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The Golden Slumber—the Eternal Dream promised to the people by King Deshret.
The Eternal Oasis—the mausoleum the King built for the Goddess of Flowers. Of course, he publicly claimed that the Goddess of Flowers merely slumbered and would awaken one day, and the Seelie and the Goddess's people believed this without question…
This desert has buried many.
Besides King Deshret and the Goddess of Flowers, there was actually another god from a foreign land—the Vourukasha Oasis, the former Hydro Archon, Egeria.
Victor Wang cast a glance at the panicked Thutmose and the now lifeless Samail and Babel, then departed.
If any hidden evil remained… though Samail had been dealt with and Jeht would probably never return here in her lifetime, for the sake of collecting Dendro Archon's eyes, Lumine would inevitably arrive—Victor Wang would leave that to her.
His next destination was near the Vourukasha Oasis, where the former Hydro Archon had perished. Drawing on his eidetic memory, he recalled every detail of the place.
Babel, in fact, had connections to the Vourukasha Oasis.
Babel's parents were scholars of the Academia's theoretical faction; her mother came from a family of sages, her father from a more ordinary background.
Perhaps because of the disparity in status, when Babel was nearly born, her parents insisted on venturing deep into the desert, hoping to study the ancient "pilgrimage route" to the Vourukasha Oasis to gain recognition from the outside world.
A heavily pregnant woman and a scholar unfamiliar with the desert, hiring a mercenary familiar with it—but ignoring the mercenary's warnings—predictably met with disaster.
Babel was born. Her mother died. Her father could not pay the remaining fee, and when he refused the mercenary's demand to give his daughter as payment, he was killed. Babel was taken to the Tanit Tribe.
The pilgrimage route her parents sought to study was precisely the path that the Pure Hydro Seelie took to pay homage to the former Hydro Archon, Egeria.
This occurred five hundred years ago, just after Egeria's death. The journey was perilous: besides the endless yellow sands, monsters roamed freely. For the Pure Hydro Seelie, the pilgrimage was an incredibly arduous path, yet they braved it to reach the Vourukasha Oasis, seeking Egeria.
They were not only Egeria's followers but also creations personally brought to life by her. In a sense, Egeria could be regarded as the mother of all Pure Hydro Seelie.
To understand this, we must go further back—to the time the Primordial first occupied Teyvat…
Apparently, to prevent native life in Teyvat from emerging from the Primordial Sea, the Primordial removed the original heart of the Primordial Sea and appointed an envoy—likely the "Ruler of Life"—to create a new heart for it.
Though the new heart was made by an outsider from the Primordial forces, its material and nature were entirely Teyvat's own. The final product possessed a nobility akin to a dragon, but was not in the form of a dragon—it was Egeria.
Essentially, Egeria was very close to a Hydro dragon. Two notable points: before her death, no new Hydro dragon had been born; after her death, Neuvillette appeared in human form from birth, likely altered by the heart of the Primordial Sea.
Regardless of whether Egeria was truly a water dragon, she was officially under the governance of the Celestial Order.
As for the origin of the Pure Hydro Seelie, legend says Egeria, pitying the fate of dragons, shed tears onto the bones of dragon lizards, giving rise to the Pure Hydro Seelie.
Later, to fulfill the wish of the Pure Hydro Seelie to become human, she stole the power of the Primordial Sea…
And thus, the prophecy of the Sky Island flooding Fontaine descended.
Egeria realized her inevitable death—being the heart of the Primordial Sea, as long as she lived, the water of the Primordial Sea could never flood Fontaine out of control.
So, five hundred years ago, when the Khaenri'ah Catastrophe erupted and the Celestials summoned the Seven Archons to suppress it, Egeria foresightedly entrusted her "Gnosis" and the task of resolving the Sky Island prophecy to Focalors, and then died in the Sumeru desert without surprise.
This explains the full context of this foreign god dying in Sumeru, the origin of the Pure Hydro Seelie pilgrimage, and the creation of the Vourukasha Oasis.
The Vourukasha Oasis' creation also involved two other key figures—the Goddess of Flowers and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata.
The Goddess of Flowers was a celestial envoy, a descendant of the Seelie, an elf created by the Primordial, a glimmer from the eyes of the Primordial.
In short, her origins were formidable—enough to open forbidden doors for King Deshret.
Before helping the King access forbidden knowledge, she had already foreseen her death, and even the future outbreak of the "Black Tide"… not the disaster caused by King Deshret, but the disaster brought by Khaenri'ah.
To counter the "Black Tide," she summoned the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, entrusting him with the "glimmer" born from her eyes. She described it as: "It comes from the wisdom of flowers and the threads of the sky, possessing pure life."
After the Goddess of Flowers died, the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata shaped this glimmer into a bird form, creating the divine bird Simurgh.
Then the Khaenri'ah catastrophe arrived as predicted.
Khaenri'ah lay beneath Sumeru. In the desert, there were even facilities they built connecting to the outside world, so Sumeru bore the brunt. The underground monsters tore open what is now called the Tunigi Hollow, from which they swarmed out and ravaged the surface lands.
The Celestials summoned the Seven Archons.
Egeria came, fought to suppress the disaster, and died. Her body became the Vourukasha Oasis, but since she had absorbed corruption from suppressing Khaenri'ah and Abyssal power, her divine consciousness could not enter Teyvat's cycle and lingered in the Vourukasha Oasis.
Then the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata and Simurgh arrived.
The Greater Lord planted the Harvisptokhmin the Vourukasha Oasis to house Egeria's consciousness.
Simurgh fulfilled the Goddess of Flowers' mission: drinking the purest waters of the Vourukasha Oasis, its form exploded like a pomegranate into countless glimmers, scattering across the Vourukasha Oasis, creating the brilliant Flower Sea. This sea, full of glimmers, cleansed all impurity from the Vourukasha Oasis.
The Khvarena thus had three "descendants"—Farrwick, Sunyata Flowers, and Pari—and among them, the only one possessing sentience was the Pari.
This is the full creation process of the Vourukasha Oasis, the Harvisptokhm, and the Pari.
Thus, the Harvisptokhm house Egeria's consciousness, while the Pari inherits the power of the Goddess of Flowers.
It's worth noting that in Sumeru there exists a text called The Folio of Foliage, which mentions that the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata transformed into the giant lotus Gaokerena, which grows among the Harvisptokhm…
Combined with the fact that the final fate of the Greater Lord's body is never explicitly recorded, it's possible it truly became Gaokerena, remaining in the Harvisptokhm to help resist corruption. However, this record is isolated and must be considered speculative.
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