Venti/Lore

==Personality==
Venti has a somewhat recalcitrant, carefree, and playful attitude as well as a liking to rhyming in his speech. He sees a particular worth in music to the point where he names his lyre, saying, "every being deserves a name to be called upon, and woven into a song." He is also bold, not fearing to insult or ignore those who are supposedly powerful. In the game, he responds to Paimon's comments and nicknaming by parroting her.
Venti enjoys roaming around Mondstadt playing songs to his people, most of whom are unaware of his true identity as Barbatos. He is very well-liked due to his musical talent, having won the title "Most Popular Bard of Mondstadt" three times. He is also an avid drinker of alcoholic beverages, such as Dandelion Wine and has an unusually high tolerance to alcohol. He is also fine with apple cider. To his disdain, the form he takes causes most bartenders to see him as a minor.
Being a god who is generally absent for prolonged periods of time, Venti has no personal finances; he often resorts to pilfering from the Dawn Winery for food and shamelessly has people listening to his songs buy him drinks in lieu of a payment. For reasons unknown, he is deathly allergic to cats and will not perform unless he is certain none are nearby.
He also enjoys apples, considering them to be the fruit of the gods, jokingly stating that he would refuse to go to Celestia even if he was invited because their apples are bland and the water foul, which would make bad cider. He dislikes items that are sticky and slimy, such as cheese.
Despite his normally playful personality as the bard Venti, he speaks wisely and somewhat philosophically whenever he assumes his true identity due to the many experiences he had being one of the original members of The Seven. Compared to Zhongli, the mortal vessel of Morax, Venti does not mind revealing his identity and using his powers for various tasks.
For all his cheer and wisdom, Venti hides a lonely soul who, even millennia later, continues to feel strongly about the loss of the Bard whose form he imitates and even compares himself to "Stanley" for he too assumed the appearance of his deceased friend, and tells the Traveler that it is in the most innoccous moments are those in which he suddenly is hit by his grief.
Venti also confesses to finding the Traveler's ability to discern what he's thinking as discomforting, but admits that he appreciates having a true friend, similar to how he views the Bard.
==Appearance==
Venti uses the medium male model. He has fair skin, aqua green eyes, and short black-ish blue hair with short twin braids at the sides of his face that fade into aqua blue. The tips glow in -aqua color when he uses his Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst.
His form is modeled after the Nameless Bard, a friend who perished in the rebellion to liberate Decarabian's Mondstadt from Decarabian's rule 2600 years ago. In addition to using this form as an ordinary Mondstadter, he also uses it when appearing as an Archon, as seen in his Statues of The Seven, the Anemo Archon Statue in front of the Favonius Cathedral, and the manga.
The "Vision" on his hip behaves like other characters' Visions in most gameplay; however, in reality, it is only "a glass ball [he carries] around to avoid suspicion," and there are a select few gameplay mechanics that reflect this. His Vision can also be seen turning into "Der Frühling," a wooden lyre with Cecilias and blue strings imbued with the power of Anemo.
==Official Introduction==
▌Singer of Skyward Sonnets · Venti
A bard as free as the wind, now residing in the city of dandelions.
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"I sing to you now of the beauty of all things, seasons come and seasons go, yet the four winds keep their wings.
Though the credit is mine, for from my lyre rings, A story that would run cold, were it not for my strings!"
—Venti's singing, from when he becomes inebriated.
==Character Stories==
==Namecard==
==Constellation==
==Quests and Events==
==Character Trials==
==Character Mentions==
==Other Appearances==
===Manga===
Venti appears in the manga's prologue chapter, Songs of the Wind. He awakens shortly before Ludi Harpastum and finds that Mondstadt has greatly changed from the last time he was present. He befriends Vennessa as Venti, and he reveals himself as Barbatos when Vennessa is sent to fight Ursa the Drake, chasing off the beast before confronting the corrupt Lawrence Clan. Towards the end of the chapter, he can be seen accompanied by Aether.
==Mail==
==Trivia==
* Venti is one of the characters with ornaments that glow. 
* Prior to completing Act III of the Prologue Chapter, his profile lists him as "Vision: Anemo". After completing the chapter, the entry is changed to "Gnosis: Anemo".
* Venti took on the Nameless Bard's form (which remains his current appearance) after gaining his Archon powers.
** Due to residing in a vessel manifested through his Archon powers, Venti has a large amount of alcohol tolerance; he drinks at least 37 glasses of wine to no ill effect. However, it didn't prevent him from being allergic to cats. It is unknown whether this is particular to Venti's chosen vessel or not.
** Bows being Venti's weapon of choice may be in memory of Amos, Decarabian's former lover who later sided with the Nameless Bard during the rebellion. The Boy and the Whirlwind implies that she, like the bard, died in the battle.
* While using his Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst, the ends of his braids light up a little.
* During the Unreconciled Stars event and the , Venti's fake Vision does not glow when in close proximity to a meteor fragment or Starsplinter Iron, unlike real Visions.
** However, when Venti's Elemental Burst is ready, the fake Vision will glow exactly like real ones.
* Venti is one of the few currently playable characters who acknowledges (or even seems aware) that the Traveler is from another world, presumably because of his status as an Archon.
* As Venti doesn't mind revealing his true identity as necessary, a large amount of people are aware of who he is despite having no "presence" in his own nation:
** The Traveler learns it when Venti declares it to his disciple Gotelinde, though the nun simply thought that he was lying.
** Jean figured it out herself through her interactions with Venti and had it confirmed during Reunion With the Dragon when Dvalin addressed Venti as Barbatos. Diluc was also present during that scene and thus learned Venti's identity then as well, although from his lack of surprise, it is possible he also figured it out beforehand.
** "Stanley" is somewhat aware of his identity after he asked him to give his friend's soul to him through his Archon powers. He has since forgotten his name due to being drunk but remembers his general appearance.
** Mona may be aware of his identity as Barbatos; after being requested to check on him by the Traveler, upon examining her scryglass, an unusual amount of wind obscured it before starting to tear at her clothes, forcing her to abort as she proclaimed that she wouldn't look into him again.
** Venti's fellow Archons are also aware of his appearance, as he had visited Zhongli on multiple occasions, met with Ei during a gathering of the gods and the Tsaritsa informing Signora and a number of other unknown Fatui about him.
** Xiao is aware that Venti is Barbatos, as he's aware that only a member of The Seven could handle his karmic debt and Barbatos frequently played musical instruments.
* The Steambird's Teyvat Food Notes column, which are blog posts on the Chinese official site with real-life recipes for in-game food items, features Venti in the post for Northern Apple Stew.HoYoverse News: Teyvat Food Notes - Apples are a Poet's Inspiration Also in the post is a recipe for the cocktail Blizzard-Facing God's Apple Cider, which Venti drinks half his glass of as an "appetizer."
* Venti's attire resembles that of Cologne, Germany's Prince of . They wear the same puffy shorts, white tights, short cape and a cap with feathers. Cologne's carnival closely resembles Mondstadt's Ludi Harpastum and Cologne is also dominated by a gothic Cathedral closely resembling Mondstadt's Cathedral.
* Venti bears a striking physical resemblance to Wendy, The Herrscher of Wind in , another one of HoYoverse's games.
* Venti's exchange with Paimon from the State of the Holy Lyre der Himmel of her responding to his "Hehe" with "What do you mean 'hehe'?" has been alluded to twice in the story, thus far. Once during Date's Challenge with Date responding to Paimon with "What do you mean 'hehe'?!", and another as Paimon's response to the Traveler during Eight Locales Over Mountains and Seas: Two Cities' Recommendations.
* Venti is known by these aliases or titles:
** Tone-Deaf Bard (by Paimon)
** Green Fellow
* As of , Venti is the only playable Archon to not have a second Story Quest act, as well as the only Archon to not introduce a Weekly Boss through their Story Quest.
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===Etymology===
* His name comes from the Latin word , meaning "winds." This name was also used by the Romans to refer to a group of Hellenic wind deities (known in Greek as the ) that were associated with the cardinal directions.
* His Archon name, Barbatos, is taken from the eighth demon in the . He is an earl and duke of Hell, ruling thirty legions of demons and has four kings as his companions to command his legions. He can speak to animals, can tell the future, conciliates friends and rulers, and can lead men to treasure hidden by the enchantment of magicians.
* His constellation, , is Latin for "The Song of God."
* Venti's two lyres have German names. One is called Holy Lyre , which is mixed English and German for "Holy Lyre of the Heavens," the other one is called , which is German for "The Spring." The former lyre is kept by the Church of Favonius, the second one is the lyre Venti's fake vision turns into when entering combat, summoning Dvalin, and maybe playing a song.
* Considering Mondstadt is mostly based on Germany, Venti may be inspired by the Latin motto "," meaning "See that the wind of freedom blows," by the German poet-laureate and humanist (1488–1523), with an intention to support the Lutheran Reformation. It was later translated into German as "," meaning "The wind of freedom blows," which became the official motto of .
==Other Languages==
===Character Title: Windborne Bard===
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