The Song Burning in the Embers
Last updated 2026-04-11
The Song Burning in the Embers is an animated short released by official Genshin Impact media on April 17, 2024. It provides the first in-person appearances of Clervie and the previous Knave, Crucabena, who had not yet been seen in-game at the time of the video's release.
The video depicts the story of Peruere, now known as the fourth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, during her time in the House of the Hearth under the leadership of Crucabena.
Description
Some believe that growing up is to gradually break free from the shackles.
Fate sets the most brutal rules for us, turning day into night, leaving the future dwelling in but the lingering warmth of dreams.
Thus, our weapons clash, burying the remnants of another setting sun, and welcoming the next rising dawn.
Then, when the cage shatters, once and for all—
May gentle flames envelop the shriveled flowers, with their song echoing in the embers.
VA:
Clervie — Dawn Bennett
Crucabena — Jennifer Sun Bell
Peruere — Erin Yvette
Director of the Fatui, "The Jester" Pierro — Richard Tatum
Transcript
- (Storybook sequence begins.)
- Crucabena: You were born into this world all alone
- Crucabena: But here in the House of the Hearth, you will grow up to be strong. Your goal is to learn, to compete, to defeat all your brothers and sisters in battle, and become "King"
- (Crucabena closes the book and scene changes to a shot of the children of the House of the Hearth listening to the story)
- Children: Wow...
- Crucabena: Where's Peruere? Didn't she want to hear the story?
- Blonde-haired Girl: 'Scuse me, mother! She's doing a funeral for her spider
- (The scene cuts to Peruere sitting in front of a tree, preparing to bury her spider.)
- Crucabena: That child... Maybe her curse is flaring up again. Clervie, see to her
- Clervie: Oh, okay
- Clervie: I brought cake
- Clervie: You... You want some?
- Peruere: Sure
- (The scene cuts to show Clervie's cake placed in front of the spider's grave.)
- Peruere: You must know spiders don't eat cake
- Clervie: Oh...! Yeah, I know!
- (Series of montage shows Clervie and Peruere doing several activities and having fun, ending with both of them reading a book together in a dark hall)
- (The scene cuts to show two dolls that resembles Clervie and Peruere with a tray of first aid kit next to it.)
- Peruere: Do mothers usually argue with their daughters?
- (Clervie raises her bandaged hand with a bow in it and opens the window nearby.)
- Clervie: I heard that in Snezhnaya, colored light dances in the sky at night...
- Clervie: When we're grown up...
- Clervie: Shall we go see it together?
- (Scene cuts to a close-up of Peruere's eyes and then cuts again to the same shot, now with a wound on her face.)
- Clervie: You will be... a great "King"
- (The fog dissipates and reveals Clervie being impaled by a sword.)
- Clervie: I'm sorry...
- Clervie: ...Thank you
- (Clervie fall down to the ground as she succumbs to her injuries. Peruere stands silently as it started to rain.)
- (Scene transitions from black screen to the now ruined House of the Hearth in the aftermath of a battle, and the scene changes to Peruere walking up to Crucabena with a sword.)
- Crucabena: I should have pruned this flower long ago, not waited till it wilts... How grotesque
- Crucabena: Wouldn't you agree?
- (Peruere charges at Crucabena, causing an explosion. Crucabena blocks her sword attack.)
- Crucabena: Hmph
- (Peruere continues to attack Crucabena.)
- Crucabena: Innocence and kindness are such beautiful qualities...
- Crucabena: Sadly... they're also useless
- (Crucabena charges at Peruere, which she avoided and throws Crucabena into the air. Peruere chases Crucabena through the halls as the battle continues.)
- Crucabena: A bird tied down will never fly the nest. You are no exception
- (Peruere charges her fist with a red-colored aura and Crucabena summoned a sword using her Hydro power. Their powers clash and Peruere is thrown into a pillar, destroying it. Injured Peruere looks at the wilted blue flower and visibly saddened.)
- Crucabena: Surrender
- Crucabena: Let your "Mother" guide you, and you shall become the one true "King"!
- (Peruere raises from the rubble)
- Crucabena: Hmph!
- (Crucabena attacks Peruere. Peruere dodges all of the attacks with ease and blocked Crucabena's last attack.)
- Peruere: "Mother"
- (Peruere kicks Crucabena into the ceiling, shattering all of the ceiling's glass.)
- Peruere: My answer...
- (The building starts to crumble as Peruere launch one last attack on Crucabena using her power.)
- Peruere: Is no
- (Peruere's final attack causes a big explosion, thus destroying the building. Scene cuts to black.)
- (Scene transitions from black screen to Peruere sitting alone on a chair inside a prison cell.)
- Guard 1: She killed the Harbinger?
- Guard 2: Shhh!
- (A snowflake briefly lands and flies into the colorful night sky.)
- (Scene cuts to the outside of a mausoleum)
- Pierro: Her Majesty, the Tsaritsa, has decreed as follows:
- (Scene cuts to the inside of the mausoleum. Pierro, The Balladeer, Signora, and The Captain are standing in front of Peruere.)
- Pierro: "I hereby pardon your crimes, and bestow upon you a new name"
- Pierro: "This title and its legacy of bloodshed are now yours to bear, my poor, mad, cursed Knave"
- (Scene cuts to a ruined building. A blonde-haired child walks alone with a sack. Peruere approaches the child and pats him.)
- Peruere: Come with me. I will raise you as my child
- Peruere: Like a strict and unfeeling "Father"
- (The child's eyes widen as the scene cuts to Peruere, with a cold and stern emotion.)
Gallery
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Trivia
- The blonde girl with the Bulle Fruit hair ornament, whose role is not credited in the video description, is voiced by Kendell Byrd in English[1] and by Nagatsuki Aoi in Japanese.[2] In their announcements on Twitter, her name is given as Lily (Japanese: リリー Ririi).
Other Languages
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | The Song Burning in the Embers | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 烬中歌 Jìn Zhōng Gē | The Song in the Embers |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 燼中歌 Jìn Zhōng Gē | |
| Japanese | 燼中歌 Jinchuuka[!] | The Song in the Embers |
| Korean | 잿불의 노래 Jaetburui Norae | |
| Spanish | Canto en las cenizas | Song in the Ashes |
| French | Une chanson née dans les cendres | A Song Born in the Ashes |
| Russian | Горящая в золе песнь Goryashchaya v zole pesn' | The Song Burning in the Ashes |
| Thai | บทเพลงกลางเถ้าธุลี | |
| Vietnamese | Bài Ca Trong Tàn Tro | The Song in the Ashes |
| German | Das Lied in der Glut | The Song in the Embers |
| Indonesian | Lagu dalam Bara Api | The Song in the Embers |
| Portuguese | A Canção das Cinzas | |
| Turkish | Kor Gibi Yanan Şarkı | |
| Italian | Canzone tra le ceneri |
References
- ↑ Twitter: EN VA Self Announcement (Image)
- ↑ Twitter: JP VA Self Announcement (Image)
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