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A SUMMARY IN SUMERU | Genshin Impact Song!

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Thanks to Genshin Impact for reaching out to work with me and making this project possible! #ad

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When I was first approached to work with Genshin Impact on a promotional song for their next big update I would be remiss to say I wasn’t sceptical. Just what would I DO with it? It’s for certain not my typical fare here on the channel but there’s nothing I love more than a challenge. (Arguments could be made for a good, strong cheddar but Big Cheddar have yet to reach out about a song).

So Liz and I set about playing and researching the lore of Genshin Impact to try and find an angle that would be a good fit for the channel. In our research of the lore we discovered two key things;

Number one: There is a LOT of it. Like, wow. There’s a lot to get your head around. How would I pick one thing to squeeze into a song?

Number two: There’s an entire region of the game devoted to the pursuit of knowledge with a grand academy at its centre.

Well if we’ve proved one thing over the past five years it’s that if you give me an establishment where some sort of authority figure could conceivably lecture a listener on a given relevant topic, I can squeeze that through my noggin’s song nozzle and extrude a jam from it.

So what if… I tried to cram as much lore as possible into as little time as possible? Now THERE’S a challenge.

This song could easily have been five times longer and still not covered everything so it’s far from comprehensive, but as a fun race through the history of the continent of Teyvat it is, as the kids say, a bop.

A huge thanks to everyone who helped pull this project together! To Jemma for returning to the channel to make the costume after her fantastic prior work on The Toybox, to Stargirl for her work on the makeup, To Kitnxi and Xoriak for their work on the CG and as always to Oxygen for his work on composing the music and mixing the track!

A lesson learned on this project? A big fake moustache glued to your lip that stops your upper lip moving plus amore subtle physical performance to imply age plus the fact that said moustache also hides half of your mouth PLUS half the time trying to balance on a moving treadmill in a full length trip hazard of a robe whilst also performing in character to incredibly fast lyrics…

Equals A: a very hard time lip syncing and B: the fact that even using all the best takes you can’t see my mouth moving under all the facial hair half the time. Trust me, it is!

Stay tuned, folks! There’s another big project on the horizon!
(And Big Cheddar, if you’re listening, call me.)

#genshinimpact
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Lyrics, vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium and Lizzy CJ
Song produced by @OxygenBeats
Costuming by Jemma Locke Seamstress: https://www.facebook.com/JemmaLockeSeamstress
Makeup by Stargirl: https://twitter.com/stargirlkyu
3D environments by Kitnxi: https://twitter.com/kitnxi
CG Lighting, Camera and Rendering by Xoriak: https://twitter.com/XoriakOfficial

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    LYRICS:

    Oh, hello!

    You don’t look familiar

    I suppose you’re here

    For a little bit of lyrical enlightenment, hmm?

    Alright then

    Strap in!

    VERSE 1:
    Welcome, weary traveller, you’re new, I haven’t seen ya

    You stand amidst the grandeur of Sumeru Akademiya

    A scholarly repository of knowledge and philosophy

    Concoction and apocrypha are seldom to be seen here

    Our word is official in a whirlwind of disciplines

    Enlightening the minds of the world and its citizens

    You strike me as likely a person who’s visiting?

    So, might be you find you’re uncertain of fitting in?

    We’ve boffins in technology and noggins for biology

    But you’ve dropped into the college of the prof of Aetiology

    The study of what was and is, their causes and, well, probably

    You’d think of it as ‘history’, simplistic but just tolerably

    So, honoured be the Sumeru to summarise events for

    A quick initiation to equip you for adventure

    The mythic twists of nations, the intrigues and invasions

    Exquisitely relayed by a semi-certain mentor

    I’ll be honest, there’s a lot of it, and though we’re never wrong

    There’s a reason no-one’s ever tried to show it in a song

    Whilst musicians of tradition throughout the kingdom might prefer ballads

    When I’m spitting wisdom, you’ll forgive a little word salad

    Right, here goes then!

    I’ll start with the easy stuff

    Well… easy-ish…

    So, I’ll take you through the basics, the most obvious of straight facts

    You’ve landed in the land known as the continent of Teyvat

    It’s made of seven nations, there’s Natlan and then Fontaine and

    Sumeru and Inazuma, Snezhnaya, Liyue, Mondstadt

    Now, don’t get overwhelmed, there’s a plethora of realms

    Elemental Light, abyssal Void and human, where we dwell

    But don’t think of them as places, they all take up the same space

    It’s more like layers in a cake, well no, that’s silly, maybe… well

    The cake is filled with currents! No, the elemental kind

    There’s light and dark respectively, but ours are called Ley Lines

    Like magic streams of energy that carry all the memories

    Of everyone there’s ever been and all they’ve left behind

    Perhaps I should have tackled this before we’d begun

    But the human realm was helmed by ‘The Primordial One’

    I’d expect a God progenitor needs modern context first?

    No, this is too complex, I’ll save it for the next verse

    CHORUS:
    The Genshin dimension is pretty intense

    Filled with events too dense to mention

    Now I don’t mean to test your comprehension

    But I think it’s best you pay attention

    If you fall from the stars for all sorts of fun travels

    Before you can start you’ve got lore to unravel

    The Akademiya encyclopaedia’s a crack source

    Want to make an impact? You’ll need a crash course

    Right, you got all that?

    Good!

    How about a little Ancient History?

    OK! You asked for it

    VERSE 2:
    So, many millennia ago there was the Sovereigns

    Dragon lords, the all-powerful sort, just sort of hovering

    About, all seven with a territory, embellished

    By their presence with their elemental offerings

    You want to hear specifics? Well, we haven’t got time

    But each nation’s God has got their own impact on their climes

    There’s Cryo, Pyro, Hydro, Dendro, Electro, Geo, Ameno

    Really convenient that they all happen to rhyme!

    Then obviously enters the Primordial One

    The progenitor I mentioned? And a war was begun

    The Primordial One fought the Lords of Dragons

    And when all’s said and done, the Primordial… won

    The Old World ends and the new begins

    Which the God made fit to have humans in

    And though peace and prosperity were brief we can generally

    Agree the Human Realm is quite a useful thing

    An addendum, I should mention, there were sisters in the moon

    Only one of them was Canon but I’m pretty sure it’s true

    They lived in a lunar palace where they kept the stars in balance

    And a people called the Seelie rose to relevancy too

    But that’s beside the point, the fact is all were living happily

    For several generations Gods reside beside humanity

    A great civilization, nations weaved into a tapestry

    Of arts and innovation – then the Ancient Calamity

    The universe did just get a rebirth

    But it soon laid waste to the heavens and earth

    When The Second Who Came, yes, I swear that’s their name

    Suddenly entered the game and well the records are regretfully mehhh

    What happened next? We’re not actually sure

    They were far too busy dying to keep track of the score

    The moon sisters eclipsed and the Seelie were wisped and –

    Let’s just break for a chorus then come back for the war…

    CHORUS:

    The Genshin dimension is pretty intense

    Filled with events too dense to mention

    And this session’s intent’s to attempt to condense

    And to dispense with all the questions

    If you fall from the stars for all sorts of fun travels

    Before you can start you’ve got lore to unravel

    The Akademiya encyclopaedia’s a crack source

    Want to make an impact? You’ll need a crash course

    Oh! You’re still here!

    People don’t normally make it this far

    I thought you might’ve switched for a different video

    During the second chorus! Heh heh…

    Right…

    VERSE 3:

    Listen up! It’s time to learn about The Archon War!

    When it started? Again, we are not sure

    It either starts in the Calamity or after it, what matters is

    It happened, it was bad and that it lasted for

    At least a whole millennia, again, be clear, we’re guessing here

    The deities in Celestia, a region in the heavens, where

    The gods sit in their special chairs and sit and do whatever, dared

    To question who knew better and who gets to keep on resting there

    Seven Divine Seats saw the heavens divided

    Each nation collides with those they used to ally with

    As deities fight over a place in the sky

    Until they got a seating plan they could agree on decided

    And when chaos subsided and the seats were agreed

    And those nations in flames had their new deities decreed

    All seven could then get on with an era of peace

    Nope! There was an eighth one hiding beneath their feet!

    Yes, Khaenri'ah was underground and hidden from the gods

    Which as you can imagine, well, they didn’t like a lot

    So, they smote them for their vanity, now known as the ‘Calamity’

    Which backfired quite spectacularly, well what were the odds?

    As they unleashed abyssal creatures, which was probably horrific

    But again, when being eaten, no-one documents specifics

    So, better not to dwell because it’s plainly depressing

    Another half millennia and hey, it’s the present!

    CHORUS:
    The Genshin dimension is pretty intense

    Filled with events too dense to mention

    Now I don’t mean to test your comprehension

    But I think it’s best you pay attention

    Now this sessions intent’s to attempt to condense

    And to dispense with all the questions

    To make a little sense and help retention

    A melody to prep you for ascension

    If you fall from the stars for all sorts of fun travels

    Before you can start you’ve got lore to unravel

    The Akademiya encyclopaedia’s a crack source

    Want to make an impact? You’ll need a crash course

    Want to fight Gods? Well, before your destiny

    You’re gonna have to battle with some lore complexities

    You can master magic or amass a great attack force

    Want to make an impact? You’ll need a crash course

    OUTRO:

    There we go! We’re done!

    A complete and thorough history of the land of Teyvat

    Everything you could need to know

    Though I did neglect to mention the Gnoses, the vision-wielders

    The Fatui and the Abyss Order

    At least one or two other types of dragon…

    Look, there’s a lot, okay? You’ll figure it out

    It’s stressful trying to keep track of this stuff

    It takes a toll!

    Look at me!

    I’m only 26!

  2. Don't worry, it's not like the game explains much about visions and gnosis too much either way. Either that or is hidden behind giant walls of texts and books that almost no one would ever wanna read.

  10. The fact that you bothered to go that deep into the rather dense lore just for a song is impressive. I mean, this lore is very dense. I had to brush up on my pre-Christian religious lore in real life to help me keep track of things, ha.

  27. Are there… Kirby voice clips in this song? Or maybe it’s like Klee and they just sound similar. All I know is it sounds like parts of Final Cutter.

  30. I have never touched genishin impact in my life and this guy is able to dress as an old guy and explain me genishin impact lore for 7 mins straight without me losing interest at any moment, at this point im sure this guy is literally not capable of making a bad song

  35. I noticed something… A while ago. Sometimes, some of Stupes' songs don't hit when they come out. But you just need the right mood for those, and they too turn into a banger.

  39. Damn, an old man taught me Genshin lore in 7 minutes, while the game didnt manage to do it in those 1600 hours I already have on it….
    Oh, wait, hes 'only' 26 :3