Perhaps, Alice is perhaps one of the strangest characters in all of Genshin Impact.
On the surface, she is portrayed as a carefree adventurer, just like her daughter Klee. But with her immeasurable strength and understanding of the world, should we accept that she is just a simple bystander? No, we can't. Believe it or not, it gives the feeling that the traveler has been in control from the beginning to the present, and that every action the traveler takes is facilitated by Alice. But how can she control the traveler's decisions without being involved?
The only possibility is that she has some kind of special network that can provide intelligence information in real time, and a specific tool that allows her to control the direction of the story. So what is this network? No doubt you probably already know, after all, every time you log in to the game, you'll go there – the Adventurer's Guild.
Before you start thinking it's some crazy theory, let me explain, because everything we're going to talk about is going to show how Alice manipulates the world. Most traveler-related quests start with the Adventurer's Guild.
Now, from a mechanical point of view, this is probably the easiest and most effective way for developers to drive a story. But are there any potential factors related to the lore? Why do travelers always start with a guild? The reason is because of this very unique person - Catherine.
Because Catherine always has the role of guiding the traveler along a particular route. But what does this have to do with Alice? Because I believe that Alice is the one who made Catherine, giving her the ability to control the story from behind the scenes. Now, the creation of artificial life is nothing new, after all, we know that it was the Shadow who created the Skirmishers, and Albedo was made by Reindot.
So why do I believe Catherine was made specifically by Alice? Because unlike Albedo and the Balladeers, Catherine has a very obvious flaw, and we can notice that Catherine has a habit of malfunctioning when idle. It's as if she's an incomplete robot and not a real person.
Now, you might wonder how this explains that Catherine was made by Alice, as this inherent flaw is most likely related to Alice's character. We all know that Alice is very intelligent and powerful, whether it is alchemy, engineering, magic, or even the medicine she makes herself, her longevity must have helped her abilities a lot. But there are some very interesting things about Alice, she has a habit of making the story incomplete, such as sharing her homemade medicine and not even caring *** She even tries to launch hilichurls into the sky to study how to get on Sky Island, which ends up in a catastrophic failure when the hilichurls descend from the sky to the town of Clearsprings. She even tried to control Xiaobao with hilichurls as the core, which failed again. This disinterested her and began her next experiment.
Judging by her vast knowledge, combined with her irresponsible and eccentric character, as well as her connection to the Adventurer's Guild, if anyone made Catherine, I'm sure it must have been Alice, and to further cement everything she has participated in the game through the guild, even their aphorism gives us some hints: "ad astra abyssosque!".Translated as "towards the stars and the abyss", the stars represent the celestial realm, the sky, or the constellations, while the abyss refers to hell, destruction, or the abyssal order. Don't you think Alice is related to Reindot, who caused the Cataclysm and the Abyss Order, and the master of the astrologer Mona? If this symbolism is justified, it means that Alice is the core that connects the sky and the abyss, and basically, everything that happens in the story should be reflected to Alice.
If this is true, how much does she really know, and what makes her so secretive about her actions? To really understand why Alice is doing this secretly, we have to know how much she really knows. Does she know the truth about this world? However, what is the truth? I think there are two factors.
It is likely that Alice has already solved this formula. The first factor is to understand how the world works, the basic structure of the world, which includes the stories behind the sky and the constellations and how the leylines affect the world, and as the witch society where Mona and the master are, she may have a deep understanding of this, and I suspect that using this knowledge, Alice made pocket anchors powered by leylines, and in a similar way, the Wave Ship anchors, which teleported the ship to our location, both of which were based on the fixed waypoints we saw on our journeys, Based on this idea, it is not surprising that Alice is able to summon objects and creatures from different cosmic spaces, and if she knows the nature and basic structure of this world, with her knowledge and power, she can easily manipulate everything as she wants.
The second factor is the law of this world - Teyvat's law, when you directly oppose and question God, you face destruction, as a good friend with Reindot, and has existed for more than 500 years, Alice is likely to have witnessed the cause and effect of the cataclysm, and since Alice is connected to both Mona's master and Reindot, she is likely to be one of the few characters who can grasp the structure and laws of the world.
This makes sense, because after Reindot failed to succeed in confronting God, she entrusted Albedo to Alice to learn the truth, and with her eccentric and easy-going personality, the key element of Genshin Impact's entire story has been with Alice, hidden in plain sight, unnoticed, and orchestrated for hundreds of years to be freed from God's destiny. But the most interesting thing is that the gods allow Alice to roam freely, and knowing all this information, with Alice's ability and wit, it will definitely be detrimental to the existence of Tianli, which begs the question of how she got rid of this, and why the gods did not confront Alice head-on.
The reason is actually very simple, Alice has never really opposed God, with the knowledge and power she has, it would be very stupid to make the same mistake that her friend Reindot has made in the past, on the contrary, she uses passive methods, uses tool people, amnesiac travelers, in a very interesting way, even if the archons know these things, they have no reason to stop Alice, because she never crossed the line, the archons can't stop the travelers, because we only care about one thing, That is to find our brother and sister, to this day, the traveler does not know anything about the truth of this world and does not care at all about the struggle with the gods, at least not yet, maybe that is why everything unfolds at the end of our journey, and when we fully understand the structure and laws of this world, the story changes dramatically.
But what's even more interesting is that the Archon, after meeting the Traveler, no longer cares about the rules of this world, as if Alice had the Archon in her hands, which is really a great achievement, after all, Alice never really liked the Archon from the beginning, saying that Wendy was messy, Zhongli had a bad sense of humor, and the General was a grumpy recluse, all of which were in her publications, for a carefree and adventurous person like Alice, It can be very frustrating to be constantly watched and followed by suspicious people, and perhaps that's why she's been obscure in the eyes of the player, this innate easy-going personality, like an illusion, can remove any suspicion, because many times we will say that her crazy behavior is Alice, and accept her ridiculous personality and Klee's mother, but we always knew it, didn't we? We're not as forgetful as travelers, and we all know that Catherine is a little weird and has been manipulating the leyline network of our journey from the very beginning of the game.