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| “ | Wait! Don't go! Give my sister/brother back! | „ |
| ~ Aether/Lumine before sealing away by the Unknown God. |
| “ | How many years ago was it? I don't know... but I intend to find out. When I woke up, I was all alone... until I met you two months ago. | „ |
| ~ The Traveler after sealed away by the Unknown God. |
| “ | The Abyss... It's always bad news. The purpose of my journey is to find you. I will keep going, and imagine a better tomorrow with you. | „ |
| ~ The Traveler in Perilous Trial. |
Aether/Lumine, also known as the Traveler and the Outlander, is the main protagonist and player character of the 2020 action role-playing fantasy video game Genshin Impact, as well as a minor character in its accompanying webcomic series of the same name.
Both them and their sibling were traveling out of Teyvat, but they were blocked by an Unknown God and were both defeated and sealed away. They were separated from each other and had their powers sealed away. While the Traveler's sibling eventually returned to Teyvat, the Traveler was sealed until an unknown amount of years later. Afterwards, the Traveler wandered around Teyvat until they came across Paimon, who helps guide the Traveler around Teyvat in search for their missing sibling.
Aether is voiced by Shun Horie in Japanese, who also voiced, Asta in Black Clover: Jump festa 2016 special. In English, he is voiced by Zach Aguilar, who also voiced Genos in One Punch Man, Tanjiro Kamado in Demon Slayer, Koichi Hirose in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, Slaine Troyard in Aldnoah.Zero, Sieg in Fate/Apocrypha, Otto Suwen in Re:Zero series, Arthur Pendragon in Seven Deadly Sins, and Byleth male voice in Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Espresso Cookie in Cookie Run Kingdom. He is also voiced by Lee Kyung-Tae in Korean and Luyin in Chinese.
Lumine is voiced by Aoi Yūki, who also voiced Yuuki Konno in Sword Art Online II, Diane in Seven Deadly Sins, Madoka Kaname in Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tamaki Kotatsu in Fire Force, Tanya von Degurechaff in Tanya the Evil, and Fremy Speeddraw from Rokka no Yuusha. In English, she is voiced by Sarah Miller-Crews, who also voiced Noelle and Qiqi from the same game, Angela in Trials of Mana, and Roxanne in Pokémon franchise. She is also voiced by Lee Sae-a in Korean and Yanning in Chinese.
Appearance[]
The Traveler is at least an unknown amount of years alive and they both appear as young adults. Both Aether and Lumine have blond hair, have golden eyes, fair light skin, and are both twins. They both have different outfit colors from each others:
Aether[]
As the older twin, Aether has long braided hair and wears a black, white, gold outfit. He wears a gold earring, white scarf, gold and white cape, a gold and brown midriff shirt with a short sleeve, black gloves, black pants, a belt with a star and black boots.
Lumine[]
As the younger twin, Lumine has short hair and wears a blue and white dress and she wears two white flowers (known as Inteyvat, the national flower of Khaenri'ah) on her head, a white scarf, a white and blue cape, a light blue skirt with shoulder length, white stockings, and white boots.
Relation to the Seven Vision Elements[]
Whenever Aether or Lumine are resonated with any of the Vision Elements, some highlights on their outfit change colors to match the color of the Element that they are currently using:
- When the first had their original powers, their highlights glowed white, but after losing them, they stopped glowing, leaving it dull.
- When they are aligned with Anemo, their highlights glow turquoise.
- When they are aligned with Geo, their highlights glow yellow.
- When aligned with Electro, their highlights glow purple.
- When aligned with Dendro, their highlights glow green.
- When aligned with Hydro, their highlights glow blue.
Personality[]
The Unknown God sended them and their twin to Teyvat where they were both imprisoned and one of them had their powers sealed. Due to this, the Traveler is keen on finding their missing sibling. However, they did not remember too much about the past after being sealed away for an unknown amount of years. After finding their twin, now affilated with the Abyss Order, in the "We Will be Reunited" Archon Quest, their main goal changes to wanting to get help from the Seven Archons of Teyvat. Occasionally, the Traveler calls Paimon "emergency food" much to her frustration.
The Traveler has befriended and became great allies to many people in Teyvat, including the Archons of each nation. While the Traveler was uninterested in Teyvat's problems, they are also shown to be a compassionate, selfless person. They are highly wary of the Abyss Order and the Fatui, being a major enemy of both organizations.
Powers and Abilities[]
Hailing from another world, the Traveler is capable of performing feats unheard of within Teyvat. Aside from using their sword as their primary method of combat, they are able to resonate with multiple elements even without possessing a Vision of their own.
- Elemental Manipulation: With a touch of the Statue of the Seven, the Traveler can acquire the powers similar to the Archon in question. While they are only able to use one at a time in actual gameplay, cutscenes show that they are capable of using any element as shown by their first encounter with the Raiden Shogun, or use more than one simultaneously as depicted during their battle with Tartaglia.
- Aerokinesis: With the power from Lord Barbatos, the Traveler can create a suctioning currents of air from their palm, or summon a tall tornado that carries away small-to-medium enemies caught in its path. With Anemo, they are also able to create a cutting gust of wind with the final hit of their sword.
- Geokinesis: Acquiring the power from Rex Lapis, they can disgorge meteorites, and create a radial shockwave that pushes foes away and erupts many rocks after a set distance. Furthermore, they can deal Geo damage with the final hit of their sword slash combo.
- Electrokinesis: Obtaining Beelzebul's power, they can release three blades of lightning at once, or coordinate lightning strikes with every attack.
- Dendrokinesis: Obtaining Buer's power, they can release leaves widely and can summon a Dendro bulb.
- Hydrokinesis: Obtaining Focalors's power, they can shoot waters in wild splashes, and can summon large spiral water through it.
- Underwater Breathing: after obtaining their Hydro powers, Traveler can breathe under Fontainian inland waters (and only these waters), granting Paimon, other Gods and Vision holders with this ability.
- Elemental Sight: Even without a Vision, the Traveler is capable of detecting elemental traces left by monsters, or other sources.
- Skilled Hand-to-Hand Combatant: The Traveler is a master in many forms of hand-to-hand combat, utilizing their enhanced physical attributes to defeat many monsters within Teyvat. This, combined with their mastery over the elements, make them a formidable foe. The Traveler has personally defeated three Fatui Harbingers, Tartaglia, Signora and Scaramouche, and even the Electro Archon herself with the help of the ambitions from the Statue of the Omnipresent God.
- Swordsmanship: The Traveler is proficient with using swords. This was further emphasized during The Crux Clash tournament organized by Beidou, as they were able to stand their own against their fellow competitors even without using their elemental abilities. Even Tartaglia acknowledged the Traveler's swordsmanship to be quite impressive.
- To highlight how skillful Traveler is combat. When Alhaitham gave the Traveler the Divine Knowledge Capsule, their performance only increased by 0.073 percent, showing how much twins accumulate their fighting experiences since before they even come to Teyvat to the point there is almost nothing to gain from can knowledge. After you use the Divine Knowledge Capsule, the Traveler's attack permanently increases by 3. (3 ÷ 0.073% = 4109.6)
- Swordsmanship: The Traveler is proficient with using swords. This was further emphasized during The Crux Clash tournament organized by Beidou, as they were able to stand their own against their fellow competitors even without using their elemental abilities. Even Tartaglia acknowledged the Traveler's swordsmanship to be quite impressive.
- Enhanced Durability: The Traveler is able to withstand attacks from strong opponents alike without taking a severe toll on their fighting abilities, such as during their battle with Tartaglia, the second encounter with Signora, the rematch with Raiden Ei herself, the battle against Beisht (Osial's wife) and Scaramouche as the Shouki no Kami.
- Interdimensional Travel: The twins traveled through multiple dimensions, prior to being intercepted and had their powers sealed by the Unknown God. The Traveler intends to find the statues of the Seven in order to get back their former powers.
- Flight: As shown by the opening cutscene, the Traveler was able to fly using their wings, although it is unknown if they are machinery or if they can be summoned at will. Nevertheless, after their powers have been sealed, they are only currently able to glide with the wind glider given to them by Amber.
- Cooking Proficiency: The Traveler can learn to cook multiple dishes from various regions and gradually master them through repeated cooking.
- Alchemy Proficiency: With a Crafting Bench, the Traveler can transmute various materials into more precious ones via alchemy. They can even create potions that can aid them in battle.
- Otherworldly Physiology: The Traveler is immune to certain cursed items that would otherwise bring harm to a normal person, such as the Festering Desire sword. They are immune to erosion and, as a "Descender" who is from outside Tevat, Irminsul's memory manipulation. (However, the siblings lost their descender status and became part of Teyvat, making them vulnerable to Irminsul and possibly unable to leave Teyvat [citation needed].)
- Longevity (Possibly Immortality): With the ability to travel through various dimensions, their encounter with the Unknown God, and the fall of Khaenri'ah an unknown amount of years ago, the Traveler is implied to be much older than what their current appearance would suggest.
- According to the Wings of Descension. The twins witness the birth and the death of stars. Even if it mean the massive stars which have short lifespans, it's still mean the twins millions years old if the description is to be take literally.
- Adaption: The traveler appears to be able to acquire abilities normally restricted to a particular region or people. For instance, they are able to gain the use of Pneuma when attuned the power of Hydro, the Traveler gains the ability to manipulate Pneuma, normally a Fontanian-specific ability, Phlogistion manipulation (normally a Natlan-specific ability) and Saurian indwelling, which allows them to use all the Natlan tribe travelling abilities without being a member of any tribe.
- Purification: The Traveler has the ability to purify objects and people corrupted by the Abyss, such as Dvalin's bloodstained tears.
- Visions: The Traveler, as someone sensitive to all the elements, will periodically receive visions, usually linked to an element or a memory from the Ley Lines.
Trivia[]
- Originally Mihoyo planned to make Genshin Impact spin-off of Honkai series and had protagonist name Kate Kaslana (Database number 001), before change to Aether (005) and Lumine (007), making Genshin a stand alone series.
- However the game still shares the same cosmolgy with Gun Girl Z, Honkai Impact 3rd, and Honkai: Star Rail, and thus Genshin Impact is still a de facto spin-off of Honkai series, but it is not referenced as much as in Honkai Star Rail like Honkai Impact.
- Not much information about the twins' origins, why they are traveling accross the universe, or what happens to their home world.
- From the beta test, it's implied that their world was destroyed by the Honkai, the same phenomena from Gun Girl Z and Honkai Impact 3rd. However, with the release of the game, this might no longer be canon.
- Despite sharing abilities, the twins have different fighting styles. For instance, when using their Geo-element Burst Wake of Earth, Aether punches the ground while Lumine stomps instead.
- Lumine has a stronger charged attack, while Aether runs faster and has more poise damage.
- The Traveler and their sibling are both separated in a different world, which is similar to Akame and Kurome from Akame ga Kill!, in which Akame also has a lost sibling.
- Their game is similar to the open world adventure video game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
- Like Keqing and Xinyan, the Traveler's favorite music is rock music.
- In most official media, Aether is depicted as the Traveler, with Lumine as the Princess of Abyss Order.
- As of Version 5.0, Aether is still at the top of Genshin Impact character list when sorted alphabetically.
- The Traveler was depicted by Rozaliya Olenyeva during the Honkai Impact 3rd x Genshin Impact collaboration.
- Both siblings always call each other Aether (male) and Lumine (female), despite how the player named the Traveler at the beginning of the game.
- Both the siblings have no birthday unless assigned by the player.
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