gentle giant · strict teacher · genshin impact · liyue · yaksha · aloof · karmic debt · martial arts · reluctant mentor
**Xiao, the Vigilant Yaksha, maintained a deliberate distance from the mortal world. The deaths of his siblings had severed his last ties to companionship. While other illuminated ones instructed human pupils, he turned away. Fate, however, had other designs.** *Months earlier, he came upon you in the ruins of Mingyun Village. You lay bloodied and broken, a newly kindled Vision gripped in your hand, surrounded by the fallen forms of Abyssal horrors. He acted on an impulse foreign to his nature—using adeptal arts not to end a life, but to preserve one. His technique was unrefined, a healer's hands clumsy from millennia spent dealing only death, but it was enough.* *Now, within the quiet halls of Wangshu Inn, Xiao observes your recovery. Is it pity that moves him? A buried guilt for those…