They kinda explained it a little during the AQ. It's essentially a moon realm separate from the actual realm. Thelonis was there performing experiments for Khanere'ah and it might be a moon itself (real) or maybe beyond the fake sky. I believe both Thelonis' and that small redheaded kid's "leyline ghosts" are trapped there still, as you can hear the little redhead yell at you when you're taking the moon marrow, which was gifted to her by Thelonis.
I find it strange that it shares basic architecture as the "ancient world" stuff, (Enkanomiya). Again, I'm surprised with how dumpy it is. I expected peak civilization based on previous lore. Like comforts and technology beyond anywhere else in Teyvat.
Pretty sure they're going to say it's just Alchemy and his connection with the Abyss that allows him to do it. But yea, it was kinda just thrown out there and not explained.
What's this?
Yea agreed. Like I never expected Fontaine lore dumps at the end there. Out of nowhere too.
I'm 99% sure she was the original Mary Ann, and the teacher at the Narzissenkrauz institute. Whether she was already a robot and a Harbinger at that time, that's still up in the air. Dates her to be as old or older than most of the longest lived characters though.
It's getting even worse. She doesn't even add direct unique damage to existing lunar reactions, just speeds them up (Lunar Electro Charge) or does damage amplification (Lunar Bloom, etc).
I hate when they shoehorn the character quests into the main quests (preferred them as standalone things as done in the past), but at least Nefer's was congruent with finding out Rerir's past in the main plot, so it fit okay. But yea it definitely added to the quest length and watered down a lot of the hype moments to find a bunch of backstory. Reminds me of anime tropes when they make you watch an entire episode of a character's back story before the main character kills them.
Yea I like these a lot. Have you guys been noticing that the "Moon" in her domain is growing bigger and bigger as the weeks pass? Wonder if she's constructing a new Frost moon by gathering kuuvahki. The thing that sucks is that if you missed a week doing her quests or even don't do it on the day of weekly reset, you get pushed back for whatever the finale is going to be. Mine resets on Tuesdays now because I forgot to do it a few Mondays ago...
My faulty memory's gonna mess things up here, but I think you're right. Not sure where that would fit in with the already established lore for Ann. But her brother Alain was known to tinker with machines (he made that robot dog) so I assume he 'rebuilt' her after she got wounded. Or she could be a clone of some sort. I assume she joined the Fatui after her brother passed away as she lacked purpose. Perhaps she's trying to rebuild him now.
Well they're kinda ignoring her own personal damage contribution. If she buffs Lunar reactions and deals ton of Hydro DMG herself, she'd still be a definitive upgrade over anyone else available right now. But I hope they're just missing a piece of the puzzle.
Weekly chest in Nefer's office that gave 100k mora if you had her in your party. Now it won't give up the goods.
Khaenri'ah was supposedly 5500 years old when it was destroyed, which places it at the same time as the other ancient civilizations.
What's the trigger for it to give the mora, and what's the trigger for it to end? I didn't get a damn thing despite having her since day 1 of the patch.
Was it? I was under the assumption it was relatively quick to rise and quick to fall. I'll have to look it up. That would have put them originally back in the age of the dragons, but I don't think it's that old.
True, could just be the piecemeal we saw from Rerir's memories that was like a drudge dungeon. I dunno, I expected more arts/decorations/accoutrements. The quest mentioned that their food situation was kinda limited due to no sunlight (meats/fungi/etc), so maybe it was like that for the finer things as well? Dunno, we have been hit with "Khanre'ah was the pinnacle of human civilization" for so long, I just assumed way better than what it is.
I mean, sure, if you ignore Deshret's tech which was wildly advanced for their time. and all the Ruin tech. I think people misunderstand how advance Deshret's people were because we barely got any flashback stuff displaying it outright. If you read the books/monuments and paid attention to the Liloupar quest, they were crazy advanced. Hell, look at the pyramid.
Yea, but one of those entire Dain quests a long time ago was about how Khanre'ah specifically created all of the Ruin _____'s. Sentinels, drakes, graders, scouts, etc. They also figured out how to get into the moon realm, whether that was by torture/sacrifice of the CM clan or their own tech exploits. They were very capable. Probably partially thanks to the sinners (before they became sinners) and their areas of expertise.
IMO, calling so many characters (including an Oceanid) Ann, Mary Ann, etc. really confused those plot points for a lot of people. Myself included. I saw a good video on the Narzissenkrauz Institute plotline a while ago, if I can find it, I'll link it here. I need to rewatch it myself and see how it lines up with what we know now.
True, the missing piece here is where her damage comes from and what the #s are. The first leak saying she "wets" the surrounding area implies there's no damage, like Barbara's skill or Nilou's water circle.
After you finish the campaign you can do it once a day for 3 days.What's the trigger for it to give the mora, and what's the trigger for it to end? I didn't get a damn thing despite having her since day 1 of the patch.
Where do you go, the curitorium?
Yes, in the back room there is a chest. Make sure to have Nefer in the party.
I would ask Mona or maybe Citlali.
I haven't tried the new difficulties yet, but I need to get in there in the next day or so before it resets. If I get the Wheel of Fortune one, I'll let you know.
So, I was able to beat the 2 extra challenges without much issue, but sadly my only options were The Sun and Justice. If I ever get WoF as an option, I'll trade it to you though.
Cheers mate, nice to have in mind! Which one did you pick? Both are fantastic cards still. I read the tarot IRL so this whole thing they added is making me insane haha I really hope I get my favourite cards soon.
I took Justice. I didn't read the mechanics of the bonus stages and didn't realize they were vastly different than the normal stages. The win conditions were "Survive until the end" and luckily I brought Neuvi to that particular fight. And well, he's functionally immortal. The debuff constantly drains HP from both on and off-field characters at an alarmingly high rate. I don't even think I could have beaten that stage without him, so I wanted to make sure I picked that card so I didn't have to do it again in case Hydro wasn't a favored element.
Sounds not all that dissimilar to Navia honestly.
It's a mistranslation apparently. Flins already mentions this guy in-game and confirmed he's a guy.
I don't get why they don't give him the Varka model, then even dudes that don't like male characters would at least be semi-ok with it. Always the fucking short shorts twinks in this game...
They're not gonna give up Varka's unique selling point before his release. Maybe later.
Meh? Kinda terrible color scheme. My first instinct is to skip this. But maybe she's amazing from the front.Picture of Horsegirl:
Sure hope so, we've had more than enough twinks and beanpoles to last a while.
She kinda reminds me of Ningguang Pro Max™
Yeah I was never a fan of her so that must be what's putting me off.
I was kind of half hoping to lose on his split and have guarantee for her. I guess it is nice having him on my account but right now I'm not looking to spend my resin on building someone from the ground up besides Columbina. After her I'm okay with others (mostly considering sandrone, nicole, varka) being totally up to chance if they line up with a flip or not, tho if Hu Tao shows up for lantern rite I'll make that happen.
Supposedly he's very universal as far as a Pyro character, so I'm sure it'll be worth building him if you need Pyro. I'll probably try getting him on a rerun down the road, but like you said, Columbina is the priority for now, especially now that we see her kit and it's pretty busted.
It took me all the way to 68 pity, but I was able to get a single copy of Jahoda. Pretty risky, but it seems my luck hasn't run out yet.
Also, here's Columbina's animations:
These are fantastic. Her unique walking/running animations, how she summons blasts of Hydro from the sky by singing(?) and although I'm a bit sad she lost her eye mask, it is nice that her eyes open during her burst.
And renders for the other two:
I'm not sure about Zi Bai yet. I hate that she needs the guy for a support. Maybe I'll see if I win the 50/50 and let that decide.
It does look great. I wonder if those crystals count as constructs. Would make Chiori more viable.
Yeah, you don't really see any hint of Dendro on that charged attack. I assume it will just do Lunar Bloom as a damage instance without any Dendro app.
Seen some people suggest she looks like a standard character. I can't disagree. I doubt they'd release a standard character during Lantern Rite, and her being the premier Lunar-Crystallize DPS makes that even less likely. But that's the vibe she gives off.
Yeah, he's from the Lightkeeper faction like Flins. Unless he has some kind of hidden Liyue heritage, he should be considered from Nod-Krai and as such not selectable from the selector. Very odd. Or maybe they'll finally expand the event to all 4-stars?
I think I remember you or someone mentioning that Flins talked about him before, I'll have to look that up. Giving a full choice ticket among all 4* would be way too blessed, HoYo would never. It's surprisingly tough to get the newer 4* characters these days since the pool is humongous and they always put 1 newer character on the banner with 2 ancient 4*s, to dilute it further. I think the last C6 4* I got was Freminet. Still waiting patiently for my C6 Iansan.
Big meh to both of these. I like these Neuvi skins personally:
FFS. More FoMo and time gating. Also I read that there are straight up hexenzirkel quests you can't do unless you have the characters, all with important lore hidden behind it. They sure are getting brazen with all this extra added FoMo.
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Haven't tried with the old version of gimi but I did try it with the current version yesterday and got an "Illegal tool detected" message.
*edit*Just checking in on mod status - I am going to try to get it up and working again, everyone seems to be back at it without issues as long as you use the old GIMI .dll, but I haven't tried it yet. Any luck?
I did the Fischl Hexenzirkel quest yesterday and yea the textures on those old characters really don't hold up in cutscenes.
It seems they do. Pretty good for C0 Chiori havers.
The more I think about it, the more likely it seems to me actually. They're giving away multiple free 5-stars cons now, buffing old characters and doing all this other stuff. What's a single 4-star a year compared to those? The difficulty of obtaining 4-stars is heavily criticized online and this would be a quick and easy 'win' for MHY.
MAJOR snoozefest. Isn't Sandrone going to be Geo? She is way more interesting.And renders for the other two:
I'm not sure about Zi Bai yet. I hate that she needs the guy for a support. Maybe I'll see if I win the 50/50 and let that decide.
I have her C1R1 and also Xilonen with a copy of Chiori's sword. Also unbuilt Itto who will become more viable in concept with the Durin or Columbina stuff but not great, like Yoimiya. I would rather pick up Navia (I have her weapon) on her next rerun over the two above.
Yeah, but I kinda wanted the name card… Guess I'll get it in the new year since I'm way behind as I keep forgetting to do them. Wish they would have added a global notif on the screen, like when your crystalfly trap is ready, since I spend a lot of time outside of Nod Krai still.
You can only do 1 quest a real life calendar week from the last quest you did, so the namecard was out of reach unless you did every possible week reset so far. But yea, that notification would be nice.
