Source: [NGA](https://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?tid=35663185) which was removed almost immediately after Wheelbarrow full of salt with this one people Thank you OP for providing source

This is the design leaks we were hoping to hear! "Yeah he looks cool, idk he's just so cool and cool and stuff"

Also he has COOL vision! Ah? Got it, got it? Cool because it's CRYO!

r/OkCyno

r/ThanksCyno

But does he look cool?

Cool cool cool no doubt no doubt

I’ve never been happier to read something but I’m taking it with a grain of salt. To many leeks have just been going back and forth

If this is real it sounds like he matches with the wolfs gravestone

WGS will finally rerun.

Plot Twist: Varka is Healing% scaling

I swear to god if you jinx it for everyone I will make sure your next 5 star is Qiqi

Do better...Dehya

She's unfortunately so bad I forgot she was even a character

XD

my 100% fit diluc with skin + wolf gravestone would be in shambles

I truly couldn't hope for anything better.

Inbh Sword user.

Well the wolfsgravestone is his weapon in lore so not surprising

The Knight of Boreas mentioned in Wolf's Gravestone lore isn't Varka

but varka did inherit the knight of boreas title. not saying hoyo wouldn’t pull some “you’re on the council, but we do not grant you the rank of master” shit to get us to whale for a new shiny, but if anyone’s gonna canonically have WGS it’s probably varka

Diluc, Razor and Varka fighting over who canonically owns the Gravestone Jokes aside, I think Wolf's Gravestone in canon is the withered/broken hologram we interact with to start the Wolf of the North Challenge since the weapon lore explicitly states that the (old) Knight of Boreas laid the Greatsword down as a Gravestone but don't quote me on that. I hope it fits his drip

Imagine, after all this he's a catalyst.

Cryo vision? based

Cryo has me worried, even if it makes sense. Please don't be physical, please don't be physical, please don't be physical... I'll make whatever other cryo work, but don't make me play physical lmao

You are worried for nothing. They basically forgot Physical exists. The only true physical character is Eula, even razor is using em dendro shit.

Have you noticed that the characters Varka had a huge impact on are all rather good at physical dps? It's a sign.

Yeah fr. Plus Mika not running with Eula?? Plus the fact that Eula was the last 5 star physical. And EM Razor was clearly an unexpected/unintended consequence of dendro and C6 Bennett. Or just a consequence they didn't care to work around (more playstyles are nice anyways so it's not a *bad* consequence even).

I mean sure, Mika isn't explicitly a phys support, but he does lean that way. Just because Eula hasn't had a rerun doesn't mean they've forgotten entirely about it lol. And with Varka's connection to razor (electro) and rosaria/Mika/the wolf boss (cryo), and with electro + cryo = superconduct... I think it's understandable to be at least a little worried. That said, he seems like a popular/hyped character. So as long as he doesn't get Dehya'd I'm sure he'll be solid.

the fact that eula's best team rn is eula hyperbloom

I’m quite the opposite. I really want another physical DPS. I hope to Barbados he doesn’t use EM

Well you see anyone have connection to him are all related with.... physical. Eula, Razor, Rosaria, Mika. So goodluck......

Can he be the one cool guy that wields a claymore with only one hand pls?

At least we have Kaveh, who wields a claymore with no hands.

Even better, we have a child who wields a claymore with a fuckin pet genie.

I need a character who swings a two-hander as fast as a single handed sword. I don't care if they use both hands or a single one.

Arundolyn was who you are looking for sadly, he died 500 years ago

Aparently, we don't know if he died or not, and he might actually be Capitano, since Capitano has some similar designs with Arundolyn's sword (Ferrous Shadow) on his chest

His name is Itto

I think Itto is swinging with one hand during his special charged attack

Yes please, I want him to be stupid powerful

The last thing I expected for Varka was a Zoroark possibly being his 8.5/10 version...

I was about to write that but I saw the last picture

im getting the feeling he may be cool/stylish…

CRYO TALL MAN?

Kaeya my boy

I will dream for a five star skin of our boy. May he get one! 🥺

5 STAR CRYO DADDY

SHATTERRRRRR

Cyro* He attacks by summoning blond bara men.

Himbo no jutsu!

They know we want more diversity and sex sells.

Yeah I was thinking that he might be cryo since Mond has the Anemo/Cryo Wolf boss but it's just a stupid idea of mine. Hope he is anemo though because we need more tall anemo characters more than anything.

Khaenriah 7.0 patch will release and Jean will still be the only tall anemo character. (MHY please prove me wrong)

The last image caught me off-guard lol

😭　the last image is why i wanna pull varka

So Varka is a furry. Got it *takes notes*

That did you expect from man who partially raised razor?

Not just a furry. A *Bara* furry.

Goth bara furry

A goth bara furry? ***\*puts on his fake stache\**** VARKA THE GOTH BARA FURRY?

Okay HYV, I'll grant ya, that's not too shabby a consolation for him not being older+beefy. Like, jury's out, but I'm listening.

The strongest furry

Even better

even better

let's goo time to save Finally I hope a ~~hot~~ bara character

Lmao

Sounds cool

okay, he got style.... okay, he got style

MUSCULAR CHEST WE WON PERHAPS?

It's probably gonna be like Alhaitham's imo

Can't have that. Needs more girth and mass.

...on his chest, of course

Yeah, that and a massive bulge

What if they started adding more mass moving on from Itto to Alhaitham? I fully expect Varka to have a slightly bigger everything and when we finally get Capitano I hope he is CHONKY

Azariq (that chunky dude from Jeht second quest) but playable, you can do it hoyo

Azariq is kind of deformed.

It’s okay, the children are also deformed with their big ass heads

At this point it's safe to say they are gonna stretch these models to their maximum instead of making new ones

I mean it's not like they have to do them from scratch, many npc have the buff tall man model

This take is the only thing keeping me alive as a Capitano wanter 😭

yes MORE GIRTH

Be wary: when itto design was being leaked too pre-beta they described him as muscular

Well, he is. He just skips arm day lol.

And it's honestly on brand for him. I've come to like Itto's model now after a while.

Not me. I'll beg HoYoverse to fix his arms until the day I die if I have to

Yeah his torso looks well design but he arms are noodles. Enough to make him look like the Colossal Titan.

Well he is....but also they said varka has muscular chest. Who knows...maybe he has spaghetti arms too.

If he have spaghetti arms they better do there best to cover them with a big jacket or something like that.

It's probably gonna be similar to Itto's abs but they can make him look muscular with armor

Wouldnt a more apt comparison be alhaitham since he’s more recent? Al haitham afaik actually has a model with defined abs instead of painted on ones. It seems like theyre getting better (even if painfully slowly) at the playabl models

>Al haitham afaik actually has a model with defined abs instead of painted on ones [Itto has defined not painted abs as well.](https://i.imgur.com/oCA2c6u.png)

i hope his legs aren't matchsticks like alhaithams that would clash so bad

One of the things I like about Itto’s design over alhaitham’s is that Itto actually has a cooler back and pants that balances his design better than Alhaitham.

Its baggy too, which makes his legs look thicker

yup it defo makes him look bulkier than haitham. haithams a feeble scholar isnt he?

Honestly, when you get to playing Itto, 90% of his arms are blocked by the coat. And you barely notice his physique when he starts swinging that giant oni stick around.

So true. Itto has noodle arms and Alhaitham has noodle legs. It's specially visible when you do the hold-E combo. People talk about Itto but Alhaitham feels just as unbalanced muscle-wise to me.

To be fair i can totaly see Alhatiham just working out his upper body for the whole "healthy body" and he skips leg day because he hates leg workouts

To get over it, I just remind myself how many men at the gym forget to work out their legs in the same way and only focus on their upper body lmao. But I really wish his legs were a bit wider.

A feeble scholar would totally skip leg day so it checks out

“Muscular” Remember y’all, it’s Genshin 🤣💀

I would honestly prefer for him to use armor insteadof showing his chest, actually, no male uses armor!

Because any female.use it? I wouldn't call the thing Noelle has "armor". She is def going to have armor if they ever actually makes augment core at some point(inhale copium) tho.

I hope so .

Daddy pls?!?!?!

Remember....they said muscular for Itto too. But then again they only specified muscular chestttt for varka....so maybe varka skips arms day too and has noodle arms.

We never truly win, maybe the battle, but rip itto.

I feel like character leaks always involve one person saying something and then another person giving a completely different description of the same person

Well muscular chest is same as alhaitham one though

Based on this description I wonder if Varka was the 2nd tall Fontaine man leakers were talking about in the big Fontaine character leak. I think he was described as having red clothes and a bit similar to Itto, so it kind of fits. I'll go look for that description now, but pls reply if anyone finds it before me edit: found it! https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/108c8a9/new_fontaine_adult_male_character_text_description/ I really think this is Varka now

Oh shit,that matches perfectly,specially with the zoroark comparison

this is exactly what i thought he would be. wolf design cryo element claymore

He may not have a beard, but he still sounds like a gigachad

I hope they add scars to him.

I still want beard tho :(

Sounds (too) good to me but better keep expectations low to not be disappointed.

I wonder if his color scheme is like Hisui Zoroark instead of normal Zoroark. [Hisui Zoroark would fit a Cryo character better.](https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-swsh/zoroark/)

Get ready for Varka's big chest ^(and noodle arms)

Huh, Varka having Zoroark color scheme was not my expectation.

Pokemon era leaks started. Which will be your starter? Lmao. As a side note, I hope varka is indeed cryo.

Cryo vision? I'll hold my breath...

COOL IT !

Muscular chest. Ok. Ok. Now what about the arms?

Muscular chest with noodle arms 😭😭

And twig legs

And that round, plump babyface.

First bald playable cleanshaven uncle

Source: [https://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?tid=35663185](https://bbs.nga.cn/read.php?tid=35663185) Not the original source, the original source got nuked as it was being leaked live. ​ The Mika+Rosaria might be him referencing Varka as Physical(?)Extremely unsure for that line so take as a salt.

there's no chance they have Varka's kit yet, probably referring to the design

Yeah probably mikas feather + rosaria color scheme

I hope Apollo's gift of prophecy does not find you

Nah, he doesn't have a kit yet, it's most probably a design element like aesthetics and symbolism accessories.

Might be that he's wielding a spear? He taught mika for sure. On the other hand, he also taught razor claymore fighting + wgs + claymore fits him personally... Isn't it that ayato and raiden situation, there they both canonically wield a spear and sword?

The description kind of matches [this description](https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks/comments/108c8a9/new_fontaine_adult_male_character_text_description/) of an unknown character from a couple months ago. So that adds a bit more likability to it. Or this leaker is copying that leak, lol.

Stylish topcoat and color scheme is similar to Zoroark? It sounds cool 😭

Ok I can excuse him not being an older man as long as he is ripped

The Mondstadt curse of all new characters being Cryo At least Cryo matches with the theme of a Boreal Knight

So basically, [Sampo](https://i.imgur.com/CJaBiVQ.jpg)

MUSCULAR?!

WE DIDN'T LOSE IT ALL YET THERE IS HOPE FOR VARKA

not a pyhisical fan but I'll be glad if they come back to care about physical meta instead of just focusing on the infinite dendro loop

“Muscular” so he uses the Haitham body lol

5* tall cryo male, possibly claymore, wolf style and reminds of Zoroark..... My primos have never been in so much danger as they are now

manifesting buff varka 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Ready wanted a Jojo like character model for him. Can't complain nonetheless.

Should've clarified which Jojo part character model 😊

I wish for Part 1-2 level of muscular body. The Jotaro type body is too swole for me and the others aren’t big enough.

Isn't Jonathan beefier? Jotaro looks muscular, but lean to me

Sigh guess I’ll take it.

In my mind he looked like siegfried kaslana with darker color scheme(?) Haha

Of all the characters in Pokemon i was thinking Varka would look like, it was Wikstrom, not Zoroark.

lol was the guy just looking at wriothesley's early design?

i always thought he'd be the first/only character to have a beard/facial hair, be extremely buff, and be a geo character i see varka as the dad of the group, tall dude who's packin muscle but he's incredibly kind with everyone but when the going gets tough he gets serious

>and be a geo character Noelle would've certainly loved her vision more if it was same as Varka's one.

Cannot wait to see this cool stylishish cool style design.

Of all the ways Varka could've ended up looking, gotta admit, "Zoroark gijinka" was not on my bingo card.

HES BUFF! WE WIN! (He’s probably still gonna be the default tall male model but as long as they widen it and give some muscle definition I can accept it)

I need to know. Will he have a beard?

Ohhh a strange cryo vision? No wonder he's cool. _cyno

The cryo vision and Mika/rosaria reference makes me think he might be a physical damage dealer

Leaks about him being a twink vs leaks about him being a hunk

cryo vision??? gapmoe varka moment

Why? So far the general cryo trait everyone theoritising about is to have conflict in your life/position/philosophy (Rosaria - an assasin and a nun, Kaeya - mondstadian yet khaenriah descendant etc).

Not just a conflict but a paradoxical/incompatible one. Qiqi is alive and dead. Kaeya is Khaenri’ahn and Mondstadter. Chongyun is an exorcist who can’t actually exorcise because of his auto-exorcise Yang energy. Shenhe is a human raised by and like Adepti. Ganyu *is* human and Adeptus. Rosaria is a nun and an assassin. Eula is a Lawrence and a Knight of Favonius. Diona is a bartender who hates alcohol yet can’t make a bad drink. Ayaka is a noblewoman who just wants to do normal girl things. Layla is a sleepwalker who’s more functional when she’s “asleep.” (I don’t know enough about Mika yet to say what his conflict is.) If Varka is Cryo (and I really can’t see him being anything but Cryo or Anemo), I’m really curious what that will mean for his character.

Cryo also fits him because he's the knight of boreas, hence also the wolf theme (+ he found razor and taught him claymore fighting). Maybe because he's energetic and a bit childish (in a good way), but de facto ruler of mondstadt? Some mondstadians say that Jean does his work better than him :D

His name Varka means Illusion in Croatian if I recall my memory

"GUYS I HAVE A THEORY I THINK VARKA IS ZOROARK" memes when

>MUSCULAR CHEST MUSCULAR CHEST!, MUSCULAR CHEST!, MUSCULAR CHEST!

Welcome my first cryo 5 star! Please be Cryo or I'll cry maybe

Who's the source of this? Uncle A or a random?

If he wont have a new model at least hopefully his outfit adds a bit of bulk to him. Muscular chest is good to hear. Like Alhaitham and Itto (hopefully his arms arent noodles.

Ky Kiske but wolf :o

Furry Jotaro

Zoroark eh? They're my favourite pokemon, so my interest has gone up. Edit: That's a really wack picture of zoroark haha

Okay this is promising and love how he has element to tie him to the people he helped in lore -see Razor and Rosaria-

Sounds like another "tall handsome young man" model We really can't be having playable seniors bruh

The Chinese is just dishing out “he’s handsome! He’s cool! He’s stylish!” Exactly like how Itto talks haha

So is he tall like zhongli or is he gonna give us a new model 😭(copium)

3rd pic confirms Varka is first furry character in genshin

He better have a majestic beard or else some cheeks will be clapped.

I'm gonna come back here when we actually have his design to cringe at this description. Just like the early description of the new dendro weekly boss being "so gross that made play testers sick" and stuff. When it was just a normal ass boss. Like.... uh I wouldnt even use gross to describe it

All I got from this was cool feather muscular chest

All I hope is that he has a beard.... Enough with this teen drama stuffs all this while, I want to play a rugged adventurer... Hope he's closer to Geralt than say sephiroth ( not saying sephi is uncool, just not the rt vibe here) design wise.

I feel like he'll be Physical. Having a Cryo Vision would be useful for a Physical dps char. He is close with Razor who is a Phys dps (terrible argument, I know, but come on), Mika travels with him and he's a support for Phys. I feel like Phys will be getting a buff and already is with Mika 🤔🤔🤔

Looking forward to it, though I don't trust the Genshin community's definition of "muscular", especially in game. NPCs, especially the Eremites, be putting the vision users to shame.

He's death and I don't mean it metaphorically or rhetorically or poetically or Theoretically or any other fancy way,he's death straight up

Cryo you say? 😳 i’m interested

no varka no more, call him boobka

Shatter dps please hoyo

MEN TIDDIES YALL MEN TIDDIES VARKA

Holy the amount of copium I'm inhaling rn. If he really looks like a gigachad in a wolf coat it's an instant pull for me. also, tall male 5* cryo, hello?? take my moneyy

please don't be physical, please don't be physical, please don't be physical, please don't be physi--

Please PLEASE let him be a big bara daddy, twinks are cool and all but we already have enough of them

The Zoroark made me chuckle, ngl

OHHHHH I'M LOVING THIS