History Characters / GenshinImpactMondstadt

* BigotryException: Not exactly "bigotry" ''per se'', but despite her hatred of alcohol, the people that drink it, and the people who manufacture it, she seems to have a high opinion of Lisa and gets along with Eula.[[note]]although with the latter, we only have Eula's word for it, as Diona currently lacks a voiceline about her[[/note]]

* BlackAndWhiteMorality: {{Downplayed}}. Her views on alcohol can be summed as this: those who don't drink it or contribute to its production are good, while alcoholics, bartenders, wineries/brewers, and even bards who entertain drunkards are bad. Granted, she is shown to [[BigotryException make exceptions for the latter]], such as [[DaddysGirl still caring about her oft-smashed father]], getting along well with her employer Margaret, having a relatively high opinion of Lisa, and being stated to bond with Eula.

** To Chongyun. Both are youthful Cryo Vision holders who excel at their respective occupations thanks to a unique gift they possess, but which both of them take grievance with. In Chongyun's case, however, he's a Claymore-using exorcist who's aware of his overabundance of Yang energy and bothered by it because he believes if he continues to rely on it as a crutch, he'll be unprepared for when he runs into a truly powerful evil spirit. As for Diona, she is a bow-using bartender who was blessed by a fairy to always make delicious drinks, something she writes off as a dream to this day, and can't stand it because it counteracts her goals to destroy Monstadt's wine industry. Paimom even lampshades that the two are rather similar in the "Waterborne Poetry" event. The main difference is that, unlike Diona, Chongyun knows he has this blessing, while Diona doesn't know why she keeps making delicious drinks no matter how gross she does them.

* MrFanservice: His outfit is a rare male example of a NavelDeepNeckline. Official illustrations tend to make his chest very detailed.

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[-''"For dawn to come, there must be those who dare to pierce the darkness with their light."''-]

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[-''"I was born unlucky. That's just the way it is, and I've lived with it so long now that I'm just used to it. But you know what? Maybe it's a good thing. It means I know that whatever luck I do have left is gonna run out sooner rather than later... so I'd better make the most of my life while it lasts!"''-]

!!Mona Megistus

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[-''"Fate is called as such, for it cannot be changed, nor can it be reversed. It can only but be accepted."''-]

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[-''"Freedom, if demanded of you by an Archon, is really no freedom at all."''-]

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[-''""How did the Destroyer of the Wine Industry become the Cat's Tail's mascot...?" Y--You're asking this just to make fun of me! Ohhh, you're awful! I won't be giving YOU any more drinks, not even water!"''-]

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[-''"I have iron claws and teeth of thunder. I protect you."''-]

[[Characters/GenshinImpactSnezhnaya Snezhnaya]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactArlecchino Arlecchino]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHarbingers Harbingers]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTartaglia Tartaglia]])\\

* WillfullyWeak: He could have been a lot more powerful were he more active in ruling Mondstadt[[note]]Archons gain power if they are proactive in ruling their territory[[/note]], but he prefers to play the role of a bard. This haunts him when he got ambushed by Signora and was too weakened to escape the trap, causing him to lose his [[AmplifierArtifact Gnosis]], which holds most of his authority as one of the Seven Archons.
** Additionally, despite having being absent for centuries at a time and remaining incognito in the present, the people of Mondstadt still worship him as Barbatos regularly, which confuses other nations as to how they can have such faith in him. Compared to Kusanali, who had been consciously neglected and had worship of her actively suppressed prior to Chapter III Act V but could still [[spoiler:trap the Shouki no Kami in 168 dream cycles without his notice]], his claim of being the weakest archon might be dubious upon closer examination.
** Furthermore, the Hexenzirkel, whose members include TheArchmage [[PersonOfMassDestruction Alice]] and [[MakerOfMonsters Rhinedottir]], once challenged him until he befriended them. One might wonder why they felt the need to band together when each of them are/were extremely powerful witches in their own right.

* DueToTheDead: His [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith current form]] is based on the likeness of a young bard he befriended thousands of years ago, which he partly adopts in his honor after he died during their rebellion against Decarabian.

* TeruTeruBozu: His true form as a Wind Wisp shares many similarities with them: a tiny, mostly white creature with a biground head, a cape like body, and apparently no arms. Teru-Teru-Bozu are hanged in order to prevent rain, and Venti's origins revolve around the dethroning of the former god of ''storms''. Even the NurseryRhyme mentions drinking sweet rice wine if it brings a sunny day, and Venti specifically terraformed Mondstadt to be a safe haven for wine and cider industries due to his own love for alcohol.

%%** Venti's MagicMusic is more than just uplifting tune

** Venti's MagicMusic is more than just uplifting tune

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He is an alcoholic LoserDeity who gets no respect, which makes it easy to brush off some of his actions on the surface level:
** As a wind spirit, he is a part of the Thousand Winds of Time, [[TimeMaster Istaroth]] and has shown some control over time himself, such as when he summoned the voices of Rosaria's, Diluc's, Kaeya's and Razor's parents during v3.1's Weinlesefest to stir their memories of them. His "Hello" voice line has him greeting the Traveler like an old friend while the Traveler themselves don't remember ever having met him, and claims to know every song past, present and future.

** During the Cataclysm, he failed to appear until after much damage had already been done to Mondstadt, including the death of Rostam, leading Rosalyne-Kruzchka Rohefalter to fall into despair and become the Crimson Witch of Flames, and later La Signora.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: As of v4.1, among the current playable Archons, Venti is the only one who has yet to receive a second Story Quest (which typically introduces a Trounce Domain boss) a few patches after his debut.

* ILetYouWin: An alternative interpretation of the CutsceneIncompetence scene listed above. Despite self-proclaiming himself the "weakest of the archons", Venti is still very much one of the Seven, and a +2000 years old war veteran; he still had the power capable of cleaving mountains clean with RazorWind, but the most he did was protecting the Traveler from her ice blast, ''slowly'' break the ice encasing his legs, taunt at La Signora to her face, and not give any more resistance against her. Also, it's obvious he wasn't using his full power thanks to his braids not [[PowerGlows glowing]]. As to why would Venti let his Gnosis be taken, there's multiple reasons: a way to get rid of his last tether to Celestia without suspicion, a silent support of La Tsaritsa's plan, a way to give [[spoiler:Rosalyn]] closure for [[spoiler:his late arrival during the Cataclysm resulting in the death of her lover]]; the truth only Venti would know.

* StarvingArtist: PlayedForLaughs. Venti suffers from PerpetualPoverty, though unlike Zhongli, a fellow disguised Archon who suffers from similar problems, he rarely seems to mind. It does, however, prevent him from feeding his alcohol habit, leading to such antics as crashing Jean's surprise party despite not having contributed to it, and trying to raid the open bar despite not one of the people invited (the bartender humors him to see Venti's alcohol tolerance anyway).

* ILetYouWin: An alternative interpretation of the CutsceneIncompetence scene listed above. Despite self-proclaiming himself the "weakest of the archons", Venti is still very much one of the Seven, and an +2000 years old war veteran; he still had the power capable of cleaving mountains clean with RazorWind, but the most he did was protecting the Traveler from her ice blast, ''slowly'' break the ice encasing his legs, taunt at La Signora to her face, and not give any more resistance against her. Also, it's obvious he wasn't using his full power thanks to his braids not [[PowerGlows glowing]]. As to why would Venti let his Gnosis be taken, there's multiple reasons: a way to get rid of his last tether to Celestia without suspicion, a silent support of La Tsaritsa's plan, a way to give [[spoiler:Rosalyn]] closure for [[spoiler:his late arrival during the Cataclysm resulting in the death of her lover]]; the truth only Venti would know.

* ILetYouWin: An alternative interpretation of the CutsceneIncompetence scene listed above. Despite self-proclaiming himself the "weakest of the archons", Venti is still very much one of the Seven, and an +2000 war veteran; he still had the power capable of cleaving mountains clean with RazorWinds, but the most he did was protecting the Traveler from her ice blast, ''slowly'' break the ice encasing his legs, taunt at La Signora to her face, and not give any more resistance against her. Also, it's obvious he wasn't using his full power thanks to his braids not [[PowerGlows glowing]]. As to why would Venti let his Gnosis be taken, there's multiple reasons: a way to get rid of his last tether to Celestia without suspicion, a silent support of La Tsaritsa's plan, a way to give [[spoiler:Rosalyn]] closure for [[spoiler:his late arrival during the Cataclysm resulting in the death of her lover]]; the truth only Venti would know.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: In general, Mondstadt bears a German cultural aesthetic--most characters and locations bear German names; the City's architecture features timber framing on its houses and Gothic style for stone structures; its national bird is an eagle[[note]]The international localizations mistranslate it to "hawk," given that the Chinese character used, 鹰 (pinyin "yīng"), covers eagles, falcons, and hawks[[/note]]; the symbol of Mondstadt's Hero, traditional site of the apotheosis of Vennessa, founder of the Knights of Favonius, is a giant oak, the national tree of Germany; its reputation for poetry is an allusion to one of Germany's titles as "Das Land der Dichter und Denker" ("The Land of Thinkers and Poets"); and its reputation for espousing the values of freedom harken back to Creator/JohannWolfgangVonGoethe, one of Germany's preeminent poets and the Chinese and Japanese namesake of the Goth Grand Hotel. More specifically, its culture also evokes that of the state of [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate)]], the largest producer and exporter of wine in Germany. To a lesser extent, in terms of politics and history, it is also loosely based on the United States of America, with the giant statue of Barbatos bearing some similarities to the Statue of Liberty, its origins in a rebellion against an increasingly repressive authority figure, and cherishing freedom as one of its founding principles.

* SecretSecretKeeper: The lines Venti comes up with for a hymn Kaeya had him help write for the Church of Favonius's amateur choir make it clear that Venti knows Kaeya's DarkSecret. The theme for the hymn was "things we appreciate about Mondstadt", and Kaeya's verse is about an moored ship finding its way somewhere it calls home. This alludes to Kaeya's identity as a DeepCoverAgent of Khaenri'ah BecomingTheMask, although in an optimistic way. Kaeya doesn't seem to mind, but given that Kaeya had also made it clear at this point that he knows Venti's SecretIdentity, if he did he would be a hypocrite.

* TeruTeruBozu: His true form as a Wind Wisp shares many similarities with them: a tiny, mostly white creature with a biground head, a cape like body, and apparently no arms. Teru-Teru-Bozu are hanged in order to prevent rain, and Venti's origins revolve around the dethroning of the former god of ''storms''. Even the NurseryRhyme mentions drinking sweet rice wine if it brings a sunny day, and Venti specifically terraformed Mondstatd to be a safe haven for wine and cider industries due to his own love for alcohol.

* TeruTeruBozu: His true form as a Wind Wisp shares many similarities with them: a tiny, mostly white creature with a biground head, a cape like body, and apparently no arms. Teru-Teru-Bozu are hanged in order to prevent rain, and Venti's origins revolve around the dethroning of the former god of ''storms''.

[[Characters/GenshinImpactSnezhnaya Snezhnaya]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactFatui Fatui]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactHarbingers Harbingers]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactTartaglia Tartaglia]])\\

* HealItWithFire: ''Fantastic Voyage'' is able to heal party members for up to 70% of their HP.

* WorthIt: At the end of one of his adventures, despite being near death and finding no actual treasure he still decided that it was all worth it because of the grand adventure he had, and it was this love of adventure that led to him gaining a Vision.

An astrologer who uses water divination to discern the truth. Even if she loves to develop herself even further into astrology-related stuff, Mona constantly faces a problem with money. Though they have the option to first meet her before leaving for Inazuma, she formally appears in Fontaine's Archon Quest, meeting up (again) with the Traveler and agreeing to help them confirm the accuracy of a prophecy that was foretold would doom Fontaine.\\

An astrologer who uses water divination to discern the truth. Even if she loves to develop herself even further into astrology-related stuff, Mona constantly faces a problem with money. Though they have the option to first meet her before leaving for Inazuma, she formally appears in Fontaine's Archon Quest, meeting up with the Traveler and agreeing to help them confirm the accuracy of the prophecy that was foretold would doom Fontaine.\\

Former Cavalry Captain of the [[Characters/GenshinImpactKnightsOfFavonius Knights of Favonius]] and proprietor of Dawn Winery, the largest of its kind in Mondstadt, as well as its flagship tavern Angel's Share. Having resigned from the Knights in disillusionment after some of his superiors tried to cover up details surrounding the death of his father Crepus in a monster attack orchestrated by the Fatui, he nevertheless continues to uphold his vow of protecting Mondstadt in his own way by moonlighting as a vigilante.\\

An astrologer who uses water divination to discern the truth. Even if she loves to develop herself even further into astrology-related stuff, Mona constantly faces a problem with money.\\

A mysterious bard who sings songs and poems of old and new tales. The Traveler first meets him soothing the dragon Stormterror, and later while trying to pacify the dragon's rage discovers that he is Barbatos, the Anemo Archon and patron god of Mondstadt, who has come to save his old friend.\\

A mysterious boy who lives and hunts on Wolvendom, a secluded valley west of the City of Mondstadt, with a pack of wolves. Having been raised by wolves all his life, his recent encounters with humans have him beginning to question where he truly belongs.\\

* LightningBruiser: [[IncrediblyLamePun Pun aside]], Razor is a sturdy fighter in his own right, and his Elemental Burst speeds up his slow claymore attack animations, allowing him to bring loads of fast damage.