Second Who Came

The Second Who Came, also known as the second throne of the heavens, appeared in the world of Teyvat an unknown amount of time after the creation of humanity at the hands of the Heavenly Principles. In the ensuing battle between the Heavenly Principles and the Second Who Came, the heavens and earth were ravaged, with the region of Enkanomiya sinking underwater and becoming severed from the surface world of Teyvat.
==Profile==
==Story==
Little is currently known about the identity of the Second Who Came or when they existed relative to other known events in the Teyvat timeline, other than their appearance and conflict occurring untold ages before even the Archon War. The only confirmed information is that they arrived while Enkanomiya was part of the single, unified human civilization that spanned the world; later on, they came in direct conflict with the Heavenly Principles.
Due to severe damage they sustained during their conflict with the Second Who Came, the Heavenly Principles "could no longer use their absolute authority to suppress the original order of this world." This caused the Heavenly Principles to collaborate with "one who came after" and create the Gnoses to maintain order.
===Enkanomiya Beliefs===
A year after the people of Enkanomiya built the Dainichi Mikoshi, they attempted to find a way back home, believing that the war on the surface world was likely over by that point. However, they were unable to find one, as the "powers of prohibition" had sealed Enkanomiya from the surface. According to a scribe of Istaroth, this ban was placed by the Heavenly Principles and accordingly, the Heavenly Principles emerged victorious over the Second Who Came.
==Trivia==
* The Second Who Came is currently the likeliest candidate for the identity of the Second Descender.
* The Second Who Came is also speculated to be the Dragon King Nibelung, considering the many similarities in the descriptions and timeline placement of the Ancient Dragons' War of Vengeance and the Second's war, as both nearly destroyed the fabric of the world, later requiring the divine nails to mend, took place some time after the Heavenly Principles' initial establishment of their order, and left the Seelie race in ruins.
* Due to the parallels between Enkanomiya's historical records in Before Sun and Moon and Teyvat's legends regarding the Seelie, the moon sisters, and their eventual fall, the Second Who Came may be the "traveler from afar" in the Seelie legend. The main difference between Enkanomiya and Teyvat's legends is that the Enkanomiya legends specifically record the existence of the Second Who Came, while Teyvat legends do not indicate any such entity but leave the state of the world before the fall of the Seelie open-ended.
** The Seelie are said to have been a mighty, wise race tasked with guiding humanity, and remains of their civilization can be found in the wastelands now known as the Dark Sea. At this time, a single unified human civilization covered the whole world, which Enkanomiya was part of prior to the war with the Second Who Came.
** A Seelie ancestor pledged their union with a "traveler from afar," only for disaster to befall the world thirty days later, which resulted in the lovers being separated for eternity and having their memories of each other wiped. If the scribe's belief that the Heavenly Principles prevailed over the Second Who Came is true, then the Second Who Came may be the traveler in the Seelie legend. Given that Before Sun and Moon is believed to contain evidence that the Heavenly Principles and Celestia are not from this world, it is likely that the Second Who Came was an outlander as well.
** The destructive scope of the disasters in the two legends are described similarly: in the war with the Second Who Came, "the heavens collapsed and the earth was rent asunder." During the fall of the Seelie, "the world collapsed around them," while on the moon sisters' side, "disasters overturned the sovereign carriage and laid ruin to the halls of the stars."
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fr:Second qui prétendait au trône