#unknown goddess

This time I'm going to yell about Dainsleif! Because I love him a lot and there's a lot of lore to be unpacked with him, I feel like.

So for the longest time I always wondered: why does he hate the Archons? It makes sense that he despises the Abyss since it's very heavily implied that our sibling was his traveling companion and then subsequently corrupted by the Abyss and made the ruler; but his disdain for the gods is not as easy to pinpoint. However, I think I have an idea (and this may have already been said but, I want to say it as well).

As we all know, people with Visions can become gods by ascending to Celestia, like Vennessa. However, that's not the only way to get godlike power- there's also Delusions, which are extremely powerful and extremely dangerous. They are powered by Archon residue, which is what Collei was infused with in the manga!

Here's Collei using her powers:

And here's Diluc using his Delusion:

See? Same energy!

What I am trying to get at is this: what if the Unknown Goddess was once human? What if she's a test subject gone horribly right?

Consider that perhaps she and Dainsleif were companions and then both taken by the Abyss and experimented on (and that's why Dainsleif wears a mask and why his arm looks kinda funky and also why he looks similar to an Abyss Herald), and while he managed to escape, she did not and was corrupted by Archon residue which is why Dainsleif hates the Abyss AND the Archons; since it was their power combined that warped her.

Maybe that's what Dainsleif was referring to when he told us "prove to me that you are worthy to save her-" the MC can canonically purify corruption, so perhaps once he gets his powers back instead of killing the Unknown Goddess, he'll cleanse her impurity and free her!

Of course this can apply to our sister too but I'm saying what if it's not just her?? It'd be a fun subversion from "kill the evil god endgame" trope too, for the goddess to not actually be evil, just corrupted, like Dvalin.

Additionally I've been thinking: since Dainsleif is the Bough Keeper and thus most likely linked to the Ley Lines, which have the memories of all the world, that's how he knows so much about..well, everything. Since he visits the bar so much I would say it's safe to say he's at least seen Kaeya before, and he probably knows everything about him too- and the fact that he hasn't raised any alarm has me thinking he doesn't see Kaeya as a threat (which thankfully makes villain!Kaeya theories that much weaker since Dainsleif shows explicit wariness towards Albedo, but not him; and even in Albedo's case it's not even him being villainous it's the impactions that he's connected to Durin, the cursed dragon, and perhaps cursed as well. But not evil.)

Hear me tf out

Enough about “Paimon = Unknown Goddess” or how the Cutscene is a rewritten version of the Traveler’s story

Just a random thought, but since

The coin that was most likely the tranmutated Unknown Goddess's spellbook was given to Kalvaxus as the first coin of his hoard by the Nightmare King

And

Arthur Aguefort said that the dragon's gold was cursed and needed to be spent as quickly as possible

Could that mean

The coin will only reveal itself if all of the gold from the hoard is spent.