real vallue of a gnosis? If it originates of the meaning of the world then knowledge is always valuable. If it's a divice that gives power it'd also have value to those who seek power. If it is equal to a Honkai Herrscher core than it is even more dangerous. How came that after creating the puppet Ei did not place it within the artificial body so she had to give it away. She 'didn't have where to put it anymore' so it does mean that it is useless without the living body and the puppet would only be a container for it, making it useless. Then did Yae use it in any way after all beside as an exchange for the traveler's life. 

So I think one King is presenting the Destiny, that puts order in the world, making it look like Heaven often but also binding people and the other is from the Chaos of the Abyss. Or the Samsara and the Nirvana.

Nirvana is also described as identical to achieving sunyata (emptiness), where there is no essence or fundamental nature in anything, and everything is empty but also he knowledge of true Self .

Where the Light does not reach. 

Then, we should ask, why are the Abyss creatures corrupted and what it corruption? And which path is right to take? The darkest path of Nirvana appears to be the complete annihilation of individuality or literally the face. For the only purpose to become part of the chaos or the creation. But only certain individualities could achieve that... 

Are we the light or are we the prism?