Narratively speaking, how are they gonna introduce new Natlan Characters?

Unlike anyone else from other nations, prior to the events of Natlan's Archon Quest, Natlanese don't leave Natlan. So Hoyo can't use the usual 'Not Around' reason that they pull for others (like Mizuki or Escoffier).

And considering that everyone fought in the war against the Abyss, and that the Traveler toured all the tribes, closely-knit family-like establishments, rather intimately under the guidance of friends, it's a little difficult for Vision Holders to pass under the Traveler's radar without a good explanation.

So how are they going to add any new Natlan characters?

Commentaires

RefrigeratorMobile462026-01-22 17:50

The Lost Seventh Tribe Mare Jivari DLC (cope)

LKOShield2026-01-22 17:51

That is a possibility but considering how inhospitable Mare Jivari is...

ReaperofDeath2016-192026-01-22 18:04

Time shenanigans where Traveler goes back in time to save the Anemo Tribe.

bobwuzhere12242026-01-22 18:17

I would 100% allow this.

MaChao202026-01-22 19:27

That has pyro characters.

Symej2026-01-23 06:07

Finally a natlan pyro that isnt mavuika? aintnoway

Ads10132026-01-22 20:52

Playable Tenoch trust (cope)

HorribleDat2026-01-23 04:26

Nightsoul Enjou

Do it Hoyo.

Rex_Lapis_2026-01-22 18:30

You mean the tribe that got to mondstadt

TheChocolateCreed2026-01-22 22:34

The slaves, yes

gabyhavens2026-01-22 20:34

the survivors should be in mondstadt tho we haven't seen any of them either

bluedragjet2026-01-22 20:38

So a Mondstadt character

rloco2026-01-22 21:14

There are stories that people live there somewhere inside Mare Jivari because it attracts wanderers.

BeePuns2026-01-22 17:53

“Oh hey, we can leave Natlan now, I’m gonna check out this nation.”

“I was busy fighting in the war, you never saw me”

vampzireael2026-01-22 18:16

This🤣🤣🤣

Cocoatrice2026-01-22 19:54

The second one is dumb. Do people really think it's weird that you didn't see a specific person in a whole nation? Or do you know every single fucking person in your country???

BeePuns2026-01-22 20:04

Exactly

TheBrownestStain2026-01-22 20:34

I feel like sometimes people forget that in-game nations are massively scaled down from what they realistically would be for the sake of making a functional game. Like, cmon. We’re working with a whole continent here, they’re not exactly small.

thehalfdragon3802026-01-22 21:25

Yeah like Inazuma the smallest nation, has at least 100 vision users

Cocoatrice2026-01-23 01:11

Tbh, I was actually surprised that the number was so small. Like, I assumed Vision Hunt Decree worked for at least months and they only confiscated 100 visions.

TableTravel982026-01-23 01:59

Visions are rare. We tend to interact with them mostly (because we have them as playable characters) but realistically Vision users should be like 1/100 at most Id say. If Inazuma was an actual nation with lets say a million people total 100 is a very low percentage.

Student-Brief2026-01-23 04:27

Vision bearers are the minority, most people weren't personally affected by the decree

CoconutxKitten2026-01-23 09:04

Exactly. They even discuss how the general population isn’t upset because they can’t relate

TwilightSent2026-01-23 10:49

dont forget that a majority of inazuman land is uninhabited or uninhabitable. it is 100% the least populated place we've been to just because of the sheer number of islands (and their populations) that were fully destroyed. not to mention the civil war as well, lack of trade (external resources), and watatsumi's holy soil phenomenon making it harder for them to grow crops. and it was bad for them before

but yeah combined with what the other comment pointed out on visions being rare, 100 is completely reasonable for inazuma

GlitterDoomsday2026-01-22 23:10

They conveniently forget when they want to complain about something.

ExpiredExasperation2026-01-22 23:33

That, and each tribe *has multiple villages.* What we see are just the central hubs.

There was some Cryo Vision user at the stadium, and a few other NPCs with Visions. So it's not too hard to say some random volleyball player with a Hydro Vision and a pet koholosaur is just chilling out down south someplace.

TheBrownestStain2026-01-22 23:58

Biggest thing I always think of is just the man cities. In game, they’re all the size of small villages with maybe a few dozen people about. In-universe, they probably all are actual legitimate cities with thousands of people living there, it’s just not feasible to show that in this medium. Hell, if we compare it to real life, medieval era cities could easily have tens, even sometimes hundreds of thousands of people, and really most of the regions are more advanced than “medieval” so maybe they could’ve even bigger.

Holdupnowson2026-01-23 02:04

Yeah and in lore this is factual, as we see the death toll during the war rising into the thousands despite there not being more than a couple hundred NPCs in all of Natlan.

Cocoatrice2026-01-23 01:08

Probably, yeah. If game wasn't scaled down, it would be very boring, because it would need a lot of empty spaces. Literally empty empty spaces, not few square meters of empty space.

It's most visible in quests, because characters say how they go to some ruins nobody entered for centuries, and it's in the middle of everything, settlement nearby, camp on the other side etc. It's meant to be more remote location lore-wise, when barely anyone visits.

Kalatash2026-01-23 06:23

I think most games operate on a logarithmic scale: big things are scaled down so that they are manageable, while small things are scaled up so they are noticeable.

RLLRRR2026-01-22 23:09

That's literally how they introduced Varesa.

Cocoatrice2026-01-23 01:14

You didn't get my point. I meant that complaining at this is illogical, like it was some small villagem, where everyone knows each other, but in fact, Mavuika didn't know who Varesa is until she overate the supplies in a contest or something and she came to investigate, because she thought someone is performing a scam and taking food for themselves, but it was just Varesa who ate everything herself. Not sure where it's mentioned, but Mavuika didn't know Varesa lore-wise, until that time. So it's pretty normal that we don't know every single character in nation of probably *few hundred thousands* people. If not millions.

ngkrinkels2026-01-23 03:27

Yeah, we literally have a flagship event last patch where Varesa and Xilonen recently became best friends, at least after Xilonen's Tribal Quest, because of Nepecha introducing comic books to Xilonen further proving that not everyone in Natlan is super close to each other.

AnaYuma2026-01-22 19:54

Or.... you know.... Traveler doesn't personally know every single person from Natlan... Do any of y'all know every single person in your city?

ngkrinkels2026-01-22 21:35

Exactly, we didn’t even know who Lohen was until Varka mentioned him, and suddenly he’s treated like an important figure, even though Mika never brings him up after his debut.

Gretel will be the same as well I bet, never met her despite Mondstadt being on a smaller side.

TableTravel982026-01-23 01:57

Lohen had a reason though since no one really had a reason to mention him and he was away from the city for years. Not exactly the same situation as the Traveler having met every tribe and gone to pretty much every corner of Natlan. Meeting all the major warriors and leaders. I mean the answer is gonna be any new Natlan characters wont have been major warriors or leaders. But still.

ngkrinkels2026-01-23 03:12

> Lohen had a reason

So do new Natlan characters, they just weren’t narrative priorities yet.

As I said, Mika never even mentioned Lohen much less of his Fifth Company, during his debut back 3.5 (Hell, We even know Seamus' and Frederica's whereabouts before Lohen was mentioned.) it was only last patch that he decides to mentioned it.

Lohen wasn’t narratively relevant back then.

Kiki79250CoC2026-01-22 22:37

Technically if you live on a very small village of a few dozen inhabitants for long, it's not impossible you can.

AzraelGrim2026-01-22 19:56

Or "I'm an artist who paints living murals", "I'm a cook for the \_\_\_\_\_", etc. Any non-war skills that aren't also party related slots in easily.

All we really did in Natlan was fight and party lol

rloco2026-01-22 21:11

Now that there's no war, it's possible that characters who were in the rear guard doing everything else might emerge. They don't necessarily have to be born "warriors"; they could also be young people starting out as warriors. In fact, there's one of them who's very likely to be a playable character: that kid who had Ixnalanque's soul. He did start training and had a unique model.

Guilloisms2026-01-23 00:47

Mausau! My son! I hope he becomes a playable pyro 4* Natlan unit. It just makes the most sense for him given he's still relatively new to training.

rloco2026-01-23 07:39

Technically he has the soul of Ixbalanwur, although not his memories, therefore he should have a similar destiny in a more peaceful Natlan.

TableTravel982026-01-23 01:55

I just want ACTUAL Xbalanque. GIMME GIMME

Raonair2026-01-23 02:48

Only if they age him up, cause for weird reasons we don't have short male playable characters

Ralddy2026-01-22 21:25

Sounds like home

Darkiceflame2026-01-23 02:24

>All we really did in Natlan was fight and party lol

That's their entire culture, yes.

leolancer922026-01-23 02:41

Or "I was injured pretty badly so the doctor ordered my housr arrest so I missed the rest of the war."

A_Complete_Nerd2026-01-23 03:16

Ok here's some brainstorming:

• a younger Natlanese girl/boy from the Masters of the Night Wind (maybe with the same model type as Kachina, or maybe a young boy with Cyno's model type) who was trained as an artist under Citlali, and would have magic based around painting just like their respective tribe

• their outfit is based on traditional clothing from one of the several ethnic groups from Indonesia (perhaps a cyan and purple kemben or sarong adorned with batik inspired patterns), based on how the tribe's ost heavily features gamelan, itself based on how Indonesia is very volcanically active just like most of Natlan

• if it's a girl, her name is Intan, meaning diamond; if it's a boy, his name is Lintang, meaning star

Pegged-by-shiyuan2026-01-23 06:26

Or

‘X past hero inspired me and I got my vision recently as part of my efforts in the war’

Or one obvious one as the games on… (and I wouldn’t be shocked if other nations do this too later’

Sovereign reborn into a new human form

DasBleu2026-01-22 19:58

Or

“ I was there, just we didn’t talk”

and all the other characters having a oh yeah that person dialogue like they always existed

Express-Bag-39352026-01-22 20:08

Some day, we will get some Natlan character who was in a coma during the war, so he was never talked about during the war or something something something.

rloco2026-01-22 21:13

We already have a child with a unique model, the one who had the soul of Ixbalanque; it wouldn't be surprising if he became a playable character in the future with a couple of tweaks to his model.

vondex132026-01-23 12:05

Unironically that is what the answer is going to be.

In both story and shown in game many of natlan's NPCs have visions and we don't even know their names.

So an extra four star Scion of the canopy will slot right in.

xd_ZelnikM2026-01-23 16:46

I mean Varesa was revealed only after the AQ stuff happened

TgCCL2026-01-22 17:55

Natlanese were able to leave Natlan. They just required a blessing from their Wayob to do so without side effects. So both people who did so but suffered side effects, akin to what happened to Bennett, are possible as are people who started their journey well before that and returned only now. Or they are still in foreign nations.

Besides that, there is the possibility of younger warriors, akin to Kachina, rising up.

And I do think the "we just haven't run into them yet" excuse works still. I mean, we only met Ifa in person well after the AQ ended and the only reason we knew about him before is Ororon's flashback. Varesa was similar. It's not inconceivable that another character pops up.

LKOShield2026-01-22 18:04

All 3 are possibilities, yeah. And it's interesting because the reason they go for will shape a great deal of how the personality will be like.

For a Natlanese character that left before Gosoythoth was dealt with, they either don't believe in Mavuika's plan or believe the answer to Natlan's problem can only be found elsewhere.

A rising star would share similarities with the more inexperienced characters we have on the roster.

And lastly someone we somehow never met would have the greatest flexibility in terms of personality, perhaps a touch low-key, since if they're not we would have heard of them.

Aggravating-Yak21652026-01-22 18:48

Or they don't really don't care about the new hero traveller

Skitty15552026-01-22 19:32

Yeah, that's unlikely. The entirety of Natlan glazes Tumaini (Hope)

NamerNotLiteral2026-01-22 18:05

Yeah, quite a lot of characters are just folks who were around while we were in the area but just didn't show up on-screen.

Dahlia was in Mondstadt the whole time we were there.

Gaming and Yun-jin were in Liyue while we were there.

Sethos was in Sumeru while we were there, iirc.

Some characters, we don't even meet at any point while we're in the nation even though they're released during that nation's patch cycle (*cough*, Emilie)

After-Syrup12902026-01-22 22:41

Or...how about a cooler idea regarding Natlan and natlan alone?

As we know - they can't go out of Natlan... No one said anything bout others going in: it's how trade was conducted in Natlan before they were able to leave

A family who came in Natlan, settled or saw something there and brought their family together to make a home there... Before attacks intensified and they had to leave and be outside of Natlan for a while... Except for a few members who still considered it as their home

You don't need to be born in a nation to consider it your home, or to love it and be in its service: such an angle being explored is something very very cool that they should do

This way we can get a new character who's not in Natlan at all, but yet is a natlanese all the same

dodgeditlikeneo2026-01-22 23:46

would they just not have night soul mechanics then

alvenestthol2026-01-22 23:52

Yeah, can't have a new character with Nightsoul, or Mavuika might risk being meta-relevant in 8.3

Instead, they'll have Khaenri'an Energy, because they picked up the soul of Capitano's comrade or something.

Potential_Sentence532026-01-23 02:56

They can leave Natlan now. What the Captain did combined with how Mauvika and Traveler defeated the Abyss reconnected Natlan to the lay lines as a whole while still remaining something of their own thing. There are several Natlanese people wandering around the world all over Teyvat.

Express-Bag-39352026-01-22 20:13

We can also just have new characters who are new winners of the Pilgrimage. Imagine the Wayob chooses another to bear an Ancient Name, forsaking one of the Six Heroes or even existing ancient name bearers. Kachina bears an ancient name and so does Xilonen, so there can be more ancient name bearers than heroes.

ExpiredExasperation2026-01-22 23:37

There are lots of ancient names. Citlali also has one, as do several random NPCs. Why does someone need to be foresaken?

Onee-Sama952026-01-22 18:00

They won't. There will never be another Natlan character ever again

Fleur_Hiiroluvr2026-01-22 18:01

Natlanese can now leave Natlan but even though they couldn't up until now they can still easily make an excuse of like "oh yeah we didn't had a chance to meet yet" hell Dahlia is literally the deacon of the church and close friend of Venti and we didn't meet him for at least 5 years, they can just come up with stuff.

They can also just make a "oh yeah i got my vision like a month ago" story why not.

Plus despite all the close-knitness Ifa still isn't featured on this art

Stormy_Cat_554562026-01-22 21:32

Cough, Aranara questline

Spoopy_Kirei2026-01-23 05:01

People really underestimate the size of Teyvat. It's just scaled down on the map.
People think that the traveler being a mega superstar would meet everyone easily, when the country is fucking huge. I can't even meet all my coworkers in the same office as me.

Cipher-DK2026-01-23 06:49

At least we knew about Dahlia's existence for 5 years.

Rodrigorgm2026-01-22 18:07

Just like Varesa doesn't appear in the AQ: they were in another location doing something else, which led to them missing the traveler.

Your comment kind of applies to any nation, unless you think it’s normal for someone to meet every single person from a country. The number of NPCs is limited due to technical constraints of the game, each nation has as many inhabitants as HoYo wants it to have.

RowanWinterlace2026-01-22 21:03

Tbf, Varesa isn't the best example as she was at least mentioned in the AQ a few times

Excellent-Suspect-112026-01-22 21:20

More like Escoffier who somehow missed the entire fucking prophecy thing because she was making desserts for Furina locked away or something. Like really that's the best they could come up with?

Dylangillian2026-01-22 22:00

I mean, that was funny at least. And very in character.

Visrhen2026-01-22 22:42

She was actually in Meropide serving her sentence lmao

Specialist-Mirror6562026-01-22 23:13

But we were in prison for like a month too

RowanWinterlace2026-01-23 00:43

We don't know how long she was sentenced for or when she she served her sentence, only that it was a relatively short prison term.

Reasonably, even if she spent a year behind bars, she could have been convicted and served it after we ended up there.

RowanWinterlace2026-01-22 23:02

Yea, she's a great example. Though having a character be like,

*"Oh yeah, we haven't met because I was in prison on drug charges."* is jokes

Templar2k72026-01-22 22:10

Shenhe is a good example of this.

She was literally living with Cloud Retainer during the AQ and we just never see her until the interlude in 2.4

RowanWinterlace2026-01-22 23:03

Agree with this, I also think Sethos is another good example

Aaron-Staton02252026-01-23 00:37

Eh I don't really feel the same with Sethos considering the Temple of silence itself was already quite a secret

RowanWinterlace2026-01-23 09:54

True, but Sethos was still out and about in Sumeru City before the Temple of Silence showed up in the narrative. We could have reasonably ran into him, but we didn't because there was no real reason to

HollowMist112026-01-23 03:57

Why Sethos? He's part of a secret organization. It makes sense that not a lot of people knew him.

Skaraptor22026-01-23 04:57

Yumemizuki Mizuki

achen52650412026-01-23 00:10

I think Mizuki might be a better example, as she left for Natlan when Inazuma AQ began and leaving Natlan when the Natlan AQ began.

RowanWinterlace2026-01-23 00:15

She's an amazing example! Especially with how naturally she slotted back into the Inazuman cast after the Natlan war ended and Inazuma opened back up

Fossilized_Nerd2026-01-22 18:16

The same way they introduced Yumemizuki Mizuki!

Poorly. 😭

dumpystumpy2026-01-22 18:17

Kinich goes on a mission and finds a new animal in the trees. The animals grabs him (its a monkey) and takes him to a big tree that is hollow in the middle.

They fall into the tree that takes them to mysterious monkey land with the tribe of the apes and heres our new character “Kobatine”

headphonesnotstirred2026-01-22 21:19

finally

anthony

1DeviousDorito2026-01-22 18:21

Traveler coincidentally happened to miss them at every opportunity. And eventually we bump into them...

That or some other character from another region just shows up to Natlan and counts as a Natlan character. Like Thoma being born in Mondstatd but living in Inazuma thus still counting as an Inazuma character

Xirtie2026-01-22 18:25

Canonically, Traveler didn't encountered Varesa and Ifa until the end of the war. So there's a chance there's playable character they just happened to not meet yet.

Zrva_V32026-01-23 03:23

Yep but both were mentioned in the AQs.

EuraLapist2026-01-22 18:28

Emily 2 will happen.

Rex_Lapis_2026-01-22 18:29

Same way we get new characters from other regions

sir_aphim2026-01-22 18:37

I can see a couple of different options.

Lone wolf/vagilant type characters who didn't want to follow Mavuika's strategy. Or perhaps acted on their own to protect the less populated parts of Natlan that didn't have strategic value in the war but was in danger never the less. Or perhaps they were just assigned to those locations to protect people where the main Natlan forces aren't at.

Perhaps a Natlanese character outside of Natlan either with or without the Wayob's potection. Maybe not having the potection manifests itself in different ways to different people and for this character, it is an extreme lack of sense of direction. So they were trying to find their way back the whole time, but kept getting lost and since no one else was really entering or leaving Natlan, they couldn't get back until now since the connection was re-established. Or maybe they were one if the few granted special permission to leave inorder to search for a solution that may lie in the other nations.

Maybe they are a new warrior who was training to be the next generation of heroes but never got their debut before we stopped the war.

Or a seasoned fighter who suffered injuries in the war prior to our visit and wasn't able to participate until they recovered. (Perhaps with our help)

Maybe they were trapped by the abyss in so sort of stasis trap, cave in, or some abyssal subspace and was persumed dead until we stumble upon the trap.

Or Capitano, coming back as the avatar of the Lord of the Night now that they fused.

trueHolyGiraffe2026-01-22 18:39

You don't have to.

You just have to say they were there the entire time.

Here's an example; Escoffier was introduced in 5.6, well after the Fontaine saga ended. No need to excuse her lack of appearances in Fontaine, just introduce her as a chef from Fontaine, and you're done.

What about Natlan? SAME. Here's mr. bob mc.bob the bobbiest bobby, he's a glazier, he made the glasses everyone in Teyvat is wearing, he's been busy in his shop, and he helped the ... Scions of the canopy? People of the springs? I don't know, he's from one of them, but we're just now introduced to him.

Or how about Mizuki Yumemizuki, from Inazuma? She's been there, we're just introduced to her in 5.4, but we swear, she's an Inazuma youkai, she was just in Natlan, that's all.

Well, here's Dylan mcDylan, the dylanest dylan to ever dylan, he's... a... bicycle enthusiast from Natlan, he's just off doing his own thing, he was there, we're just now introducing him

Fluffy-Law-68642026-01-22 18:40

If benny boy managed to survive outside, another person could as well. But also, they just needed the wayobi's blessing to go out without reprucassions so there's that option too. And also also, natlan is a full nation, it's not that unlikely the traveler didn't personally meet every person in natlan

Aggravating-Yak21652026-01-22 18:52

People treat Natlan as if it is Inazuma

Costyn172026-01-22 18:42

Let's take Kinich. Due to his job, he's travelling all over Natlan. If he wasn't a hero and wasn't going to release during the Natlan cycle, you would be lucky to hear his name once or twice from Mualani.

Now, change Kinich to a new character we don't know yet about and you got your answer.

Aggravating-Yak21652026-01-22 18:49

They simply...never crossed path. The traveller wound not know every single individual in every single nation. Any excuse would work just fine in any situation, there just tons of them (Also, the people of Natlan could leave even before we reach the region. Natlan ain't Inazuma)

Lumine_Alatus2026-01-22 18:57

A child character who got her vision recently!

TheScalieDragon2026-01-22 19:01

Same way they did Varesa and etc

Natlan will probably get more new characters then Inazuma will

ConciseSpy850672026-01-22 19:03

Same way they did Varesa I’m sure

“I was busy defending my Tribe”

Gakamis2026-01-22 19:04

I mean we literally met Varesa and the anemo dude after the war. We never saw them during it, but did you have problem when hoyo introduces them? I'm guessing not.

WisconsinWintergreen2026-01-22 19:13

I mean, it’s a whole country. There’s naturally going to be people the Traveler just didn’t happen to bump into before.

Rowlettowlett1002026-01-22 19:15

Highly unlikely for the Traveller and Paimon to have met everyone in Natlan. The population and settlements we see in game is not reflective of the actual lore. For example, Kinich lived on a grainfruit farm as a child away from the Scions of the Canopy tribal centre, but there are no ingame evidence of any farmlands in their territory.

pelikannn2026-01-22 19:25

They can just say that they were already around. They recently added the official timeline and some of it had interesting details about certain characters. For example, Mizuki story quest which was added in the Natlan patches chronologically happened after Ei quest 2 and before Sumeru archon quest.

pelikannn2026-01-22 19:28

Some of it is weird tho. Its weird that Durin's quest happened in between Columbina's disappearance and her return

pumaflex_2026-01-22 19:26

isn't it exactly what happened to late characters like Ifa or Varessa? which is the doubt here?

Ryuunoru2026-01-22 19:26

The same way they did before in other regions. We go there for some random bullshit and meet NeverSeen McBeforeFace.

redam332026-01-22 19:30

Still coping we get a time travel ark and we get Xbalanque and Signora playable. (I dont even want them revived tbh)

ItsAqril2026-01-22 19:37

This assumes that the traveler saw every single citizen of Natlan, which is just silly. Ifa is one example.

TheWitcherMigs2026-01-22 19:48

Funny you mentioning Escoffier, because she is the biggest case of "they will pull a way": She wasn't "away" when the flood happened, she was locked up home so focused she didn't notice even her entire home and vicinity to be underwater for some time

NeosFlatReflection2026-01-22 19:49

Same way they introduced a detective after inazuma archon quest.

pascl-2026-01-22 19:51

>it's a little difficult for Vision Holders to pass under the Traveler's radar without a good explanation

no, it's incredibly easy, they do it all the time.

yaoyao has been around since 1.0, but we simply never met her until 3.4

there were multiple times where the traveler and alice were in mondstadt at the same time, but simply didn't run into each other

dahlia is part of the church of favonius, same as barbara and rosaria, and he's been around since rosaria was introduced. but we just didn't run into him until 5.6.

itto and kuki were mentioned in inazuma since 2.0, but we just didn't run into itto until 2.4 and we didn't run into kuki until 2.7. kuki is especially the strange one considering she's in the arataki gang, but wasn't introduced together with itto. she just wasn't around during itto's story quest.

so literally all they gotta do is say "they were around during the war, we just didn't meet them until now". or they could pull an escoffier and just say the character was holed up inside.

Nitrosad2026-01-22 19:56

"Hi, I'm from Natlan"

this_is_no_gAM32026-01-22 19:59

Just how we get new ones from other regions

DarkPhoenixMishima2026-01-22 20:03

They could leave Natlan before the end of the quest, it was just heavily regulated because it was both actively wartime and it stressed the leylines to protect them from being Bennett'd. All we have to say is they were doing something else or even throw in a newly christened vision holder.

We've already had several events with Natlan characters outside their nation, I keep up to date so I don't know if they're locked or how they explain it but clearly they don't give much of a damn at this point.

nanimeanswhat2026-01-22 20:08

Well by reviving Xbalanque of course!

felinovska2026-01-22 20:11

Like Emily I guess
I have no clue how she appeared in genshin

alexcercia2026-01-22 20:12

There's still a locked area in the north of natlan, probably their ports for commerce since we never saw that, also we could get "revived or lost" characters just like liyue always do, if capitano revives he surely will be considered as natlanese just like scara is from sumeru, he basically fused with natlan leylines so.., also we could see a wayob or a dragon turned into a human just like xianyun passed from an npc bird to a god tier waifu, also is not like there are plenty of characters to come, we should get only 2 more (mualani and kinich tribes) and they'll probably be 4* to complete the roster of 1 5* and 1 4* from every tribe (xilonen and kachina, chasca and ifa, citlali and ororon, varesa and iansan), my guess is we are gonna get a 4* hydro bow from mualani tribe and 4* dendro catalyst from kinich tribe.

Unpopular_Outlook2026-01-22 20:14

Considering Veresa and Ifa wasn’t introduced in the actual Natlan story, they can easily say the character was out doing something else more important

likeawp2026-01-22 20:15

Chuychu gets brought back from Night Kingdom in same AQ that brings back Capitano. Has fire vision, BiS Capitano support to boost unique blue flame reverse vape.

INHALE DAT COPIUM SON

Physical-Command21302026-01-22 20:45

natlan is not ampho

KingShere2026-01-22 20:45

They (Hoyoverse) could easily add Non Natlan Natlan characters & region's with the same arrangment that is compatible with the Natlan characters special perks.

'A arraignment with one of the shades and a contracted seelie, yes we did that too. '
'This region has just reconnected to the outside world '

another fictional tale world (or digital dragon sovereign world) with 'Fictional' Characters capable of exploring out into Teyvat

Vertukshnjators2026-01-22 20:51

"This new youngster came out of nowhere, won all the tournaments and got vision in his last one, you should meet him"

DaymD2026-01-22 20:55

Probably with time limited events like most new characters after their nation has been saved.

kamain422026-01-22 20:56

I would pay good money to see someone mysteriously isekaied from Natlan to nod krai

CocoJell2026-01-22 21:07

Same way they introduced Varesa and Ifa
We just never saw them

MakiiZushii2026-01-22 21:13

Ifa doesn't even appear in the scroll, and Varesa didn't appear until after the war.

All Hoyo has to say is that the particular character was not around wherever the Traveler was at any given time.

Top-Idea-17862026-01-22 21:20

"Traveler, we have to revive Xbalanque."

"Ok sure"

Plus-Theme-32832026-01-22 21:24

Just like the other characters, this time it's I was fighting in the war you just didn't see me, like varesa and ifa we know that they are here just not realised now

Neospanner2026-01-22 21:40

During the big war in Natlan, thousands died. This did not cripple the population, so the total size must be much, MUCH larger than that. Additionally, during the battles we only interacted with a few dozen NPCs. There were certainly many more involved in the fighting than those that we personally saw.

Any future playable characters will simply be individuals that we didn't meet personally during our time there.

InukoJon2026-01-22 21:43

Secret cryo dinosaurs in snezheya bc there was a giant glacier in natan that broke off and drifted off with all the people who lived on it. The main land natlaners don’t like talking about it so we didn’t hear about it before.

dominionloser1232026-01-22 21:49

"Kinich and I tend to run messages in different areas, so you never saw me."

"I broke my legs the week before the war broke out, and had to spend the whole time convalescing."

"Mauvika and I are the only people who know how to allocate supplies without accidentally starving a whole tribe, so whenever she decides to get punch-happy, I'm stuck doing paperwork."

"I was busy throwing boulders back up the mountain."

"Sorry, I haven't had a visitor in six months. What happened with the sky turning purple a while ago?"

"I got my Vision in the middle of that invasion."

"The Lord of the Night needed me to constantly pray to them to keep them going for long enough for you to do your thing."

"Remember me? Nepecha? You helped Xilonen save me!"

"I tried leaving Natlan, and immediately got trapped in a cave for a whole month. What rotten luck, huh?"

splash_sploosh2026-01-22 21:58

Could be trapped somewhere like Faruzan. Frozen in some sort of fantasy stasis perhaps. Or could newly acquire a vision (but reasonably be quick to adapt to fighting with it given they likely fought in the war prior to getting their vision; though not all vision wearers canonically fight with them, all natlanese do). They could also obtain a Moon Wheel. Could be a new humanoid species that grows really fast and was born/ child during the archon quest.

Writers can make up pretty much any reason they want, especially if a character is released alongside a new sub-region with its own lore.

E.g. a hidden ancient tribe within the natlan sea has secretly been defended for centuries, staying out of the war and hiding from both the abyss and the rest of natlan (including the archons) using ley line tricks, protecting an artefact of great power with controlling phlogiston.

Designer-Awareness372026-01-22 22:11

I think we already have 4 star characters from each tribe except Mualani and Kinich’s tribes. They should add 4 star characters for them

RadRey092026-01-22 22:28

I mean there's still two possible 4 stars from People Of the springs and Scions of Canopy. Think about it, the other tribes have their 4 star versions for the tribe mechanic(Flight-Ifa, Jump-Ororon, Sprint-Iansan, Wall climb- Kachina) and I know people can still use the actual saurians, which would defeat their purpose but Hoyo intentionally did this so that they can introduce new characters from these two tribes.

SoC character can easily say that they were delivering messages during the war. PoS some other excuses.

No_Dust_16302026-01-22 22:42

"I was treating the wounded in the war/working behind the scenes during the Abyss war but you were so cool traveller! I cant believe that now i really get to meet you!"

Easy

Beyonce was here in my country, I knew she was here , she met a lot of Thai people but I didn't get to meet her. Someday I might lmao 🤣

D-S_122026-01-22 22:44

The same way they introduced every other character who didn't appear in Archon Quests.

not-Kunt-Tulgar2026-01-22 22:52

The fun part about a story in a flux state is that they can make up a billion different reasons

‘Oh I was fighting in the war you didn’t see me’

‘Oh I recently remembered I’m farm Natlan I’ve been outside of it since you’ve been there’s

‘Oh I’m a painter and I only paint in caves you likely just didn’t see me’

They can just sorta make up a reason.

parrotandpeacock2026-01-22 22:58

They can make a quest about normal character getting vision.

Paiguy72026-01-22 23:14

As if they give a shit about that

Turbulent_Joke_29002026-01-22 23:22

Escoffier sealed herself in her house to finish a recipe while fontaine was flooding so...

AksysCore2026-01-22 23:28

✓ They could be new Vision holders
✓ Historical figures like Xbalanque
✓ A saurian that somehow got a human form
✓ Dragonkind/Ajaw related
✓ Someone who didn't really fight on-screen like Varesa

PantheraAuroris2026-01-22 23:33

You can't meet everyone in a nation. IDK why Natlan is any different.

KaedeP_222026-01-22 23:38

Are we... are we conveniently forgetting that Natlan is country-sized? Do *you* know everyone in your country?

Homulily22026-01-22 23:41

They could write it off as a new character just getting their vision. Hell one of the most owned characters is a brand new vision holder. (Furina)

ionblazer2026-01-22 23:57

Make more Bennetts.

_oranjuice2026-01-22 23:58

I was kinda hoping we would get a "mentioned once or twice in present lore and dialogue" character like Ifa but nah

Maybe the chieftains could get a glow up, they're not too average npc-like

wobster1092026-01-23 02:00

There are hundreds of vision holders in every nation. Like, you know how about 2000 people died in the war? And only about 5 of them were named NPCs that we’d met, so the vast majority of people survived. I’d guess the population of Natlan is at least 100,000 people.