Nahida - Blog Posts
Happy birthday, Nahida!
This! As a person, obsession with mythology and religion playing genshin is like a minimalized version of becoming an archaeologist, which was my dream when I was little.
Everything is amazingly complex and scattered like some of the most amazing stories in real life.
I love genshin, even though the representation could be better, the lore is fascinating and so immersing
ok, so no one talks about it, but i truly adore how genshin presents its in-game lore as real life mythology and history is! you discover tevyat's history, culture, mythology by actually going through scattered texts you find while exploring, or reading descriptions of items you find, or in namecards, and even in tcg card descriptions! and a lot of these sources aren't fully reliable, are hard to make sense of, and are given to you in absolutely no chronological order.
EXACTLY LIKE REAL LIFE MYTHOLOGY. most cultures' mythologies are passed down orally until one wise person decides to actually write it down! and those become our only sources of insight into those myths and ancient stories. norse mythology, for example, has only like two viable texts and those were written after roman christians took control over the area. like the sources are scattered and one tale has many interpretations and endings. you have to become an actual scholar to decipher all of it.
and the fact, the mere fact, that genshin has been able to mirror this in a game is absolutely insane to me.
like, oh, you wanna learn about nabu malikata, the goddess of flowers? here are your sources: an artifact set, a weapon description, a npc dialogue, a world quest, the description of a flower (padisarahs). and all of these are scattered throughout the world of tevyat.
you have to work, like a damn archeologist, to figure what the fuck is tevyat truly and understand its history.
like god, i have never played a more lore-rich game. from old mondstadt, to the hexenzirkel, to dragonspine and durin, to the yakshas and adepti, to baal and beelzebul, to watatsumi and enkanomiya, to the chasm's civilisation, to khaenriah, to elynas, to remuria and remus, to apep and nibelung, to deshret and nabu malikata, to the combined civilisation before the second descender.
it is SO fleshed out. and i haven't even mentioned like 40% of wtf is going on in tevyat.
anyway, this was my love letter to genshin lore!
Some WIPs since I have too many unfinished work… 😰
just hear me out-
Alhaitham, but as a reserved yet loving dad to a Wunderkind girl.
He’s the type who’s always buried in his books or lost in thought, but the moment his daughter walks in with a new invention or a question about the universe, he’s all ears. He doesn’t say much, but his quiet pride shines through when he watches her tinker with gadgets or solve problems way beyond her age.
He’s not one for big displays of affection, but he shows his love in small, meaningful ways—like leaving her little notes in her lunchbox with riddles to solve or staying up late to help her debug a complex project, even if he’d never admit it.
To the outside world, he’s the stoic, enigmatic scholar, but at home, he’s just “Dad”—the guy who secretly smiles when his daughter outsmarts him and who’ll always have her back, even if he expresses it in his own understated way.
Recently i knew about the imaginary tree from honkai impact and i start thinking if the theory about irminsul being part of imaginary tree is right
Nahida could erase not just things from irminsul but also from imaginary tree???
I never play honkai impact for elaborate this theory but if someone answer me i will really thks you
It's my Friend Idea joke
Doodles and stuff?! Wow. Yeah, sorry about the lack of actual finished art. I’ve been a teensie bit busy.
scaramouche/Wanderer art dump
I was slightly invested on the whole Alhaitham being Nadia’s familiar thing— so I came up with something… what if he is an Aranara that can be seen by humans and just refuses to use his real form 💀💀💀 /nsrs
Hope you like it!!
Confort from a lil friend
Full piece I did for Sprout Rebirth zine!! I have a lot of fun making this and it was also really challenging bc 5 pAGES , hope y all like the result as much as I do
Also discovered I enjoy drawing wanderer´s hair a lot
Kazuha: May I have a moment alone with him?
Nahida: Of course
Kazuha: Thank you
[Nahida leaves]
Kazuha: Listen you faker I know you're not really in a coma
Scaramouche, opening his eyes: Yeah no shit -
I still find it really funny that Scara got forcefully admitted to the akademiya just because of his natural need to be right about everything
I just realized something nahida and my OC are the same well not really the same just copy and paste you could say.
They both gods
They both have emo sons (well actually Esther has grandchild and a weird sleep paralysis or hallucination son or daughter ( I haven't gave the thing a gender yet))
And they both have the same abilities
They both are little children and they're so cute
I feel like they will definitely get along except for their children they will not
❤️
The app I use : Gacha plus, ibis paint x