History Headscratchers / GenshinImpact

* Freminet was stated to have grown up under the previous Knave's abuse and lies about his mother, but "The Song Burning in the Embers" shows that Peruere/Arlecchino killed Crucabena when she was a teenager, and later on told Freminet the truth about his mother. Given how Arlecchino was already an adult woman and the head of the Hearth when she told Freminet about it, exactly how old does this make Freminet? Would this make the age difference between the trio and their "Father" smaller than it seems?

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* Why did the Traveler not warn Zhongli (or anyone else in Liyue) that the Fatui has been stealing the archons' Gnosises, even after seeing Venti get attacked and learning this information from Venti? He/She was obviously suspicious of Childe from the get-go that he would try to steal Rex Lapis' Gnosis from his Exuvia, shouldn't they have warned someone about it?

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* How did Gorou and Kazuha's squadron get in front of Tenshukaku ? Last time we heard of the Resistance, the war front was still at Yashiori Island. If they managed to infiltrate Inazuma City, how did they do so in Resistance uniform and no disguises at all ?

*** Turns out that Kamisato Ayato ordered the Shuumatsuban to help position and hide the Resistance platoon under Tenshukaku in his Character Demo while the Traveler was creating a distraction for Sayu to steal important documents, with Ayato likely in the loop with Yae Guuji's plot.

* While watching Cloud Retainer use her kite to lift the rest back into the air is awesome, it also makes no sense. The whole point of this year's kites is that they've been equipped with lift devices so they can operate without wind, right? How would this even happen then?

** Alternatively, we never got to know Elisa as her own person with thoughts and emotions, and everyone only speaks of her in relation to their connection with her, be it as an ex-lover, a long-dead mother, or a murder victim. Who's to deny whether she didn't actually plan her pregnancy in an attempt to secure her future with Morris? With their physiological natures as Oceanids, perhaps all Fontainians (including male ones) actually have the potential to become {{Truly Single Parent}}s once the Hydro Archon grants permission, though only female mimic bodies have the means of gestation.

* At this point, it shouldn’t be surprising if Celestia flooded the other nations as collateral damage because there are Fontainians in the other nations so they needed to be sure everybody is accounted for.

* How is it that Neuvillette, for all his Hydro Sovereign authority, was unable to tell that Furina was human without any elemental powers for the 500 years they've ruled together? Furthermore, his Story Quest shows that he can sense the emotions carried by the waters, but he somehow just never noticed how much suffering Furina was going through even when her tears gathered in the Fontaine of Lucine. You may say that no one noticed the resentment of the Fotaine of Lucine Oceanid either, but Neuvillette asked Vacher if he valued meeting his lover more than his life before allowing him to do so, suggesting that Neuvillette may have some inkling of what was going to happen. On the flip side, this might be justified by the fact that he's a Workaholic and purposefully distanced himself from others so he simply missed sensing Furina's feelings, but that still leaves the question of him being unaware of Furina's true nature as a human (or as human as the Fontainians used to be).
* The timeline of Focalors' ascension and setting her plans in motion is somewhat confusing if you think about it deeply enough. She spent some time coming up with a solution to save everyone from the prophecy while also fulfilling it, then also had to search for Neuvillette (whom she somehow knew existed and was mature enough to take over the position) and convince him to become Iudex by simply sending a letter (the wording of his Character Story that elaborates on this implies she never met him in person until her execution). Some time while all of this was happening all the Oceanids fled Fontaine and she split her humanity to create Furina, leaving her nothing but instructions to act out her masquerade, which Furina did for the next 499 years and 8 months (calculated based on the scene number while the Traveler was watching her performance).

* Furina couldn't reveal her secret, else the propechy comes true. Couldn't she just explain that keeping it secret is the key and that spilling it will guarantee the propechy to come true? All without revealing the actual truth, of course.

* Why did Focalors give Childe a guilty verdict despite being innocent?

* So why did the Oceanids want Egeria to make the human when we've seen Oceanids in human form under their own power and ones able or on the way to being able to understand and experience human emotions? Yes, it's said off to the sides that Idyia is a higher end outlier in both emotional intelligence and strength but Callirhoe seems most of the way there and Lyris seems to have found another way there by absorbing the mind of a dying Mary-Ann Guillotine?