Genshin Impact has dropped a motherlode of Fontaine and update 4.0 reveals in the past 12 hours, momentarily coaxing the game's community out of hibernation and into the sunlight as everyone prepares for the fashionable new region and the billions its gorgeous characters will no-doubt rake in for developer Hoyoverse.
A far-reaching video teaser dubbed the Final Feast set the avalanche in motion, with about a dozen Fontaine characters revealed. We've seen some of them before in years-old lore snippets, but this is a big and largely brand-new look into the movers and shakers of Fontaine. We have names and voice actors for them, too.
Thanks to the Japanese Genshin Impact Twitter, we can start to put some of these names to faces. Standouts include Clorinde, the Bloodborne Lady Maria lookalike who wears an Electro vision in the trailer, and Navia, the golden blonde whose Geo vision can also be seen. As a reminder, Navia is the first Geo character announced since Yun Jin's release in January 2022. Furina, the white-haired top hat enthusiast seen at 3:08, is also expected to be a Hydro user – seemingly even the Hydro archon – given her coloration, teardrop adornments, and conspicuous name (it's a long story; ask Kusanali, I mean Buer, I mean Nahida)
"Sometimes it distracts with a feint, others it pretends to slip up and reveal a flaw... When things get serious, sleight of hand dazzles more than the magic itself. Can you guess what it is?"#GenshinImpact #Lyney pic.twitter.com/t72X41eQXbJuly 3, 2023
Official details for Freminet, Lyney, and Lynette arrived on the heels of the big trailer, confirming their debut in update 4.0 as Fontaine's first playable characters. Given Genshin Impact's two-banner structure, it's likely one
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