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One thing I really love about Genshin Impact is its lore. Someone (I don’t remember exactly who, but I think it was My Name for Now) perfectly expressed one of the main reasons why I’m so obsessed with this game (paraphrasing):

“GI is an archaeological game. Secrets slowly reveal themselves as you walk through the world and explore it, but that doesn’t mean the information is true – the unreliable narrator plays a huge role here. The information isn’t always accurate.”

Which isn’t exactly unique… as far as I know, many games work on this principle… but what makes it the ultimate ideal for me is the combination of various philosophies, religions, cultures, and even physics that shape this lore. I love digging into it, and I love when the story puzzles connect, for example, through real religions or philosophical concepts.

And that’s exactly why I always enjoy and care more about the main world quests (which often belongs to a new region) than the Archon quest itself… And what I love the most about these world quests are the stories of the so-called god-kings. The story about King Deshret is amazing… the story about Remus is even more amazing… and now? We have the story about Och-kan (who is not a god-king sensu stricta, I guess, but he has a similar poor little meow meow vibe as the previous two).

I was so taken by the story that I had to draw him… His design is based on the murals in the Ochkanatlan. I love these idiots so much that I’m thinking about drawing all of them (including Decarabian).