Everything you need to know about Genshin Impact’s Fatui Harbingers

polygon.com:

Genshin Impactdeveloper Hoyoverse released a teaser trailer that gave fans a look at one of the game’s most dastardly group of villains: the Fatui Harbingers. The supervillains are as evil as they are hot, and the teaser introduced a veritable feast of new characters for fans to obsess over. The months leading up to the game’s 3.0 Sumeru update have been packed with leak after leak, and this reveal came as a welcome surprise to fans — finally putting faces to some of the game’s most infamous characters.

So far in Genshin Impact we’ve only met three Harbingers: Signora, Scaramouche, and Childe. There are 11 total, meaning that Hoyoverse revealed eight new characters in a matter of minutes. While it may seem like a lot to drop at once, the game has been steadily building up to their reveal through its lore. Here’s everything we know so far about the Fatui Harbingers to help refresh you on these characters as we head into the 3.0 update.

[Ed note: The article contains spoilers for events that take place in the Inazuma archon quest line. You might not want to read if you’re not up to date on the story through the game’s 2.7 update.]

The trailer appears to take place sometime after the events of the current mainline quest. At this point, the Traveler has ventured in the Chasm after helping resolve the internal conflict in the region of Inazuma, and the Sakoku Decree has been lifted. We know this because the trailer depicts the Harbingers gathering to mourn the loss of their comrade, Signora. A powerful fighter, Signora was beaten in battle by the Traveler and then killed by the Inazuma leader, the Raiden Shogun. The Traveler and the Shogun had previously uncovered a Fatui plot that turned the Shogun against her own people.