Do you think Columbina actually knows what the house of the hearth id and the evil it’s done?

Like she did nothing for potentially 500 years, so did anyone ever explain to her that the house of the hearth takes orphans and uses them as child soldiers?.

Or more specifically, dose Columbina ACTUALLY understand the horrors that take place in the house, but from her perspective it made sense.

The house saved your live, there for you must repay be being a soldier, no questions asked just like her relationship with the tsaritsa (Transactional)

Obviously she was part of the fatui when the house functioned even before arlecchino took over.

So she likely met “mother” or past leaders of the house.

My main point is it could be a moment in the future where columbina learns that arlecchino is a bad person, better than past leaders yes.

But arlecchino still actively trains and uses children as spy’s sent on missions with high death rates.

Same with sandrone, I believe in a Fontaine quest she cuts a man’s tongue of and staples a letter to the wound.

And this is why we’ve only seen the 2 in a positive light in nod’krai. It’s how columbina sees them, not fully understanding the suffering her friends have inflicted upon others.

As she’s only seen them in fatui HQ and in nod Kai where they have tea party’s and play games.

Columbina knows them as people, but not as harbingers.

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TrashySheep2026-01-04 20:17

It depends what they talk about during their tea parties. She has been doing nothing for 500 years, waiting for her time to pay the price.

Sandrone has been the longest with her so she probably has some idea about what she does, but not what she is fully capable of, unless she brings it up during tea parties, but who does that. You don't ever bring this shit in conversation.

What have you been up to lately?

Someone broke this machine I've been coveting so I cut his tongue off.

Oh...

SanicHegehag2026-01-04 20:17

I think Columbina sees the world as a somewhat inherently cold and cruel place.

She is likely familiar with all of the atrocities committed, but simply accepts that that's how the world is.

k4ll_d4rk2026-01-04 20:38

"Oh, there's children being groomed? What can i do that's the way it is"

SanicHegehag2026-01-04 20:41

I mean, most of the rare earth minerals needed to make cell phones are essentially slave labor in the worst possible conditions, and we all just collectively say "it is what it is" without a second thought.

Columbina just grants her friends the same courtesies.

k4ll_d4rk2026-01-04 21:16

The difference is that we are normal ass powerless people, anyway i was just tryin' to find a way to push my agenda

K_o_n_e_k_o2026-01-04 22:22

You can leave the house of the hearth when you want to. Arlecchino's story quest was literally about that.

Grifoshka2026-01-05 09:10

Only after Arle’s quest they know the truth. Before that, they thought they’d be executed if they try to leave.

K_o_n_e_k_o2026-01-05 18:57

The "execution" is about the death of their past. That is what arlecchino was trying to get across. And there had been many people who have been "executed" by arlecchino in the past.

Grifoshka2026-01-05 19:03

That is Arlecchino’s philosophy, yes; but until she revealed that in her quest, kids thought they would literally be executed for treason. And some of them still tried to leave knowing the risks

__mymelody2026-01-04 20:26

I feel like she probably does know but might feel apathetic/hopeless about it and yeah like you said, her transactional relationship could play a part. A lot of the gods turn away from human suffering

LadyOF_Ice2026-01-04 20:33

She likely just saw the kids in the HoH as being in the same situation as her. Keep in mind, she didn't think the harbingers cared for her until they ignored the arrest warrant for her. Up until then, she probably just saw it as another transactional relationship

She probably just thought "Arlecchino takes in orphans and then they owe her their life as her soldiers" the same way the Tsarita took her in and she owed her her power. Even if she knew about it, when she was in a position to do something about it, she probably just didn't see any of it as a problem

HumsterMKI2026-01-04 20:39

Yeah, she basically view things as trading. You give something, you get something in return.

100RatsInASack2026-01-04 22:07

100%. There's that whole bit when we were initially interacting with her where we did something nice for and she was like "Thanks, now what do you want in return?"

When we met her, she really didn't understand the idea of kindness or altruism. Because people have only given her things with expectations of something in return, she's always assumed everything is quid pro quo. The HoH would just be a logical extension of her worldview, if she even cared enough about the structure of the Fatui to learn about it

LadyOF_Ice2026-01-04 23:51

Yeah, her view of the world was almost amorally utilitarian. I imagine the ethics or internal attitudes behind the HoH mattered less than the objective truth that the orphans are now alive and not dying on the streets and "repaying" the fatui by giving them their life. Think also that most of the harbingers she spent time with (and Colombina herself) were all recruited during periods of extreme vulnerability too. We know Signora was recruited as she was about to die after her lover died, and her artifacts read like her grief was being twisted and to sympathize with the Tsarita's plan and view it as a new purpose. Arlecchino was recruited after her best friend died, after she was on trial for the murder of the harbinger responsible, while probably facing severe consequences if she refused. Colombina was recruited after fleeing the religious group that made her feel ostracized. All three of them mostly had their backs against the wall and at terrible periods of their lives when they were indoctrinated.

To her, the fact that the HoH is taking advantage of vulnerability is probably just the normal way she believes these relationships worked. It's not only the example her life has followed but the example the lives of everybody around her follow (although we know less about Sandrone's involvement with the Fatui to comment on her though)

GigaEel2026-01-04 22:21

I have a feeling Columbina was afraid to say or do anything about it as well. She's very soft-spoken and probably cherished her Harbinger family as disconnected and dysfunctional as it was. She doesn't strike me as the confrontational type so she likely was aware but ignorant of it in favor of her peace of mind

Weaponmaster4702026-01-04 23:58

Ah! Another FatuiHQer concern troll agenda thread.

Nah, nobody can see Arle's dealings because she's a stealth maestro. Look at that stunt she did in Fontaine with the no inertia shack tunnel of plot advancement.