History of the Fatui Harbingers [Genshin Impact Lore Analysis and Speculation]

ladies and gentlemen we finally have the complete roster of the harbingers revealed i don't think anyone was ready for the harbinger drop alongside the sumer egypt marketing but here we are i'm also so happy that i can finally update that really old video of mine about the 11 harbingers given we got so much information within a year ah how the seasons have changed anyway welcome to the history of the harbingers a full breakdown of the 11 harbingers and their history according to the in-game texts and many more there will be some information here based on speculation due to the still mysterious nature of the harbingers but regardless the trailer dropping all of the missed ones is absolutely shocking on a side note i won't be talking about the lower implications of the trailer's speech about checkmates just yet i'll save that for another video anyway let's begin i wonder what the rest of the harbingers are up to plotting and scheming on an ever grander scale no doubt the future is a snj organization formed by the saritan piero the first harbinger they are situated in the zapoliarni palace of sanjanaya and are considered to be powerful political diplomats of society fatwe have connections all across the globe and are revered for their discrete economic military and social control over the nations the organization was formed after the cataclysm and presumably gathered its members after that time frame the motivations of the fatoui vary from the members within but the core goal of the organization is to bind the remaining days to their delusions so that they may rebel against the heavenly principles the masks are a symbol that a person abandons their past months and forsakes their true name and faces at the head of the organization are the 11 harbingers people who may or may not have transcended mortal capabilities by harnessing the power of their archon bestowed delusions their powers were given to them directly by the syriza and they are the reason the vatui can do whatever they want in other nations all the harbingers are based off of the italian theater art called the comedia de larte in the comedia actors and actresses wear masks and take on the roles of the over-exaggerated stock character archetypes and then improvised their comedy along the way according to the lore the fatigue are separated into several factions under the harbingers each with their own purpose but at the moment that segregation is unknown we can always just assume that harbinger divisions overlap but most of the time they work separately so let's begin with the first fatoui harbinger piero the jester he was the first ever fatoui harbinger and today he's our leader he only appears on important occasions as for his accomplishments to be honest i don't really care i owe my loyalty and devotion to the tsuritsa no one else pierrot was the man responsible for recruiting senora pandalona and todore and perhaps even other harbingers besides tartalia as far as we know but pierrot's beginnings in the mocking mask pale flame set state that he was once from an ancient civilization that couldn't tear away from sin he tried to convince a foolish king to stop his plans but because he was not at the level of the sages he failed to earn the favor of the previous ruler while it was never confirmed to be konrian the fatality were established after the ceres's shift after the cataclysm and piero's old civilization was destroyed by a divine rat and the absurd callousness of the foundational principles therefore we can assume that this man is conrained how this man lived for centuries most likely coincides with the curse of immortality we see that his face is covered on one side with the blue mask and his pupil is a strange star-like shape almost like daenerkias in the comedia hedrolino is the sad clown motif a man riddled with misfortune that just never gets his way he's seen as the pathetic and lonely clown belittled and bullied by the other characters which serve as a great parallel to the mocking mask however unlike his lovable pierrot counterpart the jester is a cold and distant man sometimes even cruel to his own subordinates the first time we heard of pierrot was in a name dropped by scaramucci during the 1.1 unreconciled stars event he didn't warn skymush of the true nature of the meteorites and scaramucci surmises that that was just to scare him in inazuma pierrot was also mentioned to have instigated the release of the tata origami and gave orders that a spy under the name of nathan be sent to infiltrate the watasumi army and sabotage their plans for a quick victory it's possible that this is also the man responsible for the delusions black market plot while scary moose and senora are simply there to execute it kiera also doesn't bat an eye to most of the happenings in yashiori island and simply saw the inhabitants as necessary father in the trailer he mocks the sages that were mentioned in his lore saying that they think too highly of themselves this all goes back full circle to piero's previous role of being shunned by conray in royalty which led to the cataclysm i am genuinely curious what will happen in the future with him and how his country and origin affects future relations with other khanryan characters though now that i really think about it yara would want nothing to do with the abyss order especially if they're evangelists and scholars from conrier after all he hates the sages that didn't listen to him before who is to say that they'll listen to him now capitano the captain i've seen him in battle before and oh what a sight it was perhaps i'm ranked too low for him to notice me right now well he may not recognize my strengths yet but one day i'll show him what i'm made of [Music] i can't remember why his design looks so familiar to me but it does unlike the other harbingers this is the only design that we don't see the face of which might serve as a narrative antithesis with his commanded that are the counterpart the capitano is a braggart a spaniard who boasts about his successes without actually putting much fact behind it the captain of genshin seems to be something else entirely though a hidden man someone that speaks of honor he sounds more sympathetic to rosalind's sacrifice but we don't know what his true motivations are according to the in-game lore however victor says that he'd rather work under capitano than senora hinting that he at least has a good standing with his subordinates columbina the fatoui harbingers are ranked by strength and i have no idea why that girl is number three i test my skills with every harbinger who ranks above me if i had the chance but when it comes to her something just doesn't feel right anyway you should be careful around her colombino was a character that was constantly referenced by theorists but was never confirmed until now the word colombina or the damsel it means the little dove and in the comedia dellarte she is a servant but she is also the most intelligent person on the stage and often knows everything about everyone due to her marital's nature we see that in the trailer she is leaning over the coffin seeing senora's boss battle theme and from her design alone we see the dove aspect of her character the wings clip on the back of her hair resembles the white dove's wings except given its shape it actually looks like seraph wings which honestly i can see why tartalia would be wary trying to fight her she is definitely much stronger than she looks when we get to the next scene we can see her eyes look close and the mask a little invisible i'm not sure if she removed the mask after the song but regardless i think her true strength lies within her eyes i doubt she is human but what i want to know is that if she has celestial origins the highlights in her hair facing downwards might suggest something but until then it's too early to jump into any conclusions all we know at the moment is that she is too suspicious to be kept alive also something really weird is that child says that the two harbingers are ranked by strength not seniority so child confirms that he is technically the weakest of them all which does make sense one is a century's old fire witch and the other is a prototype of a god what the first effect harbingers are hiding though is currently unknown [Music] i heard that he took segments of himself at different ages made prosthesis out of them and assigned different tasks to each one i know all my comrades are a little weird i'll come to think of it if i met my own prosthesis we'd have to fight then and there to decide which one of us gets to survive ah yes the man the myth the glow up the tori or the doctor is the first ever fatoui harbinger introduced in genshin impact being revealed all the way from the manga the torii is a cruel and sadistic man the true definition of mutual evil he was once a scholar of the sumer academia but was shunned he is willing to experiment on anything and anyone believing that the apex of human life is simply the mechanization of the human anatomy he believes that humans are just more complex machines and if you break a human bit by bit they can transcend a god he calls visions self-inflated tools and is hinted to not have a vision himself though a lot can change in the span of a year tutorial shares a lot of correlations with the tutorial of the comedia all the way to the fact that totoro likes to speak and bore other characters with their jargon and gibberish the taurus division works on experiments and authority used to have a research facility specializing in ruined machine research before he discarded it out of boredom his division experimented on the children of sumeru and monstat as seen in the manga it's also hinted that he was the one that unlocks garamosh's power because sky mush's husk of opulent dreams mentions a researcher he adopted his apathetic nature from what i am really curious about is his connection with the segmental simulacra he created child calls them prosthesis which are artificial body parts such as a leg a heart or a breast implant he made segments of himself at different ages which means that there's a baby tutorial somewhere out there just living its life he refers to these segments in third person and we see that one of the segments is in front of a large burning tree a tree that i would assume is something like of the tree of wisdom according to the torre this segment is busy with a little experiment of blasphemy which is why i think this tree connects heavily with whatever is happening in sumeru also if it turns out the torah is number four i'll be really happy i think i've said this before but in china the number four is another way to say death which would make his title of a doctor all the more ironic paul chanella the rooster i don't know what his motivations could be but he seems genuine about wanting to help me he treats me just like family oh and speaking of family tonya and tusa are always telling me about the pastries and other gifts he brings them when they write so while i've been away from snezhnaya he's kept his promise to take care of my family ultranella as a character is hinted all the way back in the devops trailer a long time ago and his playability has been to used for a long time given that pattern but now looking at him in the trailer he has the most unique design out of all of them hol chanel's personality was hinted in tartalia's backstory cochinella was the one that took to italia in as of a two agent under the guise of a punishment stating that if he wished to serve the sarita he must first start from the bottom and work his way up in tartalia's introduction volcanella actually mentions that one can trust tartalia but one ought not to get too attached ho chanel also warns that tartalia's lust for battle will be what eventually brings him to his demise well chanelle speaks cautiously and we see in the trailer that he is much more mellow compared to the other harbingers he does seem to have a close relationship with our talia that we can discern at the least seeing cartalia like family and being close with tuesday antonia i'm betting that he sees tartalia as a nephew or a protege in a way given that he was the one that brought her italia into the fatoui kind of like a proud father figure but more politically motivated the problem is that we have no idea how genuine his treatment of tartalia is and by extension if he truly is as pleasant as we like to believe in the game the future trapped in the chasm mentioned that pochanella is willing to dispense less valuable assets because that is his logic the trapped fatui are direct subordinates of pulchinella and he didn't do anything about them being trapped in there not to mention it's hinted pochanela assisted in the greater endeavors of attacking liubi harbour meaning chinella is willing to throw away lives for the sake of the fatoui so don't let the mayor fool you with his glasses and his mustache also uh mayor also the massive notes could be a hint to his commanded the larthe mask which i will be eternally grateful for scaramouche after he took the gnosis we lost all contact with him now comes the task of trying to hunt it down and get it back i actually don't mind it it means i get to travel all over i wonder if i'll run into you somewhere along the way scammous or the balladeer is the sixth fatoui harbinger and is the first successful prototype of ryden a however due to his fragile emotional state when trying to house the gnosis he was deemed incapable of his initial purpose thus a left him in the shakai pavilion this is where he would adopt the nameless eccentric identity and where he would go on his journey scaramucci was referred to as a disheartened eccentric and cast aside like worthless draws the validity of this claim is unknown but if this really is how scary much saw himself then that's actually really sad scary mush's real name at least the name that he gave himself is kunikuzushi a name from kabuki theater that represents a larger-than-life villain the translation of this is country destroyer or the destroyer of nations when he was found by the patui the harbingers unlocked the sealed power of the electro archon and somewhat amplified it through a delusion whether it was always his nature or it was something programmed into him scaramucci is sadistic and relishes in the paint and confused emotions of humans he believes that emotions spiced up life despite him being discarded for his own emotions skirmish's story is that he wants to feel and even when he's feeling pain he's afraid that if he removes the heart that fettuchy put inside him he wouldn't be able to feel anything at all we don't need to go over his full story again we have enough videos covering that so instead let's go over his future he is currently missing from the story and has escaped with the gnosis at the moment the fatoui are unable to contact him and out of it till we haven't hunted him down is a mystery to me given to the future we have ears and eyes virtually everywhere in tivat according to the dore he's trying to conquer the divine gaze before making his next move and if you've played 1.1 it's possible that scammous is trying to understand the fake sky and the machinations of celestia however i won't be surprised if he's somewhere horribly incapacitated after trying to use the gnosis given his mental fortitude probably wasn't strong enough to handle it i wonder how we'll meet scaramucci again he's been teased in 2.7 for having story relations with kaidahara but the thing is it was also said that someone of a tui spy perhaps was trying to purge the existence of kunikuzushi from kaidahara records if this was kunikuzushi or another harbinger's work altogether is unknown sandrone she always seems engrossed in her research hmm i wonder if those machines have anything to do with her anyway i've only met her a few times but every time she looked like she wanted to murder me i have no idea what i possibly could have done to annoy her though sandrone or the marionette is a design that i absolutely love given that her real-life counterpart is well sandra takes a lot of inspiration from victorian european dolls from the frills you see on her head and her torso and the design of the ruined guard i will now dub as bob for obvious reasons she really gives a vibe of a vintage doll and i absolutely adore that but her manner of speaking and reprimanding others is somewhat antagonistic she was mentioned in tertalia's trailer as having reprimanded the fatoui agent named javert and it seemed that she has a foul relationship with her talia i also like humoring the idea that she has beef with sky much for the sole reason that he is an actual puppet whilst on sanjourna's origins are unknown i love the massive ruin machine behind her something much more complex than the ruined guards we've seen in the past however i don't think we'll see santrone until very very late into the story i would bet that due to her victorian clothes she'll be a main antagonist for the fontaine setting given her motifs of machination puppetry and debonair aesthetics match well but fontaine's senora i never got along with her you know that i guess there's not much more worth saying about her at this point when you're a harbinger you have to accept that death could come at any time but don't worry about me no matter what happens i'll do whatever it takes to keep myself alive senora or the fair lady story begins 500 years ago as the crimson witch of flames a powerful pyromancer who lost her love rostem to the abyssal creatures of the cataclysm her real name is rosalind she was found by piero in the stainless boom artifact and was promised that her past will be sealed away with the majesty's eyes now she swears vengeance against the short-sighted and ignorant gods all save for the saritsa who came to her and bestowed her the blessing of the ice her cryodelusion hides away the power of the crimson witch of flames instead of acting as an amplifier she met her end by the eternal traveler's blade and the ryden shoguns musso no hitotachi senora's future in this game is horribly unknown the pv is giving mixed signals for her revival given that senora's motif has a lot of death and resurrection first is that the moth is a symbol of rebirth change transformation and regeneration which hints that the flame moth landing on her coffin might mean she'll return the whole palace being encased in ice however might go against this theory meaning that this is her final resting place because her coffin will be buried in ice and snow tempering her flames once and for all however piero's dialogue about checkmate suggests that death is not the final destination for senora and he even says that her final resting place is not within the coffin but will be the entirety of the old world so it's kind of on the fence if she comes back personally for me i hope she doesn't just so she gets the sweet release of death and finally be with the one she loves antalone the rig reader oh now that guy has a head full of grandiose plans fueled by raw ambition i don't understand a word he says once he starts talking about his theories but as long as he keeps our cash reserves stocked up i'm not complaining bantalona is a man of money and economic genius of the harbingers he is in charge of keeping the affluence of the harbingers and understands how important money is to keeping power he has a unique understanding of wealth and is capable of monopolizing the other nation's strongest assets to favor the vatui for example an agent by the name of landa is an agent of bantalone who was sent to learn more about the wine industry one state's largest export and import if pantalone manages to grab a hold of that industry monsta's full economic independence is subsequently snuffed out pandalane also owns the northland bank the largest bank can live with if you somehow establish a bank in the land of commerce you have successfully controlled liuis in your workings additionally it was one of his bases that yelon infiltrated to get her signature coat however pandalona's upbringings aren't as blessed as his current status he was once impoverished and believed that the gods are greedy they do not need money yet they take it away from those that do but he swore his allegiance to the jester and promised that sajnaya will be the heart that pumps money into the world essentially making sneshia the central strongest economic power that controls tibot's resources and what not in the trailer he expresses the classic businessman's smile when asking paul chanel to reconsider the length of the holiday he gave for senora's step his true motivations and loyalty desireza are currently unknown and whether this was said out of true grieving or not is questionable regardless i don't trust this man one bit though he doesn't have a vision his spellflame story says that he was never placed by the gods and i believe that this would include a vision so in the event that he does receive a vision in the future it would be horribly awkward arliquino look i've got nothing against people who have their own agendas i myself joined the fatoui to get more experience in combat but i don't like her at all if she stood to benefit from betraying others she'd turn against that sarita in a heartbeat there is an insane bone in her body arlikina the naive is actually quite surprising to me given that the harley quinn of the comedy de larte is a much more spry conniving justful and bombastic character arliquino on the other hand is outspoken about her distaste of the other harbingers yes but that is merely it regardless arlaquino in the trailer is openly antagonistic to others and even considers the businessmen of the harbingers as conniving and incapable of understanding loss the speech our lakina gives in the beginning actually ties in very well with arlikina's operations in the fatoui harlequin dimensions that rosalind died in a foreign land while the other harbingers enjoy the comfort of their homeland it's possible that this is a nod to the orphanage that our latino has for children of foreign lands that lost their parents this is what zambatue soldiers were raised in these orphans are insanely loyal to our lakino and decided to take advantage of senora's death to quote-unquote repay arlikina's kindness and boost her prestige the true nature of arliquino's orphanage is unknown however and whether arliquino's motivations are truthful and honest is unknown hertalia hints that arthino's loyalty to zarita is intermittent which means that there is a hidden agenda somewhere in there regardless arliquino's lines about making these children cry is an amazing not to the part of that backstory and given that arliquino despises the conniving nature of the businessmen maybe our latino is much kinder than what we believe now we close off with tartalia ajax was once a regular snegian citizen from the fishing village of morepesok who dreamed of the mysterious adventures and wonderful bouts of strength that his father told him about he dreamed of heroes and mighty warriors until one day at the age of 14 he ran away from home believing that his calling was somewhere else and that he was wasting his time in a fishing village unfortunately as he fled his home he was chased by beasts in the forest trying to run away from them ajax fell into a mysterious hole that led him straight to the abyss and it was here that he trained with a mysterious woman named skirk and learned the ways of the fowl legacy he trained for three months but in taiwan time only three days passed but his adventure in the abyss awakened a monstrous bloodlust within him and he craved for combat everywhere he went desperate to cease his son's constant troublemaking his father asked for the help of the fatoui ajax successfully beat all these seasoned warriors and caught the attention of pulchinella and thus begins tertalia's mission in the future tertalia's mission is to grow as strong as possible but he does have his morals when it comes to this he wants to go in the warrior way up front personal and contested bounce of strength he's transparent in how he fights and doesn't really use cheap tactics like scary moves to incapacitate an enemy i think that's why tartalia's goal despite being horribly questionable is quite admirable all things considered but yes the future of the vatui is impossible to predict at the moment but the pv really gives us a lot of hints of what's to come which i will be dissecting in another video because this one has been going off for too long also while this video covered lore i'm planning to theorize in the connections of the future harbingers with a plot and finally put my own speculations but that's a topic for another day regardless my name is aston thank you for chilling with me 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Length: 24min 10sec (1450 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2022