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I think the world quests are where Genshin's storytelling shines the brightest and I think being cryptic and spread over dozens little pieces in quests, item descriptions, exploration and books is a big part of what makes it so beautiful...

... I just needed to get that out to be able to focus on my work again haha.
But I guess I really still need to write that Alain essay somewhen....

And what the hell do they mean by the Narzissenkreuz Institute needing a human being to "see its story to the end" ??????

Wasn't the SOMETHING the artifically intelligent Mary-Ann meka after all, which he did built but which wasn't his greatest achievement after all? Was it somehow merging his consciousness with Pulonia? I was only ever 50/50 into that theory but now it seems to get more likely...

neccessary background info? Or did she not tell on purpose? Or does she somehow not know her origins?

How long exactly did she hang around with Alain? It sure sounds like a long period. Which seems to contradict the whole "in his last years he built SOMETHING mysterious" story?

After playing the quest I filled my lore notebook with 6 pages of questions. I have so many questions and this is just one of them.
Was Sandrone not mentioning Mary-Ann just bad storytelling because they need to go blunt and straightforward because they need to force the non-lore people to have the

Why tell the story of the boy who played the evil dragon as a child becoming the hero (in his own eyes) without telling the story of the boy who played the hero making the switch as well...?

I'm not saying he's emotionless and I knew that he loved his friends and is probably just as sentimental about their nostalgic past and maybe he just got very tired of it all in the end? But it doesn't fit together.

I'm not saying that I think that her version of the story is completely out of the question but why drop a million hints about his personality, his obsession with mechanics, and Rene's little hints about him having all the ingredients to become an unhinged scientist to let it end this THAT?

Maybe he did something else in the ruins. Maybe he needed the fairytales for some clues. Maybe he went to the Institute to transplant his consciousness into Pulonia (which would explain why he seems to have "died" there). Maybe he needed something for Mary-Ann bot / Sandrone. Idk. But it's so fishy.

I mean MAYBE he just turned all soft and sentimental in the end but reading fairytales? Going to die in the ruins...??? My man Alain Guillotin??? I smell bullshit. I don't know if Sandrone got it wrong or if he deliberately wanted her to get it wrong.

#genshinspoilers

Yeah me too, I hate story leaks! I personally check out future banner leaks so that I can better plan how to spend my primos. I'll dm you!

we actually know from leaks, do you want to know or be surprised?

boy i had to take a break from the game for a few minutes because it was so heavy and dark and much too close to real life

I KNOW RIGHT??? My mind and emotions are all over the place

but I won't write about lore until people had the time to play it

and i had time to process all of this haha ha

also this one

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