The 3 SADDEST Backstories in Genshin Impact 

KAEYA’S DAD WENT TO BUY GRAPE JUICE AND NEVER CAME BACK 😭😭😭

Timmie is actually the Saddest, He had to Witness Millions of His Pigeons being Slaughtered by Travelers

Qiqi is I think one of the best backstories for how ironic iand cruel s. Trying to remember a home that is gone already, unable to remember the ones she loved even though they were the reason she obtained the vision and was revived by the Adeptus in the first place

I think Xiao has the saddest backstory, this guy was enslaved, forced to kill innocent ppl and devour their dreams, lost his 4 comrades, and still has to carry this burden, the karma of the evil gods still to this day flow in his body, he still slaughters to this date and suffers for eternity, his life is just suffering

After hearing all the details about Zhonglis backstory i cried when thinking about who "those who share the memory" could be.

The fact there’s theory’s that Guizhong and Zhongli had Romantic feelings for eachother is even sadder, imagine her confessing to him and she just dies and never had the chance too

Xiao's backstory gives me anxiety because he has to face the wrath and hatred of those tormented gods for all eternity.

Childes backstory is pretty sad but ends on a heartwarming note. Falling into the abyss as a young boy, training himself to harness the energy of the abyss in order to survive while losing his innocence. Finally returns home and reunited with his family, hoping to make sure his siblings retain their innocence as much as possible while he works in secret as a harbinger, being ordered to partake in horrible tasks he is clearly not proud of. Hiding the truth of his actions from his family

Archons have a pretty depressing backstory in general, i wonder if this will apply to every archon i think the Hydro and Cryo archons might have a sad backstory to idk Venti: Lost his friend so he turns into his friend Zhongli: Lost multiple friends and lives with the memories of them ( i always think of Guizhong as Zhonglis lover) Beelzebul: Losing her twin sister during the war against khaneriah Edit: 1k likes man this is the most likes i've ever gotten it makes me feel precious

4 months later, Shenhe: *Allow me to introduce myself*

I feel like Rosaria should be on this list. if you didn't know her backstory in a nutshell is basically her entire village was slaughtered by bandits and they made her work as their slave . as a child she had to kill the person who kidnapped her and then she was accepted into the bandits. Fast forward a couple years and the Knights of Favonius kill the bandits and force her to become a nun at the church.

Bruh, it's crazy how Barbatos/Venti is connected to Xiao

The saddest backstory is my pulling history, I'm sure everyone agrees.

Kaeya and Dilucs backstory has always been one of interest to me, both in the emotions in it and also the translation part. There are about 4 slight variations of Crepus' death: One immediately to Ursa, one to the delusion, one in Diluc's arms and one from Diluc's arms out of pity. I'm glad you made the point that they still clearly care for each other as it's a detail not many notice, like one neat little detail is that in the Chinese translation both character's favourite animals are owls. This was retranslated in one version of Genshin but then changed back to Kaeyas being a nightingale for some reason (as far as I know it hasn't been changed back again). I think it's the bittersweetness of their lore that makes it so interesting to read into, as well as seeing differences between translations and trying to come to an overall general conclusion (there are also cultural barriers such as Sworn brothers in Chinese whereas brothers in English, the best way I can describe sworn brothers is like 2 friends sworn to an oath I guess?), Very interesting video by the way I enjoyed it!

now I kinda don't wanna use Xiao in battle

i think collei has one of the saddest backstories as well just thinking that her mother was seeking help just to be killed and she had already lost her father. collei became a labrat to the fatui and the amount of pain she suffered each day from their experiments with her. they literally put a bloodthirsty archon inside of her which she now has to deal with their voices each day and reframe from harming anyone as that is not what she wishes to do.

Guizhong: So what did you do with my wisdom? Zhongli: Uhmm........ Xiao: He crushed souls Guizhong: I-

the saddest backstory is noelle, she not even in the story

Xiao's (General Alatus) backstory is a million times sadder now with the Perilous Trials quest :'(

Guizhong: Compassionate, kind-hearted god who wants peace Guizhong’s bell: Contains the gentle god’s wisdom What Zhongli did with Guizzhong’s dumbbell: *screams of hilichurls intensifies*

There are alot of sad story like qiqi and hu tao but i would agree about this 3 backstories especially zhongli and guizhong Also awesome video keep it up

I am very, very late but Xiao and Zhongli.. really, I can relate to some parts of their stories and at the same time I can't imagine how it's like to be completely in their shoes. To be devoured by hate, yet to have a contract to protect. To love and to care for something(s), never knowing how far should that love go, and then losing many precious friends. My two precious babies ;;

"Ahh osmathus wine taste the same as i remember but were are the people to share the memories." keep your friends dear even the worst ones keep that to heart

I had goosebumps when you were telling Xiao's backstory.

"the three saddest backstories in genshin impact" 1. every archon ever 2. adeptSUS 3. kaeya and diluc 4. qiqi 5. lumine 6. aether 7. eula 8. kazuha 9. bennett 10. diona 11. shenhe 12. scarymustache 13. tartarsauce 14. ashes 15. probably every harbinger 16. who? tao yeah 17. bullchucker itto 18. every npc with large screentime 19. rosaria 20. me

canon thing: Venti had started playing the fleet in homage to xiao, but he continued to play it every night because he saw that this melody soothed xiao and vanished his pain . (it's not about the ship! just about their sweet friendship)

If you think about it the archons have kinda similar backstories they all lost the people they loved

The fact there might be two yakshas left Xiao being one and the other one that got corrupted

xiaos always gets me in the heart-

hu Taos story really hurts. Everyone is always despising her and she had to plan her grandfathers funeral..

If you think about it venti is traumatized by celestia and the battle against decarabian that's why he most of the time he's drinking alcohol to forget and be happy for a little moment

At Liyue, There is an NPC called “Childish Jiang” and basically when he was a kid he played Hide and Seek with his mom, He waited for years, and she never came back. Little did he know his mom already died and he couldn’t read her gravestone because he didn’t learn how to read yet.

Xiao’s makes sense, a voice line he has is, those memories, so dark. I can see how his memories are dark

The most Saddest part is for ARCHON Aswell venti and zhongli knew this that erosion soon will engulf them Aswell for ei/raiden shogun as she will learn a lesosn about this erossion For those character who obtain Immorality they will face this Everyone from the past will be begone replaced by new one And soon will be begone As they see them and around them changed for them leaving like that is already cruelle

Kaeya and diluc's lore is and will always be my favorite but the rest are also so interesting

im a xiao main and everytime he says his idle line "the memories... so dark" it just reminds me of his past

For everyone's information, Guizhong and Zhongli were not lovers, it's just people shipping them together, a cute head canon, but kinda misleading how people straight up try to pass it off as canon when in reality nothing of the sort was ever confirmed. Apart from that, I agree, the genshin characters' have pretty fucked up backstories.

I love it how zhongli just bonks the enemies with guizhong's wisdom

A bunch of sad stories in genshin that I think are worth mentioning: Dainslief. Watched as everyone he cared about died, and saw his people turn into hilicurls. He also lives with corruption- which is partly why he’s been able to live for 500 years, but is also a constant reminder of his suffering. Baal -lost her twin during the archon war Aether/Lumine: Aether discovers that his sibling is in control of the abyss order. Bosacius: The karmic debt made him lose is memories. Only when he was at his deathbed did he remember his adeptus family. Shenhe: Was left for dead after her mothers death, as was later taken in by the cloud retainer.

I think people underestimate how tragic Eula is. Everyday she is literally discriminated, she is thought of as a failure by her family and everyone else hates her. It's basically hell on Earth for her. She developed her signature catch phrase as a sort of "coping" mechanism that grandmaster Varka taught her

Wait…. So yout telling me… that’s not a meteor… but Guizhong’s dumbell….damn

Wow kaeya’s backstory brings a whole new meaning to the “ he just went to the store and never came back” joke

Shenhe story is really sad. I understand that it was posted before shenhe was released but her story is sad too!

Doesn’t venti have a sad backstory he was in a war and lost someone precious to him

The bird call/singing (sad and terrifying) you hear at nighttime on top of Liyue mountains is xiao's bird form calling out for his buddies. If you want to listen, you can google. That's utterly heartbreaking.

"despite hating eachother.." i don't think kaeya hates him tho he really does care about him

Is it just me or did I see a genshin impact ad before watching this vid ;-;

Genshin: sees 1 dark story *cries* Honkai players: *first time?*

Xiao's story is my favourite of all ,i have been a simp of him after learning about his back story .i just want to give him a hug!!

it's still a wonder to me how Barbatos survived the archon war... i can't imagine venti fighting with sweet and blood

One of the saddest/most interesting to me is Tartaglia’s one

This video makes me remember a skit about people trying really hard to make their backstory sadder than anyone😂

The one with the grape juice is like When your dad go’s to get milk and never comes back

In case you were wondering, the Kaeya and Diluc backstory doesn't just come from their character stories, but the manga.

Oh come on.. we all know that the character with the saddest story was Timmy

Most ppl think immortality or having a long long time to live is a gift u have time enough to do anything to learn anything to go anywhere and... But they don't know it's just a curse at the end 1 year or 1000 year u finally reach the point that anything not enjoyable u saw everyone u love or hate die so many time, ppl kill eachother, city's destroyed. Its so bad that any word can't describe.

“osmanthus wine tastes the same as i remember, but where are those who shares the memory?” yknow i would make a joke about that but now finding out about your backstory i wont say anything

in Xiao's backstory way back then while he was enslaved by the god he used to have wings but they pulled his wings off for some reason? blood came out and also the reason for his short height due to being starved almost to death which is also the reason for his line saying "Once the snow is thick enough we can eat it" there's a saying that people in poverty eat snow due to starvation so when snow comes down from ceiling he has to eat it since its his only food source and due to being prisoned underground he developed a fear of being in the dark

The one where Kaeya’s dad left to get grape juice but never came back is just like how your father would leave and never come back with the milk …

Ursa the Drake didn’t come out of nowhere. On the wagon Diluc was riding on, there was a small Fati device that had been attached to the back of it. It attracts monsters such as the Drake to come. So basically, Diluc’s father died because of the Fatui.

Damn now I can see why so many people love this game and it's characters.

Raiden Ei will be the saddest backstory she lost 3 friends and Raiden Makoto her sister. She ruled Inazuma alone. She keep trying to make her dream eternity comes true by her self. She do many things for Inazuma alone. Her past is really hard.

Genshin: Guizhong and zhongli are incredibly close He even uses her dumbell as his weapon They share a relationship like nothing else ( and some more emotional stuff) Fandom : aH yEs ChiLdE aND zhOng Li hEhE bEsT sHiP

Poor xiao or any of these characters, they didn’t deserve it.

i think that signora's lines when fighting her sounded really depressing "Immolation... a cherished agony... do you feel it?" immolation is to kill with fire and if she felt it herself that kinda implied she burned herself "I never asked for redemption... never..." much sad idk if she has a confirmed backstory or not but it's just worth pointing out

"Asmanthus wine" hits different at the end

holy shit, Zhongli's story actually made me tear up a bit

Just imagine how much suffering Zhongli suffered in 6,000 whole years...

how the tf isn't raiden in this list she lost everything that was dear to her according to her past her story is the most saddening... raiden is just alone she just sits in her realm and just stays there she lost everything sister, friends and just tries to go for eternity so that she does not have to feel that pain again and does not have to loose anyone else dear to her T_T

4:06 Venti in the background: 👁👄👁

I love how Diluc and Kaeya back Stories is on how tragic it was And how have much relationship between the two

This video gave me chills...

0:14 i love how Timmie helped out with the video by dressing as Kaeya

The saddest backstory is Aloy

To me Xiao, Eula, the 3 archoms we currently know, Tartaglia/Childe, and Qiqi's backstories are really sad.

"I WILL HAVE ORDER" *dead friend's brain falls from sky*

The family who loved you and supported you is your true family. I speak with *experience*

I look at the title, I see sad in the title, I watch, I cry 😔

I feel like what Mihoyo needs to do is like, make the dendro archon or some sort of ancient dendro character have a backstory where they were trapped in thorns for a few hundred years or sumn Idk just sounds like a cool archon backstory or sumn to me

These Fours, qiqis and Shenhe's back stories are heartbreaking. SLR they make so sad back stories to the characters

Zhongli will make us cry oneday... When the story of guizhog is released... Woulds heal, pain softens... But losing your soulmate thats on a totally different level... It changes a man into an entirely new being...

Venti in the background of the conversation like: 👁👄👁

Does that mean zhongli beats people up with his friends wisdom dumbell 🤨

Zhongli will remain,crying in teyvat.

Kaeya's dad is still looking for the grape jucie

Gym bro: do you even lift bro? Zhongli: yes, the crushing weight of all my friends dying

I thought kaeya or smt was left at Starbucks, thank you for proving me otherwise

The god that enslaved Xiao also starved him, so he was forced to eat snow, hence the line “Once the snow is thick enough, we can eat it”

Poor Morax . He couldn't open it after smashing it on rocks for millennia

The hotter you are, the sadder your backstory is.

Kaeya and diluc make me so sad. It's always the siblings that get me the most

In my opinion Venti has one of the saddest backstorys cause hey his friend died no big deal almost everyone in genshin impact lost someone but the fact that he took the form of his friend, helps someone that went through the same thing(this is part of the venti quest) and yet he still smiles unlike most of the characters in game that lost someone

But Xiao was rlly sad I'm glad ppl began to know Chinese ppl more. Back in the days there was rlly know food so they would eat snow. Genghis Khan did that to if I'm. Not is taken when he was younger

i cant never think about zhongli or the "oshmantus vine tastes the same as I remember" voicelins the same agian

Some say Keays dad is still looking for grape juice

“and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.”

The bgm really suited zhonglis story :)

xiao also calls his yakshas long dead friends which breaks my heart as a xiao main

I always will feel bad for diluc , ITS jest very sad for me to SE your father dying in your arms 😭😭😭😭😢

I feel like these characters are always misunderstood. People always say they're "emo" or whatever. Imagine someone calling you emo because your father died/left, or your friends all died, or you had to be sacrificed to save someones life forcefully. I know they're just characters, but the things y'all say is fucked up.