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- Makoto and Nameless Bard both embody ideals Venti and Ei would come to embrace. For Venti, Nameless bard directly inspired his love for freedom. For Ei, Makoto’s vision of Eternity through Transience was initially rejected by Ei before eventually coming to understand, embrace, and adopt it by the end of her second story quest

- Both Nameless Bard and Makoto died as a result of war. Nameless Bard died in the rebellion against Decarabin and Makoto died during the cataclysm

- Istaroth was involved in both deaths in some way. Nameless Bard played a song belonging to Istaroth in order to protect the people in the aftermath of Decarabin’s death, which resulted in him dying and his name being removed from time. With Makoto, it’s a bit more ambiguous at the moment but it appears that before she died Istaroth helped her preserve a piece of her soul in the Musou Isshin and gave her the seed to plant the Sacred Sakura.

- While Venti and Ei are no longer consumed by grief, the losses do still bring them sadness when they recall them

- An interesting thing is how they both reacted to their losses. Makoto’s death (along with all of the other deaths during the cataclysm) left Ei deeply traumatized. This eventually resulted in her enforcing the vision hunt decree. The reason being is that she came to associate mortal ambition with death, this is rooted in the cataclysm as she appears to have initially believed ambition is what caused the cataclysm and invoked Celestia’s wrath. Visions are granted through great mortal ambition, so, in her eyes, if she removed visions people would be less inclined to pursue their ambitions and thus nobody would die. She would of course later come to see the error of her ways. Venti’s reaction was almost the exact opposite, instead of letting grief consume him he carried on the nameless bard’s will and made Mondstadt the land of freedom it is today.

- Most people don’t know Makoto and Nameless Bard existed. Nameless Bard’s name and memory were wiped from time with Venti being the only one to remember. As for Makoto, most Inazumans believed there has only ever been one Raiden Shogun, they don’t know that Makoto was a different goddess and died

Original by @miraii_akira on Twitter

Original found here: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/110186284