Paimon

Biodata

Background / History

Searching for Aether

Paimon accompanies Lumine to Jueyun Karst because they believe the adepti can help locate her missing brother, Aether. They carry a Sigil of Permission supplied by Tartaglia, which attracts Treasure Hoarders looking for an adeptal treasure. After Zhong Baiye and Keqing rescue them, Paimon corrects Lumine’s initial belief that Zhong Baiye is Aether, pointing out his different hair color 9 10.

The pair join Zhong Baiye and Keqing’s journey to meet the other adepti. Paimon encourages the arrangement by suggesting that traveling together might lead them to Aether 11.

Encounters with the Adepti

At Wangshu Inn, viewing a landscape painting allows Paimon and the others to perceive things previously concealed from them. The sight of the ghost Xiao Ming frightens her, and she later asks Xiao why he has not dealt with the haunting. Xiao explains that the inn shelters harmless spirits he cannot yet help pass on 11 13.

During the mountain journey, Paimon repeatedly seeks protection from Treasure Hoarders. She boasts at Mountain Shaper only after he starts departing, then hides behind Zhong Baiye when the adeptus answers her challenge. At Mt. Aocang, she mistakes a stone table for a possible treasure and later slaps Zhong Baiye awake after touching it sends him into a vision 14 16 17 18.

Cloud Retainer’s Domain

Paimon is swallowed and spat out by one of the domain’s unusual Slimes. When Zhong Baiye is also swallowed, his dropped Sigil of Permission becomes the key to rescuing the party: Paimon notices the Slimes revering it, picks it up, and orders them to release their captives 20 21.

Her attempts to claim the Sigil as her own lead to repeated disputes with Zhong Baiye. She also claims the largest golden treasure chest, only to discover that it contains a warning rather than treasure. By crying and appealing to her companions, she obtains portions of their Mora and Primogems 21 22 24 26.

When the party cannot leave the domain, Paimon identifies their overlooked mistake: the entrance must be pulled open, not pushed. A giant Anemo Slime subsequently swallows and sneezes her out. During its wind attack, she alerts Zhong Baiye that Lumine is about to be swept away 28.

Return to Liyue Harbor

After the group rescues the merchant Yuzhong, Paimon requests a reward and accepts his Primogems on everyone’s behalf, committing the party to escorting him to Liyue Harbor. Following the Fatui attack, she helps wake him for questioning, but an attacker kills him before he can reveal what he knows 30 33.

In Liyue Harbor, Paimon catches Zhong Baiye approaching Lumine’s room while testing his newly acquired invisibility as Lumine bathes. He subsequently spends the night kneeling on a washboard 35.

Preparing the Rite of Parting

Paimon attends Childe’s meeting with Zhongli and learns that preparing a Rite of Parting could provide access to Rex Lapis’s remains. Her concern over the ceremony’s cost disappears when Childe offers funding, although Zhong Baiye prevents her from taking the money for herself 36 37.

At Jade Mystery, she persuades the group to buy uncut stones with Childe’s Mora. Her selections produce some usable ore but mostly worthless rock. When Lumine’s stone yields a mysterious Runestone, Paimon touches it and is struck through the ceiling by its manifested Stick Figure. Further contact causes additional attacks, whereas Lumine can safely use the talisman 38 39 40 41.

Paimon later helps question residents about Ying’er’s closed shop. During the resulting encounter with Zhang Yi, she objects to being called a pet but retreats after noticing his muscular build 47 48.

Appearance

Paimon is small enough to rest on Lumine’s shoulder, and frequently hovers beside her companions rather than walking 13 15.

• Tiny hands and short limbs: Her clenched fists and kicking legs feature prominently when she becomes angry 13.
• Compact stature: Many of the uncut stones she selects are approximately her own size; one is twice as large 39.
• Temporary frizzed hair: Zhong Baiye’s Electro attacks leave her hair standing out in an afro-like shape 21 37.

Personality

Paimon is openly greedy about food, treasure, Mora, and Primogems. She tries to sample offerings intended for the adepti under the pretext of checking their quality, fiercely guards claimed treasures, and imagines selling adeptal cleaning Slimes to fund a different delicious meal every day 9 13 19 22.

Her bravado frequently collapses when danger becomes immediate. She challenges Mountain Shaper from a distance, threatens Cloud Retainer while retreating behind Lumine, and admits that she cannot fight when tricked into believing a Fatui attacker is behind her 17 19 33.

She is also mischievous and willing to deceive her companions. After kicking Zhong Baiye out of his stunned reaction to Lumine and Keqing kissing him, she falsely claims that they kissed her instead. Her crying over the empty treasure chest stops immediately once the others give her money 17 18 22 23.

Despite these habits, Paimon watches over Lumine. She intervenes when Zhong Baiye approaches Lumine’s room, warns him when the giant Anemo Slime threatens to sweep Lumine away, and uses the Sigil of Permission to free the swallowed companions 21 28 35.

Abilities & Skills

Flight

Paimon can hover and fly without any demonstrated equipment 13 20.

• Uses flight to accompany the party across difficult terrain and flee pursuers 14 15 20.
• Flight consumes stamina: she explicitly complains that flying is tiring 15.
• Exhaustion can prevent her from flying, forcing her to rest on Lumine’s shoulder 13 26.
• She cannot necessarily outrun a skilled human; Yanxiao escapes her pursuit 13.

Physical Strength

Despite her size and claims that she cannot fight, Paimon demonstrates considerable lifting strength 33 39.

• Easily lifts a stone twice her size that Zhong Baiye would have struggled to carry 39.
• Punches, kicks, and slaps Zhong Baiye during their quarrels or attempts to wake him 17 18 24 34.
• No elemental combat technique is demonstrated in the supplied passages.

Resistance to Injury

Paimon survives several forceful incidents, although she can still be incapacitated 20 28 41.

• Emerges from both ordinary domain Slimes and the giant Anemo Slime covered in slime but without a reported lasting injury 20 28.
• Is knocked through a ceiling by the Runestone’s Stick Figure, yet is found unconscious without even a scrape 40 41.
• Repeated contact with the Runestone can knock her unconscious again 41.

Sigil-Assisted Slime Control

Paimon discovers that holding Zhong Baiye’s Sigil of Permission makes the domain’s cleaning Slimes docile 21.

• Can issue simple commands, including ordering the Slimes to release swallowed people 21.
• Control comes from the Sigil, not an established innate ability; setting it down causes the Slimes to attack her again 21.
• The giant Anemo Slime guarding the exit does not respond to the Sigil when Zhong Baiye attempts to use it 28.

Observation

Paimon occasionally notices practical details that her stronger companions overlook.

• Recognizes that Giant Amber requires elemental power to break 15.
• Resolves the party’s apparent entrapment by pointing out that the entrance door must be pulled open 28.
• Is especially sensitive to the adeptal aura Zhong Baiye gains with his Half-Adeptus Physique 12.

Equipment / Items

• Sigil of Permission supplied by Tartaglia — Carried during the search for the adepti; Paimon resists letting Lumine take it from her 9 10.
• Zhong Baiye’s Sigil of Permission — Temporarily used to command the domain’s cleaning Slimes. She repeatedly tries to keep it, but ultimately returns it before their mock battle 21 24 26.
• Mora and Primogems — Obtains portions of the party’s domain treasure and accepts Yuzhong’s payment for protection 22 30.

Relationships

• Lumine — Traveling companion and her most frequent source of comfort and protection. Lumine lets her rest on her shoulder but also restrains her spending and occasionally refuses her demands 9 13 22 39.
• Zhong Baiye — Companion and self-described “archrival.” Their relationship features teasing, retaliation, and disputes over treasure, alongside cooperation when the party is endangered 18 21 25 26 34.
• Keqing — Traveling ally whom Paimon calls upon for protection. Keqing also disciplines her behavior and retrieves Zhong Baiye’s Sigil from her 15 16 21 22.
• Tartaglia / Childe — Supplies the original Sigil of Permission and finances the Rite of Parting. Paimon eagerly spends his Mora on uncut stones 10 37 38 39.
• Xiao — Explains the presence of harmless ghosts at Wangshu Inn after Paimon complains about Xiao Ming 13.
• Yanxiao — Calls her a “little thing,” provoking an unsuccessful airborne chase 13.

Notable Quotes

“I'm not emergency food! I'm Paimon! Paimon!” 19

“Traveler, you're the nicest to me. What's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine.” 22

“Didn't we push the door open when we came in? Then shouldn't we pull it open to get out?” 28

Trivia

• The narration calls Paimon the “God of Time” and describes Zhong Baiye’s belief that she is supposedly Teyvat’s mastermind. These references do not establish a confirmed divine identity or demonstrate time-related powers 13 20.
• Zhong Baiye informally measures his strength in “Paimons”: after using Hero’s Wit, he estimates that one punch could knock down five rather than three 24.
• Her collision with Jade Mystery’s ceiling leaves a hole shaped like her body 40.