Genshin Impact's Traveler Questline Does One Important Thing Right

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While the Genshin Impact Traveler questline can often take a backseat to exciting new patch updates or newly released 5-star characters, it's an underrated strength of the game that gets one important storytelling element right: making sure the hero doesn't feel anonymous in their own journey. It's certainly tempting to think that Aether or Lumine is a stand-in for the player at many points of the Genshin Impact narrative, but that would be ignoring the vast impact the character has had on Teyvat and the many personal goals they're striving towards.

The basic summary of the Traveler in Genshin Impact thus far is relatively simple: they're a stranger in a strange land, forging friendships with important figures across each nation while completing impressive feats of heroics, all in an effort to locate their lost sibling. It's a tried-and-true fantasy trope that forms the foundation of the Traveler's story in Genshin Impact, but the careful attention paid to the narrative by the team at miHoYo has made all the difference in keeping Aether and Lumine's tale compelling.

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Genshin Impact's Traveler has affected so many people through their journey already that it would be absurd for them not to have become a legend of Teyvat themselves. Thankfully, the world of Genshin Impact doesn't ignore that fact, making the story of Aether and Lumine that much more intriguing — and avoiding a common mistake made by other long-running game narratives that sees the hero, in spite of their epic adventure, constantly being anonymous in the eyes of NPCs and enemies. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Genshin Impact 2.6, where a huge amount of The Chasm's content