Cryo Archon Backstory Explained Who Is She & Why Each Harbinger Follows Her Genshin Impact Lore

I should have worded it better but in regards to Childe I think he is loyal to her but blindly and not interested or in the loop with the big plans kinda like in Liyue they used him and signora had a laugh about it after I think he Is loyal to her but doesn't really pay much mind what the big plans are just does what he's told goes fights people and trust they look after his family

The Tsaritsa has to be the most interesting lore for me. How does the god of love lose the love of/for her people? What exactly did she experience? Why the archons are silently on board with her plan? What will she do with the gnosis? I can’t wait for 6.0.

The name " tsaritsa " literally means wife of the tsar which is the king , i think it has ALOT to do with her husband's death and how he was sacrificed or killed .

After Focalors’ unfair punishment, I see why the Tsarista wants to stand against Celestia

Whenever I think about the Tsaritsa I'm always reminded of Ei. Ei's definition of eternity changed when the cataclysm happened and she lost everyone she cared for, including much of Inazuma. She realised that change and ambition was the source of all suffering (and the Khaenriah disaster), and having experienced both, she decided that her people would be better off in an unchanging eternity free of suffering, even if it didn't allow for real happiness. She, as a god, could tolerate an eternity alone in stasis, but she didn't realise that her people couldn't. In her desire to protect them, she didn't realise that her people's lives would be meaningless without the ability to pursue their own ambition, even if it made them suffer in the end. She only accepted this, and broke free of the Heavenly Principles, when she finally understood Makoto in her story quest. So essentially, in order to protect her people from the Heavenly Principles, she brought them closer to its ideals. The Tsaritsa reminds me a lot of this. She, too, underwent a personality change but did the opposite of Ei. We're led to believe that she most likely changed from the god of love after the Khaenriah disaster, which turned her into her current cold personality. Ei's reaction to the disaster was to strengthen her ideals and bring her people closer to the Heavenly Principles, but the Tsaritsa seems to have abandoned her ideals and goes directly against the Heavenly Principles. It's like they're two sides of a coin, two different extremes. It makes me wonder, is she doing this to protect her people and the descriptions are just trying to mislead us like the Inazuma quest did at first? Or has she truly lost her previous ideal of "love" and is now engaging in a suicide mission to "burn away the old world", maybe because she decided that death would be better than letting her people live in Teyvat? It'll be interesting to see.  It'll also be interesting to see what the Archon quest will look like, because every nation has had some internal problems in addition to the Fatui plot. Zhongli fake death, Venti vs abyss Dvalin, Ei vs her people, Nahida vs the sages, Furina and the prophecy. It makes me wonder, what will the Snezhnaya Archon quest look like? Are we gonna see the Abyss involved? Cause the Abyss hasn't been in an Archon quest since release, only in between Archon quests. I also wonder who we're gonna be allied with, because we are enemies of the Fatui but also enemies of Celestia, kinda. Hmm

I like to think if Pierro is in love with the Tsaritsa it reinforces the Jester title since imagine being a Khaenriahn in love with an Archon

As for Columbina, look how everyone keeps their distance from her at the coffin.

With regards to Pantalone he is one of the richest but Ningguang is the actual richest person in Teyvat

Here's a thought to make you pause: What is the connection between the Tsaritsa and the Traveller? There is one, and whatever it is, it is profound. We know in the game, there are no coincidences. I believe it was a Hoyo rep who said that? But in any case, we see that it's true: even the smallest of things are tied somehow to a lore point. How, then, could it possibly be a coincidence that the exact time the Traveler starts their journey is the time the Tsaritsa puts her plan into action? Why is every gnosis acquired while the Traveler is in the nation? Why did the Tsaritsa wait five centuries to enact her plan? Why is she enacting it step-by-step with our journey? -The Abyss Order chose exactly then to send Dvalin against Mondstadt, not even a few months earlier or later. The Tsaritsa knew just what string to pull to get Venti to reveal himself in order to obtain his gnosis, and that string was pulled to manipulate the Abyss Order at exactly that moment. -The Tsaritsa's contract with Zhongli was set to unfold the moment the Traveler arrived in Liyue. -Yae Miko had the gnosis for hundreds of years, but it's only right now the Fatui make a move for it. -Nahida was trapped for five hundred years. Wouldn't have been difficult to take the Dendro gnosis from Sumeru at any point during those centuries. -The Hydro gnosis has been sitting in the Opera Epiclese for over four hundred years. -It sounds like Capitano might challenge the Pyro Archon for the gnosis in combat. But not right now, no. Not until the Traveler gets there. This isn't lazy worldbuilding or game mechanics. There is a reason all of this is being put into action in complete lock-step with the Traveler's movements. The Tsaritsa is watching us closely, and the Traveler is the heart of her plan.

Childe has said he loves the Tsaritsa and would do anything for her. I think that’s because she and Pulcinella is helping his family. His family is protected because he is part of the Harbingers, and not just anyone can join the Harbingers either. A person needs to be invited. In my opinion, the Harbingers heard about Childe’s foul Legacy and that’s the reasons why he became the 11th Harbinger.

Her majesty the Tsaritsa is the archon I was always most curious about. Great video 👍

“Hear what Dainsleif said” ad: “I love the combat, the animations look amazing. I love it”

From what I have collected so far : The Tsaritsa is collecting the Gnosises to revive the great dragon king(Nibelung) . Skirk stated that the Gnosises are his remnants in which I think that the celestia and the second decenders worked together in the second great war to split Nibelung after he sought powers from outside and declared the war . In conclusion after all the Gnosises are collected Nibelung will be resurrected and the real war will begin resulting in a clash between the dragon king and the Decenders.

For columbina, I’ve seen someone else’s theory about her that I think could be very possible You know the book with the traveler and the seelie who fell in love? Well I believe that seelie could be columbina. I think the seelie was described as having some sort of wings on her head or something like that. And what do you know? Columbina has those too. But y know, the seelies weren’t allowed to fall in love and were cursed and the traveler was taken away by celestia probably which could be why columbina is with the fatui, to get back at celestia. But of course we’ll when we meet her

Born of cold and winter air and mountain rain combining This icy force, both foul and fair, has a frozen heart worth finding Cut through the heart, cold and clear Strike for love and strike for fear There's beauty and there's danger here Split the ice apart, beware the frozen heart🌨❄☃️🌹

11:35 too be fair not only Childe but Scaramouche said she’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing too thou

Spot on with the captain he doesnt seem like the type to do something he doesnt believe in also cant wait for cryo archon great video❤❤

There are a few references to Snegurochka's story (Snow Maiden) in all the info we've gotten on Tsaritsa.

There are some details about the harbingers that you could've included. Scaramouche: yes, he doesn't care about the fatui. He joined because to him, the fatui seems fun to be around. (source: pale flame goblet) Signora: she shares the same goal as Tsaritsa. Both wants to "Cleanse the sources of distortion in this world: short-sighted, ignorant gods and the darkness and corruption of the Abyss." (source: pale flame flower)

Honestly hope the Tsaritsa is a god of something else like celestia chose a god title for her but she chose to be a god of love because thats how her people saw her. It would be interesting to have more info on how a god chooses their belief/principle/philosophy since its literally the very foundation of each nation's culture and way of life. I am a bit too invested in the Tsaritsa tbh. She still acts benevolently towards her people, so I'm very curious as to why she'll suddenly change herself. I'm predicting that in the new world where no god rules, she should have no place as the 'Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya'. But if her people still value or care about her, she would probably provoke her people to rise up against her 'tyranical rule' which would honestly be easy with the Fatui's reputation. And I want the Fatui being branded as 'the bad guys' to be something they did intentionally. To prepare the nations for a war they'll need a common enemy to prepare against. So the Fatui was created to prepare for every situation against their war with Celestia, including making sure the other nations aren't blind sided suddenly with another war. But there are probably hopes destined to wither and die