A thousand years ago, Mondstadt's aristocrats were blinded by desire, plunging Mondstadt into a dark age of oppression under the nobility.
When the Anemo Archon returned to the City of Freedom after sixteen hundred years, he heard the cries of the slave girl Vanessa and helped her overthrow the aristocracy.
That was the history every citizen of Mondstadt knew.
Yet within that history lay a little interlude.
War was never an easy undertaking.
The great Hero Vanessa united the people during that war.
But what caused the nobles' soldiers to defect in droves was a document called the [Leeward Pact].
The pact detailed a treasonous transaction: the nobles had forsaken the wind and sold everything in Mondstadt to the neighboring nation's Geo Archon.
At the end of the pact was a sacred seal that only a god could produce, bearing the name Rex Lapis.
The soldiers who suppressed slaves and oppressed commoners shuddered at the thought of becoming slaves in a foreign land themselves. One after another, they defected and joined the forces fighting the nobility.
In the end, the flames of war consumed the aristocracy, and those who pursued freedom won the war.
However... this so-called [Leeward Pact] was actually a forgery.
In fact, the mischievous Anemo Archon had once practiced imitating the Geo Archon's handwriting to play a prank on him, mastering a forged signature. Yet he had never managed to fool the Geo Archon, who governed wealth and trade.
Barbatos had never imagined that the signature he had learned to forge would prove useful a thousand years later.
Naturally, the Geo Archon, also known as the [Warrior God], was quite "delighted." Living in an age of peace, he had been worrying about having nowhere to put his mighty dragon-slaying skills to use. A thousand years later, he