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Some artworks I made in 2025!

I keep thinking about the idea introduced in recent quests, that in Teyvat, taking someone’s name means inheriting their fate, and that by doing so, the other person slowly disappears from history.

And what if this is exactly what happened with Dainsleif.

What if the Dainsleif we meet is not the original Dain, but someone who took his name.

I think Vedrfolnir took Dain’s place. And became Dainsleif (the legacy of Dain). Many elements make much more sense this way.

This would explain something that has always felt off. The Traveller’s sibling says that Dainsleif was responsible for the fall of Khaenri’ah.

That accusation never really fits the Dain we know. He was a royal guard, loyal to the king, even when Hroptatyr and Rhinedottir directly asked him if he was committing treason, he said no, he just needed the king to snap out of his madness.

But it does fit Vedrfolnir.

Then there are the contradictions in Dainsleif’s abilities.

He does not fight with a sword. Instead, he uses strange, ribbon-like constructs, almost like bindings rather than weapons. That feels closer to Gleipnir than to any knightly fighting style.

He also uses Abyssal power, even though it is stated that Dainsleif did not take his share of the Abyss. That should be impossible, unless the power belongs to someone else. Someone who is a Sinner.

And the Moon Gate too. The ability to open it appears in the Sumeru animated cutscene, and it aligns much more with Vedrfolnir’s domain ( we even see a purple crystal inside ). Not something Dainsleif was EVER associated with.

Even his personality feels wrong. The exhaustion. The same exact hate Vedrfolnir showed toward fate in rerir's memory is retold by Dainsleif. At first, I thought this might be the brothers mirroring each other, switching emotional roles and personalities the way Ragbros did. But this feels more literal than that.

I think the real Dainsleif is asleep somewhere. Preserved. Hidden away. Because the prophecy // fate still requires “Dainsleif” to be destroyed at the end of time.

Barbeloth says that someone once managed to trick the stars and erase a child’s fate. That line feels important. It already happened; someone managed to do it.

What if Dainsleif was originally fated to kill the king( the wind glider explicitly mentioned a regicide), and that act became the original sin of the world?

But then this original sin was divided among the Five Sinners. But even then, fate still demands payment.

So Vedrfolnir commits blasphemy against time. He took the name and therefore the role of Dainsleif so he could complete the prophecy.

And when “Dainsleif” is finally destroyed, the real Dainsleif can awaken without the burden written into his constellation.

This also explains why the Dainsleif we meet feels both deeply personal and strangely detached or with confused memories from his own past.

Credits :

-Daily Dainsleif on x for the Dainsleif using Gleipnir pics

do we think organ transplants were already a thing in teyvat before pantalone trashed his lungs

Had so much fun doing this i love drawing evil blondes