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[4.0] Dottore was in Fontaine - A Genshin Impact Theory

Ashikai

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Spoiler warning - Please complete Acts 1 and 2 of Chapter 4 as well as the Narzissenkruez Institute World Quest before watching.

Dottore's a confusing little dude. He started out as some comical Joker-esque villain in the Genshin Manga and mysteriously transformed into a dapper daddy with a choker in game. I think some information we learned in Fontaine can not only explain this transformation, but could tell us a little bit more about what to expect in later acts of Chapter 4.

*CREDITS*
Video editing by QueerBunny Productions: https://queerbunnyedits.com/

*SPOILER WARNINGS*
Archon Quest Chapter 4, acts 1-4
Ann of the Narzissenkreuz
Ancient Colors
Neuvillette Story Quest (1)
Aqueous Tidemarks
Khvarena of Good and Evil
Golden Slumber
Dirge of Bilqis

*TIMESTAMPS*
0:00 Intro
1:15 What We Know
4:40 Phantom of the Opera
09:10 Oceanids
11:20 Narzissenkruez
19:24 Evangelion
22:05 Rebirth
25:30 Closing Thoughts

*FURTHER READING*
This section is a combination of citations and terms/topics that came up during the video alongside their wikipedia articles (or similar related sources) which should help get you started when doing your own research.

CN Player’s Dottore Analysis: https://scm40.lofter.com/post/1f4f2a7...

Pale Flame: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Opera Epiclese: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Ancient Natural History Excerpts: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Where the boat of consciousness lies: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Enigmatic Page (IX): https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...)
Nymph’s Dream: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Rene de Petrichor: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Institute of Natural Philosophy: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Eleazar Hostpital Notes: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Abbas’ Escape: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Oratrice: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Ancient Log: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Fonta: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Zandik’s Legacy: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...
Il Dottore: https://genshin-impact.fandom.com/wik...

LCL: https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/LCL
Gendou Ikari: https://evangelion.fandom.com/wiki/Ge...

Julien Offray de la Mettrie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_...
Rene Descartes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_De...
Rene Guenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Gu...
Phantom of the Opera (musical): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pha...)
Phantom of the Opera (Erik): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_(T...)
Plague Doctor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_...
Primordial Soup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primord...
Knave’s Trial: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-XI....

20 Comments

@Ashikai Creator 3 years ago (edited) Pinned

*NOTES AND CORRECTIONS*
- When I was talking about consecrated beasts I misspoke and said that they were humans originally who ate the flesh of God's but they were really animals that ate the flesh of gods. I somehow did not catch that I said that in three reviews of the final video. Probably because I knew what I meant, because it was a comparison about how animals eating the flesh of God's turns them into the supernatural monsters the same way that a human potentially consuming abyssal energy can warp them into the shape of an abyssling. Oh well, I think the idea got across.

- I'm also aware the dude in the balloon in the opening scene isn't Dottore, this was done for the conspiracy vibe. And also because I thought it could be him back when I first did the 4.0 trailer analysis with chat lol

- I do feel like I should clear up one thing regarding the primordial water and the fact that Zandik is not from Fontaine and therefore can't dissolve: I don't necessarily think Dottore is using Primordial waters so much as I think he's leveraged Rene's research to create liquid minds in robot bodies. Kind of like Scaramouche's robot connection tubes were full of a purple liquid that let him pilot the robot shell Dottore built. The idea of him being both Zandik and Rene assumes he figured out how to distill conciousnesses from living and dead people, even those dissolved by primordial waters or even the leylines.

My apologies if that wasn't particularly clear in the video. I'm in dire need of a vacation.

@earthquakezach 8 months ago

Future Ashikai sent me here.

@choking1668 3 years ago

I can’t beleive they still cooking with the evengalion inspiration. Just imagining the storyboard team going
“So… what should we make Fontaine’s story centered around?”
“French turning into Fanta.”

@stephmendes_ 3 years ago

Me: after Sumeru, I think Genshin lore can't get any more complicated.

Ashikai: Hold my beer.

@berrybread7215 3 years ago (edited)

I love how Yanfei has detective buddies showing up all over the place now. Kaeya, Albedo, Scaramouche, the mystery machine has room in it today fellas

edit: I am extending a public apology to Kuki Shinobu and Heizou, my goldfish brain and I will reflect

@Nokyyyyy 3 years ago

"I know that we only have Arlecchino in Fontaine for now"

Yeah, Childe is canonically just visiting

@bunnywifalaptop3684 3 years ago

Fun fact, Fonta doesn't have any effects except make you sparkle

@Syiepherze 3 years ago

Let's not forget that one of Dottore's earliest known (to us) feats is turning one of his own lackeys (Krupp) into a robot that glows blue...

@NahualUlloa 3 years ago (edited)

People want Dottore so bad in Fontaine, but what about Sandrone? Are they gonna just forget about that character and all her themed based design around Fontaine, Meka and puppetry? Like there is almost no room left to implement her into the story if not just a side character in Snezhnaya :(

EDIT: She also hates Childe, so she controlling the oratrice to convict him and doing a little adjustment isn’t that far fetched.

EDIT 2: Was wrong about Childe, but actually semi right in Sandrone’s part, we only need confirmation that Mary-Ann was her either as a puppet designed after her or Alain did something to her body after she was presumably dead.

@nekryone4366 3 years ago

The body and mind separation works as Pneuma refers to the Soul and Ousia refers to the body.
One has an absorbing animation, the other has a releasing animation, showing a contrast but similarity between the two.
So it's likely that this was on the right track with the French philosopher

@albtraumeryoctogram3594 3 years ago

Your pronounciation of Narzissenkreuz is way better than any other non-german-speaker's I've heard. Kudos!

@Vemin247 2 years ago

4.2 update: we know now for sure that Rene's consciousness has remained his and that Dottore is thus not Rene.

@bellingtoned 3 years ago (edited)

Now i want to see the doctor drop a opera number and just leave without saying anything and randomly pop up again and beat us up while still singing

Well now i want to know what the problem was

@fez525 3 years ago

Not ashikai trying to whitewash our Persian harbinger 😭

@supremacy98 3 years ago

Dottore's outfit has blue accents that I initially thought could be blue liquid flowing through his clothes. If he's supposedly an oceanid, he definitely could be primordial water with his consciousness inside a robotic suit, which could very well make him near impossible to kill, so maybe that's why he's so willing to take so much risks as he doesn't fear death?

@sfoanna 9 months ago

Going through some old theory videos and for some reason I never saw this one back in the day. Leaving this comment while we’re between 6.2 and 6.3 and I’m wondering if some of the speculation here may end up being related to Sandrone randomly dropping Narzissenkreuz lore into all our one-on-one conversations. Can’t wait to see in 6.3!

@chelseabui2435 3 years ago

Gosh I miss Dottore so much, I hope we see him again soon TT

@Sakuyamon 3 years ago

Wait why would the Fatui bother so much with trying to find out how the Oratrice work, if Dottore made it? He would just have the blue prints to it.
I will agree that Focalor didnt build it, and it dont seem to be the style of Egeria to make it either...So I think that maybe it actually have something to do with Phanes and the shades.... And I doubt that Dottore is an Oceanid... He may have blue hair, but he also has red eyes, oceanids seem to get blue eyes when in human form. Also, if he was an Oceanid, why would Nahida think it was such a blasphemous thing for him to create clones of himself? Considering Oceanids merge witheachother, it feels like they would easily be able to divide too...

@jakthesac5175 3 years ago

Ashikai when game-changing prophecy and magic space whale: I sleep
Ashikai when Dottore reference: real shit

@hollymelon7527 3 years ago

It would be hilarious if the actual reason Oratrice declared Childe guilty was not because if his primordial water connections or because of some 5D chess plan from Arlecchino, but simply because Oratrice is one of the "slivers" of Dottore and Dottore hates Childe's guts