Her name was Beisht.
She was the remnant of the vortex, Osial's wife.
Thousands of years ago, countless Archons had fought across this continent, vying for territory in what was known as the Archon War.
Her husband, Osial, had been defeated by the Geo Archon Morax and sealed here.
From that day on, husband and wife had been forced apart.
After her husband was sealed away, she had fled from place to place throughout the Archon War as the remnant of the vortex, with nowhere to call home.
Like a rat everyone wanted dead, she had hidden amid the ravages of war, surviving cautiously until the Archon War ended.
Once the Archon War was over, she had quietly returned to Liyue to remain by her husband's side.
She had waited thousands of years for her husband and had kept watch here for over a thousand.
To her, wherever her husband was, that was home.
Her husband was her everything, so she was willing to stay here, even if he could not awaken, even if he had never opened his eyes to look at her through thousands of years of waiting.
Even if she received no response at all.
She was like a wife keeping vigil over her husband in a vegetative state in a hospital.
Except humans only had to keep such a vigil for a few decades, while she had kept hers for thousands of years.
That day, she lay before the seal as always. Though she knew there would still be no response, she continued watching her husband, waiting for an answer that might never come.
Suddenly, the seawater before her churned, and a human girl in a white top and blue skirt appeared before her, accompanied by a woman with elfin ears.
The white-haired human girl in