Archon quest and the 1979 novel "If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler" have some glaring parallels that could reveal what happens in the future archon quests.
Firstly, the title of the Luna 4 part is "If on a winter's night, A Traveler" in every other language except EN.
# If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler
This 1979 novel is extremely confusing and the 'reader' in the story is searching to finish a story but as he searches for a full story with a conclusion, he finds more and more incomplete stories with no end.
There are all sorts of conspiracies in the many stories told within the novel:
* Corrupt publishers intentionally fragment book
* A translator manipulates texts
* People argue about what a “true” text even is
* The author disappears and fake authors appear
The 8th and last 'story' tells of an omnipotent narrator who begins to grow reckeless and crazy for a girl, erasing and controling the world on his whims, until nothing is left except the girl and the men by her side. Weirdly enough, the narrator cant erase the men. He then tries to reconstruct the world but is unable to and then the world starts falling apart into the void.
This is the 8th story that begins and never concludes. It's a very confusing novel which tells up to 8 stories of many genres to the reader but ends them all abruptly. The "Reader" (You) then fustrated, goes to a library where he meets 8 people who read the titles of your incomplete stories and finds out they all form a single sentence.
They conclude that not all stories must have endings but then say that since ancient times, there only exists 2 endings.
***Death and Marriage***
The inevitability of death and the continuation of life.
# Genshin Archon Quest Parallels
Now this are some very similar to some themes seen with the Archon quest cast, specifically with Dottore, Traveler, Columbina and Sandrone.
Dottore is clearly the **Narrator**
Traveler is the **Reader**
Columbina is **Ludmilla** who is the Female Reader
Sandrone is Ludmilla's Sister, **Lotaria**
Dottore and the Traveler are self-explanatory. Ludmilla is a pure girl who, similiar to the Reader, loves reading for pure pleasure rather than theory. Her sister Lotaria is the opposite, she reads to analyze, categorizes, and dissects texts ideologically.
Now for the "endings" of the quest.
We along with the rest of the cast get a good ending and Sandrone and Dottore are 'dead'. Everyone gets one of the 2 endings of "Death and Marriage".
However, Sandrone in particular has connections with both of the endings said by the novel. She is dead. But was also researching something called the **Seal of Chymical Marriage**. It seems to be a reference to both Kabbalah’s Tree of Life (almost an exact replica) and the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, which both symbolize the journey of enlightenment where death and rebirth are also part of the process.
Sandrone will be back and gain some sort of enlightenment. In the process, I assume Dottore and Irminsul will also be involved (The glitchy ending quite clearly means Dottore isn't fully dead and that some events in the timeline might be changed).
Anyways, just some cool connections and parallels I found from the Archon quest and the novel that might also be reference in the future quests. This is all just something I wrote for fun.
**TLDR**
The novel "If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler" carries many parallels to the Archon quest in both its story and characters. *Death and Marriage* are said to be the only 2 endings seen since ancient times and Sandrone has connections to both. Death, because she is dead and Marriage because of her research on the Seal of Chymical Marriage which is referenced to things regarding the journey of enlightenment, where rebirth is one of the steps. Dottore will also be back and will likely be doing something to Irminsul to mess up the "Story", just like how the novel simply refuses to put an ending to a story it starts.
# If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler
This 1979 novel is extremely confusing and the 'reader' in the story is searching to finish a story but as he searches for a full story with a conclusion, he finds more and more incomplete stories with no end.
There are all sorts of conspiracies in the many stories told within the novel:
* Corrupt publishers intentionally fragment book
* A translator manipulates texts
* People argue about what a “true” text even is
* The author disappears and fake authors appear
The 8th and last 'story' tells of an omnipotent narrator who begins to grow reckeless and crazy for a girl, erasing and controling the world on his whims, until nothing is left except the girl and the men by her side. Weirdly enough, the narrator cant erase the men. He then tries to reconstruct the world but is unable to and then the world starts falling apart into the void.
This is the 8th story that begins and never concludes. It's a very confusing novel which tells up to 8 stories of many genres to the reader but ends them all abruptly. The "Reader" (You) then fustrated, goes to a library where he meets 8 people who read the titles of your incomplete stories and finds out they all form a single sentence.
They conclude that not all stories must have endings but then say that since ancient times, there only exists 2 endings.
***Death and Marriage***
The inevitability of death and the continuation of life.
# Genshin Archon Quest Parallels
Now this are some very similar to some themes seen with the Archon quest cast, specifically with Dottore, Traveler, Columbina and Sandrone.
Dottore is clearly the **Narrator**
Traveler is the **Reader**
Columbina is **Ludmilla** who is the Female Reader
Sandrone is Ludmilla's Sister, **Lotaria**
Dottore and the Traveler are self-explanatory. Ludmilla is a pure girl who, similiar to the Reader, loves reading for pure pleasure rather than theory. Her sister Lotaria is the opposite, she reads to analyze, categorizes, and dissects texts ideologically.
Now for the "endings" of the quest.
We along with the rest of the cast get a good ending and Sandrone and Dottore are 'dead'. Everyone gets one of the 2 endings of "Death and Marriage".
However, Sandrone in particular has connections with both of the endings said by the novel. She is dead. But was also researching something called the **Seal of Chymical Marriage**. It seems to be a reference to both Kabbalah’s Tree of Life (almost an exact replica) and the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, which both symbolize the journey of enlightenment where death and rebirth are also part of the process.
Sandrone will be back and gain some sort of enlightenment. In the process, I assume Dottore and Irminsul will also be involved (The glitchy ending quite clearly means Dottore isn't fully dead and that some events in the timeline might be changed).
Anyways, just some cool connections and parallels I found from the Archon quest and the novel that might also be reference in the future quests. This is all just something I wrote for fun.
**TLDR**
The novel "If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler" carries many parallels to the Archon quest in both its story and characters. *Death and Marriage* are said to be the only 2 endings seen since ancient times and Sandrone has connections to both. Death, because she is dead and Marriage because of her research on the Seal of Chymical Marriage which is referenced to things regarding the journey of enlightenment, where rebirth is one of the steps. Dottore will also be back and will likely be doing something to Irminsul to mess up the "Story", just like how the novel simply refuses to put an ending to a story it starts.
Commentaires
Egeria creates an “original sin”, and it is cleansed/removed by Neuvillethe forgiving humanity after the sacrifice of a Christ figure. A very obvious Christian parallel.
Furina is tricked by someone close to her, and put on trial in front of the masses.
Furina’s death ends the lineage of Hydro Archons, just as Jesus’ death ends the lineage of Kings in the Biblical Israel.
Traveller (the Luciferian figure) tempts Furina (the Jesus figure), mimicking Jesus’ three temptations.
Furina doubts herself and lamenting, prays to Focalors, just as Jesus prayed to God in the Garden of Gesthemane and asked for God to take away his suffering.
And these aren’t really found in Luke’s gospel, but Furina has a ton of other Christian references. She can walk on water, has references to Kenosis, and a variety of Trinitarian structures can be formed between a mix of her, Focalors, Neuvillette and Egeria. You can go very very deep into Trinitarian theology here.
Neuvillette also references a Leviathan in his constellations I believe, which is a double parallel to the Biblical Leviathan, and the Hobbesian Leviathan.
Genshin certainly do their homework when it comes to Christianity, and their religious integration in general.
Apparently this also has a deeper meaning now... Incredible.