Arlecchino: The Balemoon Curse of Khaenri'ah (Genshin Impact 4.6) 

CORRECTIONS HERE: it turns out that Arlecchino may actually be 27 years old. Lyney said that he approached Cesar (the Magician that taught him and Lynette his magic tricks) when he joined the House of the Hearth, and later that Cesar died 10 years prior to the Story Quest, so Arlecchino must have become the Knave 10 years ago. This would make her 27 years old, as I said. The problem comes with the records of the executions that only go back 5 years. My best bet is that it took 5 whole years for Dottore to come up with a way to extract the flames from Arlecchino's body and, once she finally had a way out for the children, she started recording the "executions", and she's been doing that for 5 years now.

Great video! I think they're keeping most of the stuff about her Khaenrian heritage for later, including her glitching. She'll probably get a second quest or make another appearance when Project Stuzha is executed, when Dottore burns the tree, or when we get another deep dive in Khaenri'ah. Would be a better time to drop lore bombs about her I imagine. After all while lore heads are very much aware of how special Arlecchino is, the average player probably never read perinheri and only sees her as another Harbinger, they needed to be introduced to her, her flames, the crimson moon etc. first. Now that this is established, they can go further.

Bro amazing video its just so relaxing listening to you explain all of this while doing anything else like playing games , work etc

Thank you for the amazing video!!!

Daje!! Stavo aspettando questo video ;) I know, I know, your word is not final but still, your theories are fire 🔥🔥

So, I guess you see Arlecchino as the Crimson Moon Dynasty equivalent of Itto. He has stronger Oni blood than most other members of the species in modern day, which is highlighted primarily in his particularly deadly reaction to soybeans. Ever since we learned about the Primordial Sea and heard about the Primal Fire, I’ve been interested in the existence of these “Primordial” elemental bodies. Irminsul is the source of Dendro power, which suggests that it’s the equivalent to the Primordial Sea and Primal Fire. Of the other elements, only Anemo seems like it might have a known equivalent, being the Thousand Winds associated with Istaroth. The Shade of Life was essentially given the responsibility of handling the Primordial Sea and created Egeria to that end. Istaroth may have inherited the Thousand Winds as her duty. Venti may be an existence more similar to Egeria, the creation of a Shade directly. I imagine Rukkhadevata may have also been something similar to Egeria’s existence. Her being the “avatar of Irminsul” has always made me wonder what her actual connection to it was. Has she always been the avatar, or was she connected to it after becoming an Archon? If she’s innately connected to it, does that mean she’s been around since the beginning, or did older versions of her exist in previous Samsaras? Maybe we’ll learn soon. I genuinely wonder if there are other “primordial elemental bodies” for the other elements, like Primal Earth or something like that (although I guess that could just be the planet itself). The total lack of any true Electro Vishaps other than mutated Bathysmal Vishaps also makes me wonder if we’ll ever get to see stuff related to the “Primordial Lightning” or the Electro Sovereign. We haven’t been to Snezhnaya so I imagine if there’s a Cryo body we’ll learn of it there. I think you’ll probably cover it in your next video, but it seems like Egeria being described as having “like nobility unto a dragon” but lacking its outer form was very, very literal, as Cassiodor said a new Hydro Dragon couldn’t be born while the Mistress of Many Waters hibernated in the deep seas. He does also mention her death, but according to Furina, Neuvillette’s at least 1,000 years old (apparently the Chinese version doesn’t specify multiple thousands), and he was already alive long enough for Folcalors to know about him centuries ago, so I’m going to defer to the hibernation statement more. Something about Egeria’s prison kept a Hydro Sovereign from manifesting, but when she left one could be born. Maybe before the creation of the Archons’ authorities she had the entire Hydro Dragon’s authority, but could only manage it from her prison. After becoming the Hydro Archon she only inherited part of the authority, and the rest of it that used to manage became free to manifest into a new Sovereign. Also, sorry I didn’t really talk much about Arlecchino. I don’t actually know what I can say that will really add to or interact with anything you said in the video in a meaningful way. I feel like we’ve already talked a lot about Arlecchino in your community posts and I may have exhausted a lot of my thoughts on her already, but if I think of something suddenly in the middle of the night (like I do sometimes) I’ll probably let you know.

Amazing video! 15:23 i really love this idea, it's really make sense!

As always, awesome content. My two cents: I read some theories about Peruere being a kind of error in Irminsul (hence the glitches). Kinda based on that, I remembered forbidden knowledge: what if it was memories not fully erased? As in: cinders of the bloodfire? It's probably just me being insane, but there you go xD

GOOD VIDEO, every time we have a new GENSHIN IMPACT patch I wait for your video, they are one of the best in terms of LORE

I'm still upset they didn't give Perinheri more value or importance. If it had been found after completing a world quest (narzissen library), a secret dungeon, or a grand chest in a empty room, something like that, it would have been more appreciated. But buying it in the newspapers? Meh By the way, Natlan is close, I'm from México and I've been thinking that if you need help with translation or have doubts about the mythology, maybe I can help. Many anthropology and mythology books are not translated, let's say pre-Hispanic mythology is still not "popular" compared to others

Hleobrant turned into a Hilichurl when he reached the surface of Teyvat and Angelica was at best a Seelie, or some kind of ghost, since she disappeared when they reached the surface. The only person in that story that could've had descendants is Perinheri. They even have similar names, a clear indication of being related. These are not changes to hide what happened, because we only ever get the cliffsnotes versions of these books, what we read ingame is clearly not the full book. These are the main points. There could be another origin for Peruere, she could be an Outlander summoner or found by the Fatui, then experimented on to acquire the Balemoon curse. Also, remember the three Pari/Seelie like creatures she has around her before her boss fight? After the fight you can find them around the arena, witnessing the fight, but there's also a fourth one that appears and it has a different coloring, as if affected by the Balemoon curse. I think those are her ancestors, including Perinheri.

Just saw other Arlecchino lore videos and something interesting that I think may be more likely than the descendants with recessive genes thing is her reincarnating outside of Irminsul's grasp. Reasoning: - Pierro says he is very surprised to see anyone from the Crimson Moon dynasty still alive at all. - Pierro says Perinheri is how Arlecchino can learn of her origin even if not a complete 1:1 source, and Perinheri sounds extremely close to Peruere in Chinese. Safe to assume Arlecchino is more Perinheri in the story than some potential love child of the knight and Angelica. In the story Perinheri has no memories before the crossing of the chimney and seeing the crimson moon. When asked if he died he says that *yes, he did*. - Arlecchino has the same issue of not having memories before seeing the crimson moon - Arlecchino considers losing your memories a form of death, as she "executes" House of the Hearth quitters - Her flames burn memories, and we know that Irminsul's control of fate is through memories. At death, the soul of Teyvat inhabitants (and their memories) go back to Irminsul who controls their fate - She is wary of her curse reaching her heart, as it would cause a "change". Not destroy her or anything, but "change" her - She has an established theme of evading her fate - So what if her curse forces her into a reincarnation cycle outside of Irminsul's grasp? Every time it reaches her heart she burns her own memories and self away, and is reborn under the Crimson Moon's gaze without going through Irminsul, thus not being subject to fate or at least not in the same way as most. She isn't a descendant of Perinheri, she *is* Perinheri, his soul in a reborn body. It would explain why she glitches and why her imagery is so different from the usual pyro stuff. The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles who is also outside of the rules of Teyvat shows a similar deep red, with similar "digital" imagery (and her cubes having one eye, echoing the crimson moon's one eye). This doesn't explain how exactly she ended up as such a special entity, but I prefer this explantion over the idea of random Khaenrians surviving and through genetic happenstance producing Arlecchino

Wait, Arlecchino was a director not for five years, but for ten, no? Because siblings were already part of the HoT when they met Cesar about a decade ago.

Her glitching like an animatronic freaks me out lol.

I like how every genshin tuber uses a character as their face claim.

21:45 this is exactly the reason behind my last comment on your post before the video! When I said that we’re slowly getting closer to the truth about phanes and its shades (or moons for 3 of them). So exciting to know that we got the same conclusion! 🤩 One thing I could say about the crimson moon is the fact that moons are gates to another worlds, this explain the glitch effect on Arlecchino, because her powers are out of teyvat. Another example is the RED “path” (a small version of the moon’s gate) opened by the unknown goddess at the beginning of our story. This can also explains the dark purple path that abyss heralds can use (also our twin), and that’s why for example Breacher Primus are considered “OTHERWORLDLY organisms”. And finally, I found another relation between Moon-shade-phanes, the key are the 6 wings on arlecchino: just like Seraphims, the creatures closest to god, and of course, the 4 shades should be the beings closest to phanes. There are more details about this theory, but I’ll keep them until Remuria’s video!

7:12 personally when i saw those 3 little creatures I immediately thought of the 3 moon sisters 'cuz of how Seelie-like their appearance was and it would make sense that they're playing around with Peruere since she's probably one of the last descendant of the Crimson Moon dynasty whom actually worshiped the Moon/ moon sisters. But then I saw another one in the background, which kinda makes me doubt it now haha If we're going by your theory, then maybe they're the afterimages of the siblings she may or may not have killed with her own hands in her youth.

So Childe became a harbinger from 14-16?Holy

Yaaaaaay time to listen to this while I farm Aroechinnos boss mats

Also, I’m pretty sure we’re going to have a 4.8 just like the other updates natlan will likely release late August just like Fontaine

Interesting theories. It would make sense if two of her ancestors left her because of her curse she inherited from being born of two Crimson Moon descendants. As for Natlan… well I’m not too sure. It would be so cool if her power was the Sacred Flames. I was about to say “but how would any other Natlan character be outside their homeland without consequences?” But then remembered she wasn’t a native in the first place lmao. I can wait for you to wait about Natlan and the Unfinished Reverie set! As for the sacred flames, I wonder if every nation somewhere has like this primordial elemental body which is the source of all the elemental beings and powers with an avatar being to be in control of it? (Ie Egeria and previous Hydro Sovereign of the primordial sea, source of all hydro, and Rukkadevata and Irminsul being the source of Dendro.) I wonder if these sacred flames is the source of all pyro. And maybe Murata was the one to guard it? Idk. Either way I can’t wait for Natlan

I loved the video!, specially the microcosm part, however there is one key information left behind. 08:13 We do know the crimson moon bloodline ended because they drank "poison" after the eclipse dinasty took over. I'll leave the two texts supporting this below. The ancient balemoon blood flows within her fate, granting her all that the dynasty once had - yearning, power, and curses alike. In her short life, she has supped of countless agonies and drunk deep of the cup of suffering, just as her ancestors once did when they imbibed poison at the rising of the dark sun. - The Knave, Fourth of the Fatui Harbingers. Archive (Boss description) "O High Lord of the Nobles of Khaenri'ah, the crimson-red moon has long since fallen into the abyssal firmament, and the blindness of your blood has ended your line," "O benevolent lord who leadeth us, should you still pity the children of humanity, then drink deep the wine in this cup." - Crimson Moon's Semblance (Arlecchino's signature weapon)

Hmmm her fate is the real fate, because her story quest is in Latin. Normally if a story diverse from the constellation like Neuvilette or zhongli. I guess it could be possible that her second story quest has a different name if they want to make a play on her being a cinder of two worlds. Or she is an ashen shadow herself It caught my eye that her title on the banner was Ashen shadow

I just want to know where is she from and if she's related to Khanreiah why isn't she cursed like the others in a different way though.

Scaramouche could have found her abandoned in Khanriah during his campaigns to the Abyss. The reason why there is no lore about is because Scaramouche was wiped from the world tree.

I hope she doesn't die when the archon quest regarding The Doctor Burning the World tree comes, I'm pretty sure the flames Dottore will use are Arlecchino's since it can erase memories.

I just realized something. Since she is cursed does that mean she can't properly have children of her own do to the fire curse thing in her body or blood? If so that's kinda sad man. So an orphanage is literally the best she can manage.

Now you record yourself with more people? You could tell me :P. Nice that you liked the update, since they're a lot of people crying about the "tiny" map and the ending of Arlecchino quest. Now i think of it what IF the Crimson dynasty took revenge at the end against the Eclipse dynasty? Maybe by the hand of Gold, and thus ocasionated the cataclysm of Khaenri'ah, because now i think of it, the war was a lot about Alchemy demons vs Khaeri'ah machines, a global disaster that forced the gods to took hands in the matter.

With arlecchino even if she was Fontainian I don’t think she would wield pneamousia if she could because she has a different vision that’s not from Fountaine

regarding her age, shouldnt u have added another 5 years considering the twins have been in the hoth for ten? wouldnt thag make her around 27 ?

Angelica lied about who she was tho? And leobrandt turned into a hilichurl there’s no way they’re her ancestors p

diluc main W

I smell Ragnarok coming.

I feel like the house of the hearth sounds too much like a cult, like yeah arlechinno made it better than previously and you can leave now even if costs your memory, but still sending children to dangerous missions, the fatui seem like a organization were the ends justify the means, hence why dottore still here, but i still consider them evil, just because they are chaotic good doesnt means they didnt cause profund harm in a lot of inoccent lives and arlechinno is part of that, her good qualities everybody boosts about are not redeeming in my eyes, much like scaramouche who comitted crimes too i dont think he is redeemed yet, but i can comprehend people liking morally gray characters, just dont claim they are good people, arlechinno murdered a guy by crushing his skull with stilleto heels, i can respect the style but him being a bad guy doesnt justify his murder, do you think a true good character like yoimiya or nahida would do the same thing as her? Sure she was indoctrinated into this life but clervie was a good person to the point she was wanting to die because of the cruelty, she probably wouldnt want the house exist at all and just be a normal orphanage that would be truly good, what arlechinno does is not morally good, even if she does it in a good way in the end she still grooming child soldiers and spys

4:00 there's many contradictions between the animation and the story quest and voice lines of Arlecchino. I suppose if you wanted to make lore out of it you could say the animation was an alternate samsara and that's why Scaramouche is there... but it really feels more like sloppiness. Does that building really feel like a modern day Fontainian building? To me it felt like an old disused building though not yet a complete wreck. So there's no way it would have been rebuilt and then abandoned again inside of one year. But if you are trying to reconcile the animation and game then.... yeah good luck with that; you'll need it. Oh good point about the SQ screwing up Vision theories too. What a hot mess. I knew that but I guess I had blocked it out of my memory in recoil against the suck. Also why does Arlecchino make a big deal about saying she only pretends to be from Fontaine when she basically is from Fontaine? At least in the sense that she was raised there. I guess maybe she means only "I wouldn't have dissolved in the primordial sea water". Again you make a valiant attempt to write a speculative history of Arlecchino visiting Snezhnaya to receive her Vision there, but as you say the kids were not allowed to travel. Kind of a huge part of the story since it was why Clervie was so keen to escape and of course if there was some way to go abroad or temporarily leave the orphanage then that whole back story of Clervie is trashed on a deep emotional level. But there's no way in hell Crucabena lets Arlecchino her number one student, out of her sight and if she had got training from someone superior to the 4th ranked Harbinger - who would that be? Capitano? But Arlecchino herself says all her combat training came from the very person she desired to kill. Oh another screw up on Visions was when Arlecchino says something like her Vision shows she's fighting fate whereas René says it means the exact opposite. Nice arithmetic on the age of Arlecchino btw. That's what I guessed but others seemed sure she was 27-29 sort of age. It's just another consistency error though because they have Arlecchino behaving far older than that. How is someone who is so young, has no emotion, and has lived in an orphanage all her life, able to be such precise appraiser of human emotion in others? It makes as much sense as Neuvillette playing the dumb "what do I know about human emotion?" card after living with humans for 5 centuries. They're both tropes of course, and as a silly trope at least Neuvillette's works, but Arlecchino's doesn't. I can believe her as a skilled killer but an emotional genius? No. Pick a trope MiHoyo. Is she emotionally stunted or an emotional genius? Yeah the glitch wasn't even acknowledge and even worse it feels like a few people in Remuria were glitching as if it was all just a cool graphic thing for 4.6 and you're not even meant to think Arlecchino is especially glitching at all. I can appreciate under playing stuff, but they already under played the whole Crimson Moon thing, to the verge of being almost meaningless. The glitch didn't even get one word. Not one word, not one scene, not one hint. 8:06 Her ancestry can't come from Perinheli and "Angelica" because neither of them were Khaenri'ahns by blood. I mean -- if they even existed which they probably didn't. As for how the Crimson Moon dynasty ended, how does any dynasty end? They got killed by the people of the next dynasty. And Dainsleif says the Crimson Moon was getting "revenge" on the Eclipse, right? Everyone's new favourite Chinese deeper dig into the English translation. So revenge implies a prior wrong, therefore the Eclipse killed off the Crimson Moon. Yes it's awful story telling but apparently the nonsense about building an orphanage for all the zero child descenders they had is literally true which is just sad. Nobody creates an institution to take care of a problem that doesn't exist. And if there ever had been even one child outlander from what Alice says one might show up every century or five. So the entire orphanage was doe one child at a time? And likely never had even one such child in it's entire history? Why would anyone bother to create such an institution? But we're told they did. 9:51 But Perinheri is not Khaenri'ahn so he doesn't have the bloodline. He's an outlander. 10:23 I got the impression that the king mentioned there is none other than Irmin and is talking about the last king of Khaenri'ah much much later on during the Eclipse. In other words the Cataclysm might have been caused by Irmin being persuaded to do something stupid by this ancient (and reviled) line of priests of a dead dynasty. A cult. The weapon description is also a hot mess of ambiguity and I didn't see anything worth talking about in it. But again, good luck with that. If the Crimson Moon was so great they wouldn't have died out. If they could defy fate then Arlecchino's constellation would be "Arlecchino" and not "Purgatory Fire". Also if they could defy fate they wouldn't need a Descender. Wow. Pretty dense video today. Have to take a break half way through.

you got a lot wrong here