[Genshin Impact/CN HoYoFair] Sand Dust

Here comes our new Genshin Impact anime music video! This video is based on the Genshin teaser: “Legacies in the Sand” video, starting from the time when the Scarlet King, King Deshret founded his dynasty → the disaster happened → King Deshret sacrificed himself → Greater Lord Rukkhadevata lost part of her power → the birth of the Lesser Lord Kusanali. There is a lot of information in this video, and of course, we have made many adaptions and re-creations to spice it up. It’s kind of pitiful that we did not include some of the follow-up stories of King Deshret and Flower God's Artifact stories and how King Deshret eventually unleashed the forbidden knowledge upon the world since the storyboard was created during the 3.1 version update.

The video is called “Sand Dust”, meaning that no matter how shocking the story has happened, everything will eventually return to dust. The video name also implies a metaphor for the chaos after prosperity.

The music is called “King Deshret” since the music style and the theme design was originally set in the desert area, but finally, we decided to add a section for the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata at the closing part during our production so that we could connect to the birth of the Lesser Lord Kusanali to inherit the legacy and guide Sumeru.

Most of the character designs are our original fan designs. The plots are mostly based on the official PV, and we made some more fan work extensions.

Anyway, I hope you like this video!

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[rianrizki]

If only they put these in the game, its just too beautifull..

[LISA.WANG.]

The glory and majesty of King Deshret's old civilization was so amazing, it looked so peaceful, grand and proud. Such a tragedy 😭

[Kneirros]

The way I cried so bad when I saw Lord Rukkhadevata who didn't hesitate one bit to help her long-time friend, King Deshret. Thank you so much for this great work!

[Hakusho]

Teyvat may forget her existence, but we will remember her, Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's sacrifice. Beautiful Masterpiece!!!

[mariapazgonzalezlesme]

King Deshret wanted more than anything to see his beloved once more, the Goddess of Flower's smile. But alas fate is cruel and order is unkind to gods, which their wishes are mere specks of water that quickly vanishes from the scorching light. His selfishness and grief brought torment for his people, corruption destroyed the land, tainted the skies black and the screams of pain of his people --- of her people too --- the ones who swore to watch over, holding their heads in pain, cruel whispers filling their minds.

At that moment, Deshret knew what must be done. He will be forever cursed through history and his deeds will be sneered by the new generation. How foolish he was. To be blinded by pain, realizing too late the mess he has created. But not more.

The golden jewelry and white cape were tossed like nothing. He rises his head towards the light. And through his power, the city was no more, hidden and buried beneath the renmants of forgotten dream. For the first time in his long immortal life, he felt humbled, he felt small, he felt like an ant walking through gigantic dunes of the desert.

The Scarlet King. Deshret. The Lord of Sands. The Conqueror of Djinns.

Has choosen to leave this world behind.

[FuyuYuki]

Imagine simping for a dead character that whose design isn't even official. Yes, that's now me.

[brainrot]

Brilliant work as always!!

Upon reading paradise lost artifact lore, I feel so sad about the friendship/love between goddess of flower, king deshret and rukkhadevata. The story about three of them is beautiful but also tragic. While the gods in other nations were at war fighting one another, king deshret shared his throne with two close friends, one of which is also his love. Yet his curiosity brought her demise, and he must have gone through hell to salvage the situation and protect both his and her people, only to fail and have to sacrifice himself in the end. And then there is Rukkhadevata who had to see both her close friends died and tried her best to save their people as well.

It made me even more upset knowing that there is a rift in relationship between the desert and forest people even though their gods used to treasure each other so much :(

[chosoistryinghisbest]

man i love the three God-Kings of Sumeru lore sm, no doubt out of learning about all of the nations, they have to be my favorite. King Deshret, Nabu Malikata (Goddess of Flowers), and Rukkhadevata were some of the coolest gods in the game and i'm kinda sad we won't be learning any more about them (except for deshret if he is indeed the 'sinner')

i just think their lore goes crazyyy. i mean they had a three way tie in the Archon War because they all rules together, King Deshret rejected the Gnosis from Celestia, having it go to Rukkhadevata. King Deshret and Malikata created Ay-Khanoum, an ancient city made for the Jinns. King Deshret loved Nabu Malikata, but more importantly she was someone he trusted more than anyone. While both Nabu and Rukkhadevata knew he was planning something crazy, he only told Nabu Malikata one night. He wanted to rebel against Celestia and he sought after forbidden knowledge. He didn't know what he would find, but he thought this would bring him close to getting the power to finally fight off Celestia. By the time Rukkhadevata heard of these plans later, she refused to work with them and left for the forests, never to reunite. Leaving only King Deshret and Nabu Malikata to continue the plan.

Nabu Malikata had told Deshret, whom she lovingly called Al-Ahmar, that she knew of a way to help him. She helped him through a ritual where it's implied she knew that she would die. After the ritual was one and only King Deshret left alive, he mourned for her so bad, he went mad. He used the Celestial Nail in the desert to create the Eternal Oasis to lay her to rest. Eventually, he would release forbidden knowledge, and Rukkhadevata would return to help him because they were still friends after all. Then the second time the forbidden knowledge spread, King Deshret sacrificed himself, was subsequently eaten by Apep, and Rukkhadevata used a huge amount of her power, turning her to a chid again.

Then when the Cataclysm in Khaenri'ah happened, Rukkhadevata couldn't go to Khaenri'ah because in Sumeru, something ELSE was happening and it plundged the world into darkness and Irminsul was once again polluted. So she snapped off the purest Twig of Irminsul and that was the birth of Kusenali. They were twins or clones in the way that both Rukkhadevata and Kusenali were made from the exact same source, Irminsul. So while the same 'creature' was in Teyvat, ultimately they are two different individuals and the reign of the Three God-Kings of Sumeru, came to an end.

They were just so interesting and their Allyship during the Archon War speaks to how the Archon War wasn't some terf war and that they didn't actually need to fight until there was only one God left per nation.

[P-rar]

This fan animation was so beloved that Mihoyo implied it's the canon Deshret design in their new TCG card

[brooklyns.b.]

I love the parallels between the old Kingdom of Sumeru and the Guilli Assembly in Liyue. Both had 3 Gods ruling them jointly (King Deshret, The Goddess of Flowers & Rukkhadevata for Sumeru and Rex Lapis, Guizhong & Marchosius for Liyue). King Deshret had the power and the Goddess of Flowers had the knowledge he'd never get until the end when she died, same thing happend with Zhongli & Guizhong. As for the third God, both Guoba and Rukkhadevata used all their powers to quell the corrosion and withering within the land and in doing so both lost all their memories and shrunk in size.
The difference is in the decision that each of the two man made, Zhongli decided to live by Guizhong's ideals and made an oath to protect Liyue and carry the vision they had; as in to live for the future. While King Deshret couldn't accept the Goddess of Flowers' death and continued to search for a way to revive her. He kept dwelling on the past and it brought him and his people their demise.

[rishisharma]

Rukhhadevata had it bad. She was not responsible for anything but ended up paying the biggest price.

[melonsapphire]

When 3.0 dropped, I was excited for Sumeru lore. The first few books I discovered in the House of Daena were about Rukkha & a new chara named King Deshret. I immediately read them as a lore enthusiast. The moment we were exposed with his grief about the fall of his kingdom, I was excited for more, so I tried picking hints on new artifacts.

Then 3.1 dropped, more exposure on his mourning & sadness about his beloved friend, Goddess of Flowers, and how their friendship with Rukkha was. The more I explored his kingdom’s remains in the desert(Golden Slumber quest & talking to NPCs), the more I found how intelligent, resourceful & how he was loved by his people & Djinns. But also, how he dearly missed his friend to the point he would sacrifice everything to build a new paradise & even betrayed by his King followers.


At that point, honestly, his story became sad for me as I read. As more updates dropped until 3.3, more artifacts, weapons and books revealed his motivations.
King Deshret became one of the side chara that I found very interested with, just like how Kitsune Saiguu was in Inazuma. Now 3.4 with new area just dropped, I cant wait to explore more about Deshret & Goddess of Flowers!

[emergency-RedHood]

that fanmade king deshret is one hell of a fine snack jeez

[rustedsteampunk]

I hope that they touch on these stories in the anime. King Deshret sacrificed everything for his people just for his kingdom to be blown away like the desert sands and to be remembered as a tyrant.
There are so many more stories to be told, so many things that were forgotten by Teyvat's people.
You wonder what it would have been like if we had arrived in Teyvat during a different time...

[Frazzled_Chameleon]

Cyno greatly resembles King Deshret. Nilou dresses and dances like the Goddess of Flowers, and Nahida is the Dendro archon. The three can be together again.

[violetackerman]

The golden eyeliner and King Deshret's golden eyes are so beautiful 👀
Everything is so beautiful and amazing

[koucha_scara]

2:15 damn bro's majestic like fr 💀💀💀

[shouhuan]

Hoping for mihoyo making more lore about King Deshret, Rukkhadevata and Goddness of Flower. This is sooo goodddd. Thank you for this great animations ❤️ almost shed a tears fr

[gzoin]

I was really sad when I saw 2:00 King Deshret still remembered his previous commitment to his people and decided to sacrifice himself, and then he put down his crown 2:09, looking back to his initial aspiration 2:19 and finally … 2:26 this scene is so sacred but it does break my heart😭

[blckorb]

I think this has to be the most tragic fates I’ve seen. These three Gods did everything they could for their people. And lose everything in the end.