#and so far fontaine is doing that for me 🫡

[monocaelia]

ough it has been a looong while since i’ve enjoyed a genshin update

[die-lian-hua]

hello remuria professor 🫡 i come here with a question that has been bothering me for far too long: if egeria was the mother of all, gentlest kindest most lover-of-life goddess, how could she let her most faithful follower (erinnyes) slaughter the vishaps and dragons? i “get” the anger towards the other humans, but if they (vishaps) were the original inhabitants of those lands, why were they also the “enemies”? 🤔

well, unless u know some source I have missed… she didn’t, actually we can infer from the text that exact opposite has happened.

First, Egeria had been sealed by the Goblet of primordial sea and therefore out of commission for an indefinite period of time up until after Remuria had sank and Celestia—by their own volition—decided to free her and make her the hydro archon. At some point this goblet was under the possession of Vishap King Scylla, who’s implied to be the Hydro Sovereign—previous heart of the primordial sea before Egeria herself—and at another point he and Remus were friends enough that Scylla granted him this goblet which he used to build Remuria. So as far as Erinnyes was concerned, Scylla was a friend of Remus and therefore an enemy and a threat to the Lochfolk and Egeria’s rule, one that she needed to get past to attain the goblet and free Egeria.

In actuality, Remus went crazy because of the prophecy and in his attempts to free the Fontainians of this curse he did a lot of cruelty that turned Scylla against him and made the dragon an enemy of Remuria with the intent to destroy it

In Chanson d’Erinnyes (take anything in this book with a few grains of salt bc Erinnyes literature is Genshin’s equivalent of the Arthurian cycle which gets ever so confusing with its multiple sources and the book follows the fictionalized version of the story from Spledor of Tranquil Waters’s description rather than the real one) the knight herself vows to “destroy the white dragon” but we don’t know if this was before or after Scylla decided to betray Remus. It was this intention to go against Remus and Celestia itself that made Erinnyes rally the royals of “barbaric lands” to her side. Keep in mind any territory in Fontaine that was not taken in Remus and Boethius’ conquest were considered to be “barbarians”. The “barbarians” were often described as bloodthirsty and blinded by violence and revenge—this is direct implication to Erinnyes bc she was the barbarian blinded by her vengeance for what Remus did to her tribe

now there’s a gap in information that for some reason Remuria records loooove to skim past so we don’t have a lot of information that is concrete?

The next thing we know is that Hydro Dragon Scylla attacked Remuria with his army of vishaps and an army of barbarians he recruited. Now where did this army of “barbarians” come from? There’s no other alternative besides Erinnyes, because that’s what she had been doing for the previous years. So we can infer that at some point, Scylla and Erinnyes joined forces to invade Remuria (which makes a lot more sense bc Egeria herself was very empathetic towards dragons) but we have yet to get any text about how they reached this agreement. We can take a wild guess, bc usually “resolving a conflict peacefully” and “gaining an ally” is Erinnyes language for beating the shit out of someone until they yield and come to your side

TL;DR from the implied history it would seem Erinnyes’ relationship with Vishaps started as “a friend of my enemy is my enemy” and ended with “an enemy of my enemy is my friend” but I’m not sure about her actually slaughtering vishaps

[amethyst-starglitter]

i’m sick (still) so I’ve been playing genshin more and i absolutely love aratakki itto. his story quest is amazing. he’s just such a kind person, but at the same time a major goofball.

i haven’t really shown who i’ve gotten so far so….. here are all the 5-stars i have so far :D.

1-Tighnari

i hated that i got him instead of jean at first. if i could go back in time i’d bonk myself because i love this man so much. he’s so funny and he’s such a good character! (basically dendro ganyu)

2-Keqing

i love her, but I was really sad because i lost my yoimiya 50/50 for her 😭. i don’t really use her as much anymore not because i’m salty, but i just have characters i prefer.

3-Wanderer/Scaramouche

he was guaranteed for me and i think at first i hated playing with him. then there was an event and it showcased him better and i liked him. i gave him lost prayers and he’s doing well in the damage department. i am a little sad i couldn’t get itto tho.

4-Mona

this one hit the hardest. i lost my 50/50 to ayato 😭. i was really sad because i didn’t like mona’s play style. i like her hydro application better now, but i would have rather gotten jean or diluc or qiqi. (seriously though i only have 1 cryo character i didn’t get layla or rosaria).

5-MY FAVORITE XIAO

i am so happy i have him! he’s the best i love playing as him. i’m happy i had guaranteed. he’s so strong already 😭. i got his spear a while ago and knew i needed to pull for him when he came back.

i’ve really liked playing genshin and i’m waiting to start the sumeru archon quest until the Fontaine on starts. i just don’t want to get bored because i finished everything.

in other news i’m patiently waiting for the ayaka or eula reruns (mainly eula). maybe if she doesn’t show up i’m pulling for yelan, but i’m going to wait for the program first.

and if anyone wants to talk about genshin my asks are open

good luck to the yelan and hu tao pullers. and the xiao and alhaitham pullers 🫡.