In the midst of a lull in plot-expanding patches, many 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Genshin Impact players find themselves starving for main story quests, or "Archon Quests" as they're officially named. Developer miHoYo has 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recently p🌌rioritized cooperative༒ events that s꧋hed light on adjacent plot lines while focusing more on diversifying the combat experience rather than strictly 🌼advancing the main story.
Fortunately for Genshin's lore hounds, the game does an excellent job at hiding hints in plain sight — hints that contextualize the events of the plot so far within Teyvat's history. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Previous lists high🥂lighted side quests that broadened your narrative experience, but yꦆou can also learn about Teyvat by simply walking through ♔it — here's where you can start your Easter egg hunt.
10 🔴 Location: Yaksha's Graveღ Site (Jueyun Karst)
The main story eventually guides you ⭕to Eastern Liyue and the Jueyun Karst, untamed wilds where adepti (see: demigods) reign, but💜 there's nothing stopping you from simply walking there before you need to leave Mondstadt.
The yaksha's grave stone tri꧑ggers a side quest once you interact with it, but the placement of the grave itself is also significant. that Rex L🥂apis rallied to help defend Liyue during the Archon War. The withered spirit of Yaksha Bosacius lingers at the tombstone, and fades peacefully once you complete the quest. Though Bosacius chose death, the stone's placement in Jueyun Karst suggests that they wanted to rest in the land defended by their adepti kin.
9 Connection: The Five Yakshas And Xaio 🦋
With Bosacius' passing only one living yaksha remains, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Alatus, or Xaio, as he is called now in his human form. These two were among a team of five Great Yakshas, the rest of which already succumbed to the w꧅eight of the guilt they carried for their roles in the Archon War. Indarius, Menogius, and Bonanus are the other fallen yakshas. In later years t𒊎he yakshas weren't shy about regretting having harmed innocents during the war.
One such victim was a small girl named Qiqi, whom the yakshas accidentally mortally wounded. Alatus summoned the other yakshas and adepti to pray for Qiqi to return to life, which is how the playable character Qiqi came 🅠into 🌺her zombified state. This is also why Qiqi's talents are called "adeptus arts," despite not belonging to t꧃he adepti her powers are the direct result o💮f their blessings.
8 ♈ Location: Stormterror's Lair
The location of the game's first major boss fight is important for obvious reasons,💦 but those who are yet to delve into the ancient history of Teyvat probably don't realize th🦄at Dvalin's palace wasn't built for or by the mighty dragon.
The gods of Teyvat aren't immortal, infallible, or omniscient — in fact, Zhong Li explicitly states that he and Venti are the only gods who fought in the Archon War and still survive today, with the remaining five of The Seven having been succeeded by now. The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:ruined king💝dom that Dvalin/Stormterror now calls home once belongꦡed to another toppled archon nam🌺ed Decarabian.
7 ༒ Connection: Decarabian And Barbatos 💞
Decarabian was an affectionate but naïve ruler. He and the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Northern Wolf Andrius were🌜 locked in a stalemate for years. Andrius summoned bitter cold and snowstorms to prevent humans from sullying his domain. To protect his people, Decarabian conjured a vortex — which partially remains around Stormterror's Lair today — that shielded his followers from Andrius' wrath, but the perpetual gales lashed the people too and they suffered ♔under Decarabian.
The foolish archon saw his p🌞eople huddled on 🅷their knees and mistook their anguish for thankful prayer. Led by Barbatos, aka Venti, the people overthrew Decarabian, crowning a new archon. Seeing Barbatos' strength Andrius retreated into Wolvendom, choosing not to challenge him, thereby freeing the people of Mondstadt.
6 Location: The Moonlit Tree (Nant🌠ianmen)
Nantianmen is a bizarre region at the fringes of Genshin's map that's received no mention in the game's story so far. Tucked between the megalithic ruins of Tianqiu Valley and the towering Mt. Hulao, Qingyun Peak and Mt. Aozang — the abodes of the adepti — lieℱs the lonesome Nantianmen valley, hom✱e to little more than a hilichurl yurt, the looming Moonlit Tree, and a strange child with an ominous message.
5 𓃲Connection: Rex Lapis 🌺
The little girl at the base of the tree, Jiu, murmurs to herself "the awakening i🌠s coming" repeatedly until you speak to her. She'll tell you that you're early if you've come to witness the awakening. If you ask her if she means the awakening of Rex Lapis she scoffs and says "the usurper" is of little importance, and that human kind is insignificant and will soon be reminded of their 𓂃meaninglessness by the ancient one sealed beneath the tree.
Stories of ancient gods, such as Osial and the Chi, defeated by Rex Lapis are abundant in Liyue. Those conflicts happ🅺ened thousands of years ago, but were nonetheless witnessed by Rex Lapis' followers. But Jiu speaks of a stirring beast born before humans existed, one who hasn't quite buried the hatchet with Rex Lapis. The appearance of the tree itself is apparently a sign that the beast has merged with the roots below and is absorbing moonlight via the branches and leaves... probably best not to wait around and see.
4 🔥 Location: The Jade Chamber
The Jade Chamber becomes accessible at a very specific moment in the story, and its best to explore it fully before you leave because the main quest line ends before you can return. From her palace Ningguang divulges a great deal about Liyue's nobility and the politi𝓡cal machinations driving the story up until that point. This isn't the only intel to be gathered within her home, however. Scour the books and knickknacks on her shelves for more on how the Qixing operates.
3 Connection: Th🃏e Qixing And Crux Fleet 𒈔
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pirate-Queen Beidou is described as the most famous woman outside of the Qixing in Liyue. Adored by children and adults alike, the captain of the Crux Fleet is revered as a symbol of hope among the lower class who feel neglected by the Qixing and rely on Beidou's charitable acts for surviv🌠al.
What's less clear is what the Qixing, specifically 📖Ningguang, thinks about folk hero Beidou. Both characters deride each other in their friendship lines, with Ningguang sounding especially venomous. In spite of this, sunken treasures gifted from the Crux to the Qixing can be found in Ningguang's palace, suggesting that their rivalry is more for show than substantive. It's hard to ignore Beidou's combat prowess and influence, perhaps the Qixing occasionally employs the Crux in secret as a paramilitary when they don't want to get their hands dirty. It's also noteworthy that Bಌeidou is the only person to defeat Ningguang in her custom game of chess, so the rivalry seems real but also friendly.
2 Location: Celestia𒁏 (Various Regions)
By far the most enigmatic island in all of Teyvat's lore — nicknamed the Island of the Gods, Celestia can be found on da🏅ys with clear skies floating high above Teyvat. Which part of Teyvat? All of it. It's not th🔜at Celestia is bigger than the continent below, but rather that it appears to have no fixed position. It always appears in the sky to the west, and can be seen from Dragonspine, Luhua Pool, even as far east as the Falcon Coast.
1 Connection: Vennessa A🍸nd The Unknown God
So far glimpses o♏f Celestia have been painfully brief. Though it isn't explicitly named in the opening cut scene, fans assume that the heavenly realm from which you are cast by the Unknown God is Celestia, if this is the case then it seems that the login screen also depicts Celestia.
The only oౠther place where the divine island is vaguely illustrated is , when Venti's champion Vennessa is rewarded with ascension for her heroism after enduring slavery in Mondstadt. It seems that the gods residing in Celestia wield more power than those in Teyvat. Strangely, it also appears that Teyvat's archons can nominate vision-holding, human 🔥champions to ascend to Celestia, but cannot be ascended themselves.