History GenshinImpact / TropesTToZ

** After the release of Version 4.6, Arlecchino's weekly boss form, "The Knave", serves as one story wise due to the fact that while she has to be defeated in combat, the story will still show that [[spoiler:the Traveler, Lyney, Lynette and Freminet couldn't actually win and the Traveler even gets paralyzed by fear when they think The Knave is about to land a killing blow. This shows how much more dangerous the top members of the Harbingers are compared to the ones that the Traveler already defeated, even though Arlecchino was only the fourth while the top three are as powerful as gods.]]

* WakeUpCallBoss: After Stormterror, Andrius is the second weekly boss you can fight. Unlike Stormterror, his attacks come out a lot faster, he utilizes Cryo attacks and is immune to Anemo and Cryo. If you have not mastered dodging from fighting [[WarmupBoss Stormterror]], you are going to have a very bad time.

** All characters (except for the Traveler) have passive skills that help with non-combat situations or Fontaine's underwater exploration (except for Tartaglia[[note]]His passive skill increases the normal attack talent level by 1 for the whole party[[/note]]). For example, Barbara can have a chance to cook twice the amount of health-restoring dishes, Kaeya can reduce the stamina usage of sprinting, etc.

* TookALevelInBadass: It's implied that anyone who receives a Vision automatically becomes a formidable opponent, regardless of what combat experience they had beforehand. The best example would have to be Barbara, a pure healer with all the damage output of a wet paper towel, who, upon the Traveler expressing concern for her safety during one route of her Hangout Event, simply points out that she's a Vision-wielder and thus can handle her self.

** The game is absolutely merciless towards [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] stories. One of the equippable catalysts is a book called "Otherworldly Story" which is described as having no value whatsoever. A daily commission in Inazuma has you accompany an author as he visits various shops for inspiration, with the end result always being him [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands giving his protagonist new abilities seemingly at random to progress the plot faster,]] which exasperates his publisher. And then finally during the Raiden Shogun's character quest, they come upon a light novel called "The Good Thing About Being Reincarnated as a Hilichurl Is That I Only Need to Eat Sunsettias to Become Stronger", with [[spoiler:Ei]] noting the impractically long title. Later during that same quest, you find ''another'' novel about a LoserProtagonist being reincarnated as the Raiden Shogun, which the Traveler internally criticizes for leaving no room for development by immediately making the protagonist an InvincibleHero. Ironically, ''Genshin Impact'' itself can be considered an isekai story itself despite not falling into many of the tropes modern examples are notorious for.

* TimeSkip: The prologue shows the two Travelers being sealed by the Unknown God. From the playable twin's point-of-view, they no longer know how many years passed after that incident, although they still recall waking up in Teyvat and meeting Paimon two months prior to the main story. The character stories of the Traveler also suggest that the world was changed compared to the time before they met the Unknown God. And then by the end of Prologue Act 2, [[spoiler:it's revealed that the missing twin became the leader of the Abyss Order]]. During the Chapter 1 Act IV prologue, it becomes much more clear that the traveler had been sealed [[spoiler:for 500 years during the cataclysm of Khaenri'ah]]. The rest of the game actually takes place throughout the span of a few years as Lantern Rite in Liyue is held to signify the new year with three having already occurred as of Version 4.2.

** In Chapter III Act IV, the cast descends to a ruin of King Deshret, finds the final words of one of his priests, and finds out that the Akademiya [[RightForTheWrongReasons might be correct]] all along that [[spoiler:Greater Lord Rukkhadevata is not dead. Subverted, it's a RedHerring. Rukkhadevata definitely died during the Catacylsm, and Nahida is not a depowered Rukkhadevata. But Nahida ''is'' a dead ringer to the depowered Rukkhadevata, and this shows that The Akademiya are a bunch of hypocrites who never hold true faith towards their Archon.]]

*** In Furina's flashbacks, we see what happened during her early days, with each day being labelled as 'scenes'. It starts off normally with days 1 to 5, but then we get this:

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Having immortality in Genshin isn't exactly a good thing. On top of outliving companions who either have shorter lifespans, immortals in Genshin are invariably afflicted with erosion of the soul, which wears away at their sense of self as time goes by. Those that do not lose their lives in combat often gradually lose their hearts and minds to the ravages of time, and may eventually succumb as Azhdaha did and betray all they once stood for.