After all this time i finally pulled the infamous C6 for Faruzan (standard banner) which got me thinking where to use her
Currently we assume Odette as bis for stellar swirl
It also looks like vesna is gonna be a plunge dps so xianyun stocks go up
But it still leaves the last slot open. Hopefully Vesna doesn't need a sustain. What do you think about Faruzan?
Rotation is Coffee E, Ineffa E, Qiqi E, Sandrone CA E CA Q (alternating between 2 CAs Q & 3 CAs)
I went back as far as fontaine to examine the duration between release banner and first rerun banner. Surprisingly Hoyo is mostly consistent with an average of 240 days or 5,7 patches between release and first rerun.
Outliers are Wrio with 12 and Xianyun with 10 patches.
If we throw them out and look at a trimmed mean, it goes down to 5,2 patches average.
(btw after the first rerun hoyo gets wildly inconsistent so there's no validity in trying to predict anything beyond)
One thing we surely all noticed is the synergy in recent banner pairing, for example:
6.4: Skirk + Coffe
6.5: Nefer + Lauma
6.6: Nicole + Durin
Varka released in 6.4. According to the average duration of 5+ patches the earliest rerun would be 7.1
However if we're considering his synergy with nicole, more likely would be 7.2, assuming both return together.
This would put 6 patches between release and rerun for varka and 4 for nicole.
I noticed a small decrease in waiting period since nod krai. Flins, Nefer, Durin and Bina all had their reruns after exactly 4 patches, with only lauma after 5.
Especially as a dps in times of increasing powercreep i don't think they want to wait longer than 6 patches if they still hope to sell varka.
Looking at vesna and a possible stellar swirl, which could kinda work for varka, i think they could put them all into one patch. Something like first half vesna and second half vakra nicole rerun.
While nod krai introduced lunar powers which are connected to moons, Snezhnaya will introduce stellar powers representing the stars which inevitably brings up the question of solar (sun) powers to complete the triad.
At first we have to clarify the monad. Simply put it's the primordial source of universal existence that holds the divine spark of creation and consciousness. For easier understanding you can see this as the biblically Adam.
As Eve was created from Adam, the duad derives from the monad. Similarly we have male and female twin travelers, phanes is described as androgynus and it split the shades from its being. The Kabbalah says if you put the hebrew names of adam of eve together, it results in the name of god - emphasizing the divine spark in man and woman once unified.
The reproduction of the monad through the duade creates the triad.
(imagine this as child for easier understanding. It's much more conceputal and complex but i wanna keep this short)
The seal of solomon (science of all things) shows two triangles or triads interconnected and mirroring.
The Hexagram holds daath in the middle. It stands for knowledge and crossing the abyss leading to spiritual awakening. The Kabbalah connects this tree of life to elemental forces (which we use in genshin)
As above, so below is an ancient philosophical and occult stating that the macrocosm (the universe, the spiritual realm, or the divine) and the microcosm (the individual, the physical world) are interconnected and reflect one another. Everything in the cosmos mirrors the patterns within yourself, and vice versa
(BTW this stems from hermitcism, first explored by the father of egyptian alchemy hermes trismegistus -> origin of Barbeloth's epitath)
In simpler terms it refers to the universal balance of all things – light and darkness is represented through the abyss and light powers as the basis for genshin's elements.
The divine spark or daath is capable of bending all elements, it also gives way for khaenriah underneath the surface world (as above so below).
Similarly we have accounts from hyperborea where they found a way to use elements without visions, stating any human has the potential of using any element. Kazuha for example used electro temporarily, even though with help of a vision.
Why is it called vision?
God gifts you knowledge, opening your eyes to give you a vision of natural law which you can then access
Why is it called gnosis?
Gnosis in Gnosticism aims at Enlightenment. Using spiritual wisdom to find your divine spark Monad and escaping the material world as well as godly rulers. So this can be seen as vision ultra pro max because it encapsulates the entire knowledge of a subject, turning archons into CEO's of their elements. After this partial enlightenment of your divine spark you don't need the gnosis anymore to be able to weild the elemental force.
The term Aether describes the Fifth Element / Quintessence—the pure spiritual medium that binds and balances all other physical forces
It's obvious to me that the traveler will regain their original light powers (shown against asmoday) through the combination of all 7 elements. This will be a form of enlightment / the ascension to godhood
(In the real world that's what illuminati strive for. Human becoming god through knowledge. Deshret was similar, which is why he is depicted as all seeing eye)
creating wings and swords from light and throwing a light arrow
From Sumeru Cinematic; \"CIVILIZATION IS BORN FROM KNOWLEDGE - BUT SO CAN KNOWLEDGE BE ITS DEMISE
This goes in line with Vedrfolnirs prophesy about the travelers ascension. Remember Vedrfolnir is said to never be wrong.
Lucifer means light bringer, without connotation of an evil entity. It simply means bringing knowledge in it's pure form. Through Humans this knowledge is used for good or bad- turning these concepts into reality. (the circlet of logos (= greek for knowledge!) represents the primodial one)
In other words the divine spark of the monad leads the pathway to ascension. In genshin terms this potential is described as will/wish power and builds the gacha system. Since only descenders have a strong enough will, they're the only ones to break thorugh the samsara and literally change reality on a divine level.
This refers to the esoteric law of correspondence from the kybalion where you can shape external planes of reality by adjusting your own internal consciounsness.
The original name for what we now call egypt was „Khemet“ = Land of darkness
„KHEMet“ later built the basis for the word alCHEMy.
Being underground Khaenriah had no access to the sun, making agriculture extremly difficult. Therefore Scientists, especially Rhinedottir, got into Alchemy to create food, built machines for harvesting, technlogy to improve life quality etc. (Enkanomiya solved this problem by creating an artificial sun)
Here again we have the theme of using knowledge at first for good, but then it later resulted in evil with the cataclysm. As nation without god they didn't have enough unlocked monad to withstand the temptation of darkness which resulted in an inbalance between good and evil. This misuse of knowledge/power is ultimately what we call sin because you're not following god's teachings.
-Khaenriah got nuked like sodom and gommora.
-Hyperborea built the tower of babel, trying to reach god
-Fontaines flood led wriothesley to literally built the arch of noah. Seeing the occurance of pneuma and ouisa (light and dark) i believe they would have been next in reaching khaenrias level of advancement and therefore consequently corruption.
All these examples of heresy are what Asmoday calls „arrogation of mankind“. Don't try to become god.
We know of 2 dynasties in Khaenriah. The crimson moon and it's successor, the eclipse (dark sun)
In alchemy the black sun (latin Sol Niger) represents nigredo – the first step in the magnum opus. It is putrefaction and decay of old to make way for new spiritual transformation.
Early mystics described it as hypercosmic sun or the invisible light. To the mortal eye, because it is so blindingly spiritual and completely beyond physical nature, it looks like total darkness.
In psychology Jung stated that the black sun represents the confrontation with the shadow—the dark, ugly, unacknowledged parts of the soul. You cannot achieve psychological wholeness (Enlightenment/Ascension) by just staying in the light. You must descend into the unconscious and get consumed by the black sun. That's the duality of the twins.
Middle: Osiris- The zenith and divine purity, unmoving source
Left: Horus- The rising sun, Dawn, pure elemental light powers of traveler
right: Set- Representing SunSET, inverted/corrupted use of light power of abyss sibling
This could be the basic concept for future solar powers. While the sun stands for light and knowledge, a dark sun implicates the corruption of knowledge
Dainsleif is the twillight sword because he's personally in between light and dark. Morally and figuratively.
Aether represents the sunrise, Lumine the sunset
btw the first angel in lore is the „goddess of the DAWNstar“ which in latin refers to lucifer, the light bringer. Paimon is one of Ars Goetia's 72 demons and is said to be lucifers most loyal servant. Paimon and the traveler are the continuing story of the first angel and the voyager.
I think the black sun could be declared as abyss powers. Skirks (and dainsleifs) powers come from the seven shifting serpent. It has to be different from the original light powers of the traveler, because that can only be the culmination of all split light elements. Khaenriah did not use the elements of light because they opposed celestia - rejecting their own divinity and blessings in form of visions.
Serpent in the background instead of the ordinary background for vision holders
According to universal law we need a counterbalance for the traveler who awakenes light powers and ascends.
This will be the abyss sibling. The seven shifting serpent will mirror the seven light elements. Just as the sinners of khaenriah mirror celestia (Vedrfolnir-Istaroth, Surtalogi-Asmoday, Rerir-Ronova, Hropratyr-Phanes, Rhinedottir-Naberius)
Lumine takes the corrputed Knowledge, just like Eve ate from the forbidden fruit → which she got from a serpent
Ouroboros is a snake eating its own tail, representing the eternal cycle of the universe (the samsara in genshin).
Just as the snake in eden gave humans the knowledge of good and evil (breaking them away from god), the sinner's serpent power allows them to operate outside of Celestia's laws of nature.
Oh and just by coincidence Ouroboros is the name of Dainsleif constellation in latin, another translation of 蛇环之座, is Snake Ring/Bracelet Constellation.
as above so below, Irminsul tree of life reaches into both upper and lower world
King Irmin is a retelling of the story of Nordic god odin. Khaenriah is super connected to nordic mythology and wagner's ring of nibelung, but i digress. Odin lost an eye for drinking out of the well of wisdom underneath the world tree yggdrasil. Nidhoggr is a serpent/dragon that gnaws on the roots of yggdrasil
Artifact depicting Irmin with only one eye
I assume king Irmin lost his eye and went crazy (corrupted) after seeking forbidden abyss knowledge from the fountain underneath Irminsul. The six pygmies describe how the fountain got corrupted and the abyss appeared before dainsleif. (I believe he holds the title boughkeeper because he keeps a branch of that irminsul. With the recent destruction of Irminsul i have no idea what they're ultimately cooking up with this storyline lol.)
King Irmin in an indisposed state = abyssal corruption
From the unreleased chapters of the six pygmies book
That was the beginning of the downfall, khaenriah "ate the forbidden fruit" delivered by the Serpent. Opening the door for the eventual cataclysm
The traveler will get light sun powers representing the dawn.
The corruption of knowledge manifests thorugh the power of the dark sun, dusk, that the abyss sibling uses.
Both are complementary, none are right or wrong. Through diving into the abyss you will reach light and vice versa, as above so below. That's the eternal closed loop of the serpent
The Sibling had to be the dusk/enter nigredo phase in order for a dawn to eventually arise.
To break the samsara dusk and dawn have to meet.
The goal isn't a fight where one sibling wins. The reason we have two siblings is to reach the balanced state. Completing the process and unifying light and dark to reach pure monad.
The Twins will meet in Khaenriah and ascend together to celestia.
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Thanks for reading
"lumine" in gnosticism:
-> considered to be emanations of the supreme divine triad consisting of the Father (Invisible Spirit), the Mother and the Child
->In traditional astrology, one of the two brightest and most astrological planets: the sun and the moon
Aether:
In classical philosophy and astrology, Aether (or Ether) is the fifth element, viewed as the divine, eternal substance that fills the cosmos. While Earth, Water, Fire, and Air represent physical manifestations, Aether symbolizes the spirit, higher consciousness, and the intangible force connecting the heavens to human destiny
The Quintessence: Often called the "fifth element," Aether is the unifying force that balances the other four terrestrial elements.
Circle of Spirit: In astrological glyphs, Aether is symbolized by the empty Circle of Spirit. This represents boundless potential and infinite spirit without material constraint.
Astrological Medium: Ancient astrologers believed Aether was the pure, crystalline medium through which the light and energy of planets and stars travel to influence human life
Durin's banner holds the title Rubedo. That's the finished process of Alchemy.
Check out his weapon lore. It's one of Alice's fairytales, describing the eternal samsara cycle with an allegory of a kingdom stuck in a day and night loop
The Division between Macrocosmos and Microcosmos describes how Phanes keeps Information hidden from civilization so no one can ascend the monad and become a threat to him. It's about the spiritual and physical plane, or easier: a disconnect between the universe and you. In an esoteric and a literal sense
Our fav waifu aged like bitcoin and is now best in slot for Carte, Aemeath (fusion burst) and Hiyuki - those are my 3 main teams.
Therefore i wonder how much of an improvement S2 in particular is. It says 50% additonal dmg bonus but i'm not deep enough in it to understand how it's calculated and much that exactly brings at the end.
So does anyone know if the investment is worth it?
If i get S2 then of course it's gonna be together with her weapon because they stack. She's currently S0R0
As you can see unfortunately i have pretty limited weapon options
She's on a CR 4 cost so it's prob a good idea to get the CD weapon instead of augment
I'm currently testing different raiden teams. From what i've seen calcs put her at minimum 90k in overload which i personally can't reach even though my artifact investment should be way better than the standard values they're using.
My rotation is Raiden E - Chev QhE - Durin EEQ- Fischl Q - Raiden Q
(Yes, CR is a bit low on raiden but exchanging for CD didn't change the endresults much. I also do multiple rotations to flatten out inconsistencies from missed burst crits)
Navia C0R0 Fearless clear
Bina & Linnea C0R0, Illuga C4
Sure Zibai is stronger and yes Navia benefits a lot from the new lunar supports but i'm just happy that i pulled her on the chronicled and that she's not that far off from the current 140k dps carries Flins and Nefer
Navia isn't even fully build so i hope to reach 130k with better artifacts
Got E2 with my very last ten pull but worth it. Gotta skip Elation now
I just won't roll CD, it's infuriating. Rerolling some of these pieces is pretty risky. Maybe the best would be to keep farming for a HP orb that gets a lot CD
i won't stop before the queen is aeon
Navia's build isn't even finished and she's hitting 115-120k in lunar. Once she's maxed out and has better artifacts that's probably gonna be 130k
Switching Furina for Illuga doesn't result in much difference
I also tried her in Hexerei with Durin Fischl Zhongli but that's really bad like 50k damage
I haven't looked too much into rotation optimization, currently i'm doing
Bina EQ - Navia Q - Furina QE - Linnea EQ - Navia E N3D
