r/Genshin_Lore • u/flameinheart • 8d ago
Meme Weekend Project Stuzha and its inspiration (THOUGHT AND THEORY)
Hello,
as we were speaking with my friend and discussing Project Stuzha, we got an interesting idea.
Columbine has told us in Act VIII of Nod-Krai's AQ, that term "Mistilteinn" is involved in such project. Regarding to origin of this word, Mistilteinn is a legendary weapon from Norse mythology, originated in saga Gripssonar - which has more than one use.
In one specific version of Norse mythology, Mistilteinn, called "Mistletoe" in modern English, is a weapon tied to Baldr's fate (GOW players will know where this is going 😃). Baldr was prophesized to die, and his mother Frigg basically cursed him to be unharmable by all things in Nine Realms - with the exception of mistletoe, which wasn't seen as a threat. Long story short, Baldr really died by Mistelteinn, weapon made of mistletoe.
This wouldn't be so interesting normally, because Genshin has many inspirations from various mythologies. But we have one other name which is directly taken from Norse mythology, specifically from legendary weapons - Dainsleif. Dain's name is inspired by mythical Norse weapon too; this made us to make a conclusion.
From what do we know, Dainsleif is cursed with immortality, a curse which was placed on him because of Khaenriah. Mistleteinn is a originally a weapon able to harm unharmable. To this day, because of the name, I have viewed Project Stuzha as some kind of crazy weapon able to kill gods. But what if its a project to solve the curse of immortality?
Feel free to discuss of course 😃
Note: Today, I was calling with my friend u/KittennPiE and he thought of all of this, so its his idea; however, he doesn't use Reddit that much, so I am writing in his place (and giving him cred)
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u/AudieMurphy135 Teyvat has its own laws 6d ago
Another interesting thing about Mistilteinn, is that some regard it as possibly being the same weapon as Laevateinn. And woudn't you know it, there's a weapon with the same name in Legend of the Shattered Halberd:
"No... Impossible!" A look of disbelief appeared on the warrior's face as the Ominous Sword broke into pieces, and he, too, was sent flying from his own soldiers towards whatever destiny had in store for him next.
In the chaos, Mir had brought out the sword his father had left him as inheritance. It was intended as more of a gesture of defiance than a genuine attempt to fight back. But unbeknownst to him, this was the greatest cursed sword of all, that had once burned the entire world to cinders: Laevatain. If the fire-realm runes constituted the mystery of the fire realm, Laevatain was its pure unadulterated, unquenchable reality.
The sword had extinguished after the world was burned, but having assimilated the rune of the fire realm, it burned bright once more.
"The whole world... destroyed again..." Weiyang fell unconscious as she spoke.
There's a fun related rabbit hole that I talk about here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/comments/1tn24m9/baizhu_as_a_segment_of_pantalone/onueyqd/?context=3
Related image from that comment for convenience: https://i.postimg.cc/FhDG1tF1/Hidden-Story-5.png
In other words, Mistilteinn may be related to the SAMPO.
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u/CanaanWitchKnight 8d ago
Also an interesting note, before the sword Mistilteinn was wielded by the hero of the Gripssonar saga, it was in the possession of Þráinn (Thrain) who was a draugr (living undead). Not necessarily cope, but be we do know a Thrain who is currently kind of both alive and dead, who could somehow have been/was needed for the project as well.