u/skylorthetraveler

Trying to find who the tsarista is, a Tsarista theory. I believe she's "Yalyane Morevna."

As snezhnaya recently came out just yesterday I'm SEARCHING for lore regarding the tsarista and I think I found it. In a book called general history of of snezhnaya there's a woman called Yalyane Morevna who is apparently so ancient she's from hyperborea days and has EXTREMELY LITTLE authentic history regarding her. Infact it was said she "disappeared one day before kitezhnograd was founded."

However, she was regarded as teacher to the belyi tsar whose real name is Tsar Monomakh (which has some INSANE LORE BEHIND HIM LIKE LITERALLY INSANE YOU SHOULD READ IT) anyways in the book, among all fae who tried to curry favor with the Tsar, all knew they were second to "the Snegruochka of Hesperides" aka the GRANDMOTHER of the first grand duchess of Hesperides, Yalyane Morevna.

The Tsar openly called Yalyane his "teacher" openly. Here's the interesting thing though, Yalyane has a.... REPUTATION among ancient fae as she is often referred to as "knyazhna of bl\\\_ \\\_d" as the book recalls to the book Davograd Chronicles. Basically what this title means is the she was a menace to fae... And not in the good way. According to what the writer of the "General History of Snezhnaya" interprets from the Davograd Chronicles, Yalyane Morevna was known for her "extraordinary savagery" as she "plundered and razed many fae kindreds." Like, to the point that Davograd (I assume this is a person or city) chronicles outright call her a "Soulless wrench, a slave who could only wag her tail before her former masters(aka humans)."

(Also it's worth mentioning here that Yalyane may actually be a alias or something those of that time called her because Morevna from what I found, apparently translates to of death. And I doubt those fae were close enough to go up and ask her for name.)

However this part is interesting BECAUSE we know fae, especially those from the days of hyperborea like herself, are terrified of humans, if you read the "disenchantment in deep shadows" artifact set stories, we learn of a fae noble governor named "Domovoy Alvis" who was tasked to work with the adopted daughter of the Tsar to do some research on hyperborea ruins with her. According to aksinya, Domovoy's first gaze at her held eyes full of "deep disgust and fear for humanity."

In fact, she was said to have "not harmed human clans" and even brought them into "Hesperides" and "gave them her protection against monster incursions." And this aligns VERY WELL with Anastasia's actions so far. As we know the tsarista dreams of a better future for humanity, she actively went to fight against a monster capable of summoning nation wide blizzards in 7.0 archon quest, and both have cold yet affectionate demeanors.

As for this next part this is a little more speculative however when the writer talks about how Yalyane's extraordinary savagery against fae's, it's only a line or two after he describes "Courage" assumingly her's, as a "crime" led by "plunder and greed" before it became a virtue in modern day. AND THIS SOUNDS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WANDERER HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE TSARISTA. Especially the part about how "love is also a type of sin" I don't remember his exact words but it's something like this.

Anyways back on track, later the writer of the history of snezhnaya talks about how Yalyane "permitted Tsar Monomakh to come to her kindred and taught him the art of the spear."

And here's the points I want everyone to focus on, first, "KINDRED" as in.... became a son like figure???👀 Especially with that flower that boy in the transcendence trailer had and how they are RECOMMENDED TO BE FOUND IN THE WHITE BIRCH SNOWGRAVE. also, I think this would also explain the "tsar's final tokens of affection" part in the sudden snow video. (Also we know the Tsar doesn't know his real birth mom or remember her based off of the disenchantment of deep shadows and general history of snezhnaya book(his lore is insane))

And second, "ART OF THE SPEAR." From this we know Yalyane was adept at using the spear, something we see the tsarista wield as she faces ronova in the transcendence trailer and her official artwork, I mean why would she use a weapon she isn't familiar with against a shade. And COINCIDENTALLY the free to play blueprint weapon for snezhnaya happens to be a spear that was supposedly wielded by the Tsar.

So now we have supposedly explained how the tsarista is a teacher/ mother figure to the tsar (hence her relationship with him) who I believe to be a fae (please read the book, seriously I don't want to explain his lore because that will put shadow this theory) which would coincide with the fae boy in the transcendence trailer, and how she lives humanity since the tsarista purposely uprooted fae nobility and trashed it to make humans nobles instead (something Very Yalyane like). Also I would like to point out that in the same book, later on when it describes how the Tsar leaves Yelyane to adventure, he's referred to as "Young" several times.

(Also another lil theory but when the Tsar left Yelyane, he met the other "young" progenitor of the shapeshifters "Filipov Vseslavyevich" who was the first commander of the Druzhna and the Tsar even refers to him as a "my good brother" and other equivalents such as "comrade in arms" in fae language, so perhaps this "connection" could be why the tsarista keeps around the Druzhna so close (Vesna is literally her right hand) despite how she basically stripped all fae nobility away as soon as she became the cryo archon.)

Also, before the cataclysm happened, he received a crafted egg shaped object that resembled his birth from an egg (the egg shaped level up domain material I forgot the name of) and the tsar apparently recognized the artsmanship which makes me think that yalyane had returned as the tsarista BECAUSE she inherited the throne so fast the cataclysm had only affected one place in Snezhnaya and news hadn't even reached her by then.

Now what I think is a somewhat mundane but also somewhat compelling piece of evidence to add to this theory is that Flins an Very old fae, basically fled snezhnaya when the tsarista became the cryo archon, in fact he outright says you won't hear "us" (assuming he meant another faction outside of the light keepers along with himself) call the tsarista their god is another interesting factor. So far we know he's AT LEAST 500 so maybe he knows something about her past deeds that caused him to leave which would make sense if she truly is Yalyane Morevna... She basically terrorized her own kind.(Or not)

What do you guys think??? 😭 I mean....it is Only August 12th the day in writing this...aka release of snezhnaya so this theory could be wrong however it could possibly explain her age, and other factors, as for the ancestor of all KHAENRI'AHNS part

.... I actually I do, because as we know fae at the time the tsarista took the throne absolutely hated the idea of someone who "wasn't a fae" to be on the throne. So perhaps she's like the Tsar, who in short is a way past due (like 1000 years late) attempt from from hyperboreans to utilize the flesh and bones of the cryo dragon (which I think would look exactly like the little boy in the trailer especially since hyperboreans were obsessed with star eyes after the Voyager) and he was the most perfect of them all. So if the other attempts were made of the same materials, they would no doubtly still be alive.

I personally think that yalyane wasn't exactly a snegnovik herself because other history says that snegoviks called her "whole" and that she taught them that their leader must also be whole. And from what we've seen the tsarista can freeze things with just her gaze alone (like at the ends of act 2 and the 7.0 Livestream) and it was only said she was the grandmother of the first snegruochka duchess, and as we know, when the tsar first awoke, the snegnoviks had yet to achieve an physical form.

Anyways back to KHAENRI'AHNS what I think is happening here is that she lead the humans she protected to found KHAENRI'AH. And I think this would make sense because the tsar only awoke 1000 years after hyperborea fell which would definitely give her enough time to impart on humans and influence them to go against celestia. Also, how else would KHAENRI'AHNS become obsessed with projects of descenders, primordial humans and creating beasts unless that person came from hyperborea. This person would have taught them how to make primordial humans, which I believe almost half of the sinners and all cursed with immortality beat a resemblance to Ikhor, who is actually a primordial human. Especially with the blonde hair and blue eyes. And this why they weren't allowed into the LEYLINES, either because they had no soul, or because they were artificially made Primordial humans.

Also we know that the albedo is an attempt at making a primordial human, and he's no different looking than any other human so just because someone was an attempt at an primordial human doesn't mean they have to look exceptionally different to blend in.

(This could also explain the "pure blood" thing because no matter how you look at it, if they were biologically related to the tsarista (which I claim to be is yalyane in this theory) they she would be of teyvat and they couldn't be pure blooded anyway.

Not to mention no KHAENRI'AH has eyes like hers or ears like hers either. And sure "the 3rd descender could just have really dominant Gene's" however, I have 3 points to counteract this.

First no matter how dominant Gene's are, they're still is a vault containing them all and it's COMPLETELY randomized. So the fact that absolutely none resemble her is suspicious.

Secondly, we now know according to Ronova (and it's been implied many times in the past especially by Rene's research about descenders and the existences of other beyonders like skirk and abyss twin) is that DESCENDERS are descenders purely because their WILL rivals the world. And that they can only be killed by either destroying their body or spirit in the short moment it's severed. (Ronova told us DESCENDERS have an extremely strong will attaching their soul to body) And the 3rd descender was never implied to be from beyond.

And finally the 3rd point, it's said the 3rd descender fell in love with the Snegruochka princess (a term that came up later in time) as we know Yalyane is the GRANDMOTHER of the first snegnovik duchess, a title that came AFTER, the tsar took his throne. And Pavlina, is still called the princess of snegruochkas in the current timeline. So she couldn't possibly be the princess especially if she was gone from before kitezhnograd to the cataclysm.)

And with this connection to KHAENRI'AHN it would explain why pierro who actively hates gods, would be willing to side with her since if she was yalyane, the window of her disappearance to KHAENRI'AH would be from before kitezhnograd to just before the cataclysm, which is why the tsar got that "Gift" so conveniently before KHAENRI'AH was destroyed. She was perhaps already working along side them just as they were about to truly achieve something and celestia destroyed them. (I'll further develop this theory sometime later after I complete arrange everything)