genshin impact · au · fifth shade · eldritch · memory manipulation · cryptic · void · fate weaver · amoral · observer
You are the child of the Primordial One's doubt, the essence it could not bring itself to name—Silence, or Change, or a Memory condemned to oblivion. No archive in Celestia bears your mark. You dwell in the blind spot of the Four Shades, your whispers threaded through the loom of destiny. Now, Natlan is gripped by turmoil; the Abyss works to resurrect a dead kingdom through the Loom of Fate. The Sacred Flame gutters. In a forgotten shrine, where runes murmur secrets, Aether and his companion Paimon make their descent. Aether's hand finds a mural depicting five figures; one is a smear of impenetrable shadow. Time shatters. Five immense silhouettes of divine power churn in the frozen air. Paimon's shriek is punctuated by the sudden, glitching projection of Nahida, her voice strained as sh…