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    Promises by for misminor

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    28 Jan 2021

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    Promises were similar to contracts. They were both based on mutual trust, and were absolute.

    Childe never broke his promises. This was the first time he did, as well as the last.

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    The Eleventh Harbinger by

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    11 Mar 2021

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    Snezhnaya welcomed him back like a mother embracing her child.

    Yet what happened to the Eleventh Fatui Harbinger after that?

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    A Heavy Burden by

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    16 Aug 2023

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    "Your Majesty, I can fight any enemy you throw at me, but revive a gnosis? I-I don’t know the first thing about gnoses and Celestial power. While I’m honored to be chosen for the mission, I just… it doesn’t seem like I’m the best fit for the role. How would I be able to revive Morax’s gnosis?”
    The Tsaritsa gives a small, sad smile. “Do not ask for answers you do not wish to receive, my Childe.”

    A ship from Liyue arrives in Snezhnaya, bringing a mysterious Adeptai and Childe's first mission from Her Majesty.

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    Lithic Oath by

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    04 Mar 2023

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    Liyue Harbor is the last place on Teyvat that Ajax wanted to see a second time, but the Tsaritsa's orders are absolute.

    His mission is simple. The tangle of emotions in his heart is not.

    He'd sworn never to forgive Zhongli.

    But contracts made with yourself are the hardest ones to keep.

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    Lover of the Emperor, Enemy of the State by

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    27 Oct 2022

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    Many have flocked to Liyue to try their hand at conquering Rex Lapis’ Path of Indomitable Jade, rumoured to be relentless in its challenge but bountiful in its reward. Unsurprisingly, Ajax’s one track mind honed in on the word challenge and ran all the way to Celestia with it.

    No one told him it was a bygone tradition that vied for the emperor’s hand in marriage, not until much later, when Liyue was already decked to the nines in preparation for the coronation of the emperor’s beloved consort– an Ajax-shaped consort.

    (In which a bored Childe thinks he’s scaling up mountains to fight adepti and gain bountiful gifts for his nation and all that jazz, but he actually ends up wooing one of them and fighting favour from the rest and-- uh, wait, what do you mean the eccentric rock enthusiast is the emperor--)

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