Xiao

**Xiao** is a featured article, which means it has been identified as one of the best articles produced by Asia's community. If you see a way this page can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute.

## (*also:* Alatus)

### Alias

General Alatus
Conqueror of Demons
The Vigilant Yaksha
Guardian Yaksha
Nuo Dancer of Evil Conquering
Alatus, the Golden-Winged King

## Profile

### Age

2000+ (Physically)
15 (Appearance)

## Voice Actors

### Other VA's

Kinsen (Chinese)
Shim Gyu-hyuk (Korean)

**Xiao** (魈 (しょう) , *Shou*), (Chinese: 魈, Xiāo), is the only surviving Yaksha, residing in Liyue, protecting its citizens from any source of evil that may threaten them. He is an Adeptus.

## Description

### Appearance

Xiao is a young man with dark medium-length hair with teal undertones, pale skin, golden irises with avian pupils, and red eyeshadow. Xiao also has a purple diamond marking on his forehead and a green tattoo around his right arm. Whitley describes him to be beautiful, implying he is very attractive.

He wears a white white sleeveless with cloud patter with lift side of cover. He wear high black collar with goldened accents on the necklace around his neck. He wears a black and dark turquoise glove with around his arm, and even including the red string. He wears baggy dark purple pants, and purple boots overtop. And even a dark green yaksha mask only appear in the face.

### Personality

Xiao is a yaksha who has fought in the Archon War and holds a high level of seniority among adepti. He has a reserved demeanor and has little intention of getting close to mortals. He does not want sympathy for his past and believes his fellow Yakshas would also find it insulting.

He is immensely grateful to Morax for saving him, dedicating his life to protecting Liyue as payment. He does not take lightly to those who speak ill of the Geo Archon regardless of whoever they are. Despite suffering from constant karmic debt, Xiao is highly resilient towards its alluring corruption, as his fellow yaksha have either succumbed or died to it. Due to this debt, he prefers being alone and rarely involves himself in mortal affairs; in the few times he does have to, he asks they get to the point for their own sake.

Xiao is unfamiliar with many human customs and societal norms, often finding them strange, childish, or pointless. To others, he can come off as distant and intimidating. After meeting Aether, he becomes slightly more relaxed, willing to learn customs and visit Liyue Harbor with them for their sake despite his reservations with mortal life. He is also revealed to be a strict yet effective teacher when acting as a mentor figure for Ganyu, but he believes that as a soul-slaughtering yaksha, he is not a suitable teacher for her.

Unlike most of the adepti, Xiao is not particularly fond of most human foods, although he makes exceptions to Almond Tofu and later Grilled Tiger Fish, the former reminding him of the dreams he used to consume and the latter to honor Pervases' memory.

## Etymology

* The name Xiao (Chinese: 魈 *Xiāo*) means "demon" and more specifically refers to a single-legged, mountain-dwelling demon.
* Xiao's Yaksha name, Alatus, is Latin for "winged."

## Trivia

* He apparently doesn't require sleep.
* The reason his favorite food is Almond Tofu is because it reminds him of the texture of the dreams he would consume while a slave of the unnamed God, and his love for the dreams' taste in spite of his hatred of having to consume them after killing the people they originated from under said God's orders.