#Genshin Rewrite

[prettybbychim]

[this became much longer than i intended whoops]

u know i think it would’ve been much better if the ode of resurrection was not shown to us immediately, and wasn’t a main part of their culture. have people die throughout the archon quest, make us believe that there’s no saving them. kill off kachina at the start and convince us that she’s the first playable character in genshin thats not alive.

build up these bonds, forge these friendships, make us care.

just to take it all away

that’s war.

but there’s a tiny flame, that glimmer of hope. maybe it’s something the pyro archons have been working on, passing it down to their successors. something mavuika has been working on. yeah u heard that right she’s actually doing something wow get citlali in there to help out. get the whole goddamn tribe involved idc

there’s a scramble to find the last of the heroes. they don’t want to force it or fuck something up but they’re running out of time. the abyss is coming. it will consume the nation. they need to fucking buckle up and get down to it.

they could probably still go into the night kingdom to search for kachina, so that mualani can get her ancient name. or it can occur under entirely different circumstances. haven’t given that much thought yet. do they find her?

do they find her and can’t actually bring her back to the surface?

for the next part, we’re gonna have to shake things up because we need the captain on our team sooner rather than later. how that happens is up in the air but regardless, we put aside our differences to save natlan.

so, we help the captain find old dragon tech. maybe we enlist the help of kinich and ajaw, maybe we go into ochkanatlan, tie some of that shit in. we can take iansan along too, who is super duper strong and can carry all our fancy dragon tech or smth idk the three of them need more involvement !!! ajaw would drive me up the wall but it’s a necessary evil

in ochkanatlan, we see how the abyss can mimic lifeforms. the twin is in irminsul right? maybe it’s steals the twin’s image, but the traveler knows it’s not them because their twin would never say things like this. we learn that they abyss manifestations are (always?) twisted and mutilated.

we see the dragon. we don’t defeat it, that’s for the world quest lol but we get the image of the dragon in our minds so that when it shows up later down the line, we know what the fuck is happening lol

on our trip, we learn bits and pieces about the captain. it’s all disconnected, nothing makes sense. and since we’re nosey little fuckers, we find correspondence with the tsaritsa in his belongings.

capitano is gentle with his body. maybe a little too gentle. it catches the traveler’s eye but they don’t know what it means, they have no grounds for suspicion. it’s blown off as recovering from his duel with mavuika. (little do we know that he was hit directly in the heart and he’s worried, goddamnit)

ororon lets it slip that something feels off with the captain’s soul. (could the captain be using ororon’s sensitivities to monitor the souls housed inside him? would he eventually tell ororon what’s going on? or would that be too risky?)

ororon receives ancient name same as before, nothing really needs to change there i suppose. more suspicion is thrown on the captain because of the identity of the soul trying to possess ororon. maybe the captain didn’t share his plan in its entirety, he has a lot riding on this, he can’t afford to fuck it up, and keeps his cards close to his chest. he and mavuika can still argue in front of ororon like mom and dad lol

chuychu dies. she doesn’t get to give a long goodbye. she bleeds out in her sister’s arms. (they actually try to stop the bleeding and give her medical care) chasca goes berserk hell yeah, there’s a struggle. she manages to rein herself in, the love between sisters reigns supreme. chasca gets her ancient name

boom u got all ur heroes. they supercharge mavuika to beat back the abyss core thing. what was its name? gilgamesh? i don’t fucking know

the losses are extreme

fast forward a bit bc i’m losing steam and attention span here

we dive back into the night kingdom to track down the “brain” of the abyss corruption. the people we’ve met and lost in natlan help us out. kachina can be added to the mix. the gay lovers, chuychu and her pokémon team, boba and coconut — the whole gang’s here yooo i actually loved this part. favorite section by far

and after our trip in ochkanatlan, we know that the dragon we’re fighting is an abyssal manifestation. the voices of the previous pyro archons are their own but the words are all wrong, designed to discourage and distress us.

we defeat it using the power of friendship (i’m gonna kms)

also mavuika’s kit is completely different. i’m giving her a redesign fuck it. but that’s a post for another time.

traveler seems pretty good ngl i just wish the cons aren’t limited to fighting the dragon. i really liked what i was seeing and then they pooped all over my party (what’s the point!!!)

instead of a big parade, we gather around together at the stadium to finally try the thing all the pyro archons have been cooking. the heroes are a necessary component.

the incandescent ode of resurrection

among the many, kachina comes out of the flames. mualani sobs her heart out and vows to never let her out of her sight ever again

chuychu perhaps? 👀 pls pls she’s the only one besides cap and ororon that i give a shit about pllssssss playable chuychu when? her design is fantastic as is u dont need to touch it PLEASE—

now we can have a party!! after everything is all said and done, we can have One party instead of the five or so we’ve had since we came to natlan. (nation of war? more like nation of fiestas)

ororon, though, feels uneasy, and not because of the atmosphere. he says he’s going to find the captain, but he can’t explain why. concerned, the traveler and paimon try to follow him but are intercepted by citlali, who is for once not freaking out about ororon’s whereabouts, instead…

oh but wait. where’s mavuika gone? oh nooo

plays out relatively the same i suppose. could use some tweaking but not anything significant enough to mention right now.

except now we have somewhat of an understanding of the captain already, all the little bits and pieces we noticed, and the clues we (so rudely) discovered, it’s all starting to make sense now. we’ve also spent more time w him, the emotional attachment runs deeper, and it’s much more painful to experience.

bittersweet

mavuika is confused, especially in the days coming after. she had planned to die then. she said her goodbyes in a roundabout way. she finished the painting of her family, so they’ll never be forgotten. she saved her nation from the oppression of the abyss, resurrected so, so many. there was only one thing left to do… she was supposed to be the one to do it.

what does she do now?

what does she do with herself now, when she hadn’t planned for her own future? it was supposed to end, she was supposed to die. could she have reunited with her family? could she have seen them once again? she’s sad over what could have been, she’s confused because how did it end up like this, she’s mad because the captain stole it from her, she’s guilty because he was ultimately the better choice

what do you do when you’ve spent hundreds of years waiting for your destined day? when you’re only ambition has been this.

it’s time to learn how to live.

the end~

[shinpikurage]

Baizhu polycule (+Venti) from my rewrite! I have been working on this for a long time, and there's still a long way to go, but I'm so happy with what I have and what I created

The rewrite is focused on Baizhu, Wanderer (separate storylines) and redesigns!

[juniette13]

Tried doing Chasca some justice! Wanted to mix in a cowgirl aesthetic cause the Wild West was super diverse so like why not LOL (I am horrifically obsessed with the Wild West, I just don’t show it too much 💀)

Original design for comparison:

[chibiisanii]

sketch. dump. time!!!!

bonus: my cardboard potato i promised i would post ages ago

[vaultureculture]

And she stops, in the midst of washing off the makeup and ointments she'd earlier lathered her face with; she stops, eyes half-lidded, mouth parted, water rolling down her still-whitened cheeks like tears, leaving sorrowful streaks in their wake. Streaks like canyons, like gorges. Like the Musoujin wound.

Who is the person staring back at her in the lacquered bronze mirror? Her brother's trusted advisor? A princess, a poet, a warrior? Could her pale, unyielding hand turn the tides in freedom's favor?

All those things and this Ayaka wondered. If there could still be a chance that she could be great, a mere chance, she would take it in a heartbeat. She would be great.

The outsider is coming.

Finally, an outlier.

Her war starts tomorrow.

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In my genshin AU/rewrite, Ayaka is an unstoppable political force that puts her life on the line for the sake of her nation's liberation. This moment occurs the day before she meets with Aeva (our Traveler); a day before the fate of her vanguard is changed forever.

[glitzgorez]

Nahida redesign + au lore

Age: 500+ years old

Headcanons: she enjoys making Tea from leaves in her personal garden

During the archon war the old Dendro archon was close to death, she had little time to figure out what to do with her gnoses after her death and she didn’t want the enemy to get a hold of it. She decided to use the tree of time and memory under sumaru to reverse herself back into a childlike form and go into a deep slumber till the war ended. Once she was found after the war she was woken up though she had no memories of who she was before only her name and her purpose. Though she was not accepted by the people of sumaru, she was seen as a false god who was not only not the real archon but was bad at her job as well. Due to her frustration with her purpose she thought it might be better if she didn’t exist at all. She erased herself from the collective memory of the world with the tree of time and memory but due to her an experience in lack of understanding on how a tree worked she took all of sumaru with her. Sumaru slowly started to destroy itself from the inside. The plants rotted and shoot out spores which poisoned the people of sumaru. The sun in the desert got so hot it would melt the skin off whoever was exposed to it. The water was poisoned and every nation border sumaru closed its borders in fear of sumaru bad luck seeping into there respective nations. Not even the people in sumaru remembered themselves nor remembered where they lived at all 

(Asks are open if you have questions about my AU)

[ac-liveblogs]

Genshin Rewrite: Lumine, Aether and Celestia Backstory Notes

This is the part where I completely rip apart established lore, grab the chunks I think are important and stitch it all back together using educated guesses and a lot of inspiration from IRL mythology, primarily Greek. (Also, I think a lot of the details we do have are completely unnecessary, so this is really simplified.)

This is all part of a project to redesign Genshin as a contained party-based RPG, and is a thought experiment into "how can I change Genshin to make it something that suits my taste?"

Uh, I changed a lot. Mostly regarding Aether and Lumine's assumed origins. Additional notes explaining my thought process will crop up in a separate post, bc that got pretty long on its own too...

Anyway, I can finish Mond and Liyue after this.

Characters:

Lumine - the playable character. A being created by the Shade of Life stranded in Teyvat sometime during the Cataclysm, before being sealed away. Her memories of what happened back then are a mess, but surely finding the other Gnoses meeting the other Archons will help her find her brother...

Aether - the Abyss Prince and Nox' firstborn child, born from Phanes' flesh and Nyx' blood. Rebelled against his mother after the Cataclysm and is trying to overthrow the current world order.

Hemera - Aether's twin sister. Her body was carved into the 7 Gnoses after the Archon War, and is a contributing factor in Aether's betrayal of Nox. Aether hopes that when Lumine "regains her memories" by collecting the 7 Gnoses, she will return to being the Hemera he remembers.

Paimon - the bestest travel companion ever, and the Shade of Life created by Phanes. She lost a lot of her power by creating Lumine after the Cataclysm, and wants to restore Phanes to power.

Asmoday - the Unknown God/Sustainer of the Heavenly Principles, and the Shade of Void. Like Paimon, remains loyal to Phanes.

Nox - the Second Descender/Second Who Came, and the power currently ruling Celestia.

Phanes - The Heavenly Principles/The First Descender and the one that originally conquered Teyvat, overthrown by Nox prior to the Archon War. What's left of him was sealed in the Abyss.

Things Being Cut:

Any storyline regarding the 7 Sovereign Dragons surviving to this day. A lot of additional details regarding the Vishaps have also been nixed. Any speculation regarding them, Nibelung, etc. is gone.

Most of Natlan's AQ and current storyline.

A whoooole lot of background characters/factions involved in the fall of Khaenri'ah. We have 6 relevant figures - the 5 Sinners (identities remixed) and Dainsleif.

The Heavenly Principles and the Second Who Came

Millennia ago, a world is destroyed. It's not Teyvat. The survivors are a handful of deities that fled to the stars. Two of these are Phanes and Nox. Like humans require food and water, the divine require "belief" and "worship" to live. Starving, lonely and miserable, the two eventually stumbled across Teyvat - a habitable world that the two could survive in. The original inhabitants - the Vishaps, who worshipped the Seven Sovereigns, refused to bow to the newcomers.

So - Phanes and Nox defeated the Sovereigns, took control, terraformed Teyvat physically and conceptually, created the Shades and eventually created humanity... to convert Teyvat into a world that could sustain them.

Phanes and Nox began to disagree on where to take this new world from there. Phanes wanted to rule benevolently over humanity and the new elemental beings born from the remants of the Sovereigns' power as their new God-Kings in a brand new world order, while Nox wanted to recreate their old divine race and didn't care for the new world Phanes envisioned at all.

Nox turned on Phanes, consuming his flesh to steal his divine power and casting what was left of him into the Abyss. The Shades complied with her rule to maintain world order, though seethed at the betrayal.

With the power stolen from Phanes, Nox gave birth to (and divided his power between) two new gods - the divine twins Aether and Hemera, to maintain Teyvat while she began the long process of preparing to create a race of new gods.

In Teyvat itself, she declared the Archon War, and let all beings existing on the planet go to war over the right to take seats in Celestia.

Aether joined his mother in administrating the heavens, while Hemera spectated the Archon Wars and consumed the remains (and power) of the fallen. When the war concluded, Hemera gladly sacrificed herself for her mother's beautiful vision of a new world; her body was carved into 7 Gnoses, containing Phanes' and Nox' power, as well as the elemental energy of the remains of the gods Hemera had harvested during the war.

Nox and the Teyvat System

It's pretty simple. Nox is a hands-off and disinterested goddess, recuperating in Celestia from her battle with Phanes. The 7 Archons were assigned their roles as "floor managers", to uphold Celestia's Laws and were given the Gnoses to facilitate that (the specifics, she could care less about.) Nox only takes interest if anyone breaks one of the divine laws or fails a task to the extent she is insulted by it, and even then it's 'only' to exact petty retribution.

Visions are given to extraordinary people. The best of those can ascend to Celestia when they die. Once they do, their souls can be reforged into new gods. Nox can recreate her old species.

Since Aether and Hemera were primarily built from Phanes, she doesn't really care about them. They were always fairly disposable. The loss of the Gnoses, the cornerstone of her plan to rebuild her race, is a different matter.

What happens to Teyvat after that...

Lumine, Aether, Paimon and Asmoday (the Unknown God)

Phanes has rotted away in the Abyss for millennia. During this time, at least 2 of the 4 Shades he originally created waited for a chance to return their master to his rightful place as the creator-god of Teyvat.

Once he has regained his lost glory, he can defeat Nox and undo the damage she's done to Teyvat...

It was decided that the best way to heal Phanes was to return the power that Nox stole back to him - Hemera and Aether. Aether is one thing, but Hemera is in pieces.

During the Cataclysm, Natlan is devastated by the Abyss and the Pyro Gnosis is assumed lost forever. In reality, this piece of Hemera was retrieved by the Shade of Life, who expended an enormous amount of her power to recreate her. This child, Lumine, is used as bait to lure Aether in...

We've seen the start of the game. Aether tries to escape the Cataclysm with what he thinks is his sister. The Unknown God stops him. Wings destroyed, powers sealed and Celestia beyond his reach, Aether is stranded in Teyvat.

Initially pleased to have the chance to see what he'd been protecting all this time and the opportunity to help the survivors, Aether very quickly became disillusioned. War, suffering, strife - even without the Abyss.

"My sister died for this...? This is what she gave her life for? Nox killed her so she could elevate the best of these people to the heavens?" And as for Phanes... he'd bring her back, to die again?

Aether returned to the Abyss after he completed his journey around the world, forging an alliance with the similarly minded but heavily weakened Abyss Order. So begins the story of the Abyss Prince, who wants to overturn Celestia's vision for humanity and the Progenitor's plans to regain control...

Lumine landed in Mondstadt and lay there undisturbed until the modern day, when the Shade of Life found her and used almost all of her remaining power to wake her up.

Lumine will gain elemental abilities over the course of the game once she encounters the other Gnoses. Guided by Paimon, Lumine will one day be led to Phanes. She will not survive this encounter.

Aether would appreciate her regaining her power too, though for different reasons - he misses his sister, and wants her to join his rebellion against the divine. That said, Aether despises the surface world for disrespecting Hemera's original sacrifice and wants them gone as much as the Abyss Order does, so... good luck to him there.

Lumine's memories are extremely fragmented, though not badly enough that she'd notice at first. She has memories of travelling with Aether, but they might be Hemera's. She has memories of travelling the cosmos, but they might be Nox's. She has no memory of Hemera's life, though that may change the more she comes into contact with the other Gnoses.

The Lost Nation, Natlan

Natlan is the nation directly above Khaenri'ah.

To most of Teyvat, Natlan never existed and the Pyro Archon vanished sometime ago. To those that remember the Cataclysm, Natlan and it's Archon fell holding back the Abyss. The reality is that Natlan never stopped fighting the Abyss, and holds back the bulk of its forces to this day.

Natlan is the victim of Celestia's frustrations during the Cataclysm - the Pyro Gnosis was lost in the conflict, Natlan's resurrection ritual spat in the face of one of Celestia's laws and the fake sky was discovered. Thanks to Celestia's memory-warping powers, most of Teyvat has completely forgotten about them. As punishment for these failures, Natlan fights a long and vicious battle completely alone.

These days, Pyro Visions are extraordinarily rare and anyone that gets one is assumed to be an amazing person with a grand destiny ahead of them.

As an aside, due to having the Pyro Gnosis for a heart (though her powers greatly restricted by Asmoday), Lumine first awakens with the power of Pyro. The location of the Pyro Gnosis is a mystery, but it's assumed to be hidden somewhere in Natlan or in the Abyss' possession.

Luckily, Lumine doesn't make friends with any Fatui Harbingers that might be required to reclaim it once they figure out where it is!

[muontron]

Au Sketch

[phoenixcoreaw]

My (maybe insane) chart of relationships of some people around Baizhu, for my Au rewrite!!

[icelordofwinter]

so my friend @little-bean99 and me are working on a rewrite on Genshin impact

and so I decided to make fanart of the two and their new redesigns I’m very proud of this and I hope you all love it as well

[riiarichu]

Furina + Focalors without her divinity

(“How is this possible thooooo >:0”)

(In this AU Morax finds a way to allow Focalors to live while still keeping Fontaine safe and returning everything to Neuvillette. Any other questions about it can go to my inbox)

[shinpikurage]

I have a HC that because Baizhu uses the contract too much, he starts getting more snake-like. First it's the exchange of eyes, then he wakes up with fangs, then scales start appearing in his body everytime he uses it, then he gets point ears and maybe some instincts

This is why I always draw him like that, plus I think it's funny if people that knew him during different periods of his life encounter him in the present and get confused

[juniette13]

Mavuika redesign!

Tried to stick as closely to accuracy as I could to the admittedly limited sources I could find for my research on Māori culture, so please do forgive me if there are any inaccuracies

Archon lineup so far:

Canonical Mavuika for comparison:

[livxfruitful]

Kavetham in my Genshin redesign/rewrite style! Aka, Alhaitham and Kaveh. This is, again, concept art like for Xiao. The things most likely to change are clothing because I’m indecisive about clothing and how it fits a character.

There’s a lot of ideas I have formulating about my rewrite so stay tuned for that, but for now I’ll post how some of the character redesigns will look! 🍋

[sup-c0rpse]

Sneak peak for what's to come 🌝

[glitzgorez]

Zhongli redesign + lore for my au

Age: 5000+ years old

Sexuality: doesn’t like to use labels but essentially Agender, aromantic spec

Headcanon: enjoys long walks around the Liyue coast

Zhongli was the ancient Geo dragon, ruling Liyue alongside the geo archon. During the archon war Liyue was the first to get caught which led to the death of the previous Geo archon. Zhongli took the gnoses after his death and for a long time after the war served the role as archon from a distance. At some point as he grew in age he wished for freedom from his responsibilities so he looked for a mortal he could trust with the gnoses and a mortal he could trust to lead Liyue down the right path. He had his eyes on a certain women one he believed may be a descendant of the Geo archon himself

(Asks are open if you want to ask me questions about my au!)