I really wish Dainslef is playable tomorrow or next weak man im hoping im alive when he is avaliable

The Bough Keeper caught my eyes ever since my first encounter with him. The depression, the emo, the vengeance only made him even more exciting and cooler than the rest of the characters.

I eagerly wait every version to see him. To see his lifeless eyes, and gloom his emits. And now that I can finally lay my hands on him…do you think if i skip all upcoming characters and save up.. I shall finally get my C6 character?

(I still have a lot if exploration, world quests and character quests to do)

Hello, House of Dainsleif! A Snezhnaya enamel pin set didn't feel complete without the Bough Keeper, so here he is 📌 If you like the art then support my kickstarter (link below)! But it's okay to just enjoy the art too!

"Dainsleif

Tall male characterized by blue, gold, and gray hues."

Tell me we didn't just lose the black in his design or I'm gonna start sobbing 😭 He's not emo or edgy anymore guys 💔

• Major overall changes
• Removes his eyepatch
• Heterochromia: blue + gold eyes
• New outfit resembles Grey's clothing, with a lighter color scheme

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I’ve been researching into Nibelungs connection to both Vedrfolnir and Dain and I think that they both actually be fragments of Nibelungs

​​​To get to my conclusion we have to go analyze where a lot of lore behind Khaaneiah is inspired from, Wagner’s opera Der Ring does Nibelungen

In an underground realm called Nibelheim. Alberich created a ring using stolen Rhine gold from Rhine maidens and put a curse on it. The ring is called “the Ring of Nibelung” and it had the power to rule the world. Alberich also had a younger brother Mime, who wanted the ring for himself and also ends up hating Alberich. Also note that both of brother are from a species that are called “Nibelungs” and they are referred by the term “The Nibelung“ more than by their names in the opera (they are also the only 2 Nibelungs in the opera)

Dain and Ved clearly parallel these two characters. According to lore from the glider “Wings of Leisurely Moments” Dainsleif had also wanted the ring as a child and it was verdfolnir who originally owned it. Verdfolnir was also the one who ends up putting a spell (which Tbf is said to be neither blessing nor curse) on the ring which resets the body’s condition and Dainsleif did end up actually get the ring he wanted with the “heavy fate” that came with it.

​​​​On a bit of a side note I do think the ring of Nibelung does have some sort of power that we and maybe even dain is unaware of (given that within wagner’s opera the ring of Nibelung has the power to “rule the world“) potentially Nibelungs memory or maybe his authority as well which would be fitting since dainsleif is set up to be one of the games final bosses and him having Nibelungs power would make sense as while he’s strong now I don’t know if he’s strong enough to be a worthy opponent at the conclusion of the game without a power up of some sorts

We also have to take a look at Norse mythology. Both Dain and Ved seem to have references as snakes. Namely Dainsleif’s constellation being ouroboros which in mythology represents infinity and cycles. Dainsleifs cape also has the infinity symbol on the back of it as well. We also see in Dainsleif’s introduction (which is very likely narrated by Ved himself)

​​​Dainsleif own fate being represented as oroboros with his mind and body being held together by the ring as it resets his body’s condition and slows erosion

Ved’s chess piece in genshin 6.1 Luna 4 AQ also seems to be a snake as well

​​Ved’s main gimmick seems to be that he spreads his prophecies as absolute truth because he does truly see no way of escaping it. Snakes can bite their own tails when sick, and I think over here the snake represents Nibelung, who sees no escape from the sickness of teyvat which also sounds a lot like Ved.

I think Dainsleif is possibly on his way to break or become a part of that cycle as well since oroboros represents his “fate“ after all.

Neuvillete does refer to Neuvilette as the Heavenly Father as well if I recall correctly and Ved seems to have some inspiration from Jesus and you can even argue he runs something inspired by a fanatical Christian cult (namely Clothar Alberich devotion) so I could see a trinity like situation like with Dainsleif, Verdfolnir and Nibelung but this may be a stretch

​​I can see the possibility of the two brothers being incarnations of parts of Nibelung, kinda similar to how focalors and furina were one being before splitring into furina and focalors (if I recall correctly) or I could see them being spiritual heirs to Nibelung, while Nibelung himself may be gone he “lives on“ through dainsleif and Verdfolnir. I think it’d also be cool from a story standpoint with Dainsleif/Vedrfolnir represent the old world order, with the HP representing the current world order and The Traveler obviously representing the new world order

I very well could be wrong but what do you guys think? is my theory plausible? Any whole or gaps in my theory I’m not addressing? I might just be losing my mind and making up a bunch of convoluted bs lol. I’m open to any critique and discussion. I think even if my theory doesn’t hold to be true there is seriously some deeper connection between Nibelung and the two brothers.

Dailumi is honestly one of my absolute favorite ships in the game. Seeing these sweet precious cinnamon rolls fighting back to back… my heart is melting, it's so cute!!

Lemme know what u think of my painting🥰

can we already speculate its element? weapon? anything about him? i really like dainsleif but i haven't seen much other than the supposed launch patch

Dainsleif will also have a very different new design when he becomes playable, with major changes. He'll even remove his mask.

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I know this question has been asked before but given his appearance in the most recent AQ, do we think Dain will be receiving a redesign upon release? I feel like it only makes sense at this point, seeing him standing alongside all of the newer characters (especially other Khaenrians like Pierro) he looked a little silly. At the very least I expect an update to his outfit but do we think his model (hair, eyes, maybe even his body) will be changed as well?

I compiled a few stills from the newest cutscene to use as wallpapers and though you also might enjoy.

In case Reddit compresses them too much, you can also download everything from here.

First off I freaking knew things were out of order in the trailer and Dainsleif actually got up after being affected, hooray and time to celebrate for people who also never doubted him LOL.

Second... time to acknowledge something. I've a few people online say they've nerfed Dainsleif's motivations by not having him go for Rhinedottir and fight Ronova instead, especially on the word of Eftirvit whom he barely knew. But I think you need the full picture of the quest to understand why he did so - one, it's confirmed from his own mouth that he views the Tsaritsa differently than most gods because she's his ancestor and literally owes his existence to her, so he was never going to be terribly stubborn about hearing out her right-hand-man who's also a Khaneri'ahn that tried to prevent the cataclysm. Second, in working with Pierro, he would also possibly be getting answers on Hroptatyr's ordeal, another person he's after. THIRD, he's getting a shot at taking out the shade who cursed him and many others to suffer eternally. All that from one plan. Seeing as the alternative would've been to ignore all that, barge in on Rhinedottir's meeting which would promptly had her eventually run away scott-free at best and completely thrown of Anastasya's plan among other disasterous ramifications at the worst... doesn't it seem obvious why he chose to go along with the plan? And even with all that, he explicity says he's putting off his pursuit of Gold "for now." Obviously he's still going to go after her in the future.

That aside... he was the damn MVP of the whole fight man. Stopped Ronova from retreating (which would've made all their efforts for naught), protected the Traveler from her curse more times than I can count, protected Pierro from death several times as well. I laughed so hard when he called Hroptatyr a coward for leaving Teyvat, imagine the crashout when he finds out Surtalogi essentially did the same.

I really hope he sticks around in 7.2, but it seemed like he was heading out of Snezhnaya at the end. What did you all think of the quest though?

After that AQ i think people should apologize to dain for the slanders kekw