THE BEGINNING
The electro archon sought to create a puppet body who could inherit her power and rule over Inazuma in her stead, as she desired to retreat into her own mind and meditate on the true meaning of "eternity” while escaping erosion. But before the Raiden Shogun (Ei) managed to create a finalized puppet of her own godly form, she took it up herself to create prototype puppets, with Scaramouche being one of them.After observing the puppet shed tears during his sleep, Ei thought it would be too cruel to interfere with his fate or end his existence, deciding to “free him” instead. Rather than disposing of her prototype, Ei instead opted to seal away his divine power, placing him into stasis in a hidden mansion on Inazuma's Yashiori Island called Shakkei Pavilion.Later on, the puppet came to believe that she had deemed him a failure and for that, abandoned him. For a long time the puppet, whose sole possession was a golden feather given to him by the Electro Archon, was only capable of observing his surroundings as his perception of reality slowly slipped away from him. Eventually, he was discovered and freed by Inspector Mikoshi Nagamasa's yoriki Katsuragi, who had come across the hidden pavilion after a landslide. In order to hide the puppet's noble origins, Katsuragi claimed to have found him wandering by the shore instead. Nagamasa's group referred to him as the Kabukimono (wandering eccentric), as he had no name at the time. The Kabukimono grew close with Katsuragi and, after the forging of the Daitatara Nagamasa, performed a sword dance with him.Dottore, who had infiltrated Tatarasuna to pave the groundwork for the Fatui's future endeavors in Inazuma, disguised himself as Escher and revolutionized the forging process in the Mikage Furnace to help smith weapons by using Crystal Marrow. However, the people did not know that the marrow was the remains of Orobashi and that it contained malevolent energy, which began to kill the people over time. Kabukimono went to the Shogun to request an audience, while Niwa Hisahide was murdered by Dottore. The Kabukimono was unsuccessful in getting the Shogun's aid and, when he returned, was told by Dottore that Niwa had fled and left the people to his fate. The Kabukimono proceeded to enter the heart of the furnace with a mysterious box that Dottore gave him and purged the furnace of its filth, which he survived in spite of the load being extreme. When Dottore told him to open the box, he found a withered human heart, which Dottore claimed was from a subordinate that Niwa had killed. The idea that Niwa gave him the heart he so desired through an act of immense cruelty horrified the Kabukimono, and overwhelmed with anger and sorrow, he threw the heart away and left Tatarasuna. He would come to regard Niwa's presumed actions as the second of his life's betrayals.At some point after this, he befriended a young boy plagued with an illness, who was a child of Tatarasuna crafts-people. The boy made a promise to live together with him as family, but later died, breaking his promise. The Kabukimono considered this his life's third and final betrayal, and he began wandering across Inazuma.ㅤ(x)
THE FATUI
The puppet eventually was found by Pierro, who persuaded him to join the Fatui and take his place at the banquet against the divine. Intrigued by the Jester's words, he joined their ranks and had his innate power as an Archon's creation unlocked in exchange for becoming a subject of Dottore's research and experiments. The following century, he would lead an expedition to the Abyss per orders of the Tsaritsa. After a series of injuries, repairs and enhancements, the puppet would eventually finish his expedition and bring result back to Snezhnaya, gaining the position of The Balladeer, the Sixth of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers, in the process. Since then, his orders were changed to constantly be on standby, assisting the clandestine activities of the Fatui across the world, which includes helping Pierro with more expeditions to the Abyss.ㅤ(x)
THE CASE OF THE ECCENTRIC
At some point in time, the Futsu, Hyakume and Senju arts of Inazuma's famous five bladesmithing practices, the Raiden Gokaden, fell from grace as a result of Scaramouche's manipulations, done in an act of revenge against "the bladesmith." Scaramouche also took on the name "Kunikuzushi" during this time. Scaramouche then turned his attention towards the Isshin Art and sabotaged a diagram of a Goshintou blade, which caused all of the Isshin craftsmen to create defective blades and flee when the deadline approached, taking refuge with the Fatui and entering exile in Snezhnaya.Kaedehara Yoshinori and the Yashiro head at the time proceeded to hunt the craftsmen, but were led to Scaramouche who confessed to the crime before dispatching the entire group with ease. However, he appeared to recognize Yoshinori and asked him if he knew of "Niwa," which he confirmed. Scaramouche then told him to let "her" know his name, Kunikuzushi, before leaving. The incident caused Yoshinori and the Yashiro head to never speak of the incident for fear of Scaramouche's retribution. Yoshinori also decided to no longer maintain the Isshin Art.ㅤ(x)
THE GNOSIS
Sometime later, Scaramouche was tasked with overseeing a secret factory on Yashiori Island in his homeland Inazuma that was manufacturing Delusions using the congealed negative emotions of long-dead gods. The Delusions were being distributed to a resistance faction on Inazuma's Watatsumi Island that was openly rebelling against the Shogun's rule after she implemented a law known as the "Vision Hunt Decree" that demanded all Inazuman citizens to hand their Visions over to the authorities. The Vision Hunt Decree had been orchestrated by the Fatui as a way to destabilize Inazuma and create a market for their Delusions.After the Delusions distributed by the Fatui began causing the deterioration and death of Watatsumi soldiers, the Traveler, who had been working with the resistance to rebel against the Shogun, discovered the Fatui's secret factory and decided to put a stop to their operation. Storming the facility, the Traveler fought their way to the center of the factory where Scaramouche confronted them. The Balladeer dismissed the Traveler's disgust towards the Fatui's Delusion operation, claiming that there was nothing for them to be upset over as the loss of human life was ultimately meaningless.He also revealed the full extent of the Fatui's machinations in Inazuma, explaining that it was them that had orchestrated the Vision Hunt Decree to increase their power in the nation. The congealed remnants of the gods that inhabited the factory began feeding off of the Traveler's resentment, overwhelming them and rendering them unconscious. Before the Balladeer could kill the helpless Traveler, the Shogun's familiar, Yae Miko arrived and offered Scaramouche the Electro Archon's Gnosis if he spared the Traveler. Scaramouche accepted the offer and subsequently broke off contact with the Fatui, going on the run with the Gnosis in hand.ㅤ(x)
ASCENSION
Scaramouche later began working with the Second Fatui Harbinger Il Dottore and the sages in charge of the Sumeru Akademiya, a prestigious scholastic institute that governed the nation of Sumeru, to use the power of the Electro Gnosis to turn the former Sixth Harbinger into a god.The sages of the Sumeru Akademiya were dissatisfied with their current God of Wisdom, known as Lesser Lord Kusanali, and thus were eager to create a new god to take her place as an infinite source of wisdom and power. The sages began pooling the nation’s resources to create a gigantic mechanical suit to serve as a divine vessel for the power of the Gnosis. The Akademiya was then able to convert the Gnosis into a divine core (with the help of the Doctor) that would power the divine vessel, before next infusing it with divine knowledge that they hoped would grant the finished product with the omniscience of a God of Wisdom.Sure enough, as the development of the divine vessel progressed, Scaramouche began to take form as a god. Haypasia, a scholar of the Akademiya, and later on, the Traveler, saw visions of Scaramouche’s past and ideals when she tried to spiritually connect to Irminsul, a tree that served as the divine source of wisdom and the source of the God of Wisdom's power.ㅤ(x)In Joururi Workshop, the Automaton Shouki no Kami (正機の神) is built containing Scaramouche's body, though the sages had yet to embed the divine knowledge capsules inside of the construct. here, he battles with the traveler but ultimatelyloses. Upon victory, Nahida rips the Electro Gnosis out of Scaramouche's body.
WANDERER
After his defeat as Shouki no Kami by the Traveler and Buer, recovering and learning that Dottore was responsible for the Tatarasuna incident, Scaramouche erases all information of his entire existence from Irminsul, hoping to change the past and give those in the past a second chance in life. His efforts however only led to Teyvat forgetting him and his history rather than directly changing any past event. Scaramouche becomes the Wanderer as a result, though his new life of wandering only made him crave a purpose.However, he realises that removing himself from Irminsul would not change the events that happened beforehand, so Nahida used a back up of his memories that was once inside the Dendro Gnosis (the Akasha system) that the Sages had created to take control of Shouki no Kami from his immobile body as well as deserting the Fatui, giving them back to the Wanderer, forcing him into another loop where he has to fight his past identity of Shouki no Kami. Afterwards, the gives a new name the Wanderer, and Nahida orders the Traveler to inform the true story about the fall of the Raiden Gokaden to Amenoma Tougou, among the last survivors of the Raiden Gokaden in the present.ㅤ(x)