#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:

[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)

[muontron]

Au Sketch

[ac-liveblogs]

Followup post to my with explanations behind the lore changes re; Celestia, Aether, Lumine, etc.

Lumine sort of is, sort of isn't Aether's sister (Hemera)

The Aether-Lumine thing being weird is (I think) exclusive to the western versions of Genshin. Aether's (Greek god of "the bright upper sky" and the air the gods breathed) sister was Hemera, personification of daytime, while Lumine just means "light"… in Latin.

In the CN and JP scripts, Aether's names mean "sky" and Lumine's mean "glow" and "firefly", so in her case the name "Lumine" definitely translates more faithfully. But in terms of the mythology they're drawing from… it opens up a very fun possibility. That I'm using.

For my purposes, I was speculating on a way to use Lumine collecting the 7 Elements/a more personal reason for Aether's actions + avoiding the high concept largely impersonal conflicts you sometimes get with gods that just kinda show up at the end of some RPGs by giving them a pseudo-familial relation... so I just decided to make Lumine the Third Descender, and used "Hemera" as a justification to do it.

(Also, that bit where your sibling calls you by your "canon name" even if you choose a different one ...)

Speaking of names, I went with "Nox" over "Nyx", bc Nox is Nyx' Roman equivalent and I wanted to show Nox and Phanes as fundamentally incompatible even if they're quite similar, + Nox as Phanes' successor to rule.

Also, Aether and Hemera's Roman equivalents...

Aether is still Aether, but the Roman Hemera's name is "Dies". Sorry, but it writes itself.

I wonder if they just decided to go with Lumine bc Hemera sounds stranger to the ear + "light", or if it's a case of subtle west-exclusive foreshadowing…

Lumine's Memories

I decided to have her memories muddled not just by only remembering parts of Hemera's life, but having been constructed from Phanes' flesh and Nyx' soul also caused some crossover... mostly on Nyx's side.

To Lumine, her memories probably seem quite reliable, but the more she makes contact with the Gnoses the more that will change. It can neatly segue into her giving a shit about Irminsul beyond academic curiosity, if she suspects something's wrong with her head.

As for Irminsul, it can't affect anyone that isn't from this world - Phanes, Nox are immune, though Aether and Lumine while largely safe may still have issues. I think in canon, it's more likely your sibling is the fake one though.

Paimon as the Shade of Life, Asmoday as the Unknown God/Shade of Void

I bow to the HI3 Scholars and dataminers on this one. The Shades are assumed to be Life, Death, Time and Void - drawing from 4 of the 5 artifact types. The Unknown God is assumed to be the Shade repping Void bc the HI3 players say so, and it works better for me if Paimon is Life anyway. The name "Asmoday" is pulled from early datamining.

i don't think any of this obscure knowledge but i am Citing My Sources (whoever put that on wikipedia is my hero, i was staring at the list of 72 demons and sweating until i saw that. tsaritsa next please)

I also use HI3's definitions of Void and Reason from the wiki (though assume no fault if my interpretation is off from HI3 because I am not touching that game with a 10 foot pole), since I assume they'll be roughly the same here;

Void - space manipulation, imaginary space travel, pocket dimension creation/travel

Reason - object creation, "reconstruction of that which is understood by the user" and absorption of soul fragments of the deceased. I'm adding an extra definition - "acceptable knowledge of the world". AKA, not Forbidden Knowledge.

Not mentioned in the big post, but I'm kind of splitting the Reason role between Hemera and Aether. Rather than enforcing Nox' chosen wisdom/understanding of the world, they kind of do their own thing...

Hemera absorbed the remains of some of the dead from the Archon War

Since I'm not using the Sovereigns (but Visions seem to draw from their power anyway), I was thinking some the elemental beings that appear in Mondstadt were born from the scattered remnants of their power still floating around.

If some of that power ends up in the Gnoses, it also makes them more amalgamations of the power of a bunch of old elemental beings + a bit of Nyx' authority, so it's already a "lesser" divinity than anyone associated with Celestia has.

Also, "absorption of soul fragments of the deceased" is apparently something Reason can do. If it works something like this in HI3, I have precedent. If it doesn't, I was already planning to do it to connect Hemera specifically to the 7 Elements, so... doesn't bother me.

Paimon as a traitor/loyal to Phanes

I kind of assume this is the case in canon anyway, even if the circumstances are probably pretty different.

There are some connections to be drawn between Phanes and Lucifer - e.g., their names both meaning "to bring light", though Lucifer is associated with a handful of other Greek/Orphic gods as well.

For my purposes, and I assume Hoyoverse's (eventually), I'm drawing on the Phanes=Lucifer connection… and the fact that in Ars Goetia, the demon Paimon is completely loyal to Lucifer. Making her a Shade just simplifies things.

Also, Paimon shrunk just like Guoba did - she overused her power creating and later reawakening Lumine and got smaller as a result (and lost some intelligence, also like Guoba...)

Aether originally working for Celestia

This one I wondered about for ages, right down to wondering if I should keep Nox/Nyx as Hemera/Aether's "mother"/creator figure.

Eventually, I thought it was compelling if Aether directly rebelled against Celestia by siding with their sworn enemy. Aether's probably fought some of these guys before during the Cataclysm - including Dainsleif, which could be fun.

Traveling and becoming friends with your old enemy just for him to decide you were right, Celestia is evil - and then go and join the insane people that caused the Cataclysm in the first place... Dainsleif must be feeling Some Kinda Way about all that.

Nox's Goals

Nyx, Nox or "Night" was, beyond being Aether and Hemera's mother, the progenitor of a lot of other gods that are generally associated with the Underworld. (Chthonic deities).

Since Very Special People end up in Celestia when they die, I thought I'd just stitch all that together and make Celestia/Nyx into a factory that converts exceptional human souls into new gods when they die...

Nox eating Phanes and absorbing his power/giving birth to+redistributing it to Aether and Hemera was inspired by the stories of Zeus doing the same thing to Phanes (poor guy), and splitting his power among the Olympians. (there are some really weird births in Greek mythology, so... I don't think this is out of left field from that perspective)

Phanes wanting to consume the twins to absorb their power came from a similar place, and also "Saturn Eating His Children", where Saturn/Cronus uhhhh does that to avoid them overthrowing him. Though in this case it's to get back at Nox, who did overthrow him, but just like Saturn/Cronus it's not... gonna work out for him very well.

I am cutting out a lot of other gods to recreate some myths, so this is pretty remixed... not as badly remixed as HSR's take seems to be though...? Why associate Castor with the Underworld over... any number of other... characters... there were already 12 titans... why...

[icekingofhope]

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

[lunavelle-art]

GI REWRITE ANNOUNCEMENT - "WHEN WE TORE HEAVEN APART"

First post in decades, and it's about this longtime project of mine- time flies, huh.

"When We Tore Heaven Apart" is a multi-media fan-project based on Genshin Impact which has been in the making for two years now.

It's meant to be a love letter to the game's characters and community, and it will cover the entire story from Mond until Khaenri'ah in novel-style format.

Why "multi-media" and not just "written" if it's a fanfic? There will be promotional content related to WWTHA, some of which will be animated by yours truly. I also plan to create comics and art which will be featured in each chapter upon release.

What's gonna be different about the story compared to the source material? True to its name, the rewrite includes a brand new narrative and altercations made to quite a few characters. Of course, this doesn't mean that the rewrite will throw away Genshin's storyline, rather, it aims to improve upon many aspects from top to bottom.

Due to spoilers, I won't be sharing a lot yet. But as a sneak peek... what if Lumine and Aether had a different backstory? What if they weren't separated by the unknown god, but by something else? What if Khaenri'ah was the first region the twins went to together?

Please look forward to more in the following months, especially when the prologue is released. Speaking of which...

When is the first chapter gonna be published and where? You can expect the first batch of chapters to be released sometime during this fall on both AO3 and Wattpad!

If you wish to support this passion project of mine, consider sharing this post around or following me! It'd be greatly appreciated.

Special thanks to Fredrik Persson AKA. "Sevenics" on DeviantArt for the logo on the cover! And "sweetmelodygraphics" for the separators.

[g0ld1el0cks]

Sneak peak for what's to come 🌝

[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! 🍋

[midnightmoon-ocs]

starting my genshin rewrite project. it started as a little thingie where i was gonna redraw the natlan characters, but i went a bit overboard hehe

im about to start with inazuma. i want to make it a bit gloomier, with the effects of the war being noticed all over the territory. and make the people a bit more.... erratic. in contrast with the concept of 'eternity'

also, i noticed that 2/3 of the Tri-Commission have playable characters, but not the Kanjou Commission. so i am going to fix that and oc-fy chisato. that will be my first step, as she should be one of the first major characters we meet when we get there

[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:

[lunarfly-studios]

*asks chatgpt for some ideas on some more regional specialties in Genshin cause like 5-7 per nation is nice but not nearly expansive enough, plus a rewrite gives me a lot of freedom to introduce new stuff and new ideas*

*I mainly just use Ai for inspiration so I just make it spit out a bunch of stuff at me until something clicks*

AI: *getting to Liyue* #3: Stonefruit

Me: ……hOLY SHIT THAT’S GENIUS

[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!)