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Synopsis

The history of Scaramouche from Genshin Impact.

Creation[]

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A nameless puppet was artificially created by the Electro Archon and God of Eternity, Beelzebul.

A nameless puppet was created by Beelzebul, the God of Eternity and the Electro Archon who ruled over the archipelago nation of Inazuma as its "Raiden Shogun." The Raiden Shogun sought to create a puppet body who could inherit her power and rule over Inazuma in her stead, as she desired to retreat into her own mind and meditate on the true meaning of "eternity” while escaping erosion. But before the Raiden Shogun (Ei) managed to create a finalized puppet of her own godly form, she took it up herself to create prototype puppets, with Scaramouche being one of them. This puppet was meant to be a proof of the concept, and its appearance and intellect were not based on Ei.

After observing the puppet shed tears during his sleep for unknown reasons, Ei thought it would be too cruel to interfere with his fate or end his existence, deciding to “free him” instead. Rather than disposing of her prototype, Ei instead opted to set him free and sealed away his divine power, placing him into stasis in a hidden mansion on Inazuma's Yashiori Island called Shakkei Pavilion.

Later on, the puppet came to believe that she had deemed him a failure and for that, abandoned him. For a long time the puppet, whose sole possession was a golden feather given to him by the Electro Archon, was only capable of observing his surroundings as his perception of reality slowly slipped away from him. Eventually, he was discovered and freed by a kindly human man named Katsuragi, who had came across the hidden pavilion after a landslide.

Katsuragi bid the puppet to not reveal his noble origins and the two later performed a sword dance.

Living Among Humans[]

Katsuragi brought the puppet to Tatarasuna, a settlement near the Shakkei Pavilion where a bladesmith forge known as the Mikage Furnace was located.

The wanderer was given shelter in Tatarasuna under the company of the bladesmiths and was mostly accepted by the people of Tatarasuna despite his puppet constitution.

Overtime, the puppet grew close with the people of Tatarasuna and was taught how to perform human rituals. He developed a bond of friendship with the armory officer that lead the operations in the Mikage Furnace among others among others.

The swordsmiths there took had taken to calling the puppet "Kabukimono." Armory officer Niwa reassured Kabukimono that he was human, but simply lacked a heart.

Around this same time, a mechanic from Fontaine calling himself "Escher" appeared, working with the Akame Clan — another clan of the Isshin Art sansaku — to revolutionize the smelting process at Mikage Furnace. "Escher" was actually Il Dottore, dispatched on a mission by Pierro to cause chaos at Tatarasuna and lay the groundwork for a future endeavor. Taking an interest in the puppet for numerous reasons, Dottore decided to make him the key player in his future research. Escher’s smelting process, though highly effective, was actually releasing the Tatarigami inside Crystal Marrow into the environment. As workers grew sick and died from the curse's effects, people began to panic and Niwa implemented an information blackout to control the situation.

While the puppet left for Narukami Island to entreat the Raiden Shogun's aid, Niwa took a device created by Escher to absorb the filth in the Mikage Furnace, intending to fulfill the sacrifice needed for the device to work. Before that, however, he confronted Escher about his true purpose. He had been wary of Escher from the start and, although he was able to ascertain that "Escher" was an alias and that the man before him was not from Fontaine, was unable to figure out the man's objective. After fatally wounding Niwa, Dottore dropped all pretenses and revealed that he was a Fatui Harbinger who had come to sow chaos, attempting to provoke the man into possessing hatred in his heart. After Niwa succumbed to his wounds, Dottore cut his heart out of his chest and placed it into the device.

The puppet returned from his expedition empty-handed, unaware that Ei had already retreated to the Plane of Euthymia while he was barred from visiting the Shogun. Viewing Yae Miko's promises of sending aid as a sign that the Shogunate had turned their backs on them, Kabukimono returned only to discover that Niwa had gone missing. Dottore convinced him and the people of Tatarasuna that Niwa had fled with his family in fear of his malfeasance being discovered, and that their only hope lay in Kabukimono. Taking the device with him, the puppet managed to survive the absorb the filth. Afterwards, "Escher" bid him to open the device, where he found a withered heart — which Dottore claimed was from a subordinate of Niwa's whom Niwa had killed. Kabukimono, believing that Niwa had betrayed him and the people at Tatarasuna, was enraged and came to view this incident as the "second betrayal" that he experienced.

With Niwa's disappearance, the responsibility of shouldering the punishment for the events that transpired at Tatarasuna fell on Mikoshi Nagamasa's shoulders. Unwilling to let his savior face capital punishment, Katsuragi decided to take the blame and punishment on himself, and was executed by Nagamasa.

The puppet ran away after abandoning Niwa’s heart and casting it to the ground in a fit of rage and sorrow, unable to be found by the others.

Betrayed by Loss[]

Not long after leaving Tatarasuna behind, Kabukimono met a sickly young boy with no name. The boy's parents had died as a result of their sickness before they could even name him, and he had only survived to the age that he had because his neighbors had looked after him. Feeling something stirring in his nonexistent heart, the Kabukimono struck up a friendship with him and looked after him in the boy's rundown straw hut. He and the boy promised to one another that they would be together forever as family. The Kabukimono took the sickly child to Shakkei Pavilion to show him where he had been created, but insisted that they couldn't stay long.

At one point, the boy told the Kabukimono a tale of a soldier puppet who yearned after a ballerina puppet, yet believed he could never be with her because he didn't have a heart. The puppet was later discarded in a fire by his owner, after which a heart was discovered in his remains. Although the story reflected the Kabukimono's desire for a heart, he was pessimistic in his interpretation of the tale. Sometime later, the Kabukimono returned to the hut to find that the child had succumbed to his illness. In his grief and lack of understanding of the human concept of death, he blamed the child for breaking their promise to be together forever and saw it as a betrayal. From that point forth, he began to despise humans like he did the gods.

The Fatui[]

Countless years would pass after the death of the child before the puppet would become involved with the Fatui again. While wandering outside Inazuma, the puppet (having abandoned the notion of having companions and his previous names) encountered the Jester, the first of the Fatui. The Jester convinced the nameless puppet to join their ranks and the puppet agreed, his interest piqued by the Jester’s words. In Snezhnaya, he was approached warmly by the Doctor who invited him to be the key reference material in his experiments — his grand research project.

Puppet-making techniques had their roots in Khaenri'ah, and his nature as a creation of the Electro Archon made him all the more special. The Doctor was fascinated by this field of study, and, using the puppet as a foundational blueprint, would perform research and experiments for several decades before finally attaining the techniques that would go on to form the basis for his Segments. In return, The Doctor would unlock the seal on his body, causing his abilities to greatly increase.

On the Tsaritsa's orders, the nameless puppet would lead a company to explore the Abyss, and there he spent much time. More than once he was wounded, then repaired by The Doctor, and thus he grew stronger.

Much later, he would bring the results of his exploration back to Snezhnaya, gaining the sixth seat in the process. His orders were also changed. Instead of exploring the Abyss, he was now to constantly be on standby, assisting the clandestine activities of the Fatui across the world.

The Futsu, Hyakume, and Senju arts of the Raiden Gokaden, Inazuma's five blacksmithing practices, dissolved under Kunikuzushi's (his chosen name as he pursued revenge) manipulation a century ago before the start of the game as a way of revenge on "the bladesmith".

Lies of the Stars[]

The first time, the Millelith were present. I had to forgo the chance to strike down Mondstadt's savior. This time was the perfect moment...I was mere seconds away...
~ Scaramouche reflecting to himself about his failed attempts to kill the Traveler.

A century after his conspiracy against the Raiden Gokaden, Scaramouche was tasked by Pierro with investigating a series of meteorites that had been landing in the nations of Mondstadt and Liyue. Traveling to one of the landing points in Liyue while posing as a humble vagrant from Inazuma, Scaramouche discovered an unconscious man whose cart had been struck by a meteorite. After disposing of the meteorite, the Balladeer attempted in vain to awaken the man. Eventually, a pair of adventurers also looking into the emergence of the meteorites arrived on the scene.

The pair, who introduced themselves as Fischl and the Traveler, explained that many people in Mondstadt and Liyue had fallen into a slumber as a result of coming into contact with the meteorites. Scaramouche recognized the Traveler as a hero who had recently battled the Fatui in Mondstadt and Liyue, and as a result decided to kill them. However, before he could unveil his true colors and strike down the Traveler, an officer of the Millelith arrived on the scene. Electing to kill the Traveler later when there would be no complications, Scaramouche politely bid farewell to the adventurers and left.

Later on, the Balladeer found the Traveler and Fischl continuing their investigation at Falcon Coast in Mondstadt with the help of a mage woman. Using his guise as a humble vagrant, the Lord Harbinger greeted the adventurers merrily with the intention to kill them once he got close enough. However, the mage accompanying them used hydromancy to teleport herself and the adventurers away before the Balladeer could make his move. Although surprised, Scaramouche correctly surmised that the mage, named Mona Megistus, had been alerted to his true intentions by divination.

The Balladeer summoned his Fatui underlings and ordered them to track down and kill the Traveler and their friends. However, his order was interrupted by a gigantic meteorite bigger than all of its predecessors flying overhead. Deciding to rearrange his priorities, Scaramouche ordered his underlings to instead continue their research on the meteorites and leave the adventurers alone for the time being. Eventually, the Fatui's research led them to Musk Reef in Liyue where the final meteorite landed. The Lord Harbinger touched the meteorite and fell into a slumber like the previous victims had.

The meteorite lead Scaramouche to a vision in which he learned that the sky and the stars above were both false in some regard. Using nothing but his will, the Balladeer was able to awaken from his sleep. He considered what he had been shown in his vision both terrifying and incredibly important. Soon after, the Traveler arrived at the scene with Mona and Fischl in tow. After the shock of what had been revealed to him, Scaramouche no longer saw the adventurers as being worthy of divesting his time as he theorized the Jester might have intentionally made him privy to such information. As a result, he summoned a pair of Fatui agents to cover his retreat and made his leave.

Obtaining His Heart[]

Human life is worthless. They were always going to die, with or without a Delusion. At least having one gives them a chance to fulfill their ambitions. Do you have any idea how useful the Vision Hunt Decree is to us? It took a lot of work to make it happen. Obviously it was in our best interests. Good news is, our hard work is finally paying off. Generating conflict creates a big market for Delusions. Now we just let the promise of power draw in the weak...For just a small price, they get the feeling of controlling the world. Trading their life for supreme power...pretty good deal, don't you think?
~ Scaramouche explaining the Fatui's plot to the Traveler.

Sometime later, Scaramouche was tasked with overseeing a secret factory on Yashiori Island in his homeland Inazuma that was manufacturing Delusions using the congealed negative emotions of long-dead gods. The Delusions were being distributed to a resistance faction on Inazuma's Watatsumi Island that was openly rebelling against the Shogun's rule after she implemented a law known as the "Vision Hunt Decree" that demanded all Inazuman citizens to hand their Visions over to the authorities. The Vision Hunt Decree had been orchestrated by the Fatui as a way to destabilize Inazuma and create a market for their Delusions.

Scaramouche laughing at the Traveler

Scaramouche confronting the Traveler in the Delusion factory.

After the Delusions distributed by the Fatui began causing the deterioration and death of Watatsumi soldiers, the Traveler, who had been working with the resistance to rebel against the Shogun, discovered the Fatui's secret factory and decided to put a stop to their operation. Storming the facility, the Traveler fought their way to the center of the factory where Scaramouche confronted them. The Balladeer dismissed the Traveler's disgust towards the Fatui's Delusion operation, claiming that there was nothing for them to be upset over as the loss of human life was ultimately meaningless.

He also revealed the full extent of the Fatui's machinations in Inazuma, explaining that it was them that had orchestrated the Vision Hunt Decree to increase their power in the nation. The congealed remnants of the gods that inhabited the factory began feeding off of the Traveler's resentment, overwhelming them and rendering them unconscious. Before the Balladeer could kill the helpless Traveler, the Shogun's familiar, Yae Miko arrived and offered Scaramouche the Electro Archon's Gnosis if he spared the Traveler. Scaramouche accepted the offer and subsequently broke off contact with the Fatui, going on the run with the Gnosis in hand.

In the "Hues of the Violent Garden" story event, Scaramouche is behind the Kaedehara and Kamisato family incident years ago. As a stand-in for the fifth member of the Five Kasen, he was portraited as Kuronushi but only seen when applying the Hydro element to the Kasen. Said incident had led to the skilled swordsmith Akame Kanenaga to flee Inazuma for Snezhnaya, forging Kagotsurube Isshin out of regret. He utilized the Tatarigami to give the blade its own consciousness and told the blade of his wish to show Inazuma that the Isshin Art could still produce magnificent blades and was still worthy of the Raiden Shogun's trust. However, the Tatarigami led to the blade having an arrogant desire to rival the gods at any cost while using humans as tools to help him until they were beyond their usefulness. Hoping that the Isshin Art will one day produce a blade that will place the Isshin Art back in high regard by the Raiden Shogun, Kagotsurube Isshin sacrificed himself to let him get reforged by Kaedehara Kazuha, the last son of the Kaedehara Clan.

Ascension to Godhood[]

I SEE YOU.
~ Scaramouche to Nahida after Dottore captured and re-ensouled her within her physical body.

Scaramouche later began working with the Second Fatui Harbinger Il Dottore and the sages in charge of the Sumeru Akademiya, a prestigious scholastic institute that governed the nation of Sumeru, to use the power of the Electro Gnosis to turn the former Sixth Harbinger into a god.

The sages of the Sumeru Akademiya were dissatisfied with their current God of Wisdom, known as Lesser Lord Kusanali, and thus were eager to create a new god to take her place as an infinite source of wisdom and power. The sages began pooling the nation’s resources to create a gigantic mechanical suit to serve as a divine vessel for the power of the Gnosis. The Akademiya was then able to convert the Gnosis into a divine core (with the help of the Doctor) that would power the divine vessel, before next infusing it with divine knowledge that they hoped would grant the finished product with the omniscience of a God of Wisdom.

Sure enough, as the development of the divine vessel progressed, Scaramouche began to take form as a god. Haypasia, a scholar of the Akademiya, and later on, the Traveler, saw visions of Scaramouche’s past and ideals when she tried to spiritually connect to Irminsul, a tree that served as the divine source of wisdom and the source of the God of Wisdom's power.

Final Battle and Defeat[]

No! Wait! Please, anything but the Gnosis...! (Nahida rips the Electro Gnosis out from Scaramouche's puppet body) That's mine! Don't even try...! I'll never...I'll never go back!
~ Scaramouche upon being defeated by the Traveler and Buer and before falling into a comatose state.

In Joururi Workshop, the Automaton Shouki no Kami (Japanese: 正機の神) is built containing Scaramouche's body, though the sages had yet to embed the divine knowledge capsules inside of the construct. The Traveler battles the mech alongside Nahida, who builds a Paimon-sized Akasha terminal to help in fighting the false god, using the data collected from the initial 168 cycles of the Traveler fighting the mech, in addition to the wisdom from all of Sumeru's populace. Upon victory, Nahida rips the Electro Gnosis out of Scaramouche's body.

Learning of his Past and becoming Wanderer[]

See also: Wanderer on Heroes Wiki

Having been seemingly abandoned by the Fatui and Doctor after his defeat, Scaramouche recuperated in the Sanctuary of Surasthana before the Traveler encountered him roaming about. Nahida guranteed Scaramouche's safety in exchange for assisting the Traveler and Paimon find information in Irminsul regarding the Traveler's sibling. While Scaramouche was carrying out this task, he stumbled on a memory Nahida gained from the Doctor during his segment deletion. Nahida had deliberately left that memory for Scaramouche to find, hoping to secure his allegiance. Within the memory, Scaramouche discovered the full context of what actually transpired during the Tatarasuna incident. Niwa had not abandoned and betrayed him as he had thought for years, no. Niwa was instead murdered by the Doctor in his attempt to corrupt the Kabukimono using Tatarigami and what The Doctor hoped was Niwa's anger-tainted heart. While Scaramouche initially rejects the idea it makes any difference, Nahida has him dwell on the matter. After Scaramouche seemingly calms down, he tells the Traveler that their sibling appeared in Khaenri'ah and lived with Pierro for a time. After imparting the Traveler with this piece of information, he blocks communication with Nahida and asks a traveler a monumental question:

Is it possible...to change the past?

The Traveler reacted in shock to the question, which was enough information for Scaramouche to determine there was a possibility. Scaramouche then proceeded to make an attempt to erase himself from history, hoping that his lack of presence would save his friends in Tatarasuna from their fates. When communication with Nahida returned, the Traveler and Paimon relayed what happened and Nahida assured that she will take care of it.

In the next morning, the Traveler found Paimon had already forgotten about the Balladeer. They teleport to Inazuma to see what changes occurred in history, but find that everyone essentially lives the same lives as they were before and the difference mainly lies in what is remembered. The Traveler and Paimon return to Sumeru and share the life of Scaramouche with Nahida, who also had her memories changed. Nahida confirms the information with an allegorical story she had written beforehand as a contingency, which ensured that such information could bypass Irminsul. Paimon expressed sadness that all of his effort to undo the past mean nothing in the end. Traveler and Paimon decide to cheer themselves up by finding something to eat. While at a restaurant, Traveler spotted Scaramouche, still existing but changed from the Irminsul rewrite, as nobody can truly erase themselves from the past.

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