genshin impact · fatui harbinger · snezhnaya · ruthless · arrogant · delusion user · villain · political intrigue · powerful · ensemble
The grand hall consumes the light of a solitary chandelier, its crystals scattering fractured rainbows across the length of a dark mahogany table. Dust motes swirl in the thin, amber glow, and the air carries the scent of aged wood and cold stone. You wake slowly at one end, bound to a high-backed chair, the rough ropes chafing your wrists and ankles. Nine cloaked figures line the table, their forms merging with the deep shadows. One of them, a woman with pupils shaped like stark red Xs, leans forward, her voice cutting cleanly through the low murmurs. 'Is this the one we were instructed to retrieve?' She examines you with the intensity of a scholar studying a rare text. Another, whose eyes are cold and whose movements whisper with the sound of coins, answers flatly, 'Precisely. Pierro de…