Although 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Genshin Impact's plot development has come to a standstill in recent months, there's still enough lore, particularly frꦚom a꧟ncient Teyvat, left in the game to fill a small library.
Most of the player-b🐬ase is currently busy with the Windblume Festival, which adds a PG-rated dating-sim mode and an unexpected rhythm mini-game into the mix, but perhaps you're more interested in Genshin's world-building. If that's the case, here are some of the lore bites you maꦇy have overlooked on your quest for perfectly rolled artifacts.
10 ✨ Gold's Treachery 🦋
Genshin's lore sleuths are starved for information on alchemy and what sets it apart from the general wizardry displayed by other playable characters. So far it seems that alchemy refers to imbuing inanimate objects with life, or taking control over living beings. The name "Gold," 168澳洲幸运🃏5开奖网:one of three named alch✤emists in the story so far, is an allusion to the🍰 belief held by real-life alchemists in medieval times 🍌who sought to turn lead into gold with their archaic understanding of chemistry.
In Genshin, Gold is a pariah in his home of Khaenri'ah, where he triggered the first opening of the abyss. He also used alchemy to corrupt the dragon Durin, whose corpse rests at Dragonspine. It's said that when Dvalin defeated Durin the felled dragon bled liquid gold, but that gold quickly decayed and poisoned the land, as well as Dvalin. Though it isn't written in any in-game texts, Durin's blood is a clear symbol of Gold's influence over him, an🌊d its poisonous essence is like lead, the notoriously toxic metal that real-life alchemists tried (and failed) to transmute into gold.
9 The Chasm And Blackcliཧff Forge 💞
Currently the most mysterious locale on Genshin's map, the bluntly named "Chasm" is shown to lie just beyond the south-westernmost boundary of Liyue. Chasm, and the mining that took place there, fed the Blackcliff Forge which is directly south of Liyue Harbor and 𝔍also out of bounds for now.
The forge is set to reopen soon but the discovery of an ancient, sealed artifact in Chasm has disrupted the supply chain once more. In his friendship lines Zhong Li states that ore veins that feed the forge are connected by thousands of tunnels extending deep into the earth, and that no one alive today could possibly know where they all lead. What ancient magic lurks in those caverns that's unknown even to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Z🌃hong Li, the God of Ear꧃th and patron of Liyue?
8 🍬 Salt Sanctuary
Though the Archon War is mostly described as millennia of unrelenting bloodshed at the hands of spiteful demigods, there were those select few deities who wanted little more than to ensure the peaceful existence of their followers in their small corner of Teyvat. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Much like Guizhong, Havria - The Goddess of Salt - was revered for her kindness. But unlike Guizhong, it was one of her own acolไytes who struck Havria down to show that her pacifist sentiments were detrimental in that age of con🐟flict.
Unbeknownst to the heretic, killing Havria turne🐭d her settlements to dust and her followers into pillars of salt, leaving scant traces of the goddess's legacy to be found in the region of Sal Terrae, or Salted Earth.
7 Mondstadt's Naive 𝕴Kin♎g
The ruins of Old Mondstadt lie outside of Cider Lake, in what is now known as Stormterror's Lair. But Dvalin didn't construct the tower in which it roosts, nor did it create the tempest framing the city's outskirts. Long before the reign of Barbatos, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Anemo Archon Decarabian r🐻uled over Mondstadt and its people from the ⛦tower th🥀at Dvalin now inhabits.
Decarabian was an ambivalent and aloof ruler. He summoned storms to protect his kin from Andrius' frigid winds, but this was hardly a mercy. His people suffered until, with the help of a brave bard who rallied the dissidents, Barbatos usurped the throne. Barbatos then took thღe form of a bard to honour the memory of his fallen ally.
6 🔜 Tales Told To The Lone Wolf 🌱
The history of the people of Mondstadt is inextricable from that of the wolves who ruled the land long before the first humans crossed over Cider Lake. The in-game book "The Drunkard's Tale" tells the story of a story of a story. Once a haggard drunk 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:roamed into Andrius' domain. He was so inebriated that he felt no fear of the dreadful beast and Andrius, for his part, was so intrigued by his bold guest that he opted no꧃t to eat him.
The drunkard rambled to Andrius about an ancient, lone wolf who crossed the Mondstadt wasteland and fou🐈nd the former home of the Seelies, inhabited by a single ghostly maiden. The maiden sang for the lone wolf, and he shared his own story in return. He spoke of the first drunkard in prehistoric Mondstadt who discovered wine's intoxicating effects. He dreamt, through a wolf's eyes, of fighting rival packs and meeting the Seelie maiden. The lone wolf wonders if the first drunkard dreamt about a forgotten past, or distant future. How cou🥂ld the first drunkard dream of the very moment when the lone wolf met the maiden and shared his story? Perhaps there's more to Mondstadt's prized vintage than we know.
5 🌠 Coral Mountain
To liberate Mondstadt's ancient fields from the frozen clutches of Andrius, as the newly crowned Ane🔯mo Archon, Barbatos summoned gales stronger than any that howled before or since. The winds moved hills as if they were dunes, toppled mountains, and exiled Andrius' snow out to sea, significantly raising the water level.
Those who missed the Unreconciled Stars event may not be aware of Mona's discovery that Musk Reef was once Pilos Peak, a mountain capped by glaciers before Barbatos so drastically ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ💎ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚaltered the topography.
4 Cursed Expedition ꧂ ﷽
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:"Land Entombed" quest tasks you with finding three lost journals on Dragonspine and delivering them to the research camp at the base 💞of the mountain. Upon completing the quest Stevens tells you that the journals were made by adventurers who never returned from their mission to chart the mountain, all but one perished on the expedition.
Eberhart may have escaped, and commissioned these adventurers specifically to bring about their demise on the peak. In Vannessa's lifetime, when Mondstadt was controlled by oppressive noble families, Eberhart aspired to subvert his own family's birth order and become the next 𝓀head of his house, he just needed a way to eliminate his brother without incriminating himself. The Dragonspine expedition was doomed to fail, and Eberhart seized the opportunity.
3 ꦺ ꦦ Murata's Might
Speaking of Vannessa, the first heroine introduced in the manga is described by Venti as havin♐g descende⛦d from a fearsome line of barbarian gladiators known for their fiery attitudes and red hair - the Children of Murata.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Honkai Impact fans will recognize this name as that of the main character's mentor, Himeko Murata, who also sports similarly vibrant locks. There's been no mention of the Children since the first comic issue, b☂ut expect to see "Murata" reappear in relation to the Pyro Archon in the near future.
2 Lady Of ✱The Lance 🎉
Reddit user connected together the item descriptions for the Royal Spear, Favonius Lance and the Crescent Pike weapons and noticed that each relates to another and tells the story of the aforementioned usurper Eberhart. Fencing was a celebrated pastime in Mondstadt, so Eberhart's taking up a spear reflected his black sheep🐎 role in his family, as well as in the city-state at large.
It seems that he went on to romance and manipulate his mentor, an unnamed spear-wielding witch and unrivaled assassin. Little is known about the witch outside of what's mentioned in the Crescent Pike text, perhaps she has some connection to another notoriously 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ruthless spear-wielding femme fatale?
1 🔴 The Moon Sisters
Ancient Liyue folklore tells of a time when the sky was ruled over by not one, but three moons. The moons were sisters and lovedꦇ each other dearly, the o🎶nly thing they loved more was the sight of the early morning stars at daybreak, and so each moon took turns chasing the sun into the day.
Whenever one moon failed to relieve another from her night shift the resulting conflict between the sisters would🙈 cause earthshaking cataclysms below. Now only one moon remains, having survived the infighting that killed the other sisters. It's said that only thಌe wolves of Teyvat, the moons' first followers, remember the deceased sisters and this is why they cry out at night.