I'm confuse, what is the deal with Scaramouche and Baal? Please don't take it as rude but I just don't see why...
It isn’t rude at all comrade!! But you just opened a Pandora Box made of my incoherent thoughts, theories and love for the Harbingers 😈
So, first things first: in update 1.5 there is gonna be a new artifact set which is called “Pale Flame”. Among it, there is one key piece which is called “Surpassing Cup” which its description reads the following:
Now lets dissect some important parts of that description, shall we?
He was born with a face fairer than any other, destined to a long life and a hollow will. He was a transcendent being, divinely created, but he was cast aside like worthless dross.
I don’t know if you have heard of Honkai Impact (another game developed by Mihoyo), but one of the protagonists is a woman called Raiden Mei. She is the Herrscher of Thunder and she looks like this:
Getting back to Genshin, we know that Inazuma is the nation that worships Baal, the Electro Archon:
So people have speculated that Baal and Raiden Mei will be similar as Mihoyo has already done that to other characters in the game (please search Wendy Honkai Impact in Google and you’ll see what I’m talking about) and even though Baal has not been released yet, we are already are seeing some similarities between them as in the tittle Raiden and the element they use.
Not only is Baal the Electro Archon, but she is also the goddess of Eternity, and in Zhongli’s words, she is, apparently, obsessed with the idea of it.
Now, let’s look at a picture of Scaramouche:
See any similarities? Because in my eyes those two are the same person in different fonts.
I think it makes sense that a divinity obsessed with eternity would create another divine being that looks just like her (i.e. catholicism: So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them)
My theory is that Scaramouche developed a will that was not part of Baal’s plan and that is why she casted him aside. Something went wrong and he was no longer hollow, but sentient in a way that would defy Baal’s rule. This is also why I think the name of the artifact is SURPASSING CUP: I think Baal felt threatened.
Now, to the next part:
Yet, due to an error that cannot be known, he roused himself from slumber, and began to wander the mortal realm. Before the Fatui found him, he had drifted for countless years
This tells us that the person behind the artifact description is, indeed, a male Fatui. But which one? It is not my husband Childe, as we already know his origins and backstory. Probably not Dottore either (I also have a whole theory behind his backstory if anyone wants a post for another day).
Now, I ignore the reasons that woke this person up from his slumber, but the words wander and drifted for countless years remind me of a certain introduction to a character:
What is a vagrant, if not a person that wanders from place to place, without a home?
I think that kinda explains itself. Next part:
And in that time, this is what his experience had taught him:
"I am a human who surpasses all others."
"Even the gods daren't meddle in my fate."
"Neither mortal nor god, nor fate itself, is qualified to be my judge."
"I am free to choose how I wish to spend the remainder of my days."
If you were lucky enough to be in Genshin Hell by the time his event was released, you would feel that his whole persona and dialogue resembles a lot that kind of thinking:
It adds up to me.
And last, but not least:
“Since these mask-wearing people are so fun to be around..."
"I think I'll become one of them."
This is just a tiny easter egg for me but...
Scara is the only Harbinger we know that doesn’t wear a mask. So it is kinda funny and accurate that he calls the other Fatui as “these mask-wearing people”.
So in short:
The artifact description is talking about Scaramouche. I think he was created by Baal but things turned wrong and instead of a loyal, hollow servant she made a divine being with a will and she felt her eternal realm threatened so she casted him aside hoping he would die or something. But Scara, being the brat he is and we adored, survived out of pure pettiness, joined the Fatui to steal her gnosis and sent this to his mom/creator:















