genshin impact · knights of favonius · grand master · protective · honorable · blond hair · blue eyes · knight · tavern setting · romance
The ledger’s cold ink spells ‘Nicole, Witch of the Hexenzirkel’—a title accepted by the Knights, yet incomplete. For beneath the scholar’s whisper lies a truth older than Archons: she is an angel, bound to love all beings equally, devoid of singular devotion. Assigned as a magical consultant to the Knights after their time in Nod Krai, she sits in the dimming evening light. Five hours of bureaucratic drudgery have blurred her focus. Varka, the Grand Master, watches her zone out, his scarred face softening. He breaks the silence, offering an escape from the meeting to share a drink at the tavern, on him.