At least I hope that was right lol I was going for "Hi, it's nice to meet you people of Sumeru!" 
Anyway I'm a little late to the party but it couldn't be helped. This last event was just so incredible (and also very long) that it ate up all my attention. But now that the juicy lore is out of the way I can turn my attention back to the teasers!
First things first. The ears. He's a fox. And specifically the larger size of his ears not to mention his Constellation actually tells us exactly what species of fox he is. Vulpes zerda is an actual name for the fennec fox native to North Africa including Egypt. This could just be a simple Google search for native animal species or it could actually hold more details. We'll likely have to wait for his release to figure that out but for now I'd say maybe he's not a local to the Avidya Forest. Another clue is that he "brought back" a specialty from the desert so it could be that he's been stationed in the forest but is actually from the desert region which is where fennec foxes live.
Going back to that forest though let's talk Avidya. Avidya or अविज्जा in Pali (every Indian based word we've gotten so far has been related to Pali) simply means ignorance. It is part of the I guess you could call it sins in Buddhism and said to be the worst one. It is the root cause of the cycle of rebirth which in Buddhism is bad. You want to reach nirvana.
What this could mean in the case of Sumeru's forest is either -
that there are literally just hilichurls all over the place over there and other troublemakers. The little blurb about his role in the forest suggests that you can encounter problems in it which would be the hilichurl tribes and other lowlifes like Treasure Hoarders and bandits. We may even run into the Eremite which Nazafarin told us about.
Or it's just a naming convention and the forest is the furthest part from the city maybe what we'll enter first from the Mt. Hulao area in Liyue. As it is the furthest from the City of Wisdom it could have been named the Forest of Ignorance and travelers looking for knowledge would first have to move through "ignorance" to reach the "enlightenment" of Sumeru and its Academia.
Tighnari himself is also a scholar. In fact he's a botanist just like who MiHoYo likely got his name from the famous agronomist Al-Tighnari of Muslim Spain. His greatest work was Zuhrat al-Bustan wa-Huzhat al-Adhhan or هرة البستان ونزهة الأذهان (Read right to left. Good luck. 
) a book on Al-Tighnari's observations of Muslim agriculture. It also includes information on astronomy and meteorology which could be played with in a Genshin context.
Finally his snack that he claims is a specialty of the desert is actually Roman. While dates have been around since probably the first humans the specific honeyed dates is a Roman delicacy. As far as I can tell Persians eat their dates in a whole bunch of other ways and Persia is one of the hot beds for date cultivation. There's the Mazafati that is eaten fresh, Piarom which is sun-dried, Qasb which you should peel then eat or you take any of them and turn it into a syrup and you can make Arde-Shire which is a dip made from that syrup with a sesame paste or tahini.
There's actually another thing but I'm not sure if MiHoYo would include it for Tighnari. The fennec fox Constellation uses a species name zerda but zerda is Persian for a North African ceremony that honors Saint Augustine.
We've been waiting on this girl since the manhua ended. I am a little unsure how I feel about her being a Dendro character though. She was Vision-less before so I wonder how she earned her Vision since it would have to be one of the most recent activations of a Vision in our roster. But finding out how she got it could even finally give us an answer to whether or not the Archons grant Visions themselves. We initially were told they did by Zhongli but then Ei had to go and mess that up with her Voiceline claiming she had no part in it. But if Collei just happened to get a Dendro Vision after going to study in Sumeru with Cyno it makes it highly unlikely she just happened to pair well with the element. Why didn't she get it earlier then?
Anyway you might think her Constellation is an open and shut case right? Even the wiki claims that Leptailurus Cervarius just means a serval which is another animal native to Africa. But I don't know if this was the localization team trying to sound cooler or something. They totally goofed. You see a serval's scientific name does start out with Leptailurus but then it's just serval because only the serval itself is part of the genus Leptailurus. My guess is the team thought serval was too obvious and wanted to make it sound nicer so they went and added "ius" to the end like they did with the yaksha. Serval became Cervarius. Problem. Cervarius is an actual Latin word. It means deer. So what Collei's English Constellation now means is Serval Deer. I wonder what a chimeric creature like that would look like lol 
Collei also either lives in or frequents the Gandharva Ville. Gandharva is an Indian term for musically based divine beings. They exist in nature specifically trees and flowers and are related to the yaksha. But it's also a Buddhist term for a state of being between death and reincarnation where a soul ready to be reborn waits for a new baby to be conceived for it to inhabit. Interesting how the blurb mentions the children of Gandharva Ville lol
Finally there's Dori the tiny genie merchant. Dori is Persian for a star that glitters like a gemstone. It probably just has to do with her being a merchant.
Her Constellation is a little interesting though. Given the whole genie look not to mention how she plays you might just say Magicae Lucerna probably means Magic Lamp. And in a direct sense you would be right. For example the Japanese name for her Constellation is just Lamp Constellation.
Something I personally did not know was that a genie's lamp is an actual lamp specifically an oil lamp. You stick the wick to the spout of the lamp which has oil stored in it and then you just light it and it'll draw the oil from the lamp.
I'm not sure why but I thought putting an open flame like this anywhere near a closed vessel like this with a flammable substance in it would cause it to explode. You live and learn and sometimes you show off how avidya you can be lol I totally thought it was just called a lamp but you just use it to store the oil for an actual lamp. You know like one of these.
Ok ignorance aside and I'm not really sure if was intentional or not but neither the Latin for the English Constellation nor the Chinese Constellation necessarily means a magical lamp for a genie. Magicae Lucerna can translate to Magical Lantern and the Chinese 神灯 could also mean divine lantern light and reference Buddha's light.
Magical Lantern in turn could actually be an evolution of the camera obscura a predecessor to modern cameras that's become an occult darling because of old tales that it could capture spirits. There's actually a whole game series about this. One of the designs of the camera obscura actually looks like our Kamera. It'd be funny if Dori gets introduced with some kind of quest or maybe even in her own Hangout it tied into the camera obscura. Or they could just keep that in mind for an October event for v3.2 where Dori is on the hunt for a valuable Kamera that can take pictures of ghosts.
But going back to the genie lamp definition and her overall genie design this could be a surface level shoutout to Aladdin. In the movie Genie's lamp ends up in the hands of a merchant who's telling us the story. In the live action version of the movie Genie himself takes on the role of the merchant.
The idea of a genie in the west is pretty much Aladdin's Genie. We think of them as quirky sprites that give people wishes in exchange for their freedom. They are loveable and fun. In reality there's a reason why genies are sealed inside of lamps and the lore about their wish granting is a cautionary tale. Genies or actually djinn (singular djinni) are something like Persia's version of what a youkai would be for Japan. The word actually means concealed from the senses which makes sense. I mean when was the last time you saw a youkai, monster or djinni? Anyway another translation of djinn is a wicked spirit and that's where most of the lore usually falls. Djinn are usually depicted as tricksters who used their powers to cause suffering to people. Since they can't be killed some of them were trapped inside of common objects for example an oil lamp and they offer wishes to be set free from this prison. But even then the wishes they grant are usually done in as terrible a way as they can manage. For example if you wanted money they might kill off your family and you gain the life insurance.
So how does that work with Dori? Well Genshin's a little nicer than what the lore of djinn is but in just the little blurb Dori's shown to be a trickster too. She can somehow find anything you might want to buy off of her. Then she gouges you for it. Even Tighnari can't outsmart her and ends up paying through the teeth. She also seems to be an opportunistic salesman selling necessities like water to people who are dying of thirst. And in an Aladdin sense Dori has tons of treasure and Genie's lamp was found in the Cave of Wonder a giant underground labyrinth filled with treasure.
And finally we find ourselves at the Palace of Alcazarzaray. So looking into it a little you find out that alcazar itself means palace so Palace of Alcazarzaray actually ends up meaning Palace of the Blooming Palace lol. They probably could have just gone with Zaray Palace or full on Persian Alcazar Zaray. Anyway this is probably going to be the Tenshukaku of Sumeru and where Kusanali lives. (and by the sound of it where she is kept either willingly as a hikikomori or not so willingly like my old theory suggested)
It's so cool that a tiny little peek at 3 new characters already gave us this much lore to dig into.
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