10 Things You Missed in 4.2 Fontaine Trailer "Masquerade of the Guilty" (Genshin Impact) 

Masquerade of the guilty is going to be the most insanely cool archon quest.

why is nobody talking about the fact that we see fontaine completely flooded at the end of the trailer? does that mean the prophecy came true omg

Everyone is dead?? Looking back at the pre fontaine Alice Bottle quest, I think some people of fontaine were disolved and Furina/Focalors was maintining their humans forms. So she commit a sin.

6:52 I don’t think it is Skirk using the foul legacy transformation, in the cutscene it is evident that he has his delusion on his armour and considering his hair colour. Also it seems that his foul legacy armour has been damaged when fighting the narwhal which is an interesting detail

Don't forget, any phrases or any video sequences from the trailer may not relate to the AQ at all and may be cut from the character quest or world quest. Remember trailer 4.1 where the cutscenes were cut as if Wriothesley was fighting with Nevillet under epic music for his own concept of justice.

i dont know if anybody noticed but the trailer literally confirms the presence of two furinas (atleast 2). 3:59 you can see the short haired furina dancing, while the long haired furina is the one we have seen all this time. Even the playable character has two different furina, if u look closely in character playthrough, you will see long haired and short haired furina in different settings of pneuma and ousia .

Remember - hydro archon were declared guilty, not Furina. In this trailer we can see how floor of the oratrice is broken by a giant water sword. Could it be that the real Archon of this nation is actualy not a human at all? Could it be that the actual archon is the Oratrice? Sorry for my bad English btw.

This trailer just strengthened my idea that Furina and Focalors aren't the same person. It very much feels like Furina is like an actress who plays the role of the Archon while the real Archon Focalors is somewhere else (possibly in the Oratrice) controlling things from behind the scenes

Hydro is an interesting element, lore-wise and character-wise. All Hydro characters pursue their own concept of justice AND ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES IN DOING SO Barbara has her idol gig Xingqiu travels around Liyue as a swordsman denying his duties to commerce Mona has her hydromancy as both blessing and penance Childe has his fighting obsession Kokomi has her war tactics Ayato delves in politics and mischief with Thoma Yelan has her whole gambling theme Nilou has her dancing thing Candace has her duty to Aaru Village Neuvilette is a judge trying to understand his humanity through other humans' judgments in the courtroom.

I look forward to them trying to top Nahida's archon quest. I expect this be intense. Seeing Cyno herald her return was just one of many amazing moments.

The prophecy is that Furina will be alone crying. So if Furina is dead the prophecy cannot suceed. Thats justice for her. She loves her people. 😢

What if everyone in Fontaine is just a piece of Oceanid's essence, and the indemnitium is an energy that would make them actually human... like Pinocchio becoming a real boy? 😁

I noticed something that Furina throughout the trial and quests was wearing the white dress but in the final performance she was in black. Does that suppose to mean something. And btw another thing is it only me who is thinking that there is not much space left in the map to put both Natlan and Snezhnaya on the west and north west side and rather there is hell lot of space towards Mondstadt and below Sumeru

If the theory about Gnosis’ being made from the Dragons power is true, then the lines at 3:54 could be about Neuvillette getting his powers back through the gnosis as a form of justice. It would make for an interesting twist if they give the gnosis to the Fatui at the end because it could be devoid of power and they wouldn’t know.

Skirk looks like a herscherr from honkai impact, and i cannot unsee the connection, actually a lot of the abyss powers/delusions feel a lot like the honkai energy users.

"This scene shows the Narwhale breaking Tartaglia's "Monoceros Caeli" constellation." Oh, come on! I JUST got him to C6!

btw not sure if anyone else noticed but furina has a vision, so maybe she gives the gnosis to neuvillette and gets a vision instead?? idk but her having a vision is so interesting

we are definitely not ready for this. this can the the most major update in genshin in terms of lore and quests imo.

Skirk looks a lot like jingliu.

All I can say is that this quest will be the biggest one yet in the game since Genshin's lauch, well in terms of the lore. Seems like we're gonna get nuked with lore. I'm all excited🤩

while there’s people shocked about the fontaine’s being flooded, im more concerned at HOW the fk that fontaine being so high, rather than other nations being flooded?! is it just fontaine or the whole teyvat is flooded 🤔

This might be the first series of quests we are touching upon the Abyss and Celestia more directly. The Chasm gave us some clues but was related to the past, same with the deserts of Sumeru.

i think furina is counting on her death to stop the prophecy. she loves her people more than we realize and trusts neuvillette to protect fontaine. arlecchino is trying to get the gnosis and use it to stop the trial and save both furina and fontaine, since after all, we know shes going to first use the hydro gnosis to save fontaine before giving it to the tsaritsa. masquerade of the guilty is going to be one of the best archon quests so far, and probably a very sad one as well, since we know someone is dying, whether that be furina, the oratrice, or the people of fontaine.

It might be possible that if Furina is "killed" the gnosis power will return to Neuvilette...which might be what furina is counting on

I believe the whole fountain got lower than teyvat's sea lvl that causes it to flood the nation

We got the weakest drip out of all the descenders if Skirk is one too, like cmon traveler you got up your game, maybe get Hoyo to get you an alter form or something.

A phrase from Neuvillete himself: when furina dies, the HYDRO authority would return to him, leaving him full Power. This will probably happen. (this is also revealed in his phrase about ascension to level 90)

I think it wouldn't be fair for Furina to be punished either, it was Egeria who committed the " original sin" (supposedly finding out the truth about Celestia) not Furina however the guilt is still falling on her, as if to say, " even if you are not at fault, you are still at fault and your sacrifice will wash away this sin" (very reminiscent of Cosmo's situation in Sonic X)

I think that focalors is the oratice with the gnosis while furina is just a powerless mascot. I think that furina has to die to merge with focalors, just like nahida had to merge with rukkhadevata.

The moment I saw "Skirk" (if it even is her) in the trailer I was SUPER excited!!!! I'm totally pulling for her!

honestly i think the first part will definitely have navia and arlecchino meet and then the town where navias base is will get flooded and maybe navia or arlecchino with sue the archon herself with being incapable of action or smth of the like.

When I heard Mona's voice in the trailer I had to do a double take. MONA, in an archon quest! Been waiting for that for so long, she has so many connections lore wise that I wanna see more of her in the story

Also another thing that was missed was in the new weekly boss fight, when we fight against that humanoid figure abyss, the place of the fight looks very similar to the Sea of Quanta that appears in Honkai Impact.

Neuvillette has a voice line where he talks about a woman that ran a mansion even after death, is he hinting Furina is actually a ghost.

After Baal and Beelzebul, we never got to learn the name of the other archons. Nahida is Buer, what’s Rukha’s demon name? Focalor is Oratrice/the old archon or Furina? Hope hoyo is intentionally keeping it a secret and not actually forget about it

Dang... I don't even know what to say. 4.2 is gonna be crazy

god, seeing Furina cry makes me too. :(

6:49 I think it's more plausibel that Neuvillette regains his Authority (the gnosis) as he says in his Ascension 5 voice line

That’s a great summary! Makes a lot of sense, however I still wonder why Furina has the Hydro Vision on her banner art. We know that Zhongli and Venti use fake visions to cover up but what about Furina? Everybody knows she is an Archon anyways!

Man I hope that Skirk is playable and release soon.

So, Childe's foul legacy transformation with the starry cape is from Skirk? We now have 5 characters with starry capes. Sustainer, Paimon, Dainsleif, Guizhong, and now possibly Skirk since from what we see of her we do have some white dots signifying stars in her design and the foul legacy coming from her. And in her concepts, she originally looked a lot like Dain and with starry hair and capes and all. Looks like they were trying to go for the "this character is important to lore" look.

Despite Mona being voiced by Felicia and Navia by Brenna, their voice are incredibly similar. So I think the one who said that line about prophecy is Navia. But if it really is Mona, that would be cool, and it also ties with the whole constellation problems.

I can't believe you missed that playable Furina has a VISION on her!

I want to point out that since liyue the main antagonist of archon quests were fatui with no mention of abyss(with waiting annual dain drop) but this time we have fatui involvement yes but also potential of abyss involvement in a archon quest as well with Narwhale and Skirk. I cant wait, this archon quest have do much potential of lore everywhere.

I notice Furina got vision on her ribbon instead of blue gem (in part of actual gameplay) maybe little spoiler

Imagine Venti's lore ( hoping Mihoyo would do that )

Always come here time to time this channel by far has most interesting hypothesis about the current update in Fontaine!

YES ILYSM i can always count on you to give me the details i missed

I think the Oratrice needed to kill off Furina just so nuvilette can use more of his draconic power. since we have never seen an Archon succession, it is possible that the gnosis might deactivate (even if it was a brief moment) which might give him strength to push the water back. The reason I think this is because visions will deactivate when the owner dies, but can respark (Kazuha). Obviously since Furina is playable, Nuvilette could just use the gnosis to reform Furina and give the gnosis back to her and maybe then Arlechinno would take it. dunno.

I honestly believe that Arlecchino is doing everything to save Fountain firstly, and only secondly to take gnosis. But we know to little about hydro gnosis and its location. Who knows, maybe she can leave Fatui mission if this will save Fountain. Child said that she cares only about her own goals and can easily betray them

After playing the Actual Archon Quest. This videos really Spot on what's happening in the quest. You're explanation and theory is amazing

You just read my mind, this was EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT. i just dont have video making skills so thank you

8:12, the clock seems to be in the midnight position before it falls... maybe the prophecy started to come true hence why we see the waters rise up but then it was stopped and why it falls? I am SO excited for the conclusion of my fav region

I never thought Arleccino was evil and less so after Lyney said " She is not like the rest of the Harbingers and once she has the Hydro Gnosis she will use it to stop the prophecy."

maybe its the reason why indemnitium was being collected in the oratrice. to be used by neuvillette for something. maybe to complete his dragonhood?

Thank you bro i was waiting for this i knew you will explain this trailer 😊 you know most quest i skip in game because i come to understand everything through your explanation it's easy 😊 thnxxx

Genshin's lore is full of amazement.

I am just so hyped for 4.2 . This trailer was one of the best ones so far.

maybe the gnosis is inside the oratrice and thats how it works? remember in arcon quest part 1 that lyney heard a voice, it might have been coming from the gnosis

Thanks a lot for the amazing videos.

5:56 so she is one of the four descender now it lefts one, we have traveller, havenly principles, skirk now who is the fourth maybe "The Sinner"

Neuvillete flying up like superman looks so sick

Amazing video, as always

I really liked the segment about Skirk. Great stuff!

I cant wait to play this archon quest

1:00 I'm hoping Furina doesn't die. She is one of my favourite characters by far.

This is a damn good analysis. Props

at 6:52 we can see that childe has his foul legacy damaged, maybe he is fighting the whale for all of this time since he woke up in the primoridal sea

Definitely Skirk‘s design is similar to Heveanly principal

I was waiting for this analysis, thanks for ur work (Skirk >>)

Thank you for this, it was very helpful. I'm so excited, and scared at the same time.

The one speaking to Neuvillette has been thought to be N (Nicole of Hexenzirkel) as she was credited in the trailer description

I think everyone also missed the fact that this is the only trailer ever that had zero traces of Paimon (no sighting, no voicelines, nothing).

Really hoping Neuvillette gets his full power back….

bro this is like my fav lore channel ever

Can we appreciate how they tried their best to make this amazing video for us 💖💖💖

Is it possible for Furina and Focalor to be in the same person, like one body two soul type of situation or something like Layla with a daytime and sleep time mode?

Dude, what about the line from when the whale breaks through the constellation? "Everyone's dead.. Papa, what should I do?" It's a boy's voice. I think it could be Childe. Edit: Oh yeah, it's Navia, my bad😅. Still, it's nice to theorise Childe's past like this🤔.

Thank you this expalins alot about 4.2

To me Skirk looks almost exactly like Jingliu from Star Rail. The resemblence is even there with her clothes, although they are still different.

Now I understand why I had such a weird dream about Childe today! OH. MY. GOD. 😵‍💫🤯😳 Also, I see that my theory about Furina will soon be confirmed.

If Furina and Fischl ever meet and decide on a performance together at the Opera Epiclese, would you say their 'electrifying' performance would go 'swimmingly'?

Take note that Hoyo likes to put voice lines in places they dont belong. The death sentence could very well be aimed at Egeria, as they only said Focalor not Furina. Could be a flash back for all we know.

I think Furina's plan was to merge with the "primoridal water" (all that returned to water after getting into contact with primordial water) to become one as the Primordial Whale as the current Furina is the last piece of the "sinners" (those that came from the primordial whale - which parallels Khanrhea as the country of sinners). Neu's role was to facilitate this happening as the final judge to complete the primordial whale and slay it after its release. I recon, this was the prophecy that if the primordial whale was to reign after its completion, all will return to water except the hydro archon (which is the whale). I think the ending of this will explain why Furina has two sides (the one inside the Oratrice which was sealed) and the Furnina we met at start of archon quest. Childe will help Furina take control by help killing the madness inside the Whale. I think this whale will be the Archon Parallel for Stormterror, Adzaha, Raiden Puppet, Dendro Dragon. Sorry for wrong spelling. I never claimed to be good at spelling.

Something I want but probably won’t happen, is to have the world quest actual tie into the Archon Quest like having the Ordo come to assist furia in the last moments or to have Neuvillette use their wisdom to save Fontaine

Just remember everyone Furina is still divine given how long she's lived Could all the Indenmitium accumulated over the Centuries was so there would be enough power to "Unalive" Furina because how else will Furina join Orobashi?

So much research Thank you

I wonder if Furina will have a unique voice encounter with Rhodeia boss just like Ei with Scaramouche boss.🤔

I think whatver Furina did at her trial ended up releasing the whale, and then childe used his foul legacy transformation in that scene to kick the whale down into its jail again, and we will probably fall in too and thats where we fight it, and since that is gonna be the next weekly boss, i think the whale breaking his constellation is like aizdaha breaking morax pillars when we enter the domain.

I swear.. Fontaine is definitely one of the best regions in Genshin, everything from the story, characters, bosses, environment.. it's just *Perfect* ✨✨ Let's hope they do the same for Natlan..

4:07 when the screen goes dark you can see a tear forming where Furina's eye would be, just thought i should point that out

We'll find out soon !!! I am really excited for the Archon Quest :D

I wonder what's with that whale? did it came from the primordial sea itself?

um... i'm early and that's all i gotta say?

Egeria most likely did the sin of creation, directly challenging one of the 5 heavenly authorities: life. But only partially. While she separated the body from the soul, the pnuema from the ousia, the primordial sea / ousia / body returns will one day return for the soul, that is the curtain call.

That was fast💙😭 thank you , must save for the lady with white hair

3:30 Neuvilette ends up as the archon. It was confirmed by his ascension voice lines, so the purpose was to train him until he was wise enough to become the true hydro archon.

If that’s really Skirk then I’m genuinely pissed. What a waste of design

This gave me more questions than answers x)

something really cool i’ve noticed for 4.2: the final act is called ‘masquerade of the guilty’ and almost everyone in fontaine wears a ‘mask’ of sorts. Furina: pretends to be all knowing, and that she has everything planned out; is really a sort of scared kid Neuvillette: hides the fact he is the hydro sovereign Arlecchino: pretends to be pleasant and ‘friendly’; while according to other harbingers (childe and scaramouche) she’s a ‘wolf in sheeps clothing’ Lyney: puts up a brave front for his siblings and other kids in the house of the hearth (freminet talks abt this in his ‘about: lyney’ voice line) Lynette: pretends to be a robot/puppet to avoid socializing (shes not) Sigewinne: puts up a kind and innocent front, but is actually highly emotionally intelligent and even says she ‘likes the feeling of being trusted’ there are probably way more examples but these are the main ones I gathered; but in the end the title of act 5 is really accurate because everyone in fontaine is guilty of wearing a ‘mask’ that hides their real selves.