Arlecchino: Memory of the Crimson Moon Dynasty (4.6 Genshin Impact Lore, Theory, & Speculation)

hi it's me Rosevelt so arino story Quest delves into her past in the history of the House of the Hearth and uh we we also got some conre aore primarily that AR Lino is Conan which feels super weird to say because she's a bit different from the conans we've met already Pierro immediately recognized that she was a descendant of the Crimson Moon Dynasty but was surprised that any were still left and when she asks him for more info he literally tells her to go read a book who would have thought that the jester was this funny the book in question is Leo Bronto inamorato but you might probably recognize it as parin hay if you haven't read it you should or you should at least check out my previous video that video also provides a lot of context for the content of this one the key thing to know however is that cona had two dynasties the earlier Crimson Moon from which AR descended from and the later Eclipse which is known for its biggest hit which is the uh cataclysm of 500 years ago the only real distinction par and Harry makes between the two is that the Crimson Moon valued Alchemy while the eclipse valued Machinery the Crimson Moon was also later known as the bail Moon and this bail Moon Legacy is carried by arlino so I first want to use new information alongside parin Harry to reconstruct more of the history of the the dynasties and then we'll definitely Circle back to arlino because I think her whole stick actually tells us a lot about the nature of the Crimson Moon to summarize what we know now a noble Clan ruled the underground Kingdom in ancient times before the Dark Sun illuminated the underground this dark Sun of course refers to the eclipse Dynasty the priest convinced the mdlm minded King that the Crimson Moon ruled over all for it was the the same color as the blood of people and the abyss and so the king took the Moon's name and by the light and Flame of the Two Worlds he ruled and judged fickle fate so they prayed to the Crimson Moon for salvation and they yearned for Transcendent individuals to build glorious Towers to this end they constructed an orphanage to take in Shipwrecked Sailors from The Starry sea who might have the ability to transcend the gods but it seems like they never succeeded on that front this continued until the astrologist glimpsed in the inverted image of the false Sky the origin of all the world's fate this seemingly caused doubt and anger across the kingdom leading to destruction the followers of the Crimson Moon Dynasty all but disappeared with the few remaining lurking in the shadows and yearning for vengeance but the so-called repayment never came and the Dark Sun fell to the same ignorance and arrogance this end would be the cataclysm of 500 years ago so that's the general story I think the big picture takeaway is that the Crimson Moon Dynasty is nothing like the cono we've heard about cono was supposedly a Godless nation and the pride of humanity but in contrast the Crimson Moon Dynasty held some sort of reverence for the Crimson Moon they prayed to the moon and even had a ritual dedicated to it it may not have been a God but it was certainly some sort of important or spiritual or even a holy icon the difference in the dynasties is also emphasized with the fall of the Crimson Moon Dynasty clearly something happened that created Bad Blood between the two there was also clearly a shift in the ruling Bloodlines as there were few survivors this is why Pier himself was so surprised by AR Lino's existence the boss description for the Nave seems also suggest that the people of the Crimson Moon Dynasty drank poison before the eclipse this could have been a literal execution or even their own attempt to escape the new Dynasty's Reign or it could have been metaphorical which opens up a whole new can of speculation worms but regardless the followers of the Crimson Moon Dynasty did hold resentment and the pursuit of vengeance is reflected in the self-proclaimed prophet's words to daniff about the crimson and moon swallowing the eclipse now this next section is going to be a lot of speculation but to me it seems that the uncovering of certain truths was at the Crux of the Crimson Moon Dynasty's collapse the description for the Crimson Moon semblance says the astrologist branded as Heretics glimpsed in the inverted image of the false guy the origin of all the world's fate now now this is a bit perplexing given that cona was underground and perhaps entirely separate from tavat and thus wouldn't be under the same fake sky but let's just run with the fact that they did have astrologists and they discovered the truth of the fake sky or maybe rather the boundaries of the World created to protect it there are quite a few directions we can go with this but let's hone in on the fact that the astrologists were branded as Heretics this would imply that whatever astrology they were doing was prohibited and maybe in a sense the knowledge they obtained was perhaps forbidden so perhaps the eclipse dynasty was marked by spying upon the secrets beyond the sky there's another critical piece of information that I think supports this as I mentioned earlier in panary the main and really only distinction that's made between the two dynasties was the methodology for the cre creation of Weaponry to protect themselves from outside threats this difference in methodology is that the Crimson Moon valued Alchemy while the eclipse valued Machinery in my video on paren hary I explored the idea that this switch in methodology at its core is due to a switch in power source according to vhum Scholars early Conan technology relied solely on condensed layline energy or asoc site as a power Source but later it switched to a perpetual and dark power in fact all ruined machines have a dark power source it's only the early ones that have a backup Source based on layline energy it's safe to assume that this dark power source is or is at least related to Abyssal power or Forbidden Knowledge and peing Beyond the skies we can take this further with some more speculation this power from Beyond the SK allowed cona to throw off the shackles imposed by the world's law at this point we can presume that the secret of the fake sky has to do with the world's law that is the Heavenly principles and specifically fate as a mechanism of control consider Net's fifth character story for example there it says that fate is merely the manner in which the present ruler of this World plays with living beings and also Compares Divine rules to puppet strings this is all in context to him not needing a constellation so perhaps the eclipse Dynasty wanted to reject this idea of fate and control thus fully becoming a truly Godless nation and the pride of humanity this implies though that the Crimson Moon Dynasty submitted to this control and the Crimson Moon itself may have something to do with fate the descriptions surrounding it certainly never fail to bring up just one example is the nave's earring which says that fate casts an examining eye on Humanity which of course is sus because in par and Harry the Crimson Moon is a giant eyeball and aside from the semblances referenced to the bail Moon cealing Doom the Crimson Moon has also seemingly played a role in sealing fate because it seems to have at least been present during the destruction and Punishment of gabad rura and ultimately cona and I do think it's rather suspicious that the sustainer of heavenly principles also has motifs of glitching and red eyes all over the cubes I'm loathed to come to any further conclusions on this just yet but I do explore this idea in my par and Harry video as well as how the Moon is tied not only to fate but also judgment and retribution so for now I'll leave my musings on this as food for thought but I want to shift my focus back to arino and in particular a recurring phrase that we see in a lot of places now the flame of Two Worlds all we really know about aro's Origins is that she's a descendant of the Crimson Moon Dynasty but notably her ancestry gives her certain powers the ancient Bale Moon Blood Fire Burns within arino the noble blood serving as both curse and blessing arlino also sees the Crimson Moon in her dreams which is an obvious reference to paren hary in paren hary there's a ritual where children pass through darkness and they hallucinate seeing a Crimson Moon which may turn around to reveal a giant horrified eye when they emerge they are told that they survived the fire of Two Worlds this fire of Two Worlds has been coming up a lot I mean the patch name even references it and even the Crimson Moon semblance is described as being used as a ritual to bridge two worlds and arlino herself is titled the cinder of Two Worlds in her second boss form in thinking about what the two worlds are I realized there could be a lot of possibilities but I think the answer is actually simple it's life and death the vibrant opinion also mentions Two Worlds and we can infer it's talking about life and death there because the Divine bird was charged with protecting the border between death and New Birth but note the particular wording about death and New Birth and not life and death because I think it's getting at the issue that things are not as clearcut as transient life versus permanent afterlife consider this arino story Quest strongly emphasizes that arino equates the loss of memory to dying she truly believes that she is executing her children by erasing their memories and I think that her belief is getting at something deeper with the relationship between life and memory because this is a concept we've heard before from the arinara arinaga explicitly told us death is just a one-time loss of memory we witness many arinara die and become reborn as they completely forget about us and our shared experiences now despite the arinara being different because they are spirits and they're self-aware that they lose memories You could argue that this is not unlike what happened with the children of the House of the Hearth that arino executed they're living their new lives but they have no past Memories the memories that made them who they used to be but we've seen an instance where this connection between life and memory is taken very very literally at the end of Nita's Second Story Quest the Elemental beings sacrific themselves to revitalize the heart of Oasis and to do this their memories are reverted to Pure Elemental energy so this was a bit of a winding path but I just wanted to explore this idea of memory in the context of Life Death and rebirth and particularly in the context of the Two Worlds consider this during his trial paren Harry was asked if he was dead and he answered yes when he emerges he is told you have traversed the fire of Two Worlds within the Hearth and here you are reborn and consider this small little detail mentioned all of this was paren Harry's very first memory so again this is all just speculation and I'm going to further explore this thing about memory and arlino in a little bit but I first wanted to get something off my mind that's been bugging me and that's caterpillar pun intended due to the fact that aro's arm reveal and caterpillar were dropped in the same patch there have been a lot of ideas including my own about aro's connection to narcissis and CS or being a hilly turle or whatever I'm personally now thinking that this ritual of the Two Worlds is the Thematic connection between caterpillar and arino let's recall caterpillar's Origins the remains of Carter and probably other people were used to create him narciss ands used the holy Blade with the remains as well as a hilly tur to Grant this new being Consciousness and intellect this birth was caterpillar's first memory and in a sense what was dead was given new life but at the cost of a complete loss of identity and memory so what I'm basically trying to say is that I think caterpillar was reborn in the same way that paren was through a ritual both of which in my opinion could be alchemical in nature not to sound like a broken record but I explored this already in my parent Harry video but my main justification for this is that narciss and CS studied Convent technology and Alchemy and Alchemy was the bread and butter of the Crimson Moon Dynasty and narciss androits did have a similar motivation Renee wanted to become a descender or a Transcendent one so why not look to an ancient ritual that was trying to catch or create descenders or Transcendent ones themselves and maybe the Crimson Moon semblance which was used in the Crimson Moon ritual served the same function as the holy blade of narciss ands so this connection between caterpillar and parin hary has a lot of interesting implications for arlino the Crimson Moon Dynasty never found found a Transcendent one and neither did narciss ands succeed in his efforts to become a descender but if this is the truth behind AR leino's Origins then what about her I personally think it's a bit more complicated with arlino because as I mentioned the ancient bail Moon Blood Fire Burns within her and it's this Noble bloodline which gives her her immense power so let's talk about her unique attributes and abilities because I think this goes back to this discussion about death and memory aro's curse can flare up and it's implied to be linked to emotion in the animation we see a flare up during her spider's funeral and repressed when she's around clery her bestie and it certainly appears during the heated battle with crusina as such it's implied that repressing emotion can keep it under control this may explain her vigilance in controlling her emotion anger leads to impulsivity and sorrow lets you waver and similarly this is why nalet can't get a read on her she's like still water with no ripples this serves an important purpose for arlino she feels that if it reaches her heart it will make her change furthermore it seems as though this curse is killing her anyway arlino is already looking to Lenny as a successor perhaps predicting a pro protracted lifespan the Nave boss description also says that the Hearth Fire's Radiance will incinerate The Last Descendant of the blood moon arino also danli says that her fiery blood corrodes her flesh now as for what this curse gifts her with she has fire coursing through her veins and apparently it can be bottled up and used to erase people's individual memories at the end of the quest this is used to kill the traitors to the house of the Hearth because remember arlino sees the loss of memory as death it was part of a plan she proposed to nalette long in advance she also mentioned that this bottled flame was part of a secret experiment earlier in the quest we learned that arlino had declined any collaboration with the T toé regarding the members of the House of the Hearth but she did agree to one experiment this bottling of her bail Moon fire blood was likely this sole experiment this gets really really interesting when you remember that Senora similarly used fire to burn away her painful memories and the Witch's heart flame artifact actually contains Liquid Fire it even says the techniques involved in making Liquid Fire have since been lost implying that bottling Liquid Fire used to be a thing so perhaps Tor is making it a thing again this is foreshadowing for the end of the video but aro's main ability is also probably the most revealing aro's fire leaves after images or Shadows of anything it consumes at times they were fragments of memory and at others they dawned the aspect of dazzling colors Clare is an exceptional example of this illusion born of flame her Shadow was so robust due to the sheer strength of will clairy had during her life with her kindness and her resolve for Freedom so great she chose to die so the power of the bail Moon Blood Fire revolves around this concept of memory primarily destroying it or freezing it I'd say it makes sense then why par and Harry would have seen the Crimson Moon during his rebirth trial during death and loss of memory and eventual rebirth but I don't know if it makes sense with the other imagery we've seen associated with the Crimson Moon that is its connection to fate but here is another perspective to to consider aro's ability to create Shadows or after images reminds me of the sin Shades in enomia which are explicitly called after images by antigonus enjo explains that due to anamia's properties as nether realm enomia sometimes projects Shadows of the past based on Remnant thoughts powerful emotions are captured and Frozen and interestingly a loading screen tip says that when isero looks upon someone with favor their feelings and memories will be preserved in the world a connection with ISO here would be very intriguing given my previous suggestion that the Crimson Moon is linked to the Heavenly principles and fate and also because of a lot of imagery associated with Ryden a and the Crimson Moon and the omnipresent god statue but I'm getting way ahead of myself and that's not quite the direction I want to hone in on the essential part I want to highlight is that the sin shades are described as unique layline phenomena the underlying cause behind them are layline anomalies lay lines are the conduit through which memories flow to eil which is the ultimate repository of all memory and tavat so to me it would make more sense for AR Lino's abilities to be more related to lay lines and eil I mean just consider how enjo talks about them though their stories have already ended who they were at the moment is captured and retained they can even interact with you I mean that sounds like Clair to me aside from the loss of 10 years I guess this is all just to say this could go in quite a few different directions just as a heads up um I'm not sure if I'm actually going to be able to resolve all these threads that I've unraveled so let's get a little creative here come play with me in this space consider this the high octane crack theorizing warning so I was racking my brain about what exactly could be special about this Noble bloodline so I was thinking about what else do we know about the nobility what do we know about The King and I was struck by this one line in the Crimson Moon semblance this being so the king of humanity should take upon himself the name of the Crimson Moon if we conflate nobility with royalty just a little bit and also consider the memory based powers of aro's bloodline I think this line would make more sense if the king had taken the name of irman soul and I know that may come across as a very out of left field sort of nothing Burger non seiter what if but I only mention it because it would answer a very long-standing question about the name of the king of cona King irman and side note yes I know in the original Chinese AOL isn't called that it's called like world tree or ancient tree or silver tree but they're still going for an Odin igle theme and ell was named for Odin so let's just run with that so I want to talk about King irman for a little bit as usual as I always do in my par and Harry video I kind of joked about how the oneeyed King irman was literally a giant red eyeball Moon as funny as that would be I want to more seriously explore some of the connections I'm seeing between King irman and and the Crimson Moon first off even before we knew anything about the Crimson Moon Dynasty a lot of us had wondered was Conor truly a Godless Nation this originally emerged from a few observations like ir's potential Oden Inspirations but also because of the statuettes which many think represent earm because they have one eye and they're held by conans the gloomy statue description says it must have been cherished like some Hol icon the eclipse Dynasty certainly weren't fans of pet but the Crimson Moon Dynasty on the other hand prayed to the moon and then there's the deathly statuette it's black and red with a glowing Ruby eye and a double helix pattern in his horns I can't help but look at this now and also at AR leino's boss design and draw visual comparisons for example with aro's double helix spikes and the single Ruby in her hair in my par and hay video I made the argument that the Crimson Moon is basically the aalong or the eye of condemnation basically it's this ruby red eye that can see all fate and all truth of the world there's a lot of explanation that went into this but basically it boils down to the fact that Odin had the gift of seder which is the gift of foresight and prophecy seeing fate and now I also wonder about the implications of irman being the king who took on the name of the Crimson Moon because in the description the king is muddle minded the ruler in paren Harry was similarly muddle minded as he didn't understand his advisor's idea to create an orphanage for Transcendent ones I mainly wanted to note that simply because it's a weird detail to mention twice in two different places and I think it would be ironic that the king named for a memory tree himself potentially has some cognitive impairments and even memory issues but at the same time I'm inclined to believe that King irman was more than just a confused dude sitting on the throne so perhaps this muddle mindedness and perhaps memory loss is alluding to a more complicated story but this is all just to say that I think King irman has a lot to do with the Crimson Moon and now I think there is some sort of tie between the Crimson Moon and eil although I can't quite verbalize what exactly that is Vibes only right now but consider this as well irman soul is also linked to fate niita explicitly says that the prophecy of Fontaine was etched into mol this would imply that mol contains more than just all the memory of tavat it's literally also recording the history of the future so it makes me wonder if the Crimson MO Moon and eil are just two parts of the same system two parts with very different functions if the Crimson Moon is a watchful eye of Fate then irman Soul would be the brain now this was just supposed to be an analogy but I'm realizing there could be more to that as well like consider what ventti said in the web comic about the creation of other worlds pun's blood became rivers and seas and pera's body became all living things and emir brain became the clouds these are all creation deities who used their bodies to create the world and I've wondered before if the primordial one did the same thing with the creation of tavat I mean according to before sun and moon the primordial one did use the eggshell from which it was born to separate the universe from the microcosm of the world so yes this would suggest that all this beautiful scenery is just the corpse of a primordial dead God okay so that was a bit of a tangent a crack Theory within a crack Theory but just one last thing about e I'd be remiss not to mention the legend of the shattered halir in shattered halir the first Divine halir irman pierced the axis Mundi and connected the nine worlds I've previously wondered if this was a reference to connecting the light and dark in human Realms or peing beyond the skies but now I also wonder if it's a reference to Bridging the two worlds that's really all I have to say about that I mean I've come up with like 50 different interpretations of that line alone so like statistically one of them has to be right right I I don't know math but that's all of my crack theorizing tin foil speculative brain rot about e for now I actually meant to keep talking about arino and then I blacked out and now I'm in a cell with pictures of red moons and deathly statuettes and silver trees everywhere that's weird so going way way back to the Liquid Fire that erases memory it'd be super interesting to know why dor might be interested in that because do you remember that dream Cole had in Winter night's Lao where doré is burning a tree since it never happened in suu a lot of us including myself kind of thought that it was simply a dream or metaphorical of the threats he poses but now I wonder a consistent theme of the foule is burning the old world away Pier says that will be Senora's final resting place and the boss description for the Nave says someday the hearthfires faint Radiance shall burn the old world away and on top of that AR Lino also says that losing a substantial amount of memory would be like living in the past like returning to a version of yourself that never grew up so what better way to burn an imaginary memory tree than with a Liquid Fire that specifically erases memories and remember to destroy memory is to die and ultimately be reborn so ultimately I think this is a big part of the fatou's plan to rebel against the Heavenly principles and also I think it's kind of guaranteed to happen in that same voice line where nalette talks about the Divine rules being like puppet strings it says those puppet strings glossed as Divine rules would one day be burned Away by the fires of judgment and finally one last thing I wonder about both Wanderer and child have voice lines that describe the Nave as being completely crazy which we didn't really see though because she's actually very polite and very conversational and also pretty rational I mean aside from the fact that she's raising a literal serial killer and you could say that perhaps they're talking about the old Nave and with child maybe it was the rooster just spreading information but I wonder a lot about that one character story that talks about aro's curse reaching her heart and inducing a change so I wonder as we get closer to the climax of the fatou plans if we might have the chance to see that change if something will happen now is this just me wanting to see arlino go sio mode perhaps but at the same time arino did say that during this plan with the winter and night of project stoua that the blood moon would rise so I'm very interested to see what happens there thank you all for watching I really appreciate you guys tolerating me as I just kind of think out loud and scream at the sky but as I said this is all speculation and a lot of this can go in a lot of different directions and I might post this video and immediately change my mind about everything so listen Maybe the real or here is the friends we made along the way oh also I just realized I didn't mention Ka but I do want to say I stand I stand by my Kaa Theory from my last video I I still think that's a possibility I mean it is really cool to think about the parallels between Kaa and arino so it'd be even cooler if they met and actually talked about like lore and cona anyway so please like comment and subscribe share your own theories in the comments and have you checked your smoke detector batteries recently I know I have because uh they're currently going off because I cook too hard with this Theory and my kitchen is currently on fire I better go take care of that okay [Music] bye so you don't burn down the 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