#genshin 4.4 spoilers

[mayobedo]

this is the closest we'll get to neuvillette's dragon form

[gamergirl-niffler]

I am so happy that some of Fontaine characters were included in the last bit of the event.

Neuvillette was just so wonderful! He sounded so proud of himself! It's good to see me outside the main story!

Neuvillette's gift:

IT'S SO CUTE!

[saccharinerose]

Back on my "Beisht and Neuvillette are related" crack theory, courtesy of a fucking dragon-shaped ladle Neuvillette apparently is going to gift us in 4.4

[yumenosakiacademy]

"I always believed we would see each other again... That our days of separation would finally end, and all my troubles would be behind me... If only things would stay this way forever..."

[shadowed-dancer]

Xianyun's daughters grew up and moved out, and she responded by moving closer to them and adopting another child in the process

I guess you can say she didn't enjoy being...

An empty nester

[mirror-to-the-past]

Chenyu Vale is abolutely lovely, and it's really recaptured some deep sense of immersive peace/wonder from exploring, etc etc. I could talk a lot more about it, but for now I just want to say that the ongoing gag "As the Young Master of the Feiyun Commerce Guild..." is cracking me up. Traveler is going to completely slander Xingqiu's name among the men and adepti of Chenyu Vale both, and Xingqiu's gonna have no idea what happened. 🤣

[thewordqueening]

ok...

[abowlofcurry]

love how zhongli essentially goes "come home for dinner more often" at xiao in the new part of the lantern rite quest

[out-of-context-genshin]

[schloobs]

finally did Xianyun's Story Quest and :(( [SPOILERS]

I'm so sad now it broke me

I MEAN JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE IT PANS OVER TO HIM HE'S THINKING OF HIS SISTER AS GRANNY IS SAYING THAT

"we're sure to meet again someday."

Shuyu crying really started all of it, then she started sobbing. seeing the tears in her eyes as Yuandai flies off. it started to break me

then the CUTSCENE THE FREAKING CUTSCENE

traveler speaks??? traveler crying??? traveler having a dream about their twin???

We need more traveler moments and stuff like this.

I am in shambles.

and thanks to paimon for being like this and making me laugh immediately after one of the best cutscenes in the game

[shikan0in-heizou]

paimon please. i'm also very good at puzzle solving

[artemisjpotter]

Hoyo please do you know what you’re doing to my shipper’s heart? 😭 ❤️

[secretkittywolf]

Whilst looking for the List Grimoire's in the Faded Castle of 4.6, I found a book called "Investigation of the Northern Barbarians" and it revealed some interesting lore.

These Northern Barbarians had tribes and whilst reading more, I discovered that Excalibur exists in Teyvat along with the Lady of the Lake. The first part of the passage in the book regarding Excalibur states:

For example, before the polis of Lugdunensis was razed by Legio V, it's population exceeded [REDACTED]. As the trade hub of many northern chiefdoms, its degree of prosperity could be favourably compared to [REDACTED]. The ruler of the area did not call themselves A "Chieftain" but a "Holy King", and they believed in their authority to rule came from an ancient sword bestowed upon them by the "Mother of Many Springs".

So somewhere in Genshin, Excalibur is in Teyvat. Not only that but there was a King Arthur, a Merlin and so on.

Another thing I found out was Erinnyes is actually called "Erringeth of Aremorica" due to a spelling error by scholars. According to Marius Servis (someone who's corrected this), "Er" signifies "high" while "Ringeth" would be the feminine cass of "ruler".

Erringeth means "High Ruler of Aremorica".

Aremorica is stated to be "once an obscure and unknown tribe, but only today the centre of power in the northern boarder region" from the book.

So yeah. It was certainly an interesting find but not only that but the "Mistress of All Waters" that was also mentioned in the world quest to unlock the Faded Castle, was created by Aremorica and it's considered fiction due to how this Mistress is the one true ruler.

[i23kazu]

4.4 spoilers

“ah yes.. home to the finest.. mint..” YOUR HONOUR THEYRE SO SILLY I LOVE THEM

[averaillisa]

[mirror-to-the-past]

Xingqiu fans are dining excellently with all the references to him and lore regarding the Guhua Clan being spotlighted via Chenyu Vale's "A Wangshan Walk to Remember." The comparisons that can be made between Xingqiu and his predecessors is also very fascinating...

The Grand Master Guhua truly did live out the life of idealized dignity and transparency just as Xingqiu desires for himself. There's something very touching and heartbreaking about the fact that Guhua's life was one deemed heroic, but he was only able to have his legacy carried on by Boxuan who cast his own name aside to exhalt the name of the deceased Guhua.

And then right after briefly recounting the life and works of Master Guhua, Wen brings up Xingqiu, reemphasizing the lofty ideal/hope that he can respark the dying flame of the Guhua (no pressure) and potentially act as a parallel to the founder of the art himself. It's made all the more poignant, considering that we could easily draw the connection that Chongyun could be considered Xingqiu's potential Boxuan equivalent, a fellow young practitioner of martial arts who acts as a peer and supporter of Xingqiu's arts (although lets hope Xingqiu doesn't die preemptively like Guhua did).

I don't have snippets of the dialogue for it or screenshots, but those books in the archive room were just so lovely to see. The fact that many of the old disciples of Guhua were just nerds like Xingqiu and enamored with wuxia novels, shelving their discussions of them among all of the records they held in their library was so sweet.

Additionally, the person who invented the Rain Cutter technique that Xingqiu uses now was the one involved with the hidden Wangshan chambers that had the really forboding message about the heavens rejecting humanity and whatnot... very mysterious stuff.

Additionally, those 5 swords scattered around Chenyu Vale, the first of which you find at the outskirts of the Wangshan Chamber....while not necessarily all individuals of the Guhua Clan, it made me oddly emotional to see how the years that went by, depicted by each sword's material- from a blade to a crude sword shaped stick- and yet they all had in common a very poetic observation of their goals and the world about them that could easily flow as a singular nature/travelling-based poem. And that spirit of poetry intertwined with swordsmanship flourishing across the ages still continues on with this one dorky rich boy. It's honestly wonderful worldbuilding, that through environmental storytelling and the mere mentions of a character who was never even present for the entirety of the world quest, all of these stories and records of Guhua disciples and swordsmen before him tell me all I need to know about Xingqiu as a character, too.