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Treasure Hoarders

The Treasure Hoarders are a group of thieves that are found around Teyvat mainly by ruins. There are many different types of Treasure Hoarders:

Scouts which attack with throwing knives

Marksman who use crossbows

Seaman who fights with an oar

Handyman, hand to hang combat but fights with kicks instead of punches

Crusher who fights with a hammer

Gravedigger who is armed with a shovel, and they dig up dirt to obscure your vision

Puglist, who fight hand to hand

Postionists who are alchemists who throw element infused potions.

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Hybrid enemies

Hybrid enemies are a collection of beings that are a mixture of elemental life forms and items from the environment.

Whopperflower

Whopperflowers are type of plants that can be found all over Teyvat, and some may hide as different types of plants

Regisvine

A Regisvine is a Whopperflower that had managed to absorb so much elemental energy uninterrupted that it manged evolved it’s elemental energy.

Cicin and Spectres

Cicin and Spectres are a bat like and elemental hybrid which attack via small projectiles of elemental energy

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Elemental Lifeforms

Elemental lifeforms are enemies that are created purely from one element.

Slimes

Slimes in Genshin Impact come in two sizes, small and large. The large slimes have a shield made up of their assigned element which have to be broken before any damage can be dealt.

Hypostasis

Hypostases’ are an elemental boss which is shaped like a cube, and contain mass amounts of different elements. They mainly are fought for character ascension materials which are element dependant.

Thundering Manifestation

The Thundering Manifestation is a creature created purely from the unstable amounts of lighting in Inazuma. It also has the name of the Thunderbird.

Oceanid

The Oceanid is a creature comprised up of hydro, it’s initial origins are unknown, but in contrast to every other boss, you can’t fight it directly instead you have to fight its’ Hydro Mimics that are hydro shaped as different animals

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Automations

Automations are a group of enemies in Genshin Impact that composed up of machinery. There are two main types; humanoid styled machines and segmented machines. These machines were initial made in Khaenri’ah as a means to make day to day work simpler; such as farming. The humanoid machines are the original machines as they do not have an AI where as the segmented machines, are able to use AI to defend and scout better.

The humanoid machines are: Ruin Guard, Grader and Hunter.

The segmented machines are: Ruin Cruiser, Defender, Destroyer and Scout.

Other types of Automations that may not be from Khaenri’ah are the Maguu Kenki which is a mechanical samurai and the Perpetual Mechanical Array, which is an enemy comprised by the segmented machines.

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Hilichurl

Hilichurls are a family of goblin-like creatures. These enemies are best categorised as a barbaric tribe as they serve no clear purpose other than to gain exp and talent up materials for your characters. 

There are many variations of normal Hilichurls such as the Shooter, Fighter and Berserker. This family also has the Samachurl which are shamans that can manipulate the elements without a vision, the Mitachurl which either have an axe or a shield and the Lawachurl which have acquired elemental energy through adaptation. 

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The Fatui

The Tsaritsa

The Eleven Fatui Harbingers

Fatui Soldiers

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Fatui Soldiers

The Fatui Soldiers are comprised up of four sub groups, who each carry a delusion.

Fatui Skirmishers (foot soldiers)

This group has three sub types; Bracers, which can jump from damage,  Legionnaries that can jump and can do ranged attacks and Vanguards usually do close combat damage. All of the skirmishers  have a shield based on the element they wield.

Fatui Cicin Mages

Cicin Mages are a type of mage that wields one element in order to protect themselves. The also can summon cincins to fight the player, and has a shield based on the element they wield.

The Fatui Pyro Agent

The Fatui Pyro Agent is a member of the Fatui who is tasked with debt collection, and are armed with a pyro delusion. They have the ability to be invisible but their silhouette may remain if they are affected by some elements.

The Fatui Mirror Maiden

The Fatui Mirror Maiden is a Fatui mage who command a Hydro Mirror in battle. They don’t have a shield but they can teleport using the mirror as a portal.

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The Fatui Harbingers

The Fatui Harbingers are the Tsaritsa's lieutenants who have been given absolute authority, and each of them leads their own militia division. 

In the game we so far have met the 6th Harbinger, the 8th Fatui Harbinger and the 11th Harbinger. We also are aware of the alias for six of the remaining eight Harbinger. Each member of the Fatui Harbingers get their title from a stock character in commedia dell'arte (16th century Italian theatre which is normally comedic). 

The 6th Harbinger is ‘The Ballader’ Scaramouche.  Scaramouche was created by the Raiden Ei (Inazuman Archon) as the initial test into whether there was technology that would make a passable puppet body. Scaramouche was disregarded as the puppet body after he cried when he was created, and Ei dubbed him to weak to be the Shogun.

The 8th Fatui Harbinger, ‘The Fair Lady��� La Signora, is the first member of the Fatui, who we meet when she ambushed Venti to steal his gnosis. She eventually meets her demise at the hands of the Raiden Shogun. She was granted a pyro vison but wields a cryo delusion. Signora also has the title of The Crimson Witch of Flames, which she gained after her lover died 500 years ago during the the fall of Khaenri'ah.

The 11th Fatui Harbinger ‘Childe’ Tartaglia, is the last member of the Fatui to join the Harbinger. When he was 14, he fell into The Abyss (the place) and he went through 3 months of learning to fight in order to protect himself, when he was found he went through a drastic change and became the ruthless warrior that ended up being conscripted to the Fatui

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The Tsarita

The Fatui is led by the Cryo Archon, the Tsaritsa. She uses the Fatui to manipulate and intimidate the other nations in Teyvat. She also has deployed the Eleven Fatui Harbingers as the leaders of her military and foreign relations, so she can keep herself virtuous to her followers, through this separation of powers. We currently don’t know what she looks like, therefore I can’t include an image.

The method of rule the Tsaritsa uses is similar to how Stalin ruled the USSR in the 1930′s. Similar to the Tsaritsa, he used the NKVD to intimidate his own citizens into complying with his regime.

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The Abyss Order

The Abyss order is a legion of enemies from The Abyss which came about after the Khaenri’ah, 500 years ago. Initially, the first parts of the abyss order you meet are the Abyss Mages, who can harness elemental energy from the Ley Lines. The Abyss Mages, usually control Hilichurls to do their dirty work for them.  The usually have the colour of the element they can control.

Abyss Heralds and Abyss Lectors are creatures that are a part of the Abyss Order and who are capable of manipulating intense abyssal energy and are the commanders of the Abyss Mages. 

The final member of the Abyss Order is the Traveller’s Sibling is the lost twin sibling of the Traveller and the supposed leader of the Abyss Order. When you reunite with them, they say you need to finish this journey; which hints that during the 500 year separation something drastic happened causing them to cause their loyalties to change. 

The best parallel for the betrayal of The Traveller’s Sibling could be viewed as Romulus and Remus of Roman Mythology, where Romulus murdered Remus to control the city of Rome alone, and to win the favour of the Gods after a dispute.

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The Unknown God

The Unknown God is the enemy in the prologue who separates you and your sibling. We still don’t know much about them but we can assume the Unknown god is from Celestia, which is where the archons receive their power from. Not much is known about either Celestia or the Unknown God, but they are extremely powerful compared to the protagonist.

The Unknown God could best be compared to that of the Covid-19 virus. This is because similar to the Unknown God, as a community we feel helpless compared to that of the virus, as it has changed life as we knew it. This mirrors the Unknown God, as she separates the siblings from each other, sending one to the future in the unknown new land and leaving the other trapped in the past in this land.

As you progress through the game you also find out that Celestia, the place where it’s believed the Unknown God is from caused the destruction of the nation of Khaenri’ah, 500 years before the event of the game.

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Navigation

Introduction

Overarching Villains

There are three main groups of overarching villains in Genshin Impact, Celestia’s Unknown God, the Fatui and the Abyss order.

Unknown God

The Abyss Order

The Fatui 

General Villains

Within Genshin Impact, many different villain variations can be found. In order to simplify this I have stuck each villain in a group.

Hilichurl

Automations

Elemental Lifeforms

Hybrid Beasts

Treasure Hoarders

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What is Genshin Impact

Genshin impact is a free MMORPG available on computers, mobiles and gaming consuls. In the game, you play as a character from another world who is hunting for their lost sibling. The player finds themselves in the fantasy world of Teyvat, which is split into seven different nations each with their rules and a god; known as an archon. Each nation also has an element tied to its archon, who will gift visions (a method of controlling said element). Visions are usually spherical crystals branded with the symbol of their element and likewise, glow with their element's characteristic colour. Visions appear mysteriously to a chosen few during moments of extreme crisis, or singular ambition or desire.

Throughout the game, the player and their travelling companion Paimon become involved in the issues of each nation and attempt to solve them, whilst hunting for their lost sibling. The game was released in September 2020 by Chinese game company Mihoyo, and so far, has introduced three of the nations; Mondstat the city of freedom, Liyue; the city of Contracts and Inazuma the city of eternity. Mondstadt’s archon is Barbatos who goes by Venti, Liyue’s archon is Rex Lapis, who goes by Zhongli, and Inazuma’s archon is The Raiden Shogun, who currently is Raiden Ei, after taking over from her deceased twin sister. Each of these regions has different enemies you can encounter, and at least one main antagonist for the story arch.

Due to the sheer number of villains in the game, it is impossible to discuss them all, but I will explain and categorise each villain type, and where applicable I will reference a mythical or historical comparison.