EVERYTHING We Know About Arlecchino LORE and THEORIES | Genshin Impact 4.5 

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For some reason, I can’t see Arla as someone who could betray Lyney, Lynette, Freminet, and the other kids of the Hearth. But I can absolutely see her betraying the Tsaritsa and other Harbingers.

14:43 "This foster father gifted Lynette *ew* to another man-" The "ew" is such a mood 😭

All I gotta say is that Arlecchino is daddy and no one can stop this fact.

I just remembered, in German the house of the heart is called Haus des Kamins which translates to house of the chimney

'Perinheri' single handedly saved this patch for the lore enthusiasts lmao Istg this is 'Before Sun and Moon' levels of lore bombing

With that periheri book it seems obvious now that the house of the hearth originated in khaenriah, pierro has just shifted it's purpose to being more than just finding a descender amoungst the wandering beings that enter the world, it could also mean that the traveller is actually going to be protected by the fatui since they seem instrumental to their plan. The struggle for pierro is going to be to convince the traveller to go along with the fatui's plan, but depending what it is, that might be easy.

Sparkle theme goes so hard in the background of theorycrafting

THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT! 4.5 not only brought us the lore-heavy book series but it also brought some mentions of Dornman Port with Eula and Beidou's visit during the alchemy event! I'm convinced that Eula or Beidou will play a role in that region once it releases just because it seems like both of them visit the port often. Anyways, great video!!

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 2:20 Commedia dell'Arte 3:30 The Previous Knave 5:21 NEW BOOK IN FONTAINE - Perinheri 7:55 THEORY Arlecchino is a Hilichurl? 9:04 THEORY Arlecchino is Basil Elton? 10:31 THEORY Arlecchino and Khaenri'ah? 12:08 A SCARY THEORY... Third Descender? 13:42 Current Lore and Character Analysis (pre-4.6) 16:12 Arlecchino's Possible Constellation

There’s this character from Perinheri called “Angelica”, and if memory serves well, she descended from a line of priests. Her nation lost to Deus Auri (Zhongli), but she refused to live under his reign, so she left and went to Perinheri’s Kingdom. She used three different identities throughout the story, the first one being a young lady from Liyue (when she met Perinheri and his friend), then a witch (when his friend got turned into what was most likely a hilichurl), and finally, “freedom”. With one of Arlecchino’s appellations being “Father” (a sacred function), I wonder if she and Angelica are one and the same, or maybe a manifestation of some sort.

Minsleif is wild by adding Kafka Theme in ending of Arlechino lore😮

A fact that rappresents that Arlecchino (from commedia) is a master of disguises in the french version is the fact that he's actually a "maschera" (a character who people dress up as) in the italian holiday of Carnevale! I'm italian, and I'm so happy to see our culture rappresented in media

Fun fact: the super original Arlecchino in the commedia dell'arte is originated from a cunning, conniving carachter, that was often also called "The prince of Demons" and his multicolor clothes come from the idea that he is dressed up in the souls of people he conned into going to hell.

In MC voice lines, where we have small conversation with Paimon. There one “about tribes” (iirc) that suggests that MC does know/remember something about Eclipse tribe.

Praise you for reading the lore so I don't have to 🙏 I can see why people go so hard for Father. She's been the first character I've really been excited for since Neuvillette / Furina

It's always a treat to get long form content from you! I've gotta go pick up those books soon, that sounds like an interesting read! Thank you for summarizing it all so neatly

fr i found the perinheri book like 2 days ago and couldnt find ANY video about it and thought i was trippin lolll straight up khaenriah lore had me hyped ngl. cant wait for u to cover it more into depth

Hey Minsleif! I don't know if you did a video about Venti statue on Mondstadt but if you didn't can you do one? You know there is a writing under Venti statue says "Gateway to Celestia". Also, people think that the loading screen when we open the game is Celestia and that loading screen is actually on top of Mondstadt. We can't reach there without cheats or bugs because it's soooo far up in the sky but it's there. Interesting topic don't you think? I wanna hear your thoughts and theories about this.

This is so good Mins ! mind blown yet again !!

READ THE FALL OF THE FADED CASTLE ITS A BOOK IN 4.2 IT TALKS ABOUT BALEFUL MOON AND CRIMSON STUFF (look at her character title in drip)

Thank you Min, these videos are always bangers and just wonderful refreshers for lore and anything else relating to stories in game.

i was starving for arlecchino content. thank you

You're so knowledgeable that you can pioneer a program on the lore of Genshin Impact at a top university. Or write a doctoral thesis on "The Genhin Impact Lore and its cultural significance". Hats off to you.

12:40 the sparkle trailer

That Wanderer and Childe edits at 15:38 and 15:44 were genius. I really really liked how you put their video at left and their lines at right. I appreciate details like this. Good job!

I'm grateful for lore enthusiasts 🙏 Pretty cool to hear about all the details I miss

you’re so good at this

Your voice is so calming

Your lore videos are simply amazing and you explain possible connections and theories so well. Genshin lore is really deep and interesting but incredibly tedious to work out... So thank you for explaining it for us all!

i love you minsleif keep doing your videos !!! 🤭💕

The thing is, why do Childe and Wanderer call her insane? Is she actually clinically insane or is it because she’s so “morally grey”?

AT LAST!!! A POV from Minsleif. ❤❤

The alchemy event is ONE OF THE BEST EVENTS EVER, in ANY game period so its ignorant for people to say were in a dry patch

Btw top 3 Harbinger ranking is: 3. Columbina 2. Dottore 1. Capitano

Great vid!

I love the narration and pronunciation

Yeah, the dry patch allegation are insane! They just drop the best event in game (potion simulator) I'm addicted.

You did not just betray genshin with tof 😂😂😂

Thank you Minsleif 😊 I haven't played genshin since Baizhu's banner so I'm lost on where the story is currently on. This is very helpful because while I don't play the genshin anymore, I really like the game's lore and this video is godsend cuz I saw the Father doing flips with a scythe and I kinda wanna go back in game just to get her. This makes me wanna go back to the game more.

I'm a little late for the vid, so don't know if it's gonna be read, but when you mentioned the Descender theory because of Pierro's frase in her drip marketing, I think the frase refers to how her whole motive in the story to this date was to challenge Fontaine's prophecy (which I interpreted as her trying to challenge "fate"), and it is also said repeatedly that she will use everything in her power to try and stop this prophecy, so she would've "earned" the right to challenge fate somehow. Great video too!

I am so sure she's the dark figure described in the fall of the faded castle book, there's just too many similarities to be a coincidence

This book is insane 😱😱

I swear if lore content creators cook something, it always brings me interest in genshin lore. Minsleif and Murderofbirda are my fav atm

There is this theory on youtube that all ppl with pyro visions had to fight for their „throne“ with some previous holder, or their ancestor, and here we are, Arlecchino also fits this theory perfectly! And author of that video came to that conclusion (also aboutother elements) because the main feature of vision holders is that they share some similarity with the corresponding archons‘ biography. So yeah, definitely in Natlan there will be some throne succession plot, I‘m now convinced his theory is the most legit about visions‘ criteria. That was a little off topic but yeah, your video gave me this insight

I love the lore and theory videos!!!! Can't wait to see what might come true

too lazy to play the new patch, this channel is saving my life and time :) many thanks

hi Minsleif!! amazing video, love when genshin does this kind of stuff cause i’ve lowkey been starving for more khaenriah related lore lmao. one question - where did you find the Perinheri book? i would really like to read it!

YIPEEEEEE ARLECCHINO LORE THANK YOU❤❤❤

Love your voice 👍💙 cant wait for arlecchino 160 wishes saved

I find it funny how there's a HSR song (Sparkle's theme) in a Genshin lore + theory video Good video btw

I'VE BEEN STARVING FOR SOMEONE TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS BOOK as soon as I read it I immediately knew that this was massive, glad one of my favourite lore creators finally did it!

Have you read Fall of the Faded Castle? It includes a figure with piercing eyes, dark robes, and a connection to a blood moon that is described as baleful.

Since you mentioned the 3rd descender, you should check out "My Name For Now's" video on why Dain is the 3rd descender. The battle pass cutscene isn't about Aether and Lumine.

This really reminds me of a story I’ve read in my childhood called „der standhafte Zinnsoldat/The steadfast Tin Soldier“ (German. I don’t know whether or not it’s related but at 7:20 (background video) it’s exactly the same as in the story.

Aah can't wait for 4.6! Am guaranteed and 97 wishes saved so far! Arlecchino will be mine, first harbinger and first limited Fontain character that I'll have.

8:00 her theme for her tea party with furina is called hearthfire

when it comes to Arle's lore we already know some more hints besides in-game content, namely "dreams" that give us a "hint" at visuals of her abilities, passives, ability, passive and constellation names along with their flavor text etc.

You might want to consider that either there was no previous Harbinger heading the House of Hearth or that if there was it was Arlecchono herself, and she pretended to replace herself because of some sort of split personality or twin or similar, just as we have seen in Inazuma and Sumeru.

17:40 the “she won’t be working hard for people to forgive her” I can’t even deny this. Yet again, you fixate on Dainslief, Arlecchino has been mine for years XD

Love you coping about Dainslief lmao- that’s been me with arlecchino for at least three years until now lmao

Arlecchino is surrounded by mysteries. From what I've seen and heard she not too bad and not too good but in between.

Will you be covering more star rail lore in the future?

arlecchino and columbina are the most linked characters of the game from the few informations we have about both of them with the christian symbolism, comedia dell arte lovers, both of them seem to be referenced in perinheri etc etc i wanna know what thats abt hyv pls give us smth

My final theory justification for Arlecchino Basil Elton

I’m so early this is amazing 🤩

15:08 maybe arrlechino should have been with the fountaine police

❤❤❤❤❤❤ so much effort was put into this video ❤❤❤❤❤

I love arlecchino ❤❤❤❤❤

Tbh I do like Idea of her still being evil yet caring on her own way . Especially for Hearth siblings .She ofcourse has her own not moral ways of doing it. Someone can be evil yet still show care for someone.

Am I the only one thinking Angelica could be Columbina? And Per-inheri sounds similar to Pierre? And they have another one cursed, where Arlecchino has black hands like Carterpillar... What if they are the ones from the story

i love finding out new khaenri'ah lore

what if perinheri was actually the abyss twin? they were reborn and is now a part of teyvat, but they died in a deifferent way?

1:05 THEY GOT THE EVANGELION COLLAB?!?!?! It's been so long since I've heard about anything related to Tower of Fantasy, and the first time I hear about them in forever, I find out they have an Evangelion collab. lmao

Hm, how very interesting, I wonder what will be the case and what we’ll let next? By the way, have you done a Video on Paimon yet?

No!! you are right on the descender consciousness thing. why? well, we know rank 123 are god level beings(how strong as gods? stronger than archons? we don't know). And arlecchino is 4th. now the problem with this ranking is..well a few things. - Number 5 pulcinellla is an elf like creature. Only two other elvish creatures that we have seen so far are...well Rukkhadevata and Klee(and by extension Alice). Now assuming that there is a race of people like elves, and one of them is supposed to be the avatar of irminsul which happened to be rukkhadevata. But even this connection aside, this would kind of mean that elves have the potential to reach the realm of gods given enough time, as evident with Alice's abilities and Pulcinella's high rank(I mean same can be said for Yokai and Adepti..if strong enough, they can be considered gods like Zhongli was) - Number 6(former) was scaramouche, who was a suitable container for gnosis, he eventually attained artificial godhood too, its just that the plan was thwarted otherwise his god form might have been perfected eventually. You see what i m getting at? Harbingers 1-3 have attained levels of god. Harbingers 4-6 showed "potential" to achieve that godly power. They just are not up there YET to be classified in the same tier as 1,2 and 3. I mean think of it this way, Scaramouche who "became" a god, was ranked below arlecchino and Pulcinella. He was a puppet from divine origin and with dottore's intervention it was almost certain that he will attain godhood someday. then why rank him so low? Simply because Arlechhino and Pulcinella simply have more potential than him. Pulcinella has yet to step into the territory of god powers. and Arlecchino..well arlecchino could just be a hilichurl body husk with the consciousness of descender. Thus she has the potential to be a godly being IF she gets a more suitable body, but for now, she isn't there YET.

Arlecchino is a very interesting character

There isn't also another Fontainian book speaking about the red moon? If I remember correctly, it is a green book speaking about an hominous figure that purge a king and his castle during a party. It should be a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the masquerade of red death

15:34 they're right though, even Arlecchino herself, said that if she will ever be in opposing sides she won't hesitate to destroy Cryo Archon. She's most disloyal fatui harbinger. I find that ironic if comparing it to house of the hearth forbidden rule.

Discord fam 🎉!!

Beautiful video as always, I just can't wait to pull our new Fatui harbinger! P.S. Little reminder that "Fatui" is also an italian word, and it's actually pronounced "Fàtui" instead of "Fatùi" like they always do in the English dub. Japanese dub pronounces it correctly tho. Something "Fatuo" means something insignificant, inconclusive, superficial, frivolous. It may refer to how the Fatui are, in the end, just a tool for the Tsaritsa's plan of rebellion with little to no other purpose?

1:00 (I know its just the backgroundmusic, but) 🥨🍻 GERMANY MENTIONED 🍻🥨

for the orphanage for the outlanders/descenders in the book, if arlecchino is from that orphanage, or just has ties to it, i would say arlecchino is a counterpart to one of the siblings, whether it be the abyss sibling, or the sibling we choose to play as changes the reason. the reason for the abyss sibling is because they are not considered a descender, but yet we know they aren't from teyvat.. but yet they're in irminsul, so arlecchino as their counterpart would be glitching and remember scaramouche as scaramouche. and the reason for the one we pick, well a counterpart for someone who ISN'T in irminsul wouldn't be in irminsul either, right? i know that contradicts the abyss sibling thing, but how come the abyss sibling is in irminsul but our traveler isn't?

did you know that arlecchino is a expy of the onyx fu hua senti skin in honkai :3

I will pull him after 3 years

Maann i REALLY thought that the hand of glory had something to do with crepus's delusion cuz like the similarities between these fwo is strange as hell

Should we take Wanderer's and Childe's word at face value though? I mean Wanderer actively disses all of the Harbingers with little regard for their accomplishments. He's not one to care for learning about his associates considering he ditched them for power and when he WAS serving them was used mostly as a weapon in and out of the Abyss. He was also fooled by Dottore as well. So I'd say the Wanderer is definitely our most reliable source of judging characters. And Childe is the lowest rank who only cares about power, so much so even La Signoria fooled him with the plans to get get Gnosis from Liyue. I get that we have to analyze everything, but I'll always say this; just because someone says something doesn't mean it's factual. Characters can lie and deceive.

the other Arlecchino is currently dressed up as Eula

14:10 I think the knave can care and have altruistic motives (at least when it comes to Fontaine). However I will say she seems like a saint compared to how Signora is portrayed in the story (yes I know she has a tragic backstory but it’s really about how you act rather then what you endured that matters in the current story)

Despite your tagline, I wanna go read the lore now

i can't wait for arlo's story quest and get disappointed if there are no lore drops 😊😊😊

How many "buts" did you guys count? 😂 Love this vid btw

oh? ive seen a non-rain butt? slay, wriothesley butt is also insanely worthy (says definitely not a wrio main)

If Arrlechino is betraying Tsaritsa then she is sane and right just live freely like Scaramouche she maybe wants house of hearth to be free from fatui and for that if Arrlechino betraying Tsaritsa, Traveller will still see her as hero.

7:10 It's strange that Arlechinno uses the same kind of elemental power as the unknown God... By creating that kind of red portals...

6:45 This is completely irrelevant to the video but i find it funny that Miko specifically says this since Yae's HI3 counterpart pretty much also lived through a samsara the same way the traveler and Nahida did 😭 just an observation ofc since i think it was more an allusion to the archon quest than it was to hi3

The Dainsleif butt showing up cracks me up LMAO

when people talk about arle saving the whole village we never consider the fact that maybe it were fatui who poisoned the water and caused the commotion, like even navia pointed that they were conveniently close and so willing to help? yeah sure

You know something important dropped when Minsleif makes a video abt it 🤭