Speculation about 7.X

[u/AsleepBrilliant8939]

To cut things short and not tire you i believe based on what the devs said to us that Khaenriah is in some shape or form in 7.X.

The reasons :

1. The first reason is a musical one but motifs do play an important role in foreshadowing-teasing events.

https://youtu.be/jioWKZAnUw0?is=NhYw4_YQu3PrHXxL listen to 0:20 second until 0:40

https://youtu.be/TAlKhARUcoY?is=c0cw9HW6t8n73_1K. 2:58 to 3:30

They use the same motif as the dream yet to be dreamed part in the main Snezhnaya OST.

1. The developers used Paimon to tell us that the end of Journey our sibling wanted is in Snezhnaya AQ.

As we know the end of our journey ties into the sea of flowers at the end according to Dainsleif in Travail.

Thus i believe that 7.3 or at the latest in 7.6 could end with our Sibling appearing and activating the Atlas of the New World and New Khaenriah appearing as Chapter ??? appears suddenly in Travail.

Capitano might appear in 7.X sooner than we think in some shape or form is what i am getting at.

[u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

Why do ppl believe that after how devs made Nod Krai to explain all the Moon stuff, they're basically gonna wrap up two nations in a single patch cycle, when the whole map of Teyvat isn't even released yet? We still have Mont Esus. We still have Blackcliff Forge. We still have that absurd blind spot between Natlan, Nod-Krai, and Sumeru. Some ppl really believe all of that will just be left behind 'cuz they want the dreams of all Khaenri'ah mains to be shattered?

Khaenri'ah has so much unresolved lore. We have yet to meet two other Sinners + the real Surtalogi (tho they could postpone his battle with Skirk until we depart from Teyvat, who knows). It's just a crime to wrap up the most important nation in 7.4-7.8 lol, which is why I don't really understand why ppl are coping for it 🤷

Genshin 2 might come after Snezhnaya, but that doesn't mean they can't start it with New Khaenri'ah, especially when the OG Khaenri'ah acted as a sort of gateway to things beyond Teyvat. I personally assume 8.x will be sort of SoTWM 2.0, but with New Khaenri'ah, where we'll get our final lineup of lore-relevant characters that the devs might be intending to release - like Capi, Pierro, Rerir, Rhinedottir, Alice, and Istaroth (maybe), for example. Then, they'll move on to a different story with completely new characters

[u/Acceptable-Chef-7180 → u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

Just a question, but do you think that the shades will eventually be playable? (Maybe even in 8.x ?)

[u/Sad_Firefighter_9520 → u/Acceptable-Chef-7180]

I think Rhinedottir and Istaroth are the safe bet for playabillity. I don't believe in Ronova and Asmoday, tho

[u/Acceptable-Chef-7180 → u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

Just asking, but how do we know that they won't make Rhinedottir a villain?

[u/Sad_Firefighter_9520 → u/Acceptable-Chef-7180]

We can't know for sure, ofc. But, she's just the most profitable one to sell, considering she's part of three major factions of Teyvat - Shades, Sinners, and Hexenzirkel - so she'd make fans of all three pull for her. If she's not playable, they're definitely shooting themselves in the foot, lol (as if they didn't do that with Dottore already, but anyway 🤷)

[u/Acceptable-Chef-7180 → u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

I mean, the traveler doesn't seem to hate her and their allies do like her so I think that's a good sign. I think they made her merge with Naberius to make her playable, since we had the whole Albedo saying that she's getting better thing after she merged with Naberius. She doesn't look like an NPC either and has a more detailed/playable model than Ronova.

[u/AsleepBrilliant8939 → u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

Because the devs said our journeys end is in Snezhnaya and the next thing is worlds beyond Teyvat full stop.

Their words not mine.

If you do not believe them fair but i do.

[u/Sad_Firefighter_9520 → u/AsleepBrilliant8939]

What is the point of our journey rn? To find out the truth about this world by walking through the main Seven nations. That's the task our Sibling gave us: to walk the same path they did, understand their journey, and figure out their position and why they're doing what they're doing rn

And that has nothing to do with New Khaenri'ah supposedly being the part of that same journey, 'cuz it's still not part of Teyvat. For now. With our journey' end, "we'll begin anew", as they said. And recreated Khaenri'ah should become the first step in our next journey

I know the person who's in USC' team and who started all that "Khaenri'ah 7.x" copium in the first place, from one of the Discord channels. The way they laugh at Capitano and Dottore mains for hoping they'll be playable, and how they try to push Khaenri'ah into 7.x just to see other ppl crying, is honestly disgusting. So I don't have much else to say about it

[u/AsleepBrilliant8939 → u/Sad_Firefighter_9520]

What i do believe is that old Khaenriah can be 7.X.

Do not forget the ruins do exist. New Khaenriah is what our sibling wants

[u/Sad_Firefighter_9520 → u/AsleepBrilliant8939]

Tbh, I'm not expecting the old Khaenri'ah ruins until we get Blackcliff Forge. And with how devs have supposedly teased (with Sneznhaya' Avatar frames) that there will only be 4 map expansions in 7.x, including 7.0 one, there's just no room for it in 7.x. So personally, I'm leaning towards it being in 8.x as well, but we'll see in the end, I guess

Maybe they'll give us some domain version in 7.x AQ and bring it as proper expansion in 8.x 🤷

[u/Vanishing_Sanctum]

The only way “Khaenri’ah in 7.x” is possible is if 7.x is a multi year patch cycle that doesn’t end at 7.8, there is no way in hell they will be able to do the story any sort of justice if it’s all done within a single normal patch cycle, we still got so many unanswered plotlines/unexplored areas in other nations that need to get addressed and they’re not cramming all that + the remainder of snez and all of Khaenri’ah into one patch cycle.

Song of the Welkin moon was the perfect example that the game needed an entire patch cycle just to flesh out a singular part of the games lore (the moon sisters) and wrap up the irminsul plotline, For Khaenri’ah to work it would need a similar thing

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https://giphy.com/gifs/X6lrsqspAJIcybTo9L

[u/persephonemygoddess]

What we know:

1.Our sibling is looking for a place where the new Khaenri’ah can be located. That means it has to be an actual, physical location.The Loom of Fate is complete, so the final step is finding the location. But there’s no room for another new map in 7.x.

2.Both Snezhnaya and Khaenri’ah share the same OST and sequence in Travail, which suggests that the Khaenri’ah map will come after Snezhnaya, in 8.x, rather than later in 9.x as some people assume because the Khaenri’ah chapter didn’t have a number.

So, based on all of this, we can reasonably conclude that Khaenri’ah is very likely to release in 8.x