Hues of the Violet Garden is the Irodori Festival event in Genshin Impact. Here's the release date, prerequisites, a quick start guide, mini-games, primogem rewards, and Inazuma festival lore!

Hues of the Violet Garden Event Guides
Moon & Stars Inscribe	Theater Mechanicus	Clash of Lone Blades
The Floral Courtyard	Kasen Quest Chain	Friendship in Writing

Hues of the Violet Garden Event Information

Event Start	April 07, 2022
Event End	April 25, 2022
Event Rewards	+ Talent-Up Materials + Free Xingqiu + New Recipe & Furnishing

Hues of the Violet Garden is an event that celebrates Inazuma's Irodori Festival. You can play two quest chains and four sub-events during the event. You'll even get Primogems, a Crown of Insight, and other rewards by playing through the quests and mini-games!

How to Unlock Hues of the Violet Garden

Irodori Festival Prerequisites

Basic Requirements	• Reach Adventure Rank 30+ • Finish Ritou Escape Plan in Ch. 2: Act 1
Recommended Quests	• Ayato's Story Quest • Raiden's Story Quest Act 2 • Kokomi's Story Quest

You actually only need to complete "Ritou Escape Plan" in the Archon Quest for Chapter 2: Act 1 to unlock Hues of the Violet Garden.

Genshin recommends you complete Ayato, Raiden, and Kokomi's story quests for full immersion but you don't really need to do them to unlock the event.

How to Quick Start in Hues of the Violet Garden

The "Quick Start" button lets you play Hues of the Violet Garden right away without having to do any of the recommended Story Quests.

There isn't much of a difference starting the event this way. The only notable thing we observed is that you don't get the character introduction banners for the story quest characters during the main event quest chain if you've played their story quests.

Hues of the Violet Garden Event Schedule

Phase & Date	Hues of the Violet Garden Unlocks
Apr. 7, 2022	• True Tales 1 Quest • Irodori Anecdotes 1 Quest • Moon & Stars Inscribe Sub-Event 　└ Irodori Poetry 1 Challenge
Apr. 8, 2022	• Irodori Poetry 2 Challenge
Apr. 9, 2022	• True Tales 2 Quest • Irodori Anecdotes 2 Quest • Irodori Poetry 3 Challenge • Theater Mechanicus 2.6 Sub-Event • Theater Mechanicus Stage 1: 　└ Stage 1 Show of Force 　└ Stage 1 Enter the Horde
Apr. 10, 2022	• Theater Mechanicus Stage 2: 　└ Stage 2 Show of Force 　└ Stage 2 Enter the Horde
Apr. 11, 2022	• True Tales 3 Quest • Irodori Anecdotes 3 Quest • Theater Mechanicus Stage 3: 　└ Stage 3 Show of Force 　└ Stage 3 Enter the Horde • Clash of Lone Blades Sub-Event 　└ Clash of Lone Blades 1 Challenge • Floral Courtyard Sub-Event 　└ Floral Courtyard 1 Challenge
Apr. 12, 2022	• Theater Mechanicus Stage 4: 　└ Stage 4 Show of Force 　└ Stage 4 Enter the Horde • Clash of Lone Blades 2 • Floral Courtyard 2
Apr. 13, 2022	• Clash of Lone Blades 3 • Floral Courtyard 3
Apr. 14, 2022	• Clash of Lone Blades 4 • Floral Courtyard 4

Hues of the Violet Garden Event Quests

Quest Type	Individual Quests
Legends of the Kasen	True Tales of the Violet Garden: Act 1
	True Tales of the Violet Garden: Act 2
	True Tales of the Violet Garden: Act 3
	True Tales of the Violet Garden: Act 4
Irodori Anecdotes	Irodori Anecdotes Part 1
	Irodori Anecdotes Part 2
	Irodori Anecdotes Part 3
	Irodori Anecdotes Part 4

Hues of the Violet Garden quests are divided into two categories: Legends of the Kasen and Irodori Anecdotes. Legends of the Kasen is the main event chain while Irodori Anecdotes are side quests that highlight characters foreign to Inazuma.

Hues of the Violet Garden Quests

Hues of the Violet Garden Events

Sub-Events Under Hues of the Violet Garden
The Moon & Stars Inscribe	Theater Mechanicus
Clash of Lone Blades	The Floral Courtyard

The Moon and Stars Inscribe

Take photos and unlock stanzas in the Hues of the Violet Garden's poetry event! Complete the poem themes Nostalgia, Friendship, and Parting to unlock all rewards from this sub-event.

The Moon and Stars Inscribe Guides
Irodori Poetry 1: Nostalgia	Inazuma Specialty Photos
Irodori Poetry 2: Friendship	Inazuma Animal Photos
Irodori Poetry 3: Parting	Mondstadt Specialty Photos
Event Guide & How to Play

Theater Mechanicus

Genshin Impact's favorite tower defense game is back for Hues of the Violet Garden! This 2.6 rerun has new features like default mechanici placements and stick configurations. Each stage also has quirks and two modes. Complete both modes to get all the rewards!

Theater Mechanicus 2.6 Guides
Stage 1 Show of Force	Stage 1 Enter the Horde
Stage 2 Show of Force	Stage 2 Enter the Horde
Stage 3 Show of Force	Stage 3 Enter the Horde
Stage 4 Show of Force	Stage 4 Enter the Horde
Event Guide & How to Play

Clash of Lone Blades

Learn and use a new parry mechanic to win challenges in Hues of the Violet Garden's sword fight event. No Elemental Skills or Bursts are allowed, You can only use pure swordsmanship to defeat all enemies and get the rewards!

Theater Mechanicus 2.6 Guides
Day 1: Ookubo Sanzaemon	Day 2: Yasuhiko Tarou
Day 3: Mishima Michitoshi	Day 4: Taroumaru
Event Guide & How to Play

The Floral Courtyard

Follow floral themes and arrange flowers in Hues of the Violet Garden's Ikebana event. You even get to keep the floral furnishings from the event as a reward!

Theater Mechanicus 2.6 Guides
Part 1	Part 2
Part 3	Part 4
Event Guide & How to Play

Hues of the Violet Garden Rewards

Get a Free Xingqiu Reward

Play through the Hues of the Violet Garden event to claim Xingqiu for free! Completing all the criteria in Friendship in Writing will make you eligible for invitation.

Friendship in Writing Guide

All Hues of the Violet Garden Rewards

All Irodori Festival Rewards
Primogem x1000	Crown of Insight x1	Mora x740,000
Hero's Wit x66	Adventurer's Experience x56	Wanderer's Advice x56
Philosophies of Transience x6	Philosophies of Elegance x6	Philosophies of Light x6
Guide to Transience x29	Guide to Elegance x29	Guide to Light x29
Mystic Enhancement Ore x66	Orange Sakura Kurotobi Flower Vessel x1	Gold-Patterned Butterfly Wings Flower Vessel x1
Mountain Silhouettes Flower Vessel x1	Dawn Kogecha Flower Vessel x1	“The Five Kasen” Nishiki-e x1
Let's Go, Dodoco! x1	Mt. Yougou Night Walk Red Kitsune Doll x1	Statue of Her Excellency x1
Rainbow Aster Recipe x1

Battle Pass Quests and Rewards

By completing the last stages of each event mini-game, you can get a total of 5700 Battlepass Experience Points to advance your BP Level!

Irodori Festival Story and Lore

Organized by the Yae Publishing House and the Yashiro Commission

The Irodori Festival is one of the traditional festivals celebrating poetry in Inazuma. This year, the Yae Publishing House headed by Yae Miko had decided to expand the festival's scope to include Light Novels in the celebration, with the help of Kamisato Ayato and the Yashiro Commission.

Celebrate Poetry and Light Novels

Yae Miko's reasoning, revealed during the True Tales of the Violet Garden: Act 1 quest, is that poetry was celebrated because it used to be the popular form of entertainment in the past, and they must now adjust to the present, where people are more into Light Novels. Thus, the Yashiro Commission invited poets, writers, and bards from Mondstadt and Liyue to participate in the festival.

Irodori Festival Books

The Irodori Festival is mainly celebrated in Ritou, where stalls have been set up to showcase various, newly published, written works. Authors also get to meet fans and sign copies of their published works during the festival.

A Legend of Sword Showcase

The author and artist for the popular ''A Legend of Sword'' series also attended the festival! The author of A Legend of Sword, Xingqiu, attended under his pen name, ''Zhenyu.''

The artist for A Legend of Sword, Albedo, attended the Irodori Festival under his pen name, ''Calx.''

Albedo also brought along his sister, Klee! The Traveler gets to spend more time with Klee during the Irodori Anecdotes: Part 1 quest, ''A Story for You.''

Newly Published Books in the Irodori Festival

Irodori Festival Books
Pretty Please, Kitsune Guuji?	Shogun Almighty: Reborn as Raiden	Teyvat Travel Guide - Inazuma

Players can also buy several books from the Yae Publishing House in Inazuma City or their stall in Ritou, manned by the NPC Murata!

Legend of the Five Kasen

Part of the Irodori Festival is celebrating ''The Five Kasen,'' five legendary poets who were known for regularly presenting their poetry to the Raiden Shogun herself.

The Five Kasen Plaza

Albedo became in charge of creating the centre-piece of the Irodori Festival, five illustrations of ''The Five Kasen'' unveiled throughout the course of the festival at the Five Kasen Plaza.

Using Other Characters' Likeness

Member of the Five Kasen	Character Inspiration
Suikou	Venti
Ao no Okina	Xingqiu
Akahito	Kazuha
Sumizome	Ayaka
Kuronushi	Scaramouche

Albedo admitted to taking inspiration from the people he had met during the festival in his illustrations, with the exception of the final piece. For the likeness of Kuronushi, Albedo talked to a certain someone to get inspiration.

Many legends and stories have been told about The Five Kasen, with one such story being the center of the True Tales of the Violet Garden quests during the festival event.

Legends of the Kasen Quest Guide

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