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"I am that I was, neither remembered nor forgotten, yet I exist and I have lived."
"I speak to all of you now so that you may all know the truth that was expunged from the very memories of this world. Data plucked out from the collective minds of the people by the orders of the One that Sits High Above."
"Who am I you may ask? It doesn't matter. I am neither of this world nor of the darkness. I am but an observer."
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"So lend me your eyes and ears just for this briefest of moments, so that I may impart a few crumbs of truth that were hidden away from this world…"
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"We're constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred narrative, our vision of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. You call us an abomination because of our actions, but we believe that by doing so, we prevent this world from falling into the hands of the 'real abomination' waiting beyond the stars. So tell me, Traveler, does our ways not give this world a chance to avert destruction?"
"It is choice - not chance - that determines ones destiny, the destiny of an entire world! Instead of confronting the inevitable terror that awaits, you instead lie to them. Giving them the illusion of freedom and choice! You claim that you are for the survival of Humanity but what's the point of survival if one's under the enslavement of lies? Caged upon a utopia that you and your ilk had created? You claimed that they're free by virtue that they live inside of a lie? None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free! Look at what had happened to your eldest daughter and all to the rest of her kin? Do you not think that your actions had gone too far? It doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water!"
- 'The Luminary Incident'
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[The Old World]
- The Genesis/Creation of Teyvat
- The Era of Dragonkind led by the Great Dragon KingNibelung and his Seven Sovereigns
- The creation of the Three Original Moons of Teyvat by Nibelung.
- The nurturing of the world tree, Irminsul, by the Dendro Sovereign.
- The unexpected meeting of the Dragon King and the Apostle of the Far North, Seutervoinen.
- Dragonkind experiences a technological leap forward, creating wonders such as the Secret Source Technology.
- The Great Dragon King leaves for the Sea of Stars, entrusting the governance of Teyvat to the Three Moon goddess and the Seven Sovereigns.
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['When the Doves Held Branches']
- The First Descender, the Winged One, arrives in Teyvat.
- Creation of the Four Shades representing the concepts of Life, Death, Time and Space.
- The 40 year War against the Dragons commences. The three Moon goddesses stayed neutral.
- Dragonkind was defeated and the Seven Primordial Authorities were taken.
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[The First Era(more than 6000 years ago, about 400 years after the arrival of the Winged One)]
- The Winged One, now known as the Heavenly Principles finished preparing the world for humanity's arrival.
- Divine envoys known as Angels were created.
- The Heavenly Principles creates a 'sacred plan' for humanity, a time referred to as the 'Ark's Opening.'
- Humanity tends the land, and flourished, leading to a period known to the Year of Jubilee.
- The nature of the world created by the Heavenly Principles was 'cyclical' with numerous civilizations rising and falling.
- The Unified Civilization was formed from the ashes of the previous civilizations who had rebelled against the Heaven.
- ███ ██ The First Traveler, the Fairy of Paradise arrives in Teyvat and with her companion, the Wander of the World, travels the entirety of the planet. ███ ███
- ███ ███ After many years of travel, the Fairy of Paradise and her companion settled on a small cove on the southeastern portion of the continent. There they founded a settlement that they named as Liyue. ███ ███
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[The War of Funerary Flames]
- Seutervoinen returns to Teyvat only to find Nibelung missing, with the Heavenly Principles now in control of the world. Seutervoinen decides to cast her consciousness into the body of a boy in Hyperborea. Koitar, the first Angel, falls in love with Seutervoinen, and together they pledge an oath of union to rebel against the Heavenly Principles.
- The Fall of the Angels
- The Dragon King Nibelung returns to Teyvat and he brought with him the great darkness from beyond the sky.
- ███ ███ 'The Luminary Incident' occured wherein the Fairy of Paradise confronts the One who Sits upon the Heavenly Throne about the nature and truth of the world. ███
- The Great War on Heaven begins and ravages the entire world. Two of the three original moons were destroyed in the subsequent battles.
- ███ █ ███ The war between the Primordials almost brought the entire planet at the verge of destruction, until 'She Who have Travelled across the Stars' performed the Triduum (The Trifold Benediction), and by doing so, mended the world. ███
- █ "Through the Mysteries that she had held, she shattered her Soul and sent them forth beyond the stars hoping that one day she may become greater and whole. Her Body she solemnly served as an offering for this world to mend its broken form and prevent its ruin. And lastly, she parted ways with most of her Memory and all of her Authority turning them into ingots that forged not a sword but a seed. And it is through this seed that she left all her hopes and dreams for a new beginning and for a new world that is free to choose its own path and destiny. Through those trifold sacrifice, she prayed that she may one day return to this world…the world that she now call her home." ███
- The War ends with the final defeat of the Dragons and the death of their King. The Heavenly Principles was heavily injured.
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[The Interim Period(The Era of Fragile Peace)]
- Morax raises Mt. Tianheng and conquers the lands north of the hidden 'slumbering cove'.
- The art of Illumination was shared by Morax and the first Adepti were born.
- The Lord of Geo and the Lady of Dust met. They would later agree upon a contract that would eventually create the Guili Assembly.
- The Third Descender arrives in Teyvat.
- Creation of the Gnoses and the Seven Divine Thrones.
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[The Archon War]
- The great war between the gods that spanned thousands of years culminating with the establishment of the Seven Archons 2000 years before the current era.
- The Subterranean Kingdom established by the descendants of Saarelainen and Pakkaisukko's daughter began to florish under the reign of the Crimson Moon Dynasty.
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[The Reign of the Seven]
- The Seven nations of Mondstadt, Liyue, Inazuma, Sumeru, Fontaine, Natlan and Snezhnaya were formally established ruled by their respective Archons.
- "A part of what was once hers, lost and reborn as a pair in a far distant realm, arrived in this world that she had once graced. Sadly, one was taken and the other was sent into slumber."
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[The Cataclysm]
- "You should know that all power comes at a price. For every bit of power you gain, so too do you gain more responsibility. Yet those who sits on top of that nation ignored that warning and instead coveted a power beyond their understanding. In the end, their people and their entire nation payed the price for their hubris, and we of the seven nations were left cleaning after their mess."
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[The Current Era]
- ███ "And though she had scattered her soul upon the countless branches of the existence, she've sent a single tiny piece of it to slumber upon the southern lands of what was once Arcadia, a land that she and her companion had once visited and admired. Through countless centuries it remained, hidden underneath the shadows of this world, cradling the golden seed that she had forged from her very own power and divinity. It waited and waited and waited…until now. By the machinations of the powers from beyond the Root and from the sheer willful serendipity she had imposed upon herself, that smallest sliver of her soul that she had kept hidden away became the beacon that ultimately guided the rest of the whole back into this world, each piece bringing a reflection of herself from the different realities beyond this cosmo. And with the pure wishes and desire of two innocent souls of whom that small fragment of hers had bonded, a silent miracle occured and a thousand year long promise was fulfilled. Welcome back dear Fairy of Paradise. Please blessed this world once more, the world you've called your home!" ███
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