[4.6] Arlecchino, Remuria, Cyno and Saurians - 4.6 Lore Highlights, Genshin Impact

4.6 was a very dense patch, so here's a collection of all the things I think are worth paying attention to for future plot developments!

Please note that this video is meant to serve as a summary and isn't meant to be comprehensive. For more thorough analyses, check out the links to dedicated videos below!

**TIMESTAMPS**
00:00 Introduction
01:06 Arlecchino Story Quest
06:14 Project Stuzha
07:32 Cyno Story Quest 2
11:20 Desert Sages
12:25 Remuria
16:05 Phobos
19:25 Music Festival
21:04 Saurian Search

**SPOILER WARNINGS**
- Cyno Story Quest 2
- Remuria World Quest
- Archon Quest Chapter 4
- Narzissenkreuz World Quest
- Golden Slumber Wolrd Quest
- Arlecchino Story Quest
- Nahida Story Quest 2

**RELATED VIDEOS**

**CITATIONS & ATTRIBUTIONS**

[Ashikai]

**NOTES AND CORRECTIONS**
- I mixed up my timeline a little for Arlecchino. She got her vision just before she challenged Crucabena. She wasn't wearing it in the short and I COMPLETELY forgot about the line from her vision story that goes "She merely concealed the Vision in the place closest to her heart before sending "Mother" a "pleasant little surprise.""
She does still have the bloodfire without her vision so the rest of the segment is still accurate. Sorry about the mix up!

[bitvanbite]

"... all you need to be deserving of the throne is conviction, and the necessary strength to act on it, " says Arlecchino, staring straight into the camera instead of Lyney, totally not suspiciously at all. Just a normal thing fathers say to their travellers. I mean sons.

[Melody-it-Up]

Im kinda grateful for these version highlight videos, normally after 2 patches or so, i forget basically everything i did and read.

[Rihorama]

I'm personally reading a lot into the war mentions :D I saw someone say, on Hoyolab I think, in a reaction to "THE war" Miko mentions, that Ayato has been traveling across Teyvat for a while now and maybe it's not just pleasantries and basic diplomacy, maybe there has been a military coordination put in motion, managed by Inazuma/Ei. I thought it was plausible and then what happened? We get actual joined defense training event. I don't think that's a coincidence. We're getting serious foreshadowing here 👀

[dazc]

whooo new Ashikai post!!! 4.6 was PACKED I barely noticed it going by so fast

2:40 little Arlecchino did actually have a vision at time of Crucabena's assasination, it's mentioned in her character stories (under "Vision"). the previous Knave's rank is still ambiguous, but as for strength we at least we know it took both bloodfire and a pyro vision to defeat her (albeit in the hands of a child)

[alistairwreathens]

I HAVE A THEORY: Project Stuzha is meant to use the blood fire that Arlecchino has to purge the memory of the World Tree, and that’s partly what we see with Dottore committing his experiment in blasphemy.

[jaxonfiles]

Cyno's quest is by far my favorite quest in Genshin in terms of character writing. Loved every minute of it!

[Nagatomo]

Your spirit veins theory seems more and more plausible by the patch. Man Ashikai just put out that theory and it came true! Controlling leylines are the key!

[shemarsmith]

"Around when Deshret died for the first time" just reminded how wild deshret's story is

[caragivanil]

A silly fun fact in relation to 19:07 is that Remus (and Romulus) were also the children of Mars, making Phobos and Remus practically half-siblings lol (since a lot of lesser gods of Greek mythos were also added later in the Roman mythos) I love the silly sprinkles of easter eggs hoyo puts into this game.
I also like how it likens the fact that there were a lot of wars both outside and inside and Remuria ended up sinking, since the real Roman Empire was very bellic and there were a lot of civil conflicts and is said to have 'fallen', but that's really only linguistics ajdhsjdhs very nice

[cubicuboctahedron]

Ever since seeing the bouncy Dodoco decoration in the teapot, I've waiting for a reveal that Dodoco were an evolution of slime that grew fur and rabbit ears and eggshell-like protective armor.

[Zeke]

Scylla is pronounced Silla. Like scylla and charybdis from greek myth

4:13 correction to be made: She specifically mentions that it removes people’s memories of the HoTH. Which is most of their memories, but not ALL their memories in their entirety. Otherwise they wouldn’t know how to speak or walk, and be returned to an infant-like mental state. They still retain bits and pieces of who they are. But their memories of their family at the HoTH and upbringing are just gone.

Edit: Also it’s kind of adorable how Arlecchino’s feelings are completely evident in her actions despite saying things to try to throw us off. She didn’t offer Lyney, Lyneyte, and Freminet those flame bottles because she wanted them gone for protecting the 2 kids who wanted to leave. She offered Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet those flame bottles because SHE wanted them to leave. Or rather, she’s afraid of them dying and wants them to prosper, so she offered them an out so they don’t have to face the potential dangers of project stuzha. And she was obviously happy when they decided to stay with her of their own free will. She likely gave the other kids the option to leave as well. It’s very clear she cares more about her kids than she does about herself. The whole point of her plan with neuvillette was to ensure that former HoTH members thrive in their new lives in Fontaine. She wants them to be happy, not to die for the HoTH on missions with objectives they may not even agree with. Hence the flame bottles.

And the stacks and stacks of paperwork with kids labeled as “executed” is her lying to the fatui in official documentation while letting her kids go free. Bc she didn’t kill any of them. And wiping their memories of the HoTH also protects both current and former members, as they can’t be used for information by other organizations, so previous members be a useless target for the enemies of the HoTH.

[hitchhikingcat]

I'm pretty sure Arlecchino's vision story says she actually got her vision before she killed the previous Knave? Unless I'm not interpreting her vision story correctly.

[laminated]

Love the version recaps!
Can't wait for a video on the newest interlude quest - it's so lore heavy!!

[GRLDT]

I'm beginning to see a pattern with Hoyo and their "hivemind" stories, we got Deshret + Remus + Rene from the video, The Akasha (Sumeru Archon Quest), Loom of Fate (in some sort of way with the ley lines since it's connected to people's memories), also in HSR we got Sunday's plan to unite the family members. Are we all in a "Hoyo Hivemind"??? 😨

[impostorsyndrome]

At this point, I wouldn't be suprised if King Deshret is revealed to be the third descender of how important he is in like already a second nation.

[missspellt]

bro some of these name pronunciations are wild(no hate just never thought people would read em that way)

[Space-lxy]

I wonder if the glitching of Arlecchino will be addressed later in the story because so far only us as a player have seen it

[sisronweasley]

What a great way to end the day with a new Ashikai video!

[teanc]

Interesting theory i had about the saurians. There are only six saurian symbols in the opening meaning one of the elements is absent, usually when they want to ignore an element its dendro however that’s obviously not the case, and the other one we see is red which obviously makes me think pyro. ashikai pointed out in her last live stream when looking at the that the abilities of the geo saurian the debris coming off of it looks very pyroy and the water saurian has the ability to swim through lava and related that to how the geovishaps that we fight have the ability to take on other elements, well what if the missing element is pyro and all six of the saurians have pyro like abilities, and so the flying one rather then being pyro is anemo thats red because its also pyro