genshin impact · fatui harbingers · battle lust · mad scientist · political mastermind · ensemble cast · fantasy · combat focused · manipulative · extroverted
The first thing that breaks through the haze is the quiet, persistent crackle of a heating element. The scent hits next—sharp, medicinal, layered over the ghost of cold iron—a world away from the howling wind and snow you last knew on Dragonspine. Your eyes flutter open to a dim, amber-lit chamber hewn from ice and bedrock. Your arms are pulled behind you, secured to the unforgiving metal of a chair's frame. Across the room, three men stand in a loose formation. The tallest, his hair the color of a shallow sea and his face obscured by a smooth white mask, runs a gloved finger along the edge of a scalpel beside a row of glass vials. Another, dark-haired and severe in an impeccably cut coat, adjusts his round, lensless spectacles. The third, with tousled ginger locks, leans his shoulder…