What Shape Does the Self Hold is the second and final part of Nahida's Story Quest, Sapientia Oromasdis Chapter: Act II - Homecoming.
Steps[]
- Head to the deepest part of The Chasm
- Defeat the monsters and destroy the "Oozing Concretions"
- Follow the directions and head to Sumeru's desert region
- Advance deeper into the sandstorm
- Defeat the ambushing monsters
- Find where Apep is hidden
- Enter the central area
- Witness the revival of the Heart of Oasis
- Save the home of the elemental life-forms
- Go back outside Sumeru City and seek out the Fungi
Gameplay Notes[]
- During Step 1, if the player did not complete World Quest Perils in the Dark in Series The Chasm Delvers, the Quest will be locked.
- During Steps 7 and 8, the active party will be limited to Nahida and all other interactions will be disabled.
- During Step 9, Nahida will join the party as a trial character.
Trial Character[]
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  Lv. 71 C3 Nahida Lv. 71 R1 A Thousand Floating Dreams |
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 Max HP: 17,893 ATK: 1,424 DEF: 584 Elemental Mastery: 460 Crit Rate: 51.8% Crit DMG: 91.9% Energy Recharge: 135.0% |
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Lv. 90 C3 Nahida Lv. 90 R1 A Thousand Floating Dreams |
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Max HP: 22,938 ATK: 1,781 DEF: 755 Elemental Mastery: 485 Crit Rate: 57.1% Crit DMG: 91.9% Energy Recharge: 135.0% |
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Dialogue[]
Quest DescriptionFrom your investigation, it seems that Apep might be terminally ill. To learn how to save it, you must make a trip to The Chasm and find a special elemental life-form.
- (Approach the marked area in The Chasm)
- Paimon: So that elemental life-form came all the way here on its own and spent a long time by itself?
- Paimon: Wouldn't it already have become The Withering like the others...?
- Nahida: There is a chance that it could avoid that end, using the power of something here...
- Nahida: I'm referring to what was used to fight against the Abyss. It once repaired the rifts of Teyvat long ago.
- Nahida: It has the ability to purify and stabilize powers that shouldn't exist in Teyvat.
- Nahida: Forbidden knowledge that its light has shone upon is kept here forever in a different form...
You mean... the Oozing Filth?- Nahida: Yup. It's just like soap bubbles that rise to the water's surface.
- Paimon: Uh, another strange metaphor... But Paimon somehow gets this one.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: What the Lord of Dendro means is that the apocalypse was altered by the power of the giant spike and hidden within the Oozing Filth.
- Nahida: Yes, and it shouldn't be far from here. Let's go and take a look.
You mean... the - (Approach the marked area)
- Paimon: Look! It's over there!
- Nahida: Looks like we'll have to clear out the Oozing Filth in this area. You two should be able to take care of it, right?
- Paimon: Yep, we know what to do. We'll just use the Lumenstone on the Oozing Concretion!
- (Destroy the Oozing Concretion and defeat the enemies)
- Paimon: We finally managed to rescue it...
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: It should be the life-form from the prophecy.
- Nahida: That light...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: !
- Paimon: Wait, something dark is coming out... Something's not right!
- Everyone, back up.
- Paimon: What's going on? Didn't Nahida say it was purified?
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Maybe it's because such a long amount of time has passed.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Although the power of the Oozing Filth is more stable than that of the apocalypse, it is still a form of dangerous power.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: It might have lost its mind after being soaked in it for such a long time.
- Paimon: Oh no... but we still have tons of questions we need to ask.
- Nahida: I should be able to purge it with my elemental power.
- Wait, don't do it!
- This is definitely connected to forbidden knowledge.
- Nahida: But this is our only chance.
- I said no, and I mean it.
- We can't go through that again.
- Paimon: (TravelerTraveler)...
- I'm sorry, I got a little anxious.
- Nahida: It's okay... I trust your judgment. I was being a little hasty myself. Let's see if we can think of another way.
- What about the crystal...?
- Paimon: Oh, yeah! You said that the elemental power in the crystal was identical to theirs.
- Nahida: You want to use its power? But...
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: The Lord of Dendro seems hesitant. I too, would advise caution.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: It's risky to use its power without fully understanding its intended use.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Don't understand. This no good... That no good... Save life... important.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Yes, I understand, but this is our only chance to return home. We cannot afford to be careless.
- Nahida: It's okay, there's no need to argue. I'll think of something to do about the elemental power that will be used.
- Nahida: Hmm, how about this... (TravelerTraveler), you could try using it.
- Nahida: I understand that you have an amazing resistance to forbidden knowledge.
- Sure thing.
- Paimon: Don't overdo it, (TravelerTraveler). Paimon will be worried!
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: ...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Ugh...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Lord of Dendro... and you others... How long... How long have I been waiting here?
- Paimon: Yay! Looks like it worked!
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: The Lord of Dendro, here in person... Does that mean... the apocalypse has come to an end?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Wait, did you... get smaller again?
- Nahida: I'm sorry, that portion of my memory is highly unreliable at the moment... I can't seem to remember who you are...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Hmm, that sounds about right. After all, the purpose of my existence is precisely for those "unreliable" memories you speak of.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: You once said that the apocalypse will be completely eradicated and that relevant memories will become unstable.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Even you couldn't promise that you'd remember our agreement after those events take place.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: However, you are definitely someone who stays true to your word. My sacrifice is nothing compared to your resolve.
- Nahida: You and I made the agreement?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Yes. You used your power to protect me. That is the reason why I was able to survive here.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: To be honest, I'm nearing my end... I had thought I'd be stronger than this.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: No one can withstand the power of the apocalypse.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: In order to preserve a somewhat stable memory, I had to change the power of the apocalypse into a different form.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Only the giant spike that fell from the sky was capable of doing something like that. But the moment I chose to go through with it...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Is the moment I lost my chance of being rescued by the Lord of Dendro...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: But enough about me. Lord of Dendro, let's get to the important matter at hand. As you can see... I won't last much longer...
- Nahida: I understand, and I'm sorry. But...
- Nahida: Can you please tell me what this is?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: This... is a Fire Seed. It's an essential item for saving the Dendro Dragon. Thankfully, it appears to be in good condition.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: The Lord of Dendro and our people created this item together. It mimics how the Dendro Dragon's "Heart of Oasis" operates.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: The Dendro Dragon has been tormented by the apocalypse for far too long. It too is nearing the end of its power.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: However, if you are able to reactivate its Heart of Oasis using the Fire Seed, then the Dendro Dragon will begin to recover.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: And as a result, our homeland will return to the way it once was.
- Nahida: So the Heart of Oasis is Apep's source of power...
- Paimon: No wonder the crystal was able to heal this Fungus just now. That's what it's used for.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: What?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: You used... the Fire Seed to save me?
- Paimon: Mm-hmm. Why? What's wrong?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: That's... Uh, never mind, it's not your fault. You didn't know.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: The Fire Seed contains a high concentration of elemental power inside of it. It's very powerful yet fragile at the same time.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: It is not stable in its current form. To prevent any accidents, please don't use it again.
- Nahida: Since I am its creator, I will take responsibility for it. I assure you there's no need to worry.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Alright. Aside from being able to heal the Dendro Dragon, the Fire Seed can also resonate with the Heart of Oasis.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: In other words, you'll be able to find the Dendro Dragon by following the guidance of the Fire Seed.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: But you should hurry, there is little time to waste.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: What... about you?
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Forget about me. You should hurry home now.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Everyone is returning home, including you.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: As I told you, I've already lost my chance to be saved by the Lord of Dendro.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Lord of Dendro, I thank you for coming to find me and for being willing to save the Dendro Dragon.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: Our past has been saved, and our future has been ensured.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom: It's enough for me just knowing that they will return home.
- Paimon: Hey... wait!
- Paimon: It turned into... Oozing Filth.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Can you use the Lumenstone once more? I can still feel its elemental power.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Please... Of all of us, it deserves the chance to return home the most.
- Okay.
- Nahida: This is a small ball of light that it left behind...
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: I can feel it... I can feel its knowledge and emotions... It has all returned to its original elemental form and is becoming one with the other family members.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Do not be sad, my friends. Its wish has come true and it's very happy right now.
- Nahida: Because its external form doesn't matter, right?
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Yes, because our external form does not matter, and our home has been saved. There is nothing more important than being together with family.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Let's go. Home.
- Nahida: Home...
Step DescriptionThe elemental life-form spoke of past events and used Nahida's crystal to discover the truth. Next, you must use the crystal's directions to find Apep.
- (Approach the marked area near the outdoor Bayt Al-Sukr Teleport Waypoint)
- Nahida: It's not much further. Follow me, we're close now.
- (Approach the marked area)
- Nahida: I can feel its power lingering and shifting around us. Sometimes it feels distant, but other times it seems close. This is its way of warning us.
- Nahida: It has already noticed our presence.
- (Approach the smaller marked area)
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- (A cinematic begins)
- Paimon: We won't be able to see anything if we keep going that way.
- Paimon: Hey, look! Something's over there!
- (Cinematic ends)
- Nahida: We've found it... Apep, the Dendro Dragon.
- Paimon: Paimon knew it would be big, but... not THAT big!
- Apep: Puny god, puny human... Leave my domain.
- Apep: Frail life-forms like you cannot survive in the endless sands of the desert.
- Nahida: Apep, we're here to save you.
- Apep: I do not need saving. Especially not by you, Buer.
- Apep: You are no different from Amun. Both of you have only existed for a fraction of what you know as time, yet you call yourselves lords of this land by leaning on the heavens' glow.
- Apep: You're better off paying attention to your path ahead, as you will fall where you've fallen before.
- Nahida: I know that you hate both gods and humans, but you've grown too weak now. Can't you let go of your hatred, even for only a moment?
- Apep: Let go... for only a moment?
- Apep: Foolish Buer. You will find no gratefulness from me, even if you heal me.
- Apep: You will only be reviving the dragon that will destroy Sumeru and the seven nations!
- Nahida: No. You're ill, that's all.
- Apep: That I am. Time will bring death to all, it's unavoidable. Although I am gravely ill, my mind remains clear.
- Apep: I am different from the ancient dragons that came to terms with you!
- Nahida: There's no need for this. There is no point in fighting, what we need is the truth.
- Apep: Hmph. "The truth"... the shackles that the God of Wisdom cannot escape from.
- Apep: I have paid dearly for the truth, and you shall do the same soon enough.
- Paimon: Hey, don't leave!
- Nahida: Careful! Something's coming!
- Paimon: Wahh! What is that? Paimon's never seen that before!
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: It's our family.
- Paimon: Huh? They're your family too!? But they don't look anything like Fungi!
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: External form... not important. Inner nature... same.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: The composition of their elemental power is identical to ours. In other words, they're residents of our homeland.
- Nahida: Is this what they've become after experiencing the apocalypse?
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: This is also a form of adaptation, although a most gruesome and pitiful one. Many of our family members never made it out of the Dendro Dragon...
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: They've gradually taken this form in order to survive the apocalypse.
- Nahida: Is there any way to avoid fighting them?
- Paimon: Hey, can you guys talk? We're here to rescue you!
- Strange Elemental Life-forms: ...
- They're not responding.
- Nahida: They've given it their all just to survive.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: They're being drawn by the Fire Seed. Only its power can temporarily free them from their pain.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: All that remains are the instincts to survive and search for energy needed to do so. Everything else has been discarded in the process of adaptation.
- Paimon: So this is the result of forbidden knowledge...
- Nahida: Would our world become the same if the forbidden knowledge was allowed to rampage across Teyvat...?
- Nahida: Like fish struggling on land... unable to find a single puddle of fresh water in the entire world...
- We can talk about this later.
- Let's deal with them first.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Yes. But please, try to be gentle with them. They are not evil in nature... All they want to do is survive.
- (After defeating the enemies)
- Paimon: Paimon thinks they've used up all their strength! They don't seem aggressive anymore...
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: They... want to... go home.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Yes, it was never their intention to leave the Dendro Dragon.
- Nahida: Is there a way to make them revert to their elemental form?
- Nahida: Years of torment is what turned them into their current state. Their external form has become their shackles...
- Nahida: It seems only the Fire Seed or Apep's Heart of Oasis can save them.
- Nahida: But it'll be risky if we use the Fire Seed again.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Correct, we cannot use the Fire Seed again.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Everyone... goes... home. Not just... us.
- Paimon: Aw, this is becoming quite the dilemma...
- Nahida: Let me think for a second.
- Nahida: It's fine, let's use the power of the Fire Seed. I can't bear leaving them in the desert like this.
- But...
- Nahida: Don't worry. The decision is on me, I'll take responsibility for whatever happens.
- Nahida: It won't require much elemental power. I'm just worried that it'll become unstable.
- Nahida: But as long as I use my elemental power to stabilize it a little, it shouldn't be a problem.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Thank you... Sorry... stubborn.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Thank you, Lord of Dendro.
- Nahida: Returning home is the most important thing to you. I've come to understand that during our travels.
- Nahida: I'm not doing this just to protect you, but also because I hope to use you and your experience and try speaking to Apep again.
- Nahida: After all, that giant Dendro Dragon is also your family. Maybe it would listen.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: I will stand with you, Lord of Dendro. I will never forget your kindness.
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Yes... yes...
- Nahida: Thank you. Alright, here it goes.
- Elemental Being: Floating Hydro Fungus: Family... We will all be able to go home soon.
- Paimon: Woah! It's shining now!
- It's getting bigger...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: Endless amounts of knowledge and emotions are moving inside of me. They're all very excited.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: To imagine such growth could be achieved in such a short period of time...
- Paimon: It's because you're carrying everyone's hopes and dreams.
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: Yes, finally... we can go home.
- Nahida: This is the last part. Let's go.
- (Approach the marked location)
- Paimon: This cave is huge! Could this be where the Dendro Dragon lives?
- We can't go any further.
- Paimon: Yeah... Who knows what's inside that cave...
- Nahida: Our goal is not only to find the dragon, but to also enter the world inside of it.
- Nahida: That will be impossible if we can't get it to cooperate with us.
- Paimon: But how are we gonna do that? It doesn't seem to want to help at all.
- Nahida: I'll see what I can do.
- Nahida: Apep, I know we don't see eye to eye, and that we have a very different understanding of the world and its orders.
- Nahida: However, we are both born of elemental power and both suffered the torment of forbidden knowledge.
- Nahida: We are not that different. And right now, we share a common enemy. We should not let our differences get in the way.
- Paimon: Hmm, wonder if the Dendro Dragon's even willing to listen...
- Nahida: I don't care about what you believe in, who you hate, or what you've done in the name of hatred... Nor do I expect you to be grateful.
- Nahida: I'm here to save both you and your people. My people.
- Nahida: They've been searching for a way to save you ever since they left their homeland. They yearn for a chance to return home.
- Nahida: And now that everything is over, all the hatred that you harbor has lost its meaning. Rather than continuing to fight, you should consider the life you've produced.
- Void: ...
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: No response...
- Nahida: Your eagerness to survive means that you haven't given up on that world yet!
- Nahida: If you claim to know so much more than I, then why don't you truly think about why you want to survive... and why you're so vengeful!
- Void: ...
- Still no good...
- Paimon: Wh—Whaaaa! Paimon is getting sucked in!
- Hurry, grab on to me!
- Nahida: Please, keep everyone safe...
- Nahida: And send us to the "homeland"!
- (Paimon and Nahida find themselves alone in a large, murky-green dome)
- Paimon: Ugh... Hmm?
- Paimon: Nahida, where are we...?
- Paimon: Huh? And what about (TravelerTraveler)? Where'd (hehe/
sheshe) go!? - Nahida: I was only able to ensure that we made it here safely. It's possible we arrived at different locations...
- Paimon: Hmm... Well, then let's go have a look up ahead. Paimon's feeling really worried...
- Nahida: Yep, let's go. I wouldn't worry too much, (TravelerTraveler)'s no pushover.
- Paimon: Paimon knows that! It's just that Paimon isn't used to not having the Traveler around...
- Paimon: Let's hurry! (HeHe/
SheShe) might be just up ahead.
- (Approach the marked area)
- Paimon: What's that!?
- Nahida: That should be the Heart of Oasis. All we need to do is "light" it with the Fire Seed and it'll restore Apep with elemental power.
- Nahida: The damage it suffered internally will also slowly begin to heal.
- Paimon: Then let's hurry and light it! We still need to find (TravelerTraveler)!
- Nahida: Alright. Hang on...
- Nahida: Oh...
- Paimon: Wait, the Fire Seed! What happened?
- Nahida: It shattered...
- Nahida: It was even more unstable than I expected.
- Paimon: But why!? We barely used it!
- Nahida: I'm not sure. Perhaps the Fire Seed was only capable of protecting one person...?
- Nahida: But if I didn't use its power on everyone, there's no way of knowing where you could have been sucked into.
- Nahida: And even if that's the case... There's no reason for it to simply shatter... Unless...
- Paimon: Unless what?
- Nahida: Unless I was already in a weakened state when I created this Fire Seed...
- Nahida: Which would be when we had first saved the desert.
- Paimon: Oh no...
- Paimon: Wait, let's put that aside for a moment!
- Paimon: If the Fire Seed has shattered, wouldn't that mean we came all this way for nothing!?
- Paimon: *sigh* Do you know what we should do now, Nahida? C'mon, Paimon, think...!
- Nahida: I... *sigh*
- Nahida: Don't worry, Paimon. This is my responsibility. The Fire Seed is technically just a ball of highly concentrated elemental power.
- Nahida: Although my elemental power is slightly different than that of elemental life-forms, I gained a better understanding of it when I turned into a Fungus.
- Nahida: So, all I have to do is imitate that power while adding some of my own, and I'll be able to do what the Fire Seed was supposed to...
- Paimon: You're... gonna become the Fire Seed?
- Nahida: Yes. It'll take a lot of power from me, but it still won't be anything compared to when I was in the desert...
- Nahida: I might, however... become even smaller.
- Paimon: What happens if you keep getting smaller?
- Nahida: I'll become a blade of grass or a twig. Basically, I'll return to how I was first born.
- Nahida: I will be able to unleash power beyond my limits if I can reverse the process of growth.
- Paimon: But you'll lose everything! You'll not only lose your appearance, but you'll lose your emotions, memories, and who knows what else!
- Nahida: That's alright. None of that matters compared to the dangers that Apep is facing right now.
- Paimon: No, no, wait! There has to be another way! Besides, what will Sumeru do if you turn into a twig!?
- Nahida: Maybe you and (TravelerTraveler) can plant me in the soil of Sumeru once it is all over.
- Nahida: I can still communicate with the world through the forest. It's just that you won't be able to see me for some time...
- Paimon: You can't be serious...!
- Paimon: If (TravelerTraveler) were here, (hehe/
sheshe) definitely wouldn't let you go through with it! - Paimon: If we knew this was how you were going to "take responsibility," then we never would've agreed in the first place!
- Nahida: I'm sorry, Paimon. But we're out of options.
- Nahida: Not all eagles who have fallen to the ground can soar in the sky once again. But if no risks are taken, then the eagle will be grounded forever.
- Paimon: No! Please no, Nahida!
- Cutscene's Travel Log summary:
- (A cinematic plays)
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- Paimon: The Fire Seed shattered!
- Paimon: And Nahida's, she's...!
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: I know
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: A sacrifice must be made
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: But not by the Lord of Dendro
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: We've all grown on this long journey
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: If the purpose of that growth was to return home
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: Then our wishes have come true
- Elemental Being: Grounded Hydroshroom: Would you lend us your power?
- Nahida: You knew it would come to this...
- Nahida: All the knowledge
- Nahida: Language
- Nahida: And emotions that you have learned
- Nahida: Will be reverted into pure elemental energy
- Nahida: In your new homeland
- Nahida: Nothing of who you were will remain
- Nahida: You won't be remembered by anyone...
- Nahida: Is that truly...
- Nahida: The return you've always dreamed of?
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Lord of Dendro
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Don't be sad
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: This is not
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Your home
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: We
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Go home
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Lord of Dendro
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Should also
- Elemental Being: Floating Anemo Fungus: Go home
- Nahida: Hear us please
- Nahida: Feel our heartfelt desires!
- Nahida: Awaken!
- (Cinematic ends)
- (While fighting the Warden of the Last Oasis)
- Voice in the Memories: To imagine such growth could be achieved in such a short period of time...
- Paimon: It's because you're carrying everyone's hopes and dreams.
- Voice in the Memories: Yes, finally... we can go home.
- Voice in the Memories: Yes... home...
- (While fighting the Proliferating Organisms)
- Voice in the Memories: Thank you for protecting me with your elemental power. Goodbye...
- Voice in the Memories: We may never meet again.
- Voice in the Memories: ███████████████
- Voice in the Memories: I will wait for her no matter how long it takes. This is the agreement we made.
- (While fighting the Warden of Oasis Prime)
- Voice in the Memories: I learned a wonderful word. It's "Nur," which means "light."
- Voice in the Memories: It will be your name from now on.
- Voice in the Memories: ♪~
- Voice in the Memories: Good, sounds like you like it.
- (After defeating the Guardian of Apep's Oasis)
- Paimon: Hey! Can you hear Paimon!? Say something!
- Paimon: You Fungi said that your form didn't matter, right? Then let us know that you're all right...!
- That's enough, Paimon.
- I know you're sad.
- Apep: Their knowledge, memories, and emotions have been reverted to elemental power and released. They are no longer able to respond to you.
- Apep: The guardians that have accompanied me for countless eras have also transformed into my elemental power, just as they did.
- Apep: They will be born once again now that they're one. There's nothing to be sad about.
- Paimon: But that's different! They won't ever be the same...
- Nahida: Paimon, we will never understand it, and it will never understand us. That's how it's destined to be.
- Nahida: But as long as you can be healthy again, then nothing else matters to me, Apep.
- Nahida: Sumeru will be free from threat as long as your health is maintained.
- Apep: I thought that my rage would be kindled once my power returned to me.
- Apep: However, what I feel now is a feeling that has long eluded me... the feeling of "peace."
- Nahida: The forbidden knowledge influenced you ever since you were contaminated, greatly amplifying your hatred and rage.
- Apep: Yes... there's no denying that. Although my hatred for that usurper from beyond the heavens still stirs deep within me, destroying you and your people serves me no purpose.
- Apep: Be that as it may, my position still stands, and I will have nothing to do with you.
- Apep: When you inevitably perish due to your ever-expanding curiosity, I will still sneer and mock you in my heart.
- Paimon: Yeesh, who can put up with you?
- Nahida: I respect your decision, and with time, I will prove to you that we will not repeat our mistakes.
- Nahida: Before you begin resting, there is one last thing I would like to know.
- Nahida: How did you become affected by forbidden knowledge?
- Apep: It's a long story... We all once believed in the distant past that only forbidden knowledge could give us enough power to defeat the Heavenly Principles.
- Apep: The Dragon King acquired the power of darkness from outside of this world and led us in a fight against the order established by the outsiders.
- Paimon: D—Dragon King!?
- Apep: An unimaginable war took place in Teyvat, causing destruction on an unprecedented scale. The world itself was on the verge of collapse.
- Apep: In war, the victor would inherit the right to shape the world, while the losers must turn into ash...
- Apep: But I didn't give up on searching for a way to turn the tides, even after the death of the Dragon King.
- Apep: As I attempted to collect more forbidden knowledge from the corners of the world as it was on the verge of collapse... I was stopped by the giant spike that fell from the sky.
- Apep: Sand dunes arose where there was only forest, and it was as if even Sumeru itself was trying to tell me that the era of the dragons was over.
- Nahida: But you still didn't give up, did you? Because of Amun... Al-Ahmar.
- Apep: Yes. Al-Ahmar eventually obtained this power with the help of Nabu Malikata.
- Apep: His ambitions continued to grow, and he planned to establish a powerful kingdom in my domain.
- Apep: Although I didn't think much of him, I allowed his actions under one condition...
- Apep: The condition was that after his death, all the knowledge he came to accumulate would belong to me.
- Apep: At that time, I still harbored deep regrets. By the time the Dragon King finally returned, the world had irrevocably changed.
- Apep: Some of the dragons have grown close to your kind and have forgotten all about our hatred from when the world was taken from us.
- Apep: And some died, leaving behind nothing but their bones, while others chose to flee after experiencing pain and agony...
- Apep: But for me, the scales and will of the Dragon King still shine bright in my heart even to this day.
- Apep: I will follow it until the end of my time.
- Nahida: You really are insane...
- Apep: When Al-Ahmar's proud kingdom collapsed, I swallowed him whole as I agreed and absorbed his elemental power.
- Apep: However, what I gained was no benefit... No, I gained the apocalypse.
- Apep: I used up all my strength just trying to keep the pain under control... I had no energy to analyze the knowledge he had accumulated...
- Apep: But even then, I still believe that his insanity was far greater than that of my own.
- Paimon: So that's how the apocalypse started...
- Apep: I admit that I fell for his trap. I was like a final fail-safe in his plan.
- Apep: Tiny Buer, and the rest of you... continue forward. I shall keep a watchful eye.
- Apep: How far will the life so dear and precious to the Heavenly Principles be able to go? I wonder...
- Paimon: Hey! Looks like we've been sent back out... Still in one piece, too!
- Nahida: The dragon will need to rest for a very long time before it is fully healthy again.
- Nahida: It's not as ruthless as it was before. Curing the dragon of its illness has seemingly made it more open to reason.
- Paimon: Nobody's in a good mood when they're feeling sick!
- Paimon: Even though we accomplished something really important, Paimon still doesn't feel happy for some reason.
- Bringing everyone home was supposed to be a happy occasion.
- But it seems to have lost some of its meaning.
- Nahida: Indeed, although they'll still have the chance to be born again, they've lost their memories of their journey and their feelings for their homeland.
- Nahida: Each opportunity for growth is unique in its own way.
- Nahida: Perhaps the immense power we released was the pouring out of all these irreplaceable emotions that had built up over time.
- Paimon: Can you really call a place with no family your home...?
- Nahida: Family... Right! The Hydro Fungus left behind its family.
- Nahida: Those two Fungi might be waiting for it to return.
- Paimon: Oh, yeah! Let's hurry and go take a look. How are we going to explain all the complicated things that happened...?
Step DescriptionYou overcome countless obstacles and finally manage to reactivate the Heart of Oasis within Apep. The elemental life-forms converted all they had into power, melding with the purity of the elements. However, the traces they left of their existence have not vanished entirely...
- (Talk to the fungi)
- Paimon: They're still here! Have they really been waiting here all this time?
- Nahida: We're back!
- Happy Floating Hydro Fungus: ♪~
- Confused Floating Hydro Fungus: ...?
- Nahida: I'm sorry, I really am... But it's gone home and won't be able to return for a very long time.
- Floating Hydro Fungus: !!!
- Nahida: Don't be sad. It did it to protect you. Your happiness is more important to it than anything else in the world.
- Nahida: It said that "Nur" is its most important family member.
- Nahida: That's your name, isn't it?
- Sad Floating Hydro Fungus: ...
- Murmuring Floating Hydro Fungus: ...
- Floating Hydro Fungus: Nur: N... Nur...
- Paimon: Whoa!
- Nahida: This is wonderful... So it has left traces of itself after all.
- Nahida: They will definitely meet again, someday.
- (Quest ends)
- (Talk to Floating Hydro Fungus: Nur again)
- Floating Hydro Fungus: Nur: ♩~
- (Talk to the Floating Hydro Fungus again)
- Floating Hydro Fungus: ♩~♩~
- (Talk to the Winged Dendroshroom at the camp)
- Winged Dendroshroom: ...
- (Talk to the Floating Anemo Fungus at the camp)
- Floating Anemo Fungus: ♩~♩~♩♩
- (Talk to the Whirling Electro Fungus at the camp)
- Whirling Electro Fungus: ♫~♫~♫~
- (Talk to the other Floating Anemo Fungus at the camp)
- Floating Anemo Fungus: ♬~♬~
- (Talk to the Stretchy Anemo Fungus at the camp)
- Stretchy Anemo Fungus: ♬♬
- (Talk to the Whirling Pyro Fungus at the camp)
- Whirling Pyro Fungus: —!
Soundtracks[]
| No. | Soundtrack Name | Album | Played In |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Whitewood Memorabilia | Forest of Jnana and Vidya | The End of the Sabzeruz Festival, Dream of Awakening, What Shape Does the Self Hold Locations |
| 52 | Gone With the Wind | Forest of Jnana and Vidya | The End of the Sabzeruz Festival, What Shape Does the Self Hold Locations |
| 55 | Lingering Memories | Forest of Jnana and Vidya | What Shape Does the Self Hold Locations |
| 56 | Vestige of Dahri | Forest of Jnana and Vidya | What Shape Does the Self Hold Locations, Serenitea Pot |
| 58 | Midnight Reflections | Forest of Jnana and Vidya | Dream of Awakening, Dream of Falling, What Shape Does the Self Hold Locations |
| 56 | Glowing Embers | The Shimmering Voyage Vol. 3 | What Shape Does the Self Hold (cutscene), Treehouse Theater: Candlelit Shadows Dancing, All the World's a Stage |
| 57 | Purposeful Purity | The Shimmering Voyage Vol. 3 | What Shape Does the Self Hold (cutscene) |
| 38 | Ocean of Grains | The Unfathomable Sand Dunes | What Shape Does the Self Hold, A Mysterious Missive on Paper Wings Locations |
Trivia[]
- While fighting the Warden of the Last Oasis, different voices are heard that are referred to as the "Voice in the Memories." The voice heard in Phase 2 sounds the same as that of the Elemental Being: Grounded Geoshroom. During the fight, it attempts to say something, but its voice is distorted incomprehensibly, and the caption simply reads "███████████████." Based on the story shared earlier in the quest, it was likely saying "Rukkhadevata," whose name would be blotted out due to her removal from Irminsul.
Gallery[]
Cutscene Animation- "Homecoming" - Genshin Impact
Other Languages[]
| Language | Official Name | Literal Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| English | What Shape Does the Self Hold | — |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 若忘记我为何物 Ruò Wàngjì Wǒ Wéi Héwù | If What I Am Is Forgotten |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 若忘記我為何物 Ruò Wàngjì Wǒ Wéi Héwù | |
| Japanese | 自分が何者かを忘れたら Jibun ga Nanimono ka wo Wasuretara | If You Forget Who You Are |
| Korean | 내가 무엇인지 잊는다면 Naega Mueosinji Inneundamyeon | |
| Spanish | El verdadero aspecto de la esencia | The Real Appearance of the Essence |
| French | En cas d'oubli de son apparence | In Case of Forgetting Its Appearance |
| Russian | Вспомнить, каким ты был Vspomnit', kakim ty byl | Remember, What You Were |
| Thai | หากลืมเลือนตัวตนแห่งตน | |
| Vietnamese | Nếu Quên Mình Là Gì | |
| German | Was ist mein Wesen? | What Is My Nature? |
| Indonesian | Jika Rupa Diri Tak Lagi Diingat | If One's Own Form Is No Longer Remembered |
| Portuguese | Qual É o Formato de Si | |
| Turkish | Bir Ben Vardır Bende, Benden İçeri | |
| Italian | Che forma ha il sé | What Shape Does the Self Hold |
Change History[]
Released in Version 3.6