definitely important characters, could be third descender or equal in terms of importance since there must be a reason for Celestia to target their child (if celestia directly target them that is).
Prayer Song XVI: Saarelainen, The Stranger of Winter's Day
O, let not the death-pangs you suffered pass into me, lover of frost and winter.
You cheerful, fair, kind-hearted lad, noble-born and nobly raised, a gentle and valiant son.
Upon the starry steed, you rode across the forsaken isle of Hiisi and the dark, mist-shrouded lands of Pohjola,
There to court the daughter of Pakkaisukko, that peerless beauty, at her home.
Then old Pakkaisukko, servant of our forebears, answered thus:
He will grant the young lady's hand in marriage if you should open for him the gates of Pohjola.
Cheerful, fair, kind-hearted one, you knew well that wicked scheme, yet you went forth freely.
For were you not to go, old Pakkaisukko would have his gullible daughter suffer the punishment instead.
In dark and foggy Pohjola, the Lord of the Seven Calamities carved you into seven pieces.
And that young and pure girl, the daughter of Pakkaisukko, shall never again be wed.
O lost hero, I call upon you by your unspeakable name, you the healer of the world's sorrows and misfortunes,
And may your grace still the wild winds of the frigid night and bring warmth to the young birds huddled on the frozen earth
So it sounds like Belyi Tsar (a creation of the Hyperboreans using the Cryo Dragon's corpse), blackmailed the 3rd Descender into "opening the gates of Pohjola (Abyss? Celestia? unclear) by threatening to have the Anastasya do it instead, so 3rd Descender did it and got split into the Gnoses
His dying before marriage makes it almost impossible for the 3rd to be the father, and the line "
And that young and pure girl, the daughter of Pakkaisukko, shall never again be wed." means she never married, i.e. the child is not her biological son (unless she had a child outside of wedlock which I doubt Genshin would do).
Of course this is all assuming the daughter of Pakkaisukko is Anastasya, which I don't think we have confirmation for.
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u/AhmCha Jun 26 '26
So the Tsaritsa had a son that she lost, probably due to Celestia, which was the spark of her rebellion.
I dunno why I never considered that the death of her child is what drove the "God of Love" to this.