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@Memor-X yeah, well... right now I am waiting just for one specific PS5 game.
and Square can keep theirs Final May Cry 16 for themselves
And now, announcing the "Cringe ads of the year" winner
@Fredy31 Every Archeon has the name of a demon
Barbados, Baal, Buer, Morax - all demon names.
This is precisely why some claims that Genshin plot is based on 50% gnosticism, 50% book of Enoch.
Take by comparison the plot of El Shadday which is also (partially) based on the Book of Enoch.
Enoch is sent on Earth to seek 7 fallen angels that have rebelled. Each one has created a "world" separated from the influence of God.
Does this remind you of anything?
7 nations, the lies of this world, the "false sky"...?
Now go a little further and read the gnosticism page on Wikipedia
> In many Gnostic systems, God is known as the Monad, the One.[note 18] God is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of God are called æons.
so, the "real God" created some "Aeons".
The final "Aeons" are often considered "Twins" in gnosticism. And they are Sophia and.. Jesus (yes, gnosticism apparently considers Jesus one of many Aeons).
What is relevant is that "Sophia" separated from Jesus is considered the origin of the "Demiurge"
Now... have us by any change got some siblings with one of the two ending up helping the "bad guys"?
> who is sometimes ignorant of the superior god, and sometimes opposed to it; thus in the latter case he is correspondingly malevolent
> The demiurge creates the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity.[84] The demiurge typically creates a group of co-actors named archons who preside over the material realm and, in some cases, present obstacles to the soul seeking ascent from it.[69] The inferiority of the demiurge's creation may be compared to the technical inferiority of a work of art, painting, sculpture, etc. to the thing the art represents.
The "False God" creates a world that is a "copy" of God creation, and has 7 archeons helping them. The souls in the realm are "prevented from ascending", thus trapped in a cycle...
Again, do we by chance have anything similar in genshin? I don't know, something about 7 powerful gods? Samsara cycles?
Now, you have to consider a final point.
This is not "western religions" nor "western gnosticism".
It is western religions filtered thru an Asian media
By which I mean... Are you familiar with things like Evangelion, Devil Man etc?
That's what happens when Japan tries to make an anime that uses western religions elements....
what I mean is that you should NOT expect anything 100% coherent. Instead you will be looking at a soup made of 93% Gnosticism, 6% Ars Goetia, 4% Shintoism, and 2% butterscotch ripple.