Annika

Annika Immunlaukr is a playable Anemo character in *Genshin Impact*

Her talent in cartography is unmatched after spending over 2000 years drawing and studying maps. Her knowledge over the whole landscape of Teyvat would make her the most reliable travel guide, though she is capable of much more than that.

## Appearance

Annika uses the tall model. She has a medium tan complexion; teal eyes and wavy brown hair with half bubble braid pigtails.

#### Default Outfit

An outfit fit for an adventurer, and a gift from a very dear person. After she met her, she finally saw the light and meaning of life. Rather than fighting as a tool to kill, she fought to protect those she cared for. To this day, she always makes sure to change into a different outfit before a battle, as to avoid tainting the teal outfit with murder and revenge.

##### Alternative Outfit

The outfit of a rash and arrogant warrior. Raised as a weapon, her only purpose in life was to fight and kill.

## Official Introduction

Formerly an adventurer and warrior, now an expert cartographer. There is not a single area in Teyvat she hasn't ventured through.

Annika is very dedicated and confident in her art and ability to fight, having spent thousands of years practicing and perfecting her skills.

And though she always perseveres, she often feels like she is missing something, or maybe its something she lost long ago.

Soon, her strong-willed and impulsive attitude may take her too far in her quest to avenge those she lost.

## Character Stories

### **Character Story 1**

The Imunlaukr Clan was made out of strong warriors who fought for the thrill of it but lost their lives young. After the fall of Sal Vindagnyr, Imunlaukr realized that Celestia and the gods saw mortal suffering as entertainment, so he decided to search for fights and war.

Once Decarabian's rule ended and Barbatos became the god of Anemo, the Imunlaukr Clan believed they had found their reason to fight.

Born into the clan during Mondstadt's Early Aristocratic Period, Annika was raised as a warrior at a young age. She spent her years fighting, easily becoming one of their best warriors.

However, she seeked a more interesting life, something she actually felt passionate about.

Growing bored and tired of what she saw as unreasonable fighting for the sake of amusing the gods, on the night before her 18th birthday Annika decided to leave. She deserted the clan and never saw them again.

Having no knowledge of the land beyond her clan, she got lost in the rainy and windy night. There was nothing in sight but a campfire in the distance.

They asked her who she was, and what she was doing all alone in the middle of the night since she looked so young. She told them she would turn 18 in the morning, so she wasn't as little as they thought. They were kind to her, and offered her a tent where she could stay the night.

Annika was the last to wake up in the morning. In front of her was a wolfhook pie, a bouquet of cecilias, and a young blonde woman named Bernadette who smiled brightly at her.

### Character Story 2

After been taken in by the group, Annika had finally found a passion of her own, adventuring.

Being as capable a warrior as ever, Annika helped them explore even the most perilous corners of Teyvat, and with her by her side they always survived. As they went through the world, Annika began to study landscapes and drew maps of every place they had ventured through.

Exploring temples, ruins, and everything simply because- or for some of them, in search of something.

On a windy day, Bernadette asked Annika to follow her.

She took her to a huge field, covered in flowers and butterflies, where they danced.

Annika's feeling of finally having found true friends didn't last long however. As they danced, the sky started to become dark, and a huge light glowed in the distance. Rushing over to investigate, they discover a dragon looming above the plains, and approaching the city of Monstadt.

The team was struggling to fend it off, so Annika stepped in. In a few seconds, she had taken the dragon down. In that moment, another glow appeared from the sky. An Anemo vision fell upon Annika.

She had saved the city, but it had been too late for those she tried to saved. She left her newly earned vision at their graves, seeing as she had no purpose for it.

As she began to walk away, Annika felt a tight embrace. Bernadette wished to go with her, as she had no destination of her own, and so they went.

### Character Story 3

Bernadette had been born under the Lawrence Clan long before they had become tyrannical rulers. She was raised as a proper young lady, but Bernadette seeked a more carefree and adventurous life rather than one of nobility.

She pleaded to her family many times, asking them if she could leave the city for a while to explore, but she was constantly denied and told that a young lady like herself was better off learning etiquette and doing chores. Feeling trapped and confined, she snuck out one night. She was found by the adventure team, and decided to join them. Her cousin, a person with higher status in the Lawrence Clan, was sent to find her, but she refused to return. He had joined the team as well to try and convince her to return.

Now that the adventure team had fallen, and Bernadette still refused to return, he decided there was nothing left he could do. He let her be, and said he would return to her former family and tell them she had died.

Both Annika and Bernadette had rebelled from their clans and ran off to live a new life. Now, they had nowhere to return to, and the only path was forward. As to where they would go, they decided to keep adventuring. Soon after, they came across Old Mondstadt, and so they entered into the tower.

The tower led very deep underground. There, they found another group of people who claimed to have been trapped in there for years, and had failed to find an exit. So then Annika and Bernadette returned to the entrance, only to find that it had been sealed off and they were now trapped there too.

Just as the group had explained, there appeared to be no exit. Hours searching turned into days, then weeks. Though they had no supplies or food, none of them felt hunger or exhaustion.

### Character Story 4

After many weeks of being trapped Annika discovered a clue in the ruins that led her to conclude that the only way for their freedom to be granted, was to make some sacrifices. An engraved stone labeled "Rule of Two" stated that the only way for the path to open was if there was only two people left standing. She felt conflicted, and she didn't want for anyone to have to die.

After some contemplating though, she decided there was no other choice.

Though she cared about these people who had become her friends, Bernadette would always be the most important person to her. It was either her or them, and the choice was obvious. Everyone of them would eventually die one day, so they might as well die now for her and Bernadette's sake. At least they would die honorably. Annika kept thinking that to try and "justify" her plans to herself.

After killing the first person, Annika sat in the corner shaking about what she had just done. She had killed many in her life during bloody battles, but never had she killed an innocent person. She remembered her friends who she failed to save from the dragon, and now she was the one killing her friends off before they had the chance to die themselves.

Her guilt soon turned into fear that she would be caught by the rest of them. She quickly hurried to track down the other members of the group. After Annika was finished, she found Bernadette, who was unknowing of the others' fates. She was already waiting to tell Annika about an entrance she had just found. Pretending to be surprised, Annika told her to go ahead and said her she would be right behind her.

As they entered in, Bernadette excitedly ran over to the center of the room, while Annika stood at the entrance distracted, thinking about everything that she had done to lead up in this moment.

In a moment, Bernadette suddenly ran towards Annika. The first thing Annika saw as she snapped out of her thoughts was Bernadette shielding her, with a spear stabbed right through her.

Her body was cold and frail. Once Annika placed her down on the ground, she looked up.

In that moment she noticed she had missed one. The one who had claimed to return to the Lawrence Clan, standing right before her.

He plead his innocence, claiming he didn't kill her and that he was just as confused as Annika. Like many years ago, another light fell upon Annika as she held Bernadette close to her. Another vision.

As he mocked Annika's misfortune and stubbornness, she used this newfound power of hers to slash his throat.

### Character Story 5

Now that Bernadette was gone, Annika saw no purpose in her life. Everything she had sacrificed, it had all ended up being for nothing. She pulled out her knife and pushed it into her chest, and the world became blurry.

She woke up. Remembering where she was, she sat up and looked were the knife had been.

The wound was gone, and there was no sign of any bleeding or stab. Frustrated and confused, she pulled out the knife and tried over and over again.

But nothing happened.

Though the knife injured her and caused her excruciating pain, nothing was happening. After a few minutes, Annika came to a realization.

Forever trapped at the age of 18, and unable to end her life, the truth was clear to her now. It meant that even if Annika had been stabbed by the spear, she wouldn't have died. If only she had discover this curse upon her sooner, the selfless Bernadette would still be alive.

Sitting there, she remembered her clan and her team, and their meaningless deaths. And now, the gods laughed at her for having sacrificed everything, and then losing everything at the very end.

Maybe for a "human" like her, it wasn't possible, but Annika made it her goal to get revenge on Celestia and the gods. But the only one with the highest chance of being able to fight or kill a god, is another god.

She finally made her decision: Mondstadt's former god, the God of Storms. Though he had died centuries ago, his power still remained in Mondstadt under Stormterror's lair, where Annika had once lost her. Along with that power and the knowledge of its exact position in the sky, maybe one could summon a storm strong enough to knock Celestia of its throne.

Annika knew that it was very unlikely for her plan to succeed. She hoped however, that simply by attempting an attack on Celestia, the gods would become infuriated and would execute her as a punishment for defying their authority. Maybe it was the only way possible for her to die, and to finally be free.

She left a bouquet of cecilias for Bernadette- the flower she had given her on the day they first met, and walked off to begin her research on this land.