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| “ | Unknown God: Outlanders, your journey ends here! Lumine: Who're you?! Unknown God: The sustainer of heavenly principles. The arrogation of mankind ends now. |
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| ~ The Unknown God confronting the Travelers.
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The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles, also referred to as the Unknown God or simply the God, is the overarching antagonist in the 2020 action role-playing fantasy video game Genshin Impact.
The "Sustainer of Heavenly Principles" was an unknown goddess with power over space and reality. Her title implied that she was the enforcer of the rules decreed by the Heavenly Principles, the divine ruler of Celestia and the land of Teyvat. She was responsible for the imprisonment and separation of the Traveler and their sibling, which in turn led to the former beginning their long journey across Teyvat.
The Sustainer is voiced by Dian Tao in Chinese, by Christie Cate in English, and by Rie Kugimiya in Japanese. Tao has also voiced the Herrscher of the Void in Honkai Impact 3rd. Kugimiya has also voiced Pandora in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Haumea in Fire Force, and the Herrscher of the Void in Honkai Impact 3rd.
Appearance[]
Though she was far older, the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles had the outward appearance of a young woman with a tall, slender body. She had long, free-flowing cloud-white hair that floated unnaturally behind her head. Her amber eyes both had a small line going horizontally across their pupils.
Personality[]
The Unknown God was an arrogant supremacist who looked down on mortals due to them being what she perceived to be lesser beings. She presented herself as merciless and emotionless when dealing with mortals, as if she were handling mere pests.
Biography[]
"The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles" was one of the gods that presided over the continent of Teyvat. Her responsibility was seemingly to ensure adherence to the "Heavenly Principles," a set of unclear divine laws that mortals and gods alike had to abide by unless they sought retribution. Eventually, an advanced human nation called the Kingdom of Khaenri'ah rebelled against the Heavenly Principles and was destroyed by the gods. A pair of twins who travelled across the stars were horrified by Khaenri'ah's destruction and tried to leave Teyvat. However, the Sustainer barred their path.
The Sustainer introduced herself to the Travelers and proclaimed that humanity's arrogation would end. The god tried to ensnare the Travelers with her power, but they avoided her attack and prepared to fight. The Travelers weaved through the Sustainer's spatial cubes and tried to strike the god down, though she blocked their combined attack. The Sustainer then absorbed both siblings using her cubes, and sent them down to Teyvat with their world-travelling powers stripped from them.
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- The Sustainer was denoted the name "Asmoday" in the game files of Genshin Impact. Like the names of the other gods of Teyvat, the name Asmoday was derived from a demon detailed in the Ars Goetia, one of the five books that comprised the demonology grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon. In the Ars Goetia, "Asmodeus" was ranked thirty-second among the seventy-two demons described in the book and was one of the nine Kings of Hell. Commanding seventy-two demonic legions, Asmodeus was a Archdemon of Lust, one of the Satans, and the strongest devil who possessed a golden seal and sat upon an infernal dragon.
- The Sustainer of Heavenly Principles was likely based off of the Herrscher of the Void, an antagonist in the video game Honkai Impact 3rd which, like Genshin Impact, was developed by MiHoYo. Both the Sustainer and the Herrscher had long white hair, amber eyes, and wore predominately black and white clothing. Additionally, both characters were voiced by the same voice actresses in their Chinese and Japanese versions, Dian Tao and Rie Kugimiya respectively. According to a developer livestream hosted prior to the release of Genshin Impact, the similarities are seemingly intentional.
- Dian Tao and Christie Cate, the Chinese and English voice actresses for the Sustainer respectively, both voice playable characters in Genshin Impact. Tao voices Hu Tao and Cate voices Qiqi.
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