HoYoverse posted a new video teaser of Genshin Impact Sumeru on July 29, featuring another discussion with the developers, who introduced a few more characters: Tignari, Al-Haytham, Dehya, Nilu, Nahida, and Kino. There are several notable pieces of information in the video. We’ve detailed them below along with our first impressions.
This time, the video features Yogurt, a core member of the Genshin Impact writing team. This is now the third teaser trailer in which the developers describe some of the creation process behind Sumeru. Teivat’s fourth region will be released with version 3.0, which will be released on August 24, 2022. From what we’ve seen of it so far, the region’s map design looks amazing, which makes sense since the developers are already much more experienced. Every region and sub-zone so far, Dragonspine, Enkanomiya, The Chasm, has been great to explore and it looks like Sumeru will surpass them all.
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Next, it’s important to note that this is the first time Al-Haitham, Dehya, Nilou, and Nahida have been officially revealed with gameplay footage. All of these Sumeru characters were leaked a few weeks ago in an unprecedented leak before the Version 3.0 Closed Beta test even started. This has caused many leakers to avoid talking about the leaks themselves, lest they end up on the HoYoverse’s radar.
Tignari was revealed with Collei during the last Drip Marketing. Meanwhile, Cyno originally appeared in the Genshin manga (with Collei), and was later shown as Sumeru’s representative character in the Teyvat Story Chapter trailer.
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As for Sumeru’s story, the trailer also officially introduces a group of mercenaries called The Eremites. Dehya is also part of this group. The trailer also showed off some of Sumeru’s mushroom fauna, which was already teased with what we saw deep in The Chasm.
The trailer then also revealed that Al-Haytham is from Haravatat in the Academy. We still don’t know what Haravatat is in Sumeru, but we’ve heard about Akademiya many times while playing. We will meet Al-Haytham for the first time when we visit Port Ormos. Meanwhile, Nilu is an artist and dancer, a rare way of life for Sumeru residents who prioritize rationality and wisdom.
It’s also interesting to note that the developers didn’t mention whether Nahida is supposed to be the current Dendro Archon or not, and only called her a “mysterious” character. It doesn’t look like there’s a big reveal coming up there though, as the statues of the seven we’ll be using in Sumeru look similar to Nahida.
Last but not least, at the end of the video, the developers also teased more Sumeru characters to come. This makes perfect sense as only 7 characters have been revealed so far. In comparison, Inazuma now has 14 characters.
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