Finale of a Facade (Genshin Impact)

in the finale of fontaine's archon quest, we seek the truth about the prophecy, furina, and the hydro archon.
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[@GTSE2005]

The scene where Furina played with the cat before Arlecchino attacked her hits different now

[@ElliFong]

yup, that was real Furina. Imagine taking a scroll at night and finally showing your true self only to get jump on by someone, 500 year of hardwork turn to dust.

[@LinUzumaki]

worst thing about this is, if arle killed furina at that time, arle would have killed all of fontaine, but then again nobody thinks about that because they want arle so bad to be playable

[@ElliFong]

@@LinUzumaki She didn't so no point thinking of that, she spared Furina and helped her fellow Fountainians, that's all that mattered.

[@LinUzumaki]

imagine she had the gnosis on her, arle would have killed her, its dumb, arle is a shitty villain@@ElliFong

[@cheeryberrie]

And then constantly belittle you infront of your own iudex and a stranger (traveler)

[@whenpigsfli51]

After doing the archon quest i just want to give furina a big hug for the 500 years of her suffering

[@ShadoShade]

While I haven't done Furina's story quest to know if it's resolved there, I really think we at least need to have a festival in her honor for all the work she did.

[@kuyarence]

@@otigev2052 "A real twist for once!"

[@Ewnothank]

​@otigev2052 Honestly, it happen so often now, like either they hate before release or during the first part of the quest and then love them after the final act. It's almost sad how the genshin community just seem to never learn 💀

[@Ewnothank]

@otigev2052 true, the turn up are so funny to see because I remember comment being like, "omg furina is worst archon !!!" And now there all like "best archon in my heart !". Still remember the day where it was war just to say you liked furina 😭

[@audas1536]

Literally, I feel the guilt lol

[@bwaap]

never would've guessed fontaine would revive my passion for editing tried something a little different this time so lmk how u feel about it

[@JC-rf4wz]

Saw your stream, your edits look fire!

[@Allex1342]

Glad To See You Doing Something You Love

[@magyesproductions]

it gave me chills, man. hopefully you encounter more material that inspire you like this! they’re absolutely 🔥🔥🔥

[@dachosens1]

epic

[@precious_shun]

i was ready for bwaap casual intro, but you hit me with shivers this time

[@judesliggoo]

Shout-out to Melus and Silver for being the most supportive uncles in the world. They protected Navia even in death

[@co7769]

I don't care about them. Still don't after finishing the quest, but I care about Navia and she cared about them and dang it did I bawl my eyes out when Navia finally broke down.

[@MiraJane-bb4jm]

3:09:08 i just want to mention that these are indeed the lines we heard at the fountain of lucine when we first arrived in fontaine. back in 4.0; and do you guys remember that the fountain is where all the waters in fontaine go to? yes. when we arrived, it already marked the 182375th scene in furina's performance. the cries of furina we heard at the fountain back in 4.0 was happening in REAL TIME. man,,, the details hoyo put into the story-telling of this game is AMAZING.

[@sairi_a]

If Furina told Aether her secret, Paimon's fat mouth would spill the beans. I never hated Furina, but knew something was up with how "dramatic" she presented herself all the time, but the emotional rollercoaster we got in this finale was a punch to the gut. I wanted to give Furina a hug and let her cry it all out.

[@plvto1]

Honestly that's probably why she didn't tell them lmao, she's seen as incredibly talkative and quick to react to everything. If Furina said anything (especially since we know the box they were in was surrounded by people) paimon definitely would've been like "GASP YOU'RE THE HYDRO ARCHON OF FONTAINE..?!" "Whoops.. Hehe.. Sorry.. Paimon's fault.."

[@jonathanrobinson198]

My friend went from calling her a “girl failure” to “the archon in our heart” I hope the fandom never jumps this hard to conclusions during another mystery quest again. Poor girl was getting dragged for what?😅

[@biazacha]

Imo that’s part of the fun, watch the community get riled up and suffer with the twists and turns, bet the writing team also loves how strongly their work resonates with the playerbase.

[@plvto1]

It's a bit of a theme in this community. Like the Kokomi controversy. They saw the negative crit rate and bounced immediately. I'm sure Hoyo knows their fanbase incredibly well by this point, so this quest was able to work even more effectively as a result.

[@jayjay8782]

Well at that time when she first introduced it was refreshing to have an archon who's just a blunt asshole and people love hating her was part of the fun

[@NaturallyAnIdiot]

That Pro es how well this was written

[@imanidiot1725]

Everyone pre 4.2 were dragging Furina through the road bruh they were BRUTAL

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Arlecchino: Oh Great Hydro Archon how will you save us? Focalors: I got you fam.

[@kuyarence]

Also Focalors: *yeeted herself via an anchor guillotine execution and gave back Neuvi's full dragon power

[@mangshu21]

she was not even a side character.. just guest appearance.. just like the traveller and mr worldwide.

[@zawatcher7394]

Props to bwaap who managed to edit this 4 hours video knowingly the gameplay footage probably way longer than that

[@barelyabear7956]

I’m glad this changed your opinions about Furina, I’ve always knew something was fishy about her, and now this quest confirmed my suspicion that she was really tryna cook something up. Dude i love this quest so much it made me love Furina even more

[@abombernation3254]

There was no way they were gonna make a pathetic archon that is disliked

[@zillowzest5199]

I loved that stupid little romance gag between the two researchers lmao

[@kyllernotkiller]

The smallest detail I notest that I wasn't expecting from hoyoverse was Focalor's model actually being mirrored in the mirror

[@judesliggoo]

1:44:54 my heart genuinely broke seeing the moment Furina understood that the traveler betrayed her

[@TheSilverHermitMage]

Even before I knew furina's whole plan/backstory I felt so bad for tricking her like that 😭 idk why all the characters (except neuvi) were so smug about it

[@cheesepuffsthings]

It's interesting because as far as everyone else is concerned they're just trying to give Furina one last chance to come clean. The problem is that it was never an option for her, and so it became a betrayal of sorts.

[@cheeryberrie]

​@@cheesepuffsthings they were never going to stop, i hated them so much when that scene came up especially traveller who smugly said they were giving her the last chance, dangling it like a carrot when they were never going to stop in the first place

[@cheesepuffsthings]

I think you're kind of missing the point here. No one is doing any of this to be cruel (except maybe Lyney who is *definitely* enjoying himself a little too much considering the circumstances). The sole purpose of the trial was to get her to reveal what she was clearly hiding, not to get a conviction. If she confessed what she knew in that box, which had been placed in front of the entirety of Fontaine, there would be no trial to be had. Remember, as far as the main cast knows Furina, the supposed god, is visibly doing absolutely nothing beyond posturing all while Fontaine's people are dying around her. There are people's lives at stake. They don't know it's part of Focalors' master plan, because Furina is keeping it all from them as part of said plan. It's horribly tragic, but this is the very trial she has been looking forward to for the past five hundred years. It set her free.

[@TheSilverHermitMage]

@@cheesepuffsthings @cheesepuffsthings for me it's not what they're doing, it's their attitude while they're doing it. Even The whole "hunting and prey" thing during the meeting felt wrong and they definitely sounded like they were having too much fun explaining their grand plan of capturing furina (at least to me) and they way everyone talked about furina during the trial just seemed a bit condescending/ malicious? "We know you always run away from your problems" or "there's no way furina can win now!" Or "it's better if you just admit you're guilty already"

[@cheeseburgerhater6676]

If you pay attention the subtle ways they built up furinas story was insane. Throwback to this years summer event… the mascot girl who we thought was useless was actually the only real one out of all the hydro eidolon mimics and had control over all of bottleland, as well as being the mother oceanid protecting everyone ❤️❤️

[@FanFoRlYfE]

1:17:38 Damn I really wonder who or just what Nicole is, she seems to be really powerful, knowing the changes in Irminsul and even knowing things that Celestia can't see or "where the gods gazes do not fall" that's why she told us to play our part because she already knew about Focalors, really excited for this character Edit: This has to be my favorite archon quest ever, I haven't had this much fun since the game's release

[@kehan6252]

Mona said she's far older than her master. She is not affected by Irminsul's memory wipe and is invisible for some reason. The more we think about it, the more we learn that the Hexenxircle witches are crazy people

[@pora5000]

Hexenzirkel focuses on finding more stuff about prophecies and Irminsul after all

[@p1neappleXD]

1:36:46 Furina: "I’m sorry… I’m so sorry" The traveller:🧍‍♂️

[@romainvqr]

*Navia crying on the grave of her father telling us that Melus and Silver* The genshin ad get at this moment: Navia "A PROPER SENDOUT"

[@nama1243]

It’s amazing how fontainian be able to withstand those flood, like it could literally kill people if it actually happens in real life. So they might not dissolved but will die because they are washed away and drowned by the flood 😅

[@constance688]

the meltdown at 3:12:09 was too relatable

[@FlashNeko417]

Sumeru: Everyone stop bullying this small child! Fontaine: Everyone bully this small child!

[@number1cheater272]

They did a good job with this quest. The more I see the Traveler act in certain situations it shows how they actually feel about things. Especially the part with Furina in the magic box and during the Trial. The Traveler didn't feel bad for even a second for Furina after the trial and never apologized. Which I think is an interesting direction they're taking the Traveler. They're gradually becoming like their Abyss Sibling, indifferent to things that fall outside their goals and motivations. His goal was to stop the prophecy and was willing to destroy Furina mentally for it. I'm excited to see if they follow up with this behavior or act like it didn't happen in Natlan or future Archon Quest.

[@mochii813]

Lowkey I feel like they're starting to get tired of the Archon's bs.

[@bopeep6103]

traveler always seemed like that to me. I mean they were willing to completely ignore the whole war thing in inazuma. Though,they did EVENTUALLY get swayed to doing it after seeing people suffer. But in general they were pretty apathetic to me,even from the third nation on. Except in sumeru ish?

[@xiaociao3394]

Perhaps by doing that kind of 'smart move' she said it herself.. She was still gambling on Neuvillete that he would forgiven humans by using his Primordial water. What if Neuvillete after 400 years living with human and finnaly finding out about that, he doesn't forgive the Fontaine humans lol. She will be fucked up for sure if it happen.. Unfortunately Neuvillete was too nice even as a human, so she won the bet

[@maimaibiri9045]

Oh wow, did not expect you to comeback so soon, Ima watch this full later.

[@phantomcat7990]

20:02 I like how this theme is called back to with Furina and Focalors. When told about the prophecy, Furina immediately considers her pain to be a necessary sacrifice to stop it before she even knows in what way she will suffer, and carries this for the next 500 years. Even when given the chance to share her burden with the traveller she refuses because her pain is not what’s important. It’s her people. And with Focalors it’s more literal, she literally had to sacrifice herself to save the people of Fontaine but that doesn’t mean it should’ve happened. They should not have had to suffer to prevent a disaster that never should’ve happened in the first place

[@Vitikarm]

bro i literally cried during this archon quest I was so sad

[@RogueSwansong]

The best thing about this story section is how they managed to sneak in a ruler getting offed by a guillotine

[@ashytheflashy]

Poisson literally means 'fish' in french 💀

[@NaturallyAnIdiot]

Ik I translate, I was like wut

[@ashytheflashy]

@@NaturallyAnIdiot hehe yea lol

[@dropmelon]

In hindsight, it feels like a foreshadowing. Some people in Poisson did become oceanids when it flooded and thus become fishes.

[@ashytheflashy]

@@dropmelon oh yea... thats rightt

[@YdenMk-II]

Focalors's plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles reminds me a hell of a lot of Steins;Gate's "Deceive your other self. Deceive the world." payoff for the true route.

[@sunruotiandlss8089]

bro still have the starter team even after going to fontain

[@anji6524]

THE SMILE ON MY FACE WHEN I SAW U POSTED THIS WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO SEE YOU REACTION TO THISS :D

[@Itsme-tf6oe]

3:13:52 Heart broke, shattered, pain, mourn Deym this hurts I wonder what will happen in Tsaritsa's AC

[@shirashrimp5463]

As you see, the "Honkai incident" is starting to appear in Genshin, be ready for more death from now.

[@Explaningthings]

Ok I Love the editing taht Baal is doing holy no wonder this only took 6months or 4

[@Casualdevy]

The edit at the start was GODLYYYY Good job!!

[@ozhaf1549]

I can’t take it anymore. I’m sick of Fischl. I try to play Yae. My Fischl deals more damage. I try to play raiden. My Fischl does more damage. I Want to play Aggravate. The best teams have Fischl. I want to play Keqing,Cyno- they both want Fischl. She grabs me by the throat. I pull on standard for her. I cook for her. I give her the Stringless. She isn’t satisfied. I pull Aqua Simulacra. “I don’t need this off-fielder ass passive” she tells me. “ Give me more field time.” She grabs Nahida and forces her to throw herself off enemies. “ You just need to… I don’t know, I don’t have problems, the point is: I can deal more damage with Polar Star.” I can’t pull Polar Star, I don’t have enough Primogems. She grabs my credit card. It declines. “Guess this is the end.” She grabs Oz. She says “by royal decree.” There is no hint of sadness in her eyes. Nothing but pure, 44% of Keqing Aggravate team damage. What a cruel world.

[@Kurlzie]

💀💀💀

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

Trully the prinzesin of all time

[@chiapoo]

I got a stroke reading this

[@reikishinami174]

BEST archon quest EVER so far! For me atleast...

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

Ngl the Traveler is kind of a douche in this one. Furina is suffering and mah boi only cares about answers. That's kinda messed up.

[@alkahfi8500]

DAMM the edits it's simple but it's fcking great especially the opening

[@anhtheton]

i’m hoping that bwaap enjoys this archon quest! best one so far imo

[@BiBiren]

Now that I noticed, Bottleland is one big foreshadowing.

[@xKennyGSz]

My only issue of the quest is the boss that end too quickly. If the boss do like the similar to the trounce domain, like stop the boss of half hp in the story quest or defeat it. That at least its accurate and make sense.

[@thegreenguy4666]

40:39 "SPARE ME THIS MOCKERY OF JUSTICE!"

[@dweemiesdarkmount]

Melus and Silver 🥲 Rest in Peace brothers 🫡

[@iexplainjokesforaliving.5415]

2:55:32 This says "Inaugural Speech, Furina" but you know.... potato potato, really.

[@abigailamanda1462]

Brooooo the intro alone had me tearing up 🥲 such a great edit🤧

[@jampinjax9194]

2:37:19 The earnest panic and worry that bwaap had in his voice will always be funny to me.

[@angelaviviv7698]

I had a theory after a long time thinking. The third descender remains is the traveller's sibling. Think about it how else is the sibling born of this world? They died, reborn as a fragment of what once was. The tasrita is not just collecting them for a simple purpose. Resurrection is a common thing that correlates around the tsarita. She is going to revive our sibling.

[@keith7343]

That intro was great!! I was waiting for this!!!

[@shirashrimp5463]

See, I said bwaap will regret call Furina a fraud.

[@greentantalum3794]

why am I binging this stuff

[@minglifeng2862]

That Deoteria Family’s members must have such short lifespans to have gone through almost 20 generations in only 500-ish years. So each generation had a lifespan of less than 25 years

[@misosoup5847]

FINALLY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LET'S GO BWAAP WOOHOO

[@JakauYT]

love charalotte glitching here 1:30:43 LMAO

[@Ari.Atland]

The melunise are so wholesome & adorable.

[@Washingtub-senpai]

43:30 _"Peace to the fallen."_ Commander Reyes (Call of Duty Infinite Warfare)

[@jayblas6271]

So basically the reason why the fatui from snezneya want to collect all the gnosis was to revive the third descender but for what reason tho..?

[@cheeryberrie]

Defeat celestia perhaps

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

What we did to Furina is no better than what Azar & his predecessors did to Nahida. Why we so mean?

[@krumi_hazuki1440]

At nahida case at least she seems pretty helpful and caring for Her people And for Furina, before the plot had revealed we don't know What she's done, add the "bratty archon" attitude

[@MochiKun27]

Thank you for keeping us, veterans updated from the lore. Truly appreciate fight with the narwhal back there. ✨

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

42:18 Albedo was right. Lotsa Oceanids to duel.

[@ja-tq1ll]

that intro goes hard! nice to see bwaap trying something new

[@aloywong658]

1:16:28 kinda similar what dainsleif says in the teyvat chapter storyline in Khaenri'ah part

[@Simp-UserOf]

Words cannot express how mad i was when traveler tried to help her even though they trialed her at the court

[@wordthatsit]

That trial is her canon event it will happen no matter what

[@tibers17]

"you can say alive or dead" Family friendly channels: Is it possible to learn this power?

[@FokaAlighieri]

Your efforts has been acknowledged

[@megadeltsmarcy]

we dont know how visions are given still right? i was thinking through this whole quest that focalors shouldve atleast given furina a vision to fake being a god easier but clearly the gods dont give them out if furina got one after focalors and the hydro archon's death..

[@NaturallyAnIdiot]

You should do furinas story, it's a good one

[@_____-_____--______----__]

Maybe a bit too late to comment on this but the irony that we said that no sacrifice is truly necessary to Navia, only to realise that Focalor's plan NEED 2 sacrifices for it to work :(

[@Dr.Drip6677]

That one guy in the hoyo dev team: hey navia want some *depression impact?*

[@astyutechick7980]

Remember how eager Furina was to put us on trial as soon as we entered Fontaine? She must have thought that the traveler known to cause massive upheaval everywhere they go would surely be the subject of the "magnificent and wonderous" trial she's been waiting for. Just thinking how eager and desperate she was to find an end to her performance really makes my heart ache. WHY couldn't we at least end the archon quest with a simple apology to her before she goes to do her own thing! BRUUH we've done NOTHING in this archon quest except make shit worse. Like think act 5 - what did we actually do that helped the situation? Fuk all. I wish we could at least apologize (even though yes, there's no way we coulda known or made a different decision given the info we had). Like, we still wronged her did we not!?

[@cheesepuffsthings]

I disagree about us only making things worse. Not only did we solve the serial murder case, something that wouldn't have happened otherwise, we revealed the truth about the Primordial Sea to the everyone. While Focalors would have saved Fontaine regardless of our involvement, the Traveler's interference likely saved a whole lot of Fontaine's people from being dissolved in the long run. If it weren't for us, just how long would it have taken to put Furina on trial? A trial that, no matter how hard it was for her, needed to happen to set Furina free. Even if it hurt, even if it was practically by mistake, we still saved her.

[@Dakota9to5]

Dope opening bwaap!

[@sabsain2399]

Tartaglia 👍 (I can't believe we didn't even say goodbye to him. Feels like the story broke off before properly concluding.) Also what even was the reason his vision wasn't working properly?

[@hannamori8955]

it never explicitly explained, but if I were to make analysis, it would be like this. - Focalors know he can hold the Narhwal - Deliberately send him to prison and make him meet the narhwal - But She need to delete proof or her interference, hence she shut down the HYDRO Vision. - With this when Childe is on the 'other side' celestia can't feel anything amiss

[@iguanodonrex4971]

In the boss arena, the whale is shown actively shattering his constellation. It was probably interfering with his hydro vision as a result, potentially permanently.

[@Parthgamer123]

WHAT WAS THAT INTRO IT WAS SO UNEXPECTED

[@colorknight736]

Hydro Archon Hydro Archon, Don’t Cry.

[@starside5990]

My guy, that intro was GOATED

[@OrdinarilyReal]

3:11:52 damn, that caught me off guard there. my mind played a vine boom after hearing that they don't give a f about aether lol

[@kalodawg8297]

furina needs hugs and headpats :(

[@dmyn_]

man this quest really is beautiful..every god has their own struggles. so beautiful..🤘🤘

[@adam.n-steve]

They missed the chance to make propagandas against Furina saying "let them eat cake".

[@ArchibaldVonSkip]

Genshin Community: We want a new Geo Character! Genshin Devs: Sure, here you go. *_push Navia to the ground and kick her repeatedly in the kidneys_*

[@74zuh1]

that was a banger intro if this was my homework I'd get a 8/8

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

Furina is even willing to killing herself than admitting she is not archon, what amazing willpower

[@Ko_Reisen]

A true Fontainian patriot lmao

[@hugothibodeau6137]

all of that to save the people of fontaine.

[@yehYeh1]

@@hugothibodeau6137while she didn’t know how, when, if the prophecy could really be stopped

[@hugothibodeau6137]

@@yehYeh1 we were speaking of her putting her hand in primordial water. she believed it would disolve her and still took the risk to die just to protect other. but yes i agree with you, Furina is one of the best "archon" anyone could have

[@magiveem]

OMG RALSEIII

[@ricky_tian]

The fact that Furina turned down a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in confiding in Aether means that she was prepared to keep going for possible hundreds of years more. The willpower of this girl is actually insane.

[@Zeela47]

She was just scared all of her work and effort would have gone to waste she didn't want risk it.

[@brooklynbaby-bn5wo]

fr I would've folded so fast lol

[@mightypurplelicious3209]

If I was her I woulda stopped caring a long time ago ahaha

[@sephirothbahamut245]

@@Zeela47 Sunk cost fallacy but the currency is actual time

[@JC-rf4wz]

"Perhaps I treated you too harshly" sums up our view towards Furina after the Archon Quest perfectly

[@itwas721]

I never understood why people hated her so much...? Like dawg, are you okay? She's like Fischl but hydro and "archon". Chill tf out...

[@raysmthidk]

@@itwas721while i liked furina fron the start, it’s understandable people didnt like her bc she actively went against luney and lynette, two characters many like

[@kehan6252]

​@@itwas721at the start, she was supposed to be an 'annoying' character. But if even the players were annoyed by her, that means the writing team did a great job for furina

[@speedstick8981]

I am literally going to triple crown her just to make her happy. Fuck Celestial!

[@kenxiong9776]

Her high and mighty facade not only fooled her people, but all of us as well. She's just too good.

[@Pudding404]

This is such a nice contrast to Nahida's archon quest. Where Nahida didn't live up to the Dendro archon in the eyes of her people like Rukkhadevata, Furina had to play an acting role as one for a quincentennial as a human. And she did a spectacular job on that front. Such a powerful story. All this hydro leaking from my eyes.

[@electropyro1899]

It’s like we had a hydro vision trial run during that quest dude

[@MartialChicken]

@@electropyro1899fr our eyes were filed with hydro and the hydro was pouring out of our eyes!

[@barghest8763]

nah, furina is just fake it until make it

[@williamnguyen8663]

Never forget, Ei fought her puppet for 500 hundred years and it had adverse effects on her to the point she forgot who we were for a bit…and she’s a God. Furina did all of that and managed to hold onto her memories and sanity as a human

[@sadiaferdous5968]

She didn't fight her puppet for 500 years. In the Plane of Euthaymia, the concept of time doesn't exist, hence, she THOUGHT that she was fighting for 500 years. Furina's case was the real deal. She actually acted for 500 years.

[@Oscarus4250]

​@@sadiaferdous5968Just the fact that the "concept of time doesn't exist", it doesn't mean the "passage of time" was falsified. For Ei and Shogun, it could've really been 500 years, even though in Teyvat only a few hours have passed. Time could stand in place in there, but living beings sure didn't. Still, I'm skeptical about the "non-existent concept of time" as Plane of Euthymia IS Ei's consciousness, her "mind". And as far as I'm aware, time is an aspect present in everything bound to the natural world, including living beings. So even though not really the 500 years have passed, it is safe to assume that for her, it was indeed something like that. Regardless, even I have to admit that Furina's 500 years were a lot harder to bear for a few reasons. But, I'll just type out one, the biggest one - she's a human. Well... not exactly "human" as she's, kinda, "divineless god", which could make her human as they are in many medias and religions to be the "reflections of gods"....... Anyways. The fact that she's a human, and has human body, mind, emotions, etc. (what she doesn't have is human lifespan, though), she's experiencing things differently. Add on the part she was born around the same time as Egeria had perished, that means she's spent nearly her ENTIRE LIFE acting, being "not herself", while also having human mind and consciousness, which aren't exactly the strongest... Ei is a god, or "god-like elemental being", so the machinations of her mind were stronger/more persistent. Add on the fact that she had already had the experience with "extremely long isolations" and that she was focused on battling, as she was fighting Shogun, who knew her extremely well, could match her might, and wanted to kill her, so no mistakes were allowed. Ei's 500 years of constant battle were truly impressive, but let's be honest - Furina's 500 years of "Never-Ending Spectacle" are on completely another level

[@nicolaschenclaudialin7339]

​​​@@Oscarus4250time is indeed something bound to existence but if you can break through existence or go into a space where NOTHING exists including the concept of time then you could possibly avoid it like the plane of euthymia. Ei could have been in a space that broke through the reality and defies the laws of existence meaning, that world could have been made from literal nothingness. Time is a dimensional concept, you can break through it if you manage to outrun time, exactly like the idea of returning to the past or going to the future, if you manage to revert everything to the past including yourself then you're essentially beating time and outrunning it hence controlling it. The concept time of time is something that exist but not everywhere, if one possesses the divine power then one can also control time to its will. Im just trying to say that ei thought it was 500 years but in a world where time doesn't exist then the concept of 500 years didn't exist neither, we could technically say that ei was fighting her puppet for infinite years, since time never started to move but in which case, time also never stopped moving, one hour in our world could be a infinite repetitions in one instant

[@akiaintit]

​@@Oscarus4250 it wasn't ei's realm of consciousness irc it was makotos who had received help from Istaroth to be able to plant the Sacred Sakura tree in the past (I probably didn't get that completely right but that's what I remembered)

[@walteranurantha5014]

The only memory she forgot is the Poisson incident that kickstarted her whole trial and reveals her false acting sin.

[@sanddry738]

The characters of Fontaine have been grand slams for me. From the side characters like Meluis and Silver to Neuvillette and Furina. So much development for characters and genuine heart. Also shoutout to the VAs. Ray making Neuvillette sound like he’s holding back tears had me tearing up

[@silverhawkscape2677]

Bruh. Seeing Navia without Melus and Silver. It feels so Incomplete. 😢

[@sanddry738]

@@silverhawkscape2677 They were genuinely becoming some of my favorite characters. Then the plot guillotine came for them ;_;

[@Indian_gae_boii]

Even lore charecters lile mamare (melusine), rene, mary ann and jackob have a more well written charecter than fvcking ayaka

[@guyschill2059]

​@@Indian_gae_boiireal 😭

[@Clyne69]

Bro my favorites are actually the researcher couple in the underwater prison. I’m so invested in their love story more than any quest in genshin ever😂

[@hugothibodeau6137]

fun fact: the sword we see hanging above Focalor is representing an "épée de Damocles" or "Damocles's Sword". it is a very old myth that say that this sword will float over people as an omen of death to come and fall once their time has come. we can also see the tip of the blade look like a guillotine, a reference to when france used to execute their leader by decapitation

[@nox..thecoolone]

MARIE ANTOINETTE!! 😭

[@hugothibodeau6137]

@@nox..thecoolone wut?

[@nox..thecoolone]

@@hugothibodeau6137 she was the last queen of france who was decapitated by the guillotine before the french revolution (or early rev.) because she was conspiring with other country powers :) Just reminded me of her when you mentioned the last sentence

[@hugothibodeau6137]

@@nox..thecoolone oh ok. i've learn a bit of french history but i'm bad with name soo i had forgotten her name.

[@nox..thecoolone]

@@hugothibodeau6137 No worries! Always glad to share history You may also know Her from the saying “Let them eat cake”. 😉

[@Glistrin]

Fun fact: the scene number 182375 isn't random, that number devided by 365, (amount of days in a year) is roughly 499.6, so 500 years, how long she lived, and apparently leap years in teyvat are actually a day less I think? Cause deviding it by 364.75,leads to exactly 500

[@RandomGuy-bu5pn]

But Neuvi only worked in court for 400 years, and yet in scene 2 we already have a mention of him working.

[@judesliggoo]

​@@RandomGuy-bu5pn where did you hear that? Regardless, he has also been alive for 500 years, meaning that he was directly involved with the jurisdictional system before he became the chief justice

[@hybrid3006]

@@RandomGuy-bu5pn I'm pretty sure that was a localization mistake in his story quest.

[@hybrid3006]

@@judesliggoo Neuvilette's story quest

[@WazzupNigga]

Did the traveler watch it for 500 years then? 🤣

[@Slesttv]

Give this man an oscar for that opening, can't wait for the rest of the video holy

[@ognamesweretaken5836]

Not only the opening, the whole video was goooooooooooooooood. I've seen the AQ plenty of times but this one by far is my fav reaction video.

[@tone-deafbard4890]

Hi ik this is unrelated but dyk what title of the OST of this 0:08 ? Ive been looking for it😭😭

[@zahikdturk6568]

i hope someone answers this too because ive been searching for it way to long but couldn't find anything @@tone-deafbard4890

[@littlemayo4028]

@@tone-deafbard4890 search up masquerade of the guilty but im not entirely sure if its actually that

[@zohciiiii6195]

What i think is worth mentioning about Childe's part here, if you remember when someone is robbed of their vision they will start going literally crazy. It's like stripping someone of their ambition. And Childe haven't had his vision for probably around two months, and still fought that THING for like 40 days, also in his Foul Legacy form which literally kills him. Now that's impressive.

[@jonathannigel8979]

Yea, I hope that Skirk gives him some abyss cocaine or meth to help him recover though. My boy Ajax needs to rest as well

[@saif-gv6gl]

Iirc, he uses his vision to balance out the Foul Legacy and his Delusion usage, bro have been fighting with powers that killed people in Inazuma during the war, he's built different.

[@callmerosa170]

Well we dont exactly know what happens when a person willingly gives up their vision. Diluc went without his for 3-4 years and seemingly was completely fine.

[@GrandProtectorDark]

That's not really what happens. Willingly giving up your vision has no adverse effects, as shown by Kuki Shinobu, Arataki Itto, Diluc, Lyney and Lynette, Nobumori and Jiangxue.

[@zohciiiii6195]

@@callmerosa170 but theoretically he also didn't just give it up, it was showing issues so he gave it to traveler so it wouldn't cause any trouble. I mean, it may be the case but it's still really interesting, after all he didn't have his vision

[@Khamiru]

3:08:34 THIS is the scene that broke my heart. I’m an actor myself, and let me just say, every actor has their own special, “ticks,” and these are meant to keep 10% of the actor grounded in reality while the other 90% is committed to the role they play. When I saw this scene, I could feel the amount of recoil Furina was accumulating for herself because she was committed to her role as an Archon at 100% instead of 90. She’s a normal human whose been doing this charade for 500 years. I don’t blame at ALL for wanting to give up. Yet she didn’t. Edit: messed up the stamp lmao

[@AerinstadasChronicler]

To just highlight how incredibly foolproof and ingenious Focelors' plan was: She came up with a plan to bypass the prophecy within approximately four months. The created and inserted an unseen message into the four stone tablets we found, chucking one into the sea for when the time was right, knowing that Neuvillette would eventually stumble across them and decipher them, and someone would seek out the last tablet. Or, if she didn't create the tablets themselves, she still created the message within them and used the first tablet as inspiration for her plan, leaving it in the sea before finishing her preliminary steps. She invited Neuvillette as the Iudex of Fontaine, counting on the immense time it would take for the prophecy to occur for him to begin relating to and coming to love humans and life in general; more than enough time to assure such given his nature and duties. She split herself into divine and mortal forms, storing herself away into Oratrice to continue her plan, leaving just enough of her within Furina to pass on a final message. Said message was intentionally vague, leaving out key details such as how much time and suffering she would experience, but most of all, implying that "Mirror-Me" would be the one actually BREAKING the prophecy, instead of letting it happen. As such, Furina believed her duty was to bring hope to the Fontanians and continue on her show, not realizing she would be the catalyst of Focelors' deception to the Heavenly Principals. Additionally, by stipulating that the reveal of her identity would bring about the prophecy, she intentionally set up Furina to fail, only telling her to watch for a grand trial, which would force Furina to be center stage within Fontaine at all times. No hiding away like Ei did. Furina would never imagine that such a trial would be her own. Focelors knew that Fontaine needed a strong Archon after the cataclysm, and intentionally told Furina to act like the god people wanted; her complete opposite. During her speech, any hope of Furina looking for companionship or friends was dashed as she was forced to realize that she couldn't be herself. However, we also know from Neuvillette's Story Quest that Fontanians have changed over time. The strong Archon the people wanted could have changed over time after the cataclysm, but Furina's fear of exposure traumatized her so much that she couldn't see what was happening in front of her; that she could relax her act. Focelors knew that time and pressure would lead to Furina's trial no matter what. With the waters rising and seals breaking, it was only a matter of time until Furnina's lack of actions and power would be called into question. While any normal prosecutor would do, Focelors ensured that Neuvillette would be the perfect candidate, as his position would have him constantly beside Furina, able to observe her contradictory behavior. If all else failed, the duty within Neuvillette would force his hand to act as her prosecutor, in turn revealing Furina's humanity. After 500 years, Neuvillette's nature would not allow him to pass a guilty verdict on the Fontanians. From the first day of his position, his fate was sealed in Focelors' plan. No matter what, even without the Traveler being conveniently involved, everything lined up perfectly according to her plan, and only a huge miscalculation could possibly disturb her plan. Four months was all it took to plan all of this out.

[@coolblox4840]

Only 4 months??? Ayum thats short planning time for the next 5 CENTURIES

[@beashemmad.sayson545]

@@coolblox4840tbf she was at he bottom of the sea and the rest was rinse and repeat

[@biazacha]

And remember our talk with Mona, to have this level of foresight Focalors was probably a visionary like Alice and the other witches, THAT is how amazing she was.

[@nickter745thebold8]

@@biazachaWe have another Visionary to consider in all this: Vedrfolnir. He should be the one responsible for foreseeing the prophecy. I don’t think it was just a random name being thrown around.

[@beashemmad.sayson545]

Wait where did you get the info of her planning for 4 months?!!!

[@judesliggoo]

2:57:00 heartbreaking how excited furina was about summoning courage to face her people only to be immediately doubted

[@CAT-inko-55]

the Knave helping Navia... Fatui gave me so much trust issues, I was waiting for the backstab to happen 😬

[@krungkronch1947]

Dang the Harbingers really give us so much trust issues.

[@walteranurantha5014]

Same. The only thing I can trust her is that she tried decieving Tsaritsa in that one Childe and Wanderer's voiceline. Maybe she'll deceive her again once she and other harbingers collected all the gnosis. Keep in mind, the gnosis is the fragments of the descenders, including the heavenly principle's colonies, which she'll likely do the same like Focalor did of deceiving herself and the heavenly principles.

[@biazacha]

I wonder how much of it was just her subconsciously working for the collective since Oceanids in a way are a hive mind; now that they’re fully humans and next time we met her will probably not be on a “saving Fontaine” situation…. I expect things to play out differently.

[@Heaven_on_heels]

let’s talk about how basically nobody apologized to Furina like if i was there i would have given her a big hug

[@TheSilverHermitMage]

I would've been sobbing begging for forgiveness I felt so bad for her!

[@Heaven_on_heels]

@@TheSilverHermitMage i’m in on you with that one like it was so sad that she just accepted her fate

[@mikei6605]

I was shocked the traveler didn’t get to talk to furina after the quest 😭

[@Heaven_on_heels]

@@mikei6605 same i was like “wait- why can’t i talk to furina!?!”

[@yesouioo]

@@Heaven_on_heelsbecause she was fricking out of there lol, I don’t think she would’ve wanted to talk to anyone after all of that.

[@doofers5003]

The one thing that I was extremely surprised by and in a very good way was (SPOILER WARNING) There was no secret evil Fatui agenda in the Fontaine archon quests. Just a whole bunch of people that want to save their home from impending doom, Arlecchino might actually be my favorite Harbinger but we'll learn about her more once she becomes playable. EDIT: SHE IS MY FAVORITE HARBINGER

[@Yo-mv2wh]

I think... Its more like..'not yet'.. Who knows what she will do in fontaine's 2nd archon quest. Providing aid and helps.. right at the moment when needed.. could be just a political games.. But.. meh.. its just my assumption and suspicion.. im anticipating for her btw. Just couldn't trust her 100% yet

[@inspectorwhoreacts]

The main goal is the Gnosis, once it's acquired, the Fatui do kinda sink back. Knave personal plan was to use it to save fontaine but that happened anyway.

[@shishiroro6351]

Imo, the archon quest just seems like a win for her in the sense she's hitting two birds with one stone. She wants to save Fontaine from the prophecy since it's her homeland and also get the gnosis for the Tsaritsa. What she did is definitely something long-term since their organization contributed to aiding Fontaine overcome a major crisis, which opens up for them having more resources should they ever need something from Fontaine. It really isn't that smart to act antagonistic here when collaborating with them has more advantages.

[@kienha9036]

People forgot that Arlecchino straight up assaulted Furina. Not even as a plan B. More like the worst possible Harbinger, coupled with political power.

[@Indian_gae_boii]

Both childe and scara describe her as a wolf in sheeps clothing, she may never be visiblely hostile or evil but trusting her would be a big mistake

[@stevemajors3152]

2:06:30 "yeah, no matter how generous an Archo can be, how could they give up all of their power?" _[Venti and Zhongli hiding in a tavern and a funerary respectively]_

[@it1745]

Venti and zhongli only give up their authority to the humans and basically retire to become an archon . Other than losing their gnosis, their powers are still intact. But tbh if they are actually given the opportunity to give up their powers for some reason, I can definitely see them do it.

[@suffering9481]

@@it1745 venti does it when drunk i imagine lol

[@kreak564]

well it doesn't seem too farfetched to give up all the powers knowing that [REDACTED] gave up most of her power to eradicate the forbidden knowledge.

[@northstar67]

But won't giving that power wake up celestia and the heavenly principle?

[@dawnseeker176]

destroying the divine throne of an archon aka their divinity is VASTLY different than just giving up a gnosis. simply killing an archon won't kill their divinity and so long as that divinity exists it will be inherited by another individual making the next archon of that element. so no, venti and zhongli haven't given up all their power they still have the power granted by their divinity as one of the seven

[@Velmari_]

I think the only ones we can blame for Furina's torment are the people of Fontaine for having such a weird and twisted assumption of how their Archon should act.

[@shishiroro6351]

Right? These people got an (acting) archon who's open to cooperating with them for a better nation and somehow wanted something else. Like hello, at least it wasn't a dictator about to compromise your well being and is even in fact trying to look after you. People in Fontaine 500 years ago sure are built different

[@genix2686]

@@shishiroro6351that part made me kind of angry. Even if she is a “god” the fact that she was willing to work with you in order to make Fontaine better would be something valuable in a leader. It didn’t happen 500 years ago in the game but just look at Inazuma and the sakoku decree. Most of inazuma’s problems would’ve been solved had Ei just simply listened to her subjects instead of staying steadfast on eternity until the traveler came😭

[@Nether64]

they expected a spectacle after all

[@plvto1]

Yeah, had they let her be her true self she wouldn't have had to pretend. But they wanted gods like Zhongli, they wanted gods like the fairytales and bedtime stories, and I guess they got what they wanted.

[@thamrew676]

Teyvat has its own rules... but I daresay let the Fontainians become oceanids once more.

[@plvto1]

Furina's banner being the highest sold banner to this day is a good message to send Hoyoverse. We don't need big bonkers to like a character, we don't need massive sex appeal, if the character is written well we'll pull for them regardless of anything. Something makes me feel like Furina will be their wake up call, and we'll get more deeply written and layered characters like her.

[@grubbysteve]

This aged well

[@Danjiano]

When Raiden talks about Furina, she compares her 500 years of acting to her 500 years of dueling, and claims that Furina's willpower is equal to that of a god.

[@min3bubblegum]

Navia: "I miss my dad, and I feel really emotional after revisiting his case. I sure hope I won't lose anyone else I trust and care for immensely any time soon." The plot: "👀...Primordial Seawater goes brrr..."

[@partiallywhole]

Her Vision story looks like a big premonition too...

[@imanidiot1725]

What did she even do in her life to deserve the spiderman treatment 😭