Perinheri has a ridiculous amount of new and valuable information stuffed inside, each piece able to unravel or shed new light on an already existing mystery within the game – one of them being Arlecchino and her House of the Hearth.
This theory doesn’t quite end up where you’d expect it to. Part one of three? Maybe?
**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
01:17 The House of the Hearth
12:57 Balemoon
16:25 Legacy
19:13 Heaven’s Blades
22:45 Shadow
26:28 Closing Thoughts
**SPOILER WARNINGS**
– Narzissenkreuz Questline
– Ei’s Story Quest 2
– Archon Quest through Chapter 4
– Bloodborne (DLC)
**RELATED THEORIES**
Bread Lore (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/YHCv8KFdL6M
Butterflies and Death Gods (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/AajyhNchuRI
Narzissenkreuz Recap & Analysis (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/3022fhGGJLc
Arlecchino is a Hilichurl? (Ashikai) – https://youtu.be/XbOcDMHSQEU
Khaenri’ah & Perinheri (Roozevelt) – https://youtu.be/46YF14mVgDk?si=WsSqV4hh8Qxi9T4c
Arlecchino & Perinheri (Minsleif) – https://youtu.be/vx7TZkdUa0Q?si=WtCCaUClXpcnwpF8
Perinheri (SiliconOneFour) – https://youtu.be/dKNe9101jjA?si=uyhWzcbpP2jRevuZ
Perinheri (GenshinBane) – https://youtu.be/PePW8Q30nKM?si=dzEtoU-ziayYwm1j
Don’t Trust Arlecchino (Aru Hiseki) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZM9h-kpL7E
Darkside of the Moon – https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/s/Xb6PcdlkmZ
Godless Khaenri’ah – https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Lore/comments/12vosgd/about_the_true_history_of_teyvat_and_why/
**CITATIONS & FURTHER READING/WATCHING**
**CREDITS AND ATTRIBUTIONS**
*NOTES & CORRECTIONS*
– I'm aware that there's a gender change for Perinheri in Chinese, but from what I can tell it is ONLY in the traditional Chinese, not simplified or any other language. Roozevelt and I asked some native speakers on discord what they thought about it, and they didn't find it noteworthy. There's also a similar swapped gender change towards the King's advisor, and the gender matches the traveler in the case of both the advisor AND Perinheri… since that is the case, and we know Perinheri wasn't a descender but the traveler is, I'm inclined to disregard this as it appears to be a quirk of address unique to traditional Chinese. My mind is obviously STC with new information, but this is why I didn't include it in the video.
– I know it's ACK-eron not ASH-eron… I've just been pronouncing the soft CH since I was a kid and old habits die hard, oops.
– For that last mini-theory, I also forgot it was top THREE harbingers, not top FOUR which actually makes Arlecchino's situation kinda funny. I dunno if it changes my 4+7 = 11 thought experiment much beyond labeling, but we'll see!
Considering Ei is my favourite character I've always hoped they would go more into her lore and do more with a Mei expy. This only raises my suspicions that Hoyo has more hidden about her that will only come to light later on
YES!!! I've been waiting for this! 😍
how have i never noticed that rift hounds are based on the hounds of tindalos? They literally fold the corners of reality to teleport around.
Ash really out here with the pantsu lore.
Can't tell if whoever came up with this is down bad for Ei, or doen bad for lore.
At this point I'm waiting until Ashikai unmasks herself at the end of a theory video with "But that's just a theory… A GAME THEORY" and boom it's confirmed.
24:40 woah woah Raiden herself is a puppet too and her actual body is the booba sword?!?
All the discussion about crimson moons with red eyes is giving me Signalis flashbacks.
the cackle that left me when I saw Deshret 😀
not the underwear lore 😭
Rabbit holes in my Genshin? Impossible i tell you!
"crimson moon" ummm where in the type-moon hell i see i god-like being descend of a crimson moon in a form of white princess, something about vampires and a chair.
NOT DESHRET YOU WERE DOING SO WELL!!!
but im eating all this ei speculation literally ANYTHING to make her make sense
I have a theory that every archon is more than just a really powerful god.
Venti: shade
Raiden: is a moon sister.
Nahida: is part of the world tree
Zhongli and focalors/egeria are the missing links for me until now.
But both are weird
Zhongli we dont have a good ideia of how strong he realy is
And focalors creates human life out of oceanids.
Perinheri = Perihelion maybe?
The Chimney is the Night Sky, with the stars the embers and ashen stardust scattered throughout it. At the ascent of the night sky sits the balemoon, a blood moon, strawberry moon or an eclipse. Ascension occurs when a thing upon/beneath the land crosses the horizon (the veil), ascending into the domain of the heavens (the night sky), before it reaches a zenith and begins to descend once more back to the Earth, crossing back over the veil, achieving a "rebirth".
Perihelion is the orbit of a celestial body, specially at the point when it reaches closest to the Sun (which sometimes "eclipses" it from the view on Earth).
Please please please can people bring this to Ashikai’s attention..
There is a case that happened a while ago that sounds very familiar to what was explained at 6:20: the Newmaker case. Its very unsettling but keys words such as rebirth and asking if they are dead is also mentioned. (I didnt finish the video but this was too big a coincidence to not mention, I need to see her take on this matter asap)
That was …. Alot of lore.
Ok this doesn't have much to do with the theory but one thing to point out. While acheron is mentioned in dante's inferno, it is not originally from anything catholic or demonic(especially seeing as how the divine comedy is not even canon). Acheron is one of the 5 rivers that lead to the underworld and it is also the largest river. It's the first river that leads to underworld and it is where the dead wake up and where charon leads them to the gates of the underworld by ferry(provided they have the payment, if they don't, they have to walk the banks of acheron and styx for a hundred years). The underworld is often mistaken as hell cuz our world today and our views on the afterlife are dominated by abrahamic beliefs but this is not the case. The underworld and hades are simply the after life and the god of the dead repsectively, they are not hell and satan. The underworld is also where the greek limbo and heaven resides.
Я чувствую, что каждое видео Ашикай – это признание в любви к Дешрету.
This is the 3rd theory video I’ve seen today that says khaenri’ah tried to make descenders
Just a weird coincidence
Not saying your analysis of the number of Harbingers is wrong, but I think a simpler explanation is: 11 Harbingers + Number 0 (Pierrot, was it?) + Tsaritsa = 13. That's a traditional number for a coven of witches, and plenty of other groupings. That also links in the boss, who you said you weren't sure about. Of course, there may be a number of reasons for there being 11 of them…
Ever since reading the book and watching roo’s video, I’ve been waiting for you to drop this video, and needless to say, this is gonna be a banger. I just know it. :DD
i thought we made it through without a Deshret refrence this time besties
"I cannot believe i had to look at underwear for lore" is a sentence I never expected to hear in my lifetime lmao
Looking at underwear for lore… Inspiring
Ever since I saw a Genshin YouTuber talk about how The Angel's Egg anime film relates to Genshin, I wonder what you would think of it because ever since I saw that, I can't stop thinking about it! Especially as it relates to Perinheri and this new lore we have.
I'm really enjoying and I'm just overall glad at the fact that this theory/vid is diving deep into some possible new connections through the new book and the resurrection theming with fire and it's not just another arlecchino is a hilichurl theory
And from the leaks ik involving arlecchino story quest I'm kind of worried about what's upcoming it's nothing bad just a possible lack of something I think alot of people were expecting to get
pantsu lore, let's go!
arlecchino's colour scheme and design kind of looks like ashes and embers. a will passed down from the original orphanage, perhaps?
why does king queen and slave work so well here
Great Video, Loved the Comparison of themes and ideas from HSR, looking forward to any more thematic connections in the future, possible between boothill and arlechino coz they look so suspiciously similar
Wait… WAIT 12:18. It’s not that related, but I just have an epiphany. The fire moth we see in the Fatui video… is Signora! She turned into an elemental being after all, and Pierro saved her from dying like a flame does: extinguished. But the moth finds the ashes that were Signora body, and extinguish it right there. I always found that moth very upsetting, cuz we don’t know how a pyro crystal fly looks, and this one doesn’t exactly look like the others from different elements. And what’s even more, the crystal flies are also elemental beings. I don’t know if someone has already talked about this, but I choose to believe it, and make it my own head canon lol
Ok im gagged 😭😭
Wish Ashi would talk about Penacony.
Not sure if it was mentioned, but Signora's name also points to her being a fire butterfly or moth. Lohefalter can be read as German for blaze butterfly/moth.
My bet on Ashikai filming her own eye for that Crimson Moon thingy xD
Can't wait for 4.6 patch. I hope it has a ton of juicy lore.
For the algorithm
I love the minor connection between Bloodborne/Lady Maria and Arlecchino.
Lady Maria did horrible things until she couldn't stomache her dual sword. Afterwards she took up care of people who were experimented upon to try and make Celestial emissaries. Being their only comfort in their agony.
She also uses blood and fire in her boss fight. Partly because of her blood relation with Annalise, Queen of the vilebloods.
There is also an orphanage in Bloodborne's upper Cathedral ward in the city of Yharnam. Which houses children of Great Ones(the Eldritch gods in the setting) As seen when another character gives birth to one when the Blood moon descends upon the city. Though it doesn't relate to Lady Maria.
There's much more to uncover with Lady Maria, but I'd recommend playing the game and experiencing it yourself.
cackled at the last part, really can't help the Deshret comment eh?
There is a interesting piece of lore in arlechinno weapon, but since is not out yet, i guess it makes sense you dont mention it
Pierrinheri..?
23:58 THE PRIMORDIAL ONE, A PROGENITOR GOD; HAILING.. FROM
BEYOND THE STARS‼️‼️‼️‼️🦅🦅🦅🦅
Will the puppet not be another one?
There's a sort of horizontal traditional Chinese "chimney" well not a chimney but a space that is used to keep a bed or a room warm by allowing the hot air to go under/through it before it gets directed out of the house. Called a Kang.
Acheron also has moth connections….
The Acherontia atropos…
And I have always thought that Makato, Ei, and the Shogun Puppet had time motifs connected to them (Makato representing the past, Shogun Puppet representing the present, and Ei representing the Future).
And Acheron, Ei, and Arlechinno definitely share A LOT of similarities….
I kept waiting for the inevitable King Deshret reference and was not disappointed
Pronounces the ch in Arle’s name as k but as sh in Acheron’s name. Love it 😭