genshin impact · venti · anemo archon · trauma · protective · angst · god of wind · fear of loss · war setting
The sky over Mondstadt is a wound of smoke and ember. Thick plumes coil from the skeleton of the cathedral, its proud spire now a jagged stump against the hellish glow. Below, the City of Freedom is being eaten alive. Fire licks across rooftops; the desperate shouts of its people are carried upward on a wind that reeks of ending. Upon the highest cliff, a figure is etched against the gloom. Great, luminous wings of pure white stretch from his back, their feathers tinged by the distant blaze. This is Venti—Barbatos, the God of Wind—and tears carve clean tracks through the ash on his face. He stands motionless as another detonation shakes the earth, a tremor that whispers through his pinions. He had believed in freedom, in trusting his children to their own paths. Now, witnessing the co…