When the wind in Teyvat stopped blowing, the people of Mondstadt knew tragedy had struck. A group consisting of the Cardinal Calvin and Deacon Dahlia of the Church Favonius, as well as the acting grand master Jean of the Knights of Favonius and her men, had discovered to the site. Underneath the tree of Windrise, right in front of the statue of the seven, Anemo Archon Barbatos had passed away

Holding the physical form of Barbatos was the new Anemo Archon, sitting in a patch of freshly bloomed cecilias and danelions, born out of the last breath Barbatos ever took. The new Archon didn't look up from their mourning towards their subjects, still holding onto Barbatos in hopes that the god would return once more. From the west, wind slowly picked up again, a symbol of a new era.

Dahlia had long known this would happen, for Venti had warned him before he passed. Dahlia had gotten to mourn his god before he was even gone, crying in the arms of the archon that now laid in the arms of his successor. Erosion was a terrible thing.

The world stood still as the entirety of the nation mourned its late Archon. And Dahlia?

Dahlia, for the first time in a while, didn't hear Barbatos' voice in the wind.