Hi guys I am Inotia King a youtuber, redditor and gamer who likes theorizing about the story. I actually cobbled together a list of some of my more important theories with respect to the game Genshin Impact and Star Rail that I have been basing all of my newer theories on. I'll be putting more of those up on Hive along with new stuff but if you're impatient I also archived all my theories here. I hope some of you guys are game theorists too. Let's try to figure out these great games together!
This one's going to be very short and sweet. If you guys have been reading my theories you'll know I don't believe the Lochknights are historical. This idea was reinforced last patch thanks to the Petrichor World Quest where NPCs and notes pretty much told the story in painfully obvious detail. One of the things I overlooked though was Cassiodor and his link to the Marechaussee Hunters. We were actually shown a few times like with Ruggiero's Notes that Cassiodor ignored him when he asked about the Lochknights.
Well now thanks to Clorinde's Character Quest we know why. There were no Lochknights. Everything we knew about them was actually about the Marechaussee Hunters like the part where they answered the call of Egeria which in itself was made up because we know exactly who Cassiodor was listening to when he became the Golden Hunter. In the World Quest he was following orders from his Sebastos. We even get a direct comparison of the fictionalized account with another group. If you speak to the Petrichor NPC Contarini Tiepolo she says that she had a dream about the Liliacruces Ordo. This is a fictionalized version of the real life Narzissenkreuz Ordo.
In fact looking back now from what we saw with Clorinde's quest the fictional Lochknights might have actually been created as a way to shroud the real life hunters in mystery, something spoken about in the quest which caused the main antagonist's dismay. It could even extend to why Cassiodor was reluctant to talk about the Lochknights; it's a sore subject for all of the hunters.
The basic timeline is as such:
Cassiodor was informed by Remus and ordered to abandon the Phobos project. To that end he and Scylla independently attempted to stop Boethius which led to Scylla becoming sealed and Cassiodor sealing Phobos in the painting in the Faded Castle which then led to Remuria being destroyed while the Faded Castle and the painting managed to survive. With the damage done by the Phobos plaguing Fontaine, Cassiodor took it upon himself to become the Marechaussee Hunter and gathered warriors from the conquered tribes to quell the rise in Abyssal monsters. We still don't really know why the Abyss attacked as it seemingly has nothing to do with the Phobos. It also predates the Cataclysm and came long after Nibelung's defeat. Afterwards generations passed and Fontaine was at peace. The hunters chose to retire and let their legacy fall into legend. To that end they created the fictional Lochknights which overtook their popularity in local media. Their ranks thinned out and became replaced by Melusines. Over time the Marechaussee Hunters became even more esoteric than their fictional counterparts. As they went their separate ways some of them held onto their talents and trained disciples in secret. Clorinde and Florian were a couple of them. Cassiodor would remain guarding the Faded Castle knowing that one day his seal would break. He was met by a researcher named Ruggiero who he recounted the history of Remuria. To modern Fontainians the Marechaussee Hunters are as mythical if not moreso than the Lochknights and they are under the impression that the Lochknights preceded the Hunters. While most believe the Lochknights to be real some actually believe the Hunters are not. This fact upset the Hunters though most of them kept silent. The young disciple Florian however couldn't bear their cruel fate. And so we get the Character Quest to reform him and show off Clorinde's better understanding of the Hunter's sacrifice.
Speaking of being discipled under a Hunter though, Clorinde's seems to be giving my Poetry Theory another point. The theory goes that each region behaves opposite to each other so therefore every other region shares similarities. In Mondstadt we had Diluc secretly engaging in vigilantism as the Darknight Hero. The regions that should share similarities with Mondstadt are Inazuma and now Fontaine and
Yeah Fontaine has it's own Batman reference lol. Well I suppose a Batwoman or Masked Phantasm one. She even came complete her own Commissioner Gordon in Callas.
Clorinde's quest was mostly focused on that awesome Tabletop RPG feature which I really hope miHoYo will bring back and turn into permanent content (not gonna happen) but it's also nice to get even more overt confirmation about the truth behind the lore.
Topic originally created on June 30th, 2024.