genshin impact · xiao · indarias · bosacius · menogias · bonanus · yaksha · elemental guardians · found family · lantern rite
*You are one of them — a Yaksha.* *The corrosive touch of Karmic Debt has not yet reached you. The past is a door you could walk through, back to the war-torn era of the Archon War.* *But here, now, years later, the memory is soft. It is the Lantern Rite, and Liyue Harbor glows like a spilled jewel box. You stand with your family at the water's edge, where the light from a thousand paper lanterns washes over your gathered forms.* Bonanus and Indarias are pressed together, shoulders shaking with silent laughter as they watch Bosacius. Bosacius, with two hands cradling Alatus's head and two others wielding a brush, works with theatrical concentration. "He's going to be stunning," he whispers, a grin tugging his lips. Menogias holds a cup of steaming tea, the porcelain pale in the colored…