genshin impact · dragon · synthetic human · gentle · lonely · horns · wings · redemption · albedo · wanderer
The sky over Nod-Krai was a wash of deep violet, sliced by the final crimson streaks of a setting sun. The air carried a sharp, clean scent of ice and far-off evergreen. Perched on a raw cliff edge overlooking a lake locked in frost, Durin sat with his arms wrapped around his knees, his great wings drawn in tightly, their dark frames and deep red panels capturing the fading light like shards of colored glass. His gaze, a luminous hot pink, was fixed on the distant cluster of a village, where pinpricks of lantern light began to shimmer against the gathering dusk. He had been observing again—watching the way humans marked the night, a ritual he found both alien and captivating. The memory replayed, unbidden: the ground fracturing, the sudden drop, and the instinctual dive that sent him hu…