everything's finally starting to click together now previously, i've mentioned these theories where signora and scara's lines being placed at the bottom of childe's "about harbinger" lines is suspicious and how signora's line is no longer quest-gated w/arle and bina

my theory is that, these are like this because these lines may no longer be relevant in the future as the story progresses, and that the removal of quest gating could mean that signora's death will no longer be the spoiler worth protecting (i.e. she gets revived)

because if you think about it, the exclusion of scara and signora in the "about harbinger" voice lines introduces a massive asymmetry in terms of how the harbinger stories are being told:

- we don't know what other harbingers (aside from childe) think of scara bc all playable harbingers are released after him - we don't know what signora thinks of other harbingers because she's currently dead

while it's easy to infer that signora will eventually be revived and playable. scara's was less obvious: how exactly would we get a full picture of all the harbingers if scara just tampered with everyone's memories to make them not know about it?

but with this leak, if true, we'll FINALLY get our answer. once the preload drops, we gotta watch for new "about the balladeer" lines in childe, arle, and bina's, and see if the placement also gets moved to the correct 6th place instead of the bottom

funnily enough, it also indirectly confirms my theory regarding why the "about signora" lines are no longer quest-gated: they clearly showed that they could add new "about harbinger" lines *after the fact*

and if scara's line is on the 6th place, then that would also imply that signora's lines post-revival will also be on the correct 8th place instead of the currently awkward 10th place or at the bottom, and i was right to suspect that the line placement foreshadows her revival

this also means that arle's suspicions about wanderer somehow knowing the harbingers' dynamics and the scara reflection in the NK teaser (which was not part of the main NK AQ) DO foreshadow this event

there are some things that this leak doesn't explain though (what about rukkhadevata and the forbidden knowledge?), and how exactly sandrone will be resurrected (there's zero sandrone line counts in 6.6 beta + no leakers chiming in on that)...

but suffice to say that this leak implies they will finally give us the full story of harbingers and bring back #lasignora, IF this leak is true. we'll have to find out in the preload (and maybe the PV on the 24th they teased on april fools?) #genshinimpact

what's funny is that i've predicted this back in september, long before this leak came out, just by guessing what the chibi figure merch rarity implies, though this is way too speculative so i didn't add it to my analysis. it's nice to see that i might actually be right all along

this was me at the time