So is Dottore grand plan in Nod Krai is to…?

Switch body with the Traveler?

In the Albedo and Wanderer section shown us that Dottore is experiment on switching people with animals.

Because the Traveler status as Descender making them immune to Teyvat rules and authorities. And despite obtaining the trilune he still by the world fate as shown through his dialogue.

This would also explain why try so damn hard to get the Traveler to join him and not cause major harm to them.

What you guys thinks?

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KamijyoTeio2026-01-18 19:31

Yep,this is also my answer. And more than that he trying to escape from the original one too maybe. That damn monster is watching everything happen while eating popcorn/jk
Even Columbina say he will use family bond (he thought her as his little sister) for his plan as long they useful.

Crafty-Zucchini-57292026-01-18 19:31

That's actually a really interesting theory

MightySamMcClain2026-01-19 09:32

I was thinking he wanted her to help him find a way to go beyond teyvat but actually taking her body never even crossed my mind. Makes sense though

Old_Square_91002026-01-18 19:37

This is honestly a good theory, but then... >!why did he try to kill him/her later in the story?!<

Empty_Temperature7942026-01-18 19:44

Ig after becoming the true god he wanted to be in the first place and with the trilune authority he could have revived the traveler or just had a method to store them unless he figures a way to revive them ?

liam210152026-01-18 20:02

Columbina got the trilune and couldn’t revive >! Sandrone !<

Empty_Temperature7942026-01-18 20:21

I think that works on humans , but sandrone as far as i remember is a puppet made by alan ?

ejsks2026-01-18 21:55

That's because... Sandrone isn't human. She's a puppet whose core was destroyed and the only person on earth who would've known how to fully fix it is long dead.

Empty_Temperature7942026-01-18 22:27

Maybe they left behind records , anyways i just hope she comes back

liam210152026-01-18 22:59

Watch her come back with her memory and snarky personality wiped and become a traveler simp 😭

axolotlpaw2026-01-19 00:00

I kind of expect a situation similar to the movie flubber, where the "robot" created their own daughter or something

ejsks2026-01-19 00:16

Honestly there‘s an extremely likely chance it‘ll be a memory-wiped Sandrone / Theseus-Ship kinda deal (repaired Sandrone just inherits her memories but because she didn’t live through them becomes an entirely different person, similar to Senti)

Empty_Temperature7942026-01-19 01:37

Noooo or maybe like ineffa that we help her regain her memories.... yep that would work wonders , not everyone should be included in the travelers harem

Neutral_Memer2026-01-18 23:08

Except Sandrone's core is explicitly stated to have survived, and Arlecchino is responsible for shipping it alongside Pulonia's core and some other items to Fontaine Research Institute per Sandrone's own request. What exactly are those Fontainians supposed to do with all that is not expanded upon, though I expect them to essentially try reverse engineering Alain's tech so it doesn't go completely to waste, and maybe use that knowledge to fix Sandrone herself

And if I'm being completely honest, if push comes to shove, you can give Aino enough sweets and Sandrone will be back to yelling at Columbina within a week. If that kid managed to build Ineffa with a literal box of scraps, she could rebuild Sandrone with backing from someone like Arlecchino without any problem

Old_Square_91002026-01-18 23:09

I think that would be sweet having Aino do this, but I think she will be fixed in Fontaine instead.

Neutral_Memer2026-01-18 23:20

I consider Aino to be the last hope scenario when everyone else fails; Institute has (probably) enough braincells to do it, but I'd be a complete fool if I were to trust a bunch of NPCs with my Tsundere clanker lady (unless they enlist Freminet, which I would find amusing)

LKOShield2026-01-19 00:09

Whether the Institute has the know-how aside, can you imagine the sheer amount of bureaucracy and red-tapes they'd have to go through for Sandrone's restoration project? If they're the one fixing her, we can expect Sandrone to be playable somewhere in Version 10.7 or something.

ConfigsPlease2026-01-19 02:19

Isn't it mentioned that Sandrone has this as a contingency/last will? It *is* entirely possible that the necessary components and knowledge have been kept in Fontaine this entire time, after all.

DarkPhoenixMishima2026-01-19 00:48

Sandrone: It's about time you finished fixing me you worth- why is there a microwave in my stomach?

Aino: For the Krumkakes!

Healthy_Agent_1002026-01-19 08:23

Also she shuts down if she doesn’t make krumkakes for aino every day

ejsks2026-01-19 00:04

We‘re just told that Pulonia‘s and Sandrone‘s cores were salvaged, but not the state in which they were in (i.e. how badly damaged they were). Destroyed doesn’t mean completely eradicated, just destroyed enough to cease function - which means death for Sandrine and Pulonia.

As much as Aino is a genius, Ineffa is still mostly the framework of the dragonkin, Aino (iirc) mostly just repaired Ineffa back to function with some odds and ends, but far removed from what Ineffa formerly was.

Sandrone is not as easy because, unless Sandrone made an entire mental backup or something like that, the „Sandrone“ we get from Aino or the Fontaine Mechanics repairing her may be very different from the Sandrone that died sacrificing herself. We‘re directly told that removing an android‘s central core on its own is dangerous enough to cause a "factory reset“ (I.e. completely wiping their memories), so I don’t imagine "repairing“ Sandrone in a non-1:1 way would be much better.

TonkzJr2026-01-19 02:22

Based on her journal, the reason Columbina could revive her even if her core survived is because her core wasn't in there. I think the bit about the false core that deletes itself if enough damage is done to the body is about a core Sandrone used so that she could sacrifice herself safely if need be

Rare_Marionberry7822026-01-19 02:24

I suspect that Sandrone would return but with her memories becoming a factory reset, with how she emphasises on writing everything down. She would later rediscover her “memories” through her own records, wonder how her interactions with the Fatui and Columbina would be by then?

JAntaresN2026-01-18 20:14

Even the remains of a descender can be useful for something. Dont forget what happened to the 3rd descender

ejsks2026-01-18 21:54

Considering >!Sandrone!< had to get double-tapped after taking the full-brunt (and Traveler is at the least just as resilient as them), Dottore would've definitely mortally wounded the Traveler to incapacitate them, assuming that was his plan.

The other option is that Dottore is a petty asshole that just wanted to kill Traveler for slighting him.

jinxedandcursed2026-01-19 05:22

If you're talking about in the scene with Sandrone and Traveler, I think he knew that if he targeted Sandrone then the Traveler would move and sacrifice themself. So they targetted the Traveler to get Sandrone out of the way. Kind of like a messed up Monty Hall problem. He took out Pulonia with the intent of killing Sandrone, and by changing his choice of target he got what he wanted.

I know he said he was surprised, but that sounded more like mockery for the change he knew took place in Sandrone rather than legitimate surprise in the moment. We've seen him surprised before and after this scene, and his tell for it is usually his smile drops. His never did in that scene.

And if you instead mean the scene where Wanderer saves Traveler, I don't think he would've killed them there. It was retaliation for being hurt, him wanting to hurt them back, and likely knowing exactly how much the Traveler can take without dying.

IVKILL2026-01-18 19:49

I can agree with you. Im not an expert in dottore lore, but what if he isn't trying to switch with traveler, but switch in another body? what if the main dottore is just too week/old/powerless? Creating segments to explore all alternatives for solving this issue, but in process of trying to breakfree from those mortal chains, he created to many segment and given them to much free will, making them with so much god complex that the segments started to seek perspectives by their own. I mean, what in the world dottore would like to burn the imursul, is probably worst then set world on fire, literally?

Gentlemanor2026-01-18 20:03

I can't describe how much you are blowing my mind right now!!!

LousySmarchWeather072026-01-18 21:31

Well... damn. That makes sense. His goal wasn't to accumulate all of this power to destroy/rule the world, but rather to tempt the Traveler with something valuable. To trade the power of a god for the Descender's... "Descender-ness"?

That would explain why he doesn't just kill them besides "ego" (which is a lame cop-out). He wants to convince the Traveler that his power is real and worth trading.

And his backup plan would be to torture the sibling until their twin showed up and offer a similar deal. Huh.

Damn, this is good. This is so good I'll be kinda mad if it *isn't* this, lol.

Exdeath-EX2026-01-18 22:02

Question is....what is stopping him from simply doing just that?

I doubt consent is important if thats what he truly wanted to do.

Gargooner2026-01-19 05:09

Because if your subject consent, it probably would be easier.

Even those regular people that got implanted to the animals are still showing signs of rejection to cooperate.

That also goes with not just straight killing the traveler and take the body, you'd probably want the body to be as pristine as possible.

hardy_832026-01-18 22:23

It was clear they showed that experiment for a reason. Transferring mind to another being is clearly a future plot. Especially since it was bother Wanderer and Albedo looking into it. Both being "robots" themselves and Durin being a reborn being that was created in an alternate reality or whatever.

There's a plot reason for all of it.

Emitime2026-01-19 08:15

> Transferring mind to another being is clearly a future plot.

And not really a million miles away from the same plot we've already had 15 times...

One obvious idea is that Dottore did not die because he transferred his mind at the last second.

New-Button-24432026-01-19 14:03

or that he already made another "Segment" of himself. worse, the original himself is still alive somewhere through some horrendous experiment.

No-Engineering12692026-01-18 22:25

As far as i think, that can be an option, but as i see It, i think he wanted to be above the restrictions and laws of Teyvat.

He studied Divinity, doing the mecha god thing in Sumeru(i dont know how It was in the timeline without wanderer as a harbinger, but still) and with the lunar powers he was efctively above Teyvats restrictions, at least to a point(heavenly principales above them and all that)

The doctor burning inmirsul image, for example, It can be seen as his Desire to sever him from the control of the world, given that the existance of people, his fate, so to speak, IS in that tree, with maybe Divinity being his way to break free and burn that bond, so to speak.

Given his view on the world, i wouldnt be surprised if he wanted to be the worlds only god.
His experimenta with the people that couldnt escape in time shows that he was experimentig with souls and people.

So my interpretation was that he wanted to make Teyvat his test chamber with the traveller as the test subject, or in the silly way, make a world in a PC Game and having the traveller as the character to explore the world...like the sims, i Guess.

To be fair too, we kinda interrupted him in the first steps of his godhood, so he just wanted to achieve godhood and what we Saw was just him trying to learn to use the powers first hand, and besides wanting the Traveller as a companion/test subject(It was clearly inted in the quest that civilizations in Teyvat needed variables to not follow the patterns of all others, and a descender IS clearly one, as they have none of the fate stuff Dottore would), he was still figuring out what to do with his newdound powers.

But this IS just an exercise of thoughts, tho.

body-swap2026-01-18 22:36

I like this theory!

kokko6932026-01-18 22:54

If he wants to beat fate he don't really need Descender power. Surtelogi beats fate and he just runs of abyss energy and sheer violence. (Which is funny because Dottore would see him as a barbarian, even tho Surtalogi is a far superior being than Dottore).

Also even tho we are Descender, we are still restrained by the world, just like him.

He probably needs the "variable" Traveller offer, because we can change outcome and gives more possibility.

ohoni2026-01-19 04:55

Certainly possible. I think that if we also consider his early attempts to "befriend" while also test on Columbina, if he didn't intend to body-swap with the Traveler, he at least wanted to decode her abilities and figure out how to copy/steal them for himself, like he did with the moon marrows.

Iffem2026-01-19 06:10

wait... what if someone ALREADY did that to the Abyss Twin?

but in doing that, they didn't steal Twin's Descender-ness, as it's tied to the "soul" instead of the physical body... which would explain why Twin isn't a Descender, unlike Traveler

yaysyu2026-01-19 06:16

Wait... That actually makes sense. Details like this why I love this whole archon quest. Show don't tell.

Idainaru_Yokubo2026-01-19 07:15

it's probably Irminsul related

Dottore is still binded by Irminsul. The Traveler is not.

oniikami2026-01-19 08:54

just as relevant… and lore spoiler (that currently exists, not for future lore)

>!when the voyager indwelled in a little boy, being a woman all throughout her life traveling the universe and then transferring her consciousness to a teyvat human, and thus left her body behind was she/he not still the second descender, influencing the fate of teyvat such as being the ancestor of khanreah!<