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Chapter 1
After helping Venti save Dvalin and Mondstadt, the Traveler and Paimon decide to head for Liyue and continue the search for the missing twin.
Unreconciled Stars
Event
Many events have stories that are only available int the game for a limited time. For your convenience, we collect links to recordings of these events in as many versions as we can.
Peculiar meteorites are descending upon Teyvat, bringing a rare sleeping sickness with them. People trapped in deep slumber, mysterious dreams, an unknown star… The crisis draws closer!
Lantern Rite
Event
On this marvelous Lantern Rite, we pray that the fallen heroes may be guided home.
Every single wish, no matter how small, is worth seeing to fruition.
We will finally reunite with those we long for on a dreamlike night.
Invitation of Windblume
Event
When you’ve got some leisure time, how about taking a stroll through Mondstadt’s streets and seeing if there’s still anything to do?
After asking around, you learn that Mondstadt is currently celebrating the Windblume Festival. Unfamiliar with the festival as you are, you catch the festive fever nonetheless, and thus take your first step towards understanding this important event.
Midsummer Island Adventure
Event
When you’ve got some leisure time, how about taking a stroll through Mondstadt’s streets and seeing if there’s still anything to do?
After asking around, you learn that Mondstadt is currently celebrating the Windblume Festival. Unfamiliar with the festival as you are, you catch the festive fever nonetheless, and thus take your first step towards understanding this important event.
Outworld Traveler – Honkai x Genshin
Honkai Impact 3rd Event
A strange adventure combining the absurdities of both Honkai Impact 3rd and Genshin Impact, this crossover event has some deep cut humor.
This crossover doesn’t really affect the story in any significant way.
In the Honkai Story Guide, this event is placed during Phase 2.
Otto Apocalypse has a special proposal for Anti Entropy. He approaches Welt Yang about three new game concepts he has lined up.
Trailers
Trailers contain minor spoilers. They tease the future after all. Sometimes, we’ll link the trailer AFTER the content, because the spoilers are perhaps a bit too big.
Whether you watch the trailers is up to you. They can wet your appetite, but make for a less ‘blind’ experience. You can also come back and watch them after you’ve played trough the content.
Come Explore Teyvat with Amber
Special
Golden blocks will typically represent ‘bonus content’. These are worth experiencing, but are typically not a part of the story.
Quests
Genshin Impact’s stories are primarily brought to you through the medium of Quests. It is absolutely stacked with them. You will encounter them around every corner. We can’t track all of the quests and give you an order to play them in.
Instead, this guide will provide you with guidelines for the major or generally lore relevant quests that will affect your story experience as a whole. Don’t be spooked if you unintentionally unlock a quest out of order. The game is open to be played in any order you wish. The story guide is merely an aide.
The game will do a lot to guide you through the quests naturally, but some oddities stick out. That’s where this guide will intervene.
We will give you some tips to avoid accidentally triggering quests.
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Act I: Of the Land Amidst Monoliths
Farewell, Archaic Lord
Requirements:
- Reach AR 23
- Complete Prologue Act III
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically.
- Approach the streets of Liyue Harbor.
Act II: Farewell, Archaic Lord
Farewell, Archaic Lord
Requirements:
- Reach AR 25
- Complete Chapter I: Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically.
- Talk to Ekaterina at the Northland Bank.
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Act III: A New Star Approaches
Farewell, Archaic Lord
Requirements:
- Reach AR 28
- Complete Chapter I: Act II
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically.
- Climb Mt. Tianheng.
Warning: After completing this quest, you will unlock “The Crane Returns on the Wind”. This quest starts automatically if you approach Yujing Terrace. It’s advised to keep this quest for later.
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Act III: A New Star Approaches
Farewell, Archaic Lord
Requirements:
- Reach AR 28
- Complete Chapter I: Act II
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically.
- Climb Mt. Tianheng.
Adventure Rank
‘AR’ is a method by which the player unlocks things. It goes up with just about any activity. This guide assumes the player follows a somewhat natural trajectory, meaning they don’t spend a lot of time leveling up AR without continuing the story.
If you do overlevel your AR, you may benefit from scrolling forward in the guide to check what you may ‘accidentally’ unlock in the process, causing you to enter quests out of order. This isn’t a huge problem if it happens. You can just consider it a ‘flashforward’.
At some point, your AR will reach a cap and you’ll need to complete a challenge to increase it. We will also include a recommendation for when to do this.
Character Quests
These are special quests related directly to characters.
Secret Pirate Treasure
Requirements:
- Reach AR 5
- Complete Prologue Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Talk to Kaeya at the Knights of Favonius Headquarters
Wind, Courage and Wings
Requirements:
- Reach AR 8
- Complete Prologue Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Talk to Amber near the Favonius Cathedral
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Act II: For a Tomorrow Without Tears
Prologue
Requirements:
- Reach AR 10
- Complete Prologue Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Approach the Goth Grand Hotel
Project Genshin - Prologue
Manga
Project Genshin aka Genshin Impact (the manga) is a manga that was originally released back in 2018, 2 years before the game came out.
We put it after the first questline rather than before because Genshin’s quests are tailored to new players, and reading the manga after some quests seems like a better experience.
The official website version is missing chapter covers and several chapters, so we’re linking the Mangadex version instead.
Read the entire Prologue chapter, then return to this guide.
You can continue reading, but we recommend it later in the guide.
Familiar Faces
Venti is the first character to appear in the manga, and for players of miHoYo’s previous game, his appearance was striking. His name in Chinese is very close to Wendy, a character sharing several visual and thematic elements with Venti. Wendy was a girl in Honkai Impact 3rd, and the Herrscher of Wind.
Murata, the Lady of Fire. This name would be familiar to players of Honkai Impact 3rd and its predecessor Houkai Gakuen 2. Murata Himeko first appeared as a valkyrie fighting the Honkai. A redhead with a huge sword. She is often linked to themes of fire. Thus, the name ‘Murata’ appearing in the manga immediately got readers hyped for what Genshin Impact’s take on the character would be.
The Unknown Goddes, the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles. She first appears during the intro of the game and takes away your sibling.
To Honkai players, she was immediately familiar as shehas visual similarities to the Herrscher of the Void version of Kiana Kaslana. She also shares her voice actress.
Kiana Kaslana is miHoYo’s recurring protagonist in several games.
Character Quests
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Mondstadt Gastronomy Trip
Requirements:
- Reach AR 13
- Complete Prologue Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Approach the marked area when tracking the quest
Character Quests
!! This Quest will start when approached !!
Troublesome Work
Requirements:
- Reach AR 15
- Complete Prologue Act I
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Approach Lisa in the Library
Act III: Song of the Dragon and Freedom
Prologue
Requirements:
- Reach AR 18
- Complete Prologue Act II
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Talk to Diluc at the Dawn Winery
Character Quests
Darknight Hero's Alibi
Requirements:
- Complete Prologue Act III
How to Start:
- The game will give you a journal entry automatically
- Talk to Charles in Angel’s Share (the tavern)
Project Genshin
Manga
Now that you’ve completed the Prologue of the game, you can continue the manga at your own pace.
You don’t have to wait until you’ve finished reading if you’re anxious to play the game. We will put a reminder to finish the manga before the end of the Liyue section.
The manga’s not very long. 16 chapters excluding the prologue.
Genshin Impact
Behind the Scenes
Quests
Mondstadt Quests
Continue doing quests in Mondstadt until you want to move on to Liyue.
TBA
Fischl can't lose just yet!
Animation
Chinese
Trailers
Trailers contain minor spoilers. They tease the future after all. Sometimes, we’ll link the trailer AFTER the content, because the spoilers are perhaps a bit too big.
Whether you watch the trailers is up to you. They can wet your appetite, but make for a less ‘blind’ experience. You can also come back and watch them after you’ve played trough the content.
Version Lumine
Version Aether
"To You Who Will Soon Depart" trailer
English
Other Dubs
Familiar Faces
Welt is a character who came into the story directly from Honkai Impact 3rd. He’s the successor of Welt Joyce as the Herrscher of Reason. Sovereign of Anti-Entropy, hero of humanity, anime enthusiast… Welt Yang has had a tumultuous history.
When his father Elias and his hero Welt died, Joachim Nokianvirtanen inherited the name ‘Welt’ from Joyce, and he started using his mother’s surname ‘Yang’.
Eventually, he adopted a son Joey, a clone of Joyce, and got married (allegedly to Frederica Nikola Tesla).
Yet even when he chose to settle down, the call of duty still came for him.
In the worlds of Honkai Impact 3rd and Houkai Gakuen, we find a rehead called Murata Himeko.
In Honkai Impact 3rd, she took up the duties of a Valkyrie after her father’s mysterious death, not knowing her college professor Welt Yang had been involved in his passing.
Eventually she would make the ultimate sacrifice for a student of her own. When Welt saw her face on a screen, he was confused. But it wasn’t her he saw. It was Star Rail’s Himeko.
A version of Kafka is also present in Honkai Impact 3rd. But she doesn’t have much of a story. She just ‘exists’
The ‘Silver Wolf of the Urals’ is the title Bronya Zaychik earned as an assassin. Both her Honkai Impact 3rd and Houkai Gakuen 2 versions have this honour.
However, personalitywise Star Rail’s Silver Wolf has more in common with the Captainverse’s ‘Bronie’, a rogue hacker who lost her identity as the daughter of Alexandra Zaychik.