Recaps

The Light Screen showed Ei’s pursuit of Eternity, the Traveler’s challenge that restored change to Inazuma, and the Scarlet King’s catastrophe after he unleashed Forbidden Knowledge. It left the observers learning that the Great Compassionate Tree King saved Sumeru by erasing herself from its people’s memories and entrusting it to Naxida.

• Ei defended Inazuma from the Oni, Tengu, Thunder Bird, and Orobas, whose final defeat left Yashima Island and Musou Isshin.
• After Makoto and other companions died, Ei created the Electro General to rule Inazuma and entered the Sanctuary of Oneness, while the puppet enforced the Sakoku and Vision Hunt decrees.
• The Traveler challenged the Electro General after defeating La Signora, and Kazuha used his friend’s awakened Vision to briefly block the Shogun’s strike.
• With Yae Miko’s help, the Traveler entered Ei’s inner world and used Inazuma’s gathered wishes to defeat her, after which Ei abolished both decrees.
• The Scarlet King, the Flower God, and the Great Compassionate Tree King founded a federation, but the Flower God died and the Scarlet King later brought Forbidden Knowledge into the world.
• The Scarlet King sacrificed himself to seal Forbidden Knowledge, and the Great Compassionate Tree King gave her life and memories to the World Tree to cleanse the corrupted land.
• Apep devoured the Scarlet King’s tomb and was afflicted by Forbidden Knowledge, while the Light Screen revealed that Khaenri'ah’s Abyssal corruption threatened the World Tree.
• The Great Compassionate Tree King erased herself from the World Tree’s records and memories, formed the infant Naxida from a pure branch, and saved Sumeru.

The Light Screen revealed Elysia and Furina’s sacrifices in Fontaine, then followed Xibalak as he united Natlan’s people and dragons, defeated the corrupted Fire Dragon King, and became the Guardian Fire. The arc left off as Marvica questioned the Fire Gods’ inherited sacrifices and the scene shifted to the time before the catastrophe in Kandria.

• The observers learned that Elysia created Fontaine’s people from springwater, was forced to serve the Heavenly Principles, and died fighting Abyssal Monsters after entrusting Furina with her Godhood and Original Sin.
• Furina endured five hundred years of deception, then sacrificed herself to break the divine throne, allowing Neuvillette to reclaim the Authority of Judgment and absolve Fontaine’s people.
• The Light Screen showed Natlan ravaged by Abyssal forces and corrupted dragons, while the Dragon Clan Sage gave Elemental Fuel to humans who forged dragon-bone armor to fight back.
• Xibalak grew into a powerful warrior, received the Heart of Fire Gnosis from Ronova, and united human tribes, War Machines, and rebel dragons into the Dragon Slaying Squad and a coalition army.
• Xibalak fought the Abyss-corrupted Fire Dragon King for seven days and nights, then killed him after learning the King had chosen death to protect Natasha and pass on his throne.
• Xibalak made a secret deal with the Death Regent to gain the Authority to End All Things and purify Natasha, then merged his life, soul, and Divine Spark with the Sacred Fire to become the Guardian Fire.
• The Light Screen showed generations of Fire Gods sacrificing themselves to sustain the Guardian Fire, until Marvica questioned whether their flame had to end in extinction and the scene shifted to before the catastrophe in Kandria.

Marvica and Capitano defeated the Abyssal Will at the cost of Capitano’s life, while the Light Screen revealed Teyvat’s ancient history and the rise and fall of Nibelungen. The story left the observers confronting Phanes’s rule, Nibelungen’s corruption and revenge, and the betrayals that followed.

• Marvica and the Traveler destroyed the Abyssal Will, and Capitano sacrificed himself in Marvica’s place to seal the Abyss and protect Natlan.
• Marivka rebuilt Natlan with the survivors, while the Light Screen revealed the Fatui’s campaign to seize the Gnoses and the Heavenly Principles’ inability to prevent Teyvat’s destruction.
• The Light Screen revealed that the planet’s Radiant Realm Power had awakened as Nibelungen, who created life, the seven elemental Dragon Kings, and three moons to bring order to Teyvat.
• Nibelungen refused the Record Keeper’s offer to abandon Teyvat and defend his world, but Phanes arrived, imposed the Heavenly Principles, and began a new order.
• Nibelungen and the Dragon Clan fought Phanes in the forty-year Battle of Heaven’s Fall, where the Dragon Kings fell and Nibelungen’s will was cast into the Abyss.
• Nibelungen accepted Abyss Power, became the Second Throne, and led a corrupted Dragon Legion in a massacre of Natlan’s humans and dragons.
• The Light Screen revealed that Nibelungen became the Vinster King and fought Phanes in a war that nearly destroyed Teyvat, leaving Nibelungen dead and Phanes gravely wounded.
• Phanes created the Demon Gods and established the Seven Archons, while the Light Screen listed betrayals by Phanes’s creations, humanity, the Four Archons, the Grass Dragon King, the Seven Gods, the Ice Empress, and Kandria.

The Light Screen revealed Phanes’ betrayals and Khaenri’ah’s rebellion, then showed how Ilmin’s ambition turned Kong into a vessel for the Abyss. Kandria was destroyed by the corruption, and its Sages concluded that Kong had to die to stop it.

• The Traveler’s Will entered a boy who witnessed humanity’s growth, then fell in love with the First Primal Angel, whose defiance of Phanes ended in the Cold Heaven Nail’s destruction.
• The Light Screen showed Phanes’ response to humanity’s study of the Abyss and laid out the betrayals that led to Khaenri’ah’s punishment.
• Ilmin declared war on the Heavenly Principles, while Pierro and Capitano’s stories revealed their resistance and the suffering that followed Khaenri’ah’s fall.
• Rheindott’s creations and Ilmin’s plan to use the Descenders were revealed as Kandria’s scholars activated an array that pulled Kong and Ying toward the kingdom.
• Kandria captured Kong, erased his memories, and forced Abyss Power into him, while Ying remained sealed in a spaceship for five hundred years.
• Ilmin used Kong to open a path through the False Sky, and the Black Tide devastated Kandria as Ilmin pursued power and rejected Nicole’s warnings.
• The Maintainer’s Divine Punishment destroyed Kandria, while Abyssal corruption spread through Kong, the World Tree, and the world’s history.
• The five Sages and Dainsleif found Kong at the corruption’s source and declared that he had to die, prompting Zhou Weiqing and others to protest.