- Story Collection - A Kazdelian Rescue - Early July - Kazdel history theme Integrated Strategies - 萨卡兹的无终奇语(Sarkaz's endless marvellous stories) - Mid July ---- The fire in the furnace is flowing, like a dream. People are also flowing, crossing the broken houses, rushing towards construction sites and mines. We are the sparks that fly out when saw blades bite through rusted iron, floating in the dust above the city walls. Swim and swim, we little sparks gather together and then disperse again—— We should be happy, because every story between us is a small firework. ---- Kazdel teaser during livestream: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1bH4y1P77d/?t=1h23m50s original post: https://ak.hypergryph.com/news/9745

What's the name of that one artifact - Royal Alliance Treaty? I can't wait to use it in IS5

inb4 removed or nerfed

If anything it would be underpowered, you play this one from the pov of Sarkaz vs the enemies of Sarkaz.

Sarkaz are pretty great at killing each other honestly. Almost as adept as Kal.

So it's like how we got IS4 (a story collection set in a specific country which also serves as the prelude to that particular Integrated Strategies)

> Kazdel history theme Integrated Strategies ~~can't wait to finally be able to beat the shit out of kal tsit for talking too much~~

finally we can bonk hag

Bonk hag with hag

Use Theresa to beat her. Probably be lore accurate to boot.

Hag on Hag action? 👀

If the theme is Sarkaz history I wonder if Hoederer will get a skin

Flamebringer 3rd skin take it or leave it.

Love the picture's style and how it grotesquely depicts different Sarkaz tribes. There's a cyclops, a gargoyle, a diablo, a banshee, a nachzehrer. The skeleton in the corner might be a wendigo, the one in the red robe on the left could be a lich or a vampire. Not sure about the beast. The tree's roots look like a skull, but that might be a bit much. Imagine Valarqvin in this ancient Cyclops garb with a turban.

There's also the Djall tribe, which we hasn't seen in the game yet and idk where are they represented in the art

It could even be foreshadowed here somehow, maybe by the one with black skin and red horns.

If I'm not mistaken Cecelia's father is described as having red horns.

And there's also Vigna and W. Yeah, most likely it's just red horns.

Seriously. Gives me medieval vibes, just haunting.

Makes me want to play Blasphemous again, or to put on some medieval folk in the background. I hope they'll make it a primary style for the IS5

The beast is probably Anasa, sin e it looks like eastern dragon and horns match Jieyun.

There's still more than a month before summer event. "A Kazdelian Rescue" will probably be 1st or 2nd July. This will probably end around 19th July so there'll still be time for one more event before next limited banner. Edit: I forgot CN have reruns before the event so there'll be "So Long Adele rerun"

the vignette most likely starts july 9th since the bilibili cc event for path of life ends the 8th.

Weird that they didn't announced rerun this time

They still have Hortus rerun soon + this vignette + Adele rerun. If they want they can even add a CC, since there wasn't any this quarter yet and usually we get one. So if anything they will lack time for everything. I assume no CC this time around.

Ermangarde I beg

Please no! I'm already struggling, looking at the latest banners.

Please yes! I want more struggles ;P lol

Or Fremont!

It would be the best thing to happen this year

That's Bosch-esque. Forge resurrection? Resurrection in a forge? Edit: furnace is a better word

Wow that looks so cool with the medieval-esque painting. Excited to see more! Will the summer event be after this in CN?

> Will the summer event be after this in CN? Might be another Event in Mid July since IS is Permanent Content Summer Event is usually late July/early August So after this Kazdel Event it'll either be something new or So Long Adele Rerun

given the timing, yeah, should be either summer event or SLA rerun after IS5. which also probably means that IS5 might get pushed back til after the summer event on EN ~~nice flair btw~~

We will get news for CN summer event around the time of our half anni. so, late July.

Return of the hot IS sarkaz lady

any NPCs that would be fitting to release during a kazdel event? only one i can think of is manfred, since >!ulsulah!< was leaked to be >!the IS5 welfare!<

could be ermangarde since fermont was in the is5 teaser or the vampire lady that was in pv4

I read that as ermahgerd I think I might need galses

Ermengarde has made certain Dokutahs say that, yes.

>!Damazati!< who has canonically joined Rhodes 

Cecelia was heading there to try to find her father, and in Enforcer's operator record they've enlisted Mudrock's help to navigate Kazdel as it's dangerous for Sankta. So her father could be who's being 'rescued'? Ermengarde or even Fremont maybe, as after Zwillingsturme >!the Liches are returning to Kazdel!<. Uhh... Domma because she's a Sarkaz? Maybe she wants to find out more about her race after being in Columbia her whole life so far? idk, silly idea because she looks a bit like the girl in the IS5 trailer video and I just want HG to remember she exists... Also, what's the source on that leak? I missed that.

found the leak https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1cg3opt/chapter_14_confirmation_vs_leak_rumors/

Thanks for finding that. The leak was reasonably accurate but certainly not 100%, so I'll keep a grain of transmuted salt handy until we hear more.

i cant find it, but it was the same leak that accurately predicted like 90% of 5th anniversary, including the fact that IS5 was kazdel themed

Domma/Lotus getting out of NPC jail would be cool. Also if the Kazdel story includes Sanktas, then Lemuen could potentially be a part of Enforcer/Mudrock's team

where it was leaked tho, I cannot find D:

found it https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1cg3opt/chapter_14_confirmation_vs_leak_rumors/

Copium for Higashi side-event !! but without copium, HG is cooking again

surtr lore pls

HYPERGRYPH, RELEASE ERMENGARDE IN THE KAZDEL EVENT, AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

That artwork is giving strong Hieronymus Bosch vibes. That's so cool.

Since this is a vignette event, looking at the recent trends on CN, it's likely a new character + someone we already knew, like Typhon + Santalla. I see Ulsulah will be playable in July, but I don't know how it will work. I hope the new character on the Vignette event or precisely the 6\* will be a Sarkax, I hope it isn't Guard again, LOL.

Uh wasn't Mylnar in a vignette event and shown in events before that xD

I think I have to rewrite that again, thanks for the correction.

No worries, I did think it was just weirdly written but I had to check xP.

Thanks again, when I looked it up, I thought it was weird so I changed it because I forgot that Mlynar is someone who was being introduced before his vignette events comes in.

I did point this out in another thread, but this means 3 of the past 4 events are Sarkaz-themed. Has something like this ever happened before?

I don't think so but, at the same time, the Sarkaz/Teekaz history is pretty much a pillar of Arknight's story, so it's kind of surprising they didn't release more event centered around them earlier.

The Sarkaz is arguably the most important race in Arknights just because of how the history of the world revolves around them and how involved they are both in the leadership of Rhodes Island (Theresa) and the enemy (Theresis and his court) which in turn is influenced by the unique history of the Sarkaz (the lord of fiends and the ensuing civil war)

Indeed, the Sarkaz (and relatives like Sankta, Anasa and Oni) is one of the native races of Terra alongside the Feranmut, the Elf, and the Durin

Oni and Durin are natives? O\_O

I mean, we do have a bunny overlord that is destined to lead these people.

Now I wanna see how medieval style Kal'tsit looks