Sightlines and Camera Tricks
Last updated 2026-09-09
Sightlines and Camera Tricks is an Event Quest during the Final Long-Range Sightlines Event.
Steps
- Talk to Chevreuse
Dialogue
Quest DescriptionA special training ground has been set up in the southern section of Lumidouce Harbor in Fontaine...
- (Approach Chasca, Chevreuse and Turenna)
- Chevreuse: ...Terminal ballistics are impeccable, and the dispersion is close to the ideal.
- Chevreuse: According to our assessment models here at the Maison Gardiennage's weapons bureau, your weapon is very much a "cannon."
- Chevreuse: It's just a shame that we'd need at least two teams' worth of manpower to deploy your "musket" in the field. It's too complicated to use...
- Chasca: Thank you for the approval, Officer Chevreuse. Actually, I don't think the high barrier to entry's a bad thing. Before I had the "Soulsniper: Ritual Staff" custom-made by Xilonen, we agreed that...
- Chasca: "The stronger the weapon, the stricter its usage standards should be."
- Chasca: Apart from their difficulty of use, I've even considered placing a "moral cognition-based lock" on such weapons.
- Chasca: That way, we can ensure they are wielded by the right people, preventing any immense damage resulting from criminal theft.
- Turenna: That's a fair concern, Officer Chasca. Weapon theft that leads to committed crimes is not uncommon here in Fontaine.
- Paimon: Wow, so many old friends!
- Paimon: Fontaine's Maison Gardiennage, Natlan's "Flower-Feather Clan"... and a Knight of Favonius? What's going on with this little gathering of yours?
Reconvening the multilateral exchange?- Another joint wargame?
- Chevreuse: Bullseye. You caught on to the situation immediately, (Traveler).
- Chevreuse: Some time back, the Special Patrol sent Turenna to Liyue to take part in a joint wargame. That wargame became the catalyst for ever more frequent exchanges between the armed forces of various nations.
- Chevreuse: This time around, it's the routine "Ballistic Wargame" between Fontaine and Mondstadt — aimed at sharpening combatants' battlefield-planning capabilities on all sides.
- Turenna: And this time, thanks to our friends in the Knights of Favonius putting in a good word, the warriors of Natlan's "Flower-Feather Clan" have joined the wargame as well.
- Turenna: The Flower-Feather Clan warriors are skilled at firing while in flight — they've opened the doors to a whole new world for us!
- Paimon: Hmm... The Knights must have gotten to know the Natlanese warriors during their expedition, then? Paimon should've thought of that sooner!
- Paimon: But what's a "Ballistic Wargame," really? Paimon understands every word individually, but put them together and it gets a little confusing...
- Doesn't shooting just mean firing the gun and being done with it?
- Are bullets allowed in wargames too?
- Chasca: Aha, if everyone had unlimited ammunition, you'd just hold down the trigger, and most enemies would be no problem at all.
- Chasca: But combat is a long-drawn-out process. A shooter can only carry so much ammunition, so every shot needs to land — and to land strategically.
- Chasca: So the Knights of Favonius have developed a new type of grenade to help shooters sharpen their understanding. The principle behind it is a little complicated, though...
- Chevreuse: As for the specifics, I'll let our friend from the Knights of Favonius walk you through it.
- (Hedwig runs over to the group)
- Hedwig: Coming, coming — apologies! I was buried in report-organizing and hadn't even noticed the Honorary Knight and (his/
her) little white companion. My greetings to you both! - Hedwig: I'm Hedwig, member of the Knights of Favonius's General Affairs Company. I'm in charge of recording proceedings for this wargame, and coordinating between the gunsmiths and our other allies...
- Hedwig: Speaking of which — the device for this round actually has a connection to you two. Do you remember the strange Samachurl statue that once appeared in Dadaupa Gorge?
- Vaguely. Long time ago, that.
- Don't remember. Doesn't matter, does it?
- Paimon: Even Paimon's a bit fuzzy on it. Hedwig, why don't you give us the short version?
- Hedwig: Right then. I'll skip past the old legends and the scattered intel and cut to it —
- Hedwig: According to the Investigation Company's findings, that statue was the work of an ancient Samachurl. The "Ladler of Broth" Churldric had taken an unused Domain and reshaped it into a place to drill his battle formations.
- Hedwig: The Honorary Knight defeated one of Churldric's lingering shadows back then, which caused the Domain to collapse — and the "Eyes of Upano" that oversaw the formations scattered out into the open.
- Hedwig: Once the Support Company had a sample in hand, they spent the better part of a year carefully disassembling and analyzing it. Eventually they got the technology figured out, combined it with the design principles of Liyue's overhead surveillance devices...
- Hedwig: ...And produced a kind of visualizing "observation grenade" — meant for long-range reconnaissance, so a shooter can gather information from a position of safety.
- Paimon: What a roundabout journey... Paimon never imagined that little fellow we wrapped up without much fanfare would leave behind such a mysterious treasure!
- Chevreuse: The upshot is, in a wargame setting, the "observation grenade" lets shooters see through the eyes of the round in flight — deepening their grasp of trajectory and obstacles...
- Chevreuse: ...So they can practice shooting strategies geared toward different scenarios. It works on quite a few clever little angles!
- Chasca: As for us Flower-Feather Clan members, our Saurian-riders often have difficulty determining the effects of shots we make while riding our Qucusaurs. We are up in the sky, after all, with our targets being far away...
- Chasca: These observation grenades can thus help us conduct battlefield damage assessments... That's a term I learned from the Special Patrol, by the by — it's a very concise concept.
- Sounds pretty neat.
- Glad to be of help.
- Hedwig: At present, the people involved in the wargame have completed everything our two leaders, Chasca and Chevreuse, have designated for them.
- Hedwig: All that's left is to complete our wargame with an expanded sample.
- Hedwig: Since you're here, Honorary Knight, would you like to try it out?
- Turenna: By all means!
- Turenna: I did notice during the Fontinalia Film Festival that you're quite a crack shot, and an inspired one, too.
- Chevreuse: That's perfect.
- Chevreuse: I'm personally interested to see how much your marksmanship's improved over the years, (Traveler).
- Chevreuse: And from the perspective of the wargame, your lack of familiarity with the observation grenades means that you can form an excellent control group for us.
- Paimon: Heh. Y'know, (Traveler)... It does feel like this grenade thing has real history with us.
- Paimon: Might as well try its effects for ourselves, eh? It should be pretty fun!
- Guess I'll have to step up and take this seriously.
- A bit of marksmanship practice is good for me too.
- Paimon: Totally! An extra skill's an extra skill, right? Never know if we'll run into some sorta... bad guy who can only be taken out with muskets or something!
- Hedwig: Great! In that case, I'll prepare the venue and notify all those we have playing as targets!
- Hedwig: The rules are simple: Make as few "adjustments" as possible while defeating your targets efficiently...
- Chevreuse: I should first say that this drill was made to be tough. Even the Special Patrol's previous marksmanship instructor, Enghiene, was barely able to pass...
- Chevreuse: But I suspect you'll do just fine.
- Chasca: Of course, there's no need to feel pressured. Sometimes, shooting is not just about technique, but also about inspiration that arrives as light as feathers, and a little luck to send it off on the wind.
- Chasca: Don't think of this as a test, but more as a relaxing game. Perhaps you'll gain something unexpected from all this, hmm?
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | Sightlines and Camera Tricks | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 瞄准线与视角魔法 | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 瞄準線與視角魔法 | |
| Japanese | 照準線と視角の魔法 | |
| Korean | 조준선과 각도의 마법 Jojunseon'gwa Gakdoui Mabeop | |
| Spanish | La magia de la puntería y el ángulo | |
| French | Lignes de visée et astuces de caméra | Sightlines and Camera Tricks |
| Russian | Магия прицеливания и перспективы Magiya pritselivaniya i perspektivy | |
| Thai | เส้นเล็งและเวทมุมมอง | |
| Vietnamese | Phép Màu Từ Đường Ngắm Và Góc Nhìn | |
| German | Sichtlinien und perspektivische Magie | |
| Indonesian | Garis Pandang dan Trik Kamera | |
| Portuguese | Linhas de Visão e Truques de Câmera | |
| Turkish | Görüş Hatları ve Kamera Hileleri | |
| Italian | Linee di tiro e trucchi con la telecamera |
Change History
Released in Version "Luna VIII"