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“ | Proud Fatui comrades, I know your hearts harbor both the fires of rage and the cold of eternal winter. Each one of us has borne witness to the absurd callousness of the foundational principles of this world. So, let us don our masks in mockery of the world as we go forth and rewrite the rules of destiny. | „ |
~ Pierro to the Fatui. |
“ | The sages think themselves to be all-knowing, but we alone are wise to the virtue in those acts of folly. In this war, not even a single pawn may be spared... Because on this chessboard, "checkmate" is not where the game ends. | „ |
~ Pierro regarding the Fatui's plans. |
Pierro, also known by his codename The Jester, is the secondary antagonist of the 2020 action role-playing fantasy video game Genshin Impact.
Pierro is the First of the Fatui to swear allegiance to the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya and her plan to rebel against the Gods of Teyvat. He was later revealed to be the former royal mage of Khaenri'ah. Having experienced great loss at the hands of the divine in his past after the destruction his homeland 500 years ago, the Jester sought out for revenge upon the Heavenly Principals by ridding Teyvat of the Gods. He is the First of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers that acted as the Tsaritsa's lieutenants in the Fatui, and is personally responsible for the recruitment of several other Harbingers.
Pierro is voiced by Fu Chong in Chinese, Richard Tatum in English and Yasuhiro Mamiya in Japanese. Mamiya has also voiced Gigantomachia and Mimic in My Hero Academia.
Appearance[]
Pierro is a tall, elderly man with a strong build, an angular face, and light blue eyes that have diamond-shaped pupils. His white hair is swept back off his face and he sports a matching chinstrap beard. The right side of his face is covered by an angular black mask that features gold engravings and an upwards-curving dark blue engraving where his eye will be. He also wears a single, crystal blue earring on his right ear. During the funeral of La Signora, the Jester wears a double-breasted white overcoat with dark blue lapels and a collar of black fur.
History[]
Background[]
Prior to becoming a Fatui, Pierro was once a mage who served the monarchy of the Kingdom of Khaenri'ah, a subterranean nation that wasn't ruled by the gods and didn't abide by the laws set out by the Heavenly Principles. At some point, he lived with an outlander who came to the lands of Teyvat from the stars. Eventually, his inferiority in comparison to his peers made him fall out of favor with the monarch of Khaenri'ah. His peers later accidently caused a catastrophe of some sort that he failed to stop, bringing destruction to the nation. A curse of immortality was placed upon Pierro to forever wander the world.
The event led him to develop a hatred for the divine, and he allied with the Tsaritsa of Snezhnaya in the hopes of rebelling against the Gods. He was the first of the Fatui, the religious militant group that enacted the Tsaritsa's will across Teyvat where he became the 1st of the Fatui Harbingers.
Recruiting the Harbingers[]
“ | You astound me. You have but a human body, and yet you carry such a power within you. You claim that you have no tears left to cry, no blood left to shed, but surely this is because you have filled yourself with fire... Though your body has long been covered in scars, fierce flames are all that now may flow, like molten iron, from your eyes and your wounds. But we appear to have gotten off-topic. The reason I followed the trail of smoke and tracked you down is that I wish to strike a deal with you... Let the flames that now devour you be extinguished by the grace of Her Majesty. What say you? | „ |
~ The Jester offering the Crimson Witch a position in the Fatui. |
At some point Pierro tracked down a woman named Rosalyne-Kruzchka Lohefalter, known infamously as the "Crimson Witch of Flames." Lohefalter possessed the power to produce Pyro without a Vision, although as the rage of her past experiences burned her heart so too did the flames she created. As her own flames threatened to destroy her heart, the Jester approached her and offered her a place in the Fatui. Lohefalter became the Eighth of the Fatui Harbingers under the name "La Signora," and was given a Cryo Delusion by Pierro to suppress her natural abilities and rage.
The Jester later heard rumors of a student at Sumeru Academia in the foreign nation Sumeru who had been denounced as a heretic for his theorems on "enhanced humans." Curious, Pierro met with the student who claimed that given the right facilities he could manufacture a God-like being for the Fatui. The Jester agreed to the student's offer, and the student became a Fatui Harbinger known as Il Dottore. Sometime later, Pierro attended the investiture of the Eleventh Harbinger Tartaglia where he personally pinned an Electro Delusion on the younger Harbinger as the Tsaritsa watched on.
The Wanderer[]
“ | What you are, truly, is a weapon, one that could be wielded with an iron will... or, you could continue to drift aimlessly. The long-fated rebellion has begun. Why not take your place at the banquet and join those who shall feast? | „ |
~ The Jester winning over the wanderer.
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As part of the Fatui's great plan to destabilize the nations of Teyvat, Pierro decided to make a minor move against the archipelago nation of Inazuma, which was ruled over by the Electro Archon Beelzebul. Around one hundred years after the cataclysm, the Jester sent Dottore to sabotage an Inazuman mining settlement called Tatarasuna. After succeeding in his mission, the Doctor informed Pierro of a person of potential interest to the Fatui: a mechanical puppet/clone created by Beelzebul who possessed the physiology of a god. Pierro believed that if the puppet were to be recruited, he could serve as a valuable asset.
Sometime after the Tatarasuna incident, the Jester approached the nameless wandering puppet that the Doctor had spoken of in the hopes of recruiting him. Although the wanderer was initially apprehensive, Pierro was able to convince him that by joining the Fatui he could find a sense of purpose in their rebellion. The Jester took the puppet back to Snezhnaya and placed him into the custody of the Doctor. Thanks to his divine resilience, the wanderer was able to participate in a number of Fatui expeditions into the Abyss over the years. For his efforts, the puppet was eventually made a Fatui Harbinger under the name "Scaramouche."
Unreconciled Stars[]
“ | What was the Jester thinking? He must have had some inkling of what we might discover on this mission... Would it really have been so difficult to give me a little forewarning? | „ |
~ Scaramouche after receiving his vision. |
Eventually, the Jester tasked the Sixth Harbinger Scaramouche with leading a covert investigation into a series of meteorite strikes landing in the foreign nations Mondstadt and Liyue. Unbeknownst to Scaramouche at the time, Pierro was somewhat in the knowhow of what his junior colleague would discover. Ultimately, Scaramouche experienced a vision that made him realize that the sky and the stars were both a "gigantic hoax."
Inazuma Plot[]
Sometime later, Pierro orchestrated a plot that would strengthen the Fatui's presence in the archipelago nation Inazuma by sowing chaos and creating a market for their Delusions. He sent La Signora to Inazuma as a diplomat in the hopes that she would be able to influence the God of Eternity Baal (who ruled the nation) into passing a law called the Vision Hunt Decree that would demand all Inazuman citizens hand their Visions over to the authorities. As the Fatui had hoped, the introduction of the Vision Hunt Decree led to a civil war between Baal's loyalists and a small resistance faction based on Watatsumi Island.
The Fatui then created a Delusion Factory on Inazuma's Yashiori Island where they began manufacturing Delusions under the supervision of Scaramouche. They gave the Delusions to the beleaguered Watatsumi Army, creating a demand for them. Ultimately however, the Fatui's plot was unveiled by a Traveler and the Vision Hunt Decree was abolished. Signora was executed by the God of Eternity and Scaramouche cut off contact with the Fatui. Nathan, a Fatui agent sent personally by Pierro to infiltrate the resistance and ensure the continuosation of the war, was also discovered and taken into custody.
The Fatui forces later withdrew from Inazuma for the most part. Upon the recommendation of a letter sent by Nathan prior to his capture, the Jester sent a Fatui Intelligence Officer named Borenka to extract a few of Baal's soldiers who were interested in joining the Fatui cause. However, Pierro's scheme was foiled once again by the Traveler.
Funeral of The Fair Lady[]
“ | It's time to end tonight's foolish theatrics. Right now, you have no captive audience. Let every worthy sacrifice be carved in ice, and with this nation endure for all time. In the name of Her Majesty, the Tsaritsa, we will seize authority from the gods... Absolute peace. Such is the gift from the Tsaritsa, such is Her Majesty's benevolence. Now you rest in this coffin, encased in layer upon layer of ice. But, Rosalyne, I promise you... Your final resting place will be the entirety of the "Old World"... | „ |
~ The Jester's promise to La Signora. |
Pierro, alongside the other Fatui Harbingers, later convened in a cathedral in Snezhnaya to honor the life of La Signora. The other Harbingers bickered among themselves and discussed the ongoing situation with Scaramouche, prompting the Jester to silence them and remind his comrades that their feuding served no purpose at a funeral. As Rosalyne's coffin was encased in ice, Pierro gave a speech in which he vowed the Fatui would honor her sacrifice by succeeding in their mission to seize authority from the gods.
Powers & Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Immortality: During the destruction of Khaenri'ah, the gods deemed Khaenri'ahns with pure-blood to be greater sinners than those without. Instead of being transformed into Hilichurls like impure Khaenri'ahns, the pure-bloods were instead afflicted with the "curse of immortality." As its name implied, the curse of immortality granted pure-bloods with eternal life and indestructability. As a result, pure-bloods couldn't die by any known natural or unnatural means, and were thus forced to wander eternally while they endured the pain of their loss. Pierro was likely a subject of the curse of immortality, as he was a Khaenri'ahn from before the cataclysm who hadn't became a Hilichurl. Like all beings though, including gods, pure-bloods also inevitably suffered from erosion. Erosion is a naturally-occurring process in which the minds of creatures that lived for too long had the potential to gradually erode away until they inevitably devolved into mania. The Jester himself though did not show any obvious signs of suffering from erosion.
Abilities[]
- Political Influence: Pierro, as one of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, was invested with supreme executive authority by the Tsaritsa. The Jester is permitted to freely expend vast resources and command scores of Fatui in pursuit of the Cryo Archon's goals, and answers directly to the Tsaritsa. His status as a Fatui Harbinger and Snezhnayan diplomat also gave Pierro a level of diplomatic immunity that meant other nations can't persecute him without causing tension between itself and Snezhnaya.
Equipment[]
- Delusions: Like every Fatui Harbinger, Pierro has a Delusion in his possession given to him by Her Majesty the Tsaritsa. Delusions are items similar to Visions, but are manufactured by the Fatui and only bestowed upon the worthiest of Fatuus. Like Visions, Delusions allow their users to harness elemental power. Although they are more powerful than Visions, Delusions are also more unstable and will drain the user's life force over time. The Jester owns multiple Delusions, and even bestowed some of those he deemed worthy such as La Signora.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Like the other Fatui Harbingers, Pierro's name and alias are derived from a stock character in commedia dell'arte, a form of traditional Italian pantomime theater characterized by its masked characters and representation of fixed social types. In commedia dell-arte, Pierrot was a sad clown whose heart was broken by a character named Columbine after she left him for Harlequin. Pierrot was characterized as a naïve fool who was trusting despite the pranks frequently pulled on him.
- Prior to Version 1.5 of Genshin Impact, Pierro was referred to as "Pedrolino" in background text instead of "The Jester." Pedrolino was also the name of a stock character in commedia dell'arte, a wily servant who shared similarities with Pierrot.
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