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Additional information following Arlecchino and Neuvillette become playable


** You can have four characters in your party, or five if you get a GuestStarPartyMember as part of a quest, but cutscenes and NPC dialogue will always assume that you only have [[TheHero the Traveler]] in your party and/or any said Guest-Star Party Member(s). Certain dialogues will cause you to temporarily change to the Traveler regardless of whether they're in your party or not, but most won't, so you could be playing as someone like Amber and the NPC will still treat you as if you're playing as the Traveler.

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** You can have four characters in your party, or five if you get a GuestStarPartyMember as part of a quest, but cutscenes and NPC dialogue will always assume that you only have [[TheHero the Traveler]] in your party and/or any said Guest-Star Party Member(s). Certain dialogues will cause you to temporarily change to the Traveler regardless of whether they're in your party or not, but most won't, so you could be playing as someone like Amber Amber, and the NPC will still treat you as if you're playing as the Traveler.



** With the sole exception of the Archons and Childe, the rarity of stars (resulting in naturally more or less high stats) of the characters does not always reflect their true power and/or their role within the story and lore in general. Some classic examples are Diluc (5★) and Kaeya (4★), who can stand up in an equal fight with each other, or Ningguang (4★), who is essentially both the unofficial leader of the Liyue Qixing and one of the most powerful Vision users in the game, has one less star than her colleague Keqing (5★). Likewise, Beidou (4★), a legendary warrior and sailor from Liyue [[EmpoweredBadassNormal who obtained her own Electro Vision by killing a powerful millennial sea monster]], and Hu Tao (5★), a mere owner of a funeral home.

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** With the sole exception of the Archons Archons, Neuvillette, and Childe, Fatui Harbingers (if Wanderer wasn't included, since he became playable after leaving the Fatui), the rarity of stars (resulting in naturally more or less high stats) of the characters does not always reflect their true power and/or their role within the story and lore in general. Some classic examples are Diluc (5★) and Kaeya (4★), who can stand up in an equal fight with each other, or Ningguang (4★), who is essentially both the unofficial leader of the Liyue Qixing and one of the most powerful Vision users in the game, has one less star than her colleague Keqing (5★). Likewise, Beidou (4★), a legendary warrior and sailor from Liyue [[EmpoweredBadassNormal who obtained her own Electro Vision by killing a powerful millennial sea monster]], and Hu Tao (5★), a mere owner of a funeral home.
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** Early in Act 3, you have several instances where you encounter Orin the Red, an AxCrazy shapeshifter and one of the central villains of the game, who takes the form of various minor characters to ambush you, taunt you, then teleport away so you can't fight her then and there, even when one of these instances can happen on a beach where nobody's around to risk being caught in the crossfire. Maybe not a problem for players who are playing martial classes that lack spellcasting options, since even if you land a hit on her she can teleport away, but spellcaster classes would have many ways to stop her (for starters, ''Command'' is a 1st level spell that can essentially prevent her from taking any action, and ''Counterspell'', a 3rd level spell (by this point, the player is likely unlocking fifth to sixth level spells) that is cast as a Reaction and can prevent a person from casting a spell).
** A minor one with enemy cosmetics vs their loot. Generally every character can be looted after they're downed, which typically includes their weapon, armour, any magic gear, and possibly other possessions. For most this tends to line up, where the armour they're wearing is visibly one of the many generic armours available in the game, but sometimes a character will have a very distinct, unique looking outfit, only to drop the same basic looking equipment. Additionally, unless the character is a recruitable companion, they will always remain visibly dressed even when they've been effectively mugged for their clothes, except for Ketheric Thorm due to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen him having originally at one point been recruitable]].
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** The Scarlet Rot is an incurable disease that will kill or madden anything it afflicts. One NPC afflicted by it could only be saved by an unalloyed gold needle, but it didn't cure her and the disease would return if it the needle was ever removed. To the player character however, Scarlet Rot only lasts a few minutes and can be cured relatively easily with a spell or consumable- though admittedly none of those are particularly easy to find or make.

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** The Scarlet Rot is an incurable a seemingly-incurable disease that will kill or madden anything it afflicts. One NPC afflicted by it could only be saved by an unalloyed gold needle, but it didn't cure her and the disease would return if it the needle was ever removed. To the player character however, Scarlet Rot only lasts a few minutes and can be cured relatively easily with a spell or consumable- consumable - though admittedly none of those are particularly easy to find or make.make. While unstated, it's possible that there's just a difference between a long-term terminal infection of it, and an acute short-term one. The in-game Scarlet Rot status effect rapidly drains health and, in its most potent form, kills anything in under a minute (the damage is percentage-based) without intervention of magic, but it only retains that form for some 90 seconds, after which it will cease to have an effect (you could simply survive it by out-healing the damage, for example). Meanwhile multiple in-universe characters are dealing with long-term infections that don't kill anywhere near as rapidly but are much more difficult to remove. This is backed up by the fact that you ''can'' inflict the acute, in-game infection on characters who explicitly already have Scarlet Rot killing them over the course of years (like Radahn), and the result is a very clear visual difference followed by them dying in seconds.



** There are several things that are, in-story, able to bypass your character's ResurrectiveImmortality: Godrick grafts his victims to himself while keeping them alive, Scarlet Rot as noted above is able to infects even Tarnished bodies and minds and resurrection doesn't remove it, the Rune of Death make its wielders able to permanently kill ''anything'', and so on. In-game, however, while these things are encountered, dying to any of them still sends you to the last Site of Grace you visited rather than deleting your character. It's also hinted that it is possible for a Tarnished's immortality to "run out" after dying too many times, but that will never happen to you.

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** There are several things that are, in-story, able to bypass your character's ResurrectiveImmortality: Godrick grafts his victims to himself while keeping them alive, Scarlet Rot as noted above is able to infects even Tarnished bodies and minds and resurrection doesn't remove it, the Rune of Death make its wielders able to permanently kill ''anything'', and so on. In-game, however, while these things are encountered, dying to any of them still sends you to the last Site of Grace you visited rather than deleting your character. It's also hinted that it is possible for a Tarnished's immortality to "run out" after dying too many times, but that will never happen to you.you, even though it does to literally every other Tarnished in the world.

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