"You, too, have the potential to be driven mad by knowledge. But the truths you seek are so insipid...How laughable that you should die for their sake"
So like the Genshin lore community has been connecting Sal Vindagnyr to Khaenri'ah for years based just on the name alone, because the name is cobbled together from Norse words, and Khaenri'ah takes Norse inspiration.
Yet, I had someone relentlessly arguing with me in a comment section yesterday insisting that there's "no evidence" to connect Sal Vindagnyr to Khaenri'ah and that they can't be connected because "everyone in Sal vind died"
No evidence?
Aside from the NORSE INSPIRED NAME
How about the Scribe's Box that specifically mentions how they've heard of people seeking to create a nation with no gods?
How about the fact that Sal Vind had a special silver Irminsul-like tree that was destroyed by the celestial nail (and later revived by Durin’s blood) and how the lore community has always assumed special ties between Khaenri'ahns and Irminsul. Irminsul is named after the norse cosmos tree Yggdrasil!!!! Plus Dainsleif is the fucking BOUGH KEEPER! LIKE THE BRANCH OF A TREE!
How about the fact that there are ruins in Sumeru that are the same architecture style as Sal Vind, and they are called "Ruins of Dahri," which is an ancient term for Khaenri'ahns used by scholars in the Vahumana darshan?????
Also yeah everyone on the mountain who was near the impact zone of the celestial nail died either during the fall or the aftermath when the mountain froze over, but again those ruins are places besides that mountain. The Pre-Thunderbird Tsurumi civilization has the same ruins and the frescos are the same style. Celestial nails fell in both places. Sal Vindagnyr was probably a capital city of a larger civilization.
NO EVIDENCE MY ASS!!! lmao some people are SO FUCKING COOKED dude.
Let me go on and bring MEN OF LITHIN into this
The tsurumi murals, if translated, talk about the false sky and contain an old poem about the moons, and have a strong implication that this civilization wasn't super chill with Celestia. As far as I'm concerned, the sky island in those murals isn't Celestia, because it looks more like the map icon for the Ancient Sacred Mountain in Natlan.
Plus look at this panel from the manga and a floating island that looks suspiciously different from Celestia and has DRAGONS around it!!!
The figure offering the humans power in the dragonspine murals is probably fucking Kukulkan, and this all has something to do with the implications of Men of Lithin.
Men of Lithin WANTED you to maks a connection to Khaenri'ah, because when they are describing the advanced tech these people have been blessed with, agricultural machines are specifically mentioned. And this is because they want you to remember when Dainsleif told us that the Khaenri’ahn name for Ruin Guards was Field Tillers.
"That aureate fluid is "lithin," the lifeblood of human civilization. Since The Technocracy first discovered it 100 years ago, it has been the source of countless innovations, leading humanity into a new era. Automated tilling machines revolutionized farming, more than sextupling agricultural yields, while airborne shuttles soared into the sky, connecting the once-isolated cities dotting the continent."
Not to mention how the Sal Vind/Dahri ruins have circular shaped doors just like the dragon civilization ruins. This may be a small detail but it matters to me lol.
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