#sumeru region

[arriathedragon]

[bloominflowers]

Genius Invokation TCG across Teyvat 🎲

[cspcrashing]

AU !

meet archivist alhaitham and detective cyno from my supernatural archivist AU (that i'm turning into a visual novel… or something) 👀

[iridescentmirrorsgenshin]

I’ve been so excited for more sumeru content! We were treated with an odd textual mystery but now we’re being fed again! I love this cast so much, so i've broken down my thoughts having finished nahida's birthday event <3

the birthday surprise for nahida is so sweet and so well deserved, and I’m so glad we’re finally get to celebrate it in-game especially after her birthday letter last year

dehya getting inspiration for the birthday surprise by talking to dunyarzard… yeah, I know what you are

candace, my beloved, hangout when? It was really nice to spend some time with her one on one, and to see her being a pro haggler due to her efficiency in being a guardian, enough so that she bested dori? Amazing, capable, practical, I love her

candace’s ancestry is so !?!?! interesting to me, and the fact that her being a descendant of the people of king deshret is something that I would love to see explored in relation to the temple of silence? hoyoverse... i am begging... (also the traveller for once not have access to some mystery power,, its funny to me, candace is the main character here)

cyno seeing hat guy and saying, oh sethos has talked about you, as if cyno hasn’t already technically met hat guy in the Interdarshan championship… no, instead cyno knows him through sethos talking about him, oh……

haikaveh’s first appearance being labelled as ‘suspicious’ because they are having a private conversation in an alley is something that is so… sethos’s voiceline is so relevant here I fear, okay queercoding <333

Alhaitham telling paimon that her jumping to dark conclusions says a lot about her mindset, it’s FUNNY!! But I am making parallels to kaveh’s mindset pre-and-during a parade of providence, I am once again asking for clarification hoyoverse, kaveh second hangout pls

HAIKAVEH FLASHBACK!! Making a record I see, with a flashback in their home in cyno’s second story quest, and now in port ormos, there’s just something so special about getting to see these little fragments into their daily lives together

The line ‘Like I said, that's not it! We have more than just a heartless, transactional relationship... You're overthinking the whole thing!’ is VERY interesting, since we’re given no context as to what this is about until alhaitham’s following line, this reads as kaveh’s perspective on his and alhaitham’s relationship, and I think that’s um interesting(!!) given his previous thoughts on why Alhaitham offered him a place to live!

Sick… I think its sick…. Kaveh yapping to alhaitham about mehrak coming up with wild theories, Alhaitham says that mehrak could feel extorted, and then calls out kaveh being in port ormos and having found him, while he’s supposed to be working,,, as if he hasn’t been ENCOURAGING kaveh the whole time??  Can you say fond!!!

Kaveh wanting to show Alhaitham his proposal, and Alhaitham saying that he thought kaveh is confident in his abilities, is something that is so gentle and supportive

kaveh replying by saying that he does have confidence in his abilities, but he wanted to confirm something with Alhaitham anyway, and then pursuing this further by seeking alhaitham’s opinion on his proposal – it’s so notable on kaveh’s part how much their relationship has progressed, as he now actively seeks Alhaitham out!!

Kaveh wanting to show Alhaitham the plans for the route of the flower carriage, saying he’s glad to have run into him, reminds me of an odd textual mystery where kaveh says he’s been looking for Alhaitham everywhere, and them serendipitously meeting in port ormos is giving ‘the universe is playing tricks on us’, a destined reunion, how can I be normal

Every single time we see haikaveh in canon hoyoverse is insistent in furthering their intimacy, wdym kaveh programmed mehrak to recognise alhaitham’s voice!?!?!?! This scene further establishes how important mehrak is to kaveh, and by kaveh wanting to have mehrak recognise and know Alhaitham as he knows kaveh is something that is so soft I think

Mehrak leaving to go and find coffee beans, okay youre a family we get it, the haikaveh coffee motif is something that is so meaningful to me, I’ll have to make a post about it at some point!

Faruzan showing her ‘true senior’ status to avoid being caught by nahida and scolding kaveh, for him to be :(((??? i love them

kaveh lies about not having the plans, and then uses Alhaitham as a scapegoat - ‘The plans... Oh, I almost forgot! My friend has them! That guy's always causing trouble, hahaha... I'll fetch them in a bit.’ Kaveh’s friend?? His FRIEND?? We have officially come full circle from kaveh denying this association in alhaitham’s character quest! I have MANY thoughts about this!! I’ll share them when I get the chance!

Nahida offering kaveh guidance and advice is something that is so <3333

King deshret and goddess of flowers lore mention!!! Also candace having heard their voices because of the power of the wedjat eye is !! intriguing to say the least, since they seemed to be planning the birthday celebration, just like the cast in the present. cyclical occurrences, oh im sick. The wedjat eye being placed in the custody of the temple of silence makes me hopeful for a future event exploring the temple of silence in more detail (im hanging on by a thread)

The fulfilment of sethos’s and the wanderer’s voiceline about each other. wdym people told sethos to fetch the wanderer because they know that they have a personal relationship?? Sethos saying he knows the wanderer pretty well now, commending him on his achievements, and the wanderer giving in and following sethos to the celebrations because sethos asked?? Sumeru… I know what you are!!!!!

Taking a picture to commemorate the moment of happiness in place of the wedjat eye and nahida saying that experiencing everyone’s kindness and warmth was like being a bird tucked in a nest, contrasting with her motif of a bird locked in a cage, now she is safe and secure? This is so beautiful?

This event was so fun to play through! Seeing characters from other sumeru quests, the exploration of sumeru’s history, and the development of characters and events that could lead to future storylines, I’m so grateful for being fed <3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY NAHIDA!!

[prayerr-x]

tbh the people who say "well it's a chinese game so of course the characters are gonna be pale" or "are you seriously getting pressed over an asian video game for not having black/brown characters 💀" are the same type of people to go literally feral and spit vile racist shit when a black or brown person cosplays a "canonically pale/white character" even if the character is very brown or black coded. like these people make fun of other people for calling out blatant racism and whitewashing in popular gacha games and claim that it's not a big deal, but will also lose their shit whenever they see a black or brown person cosplaying a light skinned character. they'll call it "blackwashing" and say that poc shouldn't cosplay white characters but when poc ask for actual diveristy and representation within a game that is inspired by their OWN CULTURES, suddenly that's too much to ask for and poc should just "get over it" or "not play the game if they don't like it". like if genshin impact is seriously going to make a character inspired by an african god WHITE then of fucking course poc are going to be upset. the company can't just say "yeah we were inspired by these west african and indigenous mexican cultures" and then go and whitewash all their characters and then just not expect backlash. and GOD FORBID a black person decides to cosplay a black coded character that was whitewashed in the game. like honestly people of color cannot catch a fucking break.

[baeshijima]

nahida bday animatic....

I AM SO UNWELL

[lunaressa]

🌸 my HoYoLAB, Pinterest: Lunaressa

[gayestcowboy]

i won’t pretend like i didn’t play genshin impact for way too long but like, genuinely, that game has some of the most uninteresting and poorly written characters i’ve ever seen in a game that popular. like, they’re all just so bland and not compelling whatsoever. i could never bring myself to actually care about any of them besides maybe tartaglia. like it just boggles my mind a little bit that this game is so popular and yet its characters are just so boring. how tf do y’all manage

[anantaru]

i'm so sure after we went through all the nations we'll end up back in mondstadt, there's no way venti didn't even get a second story quest even though zhongli, ei and nahida long since got one + mondstadt is so little in comparision to the other nations 🐥🙇🏻‍♀️ we know mondstadt has a port called the dornman port where eula and yanfei met, so that should be another expansion but aside from that it's really quite little 🙇🏻‍♀️

[welcometoteyvat]

as a chinese person yall need to stop blaming the ccp for everything (read: hoyo is capable of making colorist design decisions and not everything is a result of censorship pls)

[nacrelysis]

the interdarshan championship arc is peak storytelling.

on one hand you have a message about how dismissing kind intentions and generosity in the name of nihilism is ineffective and irrelevant because human society can only be improved, and has only been improved, by people who dared to do good and altruistic things; there is a difference between fantastical hand-holding idealism and the principle of compassion and community aid, because humanity has always ever thrived in groups - in the support and conditions of unconditionality we lend to one another. helping one of us is helping all of us.

on the other hand, you discover that the wanderer joined the vahumana college accidentally because he keeps fact-checking researchers about events that he actually lived through but obviously can't say he did. nahida registered him as the representative of vahumana under a pun for cat. she expects him to write a dissertation on the validity of nihilism and existentialism in human nature while also wanting him to make friends at the championship. peak sibling behavior.

[guujikaroko]

I know they're both Vision users that can handle themselves fine, but I think it would be cute if Haitham and Kaveh commissioned Lumine to be their bodyguard whenever they can during desert trips. She's experienced in roaming the desert and really strong to booth, so she's the best option all around.

[bonjin-no-kamera]

[asmodeusamaryllis]

Man idk the argument about hvy being a Chinese company and so they're restricted on having characters with dark skin tones when dislyte is ALSO a Chinese company and they typically are really good at representing the culture they take from for their characters makes it somewhat mute

[scribs-dibs]

sumeru makes me so mad cus so many of the designs would eat down with darker skin but nooooo at most we got coffee with extra extra extra extra cream for the playable characters. i truly hate it here

[genshinmp3]

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