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It just does so much RIGHT that I was worried they couldn’t juggle. It reveals information in linear order, like with the Descender reveal happening at the end of Sumeru even though he was technically always one; it gives us an idea of the Traveler’s arc through Liyue and Inazuma and just generally feels like it acknowledges each nation properly without going overboard; and most of all, it feels like just the right combination of self-aware about Genshin’s potential cringiness while still respecting the legitimate depth present.

So long as they properly handle the Fatui and Abyss (which I assume will be summarized when they cover Nod Krai and Natlan respectively) I think this is a perfect way to encapsulate the complexity of both Genshin and the Traveler themselves

For my entry, there’s nothing cooler than Tsarmini’s sword from Project Anemoia (which is actually NOT the one pictured, but what are you gonna do). Here’s its description when first revealed:

Without warning, the Weaver felt a profound shift within Tsarmini’s flowing, starry hair. Where his threads had previously felt almost nothing at all, they were suddenly flooded with more information than should have been possible—more details than there should have been atoms or molecules to carry them—about a universe that was simultaneously entirely alien and heart-wrenchingly familiar. He felt it spring into being from brilliant, shining oneness; he felt the first specks of matter crystallize from energy, and felt those first specks tug on all the rest to form the first atoms—almost entirely empty, yes, but filled with potential. And as one atom tugged on another, and those two on a third, soon enough there was enough gas to pull together stars, and then enough stars to pull together galaxies, and then the galaxies too pulled and pulled until the universe was united into brilliant, shining oneness once more—almost entirely empty, yes, but filled with potential. 

And then, at last, he felt…something. A speck of slightly less complete oneness, pulling on other specks in a certain unique way that none of the other, more united specks had ever seen that they could. Really, though, you ought not to blame the other specks, being that they had never seen anything at all. This speck, though…this speck was special. For it, in its unique specialness, saw…everything. It saw the stars and the galaxies and the emptiness and the potential, and that it was the universe and the universe was it, and it asked itself “why” and it answered “because,” and it laughed and laughed and laughed. And in the laughter of the galaxies there was the sharpness of a blade, folded for each shining star that gifted the galaxies color and with an edge sharp enough to divide one point into infinite; and in the laughter of the speck there was the comfort of a hilt, its contours and balance pushed to absolute perfection just as the speck had evolved to fit its environment like a glove; and in the quiet laughter of a hypernova that had given birth to itself there was the brightness of a gemstone, adorning its place between the hilt and blade just as the hypernova had illuminated earth and sky alike.

And at last, from beyond potential and outside of design, he felt a hand reach in with all the fervor of the universe’s birth and all the authority of its death, and by its presence—by the exhilarating possibility that there might be ‘the universe, and’—the universe was granted a name: Sternklinge, Blade of the Stars.

Blade of Tsarmini. 

The art is not mine, but I edited in the text. The artist’s watermark is in the corner.

Insane how over a century later, the dinosaur with the coolest name of all is not only the largest predatory genus, but also has the largest fossil sample size from which we can learn the most about the biomechanics and Ontogenetics of therapods.

Tyrant Lizard King indeed