Ok to clarify: Before Sun and Moon is only in "Non applicable" because it's volume 2 of The Byakuyakoku Collection. I didn't want to be redundant and put the same book twice in one category. I DID, however, mess up and put The Serpent and Drakes of Tokoyokoku in "Pretty good" because I'm a dummy. It's volume 1 of The Byakuyakoku Collection, so it should also be in "Non applicable". Sorry about the confusion, my brain is a puddle and I still haven't recovered from this video lol
Internet logic be like: Person: *Read a Fantasy sci-fi E-book through their phone* Internet: Wow, this dude is deligent! He must have a bright future! Person: *Same thing, but the book is frkm a video game* Internet: OMG GO TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!!
That's valid! I only put it in "Non Applicable" because it's a small section of The Byakuyakoku Collection and I didn't want to be redundant, sorry for the confusion
@@sketchesbyaidan All of that collection used to be pretty important, the lore on the dragon sovereigns is important and it was the only source for it before Apep
6:04 Fun facts about _The Boar Princess_ : It was written by a now passed away human called Andersdotter. (Her name is likely a reference to Hans Christian Andersen, a famous author of fairy tales like _The Little Mermaid_ and _The Ugly Duckling_ . Anderson translates to 'son of Anders' and Andersdotter translates to 'daughter of Anders'.) We know Andersdotter was a part of and one of the heads of the Hexenzirkel organisation. The Hexenzirkel is essentially a group of witches who study ley lines, history, the stars and Irminsul. (Hexenzirkel translates to Witches' coven.) Andersdotter was known in the Hexenzirkel for her exceptional storytelling ability. As we are familiar with the powers of Irminsul, a popular analysis of the role Andersdotter had in the Hexenzirkel, is recording historical events in an allegorical manner. By turning history into fairytales, it can prevent the deletion of information from Irminsul. In Noelle's hangout, she mentions that in alchemy, 'roses' are symbolic for secrets hidden within a text. In Genshin, there's three books that have a rose on their cover. Coincidentally, all three are fairy tales of a similar style, and coincidentally, _The Boar Princess_ is one of them. The other two are: _The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies_ and _Hex & Hound_ . It is very likely that these two books are also written by Andersdotter. And perhaps all three contain a secret within their text. Also interesting, in Lisa's story quest, there's an abyss mage who stole a book from the library. Initially we think nothing of this, and the game plays it off as a funny joke. But the book the mage stole was one of those written by Anderson. So maybe that book was more important than we thought.
Another theory of this, these fairy tales are allegories so it wont get removed when the data of the world is edited Just similar like the scarameow one So thats interesting😬
@@sketchesbyaidan yeah so basically, after scaramouce's story quest, we found out that the way to prevent irminsul deletion is either 1. give the info to a descender class organism, or give it an allegorical fairytale. that makes the said stories that is invcolved with andersdotir, and many other books potentially be thrown to the lore category, because at that poiont, those arent easter eggs, but a lock. we just need the key to unlock it which are what or who are those allegories are for, but thats only possible to either talking with another decsender, or fragm3enst all over teyvat and piece it one by one
@@sketchesbyaidan imma sorta spoil the boar princess with a theory, its that the boar princess along with her 2 companions are the 3 moon sister, canon, aria, sonet. one of the sisters met an individual who i assume is the second who came (found in the byakuyau collection), which in turn started the ancient calamity, which killed the selies, and the start of the new erqa of the seven
"Might I suggest a therapist?" Take your own advice! This is like reading *every book in Morrowind*, which has over 250 books (yes, I counted on the wiki). You're an absolute madlad.
@@zzzzzzzzzz_me Morrowind books are quite a bit longer than Genshin Impact books. But are often much cooler. Maybe because the authors did have enough space for a proper short story. Or maybe I just prefer Western literary tradition over Chinese one.
1:27 to say theres tons of overlap is a severe understatement it's actually so horrendous for lore nerds 😭 the existence of Irminsul makes "fictional" stories potential allegories of real events which causes a ton of headache like literally any fantasy story couldve been something that really happened...
Remember legends of the "shattered halberd"? That thing hinted to us the connection between the third decender and the gnosis, makes you wonder what lore "flowers for princess fischl" and "the pale princess and the six pygmies" are hiding.
And we know the Abyss order believes ppatsp is hiding a secret, as we find out in Lisa's quest, so it's almost certainly an allegory for something removed from Irminsul.
Did you know there’s an 8th edition of “The boar princess” in a shop in Fontaine, but it’s sold out. So there’s more to the story…we just don’t know it…
As someone who also read "The Boar Princess", I mentally broke down after seeing her in the new "imaginary theater" game mode on the 4.7 live. My PTSD kicked in immediately lmao
dude your art style is to die for and your voice is really nice honestly if you actually did a video discussing every book in detail I'd totally watch the whole thing
Bro when I saw *_Before Sun and Moon_* at the bottom I was like: _"huh? That's like the most 'must-read' in the game."_ But I read your explanation and I get it now lol. Amazing quality video btw.
the author of the book "the 2 musketeers" was inspired by events from his life It was part of an event where characters including the traveler try to make a movie based on the book and solve a murder along the way It's a really good event that i recommend people watch
Perinheri not being in "must-read" tier kinda broke me ngl...it was one of the most important lore bombs we've gotten in a while. Heart's Desire was pretty based, though!
"before sun and moon" in the 'non applicable' section is simply a crime. Also, I don't know if anyone has moved on from the fact that the boar princess sounds a bit too much like an analogy of what could have happened between the three moon sisters and the primordial one.
loved the video ! i'll just say that there are quite a few "fiction" books in genshin that are actually hiding lore. I believe this is suspected to have been done by the people who write those books to protect the knowledge of past events from being erased from the irminsul :)
Rex Incognito is the book series that introduced me to Zhongli, and it's my all-time favorite read, because though it's fiction, it's not out of character for Rex Lapis to do such things haha, it's a testament that the people of Liyue know their God a good chunk, and the fact that Zhongli has read it just gives me second-hand embarrassment for the author lmao.
Imagine what it must feel like when the author of "Reborn as Almighty Shogun" learns that Raiden Shogun read his novel. Unlike Rex Lapis, Raiden Shogun is more feared than respected.
I get that this list was just about which books you liked, but... The Pale princess and the 6 pigmies was stolen by an abyss mage in the beginning of the game and when we wanted it back they said it hid secrets.... That was supposed to be a clue... Then, we know, that any book with a rose on the cover is a record of history hidden in a fairytale by one of the Hex. witches (So e.g. boar princess). At the end of the Sumeru archon quest, we learn, why it is necessary to write histoy so. The Legend of The Shattered Halberd tells the story of Teyvat (plus gnoises and possibly foreshadows the future events). The folio of foliage clearly records the Dendro Archon's story (and it changes after greater lord R gets deleted from Irminsul) Time Tracker explains us, how it can be, that e.g. the events of Fontaine were the history of future and so couldn't be avoided. .... I could go on, but basically, many books looking fiction are sooo not!!!
5:30 I don’t think that the boy mentioned is necessarily Razor, because this Talent material mentions that Andrius and his pack adopt lost orphan children and raise them as their own.
i have beef with your tierlist but the video was super entertaining!! i would def enjoy more summaries of some of the other ones if you wanted to do more
Aah yes, I remember when I too was running around the mondsadt fountain like a crazy person after reading Heart's Desire for the first time. Disappointing (but fun) times
I can just imagine the joy genshins book writers would be in seeing that someone actually went ahead and read all the books 😭 Your sacrafice was not in vain now I wanna read Robben vs Chesterton too
(Quick comment before I start watching the video) I seriously applaud you. I've read only the Sumeru books, mostly because I was looking for mentions of Deshret. He's my favorite character lol. I don't have the determination to read the rest of the books
Really good video, nice job. A video similar to this but with character stories in the profile could be fun too. I would only change Before Sun and Moon, Perinheri and The Tale of Shiruyeh and Shirin into the Must-Read tier personally.
This is a great video! Many books in Genshin are foreshadowing for future contents. Sangonomiya folk belief one was released before the release of Enkanomiya, and recent Perinheri was also a foreshadowing of Arlecchino. It's really fun to read and speculate.
I really like the effort they put into writing all these different books and make them actually feel like different types of readings. The issue about Byakuyakoku is that it is a traslation of ancient slates and it's written just like one: it's almost unreadable if you don't know what it's talking about (also, to double up on the immersion, they made them call entities we already know with different names. Thanks Hoyo). It's also interesting how the culture of different nations is reflected on their books: Mondstadt holds lots of fairy tales and transcriptions of ballads, while Sumeru holds accademic translations of old texts with occasional translator's notes, and so on...
One: high respect sir for reading ALL those books (two week?? Omg) As a person who adore the Bamboo forest, Heart Desires, and especially the Fox in the dandelion sea, it bring me joy you also rank them high on the list. Considering these books came out our 1.0-1.2 ish. These especially have some hidden GENSHIN lore in them (like real characters that feature in another’s book, events or even places *dandelion sea*) I say you did great in making this vid (my first time seeing you) and you created a curious bean out of me. Now I must see your video and see what else you come with
The books are great! btw, the fairy tales are possibly some of the biggest lore books out there considering who has written many of them and the intricacies of Irminsul Your way of telling the stories is very interesting, I'd watch a full synopsis of every book lmao 6:06 that's not quite correct, The Boar Princess is one of the books written by Andersdotter aka "M" of the Hexenzirkel. Only the little notes in each chapter are written by a father/mother in telling the story to a child. We actually got a glimpse of the boar princess in the latest stream about the new game mode
honestly I would love to get more follow up videos talking about the lesser tier books, I don't read these at all despite being a day 1 player who's still active in Genshin till this day so these vids are bangers to watch and listen to
I don't comment often on videos, but, this one was well pretty well done. I admit this definitely narrowed down what books to read in Genshin, i love reading books, and lore book are up there, but what made me really enjoy this video was your comment "Prostrating myself so you don't have to!" I had a good laugh XD
“The Two Musketeers” is an interesting book, and had a whole event based off of it called the, “Fontinalia Film Festival”. A very interesting event indeed, if you haven’t played it, then I’d recommend watching a play through of it. I’m only assuming you didn’t because you never mentioned it.
The Fox and the Dandelion Sea is a time loop story if I'm correct That's the reason why hunter thought that fox takes the appearance of an ex-lover because she is that ex-lover
yo this is a GODSEND! just when i started to get interested in the genshin lore and considered reading some of these, this video gets on my homepage! great video and lovely art / animations, dude! keep it going :)
THANK YOU for sparing me hours of burning my eyes reading the books on my gaming laptop 😂. I really wanted to dig through them but it was just too much.
THIS WAS SO FUN TO WATCH!!! I love your humour lmao This video unironically really makes me want to read all the books myself. I usually just read a summary. Thank you so much, i will comeback when I'm done 😂
@@sketchesbyaidanyeah lmao I already read time trekker yesterday and tholy frick it was amazing loved it!! This video is amazing. Thanking the universe for recommending me this video 😂❤
I’ve read “Pretty please, Kitsune Guuji?” when it came out and oh boy, was a left on my desk rethinking everything. I wonder how Yae liked that, to the point she wanted it out in the world herself…
Thank you for doing this video idea lol! I've been thinking abt doing it myself, to read all the books in genshin! I quite like genshin(I'm a loser who plays two accounts for almost four years actively sadly), the story may not completely new and have every best writing, but I like to believe genshin's beauty is *how* they use their cliche elements to create their story. Sumeru to me is their peak! I love every bit of it, and I havent even finished my desert exploration, but the desert is my favorite. Inazuma's archon quest, I will shit on anyday of the week for hours, with their archon. But the Inazuma lore from world quests and etc is fascinating how they completely butchered the archon quest when the world quests were so much more interesting. I'd even say the Aranara questline is way more interesting than the Inazuma Archon quest. Anyways, if you feel like driving yourself more mad, there is detailed story exermpts on Weapon items and Artifact gear items. Memory of Dust from Guizhong and the Archaic Petra artifact gear lore, and Jade Cutter.. T_T Goddess of Dust Guizhong.. Or maybe you've already done this and Im too committed to typing this comment. Thank you for the lovely video, I loved the drawings! I do wish you included some text maybe? Or captions on some things you said? Idk if that makes sense. But I greatly appreciate the time stamps and format you've put up! Very well done! I greatly enjoyed this thoroughly and I'll probably end up doing the same :) Quite encouraging
There is this question of the Primordial. The ancient people wanted to know what the Primordial is but the explanation was hidden in a question or riddle, and it was kept in the ancient tablets. An ancient serpent called Orobashi forbade the people in knowing this riddle, since it would destroy their minds.
As someone who has been interested in reading the in-game books but thinks there's just too many, thank you. 😂 This was a fun video!! However, I forgot that this was only 15 minutes and was expecting you to talk about the other tiers (the less-readable ones). I mean, what was the point in reading all 90+ books if you're not going to talk about 90% of them? I want to hear what made the others so bad/not readable. And aren't the books in "great" and "pretty good" also worth mentioning? I'd definitely watch a part two. Edit: I'd like to add that if it's too much to talk about every single book/talking about every single one is not worth it, at least show the completed ranking in the video. Again, good job with this one!
5:20 The Fox and the Dandelion Sea is one of the very few I read and for some reason was very captivated. I also was going through a Procreate phase and tried to illustrate the fox lady
I was geniuenly planning to deep dive the genshin library to see if it's any good and have some new insights on the world and lore, your video helps a lot :)
12:57 This reminds me of an NPC known as the Skyrider. He tried to fly with the Skyrider Sword, but that went as well as you would expect, and he somehow survived. But then he did it again with the Skyrider Greatsword, and this time he succumbed to his own stupidity. To add insult to injury, you can find the very sword he used on his second attempt stuck in a rock, where he most likely perished. It's so laughable and sad at the same time.
Internet logic be like: Person: *Read a Fantasy sci-fi E-book through their phone* Internet: Wow, this dude is deligent! He must have a bright future! Person: *Same thing, but the book is frkm a video game* Internet: OMG GO TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!!
Love the video and what you did, but real quick bro please use a different background the white hurt my eyes, I like what you did at the end there wished you did that in the beginning too and again thank you for the fun 15 minutes.
I mean I am on the same boat for having read all the books... That being said, I'm glad my favorite (Heart's Desire) is on here. The anthology is somehow reminiscent of CLAMP's xXxHolic, and I love the idea of an easy ritual to take you to a place full of secrets and hidden memories. Although you categorized it as Fiction, for lore enthusiasts, I would highly recommend reading The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (clearly a play on Snow White and the 7 Dwarves) since this as yet incomplete series is supposed to hold the "secret" of this world, according to Lisa's story quest.
The Boar princess was written by an actual witch. It’s likely the note came from someone who bought a copy and didn’t realize how bad it was till the end
"All right I'm going to be a bit biased because I love Zhongli, but who doesn't love Zhongli. Right?" Most based, truth pilled, correct thing I've ever heard. Edit: also I would absolutely adore a detailed summary of all of the books. Because despite your warnings I have and unsatiable thirst for reading that must be fulfilled.
Ok to clarify: Before Sun and Moon is only in "Non applicable" because it's volume 2 of The Byakuyakoku Collection. I didn't want to be redundant and put the same book twice in one category.
I DID, however, mess up and put The Serpent and Drakes of Tokoyokoku in "Pretty good" because I'm a dummy. It's volume 1 of The Byakuyakoku Collection, so it should also be in "Non applicable". Sorry about the confusion, my brain is a puddle and I still haven't recovered from this video lol
did you read the artificial+weapons strory? theres a lot of them.
and the craziest amount of story in all desert.
We love resinless behaviors
LMAO "resinless behavior" is the funniest thing I've read in a while
It's actually popular in the Genshin Community basically the stuff you do in game while you wait for resin to regenerate 😂
The unemployed friend for no reason:
DO NOT call me out like that
Internet logic be like:
Person: *Read a Fantasy sci-fi E-book through their phone*
Internet: Wow, this dude is deligent! He must have a bright future!
Person: *Same thing, but the book is frkm a video game*
Internet: OMG GO TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!!
@@noobscoopsies1100🤓
@@Demise6969 literally
@@noobscoopsies1100me when I can’t handle a joke
“Non applicable”
“Before sun and moon”
Boyyyyy the lore nerds are bringing out the pitchforks
Hahaha no I did that because it's only a section of the Byakuyakoku collection! Please don't hunt me down 😅
He didn't...
Nvm, he did. He really did. Hold my beer and hand me the torch
@@sketchesbyaidan It's the number one book I'd tell people to read 😭😭😭😭 no pitchforks though I promise
I’ve got the torches! Who’s got the tar and feathers?
LMAOO THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
For any lore enthusiasts out here, you probably already know it, but "Before Sun and Moon" is a must-read
That's valid! I only put it in "Non Applicable" because it's a small section of The Byakuyakoku Collection and I didn't want to be redundant, sorry for the confusion
Yeah that's fine, I just wanted to point the importance of the book to people who might be interested, since it's very often cited in theories
@@sketchesbyaidan All of that collection used to be pretty important, the lore on the dragon sovereigns is important and it was the only source for it before Apep
6:04
Fun facts about _The Boar Princess_ :
It was written by a now passed away human called Andersdotter.
(Her name is likely a reference to Hans Christian Andersen, a famous author of fairy tales like _The Little Mermaid_ and _The Ugly Duckling_ .
Anderson translates to 'son of Anders' and Andersdotter translates to 'daughter of Anders'.)
We know Andersdotter was a part of and one of the heads of the Hexenzirkel organisation. The Hexenzirkel is essentially a group of witches who study ley lines, history, the stars and Irminsul.
(Hexenzirkel translates to Witches' coven.)
Andersdotter was known in the Hexenzirkel for her exceptional storytelling ability.
As we are familiar with the powers of Irminsul, a popular analysis of the role Andersdotter had in the Hexenzirkel, is recording historical events in an allegorical manner. By turning history into fairytales, it can prevent the deletion of information from Irminsul.
In Noelle's hangout, she mentions that in alchemy, 'roses' are symbolic for secrets hidden within a text.
In Genshin, there's three books that have a rose on their cover. Coincidentally, all three are fairy tales of a similar style, and coincidentally, _The Boar Princess_ is one of them.
The other two are: _The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies_ and _Hex & Hound_ .
It is very likely that these two books are also written by Andersdotter.
And perhaps all three contain a secret within their text.
Also interesting, in Lisa's story quest, there's an abyss mage who stole a book from the library. Initially we think nothing of this, and the game plays it off as a funny joke.
But the book the mage stole was one of those written by Anderson. So maybe that book was more important than we thought.
Holy crap. This is so in-depth, I could never be a Genshin theorist. Thank you for your service, Dr. Paimon
@@sketchesbyaidan No thank you for making a video I enjoyed so much. ❤️ That's where I got the motivation to write all this.
Another theory of this, these fairy tales are allegories so it wont get removed when the data of the world is edited
Just similar like the scarameow one
So thats interesting😬
@@sketchesbyaidan yeah so basically, after scaramouce's story quest, we found out that the way to prevent irminsul deletion is either 1. give the info to a descender class organism, or give it an allegorical fairytale. that makes the said stories that is invcolved with andersdotir, and many other books potentially be thrown to the lore category, because at that poiont, those arent easter eggs, but a lock. we just need the key to unlock it which are what or who are those allegories are for, but thats only possible to either talking with another decsender, or fragm3enst all over teyvat and piece it one by one
@@sketchesbyaidan imma sorta spoil the boar princess with a theory, its that the boar princess along with her 2 companions are the 3 moon sister, canon, aria, sonet. one of the sisters met an individual who i assume is the second who came (found in the byakuyau collection), which in turn started the ancient calamity, which killed the selies, and the start of the new erqa of the seven
"Might I suggest a therapist?"
Take your own advice! This is like reading *every book in Morrowind*, which has over 250 books (yes, I counted on the wiki). You're an absolute madlad.
Some of those books are remarkably short, though. Like 4 pages
@zzzzzzzzzz_me true, but do that in vanilla Morrowind, see how long it takes.
And also how long it takes to track down each book too!
@@Dimumouto something something go to the wiki and copy the text, print it all out, then make a joke about not wasting paper?
@@zzzzzzzzzz_me Morrowind books are quite a bit longer than Genshin Impact books. But are often much cooler. Maybe because the authors did have enough space for a proper short story. Or maybe I just prefer Western literary tradition over Chinese one.
1:27 to say theres tons of overlap is a severe understatement it's actually so horrendous for lore nerds 😭 the existence of Irminsul makes "fictional" stories potential allegories of real events which causes a ton of headache like literally any fantasy story couldve been something that really happened...
Remember legends of the "shattered halberd"? That thing hinted to us the connection between the third decender and the gnosis, makes you wonder what lore "flowers for princess fischl" and "the pale princess and the six pygmies" are hiding.
And we know the Abyss order believes ppatsp is hiding a secret, as we find out in Lisa's quest, so it's almost certainly an allegory for something removed from Irminsul.
I love this, its 15 minutes of info dumping about the most rediculous thing. This is peak internet content.
This is what the internet was made for lol
Did you know there’s an 8th edition of “The boar princess” in a shop in Fontaine, but it’s sold out. So there’s more to the story…we just don’t know it…
As someone who also read "The Boar Princess", I mentally broke down after seeing her in the new "imaginary theater" game mode on the 4.7 live. My PTSD kicked in immediately lmao
dude your art style is to die for and your voice is really nice honestly if you actually did a video discussing every book in detail I'd totally watch the whole thing
You're too kind!! Thanks so much, it's comments like these that keep me going honestly
Same!!
Bro when I saw *_Before Sun and Moon_* at the bottom I was like: _"huh? That's like the most 'must-read' in the game."_
But I read your explanation and I get it now lol.
Amazing quality video btw.
the author of the book "the 2 musketeers" was inspired by events from his life
It was part of an event where characters including the traveler try to make a movie based on the book and solve a murder along the way
It's a really good event that i recommend people watch
You'll change your mind on at least the "An Ode to Khvarena" if you played a certain desert World Quest!
Perinheri not being in "must-read" tier kinda broke me ngl...it was one of the most important lore bombs we've gotten in a while. Heart's Desire was pretty based, though!
"before sun and moon" in the 'non applicable' section is simply a crime.
Also, I don't know if anyone has moved on from the fact that the boar princess sounds a bit too much like an analogy of what could have happened between the three moon sisters and the primordial one.
loved the video ! i'll just say that there are quite a few "fiction" books in genshin that are actually hiding lore. I believe this is suspected to have been done by the people who write those books to protect the knowledge of past events from being erased from the irminsul :)
Rex Incognito is the book series that introduced me to Zhongli, and it's my all-time favorite read, because though it's fiction, it's not out of character for Rex Lapis to do such things haha, it's a testament that the people of Liyue know their God a good chunk, and the fact that Zhongli has read it just gives me second-hand embarrassment for the author lmao.
Imagine what it must feel like when the author of "Reborn as Almighty Shogun" learns that Raiden Shogun read his novel. Unlike Rex Lapis, Raiden Shogun is more feared than respected.
I get that this list was just about which books you liked, but...
The Pale princess and the 6 pigmies was stolen by an abyss mage in the beginning of the game and when we wanted it back they said it hid secrets.... That was supposed to be a clue...
Then, we know, that any book with a rose on the cover is a record of history hidden in a fairytale by one of the Hex. witches (So e.g. boar princess).
At the end of the Sumeru archon quest, we learn, why it is necessary to write histoy so.
The Legend of The Shattered Halberd tells the story of Teyvat (plus gnoises and possibly foreshadows the future events).
The folio of foliage clearly records the Dendro Archon's story (and it changes after greater lord R gets deleted from Irminsul)
Time Tracker explains us, how it can be, that e.g. the events of Fontaine were the history of future and so couldn't be avoided.
....
I could go on, but basically, many books looking fiction are sooo not!!!
11:08 THERES AN ANIMATION FOR THIS BOOK IN 2024 HOYOFAIR NOW ITS hyucking GORGEOUS (p sure its abt the book either way its insanely well done)
YES!!!
"Boar Princess" in Fiction
I laughed so much from this 😂
5:30 I don’t think that the boy mentioned is necessarily Razor, because this Talent material mentions that Andrius and his pack adopt lost orphan children and raise them as their own.
You should do the desert quests in Sumeru, they're really good. The books about that area aren't really fiction or flavour hahah
The Boar Princess sounds like every German kids story lmao
fr though 😂
Thank you for your service! I am an avid collector of genshin books but almost never open them, so thank you!
i have beef with your tierlist but the video was super entertaining!! i would def enjoy more summaries of some of the other ones if you wanted to do more
Aah yes, I remember when I too was running around the mondsadt fountain like a crazy person after reading Heart's Desire for the first time. Disappointing (but fun) times
You are insane for reading all those books 😂 (in a good way much respect)
I can just imagine the joy genshins book writers would be in seeing that someone actually went ahead and read all the books 😭
Your sacrafice was not in vain now I wanna read Robben vs Chesterton too
Bro this is going straight to my "fav vid" playlist-💖
Phenomenal video, both in writing and visually 😎
honestly a really fun video, i really like the drawings scattered throughout the video :)
This has BDG's I read everybook in Skyrim type of energy and I'm here for it, amazing job.
I was hoping to find the equivalent of Brian David Gilbert's Skyrim Book Report and I have found it thank you
This is the best compliment I could hope to receive, BDG is a legend
(Quick comment before I start watching the video) I seriously applaud you. I've read only the Sumeru books, mostly because I was looking for mentions of Deshret. He's my favorite character lol. I don't have the determination to read the rest of the books
Really good video, nice job. A video similar to this but with character stories in the profile could be fun too. I would only change Before Sun and Moon, Perinheri and The Tale of Shiruyeh and Shirin into the Must-Read tier personally.
This is a great video! Many books in Genshin are foreshadowing for future contents. Sangonomiya folk belief one was released before the release of Enkanomiya, and recent Perinheri was also a foreshadowing of Arlecchino. It's really fun to read and speculate.
This is bad video, case there are just 3-4 books that author called must to read, while really important for LOR he put in bottom like Sun and Moon
I really like the effort they put into writing all these different books and make them actually feel like different types of readings.
The issue about Byakuyakoku is that it is a traslation of ancient slates and it's written just like one: it's almost unreadable if you don't know what it's talking about (also, to double up on the immersion, they made them call entities we already know with different names. Thanks Hoyo).
It's also interesting how the culture of different nations is reflected on their books: Mondstadt holds lots of fairy tales and transcriptions of ballads, while Sumeru holds accademic translations of old texts with occasional translator's notes, and so on...
One: high respect sir for reading ALL those books (two week?? Omg)
As a person who adore the Bamboo forest, Heart Desires, and especially the Fox in the dandelion sea, it bring me joy you also rank them high on the list. Considering these books came out our 1.0-1.2 ish. These especially have some hidden GENSHIN lore in them (like real characters that feature in another’s book, events or even places *dandelion sea*)
I say you did great in making this vid (my first time seeing you) and you created a curious bean out of me. Now I must see your video and see what else you come with
Honestly I’ve always wanted to do this. Congrats on this cause that’s awesome
You know what yeah I'll sub and like, you deserve it for that pun in the end
Yesssss I always knew puns would get me far in life
The books are great! btw, the fairy tales are possibly some of the biggest lore books out there considering who has written many of them and the intricacies of Irminsul
Your way of telling the stories is very interesting, I'd watch a full synopsis of every book lmao
6:06 that's not quite correct, The Boar Princess is one of the books written by Andersdotter aka "M" of the Hexenzirkel. Only the little notes in each chapter are written by a father/mother in telling the story to a child. We actually got a glimpse of the boar princess in the latest stream about the new game mode
honestly I would love to get more follow up videos talking about the lesser tier books, I don't read these at all despite being a day 1 player who's still active in Genshin till this day so these vids are bangers to watch and listen to
I don't comment often on videos, but, this one was well pretty well done. I admit this definitely narrowed down what books to read in Genshin, i love reading books, and lore book are up there, but what made me really enjoy this video was your comment "Prostrating myself so you don't have to!" I had a good laugh XD
Loved this video I've always wondered what it would be like hearing another player's take on genshin books!!
Wow, that´s like...really impressing, most of the time I'm too lazy to even read the dialogue in world quests😅
“The Two Musketeers” is an interesting book, and had a whole event based off of it called the, “Fontinalia Film Festival”. A very interesting event indeed, if you haven’t played it, then I’d recommend watching a play through of it. I’m only assuming you didn’t because you never mentioned it.
The new game mode coming out has a lot of boar princess imagery
Really hope we get more on it
good content man,thanks
The Fox and the Dandelion Sea is a time loop story if I'm correct
That's the reason why hunter thought that fox takes the appearance of an ex-lover because she is that ex-lover
finally. a vid that discusses genshin books. been looking for one for a long time now
I gasped simply at the TITLE of this video. You're a madman.
That's was good.
Also i think we going to get more lore about Boar princess in Imaginarium Theater
You got my rare sub and like man 🎉
yo this is a GODSEND! just when i started to get interested in the genshin lore and considered reading some of these, this video gets on my homepage! great video and lovely art / animations, dude! keep it going :)
youre crazy. im subbing. im surprised by the effort and entertaining this vid was
THANK YOU for sparing me hours of burning my eyes reading the books on my gaming laptop 😂. I really wanted to dig through them but it was just too much.
The illustrations and your voice made me insta subscribe ☺️ a job very well done 🫶🏽👏🏽👏🏽
THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD, and i am mad that for 4 years i didn't know about how rich book world of teyvat
I would watch if you summarized every book! It'd be great! And the summaries you did provide just make me want to read them all anyway!
This is amazing! Thanks for making this. I am so glad to have discovered you through this video. Your humor is wonderful!
THIS WAS SO FUN TO WATCH!!!
I love your humour lmao
This video unironically really makes me want to read all the books myself. I usually just read a summary.
Thank you so much, i will comeback when I'm done 😂
YAY thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoy my weird sense of humour 😂
@@sketchesbyaidanyeah lmao
I already read time trekker yesterday and tholy frick it was amazing loved it!!
This video is amazing. Thanking the universe for recommending me this video 😂❤
Love this video!! You made me wanna read the books too xD
The next step for you is to read every artifact lore... Uncover the mystery
Hahaha bro that would take so long!! Maybe I should just commit and become a Genshin theorist...
There was actually a really cool fan animation about the moonlit bamboo forest in the latest hoyofair!!
I’ve read “Pretty please, Kitsune Guuji?” when it came out and oh boy, was a left on my desk rethinking everything.
I wonder how Yae liked that, to the point she wanted it out in the world herself…
Thank you for doing this video idea lol! I've been thinking abt doing it myself, to read all the books in genshin! I quite like genshin(I'm a loser who plays two accounts for almost four years actively sadly), the story may not completely new and have every best writing, but I like to believe genshin's beauty is *how* they use their cliche elements to create their story.
Sumeru to me is their peak! I love every bit of it, and I havent even finished my desert exploration, but the desert is my favorite.
Inazuma's archon quest, I will shit on anyday of the week for hours, with their archon. But the Inazuma lore from world quests and etc is fascinating how they completely butchered the archon quest when the world quests were so much more interesting.
I'd even say the Aranara questline is way more interesting than the Inazuma Archon quest.
Anyways, if you feel like driving yourself more mad, there is detailed story exermpts on Weapon items and Artifact gear items.
Memory of Dust from Guizhong and the Archaic Petra artifact gear lore, and Jade Cutter..
T_T Goddess of Dust Guizhong..
Or maybe you've already done this and Im too committed to typing this comment.
Thank you for the lovely video, I loved the drawings! I do wish you included some text maybe? Or captions on some things you said? Idk if that makes sense. But I greatly appreciate the time stamps and format you've put up! Very well done! I greatly enjoyed this thoroughly and I'll probably end up doing the same :) Quite encouraging
It's a hate crime that teyvat travel guide didn't make the top😭 alice is so funny
Thank you for the info-dump. This made me subscribe lololol
There is this question of the Primordial. The ancient people wanted to know what the Primordial is but the explanation was hidden in a question or riddle, and it was kept in the ancient tablets. An ancient serpent called Orobashi forbade the people in knowing this riddle, since it would destroy their minds.
You did what i always wanted do since the forat time i played Genshin.
Respect.
If my kids ever ask me what is sheer will... I will show them this video
Heyy, if The Two Musketeers had a play in-game for an event, probably they would make another one for the String of Pearls.
As someone who has been interested in reading the in-game books but thinks there's just too many, thank you. 😂 This was a fun video!! However, I forgot that this was only 15 minutes and was expecting you to talk about the other tiers (the less-readable ones). I mean, what was the point in reading all 90+ books if you're not going to talk about 90% of them? I want to hear what made the others so bad/not readable. And aren't the books in "great" and "pretty good" also worth mentioning? I'd definitely watch a part two.
Edit: I'd like to add that if it's too much to talk about every single book/talking about every single one is not worth it, at least show the completed ranking in the video. Again, good job with this one!
Coollwat fucking concept. Thanks for doing the hard work and reading the books in our stead. You are a real one for that. Amen.
Yeah, I read them as I went over three years. Kudos to you for the deep dive.
Bro u did what I always wanted to do! Kudos to you
5:20 The Fox and the Dandelion Sea is one of the very few I read and for some reason was very captivated. I also was going through a Procreate phase and tried to illustrate the fox lady
i really like how you do your vids, and i love your vibe
I was geniuenly planning to deep dive the genshin library to see if it's any good and have some new insights on the world and lore, your video helps a lot :)
You remind me of the polygon guy who read all the skyrim books.
Skytims's book repoooort!
Thanks for this! You just reminded me that i wanted to read all the books as well, so im gonna do that later.
Very nice! I wonder if this madlad is gonna do this for StarRail next, lol
Okay you cant just give so many recommendations and expect me NOT to read every single one of these books
teyvat travel guide has to be a must read
12:57
This reminds me of an NPC known as the Skyrider. He tried to fly with the Skyrider Sword, but that went as well as you would expect, and he somehow survived.
But then he did it again with the Skyrider Greatsword, and this time he succumbed to his own stupidity.
To add insult to injury, you can find the very sword he used on his second attempt stuck in a rock, where he most likely perished.
It's so laughable and sad at the same time.
Oh I LOVE mystery! Thanks for making me interested in reading Genshin books :)
Some of those stories seem pretty dope, awesome video.
Not even a minute in and I'm getting heavy BDG Unraveled. I expect a hysterical breakdown by the end of the video.
fun fact, after the reveal at the end of the sumeru archon questline, it is highly likely that the fictional books are actually history
I’m actually gonna probably print and bind some of these books just so I can physically read them
3 years ago I thought about this idea, Im glad someone took the time to actually read everything.
Okay that’s just impressive 😭
Internet logic be like:
Person: *Read a Fantasy sci-fi E-book through their phone*
Internet: Wow, this dude is deligent! He must have a bright future!
Person: *Same thing, but the book is frkm a video game*
Internet: OMG GO TOUCH SOME GRASS!!!!
Only time i am happy with the youtube algorithm that i discovered this gem. Already subscribed!
Respect 💯. I will check out the must read stuff
Nice! They're definitely worth the time
Love the video and what you did, but real quick bro please use a different background the white hurt my eyes, I like what you did at the end there wished you did that in the beginning too and again thank you for the fun 15 minutes.
I mean I am on the same boat for having read all the books...
That being said, I'm glad my favorite (Heart's Desire) is on here. The anthology is somehow reminiscent of CLAMP's xXxHolic, and I love the idea of an easy ritual to take you to a place full of secrets and hidden memories.
Although you categorized it as Fiction, for lore enthusiasts, I would highly recommend reading The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (clearly a play on Snow White and the 7 Dwarves) since this as yet incomplete series is supposed to hold the "secret" of this world, according to Lisa's story quest.
The Boar princess was written by an actual witch. It’s likely the note came from someone who bought a copy and didn’t realize how bad it was till the end
"All right I'm going to be a bit biased because I love Zhongli, but who doesn't love Zhongli. Right?"
Most based, truth pilled, correct thing I've ever heard.
Edit: also I would absolutely adore a detailed summary of all of the books. Because despite your warnings I have and unsatiable thirst for reading that must be fulfilled.
I admire your dedication!!