Lesser Lord Kusanali

> Hardened by war, she has ruled Sumuru with a looser grip than any of her two predecessors but underneath her false kindness, dwells a soul simply thirsting for revenge against Celestia. Despite her young appearance, she is actually much older than five hundred years, as is believed by the rest of the current Seven. She is one of the oldest members of the current Seven at over 2,000+ years old.
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> Dainsleif on Lesser Lord Kusanali

**Lesser Lord Kusanali** (Chinese: 小吉祥草王 *Xiǎo Jíxiángcǎo Wáng*, "Little Lucky-Grass Monarch"), also known as the Flower Archon (Flower God) (Chinese: 花神), or by her original name **Aaliyah** (Arabic: عَلِيَّة, "Exalted/Sublime"‎), is the current Dendro Archon among The Seven and presides over Sumuru.

She is the last to ascend among the current Seven and existed for far long before that, being exactly 2,000+ years old at the time of her ascension as the third Dendro Archon. Her father, the God of the Woods and the first Dendro Archon was slaughtered centuries before the cataclysm 500 years ago.

## Profile

### Introduction

> These markings of tree and leaf pay due honor to wisdom and the passage of time. All this, on a single kite — truly astonishing.
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> Zhongli, in reference to the kite constructed for the God of Wisdom.

Zhongli first mentions the God of Wisdom while purchasing kites for the Rite of Parting in "Downtown." Ganyu later mentions her in "Solitary Fragrance," remarking that she is the youngest of the current Seven at five hundred years old, as opposed to Morax who was over 6000 years old at the time of his supposed death. However Ganyu's statement of Lesser Lord Kusanali being five hundred years old is opposed by Dainsleif who states that she is "over 2,000+ years old", making her as old as Morax at the time of his ascension as the Geo Archon of the current Seven. He additionally states that she rules Sumuru with a far looser hand than her two predecessors but has a "thirst for revenge" hiding underneath her false façade of kindness.

### Personality

Little is known about the God of Wisdom's personality. However, Dainsleif's line about her in the Teyvat Chapter Storyline Preview criticizes her for allowing a "push for folly" through her own inaction. Over the course of Lisa's two years of study at the Sumeru Academia, she grew disillusioned by the "uninhibited erudition" she witnessed; despite being acknowledged as a student without equal in 200 years, she chose to return to Mondstadt and become a librarian. Yae Miko similarly calls Sumeru's treatment of knowledge as a resource "truly inexplicable," before wondering whether this was developed by Kusanali or the sages.

On the other hand, the people of Sumeru seem to adore her. Her title, "Lesser Lord Kusanali," is their term of endearment for her. The Abyss Order acknowledges that few have seen Kusanali's real body, instead being met with the more stoic and ruthless Greater Lord Kusanali, the puppet constructed by Lesser Lord Kusanali. She is also noted to be disinterested in matters outside of Sumuru's borders, to the point of bluntly refusing help to stop Celestia or the movements of the Fatui in the other Archons' nations. She is strangely quite vengeful towards the Fatui, ruthlessly killing an entire horde of Fatui rank-and-file soldiers in order to protect her biological older sister, Kusanali de Montijo, showing no remorse towards killing the soldiers despite the clear-cut horror of her biological older sister. Morax, Raiden Ei, and Barbatos have mentioned that they only recently learned of the ascension of Lesser Lord Kusanali as the third Dendro Archon.

Similar to Ei's pursuit of eternity by mediating endlessely, Lesser Lord Kusanali has also taken up the same views as Ei and now seeks to stop erosion of her body's functions by mediating for eternity and achieving "true immortality". Due to this, she holds little knowledge of the world outside of her puppet's body and relies on her nation's sages in order to gather information about the events happening in the outside world. The rare cases, she's actually chose to come out of her puppet's body of her own free will, were marked by

### Appearance

Lesser Lord Kusanali's appearance differs greatly from her puppet, to the point where even Morax, Raiden Ei, and Barbatos doubted whether she was truly the current reigning Dendro Archon.

## Trivia

* Due to the purging of Irminsul, both the history of Lesser Lord Kusanali and her puppet, the Greater Lord, as well as their natures were changed. For this reason, the Lesser Lord believes herself to be the supreme ruling deity of Sumeru and the Greater Lord to have been her ill-fated sister who perished in the times of the Archon War. The Lesser Lord was believed to have ruled Sumeru since the times of the Archon War and the memories of the other Archons changed to reflect that. As a consequence, the Greater Lord was also included and they believe the Greater Lord to have perished in the time of the Archon War.
	+ To migate this, the Greater Lord has assumed the identity of a long-forgotten God and relegated herself to Agharna, as a result of forgetting her memories.
		- In addition to these subsequent changes, Lesser Lord Kusanali has taken on the title of "Greater Lord" and the new Archon name of "Sandalphon".

### Etmology

* The name Kusanali likely refers to the Kusanali-Jātaka, one of the poems within the Jātaka, a series of 547 Buddhist poems detailing the previous births of Buddha. The Kusanali-Jātaka specifically details the encounter with a tree sprite.
	+ "Kusanali" itself is derived from the Sanskrit words kusa ("kusa-grass," a sacred plant used in Hindu ceremonies) and nāḷi ("a hollow stalk or tube").
	+ In Chinese, "Lesser Lord Kusanali" is 小吉祥草王 Xiǎo Jíxiángcǎo Wáng, "Little Lucky-Grass Monarch". The word 吉祥草 may be derived from the Jātaka verse "Yathā ahaṁ Kusanāḷī rucāyaṁ" (English: Just as (the reed-god) Kusanāḷi did to this tree; Chinese: 于此鲁伽树，吉祥草助我 "As to the ruca-tree will the lucky-grass help me"). The word is also used to refer to the kusa-grass.
	+ In Korean, the name is 쿠사나리 데비 Kusanari Debi. The word 데비 Debi derived from the Sanskrit word devī ("goddess" or "queen").
	+ In Japanese, the name is クラクサナリデビ Kura Kusanari Debi, where デビ Debi may be of the same derivation as above, and クラ Kura may be derived from the Pali word khudda ("small", "inferior" or "low"). Kura may also be derived from the Persian word خدا Khuda ("Lord" or "God").
* Kusanali's title Mahakusaladhamma consists of three words: महा mahā, "great", कुशल kúśala, "skilled, prosperous, good", and Dhamma.
* In the demonology grimoire The Lesser Key of Solomon, "Buer" is described as a Great President of Hell and the 10th demon, having fifty legions of demons under his command. He teaches natural and moral philosophy, logic, and the qualities and uses of all herbs and plants. He has been described as being in the shape of Sagittarius, which is as a centaur with a bow and arrows.