#viparyas

[solunos]

Sketchbook: Scenes from Sumeru

On the occasion of us going back to Sumeru for 5.1, have the Sumeru Adventurer’s Guild point (with a rare moment when Katheryne is currently out), and the giant Ruin Guard at Devantaka Mountain. Plus, additional Aranaras from Varuna Gatha below the cut!

Who’s your favourite Aranara? I got too many to name…

[mushroom-kin]

Flowers of Genshin series #4 - Nahida, Viparyas

I was so excited to draw Nahida, because I love Nahida so so much. She is so precious and deverse the world. She is easy my favoriter character along with Yunjin who is the reason I started this game in the first place. I can go on and on about how they are both so important to me. It was a nice way to round off the first 4 characters I drew, a funny twink who I have experience drawing before, a booby lady who I ended up drawing a lot over the past summer, a man who is very pretty and I want to draw him better, and now Nahida who I felt was a reward to get to by the end of the first 4. Seeing all four of them together made me feel like I had enough confidence in finishing the whole series.

I gave Nahida Viparyas, the dream flowers of Aranara village. This mostly came from the fact that til this day no one else uses these flowers, and because of that one image of Nahida holding them in that one web event where you mix potions(?). And yes I do web events, you might not realize this yet, but I am insane.

Viparyas are so mesmerizingly galaxy-y colored which is very nice contrast to Nahida's color earthy color scheme.

Maybe one day we will figure out what these flowers are for?

Stay tuned for rest of them!

[emergencygg]

[king-minyard]

Flowers of Sumeru*

Kalpalata Lotus

Flowers from vines that grow on cliff sides. It is called a lotus only because it has a similar appearance to one. Aside from that, it bears no other similar properties to the lotus.

The kalpalata lotus is a vine-like plant with rotate flowers that grows on Sumeru’s cliffsides in partial shade. It has five petals and five sepals, both a robin’s egg blue. The center appears much like the carpellary receptacle in water lotuses, hence the name. The net-like veins in the leaves are characteristic of a dicot.

Nilotpala Lotus

(The second image is thanks to NoriBot on Genshin Impact Wiki! Thank you!)

Growing in the forest wetlands, these plants only bloom at night with flowers as bright as the moon.

The nilotpala lotus is a night-blooming rotate flower with striking blue petals. “Nilotpala” means blue water lily in Sanskrit, but unlike the day-blooming Nymphaea caerulea, the reproductive organs in the center appear more like a lotus’s carpellary receptacle. It has five petals and five sepals, but the only part that the traveler harvests for use is the center. Although it is called a lotus and appears to have the reproductive organs of one, the nilotpala lotus flowers and leaves both rest on the surface of the water, and its leaves have a split, which makes it a water lily. As a water lily, it is neither a monocot nor a dicot, but rather a basal angiosperm.

Padisarah

A holy and noble plant. The conditions for growth in its environment are very demanding. The flower buds can be processed to make valuable spices.

Named for a flower of old long since gone extinct, the padisarah flower has interesting, purple-tipped leaves and crateriform flowers with six petals and six sepals. It seems to prefer full sun, although whether or not the plant can get sunlight within the world of dreams is questionable. The net-like branching veins in the leaves are indicative of a dicot.

Sumeru Rose

Bright and beautiful, these pure purple flowers give off a pleasant fragrance that will give any passerby pause. While some like to call this a type of ''rambler rose'', its relative lack of multiple flowers means that it falls under a different floral classification.

The Sumeru rose has vibrant purple rotate flowers with six petals and six sepals. Sometimes used for culinary purposes, these flowers are sensitive to the Ley Lines of Teyvat and glow in their presence. The parallel veins in the leaves are indicative of a monocot.

Viparyas

A flower without seeds.Once the earth remembers, the Viparyas will bloom.

Viparyas flowers are only found in the world of dreams. It appears to have a solitary white trumpet flower with fused petals and four purple sepals. The net-like veins in the leaves are indicative of a dicot.

*I'm only including the made-up flowers and not the ones that have real-world counterparts!

© All rights reserved by miHoYo. Other properties belong to their respective owners.