[v4.2] How Fontaine CHALLENGED the Status Quo [Genshin Impact Lore]

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[Truck-kun]

This mission was practically Focalor giving the middle finger to the physical manifestation of the Status Quo of Teyvat (Heavenly Principles)

[Truck-kun]

Man, with each region having an increasingly better story than the last, I wonder what Natlan will be like to surpass or at least equal Fontaine

[Vio_Lin.t]

Something I noticed is that every character has a role in the story telling.

Traveler- viewer
Lyney- Narrator
Furina- protagonist
Neuvilette- secondary character
And etc

[gemcomposer]

As a lot of people have commented, I do not believe for a second that Arlecchino's ark is finished. We haven't been to the House of the Hearth, and with the description of her being a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' to the AQ trailer where she's the one pulling the strings to the plot, she has more to show us. 😁👌

[ultima]

I also like the comparison between Neuvilette and Apep. Neuvilette wants to help humanity, but Nahida were to do the same for Apep, they would have likely destroyed humanity.

[iurypadilha]

Genshin started with the base idea of the Fatui being bad and wanting world domination but slowly it's shifting the villain role to Celestia and the Fatui actually fighting for the freedom of Teyvat but using shady tactics.

[lamontcranston]

I believe the meropide arc was what our time with sangonomiya aemy should’ve been. Where we actually got to do stuff instead of getting told thru white text what we supposedly have done during our stay.

[sylvarogre]

While common, antagonists aren't necessary. Just conflict is required. Remember the 4 literary conflicts: protagonist vs. others, self, environment, or the supernatural. I like how Fontaine explored the second two kinds of conflict.

[thelaw_]

Inazuma was done dirty. I wish they didn't rush the archon quest and made it FIVE acts long like Sumeru and Fontaine. I guess Liyue could also benefit from an extension. Maybe 4 acts.

[lavenderiris]

I actually think the long prison quest was genius. Say, Don’t you think repeating the same day over and over with little to no changes, with basically the same dialogue, all the while trying to investigate without raising suspicion sound similar to…what Furina had to go through? I think it’s a very good way of making the player experience something similar, so that it’s easier for them to sympathize later. Just thinking about how the prison quest annoyed me so much, while Furina had to do so for so many years without fail, I know she’s not real, but it makes me feel so sad. But I’m no psychology major, so take it as a grain of salt.

[kontters]

im 100% sure that arlecchino used the fact that in this particular case the archon was in the "wrong" to get her on our good side just to stab us in the back tenfold in the interlude. at least thats what i think will happen

[Chareddragon]

There have been quests in the Chasm that humanized members of the Fatui

[seph]

My critique is that the "Villain" of this story *is* Celestia but we never get Celestia's perspective, making it feel like a black and white conflict.

However, Celestia can be fleshed out more in the future so that doesn't detract too much from my enjoyment of Fontaine. It was very captivating.

[Faron]

10:15 Thank you for pointing out the trial. I really got the impression that a lot of people got way too emotionally attached to Furina and/or the tragic background story that they kinda ignored the point of view of the Fontanians.

[spiritpetals]

One of my absolute most favorite aspects of Fontaine's archon quests was Furina. From the very beginning, Furina had put all of her unquestioning faith in a god she could barely ever actually talk to and who wouldn't tell her anything more than to just do as Focalors said. It re-frames every time Furina ever said something like "don't disrespect the wisdom of the gods!" for me because not only does it feel like genuine offense on Focalors' behalf, but also Furina trying to reassure herself of her faith in Focalors' plan. And it made Furina's own efforts to try and stop the prophecy that much more admirable, even if it never got very far, because she was basically just a human with a very long life trying to upstage an actual god. All of this parallels with the people of Fontaine, from their idolization of Furina, to the secret of their bodies.

Furina was so heartbreakingly human long before Focalors' sacrifice, and her story quest where she struggles with how much of her life that she loved and wants to have, but can't because of how much despair it put her through, only makes her even more so.

[GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

Straight up Hoyoverse has always been extremely good at story telling, they just wanted to slowly build up Genshin to reach this peak because of how vast the world is. We needed to understand the culture, systems and hierarchies of this world in order to emotionally attach ourselves to the stakes that are involved.
When people say they don't know how Hoyoverse is going to top Fontaine, I assure you they easily can, I cried for 5 hours straight in Honkai 3rd's Flamechaser arc.
I think Furina is easily top 10 best written characters of Hoyoverse along with characters like Elysia, Houraji, Houraiji Kyuusyou, Otto Apocalypse.

[EthHawke]

This also puts a solid dent in the Abyss Order’s plan to engulf the thrones.

[Koenou]

i personally viewed the heavenly principles as the main antagonist while i was going through the fontaine archon quests

[davidjohnson]

On the dragons good or bad thing a lot of people seem to have just flipped 180 and are now saying as if it's god's truth that the perspective of Focalors and Neuvillette that the Primordial One "stole" something from the dragons as opposed to fair and square won it from them through "the rules of war", is now unquestionably true instead of merely a perspective. Likely this will be challenged in Natlan just as it was in Sumeru.

[mattmark]

the repeating dialogues from Paimon during act 3 happened because you were picking the wrong choices.