History Characters / GenshinImpactNahida

** More of a Substitute God but after the death of King Deshret, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata saw the people of the desert to be just as much her people as anyone else in Sumeru, Nahida herself continues this trend and while her powers are limited in the desert she helps out whenever she can.

** After the death of King Deshret, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata saw the people of the desert to be just as much her people as anyone else in Sumeru, Nahida herself continues this trend and while her powers are limited in the desert she helps out whenever she can.
** She ends up taking care of [[spoiler:The Wanderer after he is expelled from the Fatui Harbingers. First, she takes care of him after he falls into a coma, and later helps him integrate into Sumeru's life by giving him a place to stay, putting him in cooking classes so he can socialize, and even enrolling him in the Akademiya's Vahumana Darshan]]. Despite apparently being annoyed by all this attention, [[spoiler:Wanderer]] has an appreciation for Nahida and everything she is doing for him.

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[-''"The heavens grew eyes to behold the true beauty of the world below, but humans already have eyes to begin with. So, what is it they see when they look at the world not with their eyes, but their vision? You're very smart. Can you figure out what the answer is?"''-]

* ParentalSubstitute: She ends up taking care of [[spoiler:The Wanderer after he is expelled from the Fatui Harbingers. First, she takes care of him after he falls into a coma, and later helps him integrate into Sumeru's life by giving him a place to stay, putting him in cooking classes so he can socialize, and even enrolling him in the Akademiya's Vahumana Darshan]]. Despite apparently being annoyed by all this attention, [[spoiler:Wanderer]] has an appreciation for Nahida and everything she is doing for him.

[[Characters/GenshinImpactSumeru Sumeru]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAkademiya Akademiya]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactAlhaitham Alhaitham]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactCyno Cyno]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactEremites Eremites]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactKaveh Kaveh]] | '''Nahida''' | [[Characters/GenshinImpactWanderer The Wanderer]])\\

[[Characters/GenshinImpactLiyue Liyue]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAdepti Adepti]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactLiyueHarbor Liyue Harbor]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactQixing Qixing]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactXiao Xiao]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactZhongli Zhongli]])\\

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

* NecessaryDrawback: Her Skill has an additional ability that allows her to read the minds of various [=NPCs=], and she is currently the only character in the game with the ability to do this. While in lore it's implied that she can read the minds of characters from ''any'' region, as evidenced by her being able to read the minds of characters from Inazuma and Mondstadt, her mind-reading skill is limited to ''named'' non-playable characters in Sumeru only during overworld exploration. Using it on non-Sumerian characters will only make them clap for Nahida in response, or, if used on Katheryne, an unnamed character (or those involved in quests), will result in only silence being heard. This drawback is necessary due to the amount of time, money, and resources that would have to go into programming ''every'' non-playable character from all regions to have readable thoughts, adding an extra burden on the developers and on the game files.

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

* WeakButSkilled: [[spoiler:She never received worship like Rukkhadevata, [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly and thus does not have raw power compared to other gods.]] However she definitely makes up for it with her smarts and determination.]]

** The two of them both have powers related to dreams, Nahida because [[spoiler: [[DreamWalker she can enter dreams]] as part and parcel of her powers as God of Wisdom]], and Theresa because [[spoiler:Honkai actually "think" by "dreaming," which gives Vishnu's Honkai-devouring powers the ability to also [[DreamEater consume dream-spaces]] such as those created for Project Stigma.]]

[[Characters/GenshinImpactMondstadt Mondstadt]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactFischl Fischl]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactKnightsOfFavonius Knights of Favonius]])\\

[[Characters/GenshinImpactLiyue Liyue]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactAdepti Adepti]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactQixing Qixing]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactXiao Xiao]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactZhongli Zhongli]])\\

'''Constellation:''' Sapientia Oromasdis, the Wisdom of Ahura Mazda\\\

* UniversallyBelovedLeader: [[spoiler:By the end of the Sumeru Archon Quest, she's gone from being alienated by her people to revered by them, partly due to her part in thwarting the Sages' plan to turn Scaramouche into a new god, and partly due to all memory of her predecessor Rukkhedevata being erased, which not only did away with her more fanatical worshippers, but also caused all of her past deeds to be attributed to Kusanali instead.]] Even ''[[NayTheist Dainsleif]]'' can't find anything bad to say about her.

* GodEmperor: [[spoiler:By the end of the Sumeru storyline, Nahida becomes the official ruler of Sumeru]].

[[Characters/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFurina Furina]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactNeuvillette Neuvillette]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactWriothesley Wriothesley]])\\

[[Characters/GenshinImpactFontaine Fontaine]] ([[Characters/GenshinImpactCourtOfFontaine Court of Fontaine]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactFurina Furina]] | [[Characters/GenshinImpactNeuvillette Neuvillette]])\\

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Hua Ling (Chinese), Creator/YukariTamura (Japanese), Park Shi-yoon (Korean), Creator/KimberleyAnneCampbell (English)

->''"The heavens grew eyes to behold the true beauty of the world below, but humans already have eyes to begin with. So, what is it they see when they look at the world not with their eyes, but their vision? You're very smart. Can you figure out what the answer is?"''\\\

* AllLovingHeroine: Nahida loves Sumeru's people a great deal, and takes care to protect everyone from danger. [[spoiler:When the Akademiya started up their dream harvesting plan, she was immediately on the scene trying to save her people from it, and when Il Dottore hijacked the consciousnesses of many innocent people, she removed the brainwashing even at the cost of revealing her identity to him. Her protectiveness even extends all the way to Aaru Village, where she not only tends to the Village Keepers, but also uses them as conduits to help out the villagers in times of need, such as using her power to protect them from earthquakes, despite not technically being their god. She's also been known to teach children facts about the world in an effort to lift their spirits, and is even willing to give Scaramouche a second chance.]]

* AreaOfEffect: ''Illusory Heart'' summons the Shrine of Maya, a phantasmal greenhouse which can increase the damage and reduce the cooldown time of ''Tri-Karma Purification'' whenever there is at least one Pyro or Electro Vision holder in the party, respectively, while those with Hydro Visions increase the field's duration. These effects increase in potency if there are at least two units of the aforementioned elements. Her first Constellation upgrade, ''The Seed of Stored Knowledge'', automatically adds one stack to all the buffs, hence guaranteeing that they will be activated even if the party lacks one of the related elements, and that bringing a Pyro, Electro, and Hydro Vision holder along with Nahida will upgrade these three effects.

* BlackComedy: Played with in the English dub. Using ''All Schemes to Know'' connects a group of enemies so that any Dendro damage inflicted to one is distributed to all of them. Her voice line for this is a chirpy "Everyone hold hands!", something you would typically say to keep people ''safe''.

* CagedBirdMetaphor: When the Traveler chases after her in the Second Act of the Sumeru Archon Quest, they pass by a bird in a cage, which vanishes after the Traveler spots her illusion behind them and changes direction to run after her. There is also [[https://www.hoyolab.com/article/13940482 official art]] of her being trapped in a birdcage, and in one of her idle animations, she uses her powers to create an illusion of a bird being set free from a cage.

* TheCutie: Competes with Klee as the most heart-meltingly adorable character in the game. She plays on a swing and makes paper dolls with her Dendro magic in her idle animations, her attack animations include jumping up and down to generate Dendro attacks as though she were playing hopscotch with her enemies, striking various idle poses, and forming a picture frame with her hands, she has a tendency to be naive with some of her metaphors coupled with her {{Cloudcuckoolander}} tendencies, and [[spoiler:despite horrid treatment from the Sages and their Fatui backers, refuses to stop helping Sumeru]].

* DefusingTheTykeBomb: She's in the process of doing this with [[spoiler: Scaramouche, now the Wanderer]], having taken him in after his defeat. [[spoiler: Nahida tasks him with looking for information within Irminsul, ensuring that he would discover for himself the truth about his past and how Dottore manipulated him. She also assists him with regaining his lost memories, and offers him a place in Sumeru while encouraging him to make amends for his past sins. Slowly but surely, she's working to remind him that not all relationships are transactional in nature and whether he's useful or not doesn't determine his value as a person. She eventually enrolls him as a student at the Akademiya, encouraging him to use his studies as a way to work through his issues and make sense of his past]].

* {{Expy}}: Of Theresa Apocalypse from Mihoyo's predecessor video game ''Videogame/HonkaiImpact3rd'', with whom she shares several similarities:
** She shares physical characteristics such as white hair, having a child's body while actually being [[OlderThanTheyLook much older than her appearance suggests]] and having the same Chinese and Japanese voice actresses. Her color palette is also similar to that of Theresa's ''Verdant Sky'' battlesuit[[note]]One of the alternate outfits for the ''Twilight Paladin'' battlesuit.[[/note]], and her hairstyle is similar to that of ''Twilight Paladin''[[note]]An augmented upgrade of ''Violet Executer.''[[/note]].

** The circumstances of Theresa's and Nahida's origins also share similarities. Theresa is a clone of a woman named Kallen Kaslana, who died 500 years ago who looks like a child version of the original but is treated as her own person. Nahida [[spoiler:is the creation and reincarnation of Rukkhadevata, who has been missing since the Cataclysm that happened 500 years ago. When Nahida finally meets the remnants of Rukkhadevata's consciousness, the only difference between the two is the latter having slightly lighter green highlights in her hair.]]
** The two of them both have powers related to dreams, Nahida because [[spoiler: [[DreamWalker she can enter dreams]] as part and parcel of her powers as God of Wisdom]], and Theresa because [[spoiler:Honkai actually "think" by "dreaming", which gives Vishnu's Honkai-devouring powers the ability to also [[DreamEater consume dream-spaces]] such as those created for Project Stigma.]]
* ExtremeDoormat: [[spoiler:Her FatalFlaw, practically beaten into her by the Akademiya for 500 years and which she spends the Sumeru Archon Quest [[CharacterDevelopment learning to overcome]]. Unlike Ei, who at least had enough experience co-ruling Inazuma as the BodyDouble of her twin sister and predecessor Makoto such that almost everyone couldn't tell that the title of Electro Archon had changed hands, Nahida, who was born at the same time her predecessor Rukkhadevata disappeared, was starting from scratch without guidance, which [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter highlighted her obvious inferiority as a literally newborn god in comparison to a well-established one with a prosperous career]]. Her relative youth and inexperience combined with the widespread HeroWorship of her predecessor meant that when the Akademiya started actively scrubbing out her existence, she took it lying down, not once contesting the Sages over major policies such as usage of the Akasha. It wasn't until she sealed off her own mind to prevent Il Dottore from getting into it via the Akasha that she was finally able to hear her inner voice, and has difficulty sorting out her own feelings in that moment of introspection. When the Traveler wakes her up, she confesses that she felt angry at the injustices dealt to her, and from that point on [[GrewASpine is more assertive with her actions]].]] Also shown through her kit by possessing one of the highest interruption resistance of any character through the held form of ''All Schemes to Know'', being able to take damage from most heavy-hitting attacks that launch the character without being staggered.
* FatalFlaw: Following her virtuous heart and upholding her sense of duty deserves praise, except that this often comes at the expense of Nahida's personal well-being. While an Archon must put their people's needs first, Nahida in particular can seem uncomfortably quick to make decisions that put the greatest risks and consequences upon her own shoulders. This is likely not helped by the damage Akademiya did to her self-esteem over the centuries of isolation in the Sanctuary of Surasthana.

* FriendOrIdolDecision: [[spoiler:After finally meeting Rukkhadevata, Nahida is absolutely crushed when she realizes she needs to permanently erase the Greater Lord's lingering consciousness to save the world, with the side effect that all of Teyvat will also forget her.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Nahida, by her own admission, is more of a SupportPartyMember, and it shows in her skillset as a playable character. If she's alone, her damage is nothing to write home about, and she has no way to take advantage of her myriad debuffs. On the other hand, if she has the right kind of allies to fulfill her debuff conditions, enemy HP bars will disappear like magic.

* GamerChick: Not obvious at first glance, but looking closer at her attack animations, she is pressing keyboard buttons as if playing a DDR-style game for her normal attack, while her charged attack has her drag a selection with a mouse cursor to deal damage.

* GirlInTheTower: [[spoiler:She's been locked away in the Sanctuary of Surasthana at the top of Sumeru City for hundreds of years, something Paimon outright decries as house arrest. She does have means of getting around her isolation, such as entering people's dreams, using the Akasha, and possessing Katheryne, but the primary reason she doesn't try harder to leave is because of her low self-esteem with regards to being able to fill Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's shoes.]]

** ''Tri-Karma Purification'' deals Dendro-elemental damage on enemies marked with Seeds of Skandha whenever at least one of them is hit with Dendro-related reactions, with an interval of 2.5 seconds between consecutive such attacks.

* HeroicSacrifice: She intended to use all of her power to [[spoiler:cure Apep, which would render her no larger than a blade of grass and destroy all her memories. She was prevented from doing this by Apep's creations sacrificing themselves in her stead.]]

* IdleAnimation: Nahida's animation where she sits on a swing is unique in that she'll remain in it indefinitely[[labelnote:*]]Unless you are inside the character options[[/labelnote]] until the player is no longer idle.
* ImCryingButIDontKnowWhy: She asks the Traveler why she's crying [[spoiler:after erasing Rukkhadevata's lingering consciousness in Irminsul, as doing so removed all trace of the Greater Lord's existence from the Teyvat and its inhabitants.]]
* ImmuneToFlinching: The held form of ''All Schemes to Know'' has an enhanced interruption resistance.

** [[spoiler:While a young Dunyarzad suffered from a flareup of Eleazar, Nahida visited her in her dreams, and kept her company the whole time, telling her about the world's wonders to help take her mind off her pain. Many years later, Dunyarzad decided to sponsor the latest Sabzeruz Festival in the Grand Bazaar, which she invited the Traveler and Paimon to attend when she caught wind of their interest in Kusanali. Thus, when the Sages start harvesting dreams that same night, they are caught in the plot as well, and who should they meet but the Lesser Lord herself when the god comes to investigate. The young woman Nahida once helped ended up connecting her with the people who would become her most trustworthy allies, and who would come to save her.]]
** [[spoiler:Nahida took pity on the "Village Keepers", Akademiya scholars banished to Aaru Village after they were driven mad by exposure to Divine Knowledge Capsules, putting them into a trance to calm them and minimizing the harm they could do to both themselves and their villagers. Through them, she also helped protect Aaru from earthquakes; local anecdotes reveal how the Keepers kneaded Dendro energy into the ground and completely negated any damage the quakes could have caused, winning the scholars acceptance where they were resented upon for being foisted onto them by the Akademiya. When the Sages had them kidnapped, Candace asked her visitors to investigate their disappearance, leading to them and Rahman chancing upon the mausoleum of Kasala, the last priest of King Deshret, who held a record about the truth between the Scarlet King's relationship with Rukkhadevata, convincing Rahman to abandon his grudge and provide the manpower needed to trap Akademiyan guards. As an added bonus, Isak, having learned how she helped Khalil, bravely acted as a decoy to help lure the guards into the trap.]]

** She shares [[AnimalMotif bird motifs]] and a green ColourMotif with the nameless child that Scaramouche once took care of, and specifically also only recently "left her nest" after the events of Chapter III Act VI. After Act III of the Interlude Chapter, [[spoiler:the Wanderer takes up a similar role that he did in the past and becomes Nahida's assistant]].
** She gives Kaveh the highest praise of all the characters she mentions in her voiceovers, claiming that he has an almost perfect understanding of what it means for Sumeru to be a nation of Wisdom. This makes sense, given that Kaveh shares many characteristics with Nahida, such as his empathetic heart that doesn't overpower his wisdom and his all too willingness to self-sacrifice for what he perceives to be a greater good.

* NatureSpirit: [[spoiler:Was born from the purest branch of the Irminsul tree.]]
* NecessaryDrawback: Nahida's "All Schemes To Know" skill has an additional ability that allows her to read the minds of various non-playable characters and she is currently the only character in the game with the ability to do this. While in lore it's implied that she can read the minds of characters from ''any'' region, as evidenced by her being able to read the minds of characters from Inazuma and Mondstadt, her mind-reading skill is limited to ''named'' non-playable characters in Sumeru only during overworld exploration. Using it on non-Sumerian characters will only make them clap for Nahida in response, or, if used on Katheryne, an unnamed character (or those involved in quests), will result in only silence being heard. This drawback is necessary due to the amount of time, money, and resources that would have to go into programming ''every'' non-playable character from all regions to have readable thoughts, adding an extra burden on the developers and on the game files.
* NervesOfSteel: Normally, [[spoiler:being isolated from people for 500 years long would have driven a regular person to GoMadFromTheIsolation, but Nahida was not only able to stay strong in spite of all her suffering, but she remained an AllLovingHeroine who still had it in her to love her people. Additionally, during her confrontation with Dottore, someone who could ''easily'' murder her, she keeps her cool and threatens to ''destroy the Electro Gnosis'' (which would bring Celestia's wrath down upon the Fatui), a bluff which Dottore falls for.]]

* PersonOfMassDestruction: A subtler example than most. She's not a very physically capable Archon, but her access to Irminsul allows her to potentially [[RetGone erase anything she wishes through Teyvat, on a conceptual level]]. Barbatos, Morax and Beelzebul can destroy local mountain ranges or {{Kaiju}}s, the remnants of which are still visible today. If the Dendro Archon wishes to, she can destroy something so thoroughly as if it never existed in the first place, on a global scale across Teyvat.

* PintSizedPowerhouse: Possibly the most powerful character with the Short Female model in the game, given that she is the Dendro Archon. She explicitly lacks the strength of other Archons, but other Archons are capable of terraforming the landscape at will, so that's not saying much. Only [[PersonOfMassDestruction Klee]] can compare. [[spoiler:And while she spent the last 500 years under house arrest in all but name by the Sages, she could have easily broken free but for her own insecurities holding her back.]]

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: "Nahida" is an additional letter more than "Nahid" (ناهید), the modern Persian name of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anahita Anahita]], goddess of fertility, health, and wisdom in Myth/PersianMythology and later UsefulNotes/{{Zoroastrianism}}, from which the in-game Anahitian Blessing is named after, clearly identifying her as the Lesser Lord Kusanali.

** A closer inspection of her attack animations shows that she's pressing down on keyboard key-shaped Dendro cubes for her normal attacks and dragging a cursor over her surroundings for her charged attacks and tapped form of her Elemental Skill, tying into her being the god of wisdom from a nation that is highly technologically advanced.

** Nahida being a telepath is reflected in the held form of ''All Schemes to Know'' having an additional ability to read [=NPCs'=] minds.

** Her "All Schemes To Know" skill makes her able to read minds as a playable unit, too, though its use is limited to named non-playable characters, with the exception of Katheryne, whose mind can't be read.

* TheOnlyWayTheyWillLearn: Nahida sees the value in curiosity, and therefore is not one to give out direct answers or solutions. [[spoiler:While they were trapped in the Sabzeruz samsara, she encourages the Traveler to find the answer on their own, and is delighted when they finally figure it out. By the end of the Sumeru Archon Quests, she shuts down the Akasha for good, believing it will encourage people to seek out knowledge more freely. She also provides Scaramouche with access to Irminsul under the guise of looking for information about the Traveler's sibling, so that he would discover Dottore's hand in driving him mad instead of simply revealing it to him directly]].

* UpgradeArtifact: A variant--her third and fifth Constellation upgrades, ''The Shoot of Conscious Attainment'' and ''The Leaves of Enlightening Speech'', increase the talent levels of, respectively, ''All Schemes to Know'' and ''Illusory Heart'' by three.