Genshin Melusine: The unique Abyss creatures living in Fontaine

Melusines are a new race unique to Fontaine, born less than four hundred years ago. According to "Ancient Colors," "Canotia and the Book of Revealing," "Ann of the Narzissenkreuz," and other World Quest Series in Fontaine, the birth of Melusine may be due to the battle inside the body of Elynas.

Around 400 years ago, the Marechaussee Hunters and members of the Narzissenkreuz Ordo battled inside the remnants of the great beast Elynas. During this battle, Alain Fuillotin caused an explosion, killing many and causing the mechanical components of clockwork meka to pierce through Elynas's body. The Melusines were eventually born from these wounds. So it's possible that Melusine's body is from Elynas, and life and spirit are from the Oceanids.

1. Melusine's Origin: Elynas

The story of Melusine was first a composite of a number of myths and legends that were passed down orally in Europe until a 14th-century French writer, Jean d'Arras, recorded a compilation of related stories. Later, there were also different codices and versions of these stories throughout Europe, as well as poems and renditions of various royal origin legends.

The etymology of the name Melusine is not known, and the Latin melus given in French dictionaries has no historical-linguistic basis. One theory suggests that "Mère Lusine" indicates that Melusine was an ancestor of the Anglo-French Lusignan family. In general, it is believed that the fact that Melusine was recognized as the ancestor of many European princely families also indicates that Melusine was a medieval fay representing fertility.

Elynas, the King of Albany (an old name for Scotland or Kingdom of Alba) in the story, met the fay Pressyne in the forest, and they had three children, Melusine, Melior, and Palatyne. Pressyne and Elynas agreed before their marriage that they would not enter her room to watch her bathe or go into labor, but Elynas couldn't resist and entered her room when she was giving birth to her third child, which made Pressyne angry. entered her room when she was giving birth to her third child, which angered Pressyne, and took the three children to a mysterious island called Avalon mentioned in the King Arthur legends, where she raised the three children.

Melusine carries the same curse as her mother; her lower body turns into a snake's tail every Saturday. Melusine married King Raymond in Poitou, France, and they similarly agreed not to enter her room every Saturday. They had ten children, and in the end Raymond couldn't resist peeking in during Melusine's Saturday bath, which caused Melusine to turn into a dragon and fly away, leaving behind only two rings.

In hindsight, the name "Melusine" was probably given to this Fontaine race because they are essentially a hybrid of the Abyss Creatures and Oceanids in a sense.

2. Melusines in Romaritime Harbor

2.1 Melusine Everallin

Most travelers to Fontaine arrive at Romaritime Harbor first, on the lowest level, and the first Melusine they meet is this Everallin.

Everallin takes its name from the name of the lover of the heroic Celtic poet Ossian/Oisín. Oisín in some of the poems published by the modern Scottish poet James Macpherson, Everallin is spelled aoibhir àlainn in Scottish Gaelic.

James Macpherson claimed to have collected a great deal of Scottish Gaelic lore, including literature and oral folklore, and edited and published "The Poems of Ossian.". He was much challenged because much of his poetry was at variance with Celtic myths recorded elsewhere, and there were sections that he had created and adapted himself. Even so, his poems influenced many people, including Goethe and Napoleon, who loved Macpherson's poems.

In other versions of Celtic lore, Ossian's lover is called Niamh Cinn-Óir, and Macpherson's version of aoibhir àlainn, meaning "beautiful cheer," is a sort of nickname for Niamh Cinn-Óir. Óir is said to be a fairy on a white horse who came west from the other side of the sea. Her father turned her head into a pig's head according to a prophecy, and it could only be changed back if she married Ossian. Niamh Cinn-Óir and Ossian gave birth to the hero Oscar.

2.2 Melusine Siora

In the upper levels of Romaritime Harbor, there is a Melusine named Siora.

From the English spelling Siora, this is a kind of diminutive of Johanna's Irish Gaelic version of Siobhán.

But if one analyzes the pronunciation of her Chinese name, in the Irish version of Celtic lore there is a race called Sídhe (Aos sí/ Aes sídhe) described very much like fairies. Sídhe means hill, aes means inhabitant, and this fairy species is said to have inhabited the hills of Ireland or Scotland.

3. Melusines in Aquabus

3.1 Melusine Aeval

When we get to the Clementine Line on Court of Fontaine, we meet a Melusine narrator called Aeval.

The spelling of Aeval's name is an Anglicization of the Irish spelling Aoibheall, the guardian nymph of the Dál gCais family of Celtic Irish legend and a leader of the Aes sídhe race mentioned earlier in Siora, whose name in Old Irish was Aibell.

3.2 Melusine Elphane

The narrator who is in the Navia Line is named Elphane.

Her name is a variant of Scottish English Elphame, literally analyzed as Elf-home, the legendary territory of Elf the Elf, the equivalent of Fairyland, Alfheimr of Norse mythology, or a reference to Elf's queen.

4. Melusines in Court of Fontaine

4.1 Melusine Liath

Liath is a Melusine patrolling the entrance to Palais Mermonia.

The name Liath is probably derived from the name of a character, Liath Luachra, in the Irish "Fenian Cycle.". The main character is the Celtic epic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, and the aforementioned Ossian is Fionn's son.

Liath Luachra is Fionn's Aunt Bodhmall's best friend, and together the two of them become Fionn's foster mothers after the death of Fionn's father, Cumhall.

4.2 Melusine Muirne

From the Statue of the Seven, head towards the back of Palais Mermonia, and you can see Muirne by the waterway looking out to sea.

Muirne was the name of the mother of the previously mentioned "Fionn mac Cumhaill.".

4.3 Melusine Menthe

Menthe is a Melusine standing guard in front of Café Lucerne.

It is generally accepted that menthe is French for "mint" and that mint has a cooling and refreshing effect that makes sense in front of a café.
Menthe is an alternative spelling of Minthe. In Greek mythology, Minthe was a Naiad who was the mistress of Hades and was transformed into a mint plant by either Persephone or Demeter.

4.4 Melusine Rhemia

Rhemia is a vacationing Marechaussee Phantom member.

4.5 Melusine Sedene

Sedene is a Melusine within Palais Mermonia.

"Sedene" is derived from Sedna, the goddess of the sea and marine life in Inuit mythology, who is often depicted as a mermaid with a fishtail and is the daughter of Anguta, the creator of Inuit mythology.

5. Melusines in Erinnyes

5.1 Melusine Blathine

Blathine is the Melusine that patrols the Fountain of Lucine neighborhood.

The name "Blathine" comes from Bláthnat/Bláthíne, literally "little flower," the lover of Cú Chulainn, brother of the legendary Irish hero Cú Roí. Bláthnat's homeland was defeated by the armies of the brothers Cú Roí and Cú Chulainn, and she became Cú Roí's spoils of war and married him, but she fell in love with Cú Chulainn, which led to conflict between the two brothers.

5.2 Melusine Veleda

Veleda is the Melusine that patrols the Fountain of Lucine neighborhood.

Veleda is said to be a title from the Celtic Gaulish language, meaning "prophetess.". In 69-70 A.D., a Germanic tribe in the Roman Empire's province of Lower Germania rebelled against the Badavi. A Germanic tribe believed that women had the divinity of prophecy and so used the prophetess as a symbol of the living god. Legend has it that it was Veleda who foretold the victory of the rebellion, but she was captured by the Roman governor and the rebellion failed.

5.3 Melusine Aeife

Aeife stands guard at the entrance to Opera Epiclese.

The name Aeife comes from the Irish legend that Aife was the sister of the heroine Scathach and that the two were also rivals. At the time, the great hero Cú Chulainn trained in Scathach's army. Once Scathach and Aife fought each other, and after a few twists and turns, Cú Chulainn came out to fight Aife one on one, and after some back and forth, Aife was overpowered by Cú Chulainn, who held his sword to Aife's neck and said that he wouldn't kill her if she slept with him or if she gave him a son. In the end, Cú Chulainn left the pregnant Aife behind and gave her a signet ring, which he told her that when the child was born, the child would take the ring and go to Ireland to look for him, but would not be able to tell anyone that he was Cú Chulainn's son. In the end, Aife's son took the ring to Cú Chulainn, and because he did not disclose his identity, Cú Chulainn killed him, and Cú Chulainn found the ring and realized that he had killed his own son.

5.4 Melusine Tristane

Tristane is a Marechaussee Phantom Melusine who can only be seen within the mainline Opera Epiclese.

The name Tristane is a variant of Tristan, a character in the Celtic legend of King Arthur of the British Isles who was supposed to escort Princess Iseult to marry her uncle, King Mark of Cornwall, but fell in love with her after taking an aphrodisiac, which led to a complicated romance between the two. It is said that Tristan was originally a Celtic name in the British Isles, but these French-speaking people associated this name with the French "triste," and then some writers added that Tristan's mother heard the news of her husband's death in battle when she was giving birth to him and died of grief. The newborn was named "Triste" in honor of his parents.

5.5 Melusine Trow

Trow is the usual Melusine standing guard inside Opera Epiclese.

The trow is a legendary goblin that haunts the small Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland, cognate with the Nordic troll, that haunts only at night, stealing from people's homes, and in some versions they love music and will go and kidnap musicians to play for them.

6. Melusines in Merusea Village

6.1 Melusine Ahes

Aeis is the Melusine who searches for the Sponsian in the Lone Phantom Sail quest.

The name comes from the Breton legend of a creature called "Dahut" alias "Ahes", which in many versions is a creature similar to a siren or a mermaid, and in different versions is directly or indirectly related to the flooding of a city called Ys in the legend. Dahut is a creature similar to the Siren or mermaid, and in different versions is directly or indirectly related to the legendary flooding of a city called "Ys". She would turn into a mermaid and lure humans with her songs and then drown them.

6.2 Melusine Canotila

Canotila opens the Book of Revealing by Rene de Petrichor for us.

The name Canotila comes from the Native American Sioux legend of the čanotila, a forest-dwelling, fairy-like spirit that the Sioux believed was a messenger of the spirit world and appeared in people's dreams.

6.3 Melusine Carabosse

Carabosse is a pharmacist.

Carabosse is the cursed bad fairy who is killed by a spindle piercing her finger after drugging a princess in one of the "The Sleeping Beauty" in the adult story collection "kinder-und hausmärchen".

6.4 Melusine Verenata

This is the Verenata that asked us to help with the drug trial.

The name Verenata comes from the name of the princess Verenata, literally Latin for "born in the spring," in various copies of the fairy tale "Princesse Printaniére" by the 17th-century French fairy tale writer Madame Dornoy, and the villain of the tale is the evil actress Carabosse from Sleeping Beauty. The name of the princess is Verenata, which literally means "born in the spring" in Latin, and the villain of the story is Carabosse, the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty.

Verenata calls Carabosse Lord Apothecary, and it feels like Carabosse is just using Verenata as a research item, and in a sense a bad witch.

6.5 Melusine Cosanzeana

Cosanzeana, which grows exotic flowers.

The English spelling of the name Cosanzeana comes from the Romanian legend of a princess called "Ileana Cosânzeana", (equivalent to Helena Constantiana). In Romanian folklore, Ileana is the original concept of female beauty, the most beautiful nymph: her eyes are like the sun, her body like the sea, and her clothes are made of flowers. When she sings, pearls and gold flow from her mouth. She is also said to be able to use healing or resurrection type magic. She is considered to be the sister of the sun, and also has the godlike form of the moon goddess, being associated with "Diana".

6.6 Melusine Flo

Sister Flo, who specializes in sewing.

Because Flo can be a clipping of Flos, Flower, Fleur, some stories give this name to flower fairies. There is also a nickname for the Florentines that is also Flo.

6.7 Melusine Virda

Virda who wanted to join the Marechaussee Phantom that we saved during one quest.

6.8 Melusine Rufina

Rufina, the sister who wants to be an adventurer.

The spelling of this name is one of the more common names, literally meaning "red-haired woman", and there are three Rufina's in the Classical period alone, as well as princesses and other storytellers, which makes it difficult to pinpoint the prototype of this name.

6.9 Melusine Iara

Iara, who was fishing.

The name comes from a mermaid-like figure in the legends of the indigenous Tupi people of South America, where "y" is water and "îara" is mistress, making "yîara" the "queen of the water". Legend has it that Iara is similar to the Siren, singing to seduce men, but different versions have it that some men live happily with her, while others drown them as in other legends.

6.10 Melusine Laume

The interview-loving Melusine is Laume.

The name Laume comes from Laumė, a fairy-like goblin that haunts the forests of the Baltic region of Latvia and Lithuania; some versions say that they are celestial spirits themselves, who sympathize with the suffering of mankind and come to earth to protect small children in secret.Laumė can be portrayed as a woman on top, and a goat on the bottom half of the body, with bird claws and wings, or in some versions as similar to Lamia in Greece, or as a forest version of Sirens. Lamia, or a forest version of Siren.

6.11 Melusine Lutine

Chef Lutine.

The name comes from French folklore of a kobold-like imp called lutin for males and lutine for females.

6.12 Melusine Mamere

The name Mamere comes from the French word "ma mère" meaning "my mother". We can find a lot of French people with the name Mamère, which itself is said to have come from single mothers who, when registering their children, wrote "my mother" in the patronymic field because they didn't know the father's name, and it became a family name.

6.13 Melusine Sedile

Marechaussee Phantom member Sedile at Merusea Village.

Sedile is a variant spelling of the name of a nymph named Sebile in some versions of the King Arthur legends and Italian folklore.The name Sebile is derived from the ancient Greek word Sibylla, meaning "prophetess", and so in various versions of the story she has some degree of prophetic ability.

6.14 Melusine Serene

Serene, the eldest sister of Melusine.

Sebile was mentioned earlier in the meaning of Sedile, and in a 14th century French work (Le roman d'Eledus et Serene), the heroine is called Serene and her servant is called Sebile.

It can be said that Serene is a more popular female name, meaning "calm".

Another theory is that Serene may be a variant spelling of Siren, the Latin transcription of the ancient Greek word for "Siren" being Seirên, the plural being Seirênes.

6.15 Melusine Sluasi

Sluasi, who helps make the paint.

The spelling Sluasi comes from the Irish legend Slua si, or Sluagh Sidhe, the first half of which sluagh means "cluster, army", the second half of which was mentioned earlier by Siora, a race of fairies in the hills of Ireland.

6.16 Melusine Xana

Xana who traded us goodies for parts.

Xana comes from the name of a water nymph in the folklore of the region of the Prince of Asturias in northern Spain Xana, there are some who believe that the name is derived from Diana, but there is not enough evidence for this. Xana's image is also a bit similar to that of the beautiful half of the Lamia type of woman, in some versions Xana steals from the people and in others Xana helps people who are traveling, or sings at night to bring a feeling of love and peace to the soul. Or she sings at night, bringing a feeling of love and peace to the souls of people who would feel pain or even go mad if their souls were tainted.

6.17 Melusine Glaisti

Glaisti in dealing with Breacher Primus.

Glaisti comes from the Scottish Celtic legend of a water spirit called Glaistig, or Green Water Woman.Glaistig has the image of a half-beautiful woman, half-goat, who makes a baby-crying sound and waits for a person to come to the water's edge and then pulls the person in and drowns him or her.

6.18 Melusine Granna

Granna, who wants to join Marechaussee Phantom.

Granna is a variant spelling of Gráinne, the former fiancée of the legendary Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhaill, who fell in love with one of Fionn mac Cumhaill's warriors, Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, and then ran off with him in some sort of love story.

6.19 Melusine Thirona

Thirona wants to go to Marechaussee Phantom with Granna.

Thirona is a variant spelling of Sirona, a goddess representing a healing fountain in the Celtic legends of the Gauls. In fresco images, Sirona is always depicted with an egg in her hand and a serpent wrapped around her arm, which may have been influenced by the image of the Greek goddess of health, Hsuquia.

6.20 Melusine Puca

Representatives of the Ore Task, Puca.

The Puca is a watery spirit in Celtic lore from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, representing both good and bad luck, and there are many local versions. They take many forms, sometimes turning into beautiful white horses, goats or dogs or cats or other creatures that take people away, it's not clear where. All in all it's also a Siren-type creature.

6.21 Melusine Topyas

Topyas is by the big conch.

Topyas is from an English version of a similar Melusine story. In the medieval English saga Richard the Lion-Hearted, it is said that the mother of Richard I, King of England, had three children, the first being Richard and the third named Topyas.

7. Melusines in Erynas Ground

7.1 Melusine Leuca

Leuca is one of the two Melusine dialogues in the northeast corner of Erynas.

Leuca comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "white". The toponymic legend of a region in Italy called Santa Maria di Leuca mentions that their place was called Leuca because of a beautiful siren called Leucosia, who would attract passing farmers and sailors with her beautiful songs.

7.2 Melusine Mela

Mela is also one of the two Melusines in the Northeast Erynas Dialogue.

If you look at the spelling, Mela is just the ancient Greek word for "black".

Both of these Merusin names are ancient Greek for color, Leuca for white and Mela for black, and it is clear from their conversation that the topic of color is involved here.

8. Melusines in Fortress of Meropide

8.1 Melusine Sigewinne

Sigewinne is a Melusine-like figure in medieval High and Low German poetry who is also forced to marry, bathe, be seen with a snake's tail and then change. In some versions it is the marriage that breaks the curse or the jumping into a spiritual fountain to change back into a beautiful woman. It's usually spelled Sigeminne, with Sigewinne being a variant spelling.

9. The Creature of Abyss and Teyvat

As a creature of the Abyss, Melusine sees things differently from humans (doubtful, many of the things Melusine describes are similar to the average human).

Perhaps at the beginning of the birth of the world of Teyvat it was the Light Realm and the Void Realm against each other, and in the end the Light Realm prevailed, and the world was a habitable place for the creatures of the Light Realm. And the Abyss of the Void Realm may have been trying to reoccupy Tivat all along and turn it into a habitable environment for the Abyss. But this is all just speculation.

To summarize, there are three main types of images from which the names of Melusine are taken. The first is the princesses, heroines and prophetesses in various myths and legends or fairy tales, the second is the humanoid spirits, especially those with the description of "fairy" or female image, and the third is the semi-humanoid species, mainly mermaids or mermaid snakes, and partly goats or Sirens with a little bit of birds. It can be said that the impression of this fantasy and empty space is carried out.