#i envision focalors looking up

[myjustice]

childe has a honorary fontainian license because he was needed to buy the people more time against the narwhal.

i wouldn't blame him if he doesn't want to come back to fontaine on vacation but if he does he'll get his princess treatment. furina would make sure of it.

[al-perthe]

I DID IT

Not counting past events that I missed, I’m officially caught up with the Genshin plot - including the Story Quests and all the Hangout endings. I also watched the Harbingers trailer 

So. Some Sumeru talk (spoilers), speculation/theories, and tying into the latter, potential leak discussion (potential spoilers) BELOW

First and foremost, yeah, 100% criticism of how they whitewashed a region that's supposed to be based on South Asia. REALLY worried how they're going to handle Natlan if it's supposed to be based on West Africa + Mesoamerica. I think that's probably as far as I should discuss the racism/colorism since it's not my place to talk about it.

I really feel like the order of character wishes after Tighnari (even though he later ended up on the standard banner) should have gone:

Dehya>Alhaitham>Nilou>Cyno>Nahida>Wanderer. Like we're really just now getting Alhaitham?

I was so scared I was going to have to deal with the Mikage Furnace defense again

I'm... "satisfied" with how they handled The Balladeer/Wanderer's story. I don't know how to describe the feeling. It doesn't feel like the Traveler is ready to forgive him yet (that might just be me projecting), but there's a sense of acceptance that he did these things, but that even if he's still kind of a brat, at least he's no longer on the enemy side. Childe might be friendlier, but he's still a Harbinger at this point in the story.

Dehya>Alhaitham>Nilou>Cyno>Nahida>Wanderer. Like we're really just now getting Alhaitham?

Yes, I checked Bourou Village for Teppei after the "erased from timeline" stuff started, and then checked again after completing the quest. ;n;

I renamed the Wanderer as "Unmei", since it means fate/destiny in Japanese.

I don't think we can do a second readmore so LEAK TALK BELOW which means even more potential spoilers if true

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Rumor has it Dehya will be in the 3.5 Banner, so all that's left then is Kaveh, but I have this hunch he might be a 4-star.

I can't find a credit for the '???' voice at the end, but my first speculation was Sandrone, because the ??? English VA sounded slightly like Katheryne to me? And Sandrone is supposedly going to be introduced in Fontaine. With the reveal that Katheryne is indeed some type of bionic puppet and has a very strong resemblance to Sandrone, who is also known as "The Marionette", there could be some sort of 'memory/knowledge' connection since Nahida temporarily had control of Katheryne? I just looked it up, she has a different VA.

I envisioned Fontaine as a floating city via the power of Steampunk, like in Bioshock Infinite. It seems as though it's going to be an actual 'land', possibly north of Sumeru and Liyue. Maybe a floating "island" will be the region's "secondary" location (like The Chasm is to Liyue).

I'm predicting Focalors will be our first Hydro Claymore user.

Ohhhh the fun stuff now. More interlude coming. IF THE LEAK IS TRUE, I AM SO READY.

Out of curiosity, I legitimately sought out this location in game... there's some details missing - background flowers, the waitress, and the tea set - but I imagine that for the latter two it's probably for framing purposes (the tea set would be blocking Kaeya's upper body in this shot).

They're in Port Ormos, sitting at the furthest table from the little restaurant.

If we're really getting Dainsleif + Kaeya interaction, I have a hunch that we're going to finally meet Pierro ("The Jester"). To my recollection, the first three Harbingers we just straight up met in person (La Signora, Childe, Scaramouche). Tighnari told us about The Doctor experimenting on Collei before we met him... and Scaramouche spoke to us about "The Jester" before we got to hear his voice in a memory.

I don't think we'll get a BIG interaction, but we'll confront one of the other Harbingers (probably Sandrone or Arlecchino) and just as the fight ends, Pierro will intervene to get that Harbinger out of there, enough to get an 'intro' like the others prior, but we'll probably wait until closer to the end game to finally fight him.

I know it's highly unlikely, but I'm not giving up Khaenri'ah royalty Kaeya just yet, like imagine King Irmin entrusted his son to the Alberich clan in his dying hours, and there was some sort of 500 year time pocket situation, blah blah long lost prince is coooool. Dang, Kaeya lost 3 dads then.