Diluc Genshin Impact: The Darknight Hero of Mondstadt

As the City of Ballads and Brews, Mondstadt's wine industry echoes across Teyvat. The air perpetually carries the fragrance of aged casks, a scent trail leading wanderers to Master Diluc's Dawn Winery. He who commands half of Mondstadt's wine trade holds reins over both mora's circulation and tavern gossip. By this measure, he stands as Mondstadt's Uncrowned Sovereign.

1. Diluc and the Knights of Favonius

"Descendants of the Ragnvindr Clan shall defend the Nation of Freedom with blade and flame." The paternal oath seared into Diluc's blood. At age ten, he awakened a Pyro Vision. By fourteen, he became the youngest Cavalry Captain in Knights of Favonius history. At Dawn Winery's training grounds, his blade danced till constellations dipped low, each strike echoing the Order's creed: "Always defend Mondstadt. No fear in adversity."

Fate's turning point always arrives in the cruelest way. On Diluc's 18th birthday, during a supply transport, the roar of Ursa the Drake split the clear sky. Diluc was powerless to counter it. His father then wielded a Delusion, gaining immense power in a short time to repel the monster, but perished from the Delusion's backlash. Returning to the Knights of Favonius in grief, Inspector Eroch's handling of the matter proved colder than the Delusion: "Bury the truth and let Master Ragnvindr rest under the name of an 'accident.'" Eroch's actions left Diluc unable to accept this, leading him to resolutely resign from the Knights and abandon everything, including his Vision.

2. The Truth Behind Master Crepus(Diluc's Father)'s Death

After settling all Dawn Winery affairs, Diluc departed Mondstadt alone. His travels across the seven nations gradually unveiled the truth. All gathered clues pointed conclusively toward the Fatui, who covertly manufactured Delusions mimicking Visions. Though these devices granted ordinary people potent elemental abilities, their fatal flaw lay in life-draining backlash-excessive use inevitably led to the wielder's demise.

Three years of wandering transformed Diluc into the "Watcher in the Night" within intelligence networks. On Snezhnaya's snowfields, he witnessed huddled test subjects in Delusion factories; in Liyue Harbor's back alleys, he intercepted Fatui documents transporting forbidden knowledge. When the Fatui Harbinger "The Doctor" nearly slit his throat with clawed gauntlets, the Northern Information Network's Black Falcon swooped through the night sky-these observers lurking in gray zones taught him a crueler truth: "To pierce darkness with justice, one must first coexist with shadows."

3. Diluc Vision

On the night of his return to Dawn Winery, Kaeya leaned against the vineyard trellis and tossed an old relic: "What you abandoned was not just a weapon, but your former self." The Vision once symbolizing divine favor now burned quietly in Diluc's palm. He no longer dwelled on the metaphor of "god-granted power"—when the Fatui trampled lives with Delusions, and the Knights of Favonius smothered truth under the guise of order, he finally understood: the essence of strength lies not in its origin but in the wielder's resolve.

In Dawn Winery's cellar, the Blazing Greatsword hummed with elemental resonance. Diluc traced the newly engraved Ragnvindr crest on its blade—the original dawn insignia now bordered by nocturnal thorns. "This blade shall judge the Abyss, not serve the gods," he murmured as lightning split the sky beyond the window.

4. Diluc: The Dark Side of Dawn, Darknight Hero of Mondstadt

Diluc returned to Mondstadt and resumed control of his family's legacy as the new master of Dawn Winery. Now the scales of justice tilted back. Inspector Eroch's treasonous acts were ultimately uncovered, leading to his expulsion from the Knights of Favonius, while Acting Grand Master Jean shouldered the duty of safeguarding Mondstadt.

Diluc's return stirred little fanfare, yet a shadow began haunting Mondstadt's nights. As night fell, a crimson figure would dart through alleys, leaving scorch marks of battle. Tales of the "Darknight Hero" spread swiftly—some claimed he was a fallen knight's wraith, others whispered of an Abyss Order judge. Diluc himself dismissed it indifferently: "The title's taste is atrocious." Yet the people remembered their unseen guardian, whose flames pierced the darkness to shield their dawn.

Diluc's tale remains absent from Mondstadt's official chronicles yet burns in the memories of those he saved. As patrons raise their glasses at Angel's Share, the crimson-haired proprietor gazes toward the brightening horizon. He knows night must retreat, but as long as shadows linger in humanity, the Darknight Hero's flames will endure—for true radiance is not blindness to darkness but the choice to become dawn's first light that rends the veil of night.