Lately, an internet occasion for Alhaitham’s launch made gamers match books from his studying checklist to its associated ‘Darshan.’ The Darshans are the faculties of the Genshin Affect Sumeru Akademiya, analogous to programs in faculty. You too can consider it like the homes in Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, however with an extra two and fewer hate and rivalry between them. College students might have antagonistic relationships with college students of one other Darshan. Nevertheless, that won’t replicate the sentiments of the entire faculty of studying itself.
It may be difficult to get all of them straight, so here’s a information and outline of every Darshan. We’ll additionally checklist some notable characters that belong in every.
Amurta – Biology (Inexperienced)
Because the research of life, college students concern themselves with biology, ecology, and drugs. It’s the first Darshan to be established, originating from Higher Lord Rukkhadevata’s helpers in cultivating the rainforest. Amurta stays probably the most distinguished Darshan in present occasions.
They’ve a constructing devoted to their research referred to as the Pardis Dhyai, ‘the backyard of meditation.’ It’s full of greenhouses and vegetation and is the placement of many seminars held by the Darshan. Although Tighnari has left the Akademiya to grow to be a Forest Ranger, he nonetheless speaks about caring for the rainforest in Pardis Dhyai. The Birmastan, as a hospital within the metropolis, can be associated to the Amurta.
Notable Amurta Characters:
- Tighnari
- Khedive (Chasm exploration NPC)
- Khayyam (Aranara questline NPC)
Haravatat – Semiotics (Black)
This Darshan is anxious with the research of historical languages. It places them in a battle of method with Vahumana students, because the latter is targeted on historical past. The opposite faculty thinks their system is simply too slender and particular, whereas Haravatat college students assume they’re being too generalist. Since this faculty is among the smallest, you hardly see college students from this Darshan.
Notable Haravatat Characters:
- Alhaitham
- Faruzan
- Yavanani (frequent apple requester in Sumeru’s Bounty Board)
Kshahrewar – Know-how (White)
In our world, engineers and designers are among the many most respectable jobs. For a very long time, it was so in Teyvat. Kshahrewar students considerably improved the dwelling high quality of Sumeru’s folks. They had been those to create the one-story versatile buildings you possibly can see all through the town. Plus, the nation’s textile trade boomed by their analysis into creating looms.
Pir Kavikavus, a famend Kshahrewar researcher, pioneered many applied sciences. Sadly, whereas researching the Spoil Golem in Devantaka Mountain, an accident occurred and all his analysis was misplaced. Issues had been by no means the identical for the Darshan afterward. Strict management for equipment and expertise was carried out, severely limiting the analysis areas of students.
In consequence, they grew to become underfunded because of the want for extra analysis subjects they may produce. That created a vicious cycle the place they couldn’t analysis new issues with out funds. Nevertheless, they don’t have funds as a result of they couldn’t do analysis.
Their saving grace is the service provider Dori, who funded the development of the Palace of Alcazararay. She would additionally favor to work with Kshahrewar students, discovering them extra affordable than the opposite faculties.
Notable Ksharewar Characters:
- Kaveh
- Moseis/Beynuni (Nahida Story Quest unique character)
- Jazari (Aranara questline NPC)
Rtawahist – Astrology/Illuminationism (Blue)
If Mona had ever grow to be a Sumeru pupil, she’d be on this Darshan. Rtawahist students research the celebs and celestial our bodies, attempting to see reality and future by the skies. Astrology and astronomy are a part of what they be taught, although additionally they enable different fortune-telling strategies.
Notable Rtawahist Characters:
- Layla
- Haypasia (Archon Quest vital NPC)
- Azar (former Grand Sage of the Akademiya)
Spantamad – Elementalism (Crimson)
From a participant’s viewpoint, this could be probably the most attention-grabbing Darshan. Spantamad students concern themselves with the weather, alchemy, the Ley Traces, and Irminsul. As a result of nature of their subjects, it’s the Darshan with probably the most Driyosh, college students who’re out doing fieldwork.
Notable Spantamad Characters:
- Lisa
- Cyno (implied)
- Hosseini (recurring occasion NPC)
Vahumana – Etiology (Yellow)
The Vahumana might be described as lore keepers or historians. They research the causation of occasions, searching for to generalize historical past to get perception into the current. Different social sciences additionally fall into their class of research, corresponding to economics and a little bit of psychology.
Their analysis takes them to discover ruins, innovate meals preservation, and even stop overfishing.
Notable Vahumana Characters:
- Aqaba (Archon Quest unique NPC)
- Kalantari (World Quest’ Outdated Notes and New Pals’ unique NPC)
- Tirzad (World Quest’ Golden Slumber’ unique NPC)
The Matra and Mahamata
Although not a part of the six Darshans, they deserve point out because the disciplinary drive of the Akademiya. They’re feared by the scholars, as they punish these caught plagiarizing or utilizing funds for non-Akademiya-related issues. The Mahamata handles administrative duties and searches for unlawful sources of Canned Data and, presumably, smuggled books. In addition they managed the dissemination of knowledge to the general public by the now-defunct Akasha System.
The Matra investigates all analysis and decides whether or not to ban a specific matter that might result in an instructional ‘sin.’ There are six sins students should not do:
- Interfering with human evolution
- Tampering with life and demise
- Delving past the universe
- Investigating the origin of phrases
- Revering gods with out acts of devotion
- Divulging secrets and techniques with no trace of concern
Any scholar, researcher, or pupil caught taking part in these sins faces punishment heavier than different offenses incur. Regardless of a excessive place or good popularity, transgressors face imprisonment or expulsion from the Akademiya.
Whereas Matra doesn’t have strict necessities to grow to be one, the Mahamata are explicitly Akademiya graduates. An instance is Cyno, who studied beneath the identical mentor as Lisa, establishing his place as a former pupil. Nevertheless, a message on one of many numerous boards criticizes Cyno for not having a popularity as a famed researcher.
Notable Matra:
- Cyno (as Normal Mahamatra)
- Alhaitham (the Scribe, a part of the Mahamata; the Performing Grand Sage as of three.4)
- Afratu (World Quest’ Afratu’s Dilemma’ unique NPC)
- Shohre (Matra stationed on the Home of Daena)
Attention-grabbing Trivia and Lore
Every Darshan is headed by a Nice Sage, whereas the Grand Sage leads the entire group. There’s a fierce battle among the many Sages concerning the succession of the latter place. Nonetheless, the small print of the method aren’t talked about. They type a council that oversees the administration of the Akasha System and the governance of the entire nation.
After the occasions of the Archon Quest, the council is stripped naked as the bulk colluded with the plan to make a brand new god. Alhaitham was supplied the place of Grand Sage, however he turned it down. Nonetheless, he ended up with the job, briefly.
In-game, while you see a pupil, their hat denotes which Darshan they’re from. A round portion of the clothes would bear the varsity’s emblem, and a woven thread has the colour. Nevertheless, there are extra NPC college students with no hat than with one. Sages have a distinct uniform that doesn’t have an identical figuring out mark.
Cyno’s voice line about Lisa explicitly states that he studied beneath the identical mentor as her. This assumes that he was a part of the Spantamad as a pupil. Nevertheless, there may very well be interdisciplinary students who might mentor college students from totally different Darshans, which nonetheless offers uncertainty to Cyno’s former Darshan.
Regardless of being in Haravatat, Faruzan leans towards Kshahrewar in curiosity. She grew to become trapped within the time bubble attributable to wanting to unravel a puzzle, one thing that’s within the realm of the latter Darshan. Many Kshahrewar students ask her for assist and typically even ask her to switch faculties. Nonetheless, she insists on staying in Haravatat.
Alhaitham and Kaveh are a pair of Haravatat and Kshahrewar roommates with contrasting personalities. The previous thinks when it comes to logic and rationality, whereas the opposite places extra significance on feelings and emotions. It’s highlighted additional by their respective shade schemes (black for Alhaitham and white for Kaveh), that are additionally their Darshan colours. Even their accent shade is the alternative within the shade wheel (inexperienced and crimson, respectively)!
As of three.4, there are a number of playable characters from virtually the entire Darshans:
- Tighnari (Amurta)
- Alhaitham and Faruzan (Haravatat)
- Layla (Rtawahist)
- Kaveh (Kshahrewar, implied by his design however no official announcement but)
- Cyno (implied Spantamad)
Solely Vahumana is left if Cyno actually was from Spantamad.
The six Darshans appear to correspond to a sin or make it in order that delving too deep can result in one:
- Interfering with human evolution (Amurta)
- Tampering with life and demise (Kshahrewar)
- Delving past the universe (Rtawahist)
- Investigating the origin of phrases (Haravatat)
- Revering gods with out acts of devotion (Vahumana)
- Divulging secrets and techniques with no trace of concern (Spantamad)
Although human evolution, life, and demise all fall beneath Amurta, tampering with the latter falls beneath Kshahrewar. In spite of everything, in a non-magical world, what would you employ to lengthen your life? Know-how. Alternatively, you possibly can change them, which might nonetheless make sense (physique modification expertise and/or medicines to lengthen life).
By researching the Irminsul, Spantamad students might discover particular info that may trigger panic and widespread havoc. In the event that they don’t have concern in making that public, they’ll trigger unimaginable chaos. Contemplating that its corruption got here from indescribable and incomprehensible information from past, preserving this stuff a secret is prudent.
As for Vahumana, numerous topics about faith fall beneath some social sciences, and that is the varsity that research these. All Akademiya students are fairly rigorous of their analysis, and it may be simple for spiritual rituals to fall by the wayside. The others have extra obvious connections (Rtawahist and what’s past the sky, Haravatat and the origin of language).
Whereas there’s correspondence, that doesn’t signify causality. Which means college students from any Darshan are at all times in peril of committing any of those sins. They’re simply extra more likely to do yet another than the others.
Apparently, with the reveal that Katheryne is a bionic puppet, somebody had already succeeded in making a mechanical life type. Then once more, it was performed outdoors the Akademiya borders, making the principles moot. Nonetheless, Katheryne isn’t alive within the truest sense of the phrase, simply doing what she’s programmed to do. Her life (or lack thereof) is a dialogue for a distinct article.
That’s all for the Darshans of the Akademiya. Hope you realized one thing and that this made it simpler to determine and acknowledge them. Proceed having enjoyable enjoying Genshin Affect!