I know, I’m late. I’m sorry. I have no excuses.
Anyway, it’s a real shame Arlecchino’s story quest got buried so hard because its ending is a HUGE deal for the future of Genshin’s story. Also, the Scylla, Cassiodor, Boethius story quest and the Harmonic Whimsey lore have me extremely frustrated because it’s like they’re going out of their way to undermine interest in the wider lore.
Check the doc linked in my Arlecchino community post if you’re interested in seeing the kinds of rabitt holes I take myself down when working on these videos.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:22 4.6 Recap
7:18 CHESS!!!!!!!
11:34 Iriminsul is the Worst
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Wait I love this Natlan theory. Most people assume Natlan will be a loss for Traveller because Fatui theory says we will fight Colombina and maybe Capitano (if that is his constellation) next. And this would be such a Hoyo thing to make us think one thing and then do another
Wait wait anyone else thinking Raiden finna come by?!? After the lore bomb in the new event 🤯
I love Irminsul. Thanks to Irminsul I now don't waste time trying to dig out the lore, because in the future it's gonna get changed to promote their new shiny 5-star anyway.
In lore the artefacts are memories/duplicates that come from (a blood sacrfice? plus) a ritual offering of resign to a silver tree with four crowns. The artefacts were always as reliable as the tree they are spawned from and we were fools to believe otherwise given the evidence was actually always there.
I don't think the memory death thing is a cop out, it's been established for a while now, especially with the Aranara saying that death is a one time lose of memory
So yeah I think Arlecchino is probably aware of some sort of secret that the Aranara are talking about, especially with how the energy in Irminsul (memories, data and elemental energy) shapes the physical world
Since the element of pyro is known for raw strength i think the traveller will get a big upgrade in natlan possibly even unlocking a little of his original power since paimon says there was a huge amount of light when the traveller touched the fontaine statue. Also it makes more sense for him to get the upgrade since we are fighting Capitano the first of the fatui harbingers in Natlan
NATLAN will be the Naturo Training arc for the Traveler.
I think you're completely right! The most recent appearance of Ei and Miko asked if Ei would accept the mortals as combat partners in the war to come. I'm so hyped, and I really do want to see more of that convo go on, especially with how Ei's PTSD is written.
I absolutely loved that Traveler was basically a bystander in Fontaine's final battle and the outcome of Arlecchino's SQ. Here's to hoping Natlan is Traveler's training music montage.
People hate the Irminsul and i understand why, but i lowkey love it. It's so unique in the way it turns the usual lore firmula upsidedown making factual documents unreliable and weird prophecy-fairytale-poem things the main source of information
It’s just me having high hopes but my theory is Sandrone will come into play- we know she modified the bodies of the Fatui agents and she apologized to Traveler in that one Fontaine quest where she cut the guy’s tongue out. Maybe she’ll help out the traveler with some type of modifying
The traveler is gonna need a power up based on how badly they were bullied against arlecchino
People are making a big fuss about irminsul but i think it's unnecessary. In a story when you have a character or object omnipotent or nearly omnipotent you have 2 case scenario for it
– either you find an excuse to not use it too often (Neuvillette saying he can't leave Fontaine for too long, convenient to not go after the Archons right away)
– or you have to kill/destroy it. Irminsul won't be use that much in the story.
It will only break the lore if each things we can't answer to yet could be answer by ''irminsul''.
+Not everyone can use Irminsul like that, even gods are not sure to succeed in changing thing inside it
Hoyo is smarter than that
little bugger become medium bugger lmao
You never know, we might play as the pyro archon and fight two harbingers at once.
Also like, against arle wasn't going for travellers life, if she were than travellers domain "plot armor" would have activated and as everybody knows its the strngst domain in game
*SPOILER ALERT for LUPUS AUREUS ACT II QUEST*
I wonder if the recent story with Cyno, Sethos, and the Ba Fragments of Hermanubis will tie into Natlan. You know Hoyoverse always has a reason for dropping these quests. I wonder if there is something similar happening in Natlan with fragments of Murata’s divinity being passed on and inherited generation after generation. Maybe a fragment was given to a member of each one of the five/six tribes of Natlan so they all had equal power, (maybe one tribe was where the pyro archon came from so it wasn’t given a fragment) but then people started getting power-hungry, killing and usurping for extra fragments to increase their power and attracting the attention of Ursa the Drake. Perhaps in the end, the remaining two leaders had acquired an equal amount of fragments, and no one had ultimate sovereign leadership. So the tie-breaker fragment(s) was/were hidden away (Bennet, anyone? He was found in the Mare Jivari and has silver hair) to keep it/them from falling into the hands of those who would misuse them. Whoever holds the most fragments has ultimate authority over the region. So then we could get a quest in the future where we have to protect/save Benny-Boy.
that dead zone is right over Khaenri'ah, maybe they’ll raise it from underground so they needed a blank area
It means natlan is put training ark trust
i think the resurrection of pyro archon and her help in training the traveler is considered 'cheating'.
if murata has a realm like makoto's realm where 500 yrs is like few minutes in teyvat. traveler could train there.
I guess its time to burn a tree truely
Why are we supposed to feel sorry for a kid abusing animals out of curiosity just because he's orphaned his parents must have been understanably horrified to have an animal-abuser for a son? Even if might have not done it out of malice, animal abuse is still wrong. But anyway I wouldn't be suprised if somehow Natlan's Archon quest is gonna be the nation putting Traveler through an Anime-esque training-montage and prepare us for it's Anime-esque tournament-arc to participate in and face Capitano.
Are you going to make a video about Ei and Miko about the biggest war coming in the itto event