#shining shades

[nocherrybombs]

This Meeting Could Have Been a Heavenly E-mail

Ronova: Asmoday is late. Which one of you called a meeting of the Shades? Naberius?

Rhinedottir: Don't look at me. I've no idea what could possibly be important enough to warrant summoning all five of us.

Istaroth: You'll find out soon enough.

Ronova: Would you shut up, Istaroth? We get it, you experience every moment on the timeline all at once. Do you even know when you are right now?

Istaroth: To one who stands in the flowing river of temporality, "when" is a pointless question with a meaningless answer.

Ronova: ...right. In any case, Asmoday remains conspicuously absent. Did she schedule this gathering? I'm not made of free time-

Istaroth: I'm made of free time.

Ronova, deliberately ignoring Istaroth: -and I have other very important things I could be doing instead.

Rhinedottir: Like what, killing all of my projects?

Ronova: Your "projects" are an affront to the natural order. I eliminate them because they should never have existed in the first place.

Naberius: Could you at least try to temper your destructive impulses? Rhinedottir gets peevish when you break her toys, and then I'm the one who has to live with the consequences.

Ronova: Is that you, Naberius, or Rhinedottir speaking about herself in the third person again? I swear, dealing with you has been such a chore ever since you began this unholy collaboration.

Rhinedottir: Speaking of collaborating, Ronova, I'd love to hear about whatever it is you've got going on with that foul-tempered Fatui gentleman. He seems rather obsessed with you.

Ronova: Which one? You'll have to be more specific.

Istaroth: She means the one who isn't fused with the Lord of the Night.

Ronova: Oh, him? He's still mad that I cursed him. I don't understand what his problem is. It's not like he doesn't have an eternity to get over himself.

Istaroth: Mortals don't wear eternity comfortably. Forever is a long time. I mean, it's not a long time to me, but for those fleeting creatures with a lifespan the ceaseless passage of time tends to stretch interminably towards everlasting agony, when it's not collapsing in upon itself.

Ronova: Shut up, Istaroth!

Rhinedottir: I can't believe I rescheduled an experiment for this.

[bleachbunnygi]

I just saw this and-

WHAT THE FUCK

Teyvat Interlude Chapter: The God's Limits

Let's take this in chronological order

I saw this maybe 10 minutes ago, not thinking anything of it and BOOM, Shining Shade reveal. At least for Istaroth, Ronova and Naberius/Rhinedottir.

I did honestly expect Rhinedottir to look a lot more like Albedo but she literally fused with a Shade, so.

However, heterochromia. One of her eyes is grey, the other yellow. I believe this is meant to showcase that Rhinedottir and Naberius are like two souls inhabiting the same body. Her pupils also have different symbols in them and if I'm not stupid, one of them is an old alchemical symbol.

Now comes speculation. For a pretty long moment, those three talk about the absence of Asmoday. I'm not completely filled in on the lore there but I'm gonna guess that's the name of the Shining Shade of Space or more familiarly, our Unknown God.

Ronova says at one point "we are Shades, shadows of the Heavenly Principals" and honestly, I have a problem with that. Shade 101: those four were created from the Primordial One, Phanes. If they're the shadows of the Heavenly Principals then it sounds a lot as if Phanes is the Heavenly Principals. Which doesn't work because I'm pretty sure he's dead.

And funnily enough, I believe this little short confirms Paimon to be the unknown god, aka Asmoday. "Unless, she loves her new master more than her own self", yeah I'm sorry but the coincidences aren't coincidenting anymore. We've seen on multiple occasions how much the Traveler means to Paimon, her design fits, the other shades can't find her, her cape is literal space itself, I think I don't need to elaborate further.

The fact that it's Istaroth who notices Pierro watching Ronova also ties back perfectly to her being the Omnipresent God back from Inazuma.

Then we have the Pierro face reveal and Harbinger Baywatch Scene, and I have another problem: there's seven of them. And lo and behold, that's all of them. We know Dottore and Pierro are with them, the tiny guy is Pulcinella, there's Sandrone and her puppet, second from the left is Arlecchino, there's Childe somewhere and I'm gonna guess the far right is Pantalone.

Also, this seems a lot like we'll be fighting the Shades in Nod-Krai or something similar. Anyway, I'm up for it, I've got a personal feud to settle with Ronova.

More speculation but wouldn't it be funny if Pierro killing Ronova would free Capitano? 👀 You know, Haha, just a thought

But the REALLY interesting part only comes when you think the video is already over.

"Per the 'Palestar Edict', we are to retrieve The Damselette from Nod-Krai whatever it takes."

Meanwhile, Columbina is just casually glitching out in the background. You don't see her face, she doesn't talk, she's just standing there. Menacingly.

She seems more and more like some higher, celestial being that's about to wage calamity on the entire world. Her needing to be "retrieved" on top of it paints her almost as an SCP type creature.

And then there's the fact that she's in Nod-Krai of all places and the Fatui need the Frost moon Scions to not intervene. As firm a believer as I am that Columbina is a biblically accurate angel, all of this together with her ties to music do make me wonder if she's actually the missing moon goddess. (Either that or she's a human atomic bomb)

But anyhow, this honestly felt like A Winter Night's Lazzo all over again and I can't wait for 6.0.

[monards]

dont even talk to me about how each of the shade's concept they hold power over has some conceptual 'end' while void doesn't. im sooo sick.