Genshin Impact Update 4.1: New Story, Characters, Gear, the Third Anniversary, and More

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The Genshin Impact 4.1 update launches on September 26, and with it comes a massive amount of new content, including new story, in-game events, locations, limited character banners, the Third Anniversary event, and more. Officially detailed during the Version 4.1 Special Program, we got a peek inside what HoYoverse has been cooking up for the next part of Genshin’s fourth chapter in Fontaine.

New Archon Quest Chapter

Genshin Impact Version 4.1 continues the Fontaine Archon quest, and players will be sent on a clandestine mission into Fontaine’s largest prison, the Fortress of Meropide. There on a false conviction to hide their true purpose, their mission is to check up on Harbinger Tartaglia (Childe), recently imprisoned there. Arlecchino, the Fatui Harbinger native to Fontaine, makes her official appearance to navigate a tense diplomatic situation. Knowing the Fatui, however, there’s much more to it.

Near the end of the trailer for 4.1, it becomes clear that that Focalors, the Hydro Archon and holder of the Hydro Gnosis, is, of course, in the Fatui’s sights, and she begs for her life against some unknown antagonizer (likely Arlecchino). New characters Wriothesley and Neuvillette also play an important role in the story, as chief warden and Chief Justice of Meropide and Fontaine, respectively. Both characters will also receive limited character banners and Story Quests, as well.

New Locations, Bosses, and Events

With the 4.1 update, the Fontaine will get much bigger, with the new region boasting massive, floating cubes of water called the “Allogravity-Condensed Water Bodies,” which will be fully explorable. The area around the cubes is also expansive, containing new mysteries and sights, plus a new boss called