[3.8] Arlecchino's Secret Inspiration - Genshin Impact Lore

let's be real most people were probably pretty meh about the idea of Fontaine until the teaser dropped in oh mama what do we have here the head of the House of Hearth collector of Orphans cultivator of snajnaya's military units and curator of snazzy suits that's right it's the fan favorite Arlo Aquino herself and she's about to make a Big Splash in the nation of water and you know people are excited for it and shockingly I haven't talked about her possible presence in Fontaine at all yet despite having already made two whole speculation videos mostly because I really didn't have anything to say about her that others haven't already said we just don't know a whole lot but that all changes today because in this video we will be discussing some rather obscure references for arloquino that I have not seen anyone else talk about yet and of course we're going to do a little theorizing about who or what she may be canonically time stamps and notes for further reading are in the description box below and without further delay let's dive into this obscure look at our lakino let's start with some very quick canonical background information on our lakino because honestly there really isn't that much so why not our lakino is either the fourth or 10th Harbinger because those are the only two seeds unaccounted for as of right now unless you think Piero isn't ranked in which case the first seat is also open and her only known responsibility is running the house of Hearth an orphanage in snajnaya which seems to take an orphans from all over to that and raises them to be fatoui operatives Lainey Lynette and freminate are all likely three orphans from the house of Hearth given their talk of missions and their close ties to arloquino this will be important for later so keep it in mind both Wanderer and child call are like you know crazy in the insane sort of way with child going on to suggest that she's very self-centered and would betray anyone without a second thought if it suited her even the Sarita Wanderer also says that she has a tendency to make people disappear you know like Assassin style as far as Canon goes that is literally all we know for sure since the trailer didn't really tell us anything new however we did finally get a good look at her outfit that was hidden beneath her fatoui cloak last time and there is one detail in particular that stood out to me and literally everyone else yep I am talking about her hands because those sure as heck are not gloves her hands look like they've been stained with soot a very fitting feature for the head of the House of Hearth after all and you really gotta wonder what could have possibly made them that way and this is where we start to get really obscure because during my foray into fontaine's historical Inspirations my buddy rogo and I stumbled across something rather interesting that could be one of many sources of of our lakino's inspiration and could give us some insight into her motivations and possible role in the overall story I highly suggest that you check out my historical context for Fontaine video if you haven't already because I really think it helps with understanding kind of like what's going on but if you don't want to then hear some events and dates that may be meaningless to you and that I will grossly oversimplify Valentine is based on 19th century France along with a few other European countries like England and probably Italy and during this time Europe had just been through the Napoleonic Wars and was exhausted of its finances Manpower and materials no one really wanted to fight anymore so a tenuous consensus among the European nations formed called the concert of Europe now I say tenuous because it faltered a few times especially during the French 1848 revolutions and all of the revolutions that began to spark around Europe as a result of that one in particular this plus border disputes coupled with industrialization making great progress in the realm of military technology basically had everyone on edge but I want to draw your attention to one event in particular and that was when Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia during one of these little border disputes which by itself isn't really that big of an event in the grand scheme of things at the time but it did really piss off their neighbor Serbia because Serbia wanted Bosnia instead and there were a ton of Serbian nationalists within Bosnia who also wanted Bosnia to be part of Serbia which brings us to June of 1914. I promise there is a point to all of this so June 1914 the heir to the austria-hungarian throne Franz Ferdinand made a trip to Annex Bosnia and that pissed off the nationalists there now three members from the youth group known as young Bosnia tried and failed to assassinate him with a bomb two of them were captured and for safety's sake ferdinand's motor Carriage decided to change their route but they never told the driver so the third assassin guerrillo princip was still nearby when they got back in the car and so princip successfully assassinated Ferdinand and that shot was the shot heard round the world many historians attribute the start of World War One to this very specific event and while on the surface these seemed to have nothing to do with Arlo Aquino the scare thing young Bosnia was a youth group associated with the Serbian military secret society known at the time as unification or death who commonly worked with youth groups for similar operations but unification or death has another name the black hand and this is where it gets really interesting because our lakino having black hands and leading three young agents into an undercover Mission into Fontaine and she's known for basically assassinating people and the timeline matches up like what kind of coincidence is that it's not one that that's what type of coincidence it is it just isn't one plus all of this was during the concert of Europe which I know isn't like a literal thing but the way she talks about being actors on a stage feels like a nod to this somehow and if you really sit down to think about it all of the Nations within Tibet so far seem to align with most of the major players in World War One but I do feel like I need to be very very clear about something here because we can get into some very dodgy territory really quickly into that there will be no World War II I know using this time period as a source of inspiration for a game that pulls a lot of direct references from history can tread some really really sketchy Waters but I really don't think the game will go in that direction because see remember and conria has already been destroyed so Germany is kind of heated out of this picture and even though there are survivors all of them seem to agree that their enemy is Celestia more than anything else plus konria's destruction seems to be what triggered nejnaya to also want to challenge Celestia and so far the archons aren't exactly trying very hard to stop them meaning they may agree with the goal but not the methods therefore I think it's really unlikely that the Nations will end up fighting each other and are far more likely to join together and take on Celestia instead in fact I kind of feel like our lakino can be used as a proof point for this hear me out many many people have suggested that columbina is likely a Sealy mostly because she likes to sing like an angel which seems to be what series are based off of and the six wings in her hair kind of remind folks of seraphim who were known to sing Holy Holy Holy around the Throne of God while keeping their eyes completely covered and yes they did in fact have six wings three sets now in the Comedia Del Arte are lakino and kalabina are usually lovers or at least co-conspirators with arloquino usually working to thwart the plans of their master and overall just serving as a polar opposite to Piero it's very easy to miss in the teaser because it's only on screen for like a split second but our lakino has at least two crossed Wings in her hair in a very similar style to columbina now each one is a different color and that kind of matches her hair her eyes also have these crosses in them and a very similar pattern to the white lattice across columbina's closed eyes and since the two are lovers in the Comedia you have to wonder if these two aren't connected in a bit more direct way to each other than the other harbingers are like consider this possibility that they might both be sealies see columbina is described as unsettling to the point where even child doesn't want to fight her and Wanderer warns The Traveler against it as well and that kind of lines up with our lakino also being a bit unhinged and not to be trifled with and I know everyone's been wondering about this really weird brooch on her chest it kind of looks like it's been made up of four wings and cherubim were known for having two sets of wings for a total of four and if that's all true then arloquino must be in my opinion most likely ranked number four since columbina is ranked number three and cherubim are usually of a lower choir than the seraphim and that makes her quite a frightening opponent indeed but I do wonder who would be considered her master then is she rebelling against God or the primordial one after possibly being cast aside like the goddess of flowers was or is she a double agent infiltrating the fatoui with plans to screw over Piero in the end my money is actually on the former but possibly both because the idea that she may be using Lainey Lynette and fremony to trigger an event that would paint Celestia as an indisputable enemy of Tibet uniting otherwise disparate nations in an all-out war against Heaven feels very likely All Things Considered and it would be hilarious if that is true given her two best options in the fatoui constellation wheel her most likely consolation is out of the clawed hand with the flame which is probably a hand of Glory if you don't know what that is it's a the severed hand of a traitor or a criminal that's been turned into a candle Talisman thing with the supernatural ability to paralyze people so a symbol of a traitor given to someone who actively betrays their Master it seems like a pretty good fit for arloquino alternatively if you're a believer in Piero not being ranked as a Harbinger then the crying mask is also a decent candidate as it is most likely the melpamine mask which when coupled with the Laughing mask is a sock and Busken symbol of the theater another very strong theme in arloquino's handbasket I can kind of make a case for the crossed nails too seeing how the Blackhand Society used a special ritual cross wherein Jesus is held in place by three nails but I won't the argument isn't that compelling but it exists of course the real question on everyone's mind is will she be playable wow maybe I can make a case for both sides really but we'll just have to wait and see well that was a bit of a short video for me so let me leave you with some speculations about sandrone while the names of my adorable little channel members Roll by now during last year's Lantern right we got to see what guaijong looked like and I was kinda surprised to see her have so many visual similarities to sandrone and a shared love of conrian Robotics that I absolutely had to theorize that syndrone was a revived but also partly mechanized version of Guai Zhang and I also made the case for sandrone to be the creator of all the Catherines of the adventurers Guild since they all dressed similarly and the Catherines are all also mechanical puppets of schneznaya but now I have a new crack Theory heavy emphasis on the crack please prior to its adoption into the comedio Del artes androni was a marionette from a puppet show where all the puppets were played by a single Puppeteer and that made me wonder what if instead of sandrone being the girl here and being Zhang it's actually the robot that is sandrone the robot that was taken in by guajiang who tinkered with it a bunch ultimately allowing it to gain a type of sentience over time while also growing fond of its little dust God and then when she died the robot was so distraught it began constructing new robots new mechanical puppets in an effort to remake her kind of like carcata then later on it would have gotten picked up by the patui and it would carry around its most precious creation being the little talking puppet and the perfect likeness of guaijong and that means it wouldn't speak for itself because after all it's the Puppeteer and she's its marionette she's the one who's supposed to be on stage and it's the one that's supposed to be behind the scenes pulling the strings of every Catherine in Tibet until its marionette doesn't want to be controlled anymore which would give us you know like an actual playable model of the little female but then it would also kind of like absolve her of any possible fatoui crimes in the way that hoyo kind of likes to do so that's um yeah anyway is it absolute crack of course it is it's stream crack even for me but that's kind of what makes it fun and I'm also kind of like trying to coat my way into having cinderoni appear in Fontaine because it would be so cool for them to like pull off a quiet takeover of all the mechanical robots wandering around the city as a distraction for arloquino's sting operation and I only have a few more weeks to sit with this idea so just let me have this for now anyway that's all for me guys thanks again to all my members for supporting this Channel and thanks to you for watching take care guys and I'll see you in the next one bye bye [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Ashikai

Views: 137,792

Keywords: arlecchino, fatui, fontaine, genshin impact, genshin lore

Id: z8t58MW2_cI

Length: 13min 0sec (780 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2023