So recently we found out from our good friend Liben here that Qiaoying Village that tea place that Zhongli told us about back at the end of v2.5 is actually on the border between Liyue and the upcoming region Fontaine.
But that's not the only thing he ended up telling us. I'm sure everybody's been waiting for Sumeru for a while now. We all have our theories on what's happening over there and what we'll be doing when we arrive. I personally managed to make plenty of theories about it myself with implications for both the city, its Archon Quest and the future of Genshin in general.
And I can almost guarantee none of us guessed what Liben is telling us now. The Fatui just got to Sumeru.
Or at least this is what it sounds like. We actually know for a fact that even if this appearance by the Fatui is recent that they'd been to Sumeru already in the past.
I actually had a theory about that. Only now I jumped the gun too late? If I'm right about my Weekly Boss picks then the only Fatui leaders we'll encounter in Sumeru are Dottore and Arlecchino. I wouldn't know why Dottore would abandon his research in Sumeru and it would be annoying to think he'd just gone back there to collect a Gnosis. I mean for a region built up on the acquisition of knowledge his sudden reappearance would send up all the red flags. So I feel like he's still there using it as a base of operations. Maybe recently he was called away similar to what we see in the manhua.
And that could be Arlecchino's in. In this way Dottore could be seen as someone trustworthy and unstable in the Fatui. Maybe as Arlecchino rummages through his lab Dottore returns and has him kicked back out of Sumeru. By the time we arrive we'll hear all about how upstanding Dr. Dottore is and how he has the faith of all the researchers in the Wahman who aspire to be like him. At the same time the sages like Cyno would realize Dottore is still a horrible person even if Arlecchino's mania makes him seem worse. And thus the setting for the Archon Quest. 
I say it's likely Arlecchino's group in Sumeru now because Liben is already sus about it and he feels that Sumeru has become dangerous as a result. Since Dottore's already been there and he was conducting research over there it would be weird if this was just him coming back. Unless he was making random demands this time why would they bat an eye at his return? And if he was making random demands that would be very hard for Kusanali and even the dumb smart people of the Wahman to excuse.
I'm really glad even with all the stuff MiHoYo's going through right now that they were able to whip up this lore dump for us. It just goes to show how well they know the story they want to tell.
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