Recently we got more lore dumped on us about Scaramouche who I previously believed will be a 3rd Weekly Boss for Inazuma one day. I theorized that originally because back in v2.2 Childe told us that Scara had gone AWOL after being given Ei's Gnosis by Yae. (Well ok I theorized it further back when Signora died because she's in the Pale Flame set.) But seeing how much more likely he'll turn out to be an Inazuma-based Weekly Boss I started looking at my old topic about the remaining Harbingers. And I think I know how it'll all go down.
So we have the 7 regions right? Mondstadt has no Harbingers and we already know Childe and Signora are Weeklies for Liyue and Inazuma. Then Dottore and Pulcinella are likely to be the Archon Quest Weeklies for Sumeru and Fontaine. And Pierro is very likely the final Fatui boss for Snezhnaya. And if this is the trend then we should be able to guess that Natlan will have a Harbinger Weekly for the Archon Quest too.
Including my picks for these regions that would be:
Monstadt: nothing
Liyue: Childe
Inazuma: Signora
Sumeru: Dottore
Fontaine: Pulcinella
Natlan: Sandrone
Snezhnaya: Pierro
So that's 6 out of 11. I also theorized that since the Harbinger emblem is a clock then 12 o'clock is likely the Tsaritsa herself and of course that means Snezhnaya. So that would be 2 Fatui-related enemies for Snezhnaya. And wouldn't you know it we have 5 remaining Harbingers perfect for the remaining 5 regions besides Mondstadt. (I'll get to that later.)
I made a theory about who I believed were those remaining 5 and then I did a whole thing on how I think their stories will play out based on their character inspirations from commedia dell'arte.
So first let me just show you guys my picks:
Liyue: Pantalone
Inazuma: Scaramouche
Sumeru: Arlecchino
Fontaine: Brighella
Natlan: Capitano
With Pantalone the Harbinger is defined by his greed and love of spending money. He also has the opinion that gods have no need for Mora but hoard it anyway just like they hoard all their other powers that humans can't attain.
That sounds like a perfect fit for a future conflict with Zhongli. Somehow one day as the old Mora shortage issue plays out Pantalone figures out that Zhongli is actually Morax and decides to confront him to either demand that he starts making Mora again or capture him to figure out how he makes Mora and siphon it out of him by force. We're alerted to it by abnormally high Fatui activity between Mondstadt and Liyue (maybe by Kaeya) and go to foil that plan.
That ends up with Zhongli trying to impart to Pantalone that Mora was just a crutch used by humans that kept them from the Human Age. I'm not sure Pantalone will understand but either way we'll fight him and that's the 3rd Liyue Weekly Boss.
Scara for Inazuma's all but confirmed at this point. But it'll play out much more in-depth than I thought back in v2.2.
So if we look at the Opulent Dreams and Pale Flame sets we know that Scara was left empty after Ei decided against using him as the Shogun thinking he was too weak with emotions to uphold eternity. She also didn't have any other plans for him and didn't have the heart to dismantle him so she just gave him to Yae. That left him feeling abandoned and so Yae had to lie to him that Ei didn't abandon him and that she would help him somehow. But it was years since then and he ended up wandering alone and aimlessly. He was eventually discovered by Dottore who among other things unlocked his Shogun-level Electro power.
One day he meets a girl from the Niwa clan and finds his "heart" a purpose in life. As time went on it somehow involved the destruction of the Raiden Gokaden and Scara developing hatred for a "bladesmith" possibly the Niwa girl's father Niwa Nagamitsu. Scara was eventually separated from Niwa and by the time he tracked her down after helping 3 of the Gokaden clans to escape Inazuma he claimed sole responsibility for their downfall but let Niwa's descendent Kaedehara Yoshinori and the Amenoma clan survive. After that he believed he lost his heart but was then inspired by kabuki and took the name Kunikuzushi after the character Otomo no Kuronushi (yep that Kuronushi) who was a larger than life character always scheming to bring down the nation.
That leads through the Unreconciled Stars event where Scara's pride was hit for the first time as he found out about the false sky possibly a purposeful move by Pierro to teach him humility. Then he heads an operation in Inazuma with Signora to take Ei's Gnosis. It could be he saw this as a fulfillment of his namesake Kunikuzushi. Yae confronts him and while we don't know what was said it's likely he accused her of lying about helping him and that Ei abandoned him. She gives him Ei's Gnosis after stating that she didn't lie because she still has every intention of helping him. He just didn't wait. Ei's Gnosis slowly influences him but he won't figure that out until much later on.
I still think that he'll try to destroy the Gnosis to prevent Ei's personality from influencing him too much. He'll try to attack Inazuma in some misguided belief that it's what Niwa wanted and at the same time try to use the destruction of the Gnosis to punch a hole in the false sky since it hurt his pride finding out about it not to mention that it's part of Celestia's order which he's against. (He might even just be against Celestia for the fact that Ei used to be "nearest unto" it.)
So I was totally off about Arlecchino back in v2.5's livestream. It was interesting to me to see a "good" side to the Abyss and a really bad side to the Fatui. That way it could confuse us into believing that maybe our sibling had a point while the Fatui and their leader Tsaritsa are the honest threat to Teyvat since they've so far shown no redeeming qualities. But then the Husks turned out to be Khaenrians and still loyal to Khaenri'ah and its people if they retained any of their humanity. So I'm happy to be wrong there haha.
Even so I don't think I pegged Arlecchino's character wrong just that I jumped the gun. So what if his reveal will play out in a long game? What if he'll be operating from his troops to gather intel and work out the best strategy to take revenge on Inazuma for Signora's death.
But somewhere in the middle of all that he finds out about Dottore's experiments in Sumeru and Signora's past. Maybe there's something to it that he can somehow use to do something like bring her back? He's dumb enough to think so and paradoxically cunning enough to come up with the idea of finding Dottore's labs and notes still buried somewhere in Sumeru after the events of the Archon Quest.
So one day he launches a campaign in Sumeru and we're notified of it by probably Cyno or Collei to help.
Fontaine is centered around the court of the Hydro Archon. I'm thinking the Archon Quest might play out like a game of Phoenix Wright or Danganronpa.
But after that I think we'll have a run-in with Brighella who will have us taking the stand again. I think based on his character that it'll be more light-hearted and could be the start of Brighella becoming another playable Harbinger like Childe.
Finally in Natlan we'll have Sandrone for the Archon Quest while Capitano comes later. I actually flipped this from what I originally thought because it feels like Sandrone would be a more compelling Archon Quest villain.
His story is about being a nobody and how to climb out of that position. That's similar to the manhua's look at the Muratans so there's a good story parallel to draw with it.
Once Sandrone is dealt with and Murata is set straight we might have to resolve an operation by Capitano's team. This will be a good chance for Murata to rekindle her fiery passion as Archon. It'll make for a good cutscene haha.
Anyway so if the bosses look like this:
Mondstadt: Dvalin, Andrius
Liyue: Childe, Azhdaha, Pantalone
Inazuma: Signora, Shogun, Scaramouche
Sumeru: Dottore, Arlecchino
Fontaine: Pulcinella, Brighella
Natlan: Sandrone, Capitano
Snezhnaya: Pierro, Tsaritsa
Why doesn't Mondstadt get any Harbingers? I think Venti's meant to be special. He's so far the only Archon that doesn't have his Act 2 and a Weekly Boss that seems to be a trend with it. I think we'll actually get it very late in the game and the Weekly Boss will actually lead us into Khaenri'ah. Since Weekly Bosses don't have to end with a death we could even see Rhinedottir as that fight and the story will explain Venti's role in Khaenri'ah's destruction. Depending on when it happens this could be more of a POV retelling since we'd probably learn about it from the Tsaritsa too.
Does that mean we can only have 3 Weeklies per region? Of course not. The game could easily go long enough that we could potentially keep seeing new Weeklies. But in terms of the Harbingers I think it'll work out this way.
What do you guys think? Does this seem likely?
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