#the aranyaka questline gets a lot of flak but I found it really relaxing

[chaoticgenderfae]

Fighting off writer's block again and one thing I'm definitely noticing with reading over my earlier stuff to reference it in Seeds of Courage is that there’s one experience from early-game Genshin that's really stuck with me.

That being wandering into Sumeru looking for character ascension materials, stumbling into the Aranyaka questline, and then proceeding to disappear into the rainforest with Rana and the Aranara for an extended period of time. And I think that really shows in my Sumeru-centric fics.

And I hadn't even made it to Inazuma yet. I just got Very Lost in a magical forest rather than do the Archon Quest and it was very fun.