I feel like I'm the only one: But Wanderer feels like a breath of fresh air from the other characters. As in; where the other characters deeply admire or worship the ground the traveler walks on, Wanderer is the only one to be an asshole towards us 😂
I like how Yae really wanted to help him as fast as she could, even though it failed in the end it still meant that even if she wanted to "get rid of him" she still attended his plea of help, it shows very clearly that she has more than one aspect to her character. It's also due to the circumstances of everything that happened, Ei probably was never even informed of this incident too, it's funny how most problems in Inazuma have to be "Nobody told Ei" 'd or else they'd get solved on the spot lol.
It was mentioned that Niwa put an information blackout on the Mikage Furnace incident because people were getting sick and dying, so word never got to Tenshukaku. By the time the kabukimono took a boat to Narukami to seek an audience with the Raiden Shogun about the situation, it was already too late.
Even if they told Ei she would not care, afterall tatarasuna is described in the text as a small incident not needing to be paid any mind. She ignored a civil war and let a forgein nation invade, and lets not forget that she would have known about dottore and scaramouche's incident considering she can see all that pertains to eternity and he's obviously a threat. Nobody could reach Ei, and even if they could she wouldnt care. That was the point of the archon quest.
@@Fuphu The line about her knowing everything pertaining to eternity was so vague and poorly written. It’s obvious that Ei knows only what the Shogun puppet knows, and that if the Shogun puppet is misinformed or kept in the dark about something, like the civil war, then so is Ei. The point of the Archon Quest is that Ei cares about her people and her nation, but that her methods were too extreme. She expels the Fatui from Inazuma after their plot is exposed, abolishes the Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees, and fights a 500 year-long duel just to prove that her resolve to protect Inazuma and her people are just as strong as before. Hell, even in the recent Itto rock and roll event, she has a line where she says that her people cannot be made to suffer as they did in the past. Those are not the words or actions of a ruler who doesn’t care about their people.
@@themapplez I didnt say she doesnt care for her people as a whole, but she does not care as long as it doesn’t affect her nation’s ideals of eternity, these ideals include most inazumans being alive (not not necessarily thriving). The point of the archon quest wasnt to change her methods of caring for her people, it was to get her to abandon her current idea of eternity because she’s been a willing recluse refusing to listen. When you mention Teppei, the people of watatsumi, the vision hunt decree, the sakoku decree, the tenryou comission’s abuse of power and blatant xenophobia, among MANY other issues, she says they not word for word but in essence “its sad it happened yeah but when im done that wont be an issue anymore so…..Imma keep doing what im doing). Ei’s first story was about fully convincing her as well as showing her humans exist on individual levels and still mean something. Ei’s second story is her acting on her changed ideals proving to us she has changed. Also in regards to her knowing only what the shogun does is blatantly wrong, we’re shown that the tricomissions did not mention the delusions among other things to her, Ei even confirms this herself, she also has 0 informants as she was specifically known for not talking to anyone for 500 years (hence why she didnt meet scaramouche to begin with). Her line about her knowing about things pertaining to eternity is likely literal, her sklls show eye symbols and she even has the crimson moon behind her which is said to have a massive leering eye, the voice lines of her skills talk about watching over stuff and so on. If you want more I could go on, but the truth is she just didnt care for anything aside from her obsession. And with Eternity being closest to heavinly principles perhaps it resonates from the gnosis the most (as we know gnosis hold their welders obsession) causing her immense hyperfixation. Lastly, I dislike raiden shogun for how the story has treated her story arc but as a character she was great. Her lack of care, her hyperfixation among other things is very similar to younger zhongli not understanding human emotions nor being able to understand humanity’s value. Guizhong helped Morax and the traveller helped Ei.
No matter her intentions, Ei did still abandon him. It really is unfortunate, she let him go, feeling that he deserved freedom. When only having been born, he didn't know anything of it. And so, he did nothing in the empty abode bestowed to him. The least she could have done was at least let him live in an actual house. With people. But even if I say that, I can only say it in hindsight. Many tragedies can easily be fixed in hindsight. But in the moment, when the ones about to experience the tragedy aren't even aware of it... What else can they do, but make mistakes that lead to it?
I literally love you for writing this, this is my thoughts exactly. No matter her intentions(though she had no malice in her heart doing this), what she did was still no more than leaving a small child alone in a place in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps he was never meant to wake up, perhaps things were better this way, but does that really justify all the pain she so indirectly caused?(Of course, there are more sides to the story than just one, and Ei genuinely did just make a mistake, not knowing the consequences of her actions, but people can suffer indescribable amounts of pain and grief from such a "small" thoughtless error in one's actions.)
Scara’s lore has so much depth it’s crazy(especially since lots of his story’s complexity is hidden within his Character Story, notes, etc.) I love this man a normal amount, I swear(I don’t swear actually, def not a normal amount), but I really appreciate his lore and how unique he is as a character, Hoyo really put a lot of their effort into him and his story, and I am so grateful to them for that,
"It's all a misunderstanding" is too much for this guy's lore 😩 I prayge hard for Hat Guy to go to Inazuma but why would he even tbh 😭but still, just INTERACTIONS. I beg
Fr, the “All of his trauma was just misunderstandings” I see at times make me want to write whole entire essays about how his character is so much more than that(though I don’t blame ppl for thinking such tho, just really wish his tragically beautiful character and story was noticed more)
Shout out to the VA for doing this character so perfectly. You know, back in version 1.1 I actually thought his voice acting was bad. "Why does he sound like an edgy teen?" I thought. "He doesn't sound cool, or badass, or threatening. He sounds like a vulnerable kid trying to compensate for something." I didn't know...
In my interpretation Irminsul can't change the past only the records and memories of it. Scaramouche existed and everything went down the same way. I think that's what the scene with the broken base implied. If we somehow went back in time Scaramouche would still be there. Irminsul somehow finds a way to alter the records of the past for them to fit the new narrative rather than changing history itself
I think the Cryo Archon got access to the abyss because of the Jester, coz he's the royal mage of Khaenriah, so maybe he got some teleport waypoint there 🤣
I would say that Scara understood the first betrayals as he should, I mean he didn’t misunderstand it, bc Ei literally left him alone without even explaining why she did that. I know her intentions was good, but it still doesn’t look right. If she talked to him and explain why she doing that, everything would be end differently. I mean bc of that Scara always thought that she abandoned him because he is not strong enough, that he is unworthy. And also at the time he didn’t even knew basic human things like: washing the clothes, reading, cooking. The fact that she left him alone without saying a word doesn’t feel right. It’s little cruel in my opinion. And it was very lucky that good people from Tatarasuna found him. If it weren't for Dottore, maybe he would have continued his quiet, calm life and would have remained as innocent and kind as before the betrayals. Who knows? Btw thank you for reacting to his lines. It’s very interesting to listen your thoughts regarding the moments of his life. I enjoyed it very much! I’m so curious about our future journey with traveler. I can’t wait for Snezhnaya, all the fatui members are so interesting!!!
Bro posted Hat Guy's Lore & Voice Lines reaction video on YT together with Peruere's on Twitch the same day Bless ya, Arnold :D Can't wait for Columbina and, of course, The Absolute Gigachad Of The Harbingers that is The Captain
GAHHH his past always makes me so sad cuz everything was basically built on misunderstanding and a lot of it had to do w dottore’s influence too…i wish he’d show up in an event again its been too long
Also I think this puts into perspective how smart Ei can be when she puts her mind into something, she did the equivalent of a citizen of Edo Japan period(year 1500~) finding out a computer from the 60s (Khaenriah junk) and somehow making an AI far more advanced than what we have today in 2024 all on her own, she can also disable functions and even tone down sentimentalism like she did from Scara to the Shogun so she actually knows what she's doing, no offense to my favorite bird but Ei's creations make Cloud Retainer's look like kid toys. Also remember what Albedo said in that one event? That he was Rhinedottir's magnum opus because he was indistinguishable from human beings and could blend in with the humans just like that? Ei did that with her proof of concept in Scaramouche, then repeated it and made it Archon levels of strong and immune to physical and mental erosion and while she tried integrating the Gnosis into it as a source of power, she somehow just resolved that issue and didn't even need the Gnosis at the end. Dottore had Scaramouche as a completed prototype to work with, the Sumeru Akademiya's backup and a Gnosis and even with all this he ended up making the Shouki no Kami far clunkier and less powerful than the Shogun Puppet. So anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk just wanted to spread awareness cause I die a little inside when people say Ei is actually dumb or something goofy like that.
Something worth noting: The most militarily powerful nation on the continent needed to involve three Harbingers, 400 years of planning (starting with Dottore sabotaging the Mikage Furnace), presumably a massive amount of resources, and had to corrupt 2/3 of the Inazuman government just to create a small gap in the system that an emotionally vulnerable Ei created. Even then, they were caught and ousted after just a year. Sure, Ei's system wasn't perfect and she is at fault for leaving an exploitable loophole, but for a first-time ruler who wasn't ready or fit for the position and was dealing with immense loss and war-related trauma, she had a pretty good first try. Additionally, no other nations that we've visited - who have Archons that are better rulers - had to deal with a 400-year long plot with multiple ongoing schemes (the delusion factory, riling up the Orobashi fanatics, political corruption). I would bet that even the other nations would have struggled if they had to deal with a plot into which so much time and resources had been invested.
I mean...guizhong had figured out AI with that bell of hers like 2000 years before. Ei is technologically smart but sadly trauma is not an excuse for being a despot and suppressing the fundamental right to movement of your citizens and taking control of their possessions. People call her goofy because she truly didn't realize what she was doing was wrong. If she did, and still went through then she'd be evil.
@@sarwatarannya8786 The bell is very vague at best being honest, and is nowhere near as complex as Scara or the Shogun, or at least it hasn't shown to be like that. And Ei's idea was to protect her citizens, she valued their life more than their ambitions, it's a perfectly reasonable idea that she took too far, it's almost like an overprotective mom stunting the growth of her children for the sake of their safety. It doesn't make her evil nor stupid, it's just something she used to value more, was it wrong? Thematically yeah but even that ideology has an argument to be made.
40:00 Damsellette gives me high Ninomane Ina'nis vibes (for all u vtuber fans out there) She looks cute and wholesome, but u never wanna mess with the Ancient Eldritch Magic laying dormant inside them.
Hopefully, considering the Fatui Harbinger wheel, we get to fight her soon! Especially as the 3rd Harbinger, and one who is at a level of a god, it would prepare us for a fight against Capitano, who's (likely) the 1st ranked Harbinger and at the level of a god.
@@user-biscut i don't think we're ready for the Big 3 at all, especially since there's Pantalone and Sandrone left, not to mention Pulcinella, but since he's the mayor of Snezhnaya it's unlikely he'll ever leave the nation.
@BlakeGrifter Pants-man is only 9th. We aren't going to fight him unless it's a tag-team or mini fight, but that's super unlikely because he's all business, and we've never heard anything about his fighting. (I could only ever see him as a round-one opening act before we fight Dottore. Sandrone is ranked 5th, we could end up fighting her, but they will likely not be a weekly boss and instead be a regular open world boss (like we step into their workshop and have to fight a horde of their mechanical creations before we can reach them.) Pulcinella is unlikely to fight us, given his code name, "the mayor" suggests that he'll play a political role instead of a direct confrontational role. He is also only ranked 7th.
@BlakeGrifter I also don't think that we are ready to fight the top 3. But that doesn't mean that the Traveler has to win in the story they just have to survive. Like fighting Ei the 1st time, it was scripted that the Traveler loses (even if you win the battle where Thoma is the 100th vision, the cut scene of them losing still plays). The Traveler just has to either last long enough for an interpretation/get help/survive the fight. Nahida helped the Traveler with Scaramouche, Yae Miko, and the ambitions/wishes of the people helped us fight Ei and Ei fought the Raiden Shogun.
@@user-biscut buddy smth tells me there wouldn't even be a chance of survival this time. Plus it would feel rushed, not to mention Capitano's the one said to be in Natlan, so it would be weird for another of the Bug 3 to be in the same place. Maybe we should just take it easy, but i get what you mean. I'm curious abt her powers too.
I'll admit, I didn't want to pull for Wanderer at first. But then I found out he shares the same bday as me. Sure enough, I made a single 10 pull, and he came right home. Now he's my best Anemo unit. And surprisingly, I like him more than Childe 😅
I also want Scara and Kazuha to meet, they’re also both wanderers that long for permanent companionship, that they can have if they wander the world together. Kazuha’s whole story quest was an allegory to Scara, and during idodori he said that he wants to meet the eccentric, not for revenge but just to get to understand him. I’m also a kazuscara shipper, so I really want it to happen.
40:22 man, I feel so bad everytime people say Childe is the weakest because his rank is the last one :( His character story even says "He is the youngest among the Harbingers, but one of the most dangerous among their number". I wonder if the reason for that is the mistranslation that Harbingers are ranked by strength? If I remember well, the Chinese text uses the word "power"/"influence" which makes much more sense because how is a banker without a vision (Pantalone) seated higher than Tartaglia?
The fun fact: I didn't know that my favorite character is two days before my birthday. So it felt more like fate [despite Kage Kaze says otherwise about the sky and what not]
Have you not seen A Winter Night's Lazzo? Most people immediately flocked to characters they knew nothing about before they got more information. I was no different. I deemed him my favorite from that trailer alone, and since then, my adoration for him has only solidified. But based on my own theorycrafting, I believe him to be either the chivalric White Knight turned The Blood-Stained Knight of Mondstadt, or he's Imunlaukr from Val Vindagnyr, so his potential lore fascinates me. He also had a run-in with Grandmaster Varka, who is also affiliated with Mondstadt. And following that trailer, he's highly respected by the other members of the Harbingers, likely being Rank #1 of the organization, and he's regarded as one of the strongest people in all of Teyvat. Bro is literally HIM and he is my Captain! Check this video out for more context: ua-cam.com/video/7mKnfthRz8w/v-deo.html
@@MurderofBirdsImpact Oh yes I have seen it! I think all of the harbingers designs are so cool and honestly I can’t wait until we see all of them in game. Idk why, but for me the harbingers have been hit or miss character/personality wise (arlecchino is the first harbinger I actually have an affinity towards), and I always have to have a lot more information about them before I start liking them. However like I said, I still am very curious about them all. Thanks for linking the video, I’ll definitely give it a watch later!
Hi, I wanted to ask for a while, this i think is the best place to that. I know that after this patch 3.3, you've only read lore of Neuvillette, Furina and Arlecchino. Are you planning to ever read the lore of other released after 3.3 characters?
I want to clear up any confusion that might come from your comment that "you've only read lore of Neuvillette, Furina and Arlecchino",: Those are the only characters since Version 3.3 that I've read ON-STREAM. I still read character lore post-Version 3.3, but if you mean, will those readings ever be streamed and later uploaded to UA-cam? No. Any lore reading prior to Version 3.3 that I've done on-stream that doesn't relate to the archons, the abyss, the harbingers, Celestia, Khaenri'ah, or the primordial age will remain on Twitch and will become public for all to view relatively soon. Following Version 3.3, I'm only focusing my time on-stream on character lore centered around those topics due to having too much content to cover and only so much time to cover everything on-stream and then repurpose for UA-cam content.
Psst, the screenshot of Childe's line on Columbina looks wonky. At 40:04. I think it also happened in the previous vids sometimes. The pictures doing the thing where they're like uhhh stretched diagonally?
This was a rendering issue that plagued a few videos in the past. We've been aware since but there's nothing that can be done. Eventually, the problem was detected and fixed, so you'll eventually never see it again lol.
The puppet was crying in his sleep meaning he was very emotional and fragile meaning he was very similar to Makoto, and I'm pretty sure Ei believed these emotions were the reason why Makoto had died. So Ei wanted the puppet to be the exact opposite.
SCARAMOUCHE SCARAMOUCHE, WILL YOU DO THE FANDANGO? Scaramouche: 49:14 I'm no fan of Dango Also 40:56 it's actually the other way around, Arlecchino is more like a sheep in wolf's clothing
Yo! I'm a Wanderer main and checked his lines often, have you rechecked his final ascension voice line? I'm not sure why or when they changed it, but it's slightly different than the version caught in the video!
Scara is such a hater u can only take his voicelines about other characters at face value 😭 Like he thinks Childe is unaware of Pulcinella being sus when Childe himself has admitted having some suspicion Ntm him tryna find flaws in the Tsaritsa and GOAT-tano
Only tangentially related, but your description of Scaramouche can also be applied to the people in the Genshin community who don't read and then whine about X character's actions not making sense or complain about "pLoT hOLeS" that would easily be resolved if they had paid attention to the story. Not saying that Genshin's writing is always perfect, but it's clear that the writers do try to emphasize the important plot elements (often through Paimon repeating things, which, to be fair, can get really annoying sometimes).
Why would he be referring to the previous Knave, who has been dead for years at this point? This is very much in line with Arlecchino. She's diplomatic and assertive, has crazy, scary powers, and makes people go "poof" that causes her, her children, or her House operations trouble.
I feel like I'm the only one:
But Wanderer feels like a breath of fresh air from the other characters. As in; where the other characters deeply admire or worship the ground the traveler walks on, Wanderer is the only one to be an asshole towards us 😂
I like how Yae really wanted to help him as fast as she could, even though it failed in the end it still meant that even if she wanted to "get rid of him" she still attended his plea of help, it shows very clearly that she has more than one aspect to her character. It's also due to the circumstances of everything that happened, Ei probably was never even informed of this incident too, it's funny how most problems in Inazuma have to be "Nobody told Ei" 'd or else they'd get solved on the spot lol.
Yae is complicated, but at least she did try tho
It was mentioned that Niwa put an information blackout on the Mikage Furnace incident because people were getting sick and dying, so word never got to Tenshukaku. By the time the kabukimono took a boat to Narukami to seek an audience with the Raiden Shogun about the situation, it was already too late.
Even if they told Ei she would not care, afterall tatarasuna is described in the text as a small incident not needing to be paid any mind. She ignored a civil war and let a forgein nation invade, and lets not forget that she would have known about dottore and scaramouche's incident considering she can see all that pertains to eternity and he's obviously a threat.
Nobody could reach Ei, and even if they could she wouldnt care. That was the point of the archon quest.
@@Fuphu The line about her knowing everything pertaining to eternity was so vague and poorly written. It’s obvious that Ei knows only what the Shogun puppet knows, and that if the Shogun puppet is misinformed or kept in the dark about something, like the civil war, then so is Ei.
The point of the Archon Quest is that Ei cares about her people and her nation, but that her methods were too extreme. She expels the Fatui from Inazuma after their plot is exposed, abolishes the Vision Hunt and Sakoku Decrees, and fights a 500 year-long duel just to prove that her resolve to protect Inazuma and her people are just as strong as before. Hell, even in the recent Itto rock and roll event, she has a line where she says that her people cannot be made to suffer as they did in the past.
Those are not the words or actions of a ruler who doesn’t care about their people.
@@themapplez I didnt say she doesnt care for her people as a whole, but she does not care as long as it doesn’t affect her nation’s ideals of eternity, these ideals include most inazumans being alive (not not necessarily thriving).
The point of the archon quest wasnt to change her methods of caring for her people, it was to get her to abandon her current idea of eternity because she’s been a willing recluse refusing to listen. When you mention Teppei, the people of watatsumi, the vision hunt decree, the sakoku decree, the tenryou comission’s abuse of power and blatant xenophobia, among MANY other issues, she says they not word for word but in essence “its sad it happened yeah but when im done that wont be an issue anymore so…..Imma keep doing what im doing).
Ei’s first story was about fully convincing her as well as showing her humans exist on individual levels and still mean something.
Ei’s second story is her acting on her changed ideals proving to us she has changed.
Also in regards to her knowing only what the shogun does is blatantly wrong, we’re shown that the tricomissions did not mention the delusions among other things to her, Ei even confirms this herself, she also has 0 informants as she was specifically known for not talking to anyone for 500 years (hence why she didnt meet scaramouche to begin with).
Her line about her knowing about things pertaining to eternity is likely literal, her sklls show eye symbols and she even has the crimson moon behind her which is said to have a massive leering eye, the voice lines of her skills talk about watching over stuff and so on.
If you want more I could go on, but the truth is she just didnt care for anything aside from her obsession. And with Eternity being closest to heavinly principles perhaps it resonates from the gnosis the most (as we know gnosis hold their welders obsession) causing her immense hyperfixation.
Lastly, I dislike raiden shogun for how the story has treated her story arc but as a character she was great. Her lack of care, her hyperfixation among other things is very similar to younger zhongli not understanding human emotions nor being able to understand humanity’s value. Guizhong helped Morax and the traveller helped Ei.
oh captain, my captain... you were always right 😂
My man Wanderer soloed the Abyss. Give this man a raise lol
No matter her intentions, Ei did still abandon him. It really is unfortunate, she let him go, feeling that he deserved freedom. When only having been born, he didn't know anything of it. And so, he did nothing in the empty abode bestowed to him.
The least she could have done was at least let him live in an actual house. With people. But even if I say that, I can only say it in hindsight.
Many tragedies can easily be fixed in hindsight. But in the moment, when the ones about to experience the tragedy aren't even aware of it... What else can they do, but make mistakes that lead to it?
I literally love you for writing this, this is my thoughts exactly. No matter her intentions(though she had no malice in her heart doing this), what she did was still no more than leaving a small child alone in a place in the middle of nowhere. Perhaps he was never meant to wake up, perhaps things were better this way, but does that really justify all the pain she so indirectly caused?(Of course, there are more sides to the story than just one, and Ei genuinely did just make a mistake, not knowing the consequences of her actions, but people can suffer indescribable amounts of pain and grief from such a "small" thoughtless error in one's actions.)
WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
Scara’s lore has so much depth it’s crazy(especially since lots of his story’s complexity is hidden within his Character Story, notes, etc.) I love this man a normal amount, I swear(I don’t swear actually, def not a normal amount), but I really appreciate his lore and how unique he is as a character, Hoyo really put a lot of their effort into him and his story, and I am so grateful to them for that,
first 3 ranks: terrifying by description.
rank 11 : punching bag
"It's all a misunderstanding" is too much for this guy's lore 😩
I prayge hard for Hat Guy to go to Inazuma but why would he even tbh 😭but still, just INTERACTIONS. I beg
Fr, the “All of his trauma was just misunderstandings” I see at times make me want to write whole entire essays about how his character is so much more than that(though I don’t blame ppl for thinking such tho, just really wish his tragically beautiful character and story was noticed more)
The fact that the way he adore nahida probably because she reminds him about the kid :"
Scaramouche really got put through the wringer by Dottore
OMG I was just thinking when Wanderer lore will get dropped lol insane!
You manifested this haha :)
Shout out to the VA for doing this character so perfectly.
You know, back in version 1.1 I actually thought his voice acting was bad. "Why does he sound like an edgy teen?" I thought. "He doesn't sound cool, or badass, or threatening. He sounds like a vulnerable kid trying to compensate for something."
I didn't know...
Nah Dottore will absolutely have segments for his boss fight. Its just something reasonable like 5 now rather than 30.
Going in the goddamn furnace to read his lore??? Foul! I say foul!!😭
I really hope Hat Guy will show up in some later archon quests to confront the Harbingers with us. That would be such a neat encounter.
Arnold is going to have the worlds biggest field day when Capitano shows up in-game.
I’m gonna annoy the hell outta EVERYONE lol
@@MurderofBirdsImpact honestly I’ll be right there with you, bud. Captain, my captain 🫡 Anything for him
Been waiting for this!
Hope it was worth the wait! Appreciate the support! :)
YESS!! FINALLY!
Hope you enjoy the video! :)
In my interpretation Irminsul can't change the past only the records and memories of it. Scaramouche existed and everything went down the same way. I think that's what the scene with the broken base implied. If we somehow went back in time Scaramouche would still be there. Irminsul somehow finds a way to alter the records of the past for them to fit the new narrative rather than changing history itself
I think the Cryo Archon got access to the abyss because of the Jester, coz he's the royal mage of Khaenriah, so maybe he got some teleport waypoint there 🤣
imagine we fight capitano in natlan and he beat our ass with just klee crayon... john wick 2.0 lol
40:58 I wonder if this was about the prior Knave? It fits way better than with Peruere, I feel like she doesn't put a front as much as Crucabena did
Nice timing on this one since you just read another Harbinger's lore on stream some hours ago. Next up (hopefully) is Capitano!
Yeah, I thought the exact same thing lol
This was the only steam I was able to catch live. It was fun to see your reactions again.
I live for the Doctor and Regrator!!! They are my favorite
I would say that Scara understood the first betrayals as he should, I mean he didn’t misunderstand it, bc Ei literally left him alone without even explaining why she did that. I know her intentions was good, but it still doesn’t look right. If she talked to him and explain why she doing that, everything would be end differently. I mean bc of that Scara always thought that she abandoned him because he is not strong enough, that he is unworthy. And also at the time he didn’t even knew basic human things like: washing the clothes, reading, cooking. The fact that she left him alone without saying a word doesn’t feel right. It’s little cruel in my opinion. And it was very lucky that good people from Tatarasuna found him. If it weren't for Dottore, maybe he would have continued his quiet, calm life and would have remained as innocent and kind as before the betrayals. Who knows? Btw thank you for reacting to his lines. It’s very interesting to listen your thoughts regarding the moments of his life. I enjoyed it very much! I’m so curious about our future journey with traveler. I can’t wait for Snezhnaya, all the fatui members are so interesting!!!
"What is freedom, if demanded of you by an Archon?"
I would love to see either Wanderer or Raiden story quest where these two reunites...
I can't believe I just realized that the golden feather is on the front of his new outfit.
Bro posted Hat Guy's Lore & Voice Lines reaction video on YT together with Peruere's on Twitch the same day
Bless ya, Arnold :D
Can't wait for Columbina and, of course, The Absolute Gigachad Of The Harbingers that is The Captain
Now we know which The Knave was he talked about..😮
Scara is like Vegeta from DBZ
Asshole
but he is now our asshole
GAHHH his past always makes me so sad cuz everything was basically built on misunderstanding and a lot of it had to do w dottore’s influence too…i wish he’d show up in an event again its been too long
Columbina is prob the next playable fatui since natlan
Harbingers voice lines are the most interesting ones imo.
I love scara way too much..
We love to see it! :)
Also I think this puts into perspective how smart Ei can be when she puts her mind into something, she did the equivalent of a citizen of Edo Japan period(year 1500~) finding out a computer from the 60s (Khaenriah junk) and somehow making an AI far more advanced than what we have today in 2024 all on her own, she can also disable functions and even tone down sentimentalism like she did from Scara to the Shogun so she actually knows what she's doing, no offense to my favorite bird but Ei's creations make Cloud Retainer's look like kid toys.
Also remember what Albedo said in that one event? That he was Rhinedottir's magnum opus because he was
indistinguishable from human beings and could blend in with the humans just like that? Ei did that with her proof of concept in Scaramouche, then repeated it and made it Archon levels of strong and immune to physical and mental erosion and while she tried integrating the Gnosis into it as a source of power, she somehow just resolved that issue and didn't even need the Gnosis at the end. Dottore had Scaramouche as a completed prototype to work with, the Sumeru Akademiya's backup and a Gnosis and even with all this he ended up making the Shouki no Kami far clunkier and less powerful than the Shogun Puppet.
So anyways thanks for coming to my TED talk just wanted to spread awareness cause I die a little inside when people say Ei is actually dumb or something goofy like that.
Something worth noting: The most militarily powerful nation on the continent needed to involve three Harbingers, 400 years of planning (starting with Dottore sabotaging the Mikage Furnace), presumably a massive amount of resources, and had to corrupt 2/3 of the Inazuman government just to create a small gap in the system that an emotionally vulnerable Ei created. Even then, they were caught and ousted after just a year. Sure, Ei's system wasn't perfect and she is at fault for leaving an exploitable loophole, but for a first-time ruler who wasn't ready or fit for the position and was dealing with immense loss and war-related trauma, she had a pretty good first try.
Additionally, no other nations that we've visited - who have Archons that are better rulers - had to deal with a 400-year long plot with multiple ongoing schemes (the delusion factory, riling up the Orobashi fanatics, political corruption). I would bet that even the other nations would have struggled if they had to deal with a plot into which so much time and resources had been invested.
Preach
I mean...guizhong had figured out AI with that bell of hers like 2000 years before. Ei is technologically smart but sadly trauma is not an excuse for being a despot and suppressing the fundamental right to movement of your citizens and taking control of their possessions. People call her goofy because she truly didn't realize what she was doing was wrong. If she did, and still went through then she'd be evil.
@@sarwatarannya8786 The bell is very vague at best being honest, and is nowhere near as complex as Scara or the Shogun, or at least it hasn't shown to be like that. And Ei's idea was to protect her citizens, she valued their life more than their ambitions, it's a perfectly reasonable idea that she took too far, it's almost like an overprotective mom stunting the growth of her children for the sake of their safety. It doesn't make her evil nor stupid, it's just something she used to value more, was it wrong? Thematically yeah but even that ideology has an argument to be made.
40:00 Damsellette gives me high Ninomane Ina'nis vibes (for all u vtuber fans out there)
She looks cute and wholesome, but u never wanna mess with the Ancient Eldritch Magic laying dormant inside them.
Hopefully, considering the Fatui Harbinger wheel, we get to fight her soon! Especially as the 3rd Harbinger, and one who is at a level of a god, it would prepare us for a fight against Capitano, who's (likely) the 1st ranked Harbinger and at the level of a god.
@@user-biscut i don't think we're ready for the Big 3 at all, especially since there's Pantalone and Sandrone left, not to mention Pulcinella, but since he's the mayor of Snezhnaya it's unlikely he'll ever leave the nation.
@BlakeGrifter Pants-man is only 9th. We aren't going to fight him unless it's a tag-team or mini fight, but that's super unlikely because he's all business, and we've never heard anything about his fighting. (I could only ever see him as a round-one opening act before we fight Dottore.
Sandrone is ranked 5th, we could end up fighting her, but they will likely not be a weekly boss and instead be a regular open world boss (like we step into their workshop and have to fight a horde of their mechanical creations before we can reach them.)
Pulcinella is unlikely to fight us, given his code name, "the mayor" suggests that he'll play a political role instead of a direct confrontational role. He is also only ranked 7th.
@BlakeGrifter I also don't think that we are ready to fight the top 3. But that doesn't mean that the Traveler has to win in the story they just have to survive. Like fighting Ei the 1st time, it was scripted that the Traveler loses (even if you win the battle where Thoma is the 100th vision, the cut scene of them losing still plays). The Traveler just has to either last long enough for an interpretation/get help/survive the fight. Nahida helped the Traveler with Scaramouche, Yae Miko, and the ambitions/wishes of the people helped us fight Ei and Ei fought the Raiden Shogun.
@@user-biscut buddy smth tells me there wouldn't even be a chance of survival this time.
Plus it would feel rushed, not to mention Capitano's the one said to be in Natlan, so it would be weird for another of the Bug 3 to be in the same place.
Maybe we should just take it easy, but i get what you mean. I'm curious abt her powers too.
I'll admit, I didn't want to pull for Wanderer at first. But then I found out he shares the same bday as me. Sure enough, I made a single 10 pull, and he came right home.
Now he's my best Anemo unit.
And surprisingly, I like him more than Childe 😅
I also want Scara and Kazuha to meet, they’re also both wanderers that long for permanent companionship, that they can have if they wander the world together. Kazuha’s whole story quest was an allegory to Scara, and during idodori he said that he wants to meet the eccentric, not for revenge but just to get to understand him. I’m also a kazuscara shipper, so I really want it to happen.
40:22 man, I feel so bad everytime people say Childe is the weakest because his rank is the last one :( His character story even says "He is the youngest among the Harbingers, but one of the most dangerous among their number". I wonder if the reason for that is the mistranslation that Harbingers are ranked by strength? If I remember well, the Chinese text uses the word "power"/"influence" which makes much more sense because how is a banker without a vision (Pantalone) seated higher than Tartaglia?
I sense a C6 R5 Capitaino if he becomes playable 💖
#OhCaptainMyCaptain
Hell yeah!
This will be really interesting for me as i do not have Wanderer Cheers Arnold
The fun fact: I didn't know that my favorite character is two days before my birthday. So it felt more like fate [despite Kage Kaze says otherwise about the sky and what not]
I named my Wanderer Shion! It’s the Japanese name for the aster, which is named after the stars! It fits his vibes :3
What all have we heard about the captain in game? I’m so confused as to why Arnold likes him so much even though we barely know anything about him.
Have you not seen A Winter Night's Lazzo? Most people immediately flocked to characters they knew nothing about before they got more information. I was no different. I deemed him my favorite from that trailer alone, and since then, my adoration for him has only solidified. But based on my own theorycrafting, I believe him to be either the chivalric White Knight turned The Blood-Stained Knight of Mondstadt, or he's Imunlaukr from Val Vindagnyr, so his potential lore fascinates me. He also had a run-in with Grandmaster Varka, who is also affiliated with Mondstadt. And following that trailer, he's highly respected by the other members of the Harbingers, likely being Rank #1 of the organization, and he's regarded as one of the strongest people in all of Teyvat. Bro is literally HIM and he is my Captain!
Check this video out for more context: ua-cam.com/video/7mKnfthRz8w/v-deo.html
@@MurderofBirdsImpact Oh yes I have seen it! I think all of the harbingers designs are so cool and honestly I can’t wait until we see all of them in game. Idk why, but for me the harbingers have been hit or miss character/personality wise (arlecchino is the first harbinger I actually have an affinity towards), and I always have to have a lot more information about them before I start liking them. However like I said, I still am very curious about them all. Thanks for linking the video, I’ll definitely give it a watch later!
38:09 Me during yesterday’s stream 😂
About jester rank he’s called the director of the fatui while capitano is ranked first.
You're probably right, but that hasn't been confirmed yet.
About being called the Director it is confirmed. It is in Arle's official videos. @@kevinirmiter3669
@@kevinirmiter3669 didnt hoyo confirm that tho? iirc during a trailer they said Pierro Director of the fatui or something like this.
39:40
Can't wait for Arlecchino's turn
His voicelines and this video are such a treat ❤
32:22 hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
So I just checked, and Childes Balledeer voiceline actually got deleted after the Irminsul shenanigans.
Fan of Dango, FanDango... get it? He won't do the FanDango!
Yeah The Jester, Pierro is like the Director and It´s not ranked as one, and Capitano is indeed the number 1
Finally
Hi, I wanted to ask for a while, this i think is the best place to that. I know that after this patch 3.3, you've only read lore of Neuvillette, Furina and Arlecchino. Are you planning to ever read the lore of other released after 3.3 characters?
I want to clear up any confusion that might come from your comment that "you've only read lore of Neuvillette, Furina and Arlecchino",: Those are the only characters since Version 3.3 that I've read ON-STREAM. I still read character lore post-Version 3.3, but if you mean, will those readings ever be streamed and later uploaded to UA-cam? No. Any lore reading prior to Version 3.3 that I've done on-stream that doesn't relate to the archons, the abyss, the harbingers, Celestia, Khaenri'ah, or the primordial age will remain on Twitch and will become public for all to view relatively soon. Following Version 3.3, I'm only focusing my time on-stream on character lore centered around those topics due to having too much content to cover and only so much time to cover everything on-stream and then repurpose for UA-cam content.
18:55 some players can't even do floor 11 😢
Psst, the screenshot of Childe's line on Columbina looks wonky. At 40:04. I think it also happened in the previous vids sometimes. The pictures doing the thing where they're like uhhh stretched diagonally?
This was a rendering issue that plagued a few videos in the past. We've been aware since but there's nothing that can be done. Eventually, the problem was detected and fixed, so you'll eventually never see it again lol.
Hello! Did you ever upload any video where you react on genshin fanworks? (hoyofair, for example,,,)
So question on 35:42. Just to be clear, she birthed/or made wanderer, but neglected him because he not really involved with her eternity goals?
The puppet was crying in his sleep meaning he was very emotional and fragile meaning he was very similar to Makoto, and I'm pretty sure Ei believed these emotions were the reason why Makoto had died. So Ei wanted the puppet to be the exact opposite.
SCARAMOUCHE SCARAMOUCHE, WILL YOU DO THE FANDANGO?
Scaramouche: 49:14 I'm no fan of Dango
Also 40:56 it's actually the other way around, Arlecchino is more like a sheep in wolf's clothing
Yo! I'm a Wanderer main and checked his lines often, have you rechecked his final ascension voice line? I'm not sure why or when they changed it, but it's slightly different than the version caught in the video!
Scara is such a hater u can only take his voicelines about other characters at face value 😭
Like he thinks Childe is unaware of Pulcinella being sus when Childe himself has admitted having some suspicion
Ntm him tryna find flaws in the Tsaritsa and GOAT-tano
Only tangentially related, but your description of Scaramouche can also be applied to the people in the Genshin community who don't read and then whine about X character's actions not making sense or complain about "pLoT hOLeS" that would easily be resolved if they had paid attention to the story. Not saying that Genshin's writing is always perfect, but it's clear that the writers do try to emphasize the important plot elements (often through Paimon repeating things, which, to be fair, can get really annoying sometimes).
41:08
Again he is mostlikely talking about the previous knave
Why would he be referring to the previous Knave, who has been dead for years at this point? This is very much in line with Arlecchino. She's diplomatic and assertive, has crazy, scary powers, and makes people go "poof" that causes her, her children, or her House operations trouble.
@@MurderofBirdsImpact I'd also like to point out thanks to the short we know he was their when she became the Knave.
inb4 Capitano is 10th xD
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH HE'D BE #1!
So, the 3.4 Lantern Rite should be coming up next, right? Or was there anything else before that?
Akitsu Kimodameshi (Yokai event) > Lantern Rite 3.4 > Dirge of Bilqis > Windblume Festival 3.5 > Caribert Archon Quest
@@MurderofBirdsImpact Ty!