Hi guys I am Inotia King a youtuber, redditor and gamer who likes theorizing about the story. I actually cobbled together a list of some of my more important theories with respect to the game Genshin Impact and Star Rail that I have been basing all of my newer theories on. I'll be putting more of those up on Hive along with new stuff but if you're impatient I also archived all my theories here. I hope some of you guys are game theorists too. Let's try to figure out these great games together!
Last time I brought up ++a possible role the Dragon Sovereigns once served in Teyvat.++ This led to the naming of one of the dragon kingdoms, Chichen Uctokah or the "mouth of the well to the seven burns" which the game translates in English as the "Land of the Seven Flames." I said this name didn't quite do it justice right? In Chinese this translated name is actually 七重燃火之地 which in English would be 七重 seven layers of 燃火 ignited fire 之地 land which I'm going to go with "Land of the Seven Layers of Kindled Flames." The important parts that aren't reflected by the English are "layers" and "kindled." Seven Layers rather than Seven Flames speaks to there being an order to them which I detailed last time. "Kindled" necessitates that these "flames" were activated at some point and aren't just flames by themselves again suggesting a purpose to them.
The leader of this dragon kingdom was Ix Uxul Tz'ib Bolon Ch'ule-L (I mean it's probably just Ch'ulel and the -L part is because we meet her as some kind of AI lol) Based on the best translation I could come up with for her name, there was some endpoint to this purpose for the seven. We never got there because Phanes changed Teyvat's fate with the Heavenly Principles and the false sky. Otherwise Ixlel potentially had the job of "painting the nine of thirteen parts of the soul in the end." Based on how the Natlan tribes are named after the Thirteen Aztec heavens we can propose that the roles of those actual heavens play a role in Teyvat as well. Nine of these layers would encapsulate the first nine heavens which include the six tribes, two missing tribes and then all of the remaining five squished together because they are the "divine layers." Separated though they'd include the remaining steps of the Magnum Opus leading to rubedo or divinity, Celestia itself or Teteocan and then finally all the way at the top and what I brought up again with ++Citlali and Huitzilin++ Ometeotl a layer of penultimate duality which for the Hoyoverse perfectly reflects the struggle between the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quanta.
Side Note 1: I didn't exactly explain this back in Dragons 101 but Ixlel's role may have been the plan set up by the Second Who Came according to ++my theory++ who was going to unintentionally undermine Phanes and allow Teyvat's beings to ascend to divinity. (Gnosticism's gnosis) This would be cause for Phanes to lash out at the Second Descender and then create the false sky and Heaveny Principles to maintain control. And this would explain why the dragons revolted a second time under Nibelung.
Side Note 2: Also Ometeotl was already referenced in v5.2. It's the legendary secret weapon Ochkan had prepared to use against the Abyss. Now this turned out to be wrong and the "secret" was actually the next Golden Entreaty aka Xiucoatl's eye which can release a Saurian from the Flamelord's Blessing again provided by Xiuhcoatl. However the legend was that this thing was supposed to take out the Abyss and we already have something like that in neighboring Sumeru. The Khvarena was a secret weapon left to Nabu and was a power greater than the forces of the Abyss. It could be used to cancel out the Abyss itself basically the element of Imaginary. So the Ometeotl reference stands. Even if the secret turned out to be a bust the legend about it was still about the same level of power.
We may even have more clues to this ancient secret of the dragons. In the middle of the Ochkanatlan World Quest we can find interactables from a series called Holy Sovereign's Notes, basically Ochkan's diary. The fifth one is this:
The "ladder" that climbed up to the firmament lines up with how humanity used to be able to commune with Celestia directly. The weapons are likely the Light weapons of Celestia that could tear the Abyss to pieces. That's not the same as negating it like the Khvarena mind you. Light can just subdue it. These "cannons" would be stuff like the Divine Nails and the Lumenspar Adjuvant.
I still can't figure out what might have fallen from the three moons. It isn't the chariot since that was shared between them and singular. (Yeah I wrote this before the update. We have something called the Ancient Moon's Remnants now but I think this is just a dragon-manufactured facsimile. Still it could be what Ochkan was talking about seeing as how he'd technically not have been around when the moons died.) But perhaps if we tie it into Zelda with the golden goddesses it was some even earlier primordial spark that allowed the founding elements of the dragons to begin with. (maybe that could also tie-in to what Mavuika said about "a power that predates the seven elements of Teyvat" though I mean Phlogiston is a power that predates the seven elements of Teyvat so....) Anyway if we take that Zelda idea into a scientific direction we'd have the quantum particle interaction of the quark triplet or baryon. Protons and neutrons are baryons and proton collisions are being studied through the use of hadron colliders which can cause things like nuclear fusion reactions. (Are you guys still with me?) The purpose of this research is multi-pronged but two things seem relevant to the Hoyoverse: proving quantum entanglement and "magic." No seriously. There is a concept of magic in quantum physics. But before that, quantum entanglement is when two distant particles somehow share identical characteristics and change simultaneously. There is an idea that entangled particles could prove the existance of a multiverse and we all know the Hoyoverse is such a multiverse with "entangled" characters in the form of expies between miHoYo's different titles. Our Pyro Archon Mavuika for example is the Genshin expy of Honkai's Himeko and of course Star Rail's Himeko. Now back to "magic." In quantum physics "magic" is the current name for how difficult it is for our instruments to measure a quantum state. Right now the most magical quantum state is said to be found inside of black holes which erase information. Black holes play a significant role in multiverse theories as well and also time travel in quantum physics which in and of itself is used to define the quantum multiverse. Star Rail has already played with this idea through the Paths and the Fragmentums created by Stellarons. I believe the Hollows in Zenless are doing the same thing.
If any of the above is what miHoYo intended then I agree with "It sent chills down my spine... We must not give them any chance to regain their former glory, or humanity will be powerless to stand against them." Who wouldn't be terrified of beings with the power to manipulate you across different universes and spacetime itself? Scarily enough, that should be exactly what our top tier Hoyoverse beings can do. In Gakuen we have beings like the Lord of Myriad Realms and characters named after the Eldritch Abominations in Lovecraftian horror. These guys freely traverse the Hoyoverse. The Lord of Myriad Realms personally got the Gakuen universe going by creating the concept of death in that universe. Not just enforcing death like Ronova. Creating death. (And yeah if you know your Eldritch then an eye with eyes inside of it is the most normal thing in the world lol)
Anyway we've got three Dragon Sovereigns active again in Teyvat with one of them fully powered so we'll see where Genshin goes from here. Sadly the Pyro Dragon's return seems to be on hold for now. I guess we'll wait for Dottore to take the Gnosis in v5.7.