So...remember this guy called MOON CARVER?

[??? indeed](https://preview.redd.it/6zt8s9erg5fg1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=612640eef29a4a81856d9247a5095fd9471b8c75)

Given what we know now about the moon lore, isn't "Moon Carver" a very...*interesting* name for a Liyue adeptus?? What's up with that?

And in Chinese, his name is 削月筑阳真君, which means, "The Perfected Lord who Carves the Moon and *Builds the Sun*." So this guy's got sun lore attached to him, too, which we haven't even begun to hear about.

Address the ~~stag~~ elephant in the room, hoyo plz

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sir_aphim2026-01-23 20:43

Lol, maybe the title was given to him cause he was the artisan who carved the moon goddess' statue in Nod Krai back in the day. XD

TetraNeuron2026-01-24 05:42

Moon Carver specifically asking Columbina to model for the Statue wearing nothing but bandages: "Trust me this is art"

StephanMok11232026-01-24 06:53

And pure art it is

GettingWokeUp2026-01-23 20:45

The only sun lore we got is something about the solar chariot crashing into the chasm and having to be brought back up to the heavens and “Records of Jueyun” implies that the solar chariot is a living being and a “star”. So it is likely that there is a solar authority.

Solar vapes and melts anyone?

Ammu_222026-01-23 21:12

I feel like this guy was one of the people who h helped repaired the sun chariot into the sky.

Also just now was reading about the sun chariot, and... I think HP is the one with solar authority.

AngelofIceAndFire2026-01-23 22:44

I kind of doubt it since they came from far beyond. But maybe HP creates his Sun-God or something to help combat enemies/stabilise Teyvat?

We've heard little about the Sun in our journey.

Ammu_222026-01-23 22:49

from the hymns of thr far north, HP stole the authority of the "sun" to themself from what I remember.

And in a sense it makes sense why we havent heard anything about HP lore intentionally. Traveller skin spoilers >!cos there might a reason for devs not wants to make anything about HP with Paimon for now. It would be opening a whole can of worms if tbe theory kf Paimon being the discarded module of HP!<

It also adds up eith the sun chariot lore. It fell into thr Chasm when the three moon goddesses fell, aka war of funerary flames, and thr chariot only got repaired by thr inhabitants in thr Chasm area and leaped back up in the sky after the archon war.

Top-Idea-17862026-01-24 02:20

I'll just say this

There's a new book that implies the star that fell into the chasm may actually be the heavenly principles during their battle with Nibelung, hence the gigantic crater.

GettingWokeUp2026-01-24 02:30

I would be inclined to believe that if it wasn’t implied that the ship didn’t land during that time. I think it’s something else but I just can’t put my finger on it. Also, the hyperboreans could not move the ship so I wouldn’t understand how the people of Liyue managed to send it back to the heavens. I’m bamboozled. You may be right but there seems to be conflicting evidence.

Top-Idea-17862026-01-24 06:07

I just looked it up and it was the new artifact set, it says the heavenly principles treaded in the morning star.

Maybe the "solar chariot" was actually the heavenly principles spaceship?

GettingWokeUp2026-01-24 06:08

That doesn’t work in the most popular theory out, which is >!that the hp is actually the twins’ ship. This comes from their outfit description!<

Top-Idea-17862026-01-24 06:10

Im aware, and i do think the heavenly principles is a mechanical being.

But perhaps it didn't exactly come from our spaceship, nothing is stopping another pioneer vessel from falling in Teyvat and its AI going rouge, with our ship's AI perhaps being Paimon.

LiDragonLo2026-01-24 07:28

I don't think they're a mechanical being. If anything maybe something like raiden

GettingWokeUp2026-01-25 22:27

After the big reveal, all of the evidence from the game very much suggests that it is indeed a mechanical being.

LiDragonLo2026-01-25 22:49

And technically speaking, raiden can be considered a mechanical being as well as wanderer

GettingWokeUp2026-01-25 22:57

Wanderer yes, Raiden no. She created a puppet of herself however she herself is not mechanical.

AEsylumProductions2026-01-24 06:59

So....Genshin is actually Xenogears: Mobile, the gacha game then?

jinxedandcursed2026-01-24 11:01

I encourage people to actually read the outfit description because it actually contradicts the theory itself.

Rxclxse2026-01-24 04:06

Im waiting for solar swirls, personally

hotsauceattack2026-01-24 08:29

Big if true

suzumaki7422026-01-23 21:25

They probably associated him with the Day- Night Cycle ...

Liyue was already a mountain region before the Archon war yet we got a Mountain Shaper. There was also Cloud Retainer who I don't think takes care of clouds

Ping is called Streetward Rambler since she lives in Liyue among the people.

Neospanner2026-01-23 22:09

Not true - we now know that Cloud Retainer was named because she gathered clouds to irrigate a place that was suffering from drought. This was revealed in Zibai's character introduction:

>Among the people of Liyue, tales of the Adepti are ever-abundant.

>Like the leisurely adeptus of the clouds who dispelled droughts with nourishing rain in the "Full Record of Pristine Pavilion," and the Golden-Winged King who purged plagues and banished pestilence in "Yakshas: The Guardian Adepti."

While it doesn't name her specifically, the odds that this "leisurely adeptus of the clouds" is not Cloud Retainer are extremely slim.

As for Mountain Shaper - even if there were already mountains, we don't know that he didn't reshape them after the fact. He didn't have to create them - just manipulate them. I don't think we have any kind of tale revealed to us yet, though. Ditto for Moon Carver. But it DOES seem to be implied that Adeptus earn their names through actual deeds - they're not just named by people looking for deities to attach natural phenomena to.

Citronsaft2026-01-23 22:51

Her story quest covers the drought thing pretty heavily too.

Zonnebloempje2026-01-24 00:11

Mountain Shaper is the one with the big Amber blobs on the way to his abode. That could be seen as a way of shaping mountains. His mountain is also full of those amber blobs...

Arsyl262026-01-23 21:27

since the name cloud retainer come from liyue people that she saved by ’retaining the cloud’, and major lore about moon and sun are usually not known to normal people…

shenhe said that moon carver make a reading about her fate, so that means he probably something like astronomer, who can see past the false sky.

so maybe during the old liyue, he build something like sun moon chart, moon chart, or sun dial, moon dial, or anything related to astronomy that help liyue agriculture and ship trading, so liyue people respected him with that title.

NicoletheRadArtist2026-01-23 22:06

Since Zibai– another adeptus, who supposedly lived on the moon– is the focus character this lantern rite...maybe we'll get a mention of Moon Carver somewhere in there.

iorveth12712026-01-24 00:45

Please make bro playable someday. Him and Mountain Shaper.

And Streetward Rambler, while you're at it, damnit.

lostn2026-01-24 07:56

if this game continues for 4 more years, I guarantee all 3 of them will eventually be released, one per LR.

RandomEOS2026-01-24 04:17

nope, his name indeed has moon and sun, but the use of two word here is not related to the actual sun and moon, it is metophor, the wording is use to descripe some sort of landscape gardening, same as the other adepti's name

lostn2026-01-24 07:54

he'll be playable in a few years time

Sofik_pofig6Brella2026-01-24 12:52

Didn't we already see him in the livestream when they were talking about lantern rite? He appears in at least one scene, so maybe we'll actually get some lore during the story

suki-suki-desu2026-01-25 21:56

whenever i see a liyue adeptus that’s not ganyu i just think “rex lapis…assassinated…at the rite of descension?” And then i get hit with 30 minutes of the attractive and handsome mistahfeet being funny

axomone2026-01-27 14:08

I thought it was mountain carver?

KillsOnTop2026-01-27 18:05

No, this stag adeptus is [Moon Carver](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Moon_Carver). The adeptus [Mountain Shaper](https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Mountain_Shaper) is a red crane.