Time is (NOT) an Illusion: The Garden of Forking Paths (Genshin Impact 4.4 Lore and Theory)

Spoilers for the Fontaine Archon Quest.

"Time Trekker" is a book series from Fontaine added in 4.4 that explores time travel and time as an illusion. Fate is real, and everything has already happened. However, the book seems to reference Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Garden of Forking Paths," which proposes a bifurcation of timelines, and innumerable futures. Can the infinite possibilities of the future save the past? What does this have to do with Dainsleif and Nicole of the Hexenzirkel, and the hidden corners where the gods' gaze does not fall? How does Nietzsche's Eternal Return (and Kaeya) also fit into this idea of time?

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00:00 Introduction
01:25 Time Trekker
05:03 FUN REFERENCES!
07:43 The Light Between the Mirrors
12:02 The Garden of Forking Paths
19:00 Time Loops?
23:50 The Meaning of it All

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Resources & further reading:
   • Time Travel in Fiction Rundown  
   • Did The Future Already Happen? - The ...  
   • Borges, Time, and Ethics: The Garden ...  

https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal...

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Music
✨ HOYO-Mix: Chenlong Pool Courtyard; Langage des Fleurs; Diaphanous Dream; Shadows of Enigma; Se mettre sur son trente-et-un!; The Jepella Rebellion; Chantons a plusieurs; Shade of Flowers; Language of Eternity; Long-Lost Chapters; Vestige of Dahri; Quo Vadis; WHITE NIGHT; Soothing Nightfall
✨ "Se Pone Caliente" by the U.S. Commercial Product Safety Commission (public domain)

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