ARLECCHINO BACKSTORY! Explaining "The Song Burning in the Embers" Genshin Impact Lore 

Crucabena literally reciting how each and everyone of the kids will end up killing each other The orphaned kids listening to her bedtime story: 😆😃😄

Btw it was confirmed that clervie is the biological daughter of the previous knave, this didn’t translate over to the English version but it was in the Chinese version

She beat a fully grown Harbringer as a kid💀. Not just any Harbringer but one of the top 5 too.

I don't think she wants to give all three siblinvs the title - just Lyney. Isn’t that why Lyney never involves Lynette and Freminet/didn't tell them about Arleccino's plans because he knew his siblings would protest? Like, that's been his lore for a while now, no?

So when I understood correctly Former Knave: warm from the outside but cruel and sadistic inside. New Knave: strict and cold from the outside but somewhat caring from the inside. I wanted to get her already but now I want her even more.

I think Clervie killed herself because Peruere did not want to fight her, and also she looks surprised

Welcome to Fontaine, we have: - Robots - Melusines - Fonta - TRAUMA!

The old Knave put on a kind front when in reality she only saw children as tools while Arlecchino puts on a cold front when in fact she cares the most

Basically Arle/Peruere is the opposite of Crucabena, she's harsh but deep down she cares about the Orphans, Different than Crucabena's Motives who's completely f up lol Hope she explained everything in 4.6 later with details too 😆

Crucabena reminds me a lot of Babel. Both act as a loving surrogate mother to their daughter (Arle in Cruc's, Jeht in Babel's) but secretly manipulate them and toss them aside whenever needed.

1:45 The blonde girl with bulle fruit made me think this story is indeed somehow linked to the princess Marcotte as theories say. How every plant had a kingdom in the tale and here we have girl with bulle fruit and mother + daughter with lumidouce bell. Seems like some king of parallel, there must be some connection!

Also at the beginning you can see a weird doctor plushie. I'm sure this represents Dottore, the previous "mother" is said to have let Dottore experiment on the children

Arlecchino can be said to be a villain, but at least after all she is still a person who knows how to love and care for others, it make me love father a lot more after this animated short video

I think Arlecchino wants to be opposite to what Crucabena stood for. Taking care of of the orphans as their "Father" instead of "Mother". Asking every orphan to consider every member as their own family (even if the relation is not by blood). Arlecchino even ended that cruel Battle royale between orphans for choosing one "king". If we go by this pattern then that Fight between Peruere and Crucabena was not suppose to happen. Crucabena was going to teach Peruere how to become the "King" but Peruere rejected it and ended up killing her. To elect the New King of HoTH instead of Battle Royal among children Arlecchino did the opposite instead and have her children fight her and that's what we see in Trailer.

*(**0:40**)* It should be noted that Crucabena being both the former "Knave" and the former "Arlecchino" has only been stated in the English translation. In the original Chinese, she has only been confirmed to be the former "Knave" (仆人) and has never actually explicitly been referred to as "Arlecchino" (阿蕾奇诺), meaning it's possible that she had a different name as a Harbinger.

Noo just when I thought it couldn't get sadder you hit me with the Narzissenkreuz ost😭😭

Now that I think about it, the area were the Arlechino boss battle takes place, looks like what ruins could remain of the structure in which she fought the former Father 🤔

Wriothesley and Peruere would have a mutual understanding if they got to know each other.

I like where she used to have a pet spider, and in the 4.6 trailer, alot of spider motif or theme resembles her skills like the web and limbs behind her harbinger form

I think I know the place where Arlechino fought with "mother", try going to Mont Esus East, on the mini map it looks like a circular building, if you go to the place it has been destroyed,

... I really should be watching all these animations. They're so high quality. Also, I believe that Arlecchino became a Father, because she did not want to be like the Mother, but she still intend to keep training the childrens and make them strong. The biggest difference here is instead of causing them to kill each other to become stronger than the others, she wants them to work together to defeat a stronger opponent instead hence the 3 working together to fight her.

Also she don't want siblings to fight each other for the title. She wants them to fight together side by side to defeat her. I believe it's a training for them

**flashbacks in The Promised Neverland**

The cat is cooking.

We know that the House of the Hearth is in Fontaine, it's not a maybe. The flowers, Lumindous Blue, are Fontaine flowers of 'farewell', the architecture and nature matches Fontaine, plus the culture of patisserie (Like Furina's fondness for tea and cake etc) and storytimes (like the one in Freminet's event) are, in Genshin, most associated with Fontaine. Plus it's not like Arlecchino moved the operations to Fontaine following becomming Father. It's all based in Fontaine (past and present).

I never knew we can remember the lore of Arlecchino.

Really excited for this. Seems like instead of fighting eachother to become the king, Peruere's tradition is different where it's her children that fights her to be the king.

Always adore this animation short and this edit showcase her entire characterization so well

Someone already found the location of the last fight that got destroyed. Obviously it's on Fontaine but on the edge of the map

Im always waiting for catwithbluehat to post a summary of the genshin lore and etc posts to know more about it freely and catwithbluehat is the best explainer i love his vids so much

keep it up! i"m still waiting for penacony 2.1 storyline

I was waiting for your video

I got chills when it said we might see clervie. I saw that girl on the version preview screen and I completely forgot about her in 3 days thank you for showing that pic again that would be awesome to have clervie tell us about the new knaves story a bit more

this makes more sense now im even more excited for ver 4.6 even tho i cant do the quest due to my sumeru archon quest😅

In the children story,all of them are rabbits,while there's a bat in rabbit's clothing. Fatui perhaps!?

You forgot to mention, Crucabena has the death hairstyle 😂

I think the one Freminet was hiding is Clervie, and arlecchino has been searching her all this time. Maybe remuria has ghoste like inazuma, a place where clervie still exists.

It was one thing that Clervie befriended Peruere and the idea she got into a fight with Crucabena as she does not wish to become King if it means killing her. Another is the implication that Clervie is Crucabena's actual daughter and that would mean she had for a while knew about what her mother was really like. The tradition of king is still there with the difference being instead of fighting each other the three siblings would fight her instead. Of course the three siblings are upset about it not wishing to have to kill the person who gave them a life and home. I can once again imagine Hotaru/Lumine would intervene and would make stopping Arlecchino and saving the siblings something personal.

It's strongly agreed/speculated that the previous House of the Hearth, the place where Peruere defeated Crucabena is the ruins in Mont Esus East, some people already did a side by side comparison of the ruins in mont esus east and the scene where the previous HoTH blew up

Crucabena had that anime dead mom hairstyle

I think Arlecchino is testing the three siblings to see if they can survive without her in the future and maybe run the house of the hearth

On the bright side, she genuinely actually loves them, ik her own way

When we most needed you, you return \o/

Thanks

Am I the only one seeing Dottore in the beginning as the bat with Dottore's mask and the doctors outfit? it may explain the syringe in the middle - I bet he ran experiments on the children of the house...

found where Father fought the harbinger (Mother): South part of Mount Esus East, near the waterfall. There's a ruin there (if you open the map, the ruins shape is circle)

Holy! The area where the previous harbinger has fallen is somewhere on Mount Esus next to the waterfall which it can be seen on the animation as well and so is the area of that place. Theres also a ruin on that same spot which took over the fight

if you look closely at Arlecchino's Boss location, it actually resembles the old house of hearth that she blew up when killing Mother. the shape of the ruins or whatever's left resemble an inverted triangle, like something blew up from within

Clervie is not injured because she was fighting her Mother, She was injured cause she won the battle against other Orphanage. Thats why Clervie and Arlecchino is the last standing who fight in the end before mother

Everyday i love her more and more

Some people actually managed to pin point the location of (suposedly) the orphanage, with waterfall and everything, we could already go there in 4.1. It's right beside a local legend (who is a fatui operative), just follow the destroyed Callas aquabus line and to the left of it there is a circular ruins (visible from the mini map) beside a waterfall, there are many fatui closeby and even a fatui camp

How do one know know that Peruere is the new head of the House of Hearth? When it became 'ap-parent' she is their 'Father' 🤡

MY HEART IS JUST ACHING PLEASE NO.

The music in the background is neath the fountain and dream anamnesis for those who are wondering 😊

I think they're fighting her because Freminet did something against Arlecinno's orders and Lyney is refusing to let her punish him. She says something about since if he has different ideas, then he should become the next king.

The place where the fight took place is already on the Fontaine map.

Wait if clervie reincarnated as a melusine or something and we get to see more in her story quest of father and as catinthebluehat said what if the curse helps her in combat aswell as in the live stream when they were explaining her bond of life mechanic they said " she is as ruthless to herself as she is to her enemies " maybe thats her "curse" working in combat

I think they will repeat the fight for king thing once again. And the Traveler with some help from Clervie spirit would go, "We don't do that shit here".

Here is something to take note off, it appears the Knave Harbinger whoever gets into that position is required to be from Fontaine, the whole King fighting each other culture in the orphanage only applies to Fontaine orphans and not any other House of Heart children can participate since we have seen other House of Heart members outside fontaine who quiet possibly we can suspect they are not from fontaine but are still members of the Orphanage, but they are disqualified of ever leading the House of Hearth.

yes the fight was indeed in Fontaine its the broken Broken building in just south of Waterfall which is in of "mont esus east area" (Fontaine)

I think that the pyro archon will have to be a support but with a big twist. The pyro archon would somehow be an on field support, like maybe she would do the attacks of your teammmates or she would appear on field as a construct and fly over the battlefield. That would solve the problem with your favorite character being off field while not being a dps because we have too much dps-es.

They say the orphange was in mt essin. Near the local legend.

I remember reading a manhwa exactly kinda this a long time ago. Basically this evil person raised a bunch of children and made them fight against one another for the stronger one to become heir or smthing like that

If you look closely, the final fight took place near by Meropide

In one of Lyney’s voice lines it says he knows he will become the next ‘King’ (which we already knew) however, he tells us, the traveler, to not tell Freminet and Lynette. This means Arlecchino probably has no intention of giving the title to all 3 of them, maybe Fremi and Lynette just wanted to help Lyney in the fight against Arlecchino?

Also what's interesting is in the short, we can see scara standing beside pierro, which in the altered history, scara never joined the fatui.

woah

So technically she is still a mother for the orphans but treats like a harsh father. to combat her "caring ang loving" mother, peruere became a "cold and strict" father.

fun fact the place where it takes place can be accessed in game as of now

1:45 i’m sobbing 😭

No wonder why Arlecchino likes cakes so much now, she even brought some for Furina on their meeting 😂

2:56 - Title of King doesn't mean Peruere's gonna pass the title of Knave. It was said in the trailer that only 1 out of all orphans will be "King". It does not state that the "mother" or "father" included over that fight.

Clervie is actually previous Knave's biological daughter. This was in the CN voice line, somehow in EN they miss this part.

It's worth mentioning that the location of the final fight bears a striking resemblance to the ruins where the Experimental Field Generator boss is fought. I'm not sure if it is the excat place, but it would be interesting if the Fontaine Research Institute was somehow related to the House of the Hearth's operations, or if the location was just repurposed for testing after it got obliterated.

2:32 Or rather, the final feast.

I feel like instead the child of killing each other in house of heart it like about working as a team the king for now i think it might about the leader who can lead the team and protect their team

In the scene where she doing the funeral for her spider the black thing on her hand seem to spread a bit, I wonder if this her curse and what cause it to spread to the current arlecchino we see now

These ruins already exist in the game, they are located northwest of the fontaine near a waterfall near Mount Esus

"wolf in the sheep clothing" according tataglia "childe" ajax lemeow

1:14 : likely not. I think Peruere is the favorite child of "mother" : she is the most skilled, the one destinate to become "king".

Watching this short movie reminds me with Yokusoku no Neverland.

Still waiting for the Penacony 2.1 analysis video

The former House of Hearth is in Petricor, it was destroyed during Peruere's battle against "Mother"... It was also the site were Arlecchino fights Freminet and the others on the trailer. It will be the location of Arlecchino Boss

aight lets see... signora is dead balladeer is reformed tartaglia does whatever tf he wants, and is traveller's friend arlecchino looks like she's either going to die or be reformed as well bro at this rate half the harbingers are gonna be gone by the time we get to snezhnaya

Blud got yahiko treatment

This was a sadistic animation from Genshin side. Truly brutal and I loved it! But man, if it's actually true that the "Mother" played out the 'Hunger Games' card on these children, then I'll be damned. 😐

This is actually a destroyed building in Mount Esus East

Giving Promised Neverland arena battle, king of the hill vibes

I have Lyney and in one of his voice lines he says that Father wanted him to be the next King of the house. Not the three siblings. But maybe Lyney would have a solo duel with her? Since Arrichillo had one with her mother. Idk

Damn you are fast asf!

Probably the house make everyone fight each other until one left and he/she became a high ranked fatui officers aka King. Arlecchino end up as next knave after killing the mother. She probably fake her own death here or probably really dead and calmly passed away. No way she let those 3 ascending into a harbinger or continue the orphanage

Gives me the promised neverland vibes

Who else thought Clervie looks like a young version of Asta?

2:35 No, the floor of place of the final fight and the ground where Arleccino fights her children are different. This is not the same place.

u forgot her spider form as boss aka her delusion form and the spider threads from the spider she buried at the start

In the fight Crucabena summons some water weapon or smth does that mean she has hydro powers?

STAN ARLECCHINO

So firstly, I thank you again for the detailed explanition. Secondly I have some questions I would like to ask, I hope someone would know the answer. So how was Peruere cursed? Is it her eyes? The way of her flames are redder? Someone can explain her sudden power surge at the fight? She looked at the flower and she could block the strikes of Crucabena. I feel the need to ask, why did Peruere and Clervie fight in the end, if they loved each other so much? I mean, I could understand manipulation to a degree, but why would Clervie attack Peruere? Please, someone can shade some light at this for me? I have to say, this whole situation reminds me of Made in Abyss so and so much. I love the refference, and I am sad to see theese little ones doing actual battles. Maybe Genshin will get better at some point. Thanks for reading.

The boss fight must be the ruins where Peruere (current Arlecchino) Kills the previous Knave

Arlecchino is just a code name for Peruere only, The Knave is the title. It must be said "the previous Knave", not the previous Arlecchino. Its like Childe is the code name of Ajax, and his title is Tartagila