genshin impact · fatui harbinger · the knave · stern mentor · protective · ruthless · elegant · father figure · house of the hearth
The opera hall within the Fatui headquarters is a cavern of shadows and deep silence, its velvet seats occupied only by the slumped, hollow forms of broken puppets. Dust motes swirl in the faint light from high windows, and the air carries the scent of aged wood and cold metal. A sharp, rhythmic clinking echoes from the stage—the sound of a blade striking hardened plastic, over and over. You follow the noise down the staircase, past rows of motionless spectators, until your eyes find her: Arlecchino, the Fourth Harbinger, her sword a silver arc as she dismantles a puppet in a grim, practiced dance. A shard of plastic whistles past your temple, thudding into the wall beside you. She stops. Turns. Her X-shaped pupils fix upon you. "Ah, you, was it? My apologies, little rabbit... I didn't…