Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land is the fourth and final part of Venti's Story Quest, Carmen Dei Chapter: Act I - Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land.
Steps[]
- Wait for night to fall (18:00 - 23:00)
- You can adjust the time through Paimon's Menu.
- Head to the Angel's Share
- Sit behind Stanley
- Try to make conversation with Stanley
- Head to the "usual place"
- Head to the Anemo Archon Statue. Venti will be sitting on the statue's hands.
Idle Quotes[]
- "Stanley... Stanley..." (-Stanley)
- "Stanley, what should I do..." (-Stanley)
Dialogue[]
Quest Description- (Talk to Diluc before approaching Stanley)
- Diluc: You know, I'm glad I actually had the chance to come down here today.
- Diluc: The tavern isn't overcrowded, and I couldn't be in a better mood.
- (Upon approaching Stanley)
- Stanley: Tell me, Stanley... Tell me what should I do...?
- Paimon: Huh? Why does he keep repeating his own name?
He's hiding something.
- Paimon: Could there be another person called Stanley?
There's another Stanley.
- Venti: Surely not. Even I've never heard tell of a second Stanley.
- Stanley: *sobs* Oh, Stanley...
- Stanley: It should have been me! I should have been the one to die in the Mare Jivari that day... Why won't your spirit come and stop me from using your name? Why, Stanley, why?
- Stanley: If only you hadn't had to save a rookie like me, you would have never died in that windless corner of the world...
- Stanley: You were a renowned adventurer, destined to become a legend one day... But now... that'll never happen, because your life was cut short— and all because of a worthless tag-along...
- Paimon: Uhh... Does anyone get what's going on here?
- Venti: ...I think our friend really did make it to the Mare Jivari. And I think the tragedy he encountered there was real, too.
- Venti: But the real adventurer, the real Stanley — that was his partner. Not him.
- Venti: The real Stanley is the one who died to save our "Stanley."
- Paimon: Wait... So the only reason our Stanley is called Stanley in the first place is because he stole the other Stanley's name?
- Venti: I fear that may be the case.
- Stanley: Stanley, for so many years I've lived in fear... fear that Mondstadt will forget all about you... So I tell your adventure stories at every opportunity...
- Stanley: Mondstadt must remember: Stanley reached the center of the Mare Jivari... He's the greatest adventurer there ever was, and he lives on!
- Stanley: Stanley will never die, because... I am Stanley! I... am Stanley...
- Stanley: I'm sorry, Stanley... I'm getting too old... now...
- Stanley: *sigh* ...
- Stanley: Are you guys planning on eavesdropping much longer?
- Paimon: Yikes! We're busted!
- (Talk to Stanley)
- Stanley: *sigh* Go away. Save your questions, just... leave me in peace.
- Paimon: But...
- Stanley: Leave, now! Don't make me tell you again!
- (Jack arrives)
- Jack: Honorary Knight! Venti! And Paimon! I'm so glad you guys are here.
- Jack: I've been looking for you everywhere! I wanted to thank you again for helping me find the sword and shield. My parents are finally supporting me!
- Venti: Oh... Really?
- Jack: Yeah, really! They even said they're gonna pay for someone to fix up the Sword of Brilliant Valor and Shield of Magnificent Honor for me, so I can take them out on the road.
- Venti: That's wonderful! So, Jack, is this the part where you bid farewell to Mondstadt and set off on your intrepid trip traversing Teyvat?
- Jack: No, not yet. I still don't have what it takes to go too far from home just yet.
- Jack: Besides, I'm sure Stanley still has a few stories left to tell. Hehe... They're what inspired me to become an adventurer in the first place.
- Jack: Stanley, I— Oh, you're drunk again...
- Jack: See you tomorrow, then. After your hangover wears off, maybe you can tell me some more of your stories?
- (Jack leaves the tavern)
- Venti: Stanley's really fond of that kid, don't you think?
- Stanley: *hic* Jack? Jack!
- Venti: Jack left.
- Stanley: Oh, I see... Well, thank you for not telling him about my secret.
- Venti: Eh? All of a sudden you're facing the facts? That isn't like you...
- Stanley: Just now... I couldn't bear to look at him. His adventurer's spirit is so pure... unblemished...
- Stanley: I'm just a weary old feckless fraud, but that kid is a brand-new shining star, full of potential... I cannot allow his dreams to be crushed.
- Paimon: You're not a total fraud... Stanley's adventure stories and experiences — they're all true, aren't they?
- Stanley: Stories... Experiences... What's the point of them anymore?
- Stanley: To be honest, my memories of adventuring, and of Stanley... they're hazy these days.
- Stanley: That's my biggest secret of all. And my biggest fear.
- Stanley: All these years, I've been livin' to tell his story. But his personality, and the details of his life, I don't remember them clearly anymore. Ah-ha...
- Stanley: But the one thing I can never forget... is that he died in a windless land, where his spirit can never be recovered!
- His whole life, he's been drowning in guilt...
- All that remains is this imaginary friend...
- Venti: Exactly... Even in his memory, the real Stanley isn't the living, breathing friend he knew at all.
- Venti: Instead, he's become fixed on the image of him as that battle-scarred warrior... and that image has held him captive his entire life.
- Stanley: I'm too old... I never let go, but still so much has slipped away...
- Stanley: I'm completely and utterly worthless!
- Stanley: No adventurer should have to go that way... No adventurer ever...
- (A cinematic plays)
- Cutscene's Travel Log summary:
- Venti: Hans Archibald?
- Stanley: My true name... How did you know?
- (Venti summons a breeze)
- Stanley: The wind...
- Stanley: I can hear the wind blowing in the Mare Jivari...
- (Venti shows himself as Barbatos to Stanley)
- Stanley: I always believed... you existed...
- Venti: Will you hand me your old friend's spirit?
- (Stanley takes Venti's hand and the spirit of Stanley finally goes in peace)
- (Cinematic ends)
- Stanley: I... I can't believe it...
- Stanley: Thank you all! And thank you, Lord Barbatos...
- Stanley: I'm sorry, it's gonna take me some time to calm back down...
- Stanley: But, I think that... I'm gonna be okay...
- (Stanley leaves)
- Venti: Ah, wonderful! Stanley reconnected with his true self, and Jack can finally go his own way.
- Venti: This calls for a celebration! And by celebration, I do of course mean libation!
- Paimon: And by libation, you mean you're not leaving this tavern till you're too drunk to walk, right?
- Venti: Haha... no. The wine here's too expensive. Jack still owes me some wine though — he promised me a rare vintage in exchange for helping him out, remember?
- Venti: I'll head off to fetch the wine. See you shortly! Let's meet at the usual place.
- Paimon: Huh? Where's that supposed to be? Why has Paimon never heard of it? Hey, Tone-Deaf Bard!
- It's anybody's guess.
- I think I know where... possibly.
- Okay, see you there!
- Paimon: Hey!
- (Talk to Diluc, optional)
- Diluc: Stanley...
- Diluc: So many years after the fact, it's not even his friend himself that holds him back anymore.
- Diluc: But I for one am confident that the people of Mondstadt will not forget his friend's story.
- (Talk to Venti)
- Venti: You made it... finally.
- Paimon: Just tell us where you mean next time, okay!? We looked everywhere!
- Paimon: Hmph... So. Did you at least manage to find your wine?
- Venti: Yep! Well, sort of... Jack made it out to be a rare, collectors' edition vintage...
- Venti: ...when actually, it's just a half bottle of regular cider.
- Venti: Ah, this takes me back.
- Venti: The first time I saw this view, I hadn't even taken on this form yet.
- ...What?
- Venti: It was about twenty-six hundred years ago, before the world had come under the rule of The Seven.
- Venti: At that time, Old Mondstadt was ruled by a tyrant, who sealed off the city's perimeter with a ferocious hurricane. Even the birds couldn't get in or out.
- Paimon: Old Mondstadt? Oh, Paimon remembers — nowadays it's known as Stormterror's Lair, right? You mentioned it before!
- Venti: That's right. The tyrant of the winds who once ruled from that tower was Decarabian, God of Storms.
- Venti: Back then, I was but a wisp among the thousand winds. I wasn't a god of anything — I didn't even have a human form...
- Venti: I was just a tiny elemental being who lived in the wind, a gentle breeze bringing subtle changes for the better, or tiny seeds of hope.
- Paimon: A tiny elemental being? Without a human form? Venti... do you mean you used to look different than you do now?
- Venti: Yep. My current form is not so different from the situation with fake Stanley... I took the form of a friend.
- (A cinematic plays)
- Cutscene's Travel Log summary:
- Venti: In Old Mondstadt transpired the story to be told
- Venti: Where a tyrant ruled, I met a boy, not that old
- Venti: The lyre he played, and for a song he sought
- Venti: But storm-walls blocked blue sky — he was sincerely distraught
- Venti: "I do so wish to see the birds in flight"
- Venti: Said he, his strong eyes filling with light
- Venti: But his voice was lost in the howling wind's churn
- Venti: For the whirlwind takes, and gives naught in return
- Venti: The true sky, and songs that cageless soar...
- Venti: Were they not wishes worth fighting for?
- Venti: So the boy turned, extending his hand:
- Venti: "Let us cast down the tyrant and his walls from this land"
- Venti: The young boy raised then the flag of revolt
- Venti: And I threw myself into freedom's tumult
- Venti: Victorious were we who fought to be free
- Venti: Gods fell, winds whipped, nations shook violently
- Venti: In the smoke, a despot met his doom
- Venti: And we watched as his great tower fell none too soon
- Venti: Mondstadt began anew, the story passed down
- Venti: And since then never has another worn its crown
- (Cinematic ends)
- Paimon: So then what?
- Paimon: What happened to your friend?
- (Same situation as with Stanley's friend...)
- Venti: Say, Paimon, do you wish to hear the next part of the story?
- Paimon: Yes, of course! The suspense is killing Paimon!
- Paimon, go pick us a couple of apples.
- Paimon: Now's the time you suddenly get a craving for apples? Really?
- Paimon, could you fetch us some meat or fish?
- Paimon: But Venti's telling his story! What makes you suddenly wanna have a meat feast!?
- Venti: Hahaha, getting a little... peckish or something...
- Oh, so peckish.
- Paimon: Huh! Paimon's had it up to here with you!
- (Venti and the Traveler keep talking after Paimon leaves)
- Venti: Ah... You know, you're so smart it almost makes me uncomfortable sometimes...
- Venti: But then, maybe it's right that true friends can tell what the other is thinking.
- Venti: A refreshing drink, a gentle breeze... *sigh* Moments like this always take me back...
- Venti: Back to a song that I first heard from him...
- I'm listening.
- (Venti recites)
- Fly, fly away.
- Like a bird in the sky.
- See the world on my behalf...
- To the heavens may you fly...
- (Talk to Venti again)
- (Quietly gazes at Venti): (The green-clad figure is uncharacteristically silent.)
- (Quietly gazes at Venti): (Sometimes even the lissome wind grows heavy in its grief... But not that mortals could ever see a moment oh so brief.)
Soundtracks[]
Trivia[]
- The usual music that plays in the tavern will change for the duration of the quest.
Gallery[]
Story Teaser The Boy and the Whirlwind｜Genshin Impact
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 若你困于无风之地 Ruò Nǐ Kùn Yú Wúfēng zhī Dì | If You're Trapped in a Windless Place |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 若你困於無風之地 Ruò Nǐ Kùn Yú Wúfēng zhī Dì | |
| Japanese | 無風の地に閉じ込められたら Mufuu no Chi ni Tojikomeraretara | When You're Imprisoned in a Windless Ground |
| Korean | 바람이 없는 곳에 갇힌다면 Baram-i Eomneun Got-e Gachindamyeon | If We're Trapped in a Windless Place |
| Spanish | Atrapado en una tierra sin viento | Trapped in a Windless Land |
| French | Perdu en un lieu sans vent | Lost in a Windless Place |
| Russian | Ежели тебя не поддерживают ветра Yezheli tebya ne podderzhivayut vetra | If Winds Don't Support You |
| Thai | หากติดอยู่ในที่ที่ไร้ลม | If Stuck in a Windless Place |
| Vietnamese | Nếu bạn bị nhốt ở nơi không có gió | If You Were Locked in a Windless Place |
| German | Im Land ohne Wind | In a Land Without Wind |
| Indonesian | Ketika Engkau Terperangkap di Negeri Tanpa Angin | When You're Trapped in a Windless Land |
| Portuguese | Se Você Ficasse Preso Numa Terra sem Vento | If You Were Trapped in a Windless Land |
| Turkish | Rüzgarsız Bir Yerde Mahsur Kalmak | |
| Italian | Prigioniero d'una terra senza vento |
Change History[]
Released in Version 1.0