Chapter Summaries

Lumine and Paimon connected the four stone tablets to Fontaine’s recent crises and concluded that Fontainians were Oceanids transformed by the former Hydro Archon. They suspected that the transformation was the Hydro Archon’s sin and the reason the Oratrice sentenced her to death.

• Lumine matched the tablet images to the disappearances, the trial, Navia’s experience, and the Primordial Sea crisis.
• Paimon reasoned that dissolved Fontainians returned to their original Oceanid forms rather than dying.
• Lumine concluded that Fontainians were not humans in the true sense, and Lyney and Lynette reacted to the revelation.
• Lumine and Paimon proposed that the former Hydro Archon’s sin was transforming Oceanids into Fontainians, provoking Celestia and leading to her death sentence.

Neuvillette deciphered the stone tablets and revealed that Fontaine’s people were Oceanids transformed by the former Hydro Archon using power from the Primordial Sea. He also corrected the Traveler’s reading of the prophecy, explaining that the Hydro Archon would be judged in court by the people of Fontaine.

• Lumine and Paimon discussed the stone tablets and their understanding of the prophecy.
• Neuvillette used the reunited tablets to uncover the truth about Fontaine’s origins.
• Neuvillette explained that the former Hydro Archon turned her Oceanid familiars into humans by enclosing Primordial Sea power within them, an act forbidden by the Heavenly Principles.
• The people of Fontaine reacted with shock as Neuvillette revealed that they were Oceanids who could dissolve back into their original forms if exposed to Primordial Sea Water.
• Neuvillette explained that the water on the third tablet represented justice and judgment, and that the Hydro Archon would be tried by the people of Fontaine.

Neuvillette and the others realized the prophecy was still unfolding and identified the giant whale as the source of Fontaine’s disasters. The whale attacked the opera house, but a purple figure wounded it and helped Neuvillette drive it back into the fissure.

• Neuvillette explained that the Primordial Sea crisis at the Fortress of Meropide was only an omen, while the giant whale was the true source of the disaster.
• Lumine and Paimon recognized the whale from Lumine’s dream as the cause of the impending catastrophe.
• A violent tremor shook the opera house, and the whale emerged through a hole in the collapsing floor.
• Neuvillette fought the whale, but it charged toward the fleeing crowd before he could stop it.
• A purple figure struck a deep gash into the whale, and Neuvillette hit the wound with a blue orb of light.
• The injured whale fled through the fissure and disappeared.

Neuvillette explained that the whale had consumed most of the Primordial Sea’s energy and could no longer be defeated by ordinary means. Lumine realized Furina might hold the key to changing the foretold outcome, just as the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale suddenly activated.

• Tartaglia gave Neuvillette a thumbs-up before collapsing into the rift from exhaustion.
• Neuvillette explained that the whale came from beyond Teyvat, had fed on the Primordial Sea, and was drawn to the Primordial Sea Water inside Fontainians.
• Neuvillette warned that the whale had become one with the Primordial Sea and would survive even if Teyvat were destroyed.
• Navia, Lyney, and Clorinde refused to give up, while Paimon worried that fate could not be changed.
• Lumine recalled Witch N’s words about blind spots in a god’s gaze and realized Furina might have been about to tell her something important.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale suddenly made a noise, and Navia noticed it displayed 2.

Focalors revealed that she had separated her divinity from her human self, Furina, and explained that she had devised a plan to save Fontaine from the prophecy by deceiving the Heavenly Principles. The chapter ended with Focalors telling Neuvillette that Furina was the human self she had left behind.

• Lumine ran toward Furina, but a tear from Furina fell onto her hand and caused her vision to go black.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale flashed, leaving Neuvillette alone with a barefoot girl who looked exactly like Furina beneath a giant sword.
• Focalors introduced herself to Neuvillette as the God of Water and explained that she had acted to deal with the Heavenly Principles and Fontaine's prophecy.
• Focalors recounted how Egeria had entrusted her with saving Fontaine and how she came up with the plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors told Neuvillette that she had separated her divinity from her body and spirit, leaving behind Furina as her human self.

Focalors explained that she cursed Furina to play the Hydro Archon for centuries so she could deceive the Heavenly Principles, and regretted the loneliness Furina endured. In Furina’s inner world, Lumine witnessed the memory of Focalors asking Furina to act as a god to save Fontaine.

• Focalors told Neuvillette that Furina was created as an ideal human and cursed with an endless lifespan until Focalors disappeared.
• Neuvillette warned that centuries of loneliness would torment Furina, and Focalors acknowledged she needed to apologize to her.
• Lumine entered Furina’s inner world, switched off the spotlights, and watched from a seat that appeared on the stage.
• Furina met her reflection, who explained the prophecy and asked her to play the Hydro Archon to save Fontaine.
• Furina agreed to keep acting, and her reflection told her to focus on discerning humanity rather than divinity.

Furina recalled how she performed the role of Fontaine’s Hydro Archon, changing her manner to satisfy the people while secretly working to stop the prophecy. The screen then switched to a video showing her public duties and private exhaustion, while Nahida expressed a wish connected to the glimpse of a birthday message.

• Furina delivered her first address nervously, then adopted a forceful persona after hearing the crowd criticize her humility.
• Furina declared herself Focalors and claimed she could judge even the gods, earning applause from the people of Fontaine.
• Su Chen accidentally swiped away from Furina’s video, briefly revealing the word “birthday” before Nahida’s promotional video began.
• Furina dismissed a guard’s report and spoke with Deotila, showing that she remembered Deotila’s ill son.
• Furina heard that researchers were seeking a way to resolve the prophecy and praised their efforts while hiding the issue’s true scale.
• Furina rested at the edge of her bed, relieved that events were on track, and reminded herself that more work awaited the next day.

Furina’s exhausting centuries of pretending to be the Hydro Archon left her isolated and near a mental breakdown. In her inner world, Lumine offered her a chance to confide, and Furina struggled between seeking comfort and protecting the plan.

• Furina spent the day meeting people and reviewing reports while hiding her fatigue behind a practiced smile.
• Alone in her room, Furina sobbed about her loneliness and the centuries of pain she had endured, then urged her reflection to keep going for the plan.
• Lumine recognized a past conversation in Furina’s inner world and approached her, offering to listen even if she could not share the burden.
• Furina considered confiding in Lumine, knowing it might ease her sorrow but fearing it would ruin all her efforts.

The video revealed that Furina remained committed to her role, unaware of Focalors’s plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles. Focalors explained that the Oratrice would destroy the Hydro Archon’s divine throne and return the Hydro Dragon’s authority to Neuvillette, leaving Furina to comfort him as Focalors faced death.

• Furina refused to reveal anything to Lumine and insisted that she was a god who had no problems.
• Neuvillette learned that Furina did not know Focalors’s plan, and Focalors explained that she had deceived even herself to fool the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors revealed that the Oratrice had accumulated enough Indemnitium to kill a god and destroy the Hydro Archon’s divine throne.
• Focalors told Neuvillette that her death would return the Hydro Archon’s authority to him as the Hydro Dragon Sovereign.
• Furina approached Neuvillette and gently told him, “Hydro Dragon, Hydro Dragon, don’t cry.”

Focalors explained that she had accepted five hundred years of sin to break Fontaine’s prophecy and let its people survive, then faced her execution with a final dance. After her death, her power returned to Neuvillette, and Furina received Focalors’s final wish that she live happily as a human.

• Focalors asked Neuvillette what verdict he would pass after regaining his dragon power, and he realized she had arranged for him to serve as Fontaine’s Chief Justice so he would come to understand humanity.
• Focalors admitted she was afraid of dying, said it was nearly time for her execution, and bid farewell to Neuvillette.
• Focalors and Furina danced in their separate worlds as the sword of judgment followed Focalors, then fell and killed her.
• Neuvillette reached out helplessly as bubbles returned the stolen power to him, while a message from Focalors told Furina to live happily as a human.