The poison had sent the Prince into a coma as the Pale Princess slept. The six pygmies' scheme started to unfold. Pitiful creature, are you here to see your master?" The vile smirk of the Night Mother exuded the breath of the abyss. We then suffered the torment of exile. Stripped was our connection to heaven, to our powers of enlightenment…” What the pygmy didn't know is that the vicious Night Mother had already found the Princess. She followed the pygmy stealthily, like a wild cat stalking its prey, her shadowy figure blotting out the moonlight and starlight.

The Prince had already told her about the Kingdom of Light hundreds of times before, but at that moment, the Prince realized that she was determined to find out for herself. In Book V, the Six Pygmies begin to plot their plan to kidnap the prince. But the two big things I wanted to make note of in this book were these two quotes: The Pale Princess lived in the moonlight forest, the only place free from the night mother's rule. Similary, Seelie were known to have lived in palaces in the Dark Sea, outside of the dominion of Phanes, In the distant past, the Night Mother ruled over the faraway Land of Night. Here, no light touched the earth, nor did a single tree grow, and there was no life here but the horrendous denizens of the dark.Shrunken Pygmy: Previous Dendro Archon. The God of Trees and garden are the only correlation I can find for this one. He wanted to revive his garden. The Night Mother left the pygmy to wallow in grief. But first — whether out of some hitherto unknown sense of pity, or simply to see him suffer more, we shall never know — the Night Mother left a glimpse of hope for the wretched pygmy.

The Records of Jueyun talk about the Seelie Ancestor and the Traveler from Afar (2nd who came). Who have a story nearly identical to the Pale Princess and the Prince. Now that you are all my people, please let me take you to the Kingdom of Light. It's a place that can bring sight to the blind, wisdom to the foolish, courage to the timid, and reinvigoration to the shrunken. As a princess, this is my gesture of gratitude to you."The Prince claims to be from the other side of the world, the "Kingdom of Light". He was full of vitality, leaves flourished and people grew stronger around him. He accompanies the Princess to fulfill her dream of bringing her people to the other side of the moon. But this requires them to first go through the Land of Night. The curse made the pygmies feel as though they were being cooked in a giant cooking pot. If the cooking pot is referring to Teyvat, this could make sense since the eternal “cooking” would allude to how the archons all go through erosion which cannot be stopped. Now taking into account the Sumeru Lore that we know of, there is a case to be made here that the Pygmy being "evil" is a way to describe the Archons trying to save their own nation. The tool to achieve this is presented as the seed she gives to Ei to create the miracle sakura tree.

We now know that fairytales are written in such a way that that the choice for characters makes sense with who they're representing in reality. I'm not entirely sure if others have come to the same conclusion as me, but I can't seem to find any. Most people believe it to be the story of the Tsaritsa and other Archons, or the story of Khaenri'ah, but I will try my best to explain why I don't think this is possible for anyone who still has doubts. Foolish Pygmy: The Hydro Archon. Little is known about the Previous hydro archon. The current hydro archon "God of Justice" however sounds foolish. The title of the quest is "Masquerade of the Guilty".

The Pale Princess and the Six Pygmies (V)

The princess was already in chains. The moonlight kingdom was destroyed and the people were cursed in front of her eyes. "They will be in an undead state, lingering at the point between life and death forevermore." Of course it is easy to write it off as just narrative ploy to make us like the Archons, but notice how other character's traumas, if existent at all, are relayed to bits and pieces in voicelines rather than the full cutscenes we systematically get for Archons. The Blind Pygmy wants to keep the sunlight with them forever, which is the prince. He doesn't want to risk losing the Prince. This punishment from the Night Mother represents what Phanes did to the Seelie, who we now know, from the Goddess of flowers, were cast from heaven after meeting with the Second Who Came.

On the surface, the six pygmies were true to the Princess and Prince, and followed them everywhere. But they were still heinous creatures from the Land of Night, and corruption flowed in their veins. As the days traveling to the Kingdom of Light grew long and dangerous, the root of evil would again blossom in their hearts. A fairytale story that has been told throughout Teyvat for ages. In this installment, the Six Pygmies' sinister scheme starts to unfold. One by one, the Princess and the Prince saved the deformed pygmy's five brothers. The kind Princess said to them: But the master of the heavens, consumed by fear for the rising tide of delusion and breakthroughs, sent down the divine nails to mend the land, laying waste to the mortal realm…”The implications of this are interesting. Why would a character need to be short in the story of the pale princess? This is where my idea comes in.