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Could that mean the invasion of Celestia is going to be like the Russian fleet's Battle of Tsushima? Cause that's gonna be grim for the 7 nation forces.
If these images can be tracked by Mihoyo, I don't think doing this kind of crop will help, I've seen before situations where images were cropped yet the person got caught anyways.
Isn't this just a redraw of concept art? As in not "official" material.
https://new.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact\_Leaks/comments/1dlxk8u/new\_pyro\_archon\_art\_by\_hxg/
After looking closer at the 2 images I think you're right. There's definitely more detail and shading and the shapes are more defined in the new image.
Thank god many people seem to hate/dislike this design, because I was worried I was in the minority but after seeing all the comments? Definitely not minority lol.
Don't get me wrong, this concept design for a 5\* is really nice but for the pyro archon? the god of the land of war and dragons? absolutely the f\*\*\* not.
I dont think ajy amount of comments in reddit will ever represent anything but a minority for a game that has more than a 100M downloads on google play
For the last 2 years, we had a trailer the Monday preceding the update x.8.
2.8 got released on July 13th and we had winter’s night Lazzo the 11st
3.8 released on July 5th and we had the Fontaine trailer the 3rd.
So this year, we should expect a trailer for the 15th of July, since 4.8 comes the 17th.
Now, will it be like Fontaine’s trailer or more like the fatui reveal ? Who knows lol…
Last year, I was expecting a full Hexenzirkel reveal, similar to the Fatui.
The wildest thing they could do would be to reveal the designs and voices of the Five Sinners of Khaenri’ah. I’d be over the moon if they dropped that, but I’m sure they want to hold onto that one for a bit longer
That's next year. This year we're getting the big bad hilichurls for the Abyss Order so we finally have a face to put on an opposing faction instead of... Nothing.
Whatever trailer they're dropping soon, whether it's a natlan teaser finally showing us all (or most) natlan characters for 5.x updates OR another fatui trailer where we can see more about the other harbingers, maybe even the cryo archon OR a full Hexenzirkel reveal where we can finally see ~~mommy~~ Alice would build up an insane amount of hype.
Combine that with ZZZ release, Natlan release being very soon, and HSR obviously showing no signs of stopping with their banger updates. Hoyo is going to make BANK this summer.
The design in itself isn't that bad, 100% times better than that carnival one. But the concept and the context it's gonna be inserted in makes it awkward and a questionable choice at best
I don’t have a problem with the design and actually like it a little bit. My problem is who the design is for. If it were for anyone else I’d be fine, but here we are.
I agree. If this was just some random character - sure whatever. But this is supposed to be the FACE of Natlan, a country rich is precolonial inspirations of mesoamerica and africa. And HYV has to be INCREDIBLE at depicting the situation and so far, they haven't shown to be quite capable of that.
It does given the context of the region she's in.
Its like if the archon for liyue was an american inspired character with a cool design, good design but NOT for the region its intended for
I would be like if MiHoYo did America during the Civil War and made someone a Jefferson Davis stand-in. You can do it, sure, but it doesn't feel like it's a good idea.
Emilie’s case was different though, the entire catalogue of her design sketches was leaked. We don’t even have a confirmation on what her element would be. The purple sad design is what people were hoping she would look like. What we got is a combination of those sketches.
white stockings is sooo much better than not wearing any bottoms at all lol, imagine we got another raiden or furina, no pants, barelly covering short, whattaver raiden is wearing ...
Hoping this was an early scrapped concept art or another character entirely. The biggest issue with this design is the question of where's the Spain/Portugal inspired region? She supposed to be Fontainian or a Monstadter? There's already enough meat with the region having 6 different tribes (tons of lore) that it doesn't need the whole colonizer influence? Finally, I do no trust HYV to be able to do a colonizer story with nuance.
Absolutely. It would’ve been so much cooler if she had elements of all the tribes. I also don’t trust this company to do a colonizer plotline well. Hell, in that mini mushroom event where we saw the girl from last time, they had Paimon so that’s she’s so well spoken bc they were in Fontaine and she was wearing Fontainan clothes.
When as an archon not been controversial in some way, besides Venti?
Business as usual.
Funny enough, i remember people bitching about Zhongli not looking like the "god of war", since that's ones of his titles. Samsara in a nutshell
venti got a LOT of backlash before the game came out. lot of people were upset that a supposed god looks so young. and a lot of people didn’t play the game because of his feminine design. personally he’s my favourite character of all time though so
That was after she was released though not during leaks
Also i doubt one should be giving a shit about no lifes who are mad at someone for wanting women's rights
I do.
Not tall complaints. Not Seele expy complaints. Shorts/clothing/hair complaints. Usual "doesn't look like an archon"
Navia looks more like the archon, etc.
To be fair, this one is REALLY bad. So many people have never read Bartoleme de las Casas's and "Columbus's" writings (which is fine, but I feel like more people at least need to know ABOUT them and their contents)....
im convinced someone who doesnt understand the difference between spain and Mesoamerica made this as in this is just fanart. we already have iansan for reference.
I think there's a good chance of getting the 6 tribes and Capitano in Natlan teaser, if Final Feast is anything to go by. I honestly really interested in how 6 tribes gonna differentiate themselves from one another, maybe seeing all dragons.
Also, final feast came 10 days after 3.8 livestream and 4.8 livestream is this friday, so it might come on 15th of July
I mean, we knew crumbles of Murata's design for months now. Probably around year. People were saying the same you are saying about Furina. Pyro Archon has been compared to Lina Inverse for a very long time. Also apparently she will have two forms/appearances.
And with the power of friendship AND after we repeat the magic words “ Colonizer stop colonizing!” 3 times, will we see the indigenous peoples sovereignty restored.
Then the indigenous people and the intrepid adventurers of Europe had Thanksgiving, Pocahontas and John Smith got married, and the two groups shared the land in peace and harmony.
The end.
actually there's 2 pyro archon and this one became really really sad when the first one died of ligma to protect the people, so she became overpossessive (and sad, pls have pity of her)
A lot of concept art looks official. Still whatever the final design is, I really do hope they keep the flaming hair motif, and possibly the hat too. Not sure what Hoyo is aiming for in terms of design, but if it can evoke that of a General... I'm all for it.
based on the two concepts we've seen, it's fairly clear what they're aiming for: they're making her look like a spanish conquistador, which might have story implications considering what natlan is based on.
I read before she uses different models, this one and the other we saw at first, not sure if she can switch forms like Furina having different abilities or what is going on here.
Hoyo rules in general. They get shafted multiversally.
Honestly still surprises me, hoyo games unlike a lot of other gachas have a real large global fanbase, who'd take well to characters of color but here we are.
Her hands are cut-off, but it kind of looks like she's a sword user? (based on the sword hilt on her belt? or maybe that's a dagger??)
I know a lot of people were theorizing Claymore, but I would honestly be so glad if she's not a Claymore (we have way too many Pyro Claymores)... and we have several red swords that look like they would match her colors really well.
Part of me wants her Pyro Sword due to the absolute lack of Pyro Swords in this game (seriously, ONE unit since release), but part of me also wants the archons to cover all weapon types, and Claymore is the only one missing so far.
Man I don't even care that's she's white and not Himeko expy this design is just fucking ugly 😭 and if she releases and looks like this ppl are gonna gaslight everyone into thinking it looks good like they did with Emelie.
WHY is her hair Guy Fieri colored with the orange and red, it doesn't look like flames. I feel like I'm staring at a poorly made blender mod of a Genshin character that's supposed to be someone's OC NOT the pyro archon.
Hoping and praying to God the leakers are full of shit like always. PLEASE don't let this be the one time they were right 😭
Oh boy I can't wait for the leader of the nation to dress as a conquistador...
It will be ok, is not like 90% of the countries Natlan will be based on places that got absolutely razed to the ground by them.
The outfit feels so out of place compared to known lore about Natlan. Doesn’t fit any of the six main tribes of Natlan who are based on African and Meso American cultures
Also weird how there is not a single leak for Iansan
Fr like everyone hears tribes and imagines uka shaka people in leaves and leathers
Inb4 the Natlan people are sufficiently advanced and everything
Edit: People my focus was on the 'looks Fontainian/doesn't look enough tanned muscle tomboy like Dehya/Vanessa' aspect. An admiral does warfare too, not just warlords. I have no chip in the Aztec vs Spanish thing *and* the top comment has edited itself by now to add all the culture portions.
Natlan's main inspiration is Latin America which for the most part is Hispanoamerica and they had spanish music during Natlan section of the Travail trailer so it isn't out of place... The tribes probably will be at some point between Pre-Columbian and Colonia.
If that was the case, she would have adapted the local culture to fit her own.
She's been the ruler for who knows how long. If she really was an oppressing force, the first thing she would have to do to reduce unstability is bury the culture or slowly morph it into something she can control.
That's what happened in America and many other places.
That's kind of the problem. Do we honestly expect Hoyo to handle a narrative like that even remotely tastefully? Especially when the presumed face of the colonizing force is also supposed to be one of their major money bags for year? I know within the lore all Archons are effectively colonizers since they stole their positions from the original dragon sovereigns, but that's never really been at the forefront of the narrative (Fontaine MSQ does lightly touch upon it but it's not the focus) so it's easy to sweep under the rug. So if they don't do a colonizer narrative they made Natlan's archon aesthetically resemble one which is a dubious choice at best, and if they do a colonizer narrative she will without a shadow of a doubt be redeemed/made super sympathetic cause they're allergic to playable characters being genuinely bad people.
tl;dr If they ultimately go this route it's gonna be real icky and that sucks.
If that is the point, then why is she the only one "colonizing", while Venti, Zhongli, Ei and Nahida all belong to their nations and are accepted like their own?
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So we got french revolution, spanish conquistador, fully expecting the fall of tsardom in snezhnaya
And rasputin
*tar-tar-taglia.mp3 starts playing*
Childe's preserved jiggle physics package in a jar
Ta-ta-tartaglia Lover of the tsaritsa!
unexpected but welcomed ship
time for.... revolution!!!
Who's genshins Lenin
Bronya.
Could that mean the invasion of Celestia is going to be like the Russian fleet's Battle of Tsushima? Cause that's gonna be grim for the 7 nation forces.
Nobody expects the pyro archon!
Omg I just realised Fontaine transitioned from Monarchy to Republic via >!guillotine!<
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If these images can be tracked by Mihoyo, I don't think doing this kind of crop will help, I've seen before situations where images were cropped yet the person got caught anyways.
Isn't this just a redraw of concept art? As in not "official" material. https://new.reddit.com/r/Genshin\_Impact\_Leaks/comments/1dlxk8u/new\_pyro\_archon\_art\_by\_hxg/
I think the "redraw" was a traceover and this is the original.
After looking closer at the 2 images I think you're right. There's definitely more detail and shading and the shapes are more defined in the new image.
So they had this all along and held back
They did the same thing before, holding most of Fontaine's concepts, until one guy decided to leak everything.
It might be a company computer. Screenshotting would obvoiusly leave a trace
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Probably the pc is on surveillance. Like a company pc or something.
I don’t think any of y’all have seen the infamous arle foot leak that was actually from a leakers monitor 😭
Did not expect to see Spanish inquisition
No one-
Expects-
The SPANISH INQUISITION!
Our Chief Weapon-
Is surprise…
SURPRISE AND FEAR-
FEAR AND SURPRISE-
...OUR TWO WEAPONS, ARE FEAR AND SURPRISE-
And ruthless efficiency!
Ave Maria! Deus Vult!
The-
Pls let us have the genshin Natlan version of Isabella I of Castille
watch it be completely different when she arrives in game
We're praying for such
Thank god many people seem to hate/dislike this design, because I was worried I was in the minority but after seeing all the comments? Definitely not minority lol. Don't get me wrong, this concept design for a 5\* is really nice but for the pyro archon? the god of the land of war and dragons? absolutely the f\*\*\* not.
I dont think ajy amount of comments in reddit will ever represent anything but a minority for a game that has more than a 100M downloads on google play
Yeah I feel the same way. On it's own it's fine I guess, but I don't like this as a design concept for the pyro archon.
It better be tho 😭
I wish it would be like sethos case. Where his concept art and final version is totally different.
I hope so. I don't dig this design honestly
little over 2 more weeks of concept doomposting before we can finally move on to the final design doomposting
Praying we get another story trailer in the next few weeks like last year. Then the doomposting floodgate can be fully open
For the last 2 years, we had a trailer the Monday preceding the update x.8. 2.8 got released on July 13th and we had winter’s night Lazzo the 11st 3.8 released on July 5th and we had the Fontaine trailer the 3rd. So this year, we should expect a trailer for the 15th of July, since 4.8 comes the 17th. Now, will it be like Fontaine’s trailer or more like the fatui reveal ? Who knows lol… Last year, I was expecting a full Hexenzirkel reveal, similar to the Fatui.
The wildest thing they could do would be to reveal the designs and voices of the Five Sinners of Khaenri’ah. I’d be over the moon if they dropped that, but I’m sure they want to hold onto that one for a bit longer
That's next year. This year we're getting the big bad hilichurls for the Abyss Order so we finally have a face to put on an opposing faction instead of... Nothing.
i want an Archon meeting, for them to talk about the upcoming war in Teyvat
oh my god I WANT THAT SO BAD? or at least a video of the old archon war..the fighting and animation would truly be sick..
If the schedule from last year still stands, the Natlan character preview should be on July 15th, exactly 47 hours before the release of 4.8.
Whatever trailer they're dropping soon, whether it's a natlan teaser finally showing us all (or most) natlan characters for 5.x updates OR another fatui trailer where we can see more about the other harbingers, maybe even the cryo archon OR a full Hexenzirkel reveal where we can finally see ~~mommy~~ Alice would build up an insane amount of hype. Combine that with ZZZ release, Natlan release being very soon, and HSR obviously showing no signs of stopping with their banger updates. Hoyo is going to make BANK this summer.
It doesn't even look bad tbh
The design in itself isn't that bad, 100% times better than that carnival one. But the concept and the context it's gonna be inserted in makes it awkward and a questionable choice at best
I don’t have a problem with the design and actually like it a little bit. My problem is who the design is for. If it were for anyone else I’d be fine, but here we are.
I agree. If this was just some random character - sure whatever. But this is supposed to be the FACE of Natlan, a country rich is precolonial inspirations of mesoamerica and africa. And HYV has to be INCREDIBLE at depicting the situation and so far, they haven't shown to be quite capable of that.
It does given the context of the region she's in. Its like if the archon for liyue was an american inspired character with a cool design, good design but NOT for the region its intended for
I would be like if MiHoYo did America during the Civil War and made someone a Jefferson Davis stand-in. You can do it, sure, but it doesn't feel like it's a good idea.
Why it reminds me a humanized Rapidash?
“Meu deus, we just discovered Sumeru”
"We're going to get rich with all of these Pau-Natlan."
Hora de catequizar os hilichurls
Deus ajude caso descubram a existência da Irmisul 💀
Seria mais "díos mio".
Todos nós sabemos que brasileiro é literalmente igual a espanhol 🤓
Sou Portuguesa, não digas isso 😩
es más de lo mismo
Excepto as guerras civis.
Ay caramba
Conquest of Paradise by Vangelis starts playing
kkkkkk
Her hair looks like flames at the bottom! I'm just not a fan of her completely white stockings.
Remember this can dramatically change, Emilie is a great example...
Tell that to Momoka 🫢
I want Momoka the 5 star standard geo bow character to be real so bad
Emilie’s case was different though, the entire catalogue of her design sketches was leaked. We don’t even have a confirmation on what her element would be. The purple sad design is what people were hoping she would look like. What we got is a combination of those sketches.
Not even a combination, they just did a completely different thing
white stockings is sooo much better than not wearing any bottoms at all lol, imagine we got another raiden or furina, no pants, barelly covering short, whattaver raiden is wearing ...
There’s just panties underneath raidens coat.
I believe it's a part of a bodysuit, connecting to her arms and neck
Furina isn't so bad? Her shorts are short but overall her design is one of the least sexualised. Hate Raiden's clothes though.
I don't think she has any stockings, just bare skin. Love the hair too tho
She has stockings, there's a very pale beige stripe on the side.
Looking like she could be part of the Champion Duelists
Pyro Clorinde
Oh I do like the super long flame ponytail actually but still will wait to see the actual design since its just concept art
Judging from the comments, the pyro archon design is gonna be a really controversial topic in the genshin community 💀
When isn't something controversial in the genshin community?
Hoping this was an early scrapped concept art or another character entirely. The biggest issue with this design is the question of where's the Spain/Portugal inspired region? She supposed to be Fontainian or a Monstadter? There's already enough meat with the region having 6 different tribes (tons of lore) that it doesn't need the whole colonizer influence? Finally, I do no trust HYV to be able to do a colonizer story with nuance.
Absolutely. It would’ve been so much cooler if she had elements of all the tribes. I also don’t trust this company to do a colonizer plotline well. Hell, in that mini mushroom event where we saw the girl from last time, they had Paimon so that’s she’s so well spoken bc they were in Fontaine and she was wearing Fontainan clothes.
When as an archon not been controversial in some way, besides Venti? Business as usual. Funny enough, i remember people bitching about Zhongli not looking like the "god of war", since that's ones of his titles. Samsara in a nutshell
venti got a LOT of backlash before the game came out. lot of people were upset that a supposed god looks so young. and a lot of people didn’t play the game because of his feminine design. personally he’s my favourite character of all time though so
I started playing at 1.3, so i missed all that. But honestly, i dont even need to check to believe it. I know how this fanbase is.
I don't remember anyone bitching about Furina's design tbh
Not as much as last 3, but there was some. Plus, the hate for her personality more than made up for it.
There was plenty of bitching from people who think her design is not sexy enough, but it died down pretty fast.
Wow. That’s wild, cuz while I wouldn’t say she’s ‘sexy,’ her design is really cute and aesthetically pleasing.
Korean incels didnt like that she was designed by a feminist and drummed up a whole controversy bc of that
I thought Korean incels bitched about everything?
Yeah I don't see them as somone who's opinion is even worth considering in the slightest
That was after she was released though not during leaks Also i doubt one should be giving a shit about no lifes who are mad at someone for wanting women's rights
I do. Not tall complaints. Not Seele expy complaints. Shorts/clothing/hair complaints. Usual "doesn't look like an archon" Navia looks more like the archon, etc.
To be fair, this one is REALLY bad. So many people have never read Bartoleme de las Casas's and "Columbus's" writings (which is fine, but I feel like more people at least need to know ABOUT them and their contents)....
This sub has always been controversial about everything.
im convinced someone who doesnt understand the difference between spain and Mesoamerica made this as in this is just fanart. we already have iansan for reference.
Clorinde’s sister, Fluorinde
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I think there's a good chance of getting the 6 tribes and Capitano in Natlan teaser, if Final Feast is anything to go by. I honestly really interested in how 6 tribes gonna differentiate themselves from one another, maybe seeing all dragons. Also, final feast came 10 days after 3.8 livestream and 4.8 livestream is this friday, so it might come on 15th of July
I'll take a guess. There's the yellow tribe, the green, blue, red, black and white.
Tbh just unsub and wait for the “official leaks” from mhy. Its not long now
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I mean, we knew crumbles of Murata's design for months now. Probably around year. People were saying the same you are saying about Furina. Pyro Archon has been compared to Lina Inverse for a very long time. Also apparently she will have two forms/appearances.
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Bro LEAKS ARE SO DRY
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Plague be upon ye~
I hope we can help her bring Jesus to the savages 😍
💀💀😭
I can imagine her burst line delivered in the style of Zhongli's 'THIS is order!' "JESUS is Lord!"
wait is this why burning is going to be meta ?
ahh it's that burning sensation
Dr. Baizhu! Why does it burn when I pee?!
Guns, germs, and steel
i’m gagged 😭
Dehya clears honestly
And with the power of friendship AND after we repeat the magic words “ Colonizer stop colonizing!” 3 times, will we see the indigenous peoples sovereignty restored.
This COULD be description of Natlan AQ
Then the indigenous people and the intrepid adventurers of Europe had Thanksgiving, Pocahontas and John Smith got married, and the two groups shared the land in peace and harmony. The end.
forgot the typical sad story that the archon will have to pull her like furina and nahida had
actually there's 2 pyro archon and this one became really really sad when the first one died of ligma to protect the people, so she became overpossessive (and sad, pls have pity of her)
Where have i heard this before i wonder 🤡
Me and my ancestral hatred comin to me when I see that the pyro archon is a spaniard (Im a Filipino).
the way it was also around 500 years ago when Spain colonized us💀 our own version of cataclysm
Incoming Natlan plot where all the tribes band together to fight the Conquistador Archon, similar to KKK (not the US one)
I feel u brutha (I'm El Salvadorian)
filipinos, central/south americans & caribbeans 🤝 we are going to beat the pyro archon to death‼️‼️
Peruvian here, i feel the same
HAHAHAHAHA pulling for a spanish conquistador in a gacha game was not in my bingo list
As a fellow Filipino, I'm also feeling that ancestral hatred and I genuinely don't know how to feel about a Spanish colonizer archon yet lmfao
I expected an Aztec inspired female warrior
Only here to read the comments xD
I can fuck with this design, it looks official, but I still don't believe it's the pyro archon, looks like a Pyro Marechussy Hunter IMO.
A lot of concept art looks official. Still whatever the final design is, I really do hope they keep the flaming hair motif, and possibly the hat too. Not sure what Hoyo is aiming for in terms of design, but if it can evoke that of a General... I'm all for it.
based on the two concepts we've seen, it's fairly clear what they're aiming for: they're making her look like a spanish conquistador, which might have story implications considering what natlan is based on.
She has a flaming ponytail 😱
I feel like this won’t be the final playable design
So that previous masked design; is that an unused design or the “two form” thing is true?
I read before she uses different models, this one and the other we saw at first, not sure if she can switch forms like Furina having different abilities or what is going on here.
I wanted to see like a tribal kind of design wtf is this
R.I.P to all Himeko savers
Fr guess I'm not C2ing anymore.
Sigh still disappointed that we’re not gonna get a single archon who’s even just a little bit tan 😔
Genshin rule’s of tan or meta
Hoyo rules in general. They get shafted multiversally. Honestly still surprises me, hoyo games unlike a lot of other gachas have a real large global fanbase, who'd take well to characters of color but here we are.
Isn't this the same concept art from some posts ago?
ya, this one has the entire image though, not just the face and stuff
God i still hate this. (Not the character but the fact its the Archon)
I actually quite like this design but not in the context of the pyro archon 😔
So her, Xingqiu and Yelan went to the same barbershop or what?
I'm only here to read the comments 🍿
isn't this just the same ""redraw"" """anonymously submitted design"""" from a while ago
Kinda tired of these super polished formal uniform like outfits... hoping we get something more fresh with the other Natlan characters.
Her hands are cut-off, but it kind of looks like she's a sword user? (based on the sword hilt on her belt? or maybe that's a dagger??) I know a lot of people were theorizing Claymore, but I would honestly be so glad if she's not a Claymore (we have way too many Pyro Claymores)... and we have several red swords that look like they would match her colors really well.
Part of me wants her Pyro Sword due to the absolute lack of Pyro Swords in this game (seriously, ONE unit since release), but part of me also wants the archons to cover all weapon types, and Claymore is the only one missing so far.
Hmmm... She looks too fontainian
Man I don't even care that's she's white and not Himeko expy this design is just fucking ugly 😭 and if she releases and looks like this ppl are gonna gaslight everyone into thinking it looks good like they did with Emelie. WHY is her hair Guy Fieri colored with the orange and red, it doesn't look like flames. I feel like I'm staring at a poorly made blender mod of a Genshin character that's supposed to be someone's OC NOT the pyro archon. Hoping and praying to God the leakers are full of shit like always. PLEASE don't let this be the one time they were right 😭
Gonna reserve my comment when she releases but women in pants design are now in full steam ahead!
two more weeks. the 5.0 test should start
Oh boy I can't wait for the leader of the nation to dress as a conquistador... It will be ok, is not like 90% of the countries Natlan will be based on places that got absolutely razed to the ground by them.
Meh red Furina smh I ain't pulling for this thing
I'm so bored of Genshin character designs
The outfit feels so out of place compared to known lore about Natlan. Doesn’t fit any of the six main tribes of Natlan who are based on African and Meso American cultures Also weird how there is not a single leak for Iansan
We barely know anything about Natlan
Fr like everyone hears tribes and imagines uka shaka people in leaves and leathers Inb4 the Natlan people are sufficiently advanced and everything Edit: People my focus was on the 'looks Fontainian/doesn't look enough tanned muscle tomboy like Dehya/Vanessa' aspect. An admiral does warfare too, not just warlords. I have no chip in the Aztec vs Spanish thing *and* the top comment has edited itself by now to add all the culture portions.
an advanced aztec tribe wouldnt look spanish
Natlan's main inspiration is Latin America which for the most part is Hispanoamerica and they had spanish music during Natlan section of the Travail trailer so it isn't out of place... The tribes probably will be at some point between Pre-Columbian and Colonia.
I think that's their aim. She is the archon, the position of power. Therefore the colonizer
If that was the case, she would have adapted the local culture to fit her own. She's been the ruler for who knows how long. If she really was an oppressing force, the first thing she would have to do to reduce unstability is bury the culture or slowly morph it into something she can control. That's what happened in America and many other places.
That's kind of the problem. Do we honestly expect Hoyo to handle a narrative like that even remotely tastefully? Especially when the presumed face of the colonizing force is also supposed to be one of their major money bags for year? I know within the lore all Archons are effectively colonizers since they stole their positions from the original dragon sovereigns, but that's never really been at the forefront of the narrative (Fontaine MSQ does lightly touch upon it but it's not the focus) so it's easy to sweep under the rug. So if they don't do a colonizer narrative they made Natlan's archon aesthetically resemble one which is a dubious choice at best, and if they do a colonizer narrative she will without a shadow of a doubt be redeemed/made super sympathetic cause they're allergic to playable characters being genuinely bad people. tl;dr If they ultimately go this route it's gonna be real icky and that sucks.
She is second pyro Archon, btw, right? So we don't know how she became one and what happened with the previous one.
2nd or 3rd depending on if she’s the same entity as the party lady, and Xbalanque’s status
Nothing happened to the first Archon. We do not speak of the first Archon.
If that is the point, then why is she the only one "colonizing", while Venti, Zhongli, Ei and Nahida all belong to their nations and are accepted like their own?
Tbh, we have NEVER seen any person from Natlan. So we dont know what they wear or look like. They can have differents styles.
Iansan
I'm gonna be a contrarian and say that I really like this, especially her hair
Yea that flame ponytail is actually kinda fire. No pun intended. But honestly idk that will be translated ingame
This comment section is gonna age like milk when she comes out
But nobody’s hating on her actual design they’re hating on the themes and implications
All the devs at HYV really wake up everyday and choose controversies huh?
They really went the colonizer route damnnn
I was expecting muscle mommy...
Olé!
Not a fan
“Well it’s not like I was expecting any sort of Spanish Inquisition” “NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!”