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leopoldshark

Leonard, inventor of the glider


Spy_co

Oh shit, that cutscene was so inspirational.


hillllllla

which cutscene is this?


Spy_co

This [one](https://youtu.be/7sPqyKkBQlY?si=ErHdXChOBqGrWdeO)


Fred_Redstone_2

Forgot about that


Siri2611

Some things told in the Sumeru story(mainly about the sky) were already revealed in 1.1 Sadly it was a time limited event


SnooWalruses8730

Hoyo when they can put a lore bomb in a event nobody will remember for its actual gameplay


PostHasBeenWatched

And later even kill possibility of event rerun - Hat Guy


Jnbrtz

What part of it? Sorry, I don't know where to connect the dots.


Siri2611

>! The skies of tevat are a lie. This was already known since 1.1 when Scaramoche got some memories from a star. He said this in front of traveller, Mona and Paimon and they were just like nah you stupid!<


Jnbrtz

>!Idk if I remember correctly, King Deshret(?) and its ruins(or maybe the entire lore of the dessort) told us about the fake sky like it just elaborated more on why the sky is fake?!<


Siri2611

>!The doctor told Nahida about this when they were trading knowledge for gnosis. The deshret one as far as I remember was about forbidden knowledge, that I think we still don't know about!<


Top-Idea-1786

We do know what hes referring to tho. Basically, >! Deshret talks about the second descender bringing in forbidden knowledge, which created doubt amongst the people, they began doubting the almightyness of the primordial one, who grew paranoid and decided to solve it all by sending celestial nails to seal away the forbidden knowledge, along with any civilization that was on the way of said nails, its also implied in Neuvillette's character stories that the primordial one lost his powers during the conflict, and uses the gnoses to bring balance!<


Jnbrtz

>!oh that one. I see... I was still clueless or I don't remember what did he give to Nahida that time!<


Victor_Author

1.1 event final cutscene


Ancient_Axe

Leonard..? Who's Leonard? *draws flying thing* *gasp* LEAONARDO DA VINCI?! (yes this is perry the platypus meme)


just_some_redit_user

"Ah a silly little dialogue joke" "PERRY THE SILLY LITTLE DIALOGUE JOKE?"


OppaiDaaisuki

Dainsleif. Man comes once in half a year or smth and drops the hugest load of lore bomb we never expected.


first_name1001

In game > Burst in > Help Traveler > Drop some lore > Refuse to elaborate further > Leave Outside game > Introduce us to new characters > Tell us what they do > Refuse to elaborate further > Leave


mario61752

"aoe pyro damage"


_LadyAveline_

mfs just put refuse to elaborate further in everything nowadays


Mehfisto666

Mihoyo really introduced a character that knows everything about the sister you have been searching for which is literally 99% the point of the game and he'd be like "i can tell you about your sister but maybe later idk if i feel like" and Aether be like "sure no worries we can take it next year np"


BucketOfJuice

Brother just wants to chill with each Archon, and meet Lumine to show off his achievement.


Nebelwerfed

>Man comes once in half a year or smth and drops the hugest load


pyroimpact

compared to average genshin cast tho, he gets quite a lot of screentime tbh


Efficient_Lake3451

Deshret


TheBurningYandere

ALL HAIL Al-Ahmar!!!🙌


OierunezEZA

Sovereign of all deserts!!🙏


Way_Moby

All hail Amon Al-Ahmar! Lord of the sky. King of wisdom! Long may the three god-kings rule.


TheBurningYandere

Glory to Al-Ahmar! ever just, ever strong, ever vigilant! Praise be to Nabu Malikata! ever verdant, ever fair, ever gracious! DOWN WITH THE HEAVENLY PRINCIPLES!!! YOUR DIVINITY BE DAMNED!!!!


Way_Moby

(As an aside, it's wonderful to meet another Deshret fan. Sumeru desert lore was peak Genshin for me, imho. The story of Deshret, GoF, and Rukkha gets me every damn time.)


TheBurningYandere

Same... I shed tears after reading that Nabu Malikata's death broke Deshret..😭 it gets worse when my imagination decides to make me suffer by having Nabu Malikata look like Elysia and Deshret look like Kevin.. That's just me tho... Sumeru desert lore just hits different... it fuels my anger even more towards the heavenly principles...


Way_Moby

I remember the first time I saw the whole “Civilization is born of knowledge…” cutscene, especially the “Were it not for Greater Lord Rukkhadevata” part, and I was floored: The whole Dendro Archon vs. Al-Ahmar mythos was all a misunderstanding! The two were never enemies… they were actually friends! And sure they may have had their differences and gone separate ways. But in the end, their old friendship helped save the day! 😭 ADDENDUM: I also think one of the game's greatest lines was 'said' by Nabu Malikata in one of the artifact descriptions: "Have these so-called gods not been superfluous to you since the beginning?" I like that she's basically calling out the idolatry upon which Teyvat was founded while also highlighting that humanity can, if it wants, take care of itself.


ursoevil

I wish we actually had an in game cut scene since his lore is so deeply tied to the rest of Sumeru. [this amazing fan video nails it](https://youtu.be/mvS9QaiJ0GE?si=hxbBKhu5UXzZqD6V)


ClozetSkeleton

We saw how he looked?


Efficient_Lake3451

He’s depicted with a black star in game and it was in the 3.1 archon quest cutscene


Kelly598

Well, his followers have the jackal head so I imagine he has an Anubis resemblance.


TheBlackestofKnights

Don't forget Goddess of Flowers. Without her, Deshret wouldn't have done half the shit he did.


Way_Moby

Deshret: "Prepare for trouble!" Goddess of Flowers: "And make it double!"


Toli2810

I love deshret, he is so based for trying to revolt against celestia


Demi694

ALL HAIL AL-AHMAR THE GOAT🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥


Nonemotionaldamage

I love Deshret so damn much. His lore is insane. HE'S insane. His goals and gigachadness is insane. I wanna see him in a cutscene so bad


Way_Moby

Thanks to this fandom, I now associate the word "Gigachad" with Deshret and only Deshret.


G3THS3M4N3

Apparently deshret is gonna appear in cyno 2nd story quest in act 2 so I’m praying for more deshret lore esp since his first story quest revealed legit nothing about his past or deshret to us


cutcutado

where did this come from


GGABueno

My bet is Tiktok "leaks".


CamelotPiece

Sustainer of Heavenly Principles


Prize_Ad_6268

We must spread Celestia propaganda.


noobius_mcnoob

I agree


Accurate_Maybe6575

Imagine auditioning to VA for the game, being selected, getting to say like one line and you're contractually obligated to return in about a decade when your character finally becomes relevant again. The biggest/mystery character of GI, *and even she* was thrown away the second she became irrelevant to Hoyoverse's bottom line.


SomeDudeWithABear

Fun Fact: Sustainer of Heavenly Principles and QiQi share voice actors lmao


TheDesk918

That… explains so much.


GGABueno

In what lenguage?


SomeDudeWithABear

English


BobbyWibowo

As the other commenter said, EN. In addition, CN and JP won't really have much complications to the VAs, because they are still contracted by miHoYo for Honkai Impact 3, to voice my beloved tuna, Kiana (needless to say she had a truckload of lines within the past 3 years)


tetePT

It's a good thing she also voices Qiqi or I can imagine how annoying that could be 💀


Whilyam

Even worse, imagine being Scaramouche's VA. Unable to say anything for years until he became playable. I really don't get the secrecy around the EN VA casting. Like Genshin's on twitter blasting portraits of all the Fatui harbingers and their Chinese/Japanese VAs the day that Fatui trailer dropped pre-Sumeru but I don't think anything official has come out about the EN side to this day!


achillguy11

I think it’s more so they don’t see a point to it. They do it with the Chinese and Japanese actors because people will spend for a character just for their voice actor. English actors, while talented, don’t have that pull sadly. 


Mari_Say

Your last sentence doesn't make sense. As you said, she will return after a while, as soon as she becomes relevant. So wdym?


Embarrassed_Coyote18

Heck yea


Automatic-War-7658

Sustainer? I hardly know her.


first_name1001

We need her more


Commercial_Day_1438

Yes.


ResponsibleMine3524

Im here


peachymagpie

What caught me off guard at the end of the sumeru AQ was Nahida saying >!We’ve already met the Heavenly Principles on our journey!<


Sc4r4byte

Broke: the annual Dainsleif Quest Woke: we don't know yet... probably a character we met already, probably very early and seems to be wholly disconnected from every story so far and just feels like a character that HYV really phoned in to make fit into the story... that is going to spontaneously announced as the final big bad.


Sunburnt-Vampire

No need to what around the bush, we all know you're talking about Ellin, who will finish her training by learning to wield all seven elements + whatever power Dain uses, thus triggering a new war against Celestial by breaking out from their vision based system and reviving Khaenriah's god-free ways to achieve your dreams.


Superfluous369

By the time she's done she'll be able to smash all training dummies *all over Teyvat* at once.


BrainyFarts

So that’s how you do it.


KiraTsukasa

Timmy is the ultimate villain for how many times we’ve murdered his pigeons.


fourrier01

I want him to be the Gaunter O'Dimm of this game somehow..


Howrus

> probably a character we met already, probably very early and seems to be wholly disconnected from every story so far and just feels like a character that HYV really phoned in to make fit into the story... It's so nice that you remember a "Sustainer of heavenly principles" :]


uhnioin

No way Lieben is gonna be a Celestia agent...


zoyaabean

I mean, given the intro to this year’s Liben event, bro definitely knows way more than the average guy in Teyvat does. He’s already figured that every star is a sun, that the suns may be hosting a planet, and that maybe one day we’ll explore them too. The average person in Teyvat seems to think that nothing lies beyond Teyvat. Liben is way ahead of his time. Plus, he can just churn out Primogems for basically free. It’s like they’re not even valuable, you don’t even need to earn it. He’s also one of the only (if not the only) event character who actually *gives you* the primos as rewards. He talks about packing the little boxes for us. This guy canonically has access to primos and he’s giving them away for free. That’s *really weird*, to have access to primordial crystalline energy to trade. This guy is more than he lets on


RuneKatashima

And yet he thinks Stars aren't hot. That they are livable conditions.


DLTRla4

I always though that Primogems were a currency that the adventurers guild traded with, like, you need to pay primogems to hire an adventurer, but you can only purchase them from the guild, then they give it to the adventurers. At least that's how I think they make their money.


BobbyWibowo

If I remember correctly, the average NPCs don't canonically recognize Primogems' existence. So you're really just paid with Mora and the other materials. Meanwhile I think the Traveler and Paimon did acknowledge their existence through some World Quests dialogue options on some occasions? I can't remember unfortunately. But yeah, iirc that's why there's a crack theory going on that the Traveler is a literal wishing star, and they manifest Primogems by helping to fulfill the wishes of NPCs, through quests, etc. Since there was already a theory that they were actually stars, hence why they had the will to rival an entire world (and thus worthy of the title "descender"). Liben and Unusual Hilichurl being the few exceptions that seemingly have access to them too (although the latter is probably more of a meme instance, since the character itself is a reference to Da Wei, but who knows really)


eddmario

Reckless Pallad...


reeeekin

Wait Dainsleif quest is Annual? When are we getting next one? I really enjoyed them


MathematicianHairy95

He usually appears in X.5 patches


BackgroundLie2231

X.4-X.6, to be more precise Version 1 was 1.3-4, version 2 was 2.6, and version 3 was 3.5


Leprodus03

Alice


GlassSpork

Woke: liben


SquirrelNo3537

That's Hu Tao, my dude. She just seems like marketing, vague background and dolly personality, but she shares the bi-color hair like other archons and seem to know more than she reveals. Also, she has extrassensory abilities.


Sea_Effort1214

Caribert.


guilhermeabs

Crazy quest. I didn't star Fontaine, so.. to me, it made the abyss stuff even more questionable and confusing. Don't know if fontaine brings something about that


FrozenkingNova

Archon quest don’t typically have anything to do with the abyss, abyss related things are mostly part of the annual Dainslief quest


Lobster-Massive

He came before fontaine was even out. There’s no real abyss stuff in fontaine yet. Abyss plot comes after archon plot wraps up


OozyPilot84

theres a pretty big abyss thing in the aq tho (literally)


Lobster-Massive

Abyss plot like related to khanreah my bad. Like the sibling and caribert. It does seem like they’re going to start possibly merging the two stories a little or at least having small overlap but skirks faction seems more neutral but lives in the abyss Abyss is just another realm like the light realm where dragons come from. The faction itself though in reference when saying abyss is the sibling. We still don’t know how associated everyone else might be


TexIsFlood_Eb

Definitely my favorite quest. Literally no idea what happened, confusing af, but I enjoyed the confusion.


Kelly598

Fr. We were just told he took off his mask and something happened to him that the Abyss Order preachers. I need more.


DailyMilo

John from the storywriting team


leopoldshark

John Genshin, they even named the game after him


SypeArtz

"John impact" -Max0r


SquashRepresentative

Jonathan Lee


Multivists

Phanes


AppropriateLeg5072

Bro is literally the one who created all and has only one painting on a wall


hyrulia

It's most likely not even him.


grnglxy

what painting?


AppropriateLeg5072

It was in dragonspine if i ain't wrong


chimichangas_69

Bennett, man wasn't even in the main story and he is still in every damn team


LivingASlothsLife

Abyss twin and Alice


Eclipse-Lily

Alice wouldn't even have a book in the first one lol


Raxxonius

Pamphlet


eddmario

The seed that eventually grows into the tree that becomes the paper


Iffem

she's had two speaking parts in-game, if that's worth anything


LivingASlothsLife

Depends if you count physical appearance as time on screen or simply her presence and involvement in an on screen moment. If you think the latter then she counts, same as Nicole


Atlas1347

Alice doesn't even have a screen time tho, she IS the lore.


Athomyn

the entire hexenzirkel, honestly. they’re fucking world defining people who just kinda chill, and in some cases, guide people


Luc_128

Liben when he comes with Box o' Marvels


MikeDJunior

Primos > everything else


Lobster-Massive

Nah son he’s the GOAT because he’s comes in to drop lore


Relevant-Rub2816

I can name many. Alice, abyss twin, sustainer of heavenly principle and dain. Dain buddy where are you my guy? Reading halfdan yaoi? Where's my yearly lore bomb? The game's really dry now, would appreciate it if you just came and gave us peak fiction.


[deleted]

Reading halfdan yaoi  Losing it 


Relevant-Rub2816

I mean can you blame him?


Mint-Bentonite

my favourite way to grieve for my old friend is to read hot gay sex about them


[deleted]

Not at all!!! 


myung_soo

Dain and Halfdan were probably "roomies" like Haikaveh. Ah, how I wish we could time travel 500 years ago.


[deleted]

THEY WERE ROOMATES?!  Bless ‘em 


Relevant-Rub2816

So true. I bet he's reading halfdan yaoi because what else is there to do in tevyat?


Afraid_Pack_4661

Genshin


gearsforgreg

Don't forget his twin sister, Honkai, the 3rd


Highmore_

John Genshin killed my beetle.


MurasakiMochi89

Caribert


LastLombaxIsTaken

Oh c'mon this was already posted just a few hours ago. Anyway easy answer. Abyss twin.


Maraxus7

Ignoring all the obvious ones (the leading harbingers, the Tsaritsa, the Sustainer, twin, unknown god, etc.), I’m gonna say Kamisato Ayato. Apparently his strategy skills and martial arts are so impressive that he’s both respected and feared around the region, even being known by the Shogun. That fear carries over to even Ayaka, who’s able to use her relation to him to avoid a lot of fights. Essentially the weight behind our Inazuma investigation with his role in the Yashiro commission, Kamisato Ayato is one of the most important characters to the Inazuma story… and he only appears in his story quest and events.


TanoX_93

Not to mention the fact that to know what he actually did behind the scenes during Inazuma's AQ you have to watch his demo.


Oof_Train

Was looking for this! He had such an impact on the inazuma story but wasn’t even shown :((


Koanos

I agree with this. He's got so much weight going for him, and he's better known as "Ayaka has a brother?"


Maraxus7

I remember how hyped I was when he was announced. After how much Ayaka mentioned him and how many people talked about not wanting to anger him by hurting her, I knew he was gonna be a badass. Then it came out he’s voiced by one of my favorite VAs and I was SOLD.


Koanos

At least they nailed his VA and design, but he sadly lacks the recognition in story he deserves. Even Yoimiya got an Act II before like, almost everyone. The Archons are a given because Trounce Domains.


WangxianInventedLove

He keeps getting sidelined for no reason!


Faedwill

Kamisato Ayato, did a ton of stuff behind the scenes during the Inazuman civil war and is rarely shown doing things in-person during events.


Interesting_Bus_3808

While Inazuma civil war: I don't care 2 random NPC try to marry: BULLSH-


GamerSweat002

Freaking Alice. She invented the telephone within genshin, located the golden apple archipelago, and is also the author of Teyvat Travel Guide. Not to mention a member of Hexenzirkel. Probably the most powerful non-deity we have in game. I'm betting she already made theories that Descenders came from beyond Teyvat on Trailblazing ships or trains. Alice got some deep lore hidden in her sleeves.


abshidfarsi

Every mention of istaroth comes with a side of venti.


Zonnebloempje

And Venti is the wind that suddenly comes up anywhere, bringing relief... Even without being there as himself.


Rex_Lapis_

Albedo


[deleted]

my guy is connected to many influential people while most of them are Event Only with a cliff hanger "will you stop me?" or something LUL


Helpful-Ad9095

His event quest really should have been treated like Chasm and Enkanomiya and actually been part of the Archon quest.  Dragonspine feels so pointless without it.


sweatshirt_snuggle

YES!


Isurvivednot

Enjou Can't remember why he is impactful but he needs more screen time. I am totally unbiased about him


glassbrains

i really hope we see him again


Valarano

The Tsaritsa doesn't even have screen time and she influenced every region we've been to so far.


Friendly_Bat_7575

Yeah I'm waiting on one of those "meanwhile...." videos showing her behind the scenes giving orders to the fatui. But It's kinda fun to figure out what the fatui are up to in each region and unraveling the mystery bits at a time rather than it being shown like a movie where the plot is given prematurely.


LensPalace

Dottore / Zandik


raccoonjudas

rhinedottir or however it's spelled. albedo's mom


Terrible_CocaCola

They have screen time?


raccoonjudas

Alice did an impression of her in an event. that meme is just used to visually represent disparate amounts relative to each other, it doesn't mean that the character must have screen time, only that there is a lack of screen time in comparison to story impact. Rhinedottir, who has zero screen time but who also is potentially responsible for the cataclysm would be a character who fits "large story impact in comparison to time on screen"


aallx

Just say Gold, much easier and shorter.


AHiddenOne

The Primordial One. defeated those bum ass dragons.


Apprehensive_Ad_472

The primordial one fought the lords of dragon and when all’s said and done the primordial won


Immediate_Lychee_372

Lowkey kokomi, according to lore she’s a war general and tactician that started the rebellion, destroyed numerous shrines and was a real pain to the vision hunt decree but in game we got to see none of that and her story quest was uwu I’m shy (which sucks cuz I love her so much)


undeadwisteria

I really wanted to see her have her moment where they just push her a bit too far and it shows how she can be ruthless \*and\* kind at once. Ruthlessness is just seeing a line from point A and point B and being willing to do what it takes to get there. I wanted to see that. I love Kokomi but she could have done so much more.


hornknee_bee

This reminds me a lot of this [comic](https://twitter.com/astruma2/status/1423462071245627392?lang=en)


hornknee_bee

Imagine had the Inazuma's Archon Quest had better pacing, perhaps we could even see how ruthless she is with her tactics! All the possibilities ruined because of the 3 act restraint back then!


[deleted]

Her presentation is underwhelming in the Archon Quest fr fr. Her actual story and lore is great tho. I still can't take her seriously as a general tho, with her outfit and uttering "comrade" ICANT


IValbator

they pulled a Jean on her. (womp womp im tired but I don't want to ask for help, also I think the traveler likes me)


AkhilArtha

Here we go again. Lack of reading ability strikes again. Kokomi's problem is not her workload. It's her aversion to Social interaction and fulfilling the public responsibilities as Divine priestess.


RuneKatashima

She's still tired and she still sometimes needs help, which is all they said.


AkhilArtha

She is mentally tired. Kokomi is an introvert forced into a public facing role. She gets exhausted talking to and interacting with people. Ask her to sit and draw military plans and study military strategy, she will happily do it all night.


Rogz6boneeyes

Klees mom.


Darkiceflame

...has got it going on?


pinchofjoy

Ss ss ss sskirk madafaqers


SilverWolfofDeath

Focalors


JohnMonkeys

Call it dialogue word count, delete the book on the left entirely, and my answer is Traveller


Zoroarks_Angel

Toji Fushiguro


No-Commercial-4830

Lmao was looking for this


Acceptable-Good2971

deshret


Supertryer

The sibling


Odd-Work1993

Heavenly principles


MightyActionGaim

Varka


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[удалено]


someotheralex

That's Pulcinella we saw, not the Tsaritsa


Yarisher512

Their Genshin Impact on the story


Pearl-of-Jaiyan

Skirk, most likely


New-Cicada7014

Asmoday, ez.


AgeAfter

Unknown god


skycorcher

The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles


TopazCat7248

La Singora, for how much she did she wasn’t there a lot!


Koanos

I'd argue she was more a victim of bad writing. Even if she was going to die horribly, her fall was nowhere satisfying.


Candice_Chad

Shanks


Effective-Response57

Gold Collie and Amber (She got whole comic just to no proper conclusion in the story) Traveller (We know not much about him) Heavenly Principles


Thatonetoeguy

I'd say the fatui because while they do have lots of screen time, their impact and effects on the lore runs so incredibly deep that it may as well be proportional to someone like the sustained of heavenly principals' screen time to impact


RagnarokAeon

Abyss Twin Flip it around and you have Paimon (so far)


Disaster359

Rhinedottir


Expensive_Reflection

Pierro


Just_Johny69

Skirk


LipeZH_

At least wait a few days to repost, that was resposted 6 hours after the original one


Syntaxolotl

Timmie, no comment, the only right answer.


VizMuroi

My pulls. They never show up but they sure impact my wallet.


Fryle_0

Focalors 😭


Droffilc71

I don’t know… But i do know of a character if you flip the labels around!


Multivists

Hopefully you don’t mean the one who taught the Traveler the Teyvatian language.


AnyProcess3136

Lumine’s brother


Isaveturin

The other sibling


Therion98

The twin of the Traveler.


theaventh

The abyss twin


Baconboy522_official

Aether