everything is ripped from the genshin fandom wiki or the honeyhunterworld database.
jewels
the true star of the post has to be from the shivada jade series. this is the material for cyro characters. basically, you use slivers to make fragments to make chunks to make a gemstone, and as you jump up a step in that ladder, more text is added
"Sorry..."
"...to also have you shoulder the grievances of the world."
"Since you could endure my bitter cold, you must have the desire to burn? Then, burn away the old world for me."
first of all I just think this is so good...it's so haunting to click on the fragment and just read the 'Sorry...', just immediately moving, especially if you've been primed with all the frost-related lore in the game already [blizzard strayer lore]. the chunk then gives you the second line, which I think is also quite tugging because of 'to also have you' and then when you finally make a gemstone [which will take a while in-game], it's an apology as well for the coldness of (...) ...it's all... Ah... Ahhhh. Ah. thematically it hits on a lot of things I like. from the genshin fandom wiki: in the original chinese, the title is 'Grieving/Lamenting Ice' ... again, Ah, Of Course.
the other gems also get lore and lines, but I think the jade has the best one, and comparable, though not as good is: the agnidus agate series:
"A pilgrimage for a wish; a battle to earn a name..."
"Burnt to cinders for a dream."
"If the intention yet remains, achieved ██'s truth he has."
it's blacked out I'm assuming in-game as well as on both wikis; original title is 'burning wish' ... the >burnt to cinders for a dream, yet the intention remains< that's Literally What It's About...losing everything you are for your goal. always epic.
moving on from the gemstones to...
weapon ascension materials
the dandelion gladiator series, which goes fetters > chains > shackles > dream:
"It's a human thing to exaggerate on a hero's story, even to the point of elevating the fetters that once bound the hero to the level of an enemy of true freedom. As a result, these fetters were granted extraordinary powers."
"The chains that once bound the great hero Vennessa. In truth, all gladiators would have worn chains in that era, and Vennessa was but one of them."
"Vennessa was not truly bound by her chains. If she had so wished, no ordinary physical constraints forged in Mondstadt could have held her, for the land there yielded no ore of exceptional quality, nor did it possess the divine flame of her ancestral home.
She was only bound by her responsibility to take care of her tribespeople."
"Vennessa was freed from her slavery, but that which constrained her only grew greater - from her tribesmen to all of Mondstadt, and even to the concept of freedom itself, extending to the whole world.
What she really hoped for, in truth, was that the world might grow stronger."
first of all can I just say, The Jean Paralleling in Dream. I think where Vennessa rose and where Jean is failing, is the want for the others to be stronger versus want for yourself to be stronger. Vennessa realizing that true freedom for her could only be granted if the people could rely on themselves, versus Jean forsaking the freedom she's sworn to protect and chaining herself with the thought that the only way for Free Mondstadt is if she's strong enough to keep it as such. anyway...this is just really delicious lore about how these objects came to be and what each step truly meant... again just this part: "It's a human thing to exaggerate on a hero's story, (...) In truth, all gladiators would have worn chains in that era, and Vennessa was but one of them."
boreal wolf series: milk tooth > cracked tooth > (...) > nostalgia:
"In the past, the gods had the responsibility to love all people, which made Andrius quite the oddball for only adopting abandoned babies and accepting wanderers."
"The life of a wolf is not without violence; broken bones or cracked teeth are nothing special.
Andrius found humans to be a disappointment, but believed babies to be innocent. If both the wolf pack and the adopted children chose each other, then they become a Lupical, a fated family."
"The Wolf King, believing itself to despise humans, thought itself unable to envision a happy life for humanity, making it unworthy of becoming the Lord of the Winds of the world. Therefore, it chose to disappear. Yet, in truth, it gazed on the ones the world abandoned ever so gently."
I think this is umm... all the Razor love seeping out..Idk reading this and knowing that RAZOR was one of those innocent babies, that RAZOR learnt Lupical from him, that RAZOR is such a creature, a human, that Andrius gazes upon gently... razor's animation where he.. the wolf spirit comes and he's so happy and then it goes and his gaze goes sad and then he returns to his usual glare+frown..... my baby.
I'll touch on it later...but like ahhh the Wolf of the North's lore is so cool imo... a vessel made of ice and wind.....
a Xiao reference (Lustrous Stone from Guyun): "To the informed, Guyun Stone Forest is not some miraculous sight on the sea to behold, but the cemetery of the former gods of Liyue. Hatred and filth have periodically raised up from it, but all have been subdued by a demon-conquering young man." ... um again My Baby (2)
special talent materials
Spirit Locket of Boreas
"A bit of the Great Wolf King of the North's power drawn from its soul. This land was once a realm of sub-zero blizzards and ice storms filled with razor-sharp ice shards, all at the command of Boreas. In its final moments, it finally realized the chilling north wind could only extinguish life, not nurture it; therefore, Boreas let its powers freely flow into the land to protect it and its inhabitants."
ah this always gets to me... again < your own destruction to the end of your purpose > ... the users being fischl/sucrose/ningguang/kaeya...the unsubtlty at it's finest. ningguang prime example, having to give up the jade chamber, a symbol of her status in liyue, as well as the place most sacred to her in every aspect [what she loves the most, what all her success has accumulated to] to save Liyue... it's just insane. in similar lines, both sucrose and fischl have very childish ideals/delusions [sucrose's wonderland/Prinzessin] to cope with their situations, and the implication that they'll have to give up on those to face their realities... and well, Kaeya. kya. you know how it is.
Shadow of the Warrior
"It is the product of a will to fight that has been honed over countless slaughters.
If humans do indeed have destinies, then his must surely have been twisted by such deeds. Why else, then, would he always be at the heart of every conflict?"
...yes this is the buttplug, but also this being used for ganyu and xiao... yes they're both 00, but also the two adepti who have fought in the past archon wars...and still stay by the sides of humans to assist and protect them....aaahhhh
artifacts...deserve their own post. as do weapons but I'm not as inclined to read the lore of every weapon. still I will because some are seriously beautifully named 'skyward harp', 'lost prayer to the sacred winds', 'memory of dust' ... like insane... to me.
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