Genshin Impact: How to Be a Guide in Parallel Teyvat

[An original world, modern setting, Sentinel-Guide universe, with worldbuilding based on my own interpretation.

The design for Red Xiao is based on Xiao’s old design. The design belongs to miHoYo; the character concept belongs to me.

Includes a few original characters and many original characters, featuring elements such as DiShi, BaiLa, QinLi, XiaoYu, GanKe, and more. (I’m not even a shipper, but writing so many pairings has probably made me crazy.) I haven’t fully researched the characters; they’re all based on stereotypical impressions from the story.

Includes comparisons of combat strength. The author has the final say.

I’m no good at writing introductions, so I recommend going straight to the story.]

The appearance of the Awakened drove monsters completely out of human territory. People believed this was the best of times. Though the Abyss often returned with monsters in tow, its haunts were usually far from civilization: beyond the storms, in rocky ravines, in the depths of the sea… Unseen shadows occasionally drifted through the void, but these hunters only preyed on powerful targets and posed no threat to most people.

Xiao (Green Xiao) woke up in an unfamiliar place. After an accidental display of power, Venti took him in. Venti told him he was an Awakened, classified as a “Guide.”

This was a parallel world of Teyvat.

The appearance of “Red Sparrow” (Red Xiao) revealed who was responsible for his transmigration, but he couldn’t go see him yet. After a strange dream, his golden eyes suddenly gained the ability to see through the shadows. He saw a barrier separating a girl from the tangled roots surging around her, a boy stranded alone in a “seedling field,” and a maple leaf that might soon fall…