Nahida/Lore

==Personality==
When the Traveler and Paimon first encountered Nahida during the Sabzeruz Festival samsara, she was an elusive and secretive figure. Until then, she had chosen to leave the city's governance to the sages, but decided to intervene when they stepped out of line. Her self-esteem was significantly negatively affected due to the way the sages treated her. However, after the sages' downfall and the cleansing of Irminsul, many of these negative traits diminished or disappeared. Now, she openly roams the city in her free time, engaging with her people and exhibiting a much more cheerful outlook on herself.
Despite her earlier struggles, Nahida rarely expressed her sadness when speaking to others. She consistently maintains a gentle and kind demeanor and treats everyone as equals. However, she acknowledges that her social skills and understanding of human interaction need improvement, which is evident in her slightly eccentric speech and behavior. She has a fondness for analogies and often uses them to explain concepts to others. She believes in guiding people to discover answers on their own, especially regarding complex truths, rather than simply providing the answers. This tendency leads her to incorporate a mix of analogies and subtle clues into her conversations to steer people into reaching the conclusions she hopes they would.
As the God of Wisdom, Nahida's most prominent qualities are her exceptional intelligence, extensive knowledge, and strategic planning. She is capable of devising thorough, multi-layered plans and can even be somewhat manipulative when necessary, as demonstrated during her dealings with Dottore. Perhaps most notably, Nahida excels at discerning when her intelligence is required and when kindness is needed—or when both are appropriate.
==Appearance==
Nahida uses the short female model. She has fair skin, pointed ears, large green eyes, and white hair with -green tips that glow when she uses her Elemental Skill or her Elemental Burst.
==Official Introduction==
Lesser Lord Kusanali dwelt deep in the Sanctuary of Surasthana. She had never really been in the limelight, nor had she even been mentioned much.
Always learning something new, she constantly strove to become a worthy archon who could guide her people as soon as possible.
If the threat of forbidden knowledge were not pressing so near, would she not desire to take a short break and see Sumeru and those who live in it with her own eyes?
As things stood, she could only see the myriad, vibrant sights the world had to offer in dreams.
Within the meditative silence of her soul, she made companions of the sunlight and the breeze, struck up friendships with humans and animals, told stories, played, and sang songs she had only just learned...
She poured the loveliest of yearnings into her dreamscape, but no matter how bustling the nights, when day came, all things about her would return to silence once more.
She gradually arose. Even through her sleepiness, solitude struck like an icy tide, causing her to hug her shoulders tightly.
—That which fully awakened her was an inconspicuous yet abnormal noise that sounded within Akasha.
"Ah. So it was a dream within a dream..."
==Character Stories==
Several of Nahida's Character Stories change after completing the Archon Quest Where the Boat of Consciousness Lies. See the Altered Character Stories section for the alternate versions.
==Altered Character Stories==
After completing the Archon Quest Where the Boat of Consciousness Lies, some of Nahida's Character Stories are altered to the following versions.
==Namecard==
==Constellation==
==Quests and Events==
==Character Trials==
==Character Mentions==
==Trivia==
* Nahida is the first Archon to utilize the short character model.
* Nahida is one of the characters with ornaments that glow. 
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* Nahida and Zhongli are the first characters who have multiple versions of their Character Stories.
* The light source and shading of Nahida's Wish Art differs from that of her Card.
* Nahida shares the same Chinese voice actress, Hualing, and the same Japanese voice actress, Tamura Yukari, with Theresa Apocalypse from the Honkai series by HoYoverse, and her Japanese voice actress with the ELF Blood Embrace from ; all three characters share a similar small appearance with white hair. Nahida and Theresa Apocalypse also share multiple parallels and similarities.
** Nahida's color scheme is similar to the color palette of Theresa's event outfit Verdant Sky.
** Both Nahida and Theresa are leaders of an academic institution, with Nahida being in charge of the Akademiya, and Theresa being the founder and principal of St. Freya Highschool.
** They both are also smaller incarnations of a previous deceased figure, with Nahida being a reincarnation of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, and Theresa being a genetic clone of Kallen Kaslana.
* Nahida shares her Chinese voice actress with Klee.
* Nahida shares her Japanese voice actress with Qiqi.
* Nahida's Character Teaser, "Nahida: Happy Birthday", released on her actual birthday, October 27.
* In her Character Teaser, a portion of the video is subtitled in the Sumeru Script. These lines say:
::The flower carriage rocked. Nahida opened her eyes.Said she just dreamed a dream.Dreamed of the day that she was born.Dreamed of the day that the sages found her.Alas, but where had Lord Rukkhadevata gone to? eager to meet her once again.Realizing the Lord had perished, around her they gathered. To tears, they were dashed.In the end, Nahida was locked in by the devout. In the end, to no one could Nahida reach out.
* Despite being an Archon, Nahida does not have any voice-overs regarding the other playable Archons individually.
* Nahida is the first playable character to openly cry on-screen, during the cutscene within the act Where the Boat of Consciousness Lies.
===Etymology===
* "Nahida" is likely based on , a Middle Persian variant spelling of , a Zoroastrian goddess. Anahita is the goddess of "the Waters" () and is associated with fertility, healing, and wisdom.
** In-game, both "Anahitian" and "Nahidad" are terms affiliated with the Dendro Archon(s), although the terms have only been used generically and have not been ascribed to refer to a specific Dendro Archon.
*** Anahitian Blessing is described as the Dendro Archon's blessing.
*** In Sohreh's Note, the eponymous Sohreh decides to name a new species of micro-scarab "Nahidad Scarabs," and proceeds to explain that the name means "The Dendro Archon's Boon."
** In the Persian epic by , Nahid is the mother of .
* "Nahida" is also the name used for a .
==Notes==
==Other Languages==
===Character Title: Physic of Purity===
==References==
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