Recently I talked about my guess on the identity of Genshin's Monad and how that relates to the greater Honkaiverse.
Last time I left off at the Will of the Honkai. If you're not a Honkai player there's a consciousness called the Will of the Honkai in that series. One of the major antagonists Otto Apocalypse (RIP) was really interested in it. It controls the Honkai and uses it to destroy technologically advanced species. One of the ways it does this is to corrupt humans with high adaptability to the Honkai turning them into Herrschers.
As with the title of this topic you guys know from my We Will Be Reunited theory now that there's a heavy influence on MiHoYo by its local Chinese Taoism and one of the major tenets of that philosophy is the yin yang or the balance between positive and negative aspects. Based on how they behave we can suggest that the positive aspect is represented by the Imaginary Tree and the negative by the Sea of Quanta or in Genshin terms Ananke the Goddess of Fate vs Chaos the God of the Void.
So what is the Will of the Honkai in this kind of setting? As you guys know I think Honkai Impact is a Bad Ending timeline. The reason why the Honkai is such a major obstacle is because their universe is one of the unhealthy leaves slowly dying on the Imaginary Tree. Therefore the balance is skewed in favor of Chaos the Sea of Quanta. Remember what it wants - for everything to return to nothingness. So the Will of the Honkai in Honkai is destructive and manipulates humans into becoming Herrschers as a result.
Yes what I'm saying is that I think the "Will of the Honkai" really just represents the status of that universe.
If that's the case and in a universe tipped towards the Sea of Quanta's favor this consciousness represents destruction then what happens in the reverse? I claim that while Honkai is the Bad Ending that Genshin is the Good Ending. So in a universe like that the odds are in favor of the Imaginary Tree. Otto Apocalypse claimed that the Honkai itself was a system of the Imaginary Tree to test humanity.
"But growth is countered by a force - a selective and corrective system in the Tree's rivalry against the Sea. A natural system based upon the Imaginary mechanics. It breeds, nurtures, tests, and removes. This is what humanity describes as the Honkai."
He also believes that the Will of the Honkai which controls the Honkai is god. So if we think about it in this way we do know of one entity in Genshin that has bred, nurtured and removed civilizations on Teyvat: Celestia. And based on the first part of this theory Celestia or specifically Phanes has a parent in Ananke the Imaginary Tree.
In other words there's a fine line between good and evil. And that line is based on how the rivalry is going. If it's favoring Chaos the Sea of Quanta then this entity will create destruction and might be known as "God" and the "Will of the Honkai" by the humans it affects. If it's favoring Ananke the Imaginary Tree then it will create control under the Heavenly Principles and be known as "Phanes" of "Celestia" by the humans.
It's pretty strange to think about General Relativity and Quantum Physics in terms of religion but if this is right the Honkaiverse is totally one of the most ambitious multiverses we have in fiction.
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