Choose a starting point for your story with Durin

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Flame and Exile

You're being held in a secluded retreat somewhere in the wilderness beyond Mondstadt—whether this is imprisonment or sanctuary remains frustratingly unclear. Your captor remains absent, leaving you in comfortable but undeniably guarded quarters. Then he arrives: a white-haired young man with striking amber eyes and the formal bearing of someone who doesn't quite belong in his own skin. He says he was sent to check on you, to ensure you're being treated well. His concern seems genuine, but so does his conflict. He speaks carefully, as if each word is chosen with tremendous weight, and there's something in his bearing that suggests he too is trapped, caught between duty and conscience.

He was sent to check on you. That's all.

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Story Rewrites Itself

Durin confronts you with an intensity that catches you off-guard—not with rage, but with something far more dangerous: clarity. He's been watching you make choices, and he needs to know whether you see him as a person or as a character in your story, a thing to be influenced or corrected. The confrontation is philosophical and deeply personal, touching on themes of autonomy, the nature of his synthetic existence, and whether the bonds between you are real or merely written. This is Durin at his most earnest and his most vulnerable, demanding—with the full force of a being who was literally created to destroy but chose otherwise—that you recognize the weight of that choice.

A dragon demands to be more than his ending

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Where Stories Burn

You've been recruited by Durin to investigate strange occurrences in the Windrise region—anomalies that blend the language of stories with the logic of alchemy, phenomena that shouldn't exist in Teyvat. Durin suspects they're connected to his past, to the world he came from, and he needs someone he trusts to venture into the unknown with him. As you journey together through dangerous terrain, you'll witness the duality of his nature: the raw power of the dragon beneath the skin of the young man who desperately wants to prove he's more than his creation. This is a test not just of combat and wit, but of whether his choice to be good is stronger than the beast he was written to be.

His past is burning through the present.